Archive: this programme covers the Northern Chamber Orchestra’s 2022–23 Macclesfield season.
The Northern Chamber Orchestra’s 2022–23 Macclesfield season included concerts at The King’s School and St Michael’s Church.
Final three concerts of the 2022–23 season
- 11th March, 7.30pm: Stabat Mater Dolorosa
- 1st April, 7.30pm: Winds Unleashed
- 6th May, 7.30pm: Bach and his Legacy
The 11 March 2023 St Michael’s programme included Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, sung by Caroline Taylor and Ralph Thomas Williams, alongside Lera Auerbach’s Sogno di Stabat Mater and works by Handel and Corelli. The orchestra’s season brochures identify Christopher Jones as violinist and director and Kay Stephen as viola soloist; the concert sheet also lists Stephen in the viola section, although its cover calls her a violinist.
For 1 April 2023 at The King’s School, the orchestra advertised a wind programme directed by John Roberts, including Mozart’s “Gran Partita”, Joachim Raff’s Sinfonietta and Ruth Gipps’s Seascape.
The advertised finale on 6 May 2023 at The King’s School paired three Bach Brandenburg Concertos with Arvo Pärt’s Fratres and Alfred Schnittke’s Suite in the Old Style, directed by violinist Jorge Jimenez.
As the North West’s longest-standing chamber orchestra, The NCO has come a long way since it was set up in 1967. It has over thirty, critically-acclaimed recordings to its name and is known in every continent and its members (approximately twenty five in total) are distinguished chamber musicians who regularly appear as soloists.
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