20 DECEMBER 2025
(with St Neots Choral Society)
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
8 NOVEMBER 2025
Beethoven: Egmont Overture
Bartok: 10 little pieces from the series ‘For Children’
Delibes Airs de Danse et Chansons
Searle: A Medley of Memories
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Haydn: Symphony No 92 (Oxford)
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
28 JUNE 2025
(with St Neots Choral Society)
Mendelssohn: Fair Melusine Overture
Handel: Let thy Hand
Mozart: Symphony No 35 in D Major (“Haffner”)
3 Madrigals
Stanford: Justorum animae
W/Davies: God be in my head
Haydn: Te Deum
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Bruckner: Locus iste
Mozart: Ave verum
Quilter: Non nobis, Domine
Sullivan: Festival Te Deum
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
8 MARCH 2025
CPE Bach: Sinfonia in D
Dvořák: Czech Suite
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A
Soloist: Méline Le Calvez
Haydn: Symphony No. 85 (La Reine)
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
21 DECEMBER 2024
(with St Neots Choral Society)
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
9 NOVEMBER 2024
Strauss: Tales from the Vienna Woods
Tritsch Tratsch Polka
Roses from the South
Pizzicato Polka
Emperor Waltz
Donner und Blitzen Polka
Blue Danube Waltz
Radetzky March
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
29 JUNE 2024
(With St Neots Choral Society)
Sousa The Liberty Bell
Mendelssohn Yet doth the Lord from "Elijah"
Mendelssohn Blessed are the men from "Elijah"
Salieri Coronation “Te Deum”
Strauss (I) Radetzky March
Mendelssohn He that shall endure from "Elijah"
Mendelssohn And then shall your light from "Elijah"
Wagner Pilgrims’ Chorus from “Tannhäuser”
Rossini Morning Chorus from “William Tell”
Donizetti Wedding Chorus from “Lucia di Lammermoor”
Verdi Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from “Nabucco”
Handel Zadok the Priest
Mozart Ave Verum
Wood Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
Parry Jerusalem
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
2 MARCH 2024
- Grétry: Overture Lucile
- Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in Eb
Soloist: Méline Le Calvez - Mozart: from “Six German Dances”
- Michael Haydn: Sinfonia in F
- Searle: A Day in the Fens
- Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 45, “Farewell”
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
Our Soloist
Méline Le Calvez (Clarinet), a French clarinetist, graduated from the Royal College of Music in July 2023. Enthusiastic and curious clarinet and bass clarinet player, she also plays historical clarinets. Méline has a great passion for playing both chamber and orchestra music. She enjoys playing as a freelance musician with many orchestras: the Royal Opera House, Bournemouth Symphony, BBC Symphony, English National Opera, London Symphony, Ulster or Luxembourg Philharmonic. Former London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Foyle Future Firsts 2022/23, she is very happy to be part of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Emerging Musicians Fellowship 2023/24. Together with the Theatre Company Les Engivaneuses, she works on combining music, dance and theatre. Recent first Prize winner of the RCM Concerto Competition, she performed Strauss Duett-Concertino together with Francis Bushell, RCM Symphony Orchestra and Sir Antonio Pappano in January 2024.
23 DECEMBER 2023
with St Neots Choral Society
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
4 NOVEMBER 2023
- ROSSINI: Overture “Tancredi”
- SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5
- FAURE: Pavane
- SEARLE: Fitzwilliam Suite
- MOZART: A “Diversion”
- HANDEL: Water Music
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
1 JULY 2023 (with St Neots Choral Society)
- MENDLESSOHN: Overture, “Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde”
- HANDEL: Let thy hand be strengthened
- 16th Century Motets
- VICTORIA: O vos omnes
- ANERIO: Christus factus est
- de LASSUS: Adoramus te, Christ
- PALESTRINA: Sicut cervus
- HASSLER: Dixit Maria
- SULLIVAN: Madrigals from the “Savoy Operas”
- Yeomen of the Guard: Strange adventure
- Ruddigore: In the springtime
- Patience: I hear the soft note
- The Mikado: Brightly dawns our wedding day
- MOZART: Regina Coeli, K108
- ELGAR: Chanson de Matin
- DURANTE: Magnificat
- WALDTEUFEL: Waltzes
- English Madrigals:
- MORLEY: Dainty fine, sweet nymph
- MORLEY: April is in my mistress’ face
- FARNABY: Pearce did dance
- CAMPIAN: Never weather-beaten sail
- MORLEY: My bonnie lass
- TRADITIONAL (arr. SEARLE): The Nightingale Song
- BERIN: Easter Parade
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
11 MARCH 2023
- ARNE: Overture “The Judgement of Paris”
- DELIUS: Summer Night on the River
- FAURÉ: Suite, “Pelleas et Mélisande”, op. 80
- PURCELL/HOLST: Suite “The Virtuous Wife”
- BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4 in Bb Major, op. 60
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
11 NOVEMBER 2022
- Vaughan Williams 150th anniversary Concert
- VAUGHAN WILLIAMS:
- The Wasps Overture
- 5 Descants on “Dives & Lazarus”
- Romanza, (5th Symphony)
- The Lark Ascending
- Soloist: Jan Kaznowski
- Folk Song Suite
- HAYDN:
- Symphony No. 104
- VAUGHAN WILLIAMS:
- Leader: Helen Whatmore-Thompson
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
2 JULY 2022 (with St Neots Choral Society)
- Last Night of the Proms Concert
- WALTON: Crown Imperial
- HANDEL: Messiah Choruses
- WAGNER: Pilgrims’ Chorus
- VERDI: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves
- FAURÉ: Pavane, Choral Version
- DVORAK: Romance, op. 11
- Soloist: Naomi Laredo
- VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: 3 Elizabethan part songs
- VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Linden Lea
- Soloist: Jean Searle
- J. STRAUSS I: Radetzky March
- Leader : Karen Hubbard
- BRAHMS: Song of Destiny
- WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
- Soloist: Jean Searle
- ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance, No. 1
- PARRY: Jerusalem
- Leader: Naomi Laredo
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
5 MARCH 2022
- ROSSINI: Overture, “Italian Girl in Algiers”
- BOCCHERINI: Sinfonia in C Major, op. 7, G 491
- BEETHOVEN: 3 Minuets (the other three!)
- MOZART: Oboe Concerto in C Major, K314
- Soloist: David Hadley
- HAYDN: Symphony No. 101 in D Major, the “Clock”
- Leader: Naomi Laredo
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
6 NOVEMBER 2021
- Belated BEETHOVEN 250th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
- BEETHOVEN:
- Overture “Coriolan”
- Romance in G for Violin
- 3 Minuets
- Romance in F for Violin
- Soloist: Viviane Plethotkine
- Symphony No. 1
- BEETHOVEN:
- Leader: Naomi Laredo
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
Concerts cancelled due to COVID 19:
June 2020, November 2020, Christmas 2020, April 2021, June 2021
7 MARCH 2020
- WEBER: Overture, “Der Freischütz”
- DELIBES: Dances from “Coppelia”
- MAY: Toye – World premier
- Composer, Gregory May, was a student member of the orchestra at the time of writing the work.
- MENDELSSOHN: from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
- Fairies: Jean Searle, Fiona Parlett, Susan Harvey, Janet Endersby, Jacqueline Gray, Anne Chandler
- SCHUMANN: Symphony No 1
- Leader: Naomi Laredo
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
9 NOVEMBER 2019
- 30th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
- SULLIVAN: Overture, “di Ballo”
- SEARLE: A Day in the Fens – A World premier composed by our Musical director
- SIBELIUS: Finlandia
- MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E Minor
- Soloist: Jan Kaznowski
- DVORAK: Symphony No 9 in E Minor
- Leader: Naomi Laredo
- Conductor: Reginald Searle
- Venue: St. Mary’s Church, Eaton Socon
