Richard Laing | Conductor

Concerts

Saturday 16 May, Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, 7.30pm
Wolsey Orchestra, Sofıia Osmanova (piano)

Mendelssohn – Overture ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’
Mozart – Piano Concerto no.12 in A, K.414
Beethoven – Symphony no.3, ‘Eroica’
Saturday 30 May, Southwell Minster, 7.30pm
Nottingham Harmonic Choir, Jonathan Allsop (organ and piano), Richard Laing (violin)

Wood – Hail, Gladdening Light
Parry – Sunset and Evening Star
Lili Boulanger – Hymne au Soleil
Holst – Hymns from the Rig Veda (selection)
Dove – Vast Ocean of Light
Debussy – La Cathédrale Engloutie; Clair de Lune
Dubois – Fiat Lux
Elgar – Chanson de Nuit
Elgar – Sea Pictures
Saturday 20 June, St James the Greater, Leicester, 7.30pm
Leicester Bach Choir, Katie Trethewey (soprano), James Upton (baritone), Rupert Jeffcoat (organ), Richard Laing (piano)

Castagnet – Messe Brève
Duruflé – Toccata
Motets by Villette and Poulenc
Songs by Fauré, Poulenc, Messiaen and Nadia Boulanger
Fauré – Requiem
Sunday 28 June, Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa, 3.30 pm
Leamington Chamber Orchestra, Victoria Brawn (oboe)

Wagner – ‘Forest Murmurs’ from Siegfried
Strauss – Oboe Concerto
Brahms – Symphony no.3
Saturday 19 September, St Peter’s Church, Inkberrow, 7.30pm
Charity concert with Inkberrow Sinfonia, Shulah Oliver-Smith (violin)

Rossini – Overture to The Silken Ladder
Fauré – Masques et Bergamasques
Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending
Dvořák – Romance in F
Beethoven – Symphony no.8
Saturday 14 November, Albert Hall, Nottingham, 7.30pm
Southern Sinfonia, Nottingham Harmonic Choir, April Fredrick (soprano), Cathy Bell (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Henley (tenor), Jon Stainsby (baritone)

Carl Rütti – Panta Rhei (world premiere)
Mozart – Requiem
Sunday 15 November, Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa, 4pm
Leamington Chamber Orchestra

Schumann – Overture, Scherzo and Finale
Copland – Appalachian Spring
Bartók – Hungarian Dances
Mendelssohn – Symphony no.5, ‘Reformation’
Saturday 5 December, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 7pm
Orchestra da Camera, Nottingham Harmonic Choir, Katie Trethewey (soprano), Matthew Farrell (countertenor), Joseph Doody (tenor), Thomas D. Hopkinson (bass)

Handel – Messiah
Sunday 6 December, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 1.30pm and 5pm
Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra, Class Act Theatrix

Christmas concert
Saturday 12 December, St James the Greater, Leicester, 7pm
Bach Camerata, Leicester Bach Choir, Katie Trethewey (soprano), Cathy Bell (mezzo-soprano), tbc (tenor), Jon Stainsby (baritone)

Handel – Messiah
Saturday 19 December, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, 5pm
Thoresby Colliery Band, Jonathan Allsop (organ/piano), Nottingham Harmonic Choir

Family Carol Concert
Saturday 23 January 2027, English Martyrs School, Leicester, 10.30am – 5.00pm
Come-and-Sing with Leicester Bach Choir and friends

Poulenc – Gloria
Saturday 6 February 2027, The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, 7.30pm
Wolsey Orchestra, Fenella Humphreys (violin)

Vaughan Williams – Overture ‘The Wasps’
Britten – Violin Concerto
Tchaikovsky – Symphony no.5
Saturday 20 February 2027, Nottingham High School, 10.30am – 5.00pm
Come-and-Sing with Nottingham Harmonic Choir and friends

Classic Anthems by Elgar, Parry, Wood and Wesley
Saturday 20 March 2027, Albert Hall, Nottingham, 7.30pm
Orchestra da Camera, Nottingham Harmonic Choir, Emily Hodkinson (mezzo-soprano)

Bax – Tintagel
Bridge – A Prayer
Vaughan Williams – Toward the Unknown Region
Elgar – The Music Makers
Sunday 21 March 2027, Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa, 4pm
Leamington Chamber Orchestra, Zoë Beyers (violin)

Britten – Violin Concerto
Stravinsky – Suite from The Firebird (1919)
Tchaikovsky – Symphony no.2, ‘Ukrainian’
Saturday 8 May 2027, Sheffield, 7.30pm
Hallam Sinfonia, tbc (piano)

Korngold – Suite from The Sea Hawk
Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue
Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra
Saturday 15 May 2027, Leicester, 10am – 5pm
Come-and-Sing with Leicester Bach Choir and friends

Tallis – Spem in Alium
Saturday 22 May 2027, Southwell Minster, 7.30pm
Nottingham Harmonic Choir, Jonathan Allsopp (organ)

Britten – Rejoice in the Lamb
Kodály – Laudes Organi
Duruflé – Requiem
Sunday 27 June 2027, Holy Trinity Church, Leamington Spa, 4pm
Leamington Chamber Orchestra

Hovhaness – Prelude and Fugue
Beethoven – Symphony no.4
Dvořák – Symphony no.6