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Our next concert will be

 Sunday November 6th

at

St Oswald’s Church at 3.30pm

   Pellêas et Mêlisande Op 80                  Faurê

      Dolly suite  Op 56                                  Faurê   

       Symphony No 1 in G minor. Op 7          Neilson  

Tickets are available from White Rose Book shop in Thirk at £13.50 in advance or by emailing Deby: thirsksinfonia@aol.com

£16 on the door

Previous concerts

Sunday 1st March, 2020  St Oswald’s Church
Strauss II :   Die Fledermaus: Overture
Strauss II:    Der Zigeunderbaron: Ein Mädchen hat es gar nicht gut
Lehár:         The Merry Widow: Viljalied
Strauss II:    Der Zigeunderbaron: Overture
Lehár:         Giuditta Act 3: “Meine Lippen sie küssen so heiss” (Annita’s aria)
Strauss II:    Tritsh-Tratsch Polka Op 214
Strauss II:    New Pizzicato Polka
Strauss II:    Cuckoo Polka Op 336
Strauss I:     Radetzky March
StraussII:     Tales from the Vienna Woods Waltz Op 325
StraussII:     Voices of Spring Waltz Op 410
StraussII:     The Blue Danube

Soloist:         Anne-Marie Czajkowski


Sunday 7th June, 2020  St Oswald’s Church
Smetana :    Overture to the Bartered Bride
Mozart:        4th Horn Concerto in Eb major  *
Brahms:        Symphony No 4 in E minor

Soloist:         Ben Percival


September 22nd 2019 in St Oswalds Church
Conducted by Charlie Gower-Smith

Brahms: Variation on a theme by Hayden in Bb major Op.56a
Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Trumpets in C
Nielson: Symphony No 1 in Gminor, Op 7, FS 16 


Saturday 15th June at St Oswald’s Church Sowerby
Conducted by Charlie Gower-Smith

Coriolan Overture op 62         Beethoven
Siegfrid Idyll                             Wagner
Symphony No 6, Op 68           Beethoven

Saturday March 30th at St Oswald’s Church Sowerby

Saint Saens Danse Macabre
Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the amazing soloist Katy Vedder
Cesar Franck Symphony in D minor

Saturday 22nd September 2018 at St Oswald’s Church Sowerby

Dvořák Cello Symphony No.9
From the New World
Soloist : Catherine Strachan

Saturday 23rd June 2018
English folk song suite: R Vaughan William
Beau Brummel Minuet: Elgar
Mina: Elgar

Richard Rodney Bennet – A little suite featuring soprano Diane Peacock 
Beethoven Symphony No. 5                                              

Saturday 17th February 2018
Family Concert

Shore Music from Lord of the Rings
Badelt Music from Pirates of the Carribean
Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf
Williiams Music from Star Wars

Saturday 30th September

Ravel Tombeau De Couperin
Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Beethoven Sympony No.4

Saturday June 17th
Through the ages
Soloist:  Philip Cull, Oboe

Haydn Symphony No.22  Philosopher
Albinoni Oboe concerton in D minor
Elgar Emigma Variations

Saturday 18th February
The Ritz Cinema Thirsk
Playing live to Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail.

September 24th 2016 St Oswalds Church, Sowerby.
Soloist Toby White, and our lead violinist Sarah Reece

STRAVINSKY    Pulcinella Suite
HAYDN             Cello concerto in C major Soloist Toby White                            
HAYDN             Symphony No. 104 in D major ‘ London Symphony’

Saturday 27th February
Conducted by       George Morton

MENDELSSOHN       Hebrides Overture
BRUCH     Violin Concerto No 1 (Soloist: Dara de Cogan)
TCHAIKOVSKY       Symphony No 5

Short samples of the concert are here

Concert September 26th 2015
Conductor: George Morton

Symphony No.8 ‘Unfinished’ – F. Schubert
Siegfried Idyll – R. Wagner
Symphony no. 2 in D, Op. 73 – J. Brahms