Concerts 1997 - 2009
Musical Director John Hastie
Under John Hastie‘s leadership, the Academy of St Olave’s explored a wide repertoire including the last symphonies of Mozart and Haydn, most of the Beethoven symphonies, the violin concertos of Beethoven and Mendelssohn and some fascinating French music of the 20th century. A piece was commissioned from Ralph Bateman, resulting in Ragnarok, an overture which uniquely combined the forces of the Academy along with the bells of St Olave’s church.
One of the highlights was the occasion when John’s friend and organ teacher, Naji Hakim, came to give the opening recital on the newly-rebuilt organ at St Olave’s and asked that the string section of the Academy play in the first UK performance of his third organ concerto. Then there were the two free concerts which the orchestra gave in Holy Week and after Easter, the first of which was John Tavener’s The Protecting Veil in which Christina Waldock was the soloist, followed a year later by Messiaen’s fantastic piece Et Expecto Ressurectionem Mortuorum for wind and percussion.
During John’s time the Academy introduced concerts for children and celebrated its 25th anniversary with an open-air concert in the Museum Gardens, fireworks and all! Concerts are listed here with the most recent first.
2008-2009
CHILDREN’S CONCERT & SUMMER CONCERT
Saturday 20 June 2009, 10:30am and 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
DELIUS: On hearing the first cuckoo in spring
DELIUS: Summer Night On The River
MENDELSSOHN: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Children’s Concert narrators: Ian Small & Clive Goodhead)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No 7 in A major
WINTER CONCERT
Saturday 17 January 2009, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture “Fingal’s Cave”
BLACKFORD: Clarinet Concerto (Soloist: Mark Crooks)
KURT WEILL: Symphony No. 2
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 9th November 2008, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York – Solemn Requiem Mass
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church – Director: John Hastie
FAURÉ: Requiem (Soprano: Hilary Layton, Baritone: Duncan Campbell)
AUTUMN CONCERT
Saturday 20 September 2008, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
BEETHOVEN: Egmont Overture
STRAUSS: Suite in B flat
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5
2007-2008
THREE DOUBLE CONCERTI
CHILDREN’S CONCERT & SUMMER CONCERT
Saturday 21 June 2008, 10:30am and 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
BUTTERWORTH: The Banks of Green Willow
POULENC: Babar the Elephant (Narrated by Ian Small)
MOZART: Concerto for Flute and Harp
(Flute: Louise Evans, Harp: Georgina Wells)
WINTER CONCERT
Saturday 19 January 2008, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
BARBER: Adagio for Strings
BLACKFORD: Concertante for Two Horns (Horns: Jonathan Hunter & Janus Wadsworth)
*Specially commissioned – First Performance*
ALBINONI/GIAZOTTO: Adagio for Strings and Organ (Organ: James Sanderson)
HAYDN: Symphony No. 101 “The Clock”
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 11 November 2007, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York – Solemn Requiem Mass
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church – Director: John Hastie
DURUFLÉ: Requiem (Mezzo Soprano: Ruth Sanderson, Baritone: Clive Goodhead)
AUTUMN CONCERT
Saturday 22 September 2007, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
ROSSINI: The Italian Girl in Algiers
BACH: Concerto for two violins (Violins: Claire Jowett and Clare Howard)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 “The Eroica”
2006-2007
MOZART’S THREE LAST SYMPHONIES
CHILDREN’S CONCERT & SUMMER CONCERT
Saturday 16 June 2007, 10:30am and 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 (Children’s Concert narrator: Clive Goodhead)
MILHAUD: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra (Percussion: Francesca Rochester)
MOZART: Symphony No. 41 in C “The Jupiter”
WINTER CONCERT
Saturday 13 January 2007, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
WALTON: Siesta for Small Orchestra
MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat major KV364
(Violin: Jonathan Sparey, Viola: Alan George)
MOZART: Symphony No. 40 in G minor KV550
In aid of Jessie’s Fund
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 12 November 2006, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York – Solemn Requiem Mass
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church – Director: John Hastie
FAURÉ: Requiem
AUTUMN CONCERT
Saturday 16 September 2006, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
JÄRNEFELT: Praeludium
MOZART: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major KV543
WEILL: Symphony No. 2
2005-2006
CHILDREN’S CONCERT & SUMMER CONCERT
Saturday 10 June 2006, 10:30am and 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
MOZART: Overture to the Marriage of Figaro
PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf Opus 67 (Narrator: Clive Goodhead)
BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Violin Opus 61 (Violin: Anila Milaj)
In Memory of Margaret Smith
WINTER CONCERT
Saturday 14 January 2006, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
IVES: The Unanswered Question
FAURÉ: Masques et Bergamasques Opus 112
MOZART: Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra KV 191 (Bassoon: Samantha Gurney)
STRAVINSKY: Suite de Pulchinella
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 13 November 2005, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York – Solemn Requiem Mass
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church – Director: John Hastie
DURUFLÉ: Requiem (Mezzo Soprano: Rachel Hicks, Baritone: Clive Goodhead)
AUTUMN CONCERT
Saturday 17 September 2005, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
ARNOLD: Serenade for Small Orchestra
DVORAK: Serenade for Wind Instruments in D minor, Opus 44
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
BLACKFORD: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (Trumpet: Adam Micklethwaite)
*World Premiere*
2004-2005
ORGAN RECITAL BY NAJI HAKIM to open the rebuilt instrument
Sunday 22 May 2005, 7:30pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
HAKIM: Agapê
FRANCK: Pastorale
MESSIAEN: Dieu parmis nous
TOURNEMIRE: Fantasie (from Offrande de l’Epiphanie
MESSIAEN: Offrande au Saint-Sacrament
HAKIM: Concerto for Organ and String Orchestra No. 3 *UK Premiere*
with the String Section of The Academy of St Olave’s
HAKIM: Improvisation
SPRING CONCERT
Saturday 23 April 2005, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
MOZART: Overture to Don Giovanni
R STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No. 1, Opus 11 (Horn: Christopher Griffiths)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Opus 92
WINTER CONCERT
Saturday 15 January 2005, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
DEBUSSY: Petite Suite
WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll
BUTTERWORTH: The Banks of Green Willow
TCHAIKOVSKY: Suite No. 4 in G major “Mozartiana”
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 14 November 2004, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York – Solemn Requiem Mass
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church – Director: John Hastie
FAURÉ: Requiem (Soprano: Tina Sanderson, Baritone: Clive Goodhead)
AUTUMN CONCERT
Saturday 18 September 2004, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
REZNICEK: Overture to Donna Diana
POULENC: Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings (Organ: Alexander Woodrow)
HAYDN: Symphony No. 94 in G major “The Surprise”
2003-2004
SUMMER CONCERT
Saturday 10 July 2004, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
RAVEL: Pavane
BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D
(Flute: Diana Clough, Violin: Claire Jowett, Harpsichord: David Lewis)
POULENC: Sinfonietta
WINTER CONCERT
Saturday 17 January 2004, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
JÄRNEFELT: Praeludium
VIVALDI: Concerto in A minor for two violins Opus 3 No. 8
(Violins: Claire Jowett and Clare Howard)
MILHAUD: Le Bœuf sur le Toit
HAYDN: Symphony No. 99 in E flat major
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 9 November 2003, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York – Solemn Requiem Mass
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church – Director: John Hastie
DURUFLÉ: Requiem
AUTUMN CONCERT
Saturday 13 September 2003, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
GABRIELI: Canzoni for brass – Canzon noni toni & Canzon septimi toni No. 1
MOZART: Symphony No. 36 in C, K.425 “The Linz”
MAHLER: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen “Songs of a Wayfarer”
(Soloist: Christiana Eastwood)
2002-2003
A SUMMER SPECTACULAR WITH FIREWORKS – 25th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
The Academy of St Olave’s with Tribeca York Ltd
Saturday 21 June 2003, 8:00pm
The Museum Gardens, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
OFFENBACH: Overture Orpheus in the Underworld
WALTON: Suite No. 2 from Façade
TCHAIKOVSKY: Rococo Variations for Cello and Orchestra (Cello: Christina Waldock)
ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4
WOOD: Fantasia on British Sea Songs
HANDEL: Music for the Royal Fireworks
PARRY: Jerusalem
WINTER CONCERT
Saturday 18 January 2003, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
RAVEL: Mother Goose Suite
ELGAR: Serenade for Strings, arranged for wind by Geoffrey Emerson
BRITTEN: Nocturne, Opus 60 for tenor, obbligato instruments and strings
(Tenor: Robert Thompson)
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 10 November 2002, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York – Solemn Requiem Mass
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church – Director: John Hastie
FAURÉ: Requiem (Treble: James Sanderson, Baritone: Clive Goodhead)
AUTUMN CONCERT
Saturday 14 September 2002, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
PROKOFIEV: Symphonie Classique
POULENC: Concerto for Organ, Timpani and Strings (Organ: John Scott Whiteley)
HAYDN: Symphony No. 100 in G major “The Military”
2001-2002
CHARLES MACDONALD MEMORIAL CONCERT
Saturday 22 June 2002, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
BATEMAN: Ragnarök *World premiere*
Commissioned by The Academy of St Olave’s with funds from Yorkshire Arts
RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez (Guitar: John Mackenzie)
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 6 in C major
A MEDITATION ON THE RESURRECTION
Sunday 21 April 2002, 9:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie
MESSIAEN: Dieu Parmi Nous (Organ: John Hastie)
MESSIAEN: Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum
with readings by Tim and Jacqie Hartley
WINTER CONCERT
Saturday 19 January 2002, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
GABRIELI: Sonata pian’ e forte
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor (Violin: Anila Milaj)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 8 in F major, Opus 93
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 11 November 2001, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York – Solemn Requiem Mass
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church – Director: John Hastie
DURUFLÉ: Requiem (Mezzo Soprano: Christiana Eastwood, Baritone: Clive Goodhead)
AUTUMN CONCERT
Saturday 22 September 2001, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
ARNOLD: Serenade for Small Orchestra
BACH: Suite No. 2 in B minor for flute and strings BWV 1067 (Flute: Diana Clough)
HAYDN: Symphony No. 104 in D major “The London”
2000-2001
SUMMER CONCERT
Saturday 23 June 2001, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
DELIUS: On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
DELIUS: Summer Night on the River
MOZART: Piano Concerto in A KV488 (Piano: Josephine Peach)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major Opus 60
The 1828 square piano used in this programme was by Dettmer of London, and was kindly loaned by the University of York. Unlike many square pianos, this instrument has the great advantage of metal bracing which meant that it could be tuned to modern concert pitch. The square piano is very much a domestic instrument and does not produce anything like the volume of sound to which we have become accustomed with more modern pianos. The result is a much more intimate sound which must be accompanied and heard with the close attention appropriate to a salon of the period.
A MEDITATION FOR HOLY WEEK IN A CANDLELIT CHURCH
Wednesday 11 April 2001, 9:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie
TAVENER: The Protecting Veil (Cello: Christina Waldock)
WINTER CONCERT
Saturday 20 January 2001, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
DVORÁK: Serenade in D minor Opus 44
BACH: Concerto for Two Violins (Violins: Claire Jowett and Clare Howard)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Opus 55 “The Eroica”
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 12 November 2000, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York – Solemn Requiem Mass
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church – Director: John Hastie
FAURÉ: Requiem (Soprano: Frances Brock, Baritone: Thomas Guthrie)
AUTUMN CONCERT
Saturday 16 September 2000, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
DAG WIRÉN: Serenade for String Orchestra Opus 11
PERGOLESI: Stabat Mater (Soprano: Katherine Mahon, Alto: Christiana Eastwood)
HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto (Trumpet: Adam Micklethwaite)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2 in D major Opus 36
1999-2000
SUMMER CONCERT
Saturday 17 June 2000, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
MENDELSSOHN: Hebrides Overture “Fingal’s Cave”
FRANÇAIX: L’Horloge de Flore for oboe and chamber orchestra (Oboe: John Stringer)
HANDEL: Concerto for Organ, Opus 4 No. 4 in F (Organ: Geoffrey Coffin)
MOZART: Symphony No. 38 in D major KV504 “The Prague”
WINTER CONCERT
Saturday 15 January 2000, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
HANDEL: Concerto Grosso in B minor, Opus 6 No. 12
SAINT-SAËNS: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Opus 28 (Violin: Anila Milaj)
DVORAK: Romance for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 11 (Violin: Anila Milaj)
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 1 in C major, Opus 21
In aid of The Albanian Musicians’ Trust
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 14 November 1999, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York – Solemn Requiem Mass
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church – Director: John Hastie
DURUFLÉ: Requiem (Soprano: Frances Brock, Baritone: Thomas Guthrie)
AUTUMN CONCERT IN MEMORY OF GEORGE SUMMERS
Saturday 18 September 1999, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
COPLAND: Quiet City (Cor anglais: Sarah Ratcliffe, Trumpet: Adam Micklethwaite)
KROMMER: Concerto for Two Clarinets, Opus 35
(Clarinets: Caroline Vaughan and Kate White)
MOZART: Symphony No. 41 in C major KV551 “The Jupiter”
In aid of Imperial Cancer Research
1998-1999
RYEDALE FESTIVAL CONCERT
Saturday 17 July 1999, 10:30am
Palladian Bridge, Scampston Hall – Academy of St Olave’s Wind Section, Director: John Hastie
R STRAUSS: Serenade for Winds, Opus 7
DVORAK: Serenade for Wind Instruments, Opus 44
R STRAUSS: Suite in B flat for 13 Wind Instruments, Opus 4
This concert raised over £300 for the Albanian Musicians’ Trust
SUMMER CONCERT IN AID OF ST OLAVE’S CHURCH ORGAN FUND
Saturday 12 June 1999, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
The Choir of St Olave’s and The Academy of St Olave’s
BRUCKNER: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus
STANFORD: Postlude (Organ: Geoffrey Coffin)
STANFORD: Beati Quorum Via
ROSSINI: The Italian Girl in Algiers
R STRAUSS: Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat, Opus 11 (Horn: Andy Saunders)
ALBINONI/GIAZOTTO: Adagio for Strings and Organ (Organ: Geoffrey Coffin)
HANDEL: Zadok the Priest
PARRY: I was glad
SPRING CONCERT
Saturday 24 April 1999, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
R STRAUSS: Suite in B flat for 13 Wind Insturments, Opus 4
BRITTEN: Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings, Op.31
(Tenor: Ed Sturmheit, Horn: Jonathan Hunter)
MOZART: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, KV543
WINTER CONCERT – AN EVENING OF SERENADES
Saturday 16 January 1999, 8:00pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
ELGAR: Serenade for Strings, Opus 20
STRAUSS: Serenade for Wind Instruments, Opus 7
WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll
SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 4 in C minor “The Tragic”
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY
Sunday 8 November 1998, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York – Solemn Requiem Mass
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church – Director: John Hastie
FAURÉ: Requiem
AUTUMN CONCERT
Saturday 19 September 1998, 8:00 pm
St Olave’s Church, York – Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
The Choir of St Olave’s Church and The Academy of St Olave’s
STRAVINSKY: Pater Noster
STRAVINSKY: Ave Maria
PLAINSONG: Magnificat
TAVENER: Hymn to the Mother of God
TAVENER: The Lamb
PERGOLESI: Magnificat (Soprano: Tina Sanderson, Contralto: Christiana Wood, Tenor: David Winpenny, Bass: Alan Hardwick)
STRAVINSKY: Pulcinella Suite
MOZART: Symphony No. 40 in G minor KV550
This concert raised over £100 for St Leonard’s Hospice, in memory of Catherine Van de Weyer.
1998
SUMMER CONCERT
Saturday 27 June 1998, 8pm
St Olave’s Church, York
Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
- VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending
Violin: Nicholas Wright - DELIUS: A Song before Sunrise
- ELGAR: Chanson de Matin
- GRIEG: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
- MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No. 4 in A Major ‘The Italian’
ORCHESTRAL MASS
Sunday 22 February 1998, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church, Director: John Hastie
- HAYDN: Missa Brevis Sancti Johannes de Deo ‘Little Organ Mass’
Soprano: Tina Sanderson
WINTER CONCERT
Saturday 17 January 1998, 8pm
St Olave’s Church, York
Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
- GOUNOD: Petite Symphonie for Wind
- HANDEL: Water Music Suite
- MOZART: Symphony No. 36 in C minor ‘The Linz’
1997
ORCHESTRAL MASS
Sunday 2 November 1997, 10:30am
St Olave’s Church, York
With the Choir of St Olave’s Church, Director: John Hastie
- CHARPENTIER: Petite Messe de Minuit
AUTUMN CONCERT
Saturday 13 September 1997, 8pm
St Olave’s Church, York
Director: John Hastie, Leader: Claire Jowett
The Choir of St Olave’s Church and The Academy of St Olave’s
- WALTON: Set Me as a Seal Upon Mine Heart
- BAIRSTOW: I Sat Down Under His Shadow
- DURUFLÉ: Plainsong, Ubi Caritas
- BACH: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
- MOZART: Ave Verum Corpus
- HANDEL: Coronation Anthem: Zadok the Priest
- MOZART: Overture Cosi fan tutte, K.588
- HAYDN: Symphony No. 101 in D major ‘The Clock’
In aid of The Albanian Musicians’ Trust