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 The Liffey Valley Orchestra repertoire is wide and varied from the Classical to TV / Film and Popular music of today. A selection of pieces performed over the last few years is listed below.


For year-end concert April 2012 the Orchestra is preparing

Verdi -Grand March from "Aida"
Ponchielli - Dance of the Hours
Beethoven - Allegretto, Symphony No.7 ( from the film, "The King's Speech")
Trad - John Ryan's Polk (from the film, "Titanic")
Khachaturian - Adagio from Spartacus ( The Onedin Line - Theme )
Beethoven - Allegretto from Symphony No. 7 ( The King's Speech )
Burt Bacharach - Alfie, I Say A Little Prayer, Walk On By, Close To You.

 

Year end May 2011:

 La Rejouissance  Handle’s music  from The Royal Fireworks .

Girl with the Flaxen Hair – Debussy.

Trepak – Tschaikowsky.

Grease – Film Score.

Chicago – Film Score.

The Typewriter - Leroy Anderson.

American Idol – Green Day.

Wake Me Up When September Ends – Green Day.

Boulevard Of Broken Dreams – Green Day.

 

Year end May 2010:

Mozart;
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik – Allegro
Non Piu Andrai
Rondo Alla Turca

Clarinet Concerto Movement ii

My Fair Lady
On the Street Where You Live
With a Little Bit of Luck
I Could Have Danced All Night
Get Me To The Church On Time

Somewhere Over The Rainbow
I Dreamed A Dream
Bohemian Rhapsody
William Tell Overture

Leroy Anderson
The Syncopated Clock
Blue Tango
Plink, Plank, Plunk

Harry Potter
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire

 

Year end – May 2009

From Peer Gynt Suite – Edward Greig  Arabian Dance and Morning
Fur Elise - Ludwig van Beethoven
Elegie – Gabriel Faure
The Entertainer – Scott Joplin
The Sweeney – Harry South
Yesterday – The Beatles’
Penny Lane – The Beatles’
Yellow Submarine – The Beatles’
LVO Chamber Groups also performed the following;
See The Conquering Hero Comes from Judas Maccabeus by Georg Frederic Handel
Extracts from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
Allegro form Sonata No. 3, K12 ( Flute ) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Swingin’ by the Riverside ( Traditional  / Spiritual )

 

 

LVO has also perfomed the following pieces

Alfven         Swedish Rhapsody
Alford         Colonel Bogey
Arlen          Somewhere over the Rainbow

Bernstein    America
                   West Side Story

Berlioz        Hungarian March
Brahms       Hungarian Dance no 5
Bizet           Farandole 1 arr Martin, 2 arr Stone 3 arr Van der Groot
                   Prelude to l’Arlesienne Suite

Beethoven
  Egmont Overture
                    Hymn to Joy
                    Fur Elise

Bach JS        Jesu Joy of man’s Desiring
                     Suite Facile
                     Two minuets and a march

James Bond Diamonds are Forever
                     Nobody does it better

Caesar            Tea for Two
Charpentier    The Prelude from Te Deum
Clarke             Trumpet Voluntary
Coates             Dam Busters March

 

Disney:  
Can you feel the love tonight?
The lion sleeps tonight
I wanna be like you (Jungle Book)
Bare Necessities

Dacre, Harry            A Bicycle made for two
Debussy                    Golliwogs Cakewalk
Delibes                      Flower duet
Dvorak                      Largo from Symphony no 9
................................. New world theme

Elgar                           Pomp and Circumstance
Faure                          Pavane
Fucik                          Entry of the Gladiators

 

 Grieg                          Morning
....................................Arabian Dance
....................................Peer Gynt suite no 1

Gershwin                  I got plenty of nothing
                                  Summertime

Graham &
Loveland                   You Raise me up.

 

Handel                       Water Music
..................................Royal Fireworks music
..................................Allelujah Chorus

Haydn              St Anthony’s Chorale
                        Surprise Symphony

Henson                    Muppet Theme

Holst                        Planets

Haley                       Rock around the Clock

Hannah Barbara      The Flintstones

 

Joplin                       Maple Leaf Rag
.................................The Entertainer

Jennings                   My Heart will go on (Titanic theme)

Lennon&MacCartney       
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Yesterday
Yellow Submarine
Penny Lane

Loewe and Lerner My Fair Lady

Leroy Anderson      Medley

P Martin (arr)         Scottish Dances
Mombasa beat
Hanukkha

Miller, Glenn            Medley

Moussorgsky           Promenade and Gate from Pictures at an Exhibition

Meacham                  American Patrol

Mozart
Marriage of Figaro
Symphony no 40
Clarinet concerto mvt 2
Magic flute
Mozartiana

Morricone                 Gabriels Oboe

Mancini                     Pink Panther

Offenbach                 Can-can
Barcarolle

Purcell                       Rondeau from Abdelazar

Puccini                       Nessun Dorma
One Fine Day

Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf
Kije’s wedding

Ponchielli                  Dance of the Hours

Rodgers &
Hammerstein           The Sound of Music

Rossini                     Overture to William Tell

Strauss J 
Annen Polka
Pizzicato polka
Thunder and lightining polka
Tritch tratsch polka
Radetsky march
Medley of waltzes
Blue Danube (3 copies)
Tales from Vienna woods

Satie                        Gymnopodie

South, Harry            Sweeney

Strauss R                  Also sprach Zarathustra

Schifrin                     Mission Impossible

 

Star Trek
Voyager
Next generation
Original series

Sullivan                     Gondoliers Suite

Santana,                    Smooth

Schoenberg              I dreamed a dream

Stroller                      Match of the Day

Simon                        Bridge over Troubled Water

Smetana                    Dance of the Comedians

Sousa                         Liberty Bell

Saint Saens
Carnival of the Animals
Danse Macabre

Schubert
Marche Militaire
Unfinished Symphony

Trombay                   Eye Level

Tchaikowsky
1812 Overture
Nutcracker Suite
Dance of the swans
Scene from Swan Lake

Thomas                     The Birdie Song

Vivaldi
The Seasons Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer.

Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Greensleeves

Vangelis                     Chariots of Fire

Webber, A Lloyd
     Pie Jesu
Jesus Christ Superstar
Memory
Phantom of the Opera

Williams John.         Lost in Space
Star Wars

Williams and Doyle            Harry Potter

Wagner Douglas      Slane

Wilby, Philip            The Bird fanciers delight for String orchestra

 

 

Medleys:

Gluck (et al)               Concert Pieces

Americana                  (American folk songs) arr Martin

Irish Airs

English Folk Songs

Go West (cowboy film themes)

Spiritual Medley no 2

Opera Extravaganza

Mills                            Trumpet Parade (First Orchestra Album)

AW Benoy                  Assembly Music for School Orchestra (Score only)

Chamber Music

 

Happy Sounds for string orchestra

Pastoral Symophony from Messiah

Edric album for string orchestra with piano

Allegro Maestoso from Water Music (Handel)

Pavane (Faure) v1 and v2 only.

Snippets from Four Seasons (Vivialdi) + Winter for string quartet

Greensleeves Variant (What Child is This?) 3 parts only, viola missing

 

Others;

 

A Day in Majorca
Amazing Grace

Dance to your daddy
Danny Boy
Dry Bones

Eastenders theme

Frere Jacques
Fiddler on the Roof

Grandfathers Clock

 Havah Nagilah
 
Irelands Call
Ireland Pot Pourri
Island in the sun

Londonderry air
La Cucaracha

Scarborough Fair
Steptoe and Son theme
Summer Nights
Soul Man
Skye boat song
Sonata in E flat for viola and piano (von Dittersdorf)
Sonata Pathetique 2nd mvt for clarinet and piano (Beethoven)

The Big Country
Twinkle little star
The Tide is High
Time to Say Goodbye

 

Wimoweh
What a wonderful world
Waterloo (Abba)
Whiter Shade of Pale

 

Yellow bird (trad)

 

Christmas music

 

Christmas Bonanza 1

Christmas Bonanza 2

Santa Claus is coming to town

Rudolph the Red nose Reindeer

Christmas Overture

Have Yourself a Merry little Christmas

Gaudete

Frosty the Snowman

Walking in the Air

I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus

Christmas String Orchestra

Jingle Bells

Carol Medley

Christmas Medley
I’m dreaming of a White Christmas

Happy White Christmas

Mary’s Boy Child

Ding Dong Merrily on high

O Christmas Tree

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