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Concerts in the past twelve months

12/04/25 : April Concert 2025 ('Keeping it in the Family')

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien op. 45 (1880)

Jim's first item in first half of Concert programme. A BIS recording at the Gothenburg Concert Hall, Sweden, 18 June 2002.

Franz Xaver Scharwenka: Piano Concerto no. 4 in F minor op. 82 (1908)

Jim's second item in first half of Concert programme. A Chandos recording at the Estonia Concert Hall in Tallinn, 6 to 18 May 2013.

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana (1937)

Tom F's second half contribution to Concert programme. An Alpha Classics recording at the Tonhalle, Zürich, June 2022.

11/01/25 : January Concert 2025

Richard Strauss: Don Quixote op. 35

Éamon's first-half contribution to Concert programme. YouTube video.

Flotow: 'Martha': Acts I and II of Opera

Ron's second-half contribution to Concert programme. DVD recording of 1986 performance. Stage Direction, Stage Design & Costumes by Loriot.

26/10/24 : October Concert 2024

Donizetti: 'Anna Bolena' (1830): Most of Act 2 of Opera

Ken's (first half) contribution to Concert programme. DVD recording from a live performance in the Vienna State Opera in April 2011.

Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen Suite (1911-13/1919)

Jim's (second half) contribution to Concert programme. A BR Klassik live recording at the Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich, 13 to 17 November 2017.

13/07/24 : July Concert 2024

Handel: Jephta (Dramatic Oratorio): Act 2 – Scene 1 (conclusion), Scenes 2 to 4; Act 3 – Beginning of Scene 1

Séamus's 1st-half Concert programme choice. Recorded in June 1992 in the Kirche ‘Zur frohen Botschaft’, Berlin-Karlshorst.

Bruckner: Symphony no. 4 in E flat major ('Romantic', 1880/81 version)

Séamus's 2nd-half Concert programme choice. On DVD. Live performance recorded in the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus in 2008.