New Edinburgh Orchestra Past Concerts
| 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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