The Glasgow Chamber Orchestra has been giving concerts since 1967. These pages contain details of all the main concerts held since that date. Use the buttons below to navigate to each decade.

The GCO Concert Archive

1999 Saturday 4 December 1999 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Mozart : Don Giovanni overture Vanhal : Double Bass Concerto – Anthony Alcock Rossini : The Italian Girl in Algiers overture Mendelssohn : Symphony No 4 ‘Italian’ Saturday 12 June 1999 City Hall, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Brahms : Academic Festival overture Elgar : Sea Pictures – Barbara Brodie MacRae : Sinfonia Haydn : Symphony No 104 ‘London’ Saturday 13 March 1999 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Tchaikovsky : Nutcracker Suite Debussy : Prelude a l’apres midi d’un Faune De Falla : El Amor Brujo – Barbara Brodie Tchaikovsky : Swan Lake Suite Shostakovich : Tea for Two Strauss : The Blue Danube Borodin : Polovtsian Dances 1998 Saturday 5 December 1998 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Copland : Appalachian Spring Haydn : Trumpet Concerto - Mark O’Keeffe Delius : On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring Delius :; Summer Night on the River Mozart : Symphony No.40 Saturday 13 June 1998 City Hall, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Mendelssohn : Hebrides overture Bruch : Scottish Fantasie – Geoffrey Trabichoff Debussy : Marche Ecossaise Beamish : The Caledonian Road Arnold : Four Scottish Dances Saturday 28 March 1998 TBD, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Sibelius : Karelia Suite Grieg : Piano Concerto - Graeme McNaught Sibelius : Symphony No.3 1997 Saturday 22 November 1997 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Faure : Masques & Bergamasques suite Strauss : Oboe Concerto – Stella McCracken Beethoven : Symphony No 7 Saturday 7 June 1997 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Respighi : The Birds Suite Mozart : Bassoon Concerto – Paul Boyes Geddes : A Caledonian Pageant Weill : The Threepenny Opera Suite Saturday 10 May 1997 Dunblane Cathedral, Dunblane Bach : St John’s Passion - with the Stirling University Choir Saturday 22 February 1997 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Gershwin : Girl Crazy overture Copland : Quiet City Rachmaninov : Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini – Jill Morton Dvorak : Symphony No 9 ‘From the New World’ 1996 Saturday 23 November 1996 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Rossini : The Italian Girl in Algiers overture Rodrigo : Concierto de Aranjuez – John Hallam Mozart : Symphony No 31 ‘Paris’ Kodaly : Dances of Galanta Saturday 8 June 1996 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Mozart : Cosi fan Tutte overture Elgar : Cello Concerto – Neil Johnstone McGuire : The Caledonian Muse Prokofiev : Symphony No1 ‘Classical’ Saturday 24 February 1996 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Humperdinck : Hansel & Gretel overture Donizetti, Handel, Puccini : Operatic Arias Bizet : Excerpts from Carmen Suite Operatic Arias by Saint-Saens, Sullivan, Schonberg, Webber, Bizet - sung by Sandra Hawkins, Jonathan Hawkins, Campbell Russell Britten : Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes 1995 Saturday 18 November 1995 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Mozart : Symphony No 32 Brahms : Variations on a Theme of Haydn Gershwin : Rhapsody in Blue - Jill Morton Dvorak : Symphony No 8 Saturday 4 June 1995 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Geddes : Dances at Threave Ibert : Concerto for Flute and orchestra – John Grant Ravel : Le Tombeau de Couperin Saint-Saens : Symphony No 2 Saturday 12 March 1995 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Bach : Orchestra Suite No 3 Schumann : Piano Concerto – Deepani de Alwis Mozart : Symphony No 35 ‘Haffner’ Walton : Façade Suite No 1 & Special Suite

1994 Saturday 4 December 1994 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Berkeley : Divertimento in B flat Debussy : Petite Suite Elgar : Violin Concerto – Geoffrey Trabichoff Saturday 5 June 1994 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Mozart : Magic Flute overture Strauss : Horn Concerto No 1 – David Flack Beethoven : Symphony No 6 ‘Pastoral’ Saturday 19 March 1994 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Mendelssohn : The Lovely Melusina overture Wagner : Siegfried Idyll Shostakovich : Piano Concerto No 2 – Jill Morton Mendelssohn : Symphony No 3 ‘Scottish’ 1993 Saturday 27 November 1993 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Copland : Appalachian Spring Honneger : Pastorale d’Ete Blake : The Snowman Neville Garden - with the Netherlee Primary School Choir Saturday 6 June 1993 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Boyce : Symphony No 1 Dvorak : Cello Concerto – Deirdre Cooper Beethoven : Symphony No 5 Saturday 13 March 1993 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Sibelius : Pelleas & Melisande suite Berkeley : Sinfonietta Beethoven : Violin Concerto – Geoffrey Trabichoff 1992 Saturday 29 November 1992 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Beethoven : Coriolan Overture Hummel : Trumpet Concerto – Nigel Boddice Sibelius : Karelia Suite Mozart : Symphony No 41 ‘Jupiter’ Sunday 14 June 1992 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Bartok : Seven Rumanian Folk Dances Macilwham : Ballygeich for Flute and Orchestra (World Premiere) - George Macilwham Mendelssohn : Incidental Music to a Midsummer Night’s Dream Beethoven : Symphony No 3 ‘Eroica’ Sunday 8 March 1992 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Rameau : Overture ‘Dardanus’ Canteloube : Songs of the Auvergne – Irene Drummond Faure : Pelleas & Melisande Suite Debussy : Prelude a l’apres midi d’un Faune Bizet : Carmen Orchestral Suite No 1 1991 Sunday 1 December 1991 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Beethoven : Overture Egmont Bruch : Violin Concerto No.1 - Geoffrey Trabichoff Delius : Sleigh Ride Bizet : Petite Suite d'Orchestre 'Jeux d'Enfants' Prokofiev : Peter and the Wolf - Anne Lorne Gillies Sunday 10 June 1991 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – Peter Jones Weber : Der Freischütz Overture Schumann : Cello Concerto - Lyssa Fergus Brahms : Symphony No.1 Sunday 10 March 1991 Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Glasgow Conductor – William Kean Handel : Music for the Royal Fireworks De Falla : El Amor Brujo – Fiona Mebenton Mendelssohn : Violin Concerto – Geoffrey Allan Ravel : Mother Goose Suite 1990 Thursday 6 December 1990 Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow Conductor – Giulio Romano Faure : Masques et Bergamasques Suite Strauss : Horn Concerto No 1 – David McLenaghan Brahms : Serenade for Large Orchestra Sunday 10 June 1990 Paisley Abbey, Paisley Conductor – William Kean Mozart : Symphony No 40 Beethoven : Symphony No 9 ‘Choral’ - Kilmarnock & District Choral Union Sunday 18 March 1990 Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow Conductor – Giulio Romano Berkeley : Divertimento in B flat Saint-Saens : Cello Concerto No 1 - Pauline Dowse Stravinsky : Eight Instrumental Miniatures Beethoven : Symphony No 2