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REVIEW - David Burton Evans 
Chichester Observer (22/07/04)
Chichester Symphony Orchestra

The Chichester Symphony Orchestra treated an appreciative audience to a feast of late 19th-century romanticism at its best.

Bravely the orchestra opened the evening with the Dvorak Overture, a tricky piece whose spiky rhythms needed confident playing. Some internal imbalance in  the orchestra led to the strings being swamped by the woodwind and brass. However, the strings' confidence grew, their tuning improved and the piece ended gloriously in a blaze of brass tone.

Strauss wrote two horn concerti, their composition separated by 60 years, the first written at the young age of 18 for his famous horn-playing father who premiered the work in March 1885.

The young soloist, Timothy French, led us securely through the work's many pitfalls with a fine ringing tone.

FESTIVITIES  CONCERT
St. Paul's Church
Conductor: Ralph Willatt
Leader:  Mark Hartt-Palmer

DVORAK
"Carnival" Overture

RICHARD STRAUSS
Horn Concerto No. 1 in E Flat
Soloist: Timothy French

BRAHMS
Symphony No. 4 in E Minor

Joint Concert
 CSO and CAOS
Saturday 8th May, 7.30 pm  
St. Paul's Church
 
Full Chorus, Soloists and Orchestra
Conductors:
Michael Walsh
Mark Hartt-Palmer

SAMUEL COLERIDGE TAYLOR
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast

MICHAEL FLANDERS &
JOSEPH HOROVITZ
Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Lark Ascending
Soloist: Mark Hartt-Palmer

TICKETS 
£7.50 to include refreshments

REVIEW  -   Richard Smith
The West Sussex Observer, 13/05/04
"Diverse and Delightful"

A packed audience greeted the Chichester Symphony Orchestra and Chichester Amateur Operatic Society at St. Paul's Church on Saturday for a fine programme of diverse good music.

Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast provided the centrepiece of this joint concert. The audience was transported to the open plains and bison country of the Mid-West as this extraordinarily complex piece of orchestral and choral magic took us back to before even the great Western movie scores.

Michael Walsh conducted the voices of the Society and vitalised Orchestra with loving control. Simon Long, the tenor soloist, as Chibiabos the musician, showed how such good music can be appealing in a clear evocation of a Red Indian minstrel.

The start of the programme saw Michael Walsh playing the kit drum part in  Michael Flanders and Joseph Horovitz's jazzy Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo under the dynamic baton of Mark Hartt-Palmer.

2004 AUTUMN  CATHEDRAL
LUNCHTIME  CONCERT
Conductor:  Ralph Willatt
Leader: Mark Hartt-Palmer

DEBUSSY
Children's Corner Suite

BEETHOVEN
Romance in F for violin, Op.50
Soloist: Mark Hartt-Palmer

HOLST
A Somerset Rhapsody

ANSELL
Plymouth Hoe

2004 WINTER CONCERT
Rose Green Junior School

The programme for this concert was the same as for the Autumn Concert with the addition  of:

 ROSSINII 
 Semirade 

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