Past Concerts
The Northern Baroque Orchestra has performed many concerts over the past 40 years. Here is a list giving details of our most recent concerts (venues, conductors, soloists and repertoire).
Winter 2024
Saturday 9th November
St Aidan's Church,
Manchester Road
Conductor: Paul Witkiewicz
Soloist: Andrew Rostron (violin)
The Nightingale Singers
Conductor: Ken Greaves
Leopold Mozart (attrib.) Divertimento in F major ('The Musical Sleigh Ride')
Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 8 in G minor ('Christmas Concerto')
Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto Op. 8 No. 4 in F minor, RV 297 ('Winter')
George Frideric Handel And the glory of the Lord from Messiah, HWV 56 (with The Nightingale Singers)
Howard Goodall The Lord is my Shepherd
Johannes Brahms How beautiful are my dwellings from Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Harry Warren (arr. D King) Forty-Second Street
Charles Villiers Stanford The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3
Hugh Stevenson Roberton All in the April Evening
Edward German Rolling Down to Rio from Just So Songs
Ronald Binge Where the Gentle Avon Flows (Elizabethan Serenade)
Johann Sebastian Bach Sleep Well from St. John Passion, BWV 243
Summer 2024
Saturday 22nd June
St Aidan's Church,
Manchester Road
Conductor: Paul Stanhope
Soloist: Andrew Rostron (violin)
George Frideric Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 1 in G major
Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 6 in F major
Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto Op. 3 No. 6 in A minor, RV 356
George Frideric Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 2 in F major
Georg Philipp Telemann Concerto for strings in A major, TWV 43:A4
Francesco Saverio Geminiani Concerto Grosso No. 8 in E minor (after Corelli's Violin Sonata Op. 5), H. 139
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Autumn 2023
Saturday 18th November
St Aidan's Church,
Manchester Road
Conductor: Alasdair Gordon
Antonio Vivaldi Concerto in D minor, RV 129 'Madrigalesco'
Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 9 in D major
George Frideric Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 4 in F major, HWV 315
George Frideric Handel Sinfonia from Solomon ('Arrival of the Queen of Sheba')
Francesco Saverio Geminiani Concerto Grosso No. 9 in A major (after Corelli's Violin Sonata Op. 5), H. 140
George Frideric Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 5 in D minor, HWV 316
Spring 2023
Saturday 20th May
St Aidan's Church,
Manchester Road
Conductor: Paul Witkiewicz
Antonio Vivaldi Concerto in D minor, RV 129 'Madrigalesco'
Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 9 in D major
George Frideric Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 4 in F major, HWV 315
George Frideric Handel Sinfonia from Solomon ('Arrival of the Queen of Sheba')
Francesco Saverio Geminiani Concerto Grosso No. 9 in A major (after Corelli's Violin Sonata Op. 5), H. 140
George Frideric Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 5 in D minor, HWV 316
Autumn 2022
Sunday 20th November
St Aidan's Church,
Manchester Road
Conductor: Paul Witkiewicz
Soloist: Alfred Pollard (oboe)
Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 4 in D major
Edward Elgar Serenade for Strings, Op. 20
Alessandro Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor, S D935
Johann Pachelbel Canon and Gigue in D major, P. 37
Francesco Saverio Geminiani Concerto Grosso No. 3 in C major (after Corelli's Violin Sonata Op. 5), H. 134
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G major ('Eine kleine Nachtmusik'), K. 525
Summer 2022
Saturday 18th June
Church of St Edmund,
Clement Royds Street
Conductor: Michael Dow
Soloist: John Goodstadt (viola)
Henry Purcell Chacony in G minor, Z.730
Arcangelo Corelli Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 12 in F major
Georg Philipp Telemann Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9
William Boyce Symphony Op. 2 No. 4 in F major
Francesco Saverio Geminiani Concerto Grosso No. 7 in D minor (after Corelli's Violin Sonata Op. 5), H. 138
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in D major, K. 136