| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 12-Jan-2013 Hong Kong Cultural Centre: Concert Hall | The king of instruments: David Atherton, David Drury and the Hong Kong Philharmonic |
Former Hong Kong Philharmonic Music Director David Atherton returned to his hometown on Saturday to lead the orchestra in a concert entitled “The King of Instruments”, a reference to works on the programme involving the organ, an instrument rarely heard in the symphony hall.
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| 24-Mar-2012 Truro Cathedral | The Three Spires Singers and Orchestra with David Briggs |
Luring England's David Briggs back to his native soil and under the soaring arches of Truro Cathedral is hardly a monumental feat when tempted by the works of Fauré, Poulenc and Charpentier, as well as a performance of his own Requiem. In a programme as equally stunning in its architectural beauty as the venue which housed it, the Three Spires Singers and Orchestra led the audience in a grand meditation of choral rapture, helmed by conductor Christopher Gray.
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| 20-Nov-2010 All Saints Parish Church | Concert by The Chiltern Camerata |
| One of the main attractions of this interesting programme given by the Chiltern Camerata was the Concerto for Organ, strings and timpani by Francis Poulenc and it was to do justice to this attractive work that this concert was presented in All Saints Church in Marlow with its fine Father Willis organ.
At the start the theme running through the programme – summer in the late thirties - was introduced by Sam Laughton, the orchestra’s conductor, followed by a brief, yet pertinent and interesting, description of each piece before it was played.
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