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2024/25 season
17th November 2024, 3.30pm, Holy Trinity Leamington Spa
Gioachino Rossini, overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers
Bohuslav Martinů, Toccata e due canzoni
Manuel de Falla, music from El Amor Brujo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, symphony no. 35, “Haffner”
Conductor: Richard Laing
23rd March 2025, 3.30pm, Holy Trinity Leamington Spa
Carl Maria von Weber, overture to Der Freischutz
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Concerto for violin
Johannes Brahms, symphony no. 4
Violin: Shulah Oliver
Conductor: Richard Laing
29th June 2025, 3.30pm, Holy Trinity Leamington Spa
Mily Balakirev, Overture on a Russian Theme
Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Rae, Pictures at an Exhibition
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 6, “Pastoral”
Conductor: Richard Laing
2022/23 season…
6th November 2022
Ralph Vaughan Williams – The Lark Ascending
Jean Sibelius – selections from Pelléas et Mélisande
Alexander Borodin, arranged Rimsky-Korsakov – Nocturne for violin and orchestra
Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony no. 4, “Italian”
Violin: Shulah Oliver
Conductor: Richard Laing
26th March 2023
Philip Sawyers – Remembrance for strings
Max Bruch – Concerto for Clarinet and Viola
Johannes Brahms – selection of Hungarian Dances
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony no. 3 “Eroica”
Clarinet: Daniel Sanford-Casey
Viola: Angela Dickson
Conductor: Richard Laing
2nd July 2023
Felix Mendelssohn – Overture to Ruy Blas
Edward Elgar – Cello Concerto
Antonín Dvořák – Symphony no. 8
Cello: David Whitaker
Conductor: Richard Laing
Sunday 3rd November 2019, 3pm
Beethoven: Symphony no. 1
Gordon Jacob: Bassoon Concerto
with Rebecca Eldridge (bassoon)
Mozart: Overture to “The Marriage of Figaro”
Mozart: Symphony no. 41, “Jupiter”
Sunday 7th July 2019, 3pm, Leamington Town Hall
Arriaga – Overture to Los Esclavos Felices
Mozart – Concerto for Flute and Harp
de Falla – Suite no. 1 from The Three-Cornered Hat
Haydn – Symphony no. 100
Soloists: Lisa Nelsen (flute), Eleanor Turner (harp)
Conductor: Richard Laing
In autumn 2018, we had a change from our usual concert routine:
Lost Composers of the Great War 
The Leamington Chamber Orchestra in conjunction with Great War author Andrew Hamilton, will present an afternoon of music on Sunday 4th November at 3.30 pm by four composers who fell in the First World War.
Pieces by Leamington born and bred William Denis Browne as well as George Butterworth, Cecil Coles and F.S. Kelly will be interspersed with readings and biographies of the composers.
The concert will be held in the Great Hall of the magnificent 900-year-old Lord Leycester Hospital, since 1571 a sanctuary for service members wounded in war or in need, who carry out duties in the Hospital in their Elizabethan robes. Proceeds of the concert are in aid of the Hospital and the Leamington Chamber Orchestra.
Sunday 23rd September 2018, 3pm
Schumann – Overture, Scherzo and Finale
Dvořák – Czech Suite
Richard Strauss – Overture and Dance Scene from Ariadne auf Naxos
Beethoven – Triple Concerto
Soloists: Shulah Oliver (violin), Rebecca Rose (cello), Tim Sidford (piano)
Conductor: Richard Laing
Sunday 8th July, 3pm
Leamington Spa Town Hall (at the bottom of Leamington Spa Parade)
Parry – Elegy to Brahms
Stanford – An Irish Concertino
Brahms – Symphony no. 2
Soloists: Amy Littlewood (violin), Lucy Arch (cello)
Conductor – Richard Laing
Sunday 4th February 2018, 3pm
Leamington Spa Town Hall (at the bottom of Leamington Spa Parade)
Deborah Pritchard – For Mother Earth (LCO commission)
W A Mozart – Symphony no. 39 in E flat
Brahms – Violin Concerto
Violin – David Le Page
Conductor – Richard Laing
24th September 2017, 3pm
Leamington Town Hall
Dvořák – Symphony No 7
Chris Long – new work (World Première, commissioned by LCO)
Elgar – Sea Pictures
Soloist: Karen Wise (mezzo soprano)
Wagner – Lohengrin excerpts: Prelude to Act 1; Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral; Prelude to Act III
Conductor: Richard Laing
5th February 2017
Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Ibert – Hommage à Mozart
Mozart – Horn Concerto No. 4
Soloist: Alison Wakeley (Horn)
Beethoven – Symphony No. 2
Conductor: Richard Laing
25th September 2016
Ravel – Mother Goose Suite
Strauss – Duo-Concertante
Soloists: Daniel Sanford-Casey (clarinet) & Rebecca Eldridge (bassoon)
Schumann – Symphony No.2 in C
Conductor: Richard Laing