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Thursday 1 February EVESHAM
Evesham Arts Centre, Victoria Avenue WR11 4QH, 7.30pm CATRIONA McDERMID – bassoon Pianist to be confirmed Alexandre Tansman Suite Elgar Romance Peter Hope Bassoon Sonata Unaccompanied Caprices (Baroque) Ivor Gurney (transcription) Sleep (from 5 Elizabethan Songs) Evesham & District Music Club edmc.website eveshamartscentre.co.uk 01386 446944 £17, £16, £3 Friday 2 February DERBY
Derby Cathedral, 18-19 Iron Gate DE1 3GP, 7.30pm THE SIXTEEN CHOIR & ORCHESTRA HARRY CHRISTOPHERS – conductor Vivaldi Gloria The Sixteen thesixteen.com tickets.ncem.co.uk 01904 651485 £15, £23, £28 Sunday 4 February MALVERN
Christ Church, Avenue Road WR14 3AY, 3.00pm STELLA SEATON-SIMS – mezzo soprano CORINNE FROST – cello JANINE PARSONS, MICHAEL JONES – piano Music from or inspired by Spain and Latin America, including works by Manuel de Falla, Granados, Piazzolla and Turina in various combinations of instruments and voice. Espressivo Concerts espressivo.org.uk Malvern TIC 01684 892289 £12 (students £6) Friday 9 February BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10pm SIGLO DE ORO A Burning Desire for the Heavenly Kingdom Weaving together a musical history of the Reformation and Counter-reformation, works by Josquin, Tye, Sheppard, Byrd, Palestrina and Victoria - often with political overtones - illustrate the religious fervour and reforming zeal of 16th century Europe. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Saturday 10 February ST BRIAVELS
St Briavels Church (opposite castle) GL15 6RU, 3.00pm ALEXANDRA LOMEIKO – violin ANTONINA SUHANOVA – piano Bach Sonata No 4 in C minor Schubert Grand Duo Ysaÿe Poème Elegiac Janacek Violin Sonata Wye Valley Music wyevalleymusic.org.uk 01291 330020 £15 (WVM Members £12, Students £2) Sunday 11 February LEAMINGTON
Royal Spa Centre, Newbold Terrace CV32 4HN, 11.30am ENSEMBLE 360 POLLY IVES – narrator Family concert with Paul Rissman’s Stan and Mabel and the Race for Space Ideal for ages 3-8 Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 £18/£13 Sunday 11 February LEAMINGTON
Royal Spa Centre, Newbold Terrace CV32 4HN, 3.00pm ENSEMBLE 360 Bravo Brahms! Brahms Piano Quintet Op 34 Brahms Serenade Op 11 Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 £18/£13 (£1) Wednesday 14 February BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square B3 3DQ, 2.30pm ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN RODERICK WILLIAMS – baritone PATRYCJA PIECZARA – conductor Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs Finzi Let us Garlands Bring Finzi Romance for String Orchestra Op 11 Ireland A Downland Suite Orchestra of the Swan orchestraoftheswan.org 0121 780 3333 thsh.co.uk £9.50 - £27.50 Wednesday 14 February ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester, Uttoxeter ST14 5BS, 8.00 pm FLORILEGIUM Merchants of Venice – music by Corelli, Vivaldi, Handel, Scarlatti and Legrenzi Abbotsholme Arts Society abbotsholmeartssociety.co.uk 01543 263304 £17.50 (U25 £5) Friday 16 February LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm ARCADIA STRING QUARTET (Romania) Haydn Quartet Op 33 No 2 Bartók Quartet No 1 Beethoven Quartet Op 59 No 2 Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 £21/£17/£13 (£1) Friday 16 February OXFORD
SJE Arts, 109a Iffley Rd OX4 1EH, 8.00pm ANNE LOVETT – piano DAVID BAMBER – narrator Erik Satie: Memoirs of a pear-shaped life Music at Oxford musicatoxford.com 01865 244 806 £15 - £32 Students and U18s £10 off Sunday 18 February GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street GL1 2BH, 3.00pm PELLÉAS ENSEMBLE Corelli Trio Sonata Op 3 No 2 Bartok Suite Paysanne Hongroise William Mathias Zodiac Trio Bax Elegiac Trio Britten Lachrymae Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp Gloucester Music Society gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk 01242 620736 £17 (£16/£8/£5,free) Sunday 18 February STRATFORD UPON AVON
Shakespeare Institute, Church Street CV37 6HP, 3.00pm NICHOLAS MORTON – baritone IAN TINDALE – piano Finzi Earth and Air and Rain Ravel Histoires naturelles Songs by Fauré, Britten, and Richard Rodney Bennett Stratford upon Avon Chamber Music Society stratfordchambermusic.co.uk 01789 740791 £18 (£5 students) Tuesday 20 February CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30pm BUSCH TRIO Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op 15 Bridge Phantasie Trio in C minor Schubert Piano Trio No 1 in B flat D898 Cheltenham Music Society cheltmusicsoc.co.uk cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk 01242 227979 £20, £15, U26 free Wednesday 21 February BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 7.30pm CROSSCURRENTS HUW WATKINS – piano CLARE HAMMOND – piano Alexander Goehr Selection from Symmetries Disorder Reach Robin Holloway Sarabande-Scherzo-Song Michael Berkeley Haiku Robin Holloway Sine nomine Alexander Goehr 7 Impromptus Robin Holloway Silvered Schubert The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 £18 (£15, £12, £5) Friday 23 February BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10pm CROSSCURRENTS LIGETI QUARTET Music by Schnittke and Zorn The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Sunday 25 February WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00pm RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK – violin DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE – piano Mozart Sonata in B flat KV454 Frank Bridge Sonata H183 Brahms Sonata in D minor Op 108 Worcester Concert Club worcserenade.co.uk 01905 611427 £16 (students £5) Monday 26 February BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square, B3 3DQ, 7.30pm TAMÁS PÁLFALVI – trumpet Pianist to be confirmed Tamberg Trumpet Concerto Op 42 for trumpet and piano Shostakovich Piano solo Enescu Légende Eötvös Solo trumpet piece (2017) Bartók Piano solo Sarasate Zigeunerweisen Op 20 Dubrovay Walzer & Scherzo Bartók Romanian Folk Dances Town Hall Symphony Hall, Birmingham thsh.co.uk 0121 780 3333 £12.50 - £31 Wednesday 28 February KEELE
Westminster Theatre, Keele University ST5 5BG, 7.30pm FITZROY QUARTET Winners of the 2016 Cavatina Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition and Finalists in the 2017 Royal Overseas League the Fitzroy Quartet are Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal Academy for 2016/17 and are also Associate Ensemble at Birmingham Conservatoire. Concerts at Keele 01782 734340 keele.ac.uk/artskeele £15 (£8 students, 16 & under free) |
Friday 2 February BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10pm ALEC FRANK-GEMMILL – horn DANIEL GRIMWOOD – piano Principal Horn of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Alec Frank-Gemmill is joined by Daniel Grimwood to perform works by Mozart, Beethoven and Giovanni Punto. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Saturday 3 February MALVERN
Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30pm ARMONICO CONSORT & BAROQUE ORCHESTRA CHRISTOPHER MONKS – director Biber Missa Salisburgensis à 53 Armonico Consort armonico.org.uk malvern-theatres.co.uk 01684 892 277 £23.52, £20.16, £16.80 Tuesday 6 February BIRMINGHAM
Symphony Hall, 8 Centenary Square, Broad Street B1 2EA, 7.30pm ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT MARIN ALSOP – conductor NICOLA BENEDETTI – violin Beethoven Symphony No 4 Beethoven Violin Concerto Town Hall Symphony Hall, Birmingham thsh.co.uk 0121 780 3333 £12.50 - £48 Friday 9 February WORCESTER
Worcester Cathedral, College Yard WR1 2LA, 7.30pm THE SIXTEEN CHOIR & ORCHESTRA HARRY CHRISTOPHERS – conductor Vivaldi Gloria The Sixteen thesixteen.com tickets.ncem.co.uk 01904 651485 £15, £25, £30 Friday 9 February BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN, 8.00pm LEON MCCAWLEY – piano Haydn Piano Sonata in C minor Hob XVI:20 Hans Gal Three Preludes Op 65 (1944) Beethoven 32 Variations in C minor WoO80 Schubert Piano Sonata in G D894 Bromsgrove Concerts bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk 01527 577330 £20 (Dis/Unemp £5, 8-25 years free) Sunday 11 February CHELTENHAM
Prince Michael Hall, Dean Close School GL51 6EP, 3.00pm ROSALIND VENTRIS – viola JAMES WILLSHIRE – piano Robert Saxton Invocation, Dance and Meditation Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel Edwin Roxburgh Monologue Rory Boyle Reeling Huw Watkins Fantasy Howard Blake Prelude from Benedictus Takemitsu A Bird came down the Walk Thomas Adès Darkness Visible Robert Hugill Three Pieces from the Book of Common Prayer Paul Patterson Elegiac Blues Cheltenham Music Society cheltmusicsoc.co.uk £10 on the door Tuesday 13 February CARDIFF
Cardiff University Concert Hall, Corbett Road CF10 3EB, 7.00pm OENM Thomas Wally Caprice for String Trio Johannes Maria Staud Sydenham Music Arlene Sierra Avian Mirrors (2013) Roberto Rusconi Monodia (2007) Shahriyar Farshid New Work (2016) (Premiere) Beat Furrer ... cold and calm and moving (1992) Cardiff University Concert Series 0333 666 3366 concerts.cardiff.ac.uk £10, £8, students and U18s free Wednesday 14 February KEELE
Westminster Theatre, Keele University ST5 5BG, 7.30pm KABANTU Kabantu are a quintet from Manchester whose high-octane and percussive live workouts blend roots, jazz & classical music from around the world, unravelling new marriages of music from around the globe. Vocal harmonies of South Africa coalesce with everything from Celtic reels and Brazilian samba to Balkan folk music and beyond. Concerts at Keele 01782 734340 keele.ac.uk/artskeele £15 (£8 students, 16 & under free) Friday 16 February BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10pm CROSSCURRENTS CAROLIN WIDMANN – violin Pascal Dusapin in vivo Hans Abrahamsen Capriccio Bagateller Salvatore Sciarrino 6 Capricci The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Friday 16 February PERSHORE
Number 8, High Street WR10 1BG, 7.30pm ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN FRANCESCA MOORE-BRIDGER – horn DAVID CURTIS – conductor Ireland A Downland Suite Matthew Taylor Horn Concerto Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge Orchestra of the Swan orchestraoftheswan.org 01386 555488 number8.org £15.50 Sunday 18 February MALVERN
Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 3.00pm RODERICK WILLIAMS – baritone IAIN BURNSIDE – piano Schubert Winterreise D911 Malvern Concert Club malvern-concert-club.co.uk malvern-theatres.co.uk 01684 892277 £21.75 Tuesday 20 February CARDIFF
Cardiff University Concert Hall, Corbett Road CF10 3EB, 7.00pm ENDYMION ENSEMBLE Pedro Faria Gomes Thanatos Skempton Clarinet Quintet Denisov Sonata for Clarinet solo Philip Venables K Mozart Clarinet Quintet Cardiff University Concert Series 0333 666 3366 concerts.cardiff.ac.uk £10, £8, students and U18s free Tuesday 20 February WARWICK
St Mary’s Church, Old Square CV34 4RA, 7.30pm JOGLARESA BELINDA SYKES – director The Enchantress of Seville Discovering the roots of flamenco, Arabic ballads, Judeo-Spanish romanzas and ancient Christian chant – music connecting the Occident to the Orient, and the 11th century to our times Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 £21/£18/£15/£13 (£1) Wednesday 21 February BURFORD
Burford School, Cheltenham Road OX18 4PL, 7.30pm ISBILIA STRING QUARTET Mozart Quartet No 16 in E flat KV428 Turina La oración del torero Beethoven Quartet Op 59 No 1 Lenthall Concerts lenthallconcerts.org.uk 01993 823260 £13 (students £3) Wednesday 21 February KEELE
NATIONAL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Keele University Chapel ST5 5BG, 7.30pm NYJO has helped launch the careers of many of the UK’s most renowned musicians. Recent performance highlights include a yearly residency at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, performing with Gregory Porter at Buckingham Palace, a major European tour with the German (BuJazzO) and Dutch (NJJO) National Youth Jazz Orchestras, a televised performance at the BBC Proms and repeat appearances at the EFG London Jazz Festival. Concerts at Keele 01782 734340 keele.ac.uk/artskeele £15 (£8 students, 16 & under free) Saturday 24 February LUDLOW
Henderson Hall, Moor Park, Overton SY8 4DZ, 7.30pm LOUIS SCHWIZGEBEL – piano Beethoven Piano Sonata No 13 in E flat Op 27 No 1 Quasi una fantasia Chopin Ballade No 2 in F Op 38, Ballade No 3 in A flat Op 47 Beethoven Piano Sonata No 14 in C sharp minor Op 27 No 2 Moonlight Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition Ludlow Music Society ludlow-arts-classical.org.uk 01584 876141 ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk £18 (students £6) Sunday 25 February SWINDON
Swindon Arts Centre, Devizes Road SN1 4BJ, 3.30pm and 7.30pm JULIAN METZGER – cello PAUL TURNER – piano Beethoven Complete works for cello and piano An exclusive opportunity to hear Beethoven’s entire output for cello and piano in one day. The five sonatas and three sets of variations will be played over two concerts in order of composition, exploring Beethoven’s musical development. Swindon Recital Series swindonrecitalseries.org 01793 0524481 £15 (conc £12.50), students £2.50, accompanied children 14 and under free. 10% discount on tickets for both performances £27 (£22.50 concession) |
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