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Bromley Symphony Orchestra is a large, friendly, successful amateur orchestra based in south London with a reputation for interesting concerts of almost professional standard. We welcome applications from new members, patrons and helpers.

Bernard Brook

The Orchestra announces with great sadness the death of Bernard Brook, our leader between 1989 and 2012; he was taken ill at the beginning of this season. We are dedicating our concert on 18 January 2025 to his memory. He played an enormous role in our collective musical lives and will be sorely missed by all who had the privilege of making music with him. Our sincere condolences to Ruth and their family.

Adrian Brown has paid him the following tribute: “All our feelings for Bernard and Ruth will be played in every note at our concert on Saturday. I thank him for his beautiful playing, his style, and his loyalty. Not every leader would humbly carry on playing with the orchestra he had led. He was fastidious in his approach to the many solos and concertos we performed together. He had a serenity of style for the Lark Ascending, the character personified of Strauss’ Wife in Ein Heldenleben and the rumbustious Russian virtuosity in two Russian Concertos. I will miss his sense of humour and his devotion. He was brave till the end. I am thinking so much of Ruth, who took the difficulty of it all with such dignity. The two seemed inseparable. We shall always welcome Ruth into our music making and keep the memory of Bernard long in our hearts. I shall miss him so much.”

Saturday 11th May 2024 at 19:30

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WagnerWagner Flying Dutchman Overture Speaker symbol

Haydn Symphony 85 La Reine Speaker symbol

Wagner Götterdämmerung Speaker symbol Speaker symbol Speaker symbol
Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, Siegfried’s Funeral, Immolation Scene
    Soloist Zoe South

A stormy sea-voyage from Riga to London inspired Wagner’s glorious Flying Dutchman Overture. Haydn’s elegant Symphony 85 ‘La Reine’ – Marie Antoinette’s favourite – intervenes before excerpts from his immortal Götterdämmerung where, as Wagner wrote, ‘imagination creates reality.’

Saturday 16th November 2024 at 19:30

Brahms Academic Festival Overture Speaker symbol

Stephen Goss Guitar Concerto Speaker symbol
    
Soloist Louis Moisan

Rachmaninov Symphony  No. 2 Speaker symbol

Saturday 18th January 2025 at 19:30

Dedicated to the memory of Bernard Brook (BSO Leader 1989-2012)

Elgar Violin ConcertoSpeaker symbol
    Soloist Sasha Rozhdestvensky

Nielsen Symphony No. 1 Speaker symbol

Saturday 15th March 2025 at 19:30

Schubert Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished) Speaker symbol

Strauss Four Last Songs Speaker symbol

Mahler Symphony No. 4 Speaker symbol

Saturday 17th May 2025 at 19:30

Ravel Alborada del gracioso Speaker symbol

Brahms Double Concerto for violin and cello Speaker symbol
    Soloists Thelma & Lionel Handy

Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 Speaker symbol

Sunday 15th June 2025

CHILDREN’S CONCERT

Saint Saëns Carnival of the Animals Speaker symbol

Kleinsinger Tubby the Tuba Speaker symbol

Richard Brown Pageant of the Seas Speaker symbol