| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 3-May-2013 Barbican Centre: Hall | John Wilson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Vaughan Williams and York Bowen |
 An orgy of British music greeted an appreciative audience at the Barbican last night courtesy of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by British music enthusiast John Wilson. But it certainly wasn’t all Land of Hope and Glory, or indeed The Lark Ascending, with three contrasting pieces – all now sadly neglected in the concert hall.
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| 20-Jan-2013 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | Philharmonia, John Wilson, Leon McCawley: 20th-century English music at the Royal Festival Hall |
 C Sheila Rock.jpg) As London became a vision in white and all went quiet, the Southbank Centre was abuzz with all manner of arts-related activities. One rail replacement bus and a brisk walk behind me, I had made it to see the Philharmonia Orchestra’s matinee concert of 20th-century English music, framed around John Ireland’s Piano Concerto.
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| 5-Jan-2013 Leeds Town Hall | The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain are the sun to Holst's Planets |
 Assembling tonight in Leeds Town Hall for a programme of English and American scores by Adams, Britten and Holst, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, directed by John Wilson, presented three fiendishly difficult works. With all three pieces incorporating a variety of prominently nerve-shattering musical agonies, this programme might be the frustration or terror of any professional orchestra.
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| 2-Dec-2012 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | The Merry Widow at the Royal Festival Hall |
 Franz Lehár’s favourite haunt was Vienna’s Café Sperl, and with the famous Theater an der Wien around the corner, Café Sperl became the meeting place for the operetta crowd around the turn of the 20th century. The Theater an der Wien was the site of the world première of Lehár’s tenth stage work, The Merry Widow, which met its enthusiastic public on 30 December 1905. Lehár would later celebrate the piece’s 300th performance at the Café Sperl.
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