Music | West Bristol Orchestra

Music at WBO

composers We play a whole range of classical music, mainly from the classical, romantic and modern periods.

We play many pieces during the year (our year is Sept-July), polishing some more than others. An interest of the orchestra is to play music that is not played frequently. So, if you join us, you will almost certainly play music you have not played before. The panel on the right shows some of the composers whose music we have enjoyed in recent years.

Soloists join us from time to time, and members of the orchestra also have the chance to be a soloist if they wish - a rare opportunity indeed for most orchestral players.

Music
Below are some of the pieces we have played previously.

Note: We are not playing in the YouTube clips below. The clips are provided so that you can hear the pieces, if you are not already familiar with them. (Some of the YouTube clips are preceded by adverts that you can skip after a few seconds.)

These are the pieces we played in during a sample year:

Gioachino Rossini
Eduardo e Cristina Overture

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Der Schauspieldirektor Overture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KK7yI4FKNs

Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky
Symphony No 1 first movement (to 11:25)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZRsNzIwYAA

Franz Schubert
Die Zwillingsbrueder D647
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aztwd4Lnm3s

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La Vendetta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va6EVm5dZfc

Joseph Gottlieb Dente
Symphony in D minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd-a7yNFnKs

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No 5 (1:40 - 13:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9YoEETzYsE

Igor Stravinsky
Symphony in E-Flat, Opus 1 (2nd Movement -Scherzo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8FGcX-cwLc

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto in G, KV 453
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5OAcc9AIto

Frederick Delius
Tone Poem: Summer Evening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLorNuT236A

Stanislaw Moniuszko
Overture for Halka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIjiT0IS_PI

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 7 in A major, Opus 92
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahvrHrPGi1k
We enjoy playing pieces by female composers, for example:

Florence Price
Symphony No 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s4yY_A2A2k

Louise Farrenc
Symphony No 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZeYHeXnNdo

Cecile Chaminade
Concertino for Flute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCmzcn4MYuY
Pieces involving soloists have included:

Gabriel Faure
Elegy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60XFSEFkS8Y
(version for viola)

Siegfried Wagner
Konzertstuck for Flute
mp3 file

Julius Rietz
Op33 Konzertstuck for Oboe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqca3KmWPN8

Aaron Copland
Old American Songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fi57xTQl2U

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major KWV 622
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_gm0NCabPs

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Leporello's Aria, Don Giovanni
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INF9r5jju0A

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto in G, KV 453
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5OAcc9AIto

Joseph Haydn
Violin Concerto in G (first movement)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk0oZ9JdTe0