HANDEL Water Music: Suite No.2 in D (HWV349)
HANDEL Rinaldo: "Lascio, ch’io pianga" and "Ah! Crudel"
HANDEL The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
HANDEL Radamisto: "Sommi Dei" and "Barbaro! Partirò"
MOZART Così fan tutte: "Come scoglio" and "Per pietà"
HAYDN Symphony No.104 in D - " London "

A Viennese New Year
What better way to mark the 110th anniversary year of the death of Johann Strauss II than to start 2009 with a wonderful party of the delightfully tuneful and foot-tapping music which made the name of Strauss synonymous with elegance and opulence.

Marvellous Military Manoeuvres
Visiting London in 1794, Haydn pandered to the military background of some of his audience with one of his trademark musical gimmicks in his eighth “ London ” symphony. Half a century earlier Handel had wowed the London audience with his stirring orchestral music.

Symphonic Oscars
From Max Steiner’s score for the 1939 classic, Gone with the Wind , to Ennio Morricone’s music for the 1987 movie The Untouchables , hear again some of the classic Oscar-nominated movie scores of the last 70 years.

Some Enchanted Evening
Spend an evening enchanted by the rich, resonant tones of Jamaican Bass-Baritone, Sir Willard White. His is a familiar voice in the opera houses of the world, but for the DFP stage he offers something more relaxed and informal with some of the best-loved songs from the best Broadway musicals with a sprinkling of traditional songs thrown in for good measure.

The Classic Buskers
The Oxford English Dictionary defines Busking as “to play music or entertain in the streets”, and this English duo comprising woodwind virtuoso Michael Copley and keyboard/vocalist Ian Moore, bring their unique brand of musical entertainment from the streets into DFP. They guarantee a show full of wit, humour and dazzling virtuosity.

Moving Pictures
Mussorgsky wrote his famous Pictures at an Exhibition after having walked around an art gallery and seen the work of a single artist. Now you can see Mussorgsky’s work come to life with new, improved images, not from a professional artist but from the primary school children of Malaysia .

Symphonic Fantasies
Pirates, Captain Hook, Peter Pan, Gingerbread Men, Extra Terrestrials, Spiderman, Sleeping Beauty; almost every childhood fantasy you can think of is brought to musical life in this colourful and magical concert.

A Clown’s Guide to the Orchestra
Roll up, roll up, the Circus is in town! Join in all the fun and antics as gifted Scandinavian horn-player turned musical clown sprinkles sawdust over the DFP stage and stardust into your eyes. See the MPO transform themselves into weird and wonderful animals while the conductor becomes a Clown!

Lat’s Window to the World
Charismatic conductor Carl Davis reveals another of his magical orchestral scores as we see village life and the world beyond through the eyes of the popular kampung boy in three specially-commissioned short animated films.

The Classical Clown
Mime-artist extraordinaire Dan Kamin clowns his way through some spectacular musical characters. He frolics, gallops, waltzes and walks his way through music ranging from Beethoven and Britten to Satie and Stravinsky.