Concordia String Orchestra will next be performing at

Fountainhall at the Stocket (formerly Midstocket Parish Church)

on Saturday 25th November 2023 at 7.30 pm

 

Enjoy a cosy evening of wonderful string music:

'Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 3' - Handel

'Elegie (from King Christian Suite)' - Sibelius

'Consort Music' - Bush

'Summa' - Part

‘Serenade for Strings’ - Reinecke

Tickets available from here or at the door.

 

 

Previous concerts

 

Saturday 10th June 2022 - Duthie Park Winter Gardens

Conductor: Tim Tricker

 

 

Saturday 26th November 2022 - Midstocket Parish Church

Conductor: Tim Tricker

In collaboration with Con Anima Chamber Choir

 

 

 

 The Programme:

• God is Gone up (Op. 27 no. 2) (strings and choir)
• Prelude (Op. 25) (strings only)
• Four Part Songs (Op. 17 nos. 1-4) (choir only)
• Magnificat (Op. 36) (strings and choir)
• Romance (Op. 11) (strings only)
• Three Part Songs (Op. 17 nos. 5-7) (choir only)
• Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice (Op. 26) (strings and choir)

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 26th November 2022 - Midstocket Parish Church

Conductor: Tim Tricker

 

 

 

The Programme:

 

• Biber - Battalia á 10
• Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
• Schubert - Rondo in A Major
• Fuchs - Serenade No. 1
• Haydn - Toy Symphony

 

 

 

 

Sunday 19th June 2022, 2.30 pm - Duthie Park Winter Gardens

Conductor: Tim Tricker

 

 

The Programme:

 

• Fletcher - Folk Tune & Fiddle Dance
• Parlow - Variations on a Russian Folk Song
• Grieg - Two Nordic Melodies
• Bartok - Rumanian Folk Dances
• Meyer - Fantasia on a Theme from Thailand
• Jarrett - American Folk Song Suite
• Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite

 

 

 

 

Saturday 26th March 2022 - Midstocket Parish Church

Conductor: Tim Tricker

 

 

 

The Programme:

 

• Telemann - Concerto Polonais
• Mendelssohn - Sinfonia 2 in D for strings
• Bruch - Serenade for Strings after Swedish Folk Melodies
• Elgar - 'The Spanish Lady' Suite
• Karlowicz - Serenade for Strings

 

 

 

Due to the coronavirus / COVID-19 outbreak, no concerts were held between November 2019 and March 2022.

 

Saturday 23rd November 2019 - Midstocket Parish Church

"Impressions of Italy"

Conductor: Tim Tricker

Organist:  Matthew McVey

 

The programme:

• Vivaldi - Concerto in G Major
• Mascagni - Intermezzo Sinfonica
• Wolf - Serenade
• Warlock - Six Italian Dances
• Albinoni - Adagio in G Minor
• Tchaikovsky - Souvenir de Florence

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday 2nd June - Duthie Park Winter Gardens

Conductor: Tim Tricker

 

The programme:

• Svendsen - 2 Icelandic Melodies & 2 Swedish Melodies

• Rutter - Suite for Strings

• Tricker - The Rocky Road to Dublin & Afton Water

• Atkinson - Suite of Scottish Folk Songs

• Bantock - Scenes from the Scottish Highlands

 

 

 

Saturday 23rd March 2019 - Midstocket Parish Church

Conductor: Tim Tricker

Cellists:  Kara Taylor & Clara Daley

  

The programme:

• Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.3

• Tartini - Sinfonia in A

• Vivaldi - Concerto for Two Cellos

• Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

• Vaughan Williams - Charterhouse Suite

 

 

 

 

 Saturday 24th November 2018 - Midstocket Parish Church

 Conductor: Tim Tricker

 Soloist: Hannah Renton

 The programme:

• Parry - Lady Radnor's Suite

• Saint-Saëns - Sarabande

• Vaughan Williams - Concerto Accademico

• Sibelius - Water Droplets, with variations by Tim Tricker

• Taubert - Suite for Strings

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 3rd June, 2018 - St Devenick's Church, Bieldside

• Purcell - Drei Stücke

• Mozart - Divertimento in B flat major

• MacDowell - Three Woodland Sketches

• Wilson - Suite for Strings

   

 

 

 

Sunday, 25th March, 2018 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Southwood - Serenade No. 2 and Serenade No. 3

• Tricker - Fragments for String Orchestra

• Holst - Brook Green Suite

• Elgar - Elegy

• Holst - St Paul's Suite

 

 

 

Sunday, 19th November, 2017 - Phoenix Hall, Newton Dee

• Trimble - Suite for Strings

• MacDowell - Woodland Sketches (arr. Tricker - premiere)

• Sibelius - Suite Champêtre and Suite Mignonne

• Finzi - Prelude

• Tchaikovsky - Largo and Allegro

• Puccini - Tre Minuetti

 

 

Saturday, 25th March, 2017 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Finzi - Let us Garlands Bring

• German - Masque to the Music from As You Like It

• Tchaikovsky - Elegy for String Orchestra

• Fauré - Nocturne from Shylock

• Purcell - Overture from The Masque in Timon of Athens

• Beethoven - String Quartet Op.18 No.1 2nd movement

 

 

Saturday, 27th November, 2016 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Mendelssohn - String Symphony No. 1

• Tavener - The Lamb (arr. string orchestra)

• C.P.E Bach - Flute Concerto in D min

• Suk - Serenade for Strings

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 20th March, 2016 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Arthur Foote - Serenade

• Georg Hoth - Suite im alten Style

• E.M. Moor - Serenade

• Tim Tricker - Fragments for String Orchestra

• Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

 

 

 

Saturday, 28th November, 2015 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Handel - Concerto Grosso Opus 6 No.2

• Schubert - Salve Regina

• Brida - Sinfonia Religiosa

• Tchaikovsky - Andante Cantabile

• Herbert - Serenade for Strings

 

 

 

Saturday, 28th March, 2015 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Purcell - Abdelazer Suite

• Elgar - Sospiri

• Vaughan Williams - Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus & Fantasia on Greensleeves

• Sumsion - A Mountain Tune

• Bush - Divertimento

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 29th November, 2014 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Bach - Violin Concerto in A minor (Soloist: Jessica Coleman)

• Per Brandt - Sinfonia

• Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances Suite 3

• Fuchs - Serenade No. 3

• Delius - Three Aquarelles

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 29th March 2014 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Purcell - Pavane and Chaconne

• Kalinnikov - Serenade for Strings

• Tricker - Two Pieces for Oboe and Strings

• Mendelssohn - Octet in E flat major

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 24th November, 2013 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Boyce - Symphony No. 1

• Biber - Battalia à 9

• Boccherini - Cello Concerto No. 9  (Soloist: Megan Rolf)

• Dvorák - Nocturne

• Volkmann - Serenade No. 2

 

 

 

 

Sunday, 9th June, 2013 - Duthie Park's Winter Gardens

• Telemann - 'La Lyra' Suite

• Warlock - Capriol Suite

• Elgar - Serenade for Strings

• Rutter - Suite for Strings

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 16th March, 2013 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Britten - Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (with Richard Coleman and Joe Boyd)

• Telemann - Overture to La Lyra

• Mendelssohn - String Symphony No. 7

• Vaughan Williams - Rhosymedre

• Sibelius - Impromptu for String Orchestra

• Kalinnikov - Two Miniatures and Chanson Triste

 

 

Saturday, 24th November, 2012 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Roman - Suite in D

• Sibelius - Romance, Canzonetta and Andante Festivo

• Svendsen - 2 Swedish Folk Melodies and 2 Icelandic Melodies

• Nielsen - Suite for Strings

• Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1

 

 

 

Saturday, 31st March, 2012 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Handel - Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.1

• Volkmann - Serenade No.3

• Shostakovich - Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and String Orchestra (Soloists: Christopher Baxter and Hedley Benson)

• Glazunov - Theme and Variations for String Orchestra

• Holst - A Moorside Suite (arr. Lane)

 

 

 

 

Saturday, 26th November, 2011 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Vivaldi - Concerto for strings in D Major

• Khachaturian (arr. Tricker) - Pictures of Childhood (premiere performance)

• Holst - Fugal Concerto for Flute and Oboe (Soloists: Heather Evans and Jo Price)

• Arensky - Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky

• Parry - An English Suite

 

Saturday, 26th March, 2011 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Elgar - Serenade for Strings

• Mozart - Divertimento in D major

• Fauré arr Tricker - Élégie and Berceuse (Soloist: Alice Allen)

• Tchaikovsky - Allegro ma non tanto

• Bridge - Suite for String Orchestra

• Barber - Serenade for Strings

 

 

Saturday, 27th November, 2010 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Pachelbel (arr. Tricker) - Canon and Gigue in D major

• Bach - Widerstehe doch der Sünde

• Handel - Ombra mai fù

• Handel - Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.5

• Vaughan Williams - Household Music

• Dag Wirén - Serenade for String Orchestra

 

Sunday, 16th May, 2010 - Fochabers Bellie Church

• Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

• Schumann - Papillons (arr. Tim Tricker)

• Barber - Serenade

• Rutter - Suite for Strings

 

Saturday, 20th March, 2010 - Ferryhill Parish Church

• Mozart - Serenade in G (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)

• Puccini - I crisantemi

• Rutter - Suite for Strings

• Tippett - Little Music for Strings

• Schumann - Papillons (arr. Tim Tricker)