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Here are some details of our recent concerts:

ISIS Chamber Orchestra
When: Saturday 3rd October 2009, 8pm
Conductor: Paul Cox
Venue: St Michael and All Angels' Church, Abingdon
Tickets: £8 (£6 concessions), on sale at the door
Soloist: Todor Nikolaev
Music:

Holst – St. Paul’s Suite
Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Beethoven – Violin Concerto in D major

ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date: Saturday 23rd May 2009
Conductor: Paul Cox
Venue: All Saints Church, Marcham (near Abingdon)
Music:

Moeran - Sinfonietta
Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending
Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 3 in A minor, 'Scottish'

This concert raised more than £800 for the Moldova Lifeline Project.

Didcot Choral Society
ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date: Saturday 7th March 2009
Conductor: Robert Legg
Venue: St Peter’s Church, Didcot
Music:

Purcell - Come ye Sons of Art
Purcell - Music for the Birthday and Funeral of Queen Mary
Handel - Coronation Anthems

ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date: Saturday 28th February 2009
Venue: Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford
Conductor: Paul Cox
Soloist: Mark Hooper
Music:

Mozart
Wind serenade in E flat, K375
Piano concerto no. 21 in C, K467
Overture Lucio Silla, K135
Symphony no. 39 in E flat, K543

[piano with keyboard swirling out of it]

ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date: Saturday 4th October 2008
Conductor: Paul Cox
Venue: St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford
Tickets: £8 (£6), on sale at the door or from Tickets Oxford, or on the door if there are any left!
Music:

J.C. Bach - Symphony in D major
Strauss – Oboe Concerto (soloist Alan Garner)
Moeran – Lonely Waters and Whythorne’s Shadow
Haydn – Symphony No. 104

Poster

ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date: Saturday 5th July 2008
Conductor: Paul Cox
Venue: St Helen's Church, Abingdon
Music:

Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto (soloist Caroline Duffner)
Schumann - Symphony No. 3 (The Rhenish)
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Didcot Choral Society began their 50th anniversary celebrations with Fauré’s tender and lyrical Requiem – written in the composer’s own words "for fun" and described by one critic as "a lullaby of death". The concert also included a performance of Duruflé’s Requiem, much-influenced by Fauré. The choir was conducted by Robert Legg, and accompanied by the ISIS Chamber Orchestra. Local soloists were Susan Young and Ronan Busfield.

Date & time: Saturday 29th March 2008, 8pm
Venue: St Peter’s Church, Newlands Avenue, Didcot
Music:

Fauré - Requiem
Duruflé - Requiem

ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date & time: Saturday 2nd February 2008, 8pm
Venue: Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, Oxford
Pianist/Conductor: Mark Hooper
Music:

Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 17 in G major
Haydn - Symphony No. 83 "La Poule"
Frank Bridge - Suite for Strings
Lennox Berkeley - Windsor Variations

Opera Anywhere
ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date: Saturday 10th November 2007
Venue: Sunningwell Church
Music:

Gracie, Finzi, Haydn

ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date: Saturday 6th October 2007
Conductor: Paul Cox
Venue: St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford
Music:

Gounod - Petite Symphonie
Saint-Saens - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (soloist Cristian Persinaru)
Saint-Saens - Havanaise
Beethoven - Symphony No. 4

Didcot Choral Society
Headington Singers
ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date: Saturday 7th July 2007
Conductors: Robert Legg and Sally Mears
Venue: Dorchester Abbey
Music:

Haydn - Creation
(soloists Pippa Goss, Margaret Cooper, Jonathan Bungard, Henry Herford)

Didcot Choral Society
ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date: Saturday 31st March 2007
Conductor: Robert Legg
Venue: Cockcroft Hall, Didcot Girls’ School
Music:

Kresadlo - Missa Glagolitica
Dvorak - Mass in D major

ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date: Saturday 3rd February 2007
Conductor: Neil Farrow
Venue: Silk Hall, Radley
Music:

Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia
Grieg - Holberg Suite
Grieg - Piano Concerto (soloist Anthony Williams)
Borodin - Symphony No. 3

ISIS Chamber Orchestra
Date: Saturday 30th September 2006
Conductor: Paul Cox
Venue: St Michael at the Northgate, Oxford
Music:

Dvorak - Suite Poetique
Berkeley - Four Poems of St Teresa of Avila (soloist Claire-Louise Lucas)
Beethoven - Symphony No. 7