Concert Archive

Our popular concerts for children with a musical adventure story. Two performances at 2pm and 3.30pm

Powerful music which invokes memories of past conflicts and turbulent times

Come and join us for this special event, and hear leading players from SASO play their favourite concertos accompanied by the Orchestra

A concert featuring classic works by Finland’s greatest composer

Russian music from Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Shostakovich

Colourful and expressive music, for strings, winds and the whole orchestra

Welcome the New Year with a concert of favourite American and British music

Our popular concerts for children with a musical adventure story. Two performances at 2pm and 3.30pm

The Hardynge Choir, Radlett Choral Society and St Albans Chamber Choir join the Orchestra

Come and join us for this special event, and hear leading players from SASO play their favourite concertos accompanied by the Orchestra.

A concert of English music! Emma Johnson, clarinet, plays the clarinet concerto ‘Lost Lanes, Shadow Groves’. Also featuring Vaughan Williams’s ‘A London Symphony’.

Two of Sibelius’s patriotic tone poems and Brahms’s Piano Concerto No.1, featuring Alissa Firsova.

A flavour of Russia, featuring Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and two works by Prokofiev.

Welcome the New Year with a concert for all the family in the glorious surroundings of St Albans Abbey and hear some of the most exciting music ever written.

Our popular concerts for children with a musical adventure story, ‘Not Now, Bernard!’, narrated by the composer Bernard Hughes.

The fourth movement of Mahler’s epic Symphony No.5 may be his most famous composition and was used in the 1971 film Death in Venice
 

In memory of Babs Yule (1920-2010)

Guest conductor: Bjorn Bantock

A weekend orchestral workshop to prepare and perform Elgar’s spectacular Symphony No.2. The workshop starts on Friday. Sectional tutorials led by professional tutors will take place on the Saturday morning, followed by further rehearsal and an evening performance.

Cristian Grajner De Sa began violin and piano lessons at the age of seven and since then has enjoyed performing in recitals and as a concerto soloist on the violin. He has appeared as a String Finalist in the televised BBC Young Musician of the Year 2012 competition.

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto is possibly the most popular work ever written for violin, with glorious melodies displaying the soloist’s virtuoso technique.

Britten’s Sea Interludes are scene changes from his opera Peter Grimes, and he always intended for them to be published separately. Hindemith sketched a series of movements based on themes by Weber to be used in a ballet for a dance company, but the ballet never came to fruition.

The Hardynge Choir, Radlett Choral Society and St Albans Chamber Choir join St Albans Symphony Orchestra

Geraldine McGreevy, soprano
Deborah Miles-Johnson, alto
Mark Wilde, tenor
Jeremy White, bass

Dvorák composed his Requiem in the final decade of the 19th century. Despite the specifically religious nature of its text, the work, with its large scale, its many performers and its construction in two parts so as to allow for an intermission, was always intended for the concert hall rather than the church.