Hitchin Symphony Orchestra
Past & Future
17 May 2025
St Mary's Church
Leader:
Conductor:
Janet Hicks
Rowan Baker
Ethel Smyth | Overture: The Wreckers | ||
Antonín Dvořák | Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66 | ||
Camille Saint-Saëns | Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 ‘Organ’ | ||
Jean Sibelius | Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 | Eugenie Dalgleish |
A Symphonic Voyage
23 Nov 2024
St Mary's Church
Leader:
Conductor:
Janet Hicks
Rowan Baker
Alban Berg | Sieben Frühe Lieder (Seven Early Songs) | Alison Langer | |
Gustav Mahler | Symphony No. 4 in G major | Alison Langer |
Viennese Gems
30 Jun 2024
The British Schools Museum
Leader:
Conductor:
Janet Hicks
Rowan Baker
Percy Grainger | 'Country Gardens' | ||
Mozart | 1st movement from Symphony No. 40 | ||
Joseph Haydn | Finale from Symphony No. 45 ‘Farewell’ | ||
Beethoven | Romance No. 2 in F for Violin and Orchestra | Janet Hicks | |
Tchaikovsky, arr. David Stone | Three Pieces from Swan Lake | ||
Shostakovich | Waltz No. 2 from Suite for Variety Orchestra | ||
Edvard Grieg | ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ from Peer Gynt | ||
Johann Strauss Sr | ‘Radetzky March’ |
Children's Concert
11 May 2024
St Mary's Church
Leader:
Conductor:
Janet Hicks
Rowan Baker
Rachmaninov | Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 | ||
Rachmaninov | Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 |
A Journey Through Darkness and Light
18 Nov 2023
St Mary's Church
Leader:
Conductor:
Janet Hicks
Rowan Baker
Robert Schumann | Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 | Cordelia Williams | |
César Cui | Suite No. 3 ‘In modo populari’, Op. 43 | ||
Franz Schubert | Symphony No. 6 in C major, D. 589 | ||
Charles Ives | The Unanswered Question |
13 May 2023
St Mary's Church
Leader:
Conductor:
Janet Hicks
Rowan Baker
Wilhelm Stenhammar | Symphony No. 2 in G minor, Op. 34 | ||
Antonín Dvořák | Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 |
Two Romantic Symphonies
26 Nov 2022
St Mary's Church
Leader:
Conductor:
Janet Hicks
Rowan Baker
Lowell Liebermann | Concerto for Flute and Orchestra, Op. 39 | Emma Halnan | |
Shostakovich | Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47 | ||
Bedřich Smetana | Vltava |
16 Jul 2022
St Mary's Church
Leader:
Conductor:
Janet Hicks
Rowan Baker
Mozart | Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 | Alison Eales | |
Joseph Haydn | Symphony No. 83 in G minor ‘La Poule’ | ||
Joseph Haydn | Symphony No. 85 in B♭ major ‘La Reine’ | ||
Lili Boulanger | Trois Morceaux |
Hitchin Festival Concert
14 May 2022
St Mary's Church
Leader:
Conductor:
Janet Hicks
Rowan Baker
Gustav Mahler | Rückert-Lieder | Alison Langer | |
Johannes Brahms | Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 | ||
Gustav Mahler | ‘Blumine’ |
27 Nov 2021
St Mary's Church
Leader:
Conductor:
Janet Hicks
Rowan Baker
Rutland Boughton | A Summer Night | ||
Paul Adrian Rooke | Saxophone Concerto | Alison Eales | |
Max Bruch | Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor | Fenella Humphreys | |
Edward Elgar | ‘Enigma’ Variations, Op. 36 |
Concert in Memory of Paul Adrian Rooke
Programme information available from November 1985 to the present.