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#DreamOfGerontius #LondonRepertoireOrchestra #Elgar #Prelude #AngelsFarewell It's been my dream to conduct Gerontius and last night it came true, at least in part! I got to conduct the Prelude and Angel’s Farewell. We were playing from the original 1902 parts, when Elgar re-orchestrated the two movements for orchestra only. London Repertoire Orchestra sounded its best in the luscious orchestration and beautiful melodic lines powered by the bass. The 1902 score of Prelude an

#SeaSymphony #LondonRepertoireOrchestra #LeslieAnneLewis Tonight will be the first time I hear the Sea Symphony! I went through the score this morning with Leslie Anne Lewis who will be conducting London Repertoire Orchestra tonight. We are both excited to hear it come to life this evening. I'll be listening from the tuba chair. It's also a chance to read through the parts before the recording sessions in Prague in November. The lovely musicians of the London Repertoire Orc

#SeaSymphony #LondonRepertoireOrchestra #LeslieAnneLewis Thank you, London Repertoire Orchestra. You are the first musicians to play my Sea Symphony. And, you helped me prepare for the recording sessions in Prague next month. So, thank you for playing through the piece and giving it its first airing. And equally, thank you for helping me tidy up the parts so we have an amazing recording session in Prague. LRO playing Sea Symphony

That was a loud start to the season! Ride Of The Valkyries and 1812 Overture with the massed ranks of wind and brass

London Repertoire Orchestra session

We had fun playing through Stanford’s Irish Symphony tonight.

Sunday, the 8 th of February 2026 #Tide #LondonRepertoireOrchestra #NewMusic #Orchestral #DominicMcGonigal #SeaSymphony Sung part of Victoria Requiem (SATB) at St Patrick’s Soho this morning. Reminded of singing it here a few weeks ago and being inspired to have a cantus firmus in the finale of Tide (fourth movement of Sea Symphony). At the time, I had the big theme (see below, written while waiting on the sad souls bench at Waitrose). But I had only a hazy impressio

Monday, the 2 nd of February 2026 #LondonRepertoireOrchestra #NewMusic #Orchestral #DominicVeall #SteveChowne #DominicMcGonigal #OwenHo #SeaSymphony I am enjoying learning these four scores for the London Repertoire Orchestra new works session on Wednesday. They are very different and all will be fun to play. Dominic Veall’s Preludio and Montuno Meltdown has Latin rhythms and lots of fun solos for most instruments. Steve Chowne’s Ten Minute Symphony is just that – four