Concordia String Orchestra will next be performing

at Fountainhall Church at the Stocket

(formerly Midstocket Parish Church)

on Saturday 23rd March 2024 at 7.30 pm

 

Tickets available 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)