The Abbey Gateway Orchestra regularly programmes challenging yet realistic and accessible repertoire, balancing unusual and neglected musical literature alongside some mainstream pieces. We often study key pieces in-depth with soloists, and have given first performances of works by amateur local composers.
A list of the pieces we have previously performed is below.
- Crusell: Clarinet Concerto No.3 (Soloist Andrew Smith)
- Beethoven: King Stephen Overture
- Vaughan Williams: March – Seventeen Come Sunday
- Beach: Romance – The Quest
- Elgar: Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra (Soloist John Glanville)
- Vaughan Williams: March – Folk Songs from Somerset
- Gargrave: March of the Legions
- Vaughan Williams: Old One Hundredth
- Clarke: Prince of Denmark’s March
- Nicholai: Merry Wives of Windsor – Overture
- Carol: My Dancing Day
- Joubert: There is no rose
- Bruckner: Locus Iste
- Weber: Clarinet Concertino (Soloist Andrew Smith)
- Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea – A Dorset Song
- Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
- Humperdinck: Evening Prayer
- Vaughan Williams: Old One Hundredth Psalm Tune
- Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
- Beethoven: Romance in F for Violin (Soloist Jacky Wong)
- Weber: Concerto for Bassoon (Soloist Roger Harrison)
- Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance Overture
- Bellini: Oboe Concerto (Soloist Deborah Willson)
- Luigini: Ballet Egyptien Suite No 1
- Gluck: Iphigienie in Aulis – Overture
- Grieg: Piano concerto in A minor op 16 (Soloist Simon Gargrave)
- Beach: Prelude (A Suite of Miniatures)
- Holst: Intermezzo (Suite in E flat)
- Gargrave: Waltz No 2
- Brahms: How Lovely are thy Dwellings Lord (A German Requiem)
- Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
- Mendelssohn: I waited for the Lord (Soloists Katie Metcalfe, Elisabet Eldred)
- Mendelssohn: Hear my Prayer (Soloist Shauna Masterson)
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