Archive

These pages contain programmes and recordings of most of our recent performances. In addition, a list of every piece we have performed since 1960 is on the repertoire page and a history of the orchestra is on the about page.

Many of the sound recordings in this archive were recorded by students on the Tonmeister course at the University of Surrey, for which we are very grateful. Note that explicit approval is required for any photography or recordings, since we must have the consent of everyone involved and pay any extra fees incurred.

Click the programme covers to download the complete programme in PDF format. You can use a browser plugin such as Video & Audio Downloader to download audio and video recordings (start playing the recording to make it appear in the list).

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Saturday 22nd January 2022 at 19:30

Programme Jan 2022Vaughan Williams Wasps Overture Speaker symbol

Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending Speaker symbol
Peter Longworth In the golden sky, the swallows turn
    Soloist Emily Davis

Vaughan Williams English Folk Suite Speaker symbol

Bax Symphony No 6 Speaker symbol

Redolent of the glories of the English countryside, our second concert begins with Vaughan Williams’ glittering “Wasps” Overture. We then feature the wonderful Emily Davis in the much-loved Lark Ascending (and in Longworths’ delicate tribute to the same). Bax’s gloriously powerful Sixth Symphony encompasses the second half. (“The work marches irrevocably from point to point with the inevitability of mastery.” – its first review.)

Saturday 13th November 2021 at 19:30

Programme Nov 2021Rustam KhanmurzinBeethoven Overture Leonora No 3 Speaker symbol

Beethoven Octet for Wind Speaker symbol

Bartók Piano Concerto No 3
    Soloist Rustam Khanmurzin

Mendelssohn Scottish Symphony Speaker symbol

Our season opens with Beethoven at his grandest – Leonora Overture No. 3 – followed by Beethoven at his most intimate – his wind octet. Then the gifted Rustam Khanmurzin plays the folksong inspired Third Concerto for piano by Bartók. Mendelssohn’s scintillating Scottish symphony wraps up the concert with a Celtic flourish!

Saturday 17th July 2021, 17:30 and 20:00

Programme Jul 2021Janice WatsonWagner Die Meistersinger Overture Speaker symbol

Elgar Sea Pictures Speaker symbol
    Soloist Janice Watson

Beethoven Symphony No 5 in C Minor Speaker symbol

Socially-distanced concert with two performances in one day so as many of you can attend as possible. Tickets (for these concerts only) are priced at £15 (under 18s free but they need to “buy” a ticket).  Please note that no refreshments will be served and there will be no interval.

Saturday 14th March 2020 at 19:30

Programme Mar 2020Prokofiev

Maunders Bacchanale Speaker symbol
Tippett Five Spirituals and The Weeping Babe Speaker symbol
     Sine Nomine choir – musical director Jonny Davies

Tippett Double String Concerto Speaker symbol

Prokofiev Symphony No 5 Speaker symbol

The March concert opens with the Syrian-influenced Bacchanal by Florence Anna Maunders (from our composers competition). This is followed by Tippett’s joyful Concerto for Double String  Orchestra, his most popular work, with hints of Bartók, folk idioms and the blues. Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony concludes. (The composer: ‘a hymn to Man’s noble spirit – it filled my soul.’)

Maunders – Bacchanale

Saturday 25th January 2020 at 19:30

Programme Nov 2019TchaikovskyMozart Overture to The Magic Flute Speaker symbol

Vaughan Williams Symphony No 6 Speaker symbol

Tchaikovsky 3rd Orchestral Suite  Speaker symbol

Our second concert begins with Mozart’s effervescent Overture to the Magic Flute, followed by Vaughan Williams’ deeply felt Sixth Symphony. The programme concludes with Tchaikovsky’s vivid and lyrical Third Orchestral Suite.

Mozart

Vaughan Williams

Tchaikovsky Mov 1

Tchaikovsky Mov 2

Tchaikovsky Mov 3

Tchaikovsky Mov 4 (partial)

Saturday 9th November 2019 at 19:30

ADRIAN BROWN 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

Programme Nov 2019Adrian Brown

Berlioz Le Corsaire Overture Speaker symbol
Brahms Violin Concerto Speaker symbol
Soloist Michael Foyle

Senter Proem Speaker symbol

Sibelius Symphony No 5 Speaker symbol

To launch Adrian Brown’s 40th Season with Bromley Symphony Orchestra, the programme for our first concert is a repeat of Adrian’s first concert with us in 1980. Berlioz’s thrillingly vital overture Le Corsaire is followed by Brahms’ eloquent Violin Concerto, with Michael Foyle, one of the UK’s finest violinists, as soloist. The only departure from the 1980 concert is the glowing work Proem composed by John Senter, an old friend of Adrian’s, from our composers’ competition. We conclude this celebration with Sibelius’ expansive and aspirational Fifth Symphony.

Saturday 18th May 2019 at 19:45

Centenary FinaleProgramme May 2019Beethoven

National Anthem (arr. Britten)

Parry Blest Pair of Sirens Speaker symbol

Muilwijk Europa  Speaker symbol (The winning work in our Centenary Composers’ Competition)

Beethoven Symphony No 9 in D minor Speaker symbol
    with The BYMT Adult Choir
    Soloists Janice Watson, John Upperton, Tristan Hambleton, Nicola Ihnatowicz

The winning work in our Centenary Composers Competition and Beethoven’s tumultuous and transcendent final symphony bring our Centenary season to a glorious end.

Beethoven – Symphony No. 9

Saturday 16th March 2019 at 19:45

Programme March 2019Richard Strauss
Elgar
Cockaigne Overture Speaker symbol

Reed Symphony for Strings

Strauss Ein Heldenleben  Speaker symbol

Elgar’s rollicking recreation of Edwardian London leads into the tuneful Symphony for Strings by his friend, the long-term LSO leader and Bromley Symphony conductor William (‘Billy’) Reed.  Ein Heldenleben, Strauss’ autobiographical, lavishly romantic and richly-textured tone poem, showcases our own leader, Andrew Laing, in the second half.

Reed – Symphony for Strings

Saturday 26th January 2019 at 19:45

Programme Jan 2019John LillMozart Symphony No 32 in G Major  Speaker symbol

Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C major 
    Soloist John Lill

Mahler Symphony No 1 in D major  

Mozart’s small-but-perfectly-formed Symphony 32 precedes the internationally renowned John Lill, who joins us in Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. Then, Mahler’s monumental First Symphony (the ‘Titan’), which exemplifies his comment: ‘To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.’

Mahler Symphony No 1 in D major

Saturday 10th November 2018 at 19:45

Programme Nov 2018Nicholas McCarthyArmistice Centenary Concert

Brahms Tragic Overture Speaker symbol

Butterworth A Shropshire Lad Speaker symbol

Ravel Piano Concerto for Left Hand Speaker symbol
     Soloist Nicholas McCarthy

Elgar Symphony No 2 in E flat major  Speaker symbol

In our Armistice Centenary concert, Brahms’ arresting Tragic Overture is followed by Butterworth’s nostalgically lyrical ‘A Shropshire Lad’, written in the shadow of WWI. Ravel’s jazzy and virtuosic Concerto for the Left Hand follows – commissioned by a pianist who lost an arm in the conflict. After the interval we present Elgar’s Second Symphony, composed, as he put it, ‘at fever heat’, one of his most impassioned, intense, and inspiring works.