Saturday 8 December 2018, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Barber | Music for a Scene from Shelley | |
Rimsky-Korsakov | Capriccio Espagnol | |
Gareth Williams | Fields of Light | |
Brahms | Piano concerto no. 2 | |
Solo piano: George Todica | ||
Saturday 23 June 2018, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Sibelius | En Saga | |
Hindemith | Symphonic Metamorphosis | |
Beethoven | Symphony no. 6 “Pastoral” | |
Saturday 17 March 2018, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Brahms | Academic Festival Overture | |
Martinů | Cello concerto no. 1 | |
Solo cello: Robin Michael | ||
Nielsen | Symphony no. 4 in Eb “The Inextinguishable” | |
Saturday 9 December 2017, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Rachmaninov | The Isle of the Dead | |
Ravel | Piano concerto in G | |
Solo piano: Graeme McNaught | ||
Dvořák | Symphony no. 3 in Eb | |
Saturday 24 June 2017, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Brahms | Tragic Overture | |
Mendelssohn | Scottish Symphony no. 3 | |
Beethoven | Piano concerto no. 5 “Emperor” | |
Solo piano: James Willshire | ||
Saturday 25 March 2017, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Elgar | Overture “In the South” (Alassio) | |
Bruch | Violin Concerto no. 1 | |
Solo violin: Rachel Spencer | ||
Shostakovich | Symphony no. 5 | |
Saturday 10 December 2016, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Tchaikovsky | Nutcracker Suite | |
Jake Spence | Melancholia (new orchestration for the NEO) | |
Johann Strauss | Kaiser-Walzer | |
Mussorgsky | Pictures at an Exhibition (orch Ravel) | |
Saturday 25 June 2016, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Dvořák | Symphonic Poem “The Noonday Witch” | |
Samuel Barber | Violin Concerto Op. 14 | |
Solo violin: Andrea Gajic | ||
Brahms | Symphony No. 4 | |
Saturday 12 March 2016, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Webern | Passacaglia Op. 1 | |
Dvořák | Serenade for Winds Cello and Bass | |
Mahler | Symphony No. 4 | |
Solo soprano: Magdalena Durant | ||
Saturday 12 December 2015, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Kodály | Dances from Galanta | |
Gregor Forbes | Vision of Excess (written for the NEO, first performance) | |
Poulenc | Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings and Timpani | |
Solo organ: Nicky Fraser | ||
Elgar | Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma' | |
Saturday 13 June 2015, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Mendelssohn | Overture “Ruy Blas” | |
Schumann | Symphony No. 3 “Rhenish” | |
Brahms | Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor | |
Solo piano: Helena Buckmayer | ||
Saturday 14 March 2015, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Eivind Groven | Overture “Hjalarljod” | |
First UK performance | ||
Johan Halvorsen | Entry of the Boyars | |
Edvard Grieg | Morning Mood (from “Peer Gynt”) | |
Carl Nielsen | Flute Concerto | |
Solo flute: Ruth Morley | ||
Sibelius | Symphony No. 5 | |
Saturday 13 December 2014, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Smetana | Symphonic Poem “Vltava” | |
Jake Spence | Rückschau - A Song Without Words | |
Shostakovich | Cello Concerto No. 1 | |
Solo cello: Mark Bailey | ||
Stravinsky | Suite “The Firebird” (1945) | |
Saturday 21 June 2014, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Samuel Barber | Second Essay for Orchestra | |
Beethoven | Piano Concerto no. 3 | Solo piano: Ancuța Nițe |
Dvořák | Symphony No. 9 in E minor "From the New World" | |
Saturday 15 March 2014, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Tom David Wilson | James Jumps | |
Schumann | Cello Concerto | |
Solo cello: Laura Sergeant | ||
Martinů | Symphony No. 4 (1945) | |
Saturday 14 December 2013, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Bartók | Roumanian Dances | |
Sibelius | Violin Concerto | |
Solo violin: Andrea Gajic | ||
Rachmaninov | Symphony No. 2 in D minor | |
Saturday 15 June 2013, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Oliver Searle | Harbour Dreams | |
Dvořák | Piano Concerto in G minor | |
Solo piano: Helena Buckmayer | ||
Brahms | Symphony No. 1 in D minor | |
Saturday 16 March 2013, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Elgar | Violin Concerto | |
Solo violin: Feargus Hetherington | ||
Sibelius | Symphony No. 2 in D major | |
Saturday 8 December 2012, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
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Sunday 9 December 2012, 7.30pm, in aid of Hospices of Hope | ||
Renfield St Stephen's Church, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4JP | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Tom David Wilson | Estrif | |
Written for the NEO - first performance | ||
M. K. Čiurlionis | Symphonic Poem “In the Forest” | |
Shostakovich | Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major | |
Solo piano: Ancuța Nițe | ||
Nielsen | Symphony No. 2 (The Four Temperaments) | |
Saturday 16 June 2012, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
David Horne | Strands | |
Elgar | Cello Concerto | |
Solo cello: Harriet Bruce | ||
Dvořák | Symphony No. 7 | |
Saturday 10 March 2012, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Beethoven | Coriolan Overture | |
Mozart | Divertimento for Strings | |
Director: Tristan Gurney | ||
Gounod | Petite Symphonie for 9 Winds | |
Beethoven | Violin Concerto | |
Solo violin: Tristan Gurney | ||
Saturday 10 December 2011, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Hamish MacCunn | Overture “Land of the Mountain and the Flood” | |
Raymond Dodd | Sinfonietta | |
Saint-Saëns | Organ Symphony | |
Saturday 18 June 2011, 7.30pm | ||
Inverleith St Serf's Church, 280 Ferry Road, Edinburgh (map) | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Grieg | Two Elegiac Melodies | |
Bruno Clifton | “The marks of steel upon it” | |
NEO commission - first performance | ||
Richard Strauss | Horn Concerto No. 2 | |
Solo french horn: Andrew Saunders | ||
Shostakovich | Symphony No. 1 | |
Saturday 19 March 2011, 7.30pm | ||
Nicolson Square Methodist Church, Nicolson Square (map), Edinburgh | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Dvořák | Tone Poem : The Wood Dove | |
Mahler | Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen | |
Solo mezzo-soprano: Julie Martin-Carter | ||
Martinů | Symphony No. 1 (1942) | |
Saturday 4 December 2010, 7.30pm | ||
Nicolson Square Methodist Church, Nicolson Square (map), Edinburgh | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Schubert | Overture “Die Zauberharfe” | |
Schumann | Symphony No. 4 | |
Brahms | Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra | |
Solo violin: Tristan Gurney | ||
Solo cello: Mark Bailey | ||
Saturday 12 June 2010, 7.30pm | ||
Nicolson Square Methodist Church, Nicolson Square (map), Edinburgh | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Mendelssohn | Overture “The Hebrides” | |
Bruno Clifton | “At sunset, troubled light” | |
NEO commission - first performance | ||
Mozart | Sinfonia Concertante for Winds K297b | |
Beethoven | Symphony No. 3 “Eroica” | |
Saturday 20 March 2010, 7.30 pm | ||
Nicolson Square Methodist Church, Nicolson Square (map), Edinburgh | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Charles O'Brien | Overture “Ellangowan” | |
John McLeod | Guitar Concerto | |
Solo guitar: Ian Watt | ||
Joint commission by New Edinburgh Orchestra, Aberdeen Sinfonietta and Glasgow Chamber Orchestra - first performance |
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Nielsen | Symphony No. 3 “Sinfonia Espansiva” | |
Saturday 5 December 2009, 7.30 pm | ||
Nicolson Square Methodist Church, Nicolson Square (map), Edinburgh | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Martinů | Memorial to Lidice | |
Debussy | Marche Ecossaise | |
Elgar | Sea Pictures | |
Solo mezzo-soprano: Julie Martin-Carter | ||
Sibelius | Symphony No. 1 | |
Saturday 13 June 2009, 7.30pm | ||
Nicolson Square Methodist Church, Nicolson Square (map), Edinburgh | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Gounod | Symphony No. 1 in D Major | |
Jennifer Martin | Seeing Sounds (NEO commission 2003) | |
Prokofiev | Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 63 | |
Solo violin: Kirsty Orton | ||
Brahms | Symphony No. 3 in F major Op. 90 | |
Saturday 14 March 2009, 7.30pm | ||
Nicolson Square Methodist Church, Nicolson Square (map), Edinburgh | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Dvořák | Symphonic Variations Op. 78 | |
Bruno Clifton | In the jars, dark liquid (NEO commission, first performance) | |
Debussy | Danse Sacreé et Danse Profane | |
Solo harp: Helen MacLeod | ||
Sibelius | Symphony No. 6 in D minor Op. 104 | |
Saturday 6 December 2008, 7.30pm | ||
Nicolson Square Methodist Church, Nicolson Square (map), Edinburgh | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Michael Garrett | Symphony No. 12 “Le Retour du Printemps” (NEO commission, first performance) | |
Stravinsky | Symphony No. 1 in Eb major Op. 1 | |
Finzi | Cello Concerto Op. 40 | |
Solo cello: Philip Higham | ||
Saturday 14 June 2008 | ||
Guest Leader: Salyen Latter | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Mozart | Serenade for Winds in C minor K. 388 | |
Edward McGuire | Junk Shop Blues (Scottish Première) | |
Shostakovich | Cello Concerto No. 1 Op. 107 | |
Solo cello: Kirsty Alexander | ||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 1 in C major Op. 21 | |
Saturday 8 March 2008 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Mozart | Divertimento in F major K. 138 | |
Tommy Fowler | Good Wine and Sweet (NEO commission 2003) | |
Schumann | Konzertstück for 4 Horns and Orchestra | |
Solo french horns: Andrew Saunders, Ian Kille, Marian Kirton, Fiona Elliott | ||
Nielsen | Symphony No. 1 in G minor Op. 7 | |
Saturday 8 December 2007 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Elgar | Overture “Froissart” Op. 19 | |
Alina Savanenkovaite | Through the Palanga Boulevards (NEO commission, first performance) | |
Berlioz | Les Nuits d'Eté | |
Solo mezzo-soprano: Judy Brown | ||
Dvořák | Symphony No. 6 in D major | |
Saturday 9 June 2007 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Mozart | Overture “Don Giovanni” | |
Robert Crawford | Bagatelles Op.3 (new orchestral version for the NEO - first performance) | |
Samuel Barber | Cello Concerto Op. 22 | |
Solo cello: Betsy Taylor | ||
Beethoven | Symphony No.7 in A major Op. 92 | |
Saturday 10 March 2007 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Dvořák | Symphonic Poem “The Watersprite” Op. 107 | |
Mendelssohn | Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64 | |
Solo violin: Kirsty Orton | ||
Brahms | Symphony No.2 in D major | |
Saturday 9 December 2006 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Wagner | Overture “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” | |
Iain Matheson | Kaleidoscope - NEO commission, first performance | |
Ethel Smyth | Concerto for Violin and French Horn | |
Solo violin: Alistair Savage | ||
Solo french horn: Andrew Saunders | ||
César Franck | Symphony in D minor | |
Saturday 10 June 2006 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Mozart | Flute Concerto No.1 in G K313 | |
Solo flute: Sharon Dowsett | ||
Martin Suckling | Mosaic | |
NEO commission as part of the Making Music Adopt-A-Composer scheme | ||
Malcolm Arnold | Concerto No. 2 for Clarinet Op. 115 | |
Solo clarinet: Hannah McCabe | ||
Sibelius | Symphony No. 3 | |
Saturday 11 March 2006 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Cecil Coles | Overture “The Comedy of Errors” | |
Richard Michael | Three Shetland Tunes | |
Tchaikovsky | Variations on a Rococo Theme | |
Solo cello: Donald Gillan | ||
Dvořák | Symphony No.5 in F | |
Saturday 10 December 2005 | ||
Guest Conductor: Andrew Lees | ||
Boieldieu | Overture “La Dame Blanche” | |
Vaughan Williams | Symphony No. 5 | |
Beethoven | Violin Concerto | |
Solo violin: Hector Scott | ||
Saturday 11 June 2005 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
J.S.Bach | Concerto in D minor for 2 Violins | |
Solo violins: Joanna Michael and Maggie Chapman | ||
Neil Munro | Songs and Dances (written for the NEO - first performance) | |
Malcolm Arnold | Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra | |
Solo viola: Louise Fotheringham | ||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 4 in B flat | |
Saturday 12 March 2005 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Mendelssohn | Overture Ruy Blas | |
Elgar | Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra | |
Solo bassoon: Amy Isard | ||
Lyell Cresswell | Cantilena Stampita | |
Koussevitsky | Concerto for Double Bass | |
Solo double bass: Margaret Graham | ||
Shostakovich | Symphony No. 9 in E flat | |
Saturday 4 December 2004 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Ravel | Le Tombeau de Couperin | |
Sally Beamish | The Caledonian Road | |
Bruch | Kol Nidrei | |
Solo cello: Shelagh Fuller | ||
Dvořák | Symphony No.4 in D minor | |
Saturday 5 June 2004 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Edward Harper | Intrada after Monteverdi | |
Gounod | Petite Symphonie for Wind | |
Saint-Saëns | Introduction et Rondo Capriccioso pour violon | |
Solo violin: Claire Docherty | ||
Haydn | Symphony No. 102 in B flat | |
Saturday 6 March 2004 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Kenneth Leighton | Festive Overture | |
Dvořák | Cello concerto | |
Solo cello: Robin Michael | ||
Schumann | Symphony No.3 in E flat “Rhenish” | |
Saturday 29 November 2003 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Mozart | Overture “The Impresario” K.468 | |
John Macleod | Hebridean Dances | |
Mozart | Exultate Jubilate K.165 | |
Solo soprano: Elizabeth Traill | ||
Schubert | Symphony No.3 in D | |
Saturday 7 June 2003 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Mendelssohn | Overture “The Hebrides” (Fingal's Cave) | |
Tommy Fowler | Good Wine and Sweet (NEO commission, première) | |
Bach | Concerto for Oboe and Violin BWV 1060 | |
Solo oboe: Julian Appleyard | ||
Solo violin: Joanna Michael | ||
Mozart | Symphony No.31 in D Major “Paris” | |
Saturday 8 March 2003 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Jennifer Martin | Seeing Sounds (Written for the NEO - première) | |
Bruch | Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor | |
Solo violin: Hector Scott | ||
Beethoven | Symphony No.5 | |
Saturday 30 November 2002 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Iain Matheson | The Shape of Things (première) | |
Prokofiev | Concertino for Cello and Orchestra Op.132 | |
Solo cello: Catriona Hetherington | ||
Tchaikovsky | Symphony No.2 “Little Russian” | |
Saturday 8 June 2002 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Debussy | Petite Suite | |
Mozart | Concerto for Flute and Harp K299 | |
Solo flute: Duncan Smith | ||
Solo harp: Michelle Weallens | ||
Haydn | Symphony No. 100 in G “Military” | |
Saturday 9 March 2002 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Mackenzie | Benedictus | |
Sibelius | Valse Triste | |
Dvořák | Serenade for Winds, Cello and Bass Op. 44 | |
Brahms | Violin Concerto | |
Solo violin: Claire Docherty | ||
Saturday 1 December 2001 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Elgar | Serenade for Strings | |
Jennifer Martin | Hearing Pictures (NEO commission through Scottish Arts Council Lottery Funding - first performance) | |
Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 4 “Italian” | |
Saturday 19 May 2001 in Nicolson Square Methodist Church, Edinburgh | ||
Sunday 20 May 2001 in St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Dalkeith | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Keith Murphy | Different Perspectives (first performance) | |
Mozart | Oboe concerto | |
Solo oboe: Joanna Senior | ||
Prokofiev | Sinfonietta | |
Saturday 10 March 2001 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Hamish MacCunn | Ballad Overture “The Dowie Dens o' Yarrow” | |
Elgar | Cello concerto | |
Solo cello: Kim Bak Dinitzen | ||
Dvořák | Symphony No. 9 in E minor “From the New World” | |
Saturday 2 December 2000 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Fauré | Suite Masques et Bergamasques | |
Berlioz | Nuits D'Été | |
Solo soprano: Shuna Sendall | ||
Beethoven | Symphony No. 2 in D | |
Saturday 20 May 2000 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Brahms | Serenade No. 1 in D | |
Tchaikovsky | Violin Concerto | |
Solo violin: Claire Docherty | ||
Saturday 11 March 2000 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
John Bevan-Baker | Fidach (Messages in Stone) | |
Mozart | Flute Concerto | |
Solo flute: Duncan Smith | ||
Dvořák | Czech Suite | |
Saturday 4 December 1999 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Fauré | Pavane | |
Bizet | Suite: Jeux d'Enfants | |
Richard Strauss | Wind Serenade Opus 7 | |
Schubert | Symphony No. 5 | |
Saturday 22 May 1999 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Kenneth Leighton | Festive Overture | |
Tchaikovsky | Variations on a Rococo Theme | |
Solo cello: Robin Michael | ||
Dvořák | Symphony No. 8 in G | |
Saturday 13 March 1999 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Beethoven | Overture “Egmont” | |
Elgar | Serenade for Strings | |
Conductor: Harriet Johnson | ||
Samuel Barber | Knoxville, Summer of 1915 | |
Solo soprano: Shuna Sendall | ||
Haydn | Symphony No. 104 in D “London” | |
Saturday 28 November 1998 | ||
Conductor: Tim Paxton | ||
Hamish MacCunn | Overture “Land of the Mountain and the Flood” | |
Rodrigo | Concierto de Aranjuez | |
Solo guitar: Allan Neave | ||
Mendelssohn | Scottish Symphony (op. 56 in A minor) | |
Saturday 23 May 1998 | ||
Conductor: Steve King | ||
Grieg | Peer Gynt | |
Conductor: Harriet Johnson | ||
Britten | Six Metamorphoses from Ovid | |
Solo oboe: Heather Wade | ||
Walton | Two Pieces for strings from Henry V | |
Bach | First Orchestral Suite | |
Saturday 14 March 1998 | ||
Conductor: Steve King | ||
Mozart | Symphony no. 39 | |
Elgar | Four Dances for Wind Quintet | |
King | A Place of Welcome | |
Solo soprano: Mairi Campbell | ||
Saturday 29 November 1997 | ||
Conductor: Steve King | ||
Handel | Music for the Royal Fireworks | |
Sweeney | Seann Orain | |
Mozart | Symphony no. 40 |
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