Martin Leigh, Conductor

SYMPHONIES
Balakirev Symphony no.1
Beethoven Symphonies nos.1,3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9
Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
Bizet Symphony in C
Borodin Symphony no.2
Brahms Symphonies nos.1, 2, 3, & 4
Bruckner Symphony no. 4 (no. 3 studied as assistant)
Bruch Symphony no.3
Dvorak Symphonies nos.5, 6, 7, 8 & 9
Franck Symphony in D minor
Haydn Symphonies nos.6, 39, 70, 84, 88, 92 & 104
Alan Hovhaness Symphony no. 34 (european premiere)
Mahler Symphonies nos.4 (Caroline Brooke Lester), 5
Mendelssohn Symphony nos.3 & 4
Mozart Symphonies nos.25, 29, 30, 31, 35, 36, 39, 40 & 41
Nielsen Symphony no.1
Rachmaninov Symphony no.2
Saint-Saens Symphony no.2
Franz Schmidt Symphony no.4
Schubert Symphonies nos.2, 3, 5, 6, 8, & 9 (old numbering)
Schumann Symphony nos.1, 3, 4 (nos. 1 - 4 studied as assistant)
Sibelius Symphony nos.1, 2, 3
Shostakovich Symphonies nos.5 and 9
Tchaikovsky Symphonies nos.1, 2, 4, 5 & 6
 
OPERA
Bizet Carmen
Handel Giulio Cesare
Mozart Così fan tutte
Mozart Concert Aria 'Alma Grande'
arias from Die Zauberflöte; Don Giovanni; Il seraglio
Tchaikovsky Letter Scene from Eugene Onegin (Caroline Lester), Eugene Onegin (complete)
Verdi Rigoletto
 
Mozart studied as assistant:
Concert Aria 'Bella mia fiamma, addio!'
'Come scoglio' and 'Per pietà' (Così fan tutte)
'Porgi, amor' and 'Dove sono' (Le nozze di Figaro)
'Mi tradì quell'alma ingrata' and 'Non mi dir' (Don Giovanni)
Idomeneo
 
CONCERTOS
Albinoni Oboe Concerto op.9 no.2 (Julie Billingham)
Bach Brandenburg Concertos 3,4,5,and 6 (directed from keyboard)
Beethoven Piano Concerto no.1 (Martin Roscoe, played/conducted), Piano Concerto no.3 (played/conducted), Piano Concerto no. 4 (played/conducted), Piano Concerto no.5 (Martin Roscoe)
Berlioz Harold in Italy
Brahms Violin Concerto (Nathaniel Vallois)
Crusell Clarinet Concerto (Victoria Rex)
Dvorak: Cello Concerto (Richard Jenkinson)
Egar Cello Concerto (Polly Ballard)
Hoffmeister Viola Concerto (Matthew Kettle)
Korngold Violin Concerto (Ruth Rodrigues)
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto (Madeleine Mitchell)
Mozart Horn Concerto K.495 (Kevin Boyd), Piano Concerto K.453 (Martin Roscoe, played/conducted), Piano Concerto K.466 (Ronan O'Hora, played/conducted), Piano Concerto K.467 (David Grundy, played/conducted), Piano Concerto K.488 (Martin Roscoe), Piano Concerto K.491 (Martin Roscoe, played / conducted, Sinfonia Concertante (Qian Wu, Matthew Kettle), Violin Concerto K.219 (Diedre Ward)
Nyman On the fiddle (Madeleine Mitchell)
Saint-Saens Cello Concerto no.2 (Helen Thompson)
Schumann Piano Concerto (Alfred Brendel) (assistant), Violin Concerto (Christian Tetzlaff) (assistant), Cello Concerto (Troels Svane), Konzertstück (Alison Bach, Hazel Whitefoot, Simon Hall, Nicky Daw)
Shostakovich Piano Concerto no.2 (Michelle Tong); Cello Concerto no.1 (Richard Jenkinson)
Stravinsky Concerto for piano and winds (Philip Mead)
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto no.3 (Aydin Onac)
Ravel Piano Concerto in G (Nicholas Loh)
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto (Judith Templeman)
Stephen Webster Piano Concerto in D flat (Stephen Webster)
Weber Andante e rondo ungarese for viola and orchestra (Matthew Kettle); Concertino (Kevin Boyd), Clarinet Concerto no.2 (Nikki Loveridge)
 
CONCERTOS DIRECTED FROM THE KEYBOARD
Mozart K.271, 453, 466, 467, 491
Beethoven nos. 1, 3 & 4
 
 
 

OTHER ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
Bartok Concerto for Orchestra
Beethoven Overtures 'Coriolan', 'Leonora no.3', 'Fidelio' , 'The Creatures of Prometheus', 'King Stephen', Grosse Fuge (arr. Weingartner), 'Egmonst'
Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture
Bizet Carmen Suites
Bliss March 'Things to Come'
Brahms Tragic Overture, Variations on a theme of Haydn, Serenade no.1, Hungarian Dances
Britten The Ascent of F6
Cherubini: Medea Overture
Copland Appalachian Spring
Mervyn Cooke The Gallery
Yi Cheng Chiang New Work
Peter Cowdrey: Solihull Ceileidh (first performance)
Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Dvorak In Nature's Realm, The Golden Spinning Wheel, Slavonic Dances, Symphonic Variations
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance Marches nos.1 and 4, Enigma Variations
Fauré Pavane, Pelléas et Mélisande
Glinka Overture Ruslan and Ludmilla, A Life for the Tsar
Alexander Goehr Sinfonia
Richard Green Io, Yellow Cherries (first performances)
Holst: The Planets
Katie Honey 'The fox jumps over the wall' (first performance)
David Hume 'Overture to a forgotten Story' (first performance)
Ibert Divertissement
Khachaturian Masquerade
Paul von Klenau Paulo und Francesca
Liszt Les Preludes
Lutoslawski Concerto for Orchestra
Tom Littlewood Five Orchestral Miniatures (first performance)
Mahler Adagietto from Symphony no.5
Mendelssohn 'Hebrides' and Ruy Blas Overtures, Midsummer Night's Dream incidenttal music (complete)
Milhaud La Création du Monde
Silvina Milstein Labyrinth
(Premiere, Quincentenary Commission, Jesus College Cambridge)
Mozart Overtures 'Don Giovanni', 'The Impresario', 'Idomeneo', 'Magic Flute',
Mozart Adagio and Fugue (K456), Serenade 'Gran partita','Eine kleine Nachmusik'
Mussorgsky / Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition
Nielsen Helios Overture
Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (excerpts), Peter and the Wolf (Sylvia Heal, MP)
Purcell Chacony (z730)
Rachmaninov Vocalise, Scherzo in D minor
Ravel Pavane, Daphnis et Chloé (suite no.2), Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (Elizabeth Toye), Introduction and Allegro (Catherine White)
Rossini Overture Italian Girl in Algiers, Thieving Magpie
Schubert Die Zauberharfe Overture, Rosamunde (Bühnenmusik, "Death and the Maiden' (arranged Mahler)
Schumann Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Genoveva Overture
Smetana Sarka, Ma Vlast 1-4
Spiegl Radio 4 Theme
Shostakovich 'Festive' Overture, Chamber Symphony no.1 (arranged Barshai)
Sibelius Pelléas und Mélisande
Strauss Metamorphosen
Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Winds (Philip Mead), Octet, Rite of Spring
Tchaikovsky Francesca da Rimini, 'Nutcracker' Suite, 'Romeo and Juliet', Serenade for Strings, 'Swan Lake', Capriccio Italien
Thomas Master David's Prelude (first performance)
Verdi Overture 'La forza del destino'
Veit: Concert Overture (first U.K. performance)
agner 'Rienzi', 'Die Meistersinger', 'Tannhäuser'
Walton 'Spitfire' Prelude
Weber Overtures 'Der Freischutz', 'Oberon'
Webern Passacaglia op.1, Five Pieces op.10
 
ORATORIO
Bach B minor Mass (rehearsals)
Brahms German Requiem (rehearsals)
Fauré Requiem (rehearsals)
Handel Saul (Bryn Terfel, Ian Bostridge, Lisa Milne, Joan Rodgers, Toby Spence, Scottish Chamber Orchestra / Sir Charles Mackerras) (assistant)
Mozart Exsultate Jubilate (Margaret Cooper)