Risingholme Orchestra invites you to their concert centred on music evoking maritime subjects, starting with Ronald Binge’s popular Sailing By, as played before the late Shipping Forecast each night on BBC Radio 4.

A piece by young, Christchurch-based composer Sea-am Thompson follows: The Angler Fish – a short, richly-scored piece which is quickly swallowed up by the menacing Shark Theme from John Williams’ Suite for Steven Spielberg’s block-buster film, Jaws.

CV Stanford’s highly atmospheric Songs of the Fleet for baritone soloist, singers and orchestra rounds off the first half of our programme. 

An arrangement of the jaunty, New Zealand whaling song Soon May the Wellerman Come launches the second half; followed by the delicately-tinged The Great Marlin by Christchurch composer and performer Tatiana Riabinkina. 

Two contrasting movements from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 2 lead to our final work, performed (unusually) in its entirety: Henry Wood’s Fantasia on British Sea Songs – a mainstay of the Last Night of the Proms climaxing in that most jingoistic of English vocal utterances, “Rule Britannia”.