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Saturday 7 January CHELTENHAM
St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier Street GL50 1SP, 2.30 pm CHELTENHAM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FUNDRAISING CHAMBER CONCERT: a programme of solos, quartets, quintets, etc. from the Orchestra, to include wind quintet items plus: Mendelssohn Octet (First movement) Beethoven Sextet for strings and two horns Reade Suite from The Victorian Kitchen Garden Admission free, but with a retiring collection; donations for tea and cake Friday 13 January BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TS, 1.10 pm CASTALIAN STRING QUARTET Winner of the First Prize at the 2015 Lyon International Chamber Music Competition, the Castalian String Quartet is fast becoming a favourite with audiences in the United Kingdom and abroad for its “richly romantic energy and passion” (Strad Magazine). The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333 Admission: Free Friday 13 January BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN, 8.00 pm NAVARRA STRING QUARTET Haydn String Quartet in G Minor Op 20 No 3 Britten String Quartet No 3 Op 94 Schubert Quartettsatz D703 Brahms String Quartet in A Minor Op 51 No 2 Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 577330 £19 (Dis/Unemp £5, 8-25 years free) Tuesday 17 January ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester, Uttoxeter ST14 5BS, 8.00 pm EMMA JOHNSON – clarinet JOHN LENEHAN – piano Brahms Sonata in F minor Op 120 No 1 Rossini Introduction, Theme and Variations Bax Clarinet Sonata Paul Reade Suite from The Victorian Kitchen Garden Bernstein arr. Johnson/Lenehan Scenes from West Side Story Abbotsholme Arts Society 01543 263304 £20 (£5 under 25) Sunday 22 January WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00 pm ENSEMBLE EPOMEO Diane Pascal – violin David Yang – viola Kenneth Woods – cello Concert preceded by a masterclass Dohnanyi Serenade Op 10 Hans Krása Passacaglia and Fuga Beethoven String Trio in D Op 9 No 2 Worcester Concert Club 01905 611427 £16 (students £5) Wednesday 25 January EVESHAM
Evesham Arts Centre, Victoria Road WR11 4QH, 7.30 pm JAYSON GILLHAM – piano Bach/Rachmaninoff Suite from Violin Partita No 3 in E (after BWV1006) Schubert Sonata in A minor D784 Chopin Prelude in C sharp minor Op 45 Debussy L’Isle joyeuse Schumann Etudes symphoniques Op 13 Evesham & District Music Club 01386 861206 £18 (conc £17, students £3) Thursday 26 January BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 1.10 pm CBSO Centre Stage: CBSO Baroque Ensemble CBSO BAROQUE ENSEMBLE Handel Suite in D HWV341 Pepusch Trio Sonata Cervetto Trio Sonatas J C Bach Trio Sonata Loeillet music for harpsichord CBSO 0121 780 3333 £10* Friday 27 January BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10 pm KENNETH HAMILTON LECTURE RECITAL Chopin Études from Op 25, Nocturne Op 9 No 2 (Revised Version) Liszt/Chopin/Thalberg/ Hexameron (Grand Bravura Variations on a Pixis/Herz/Czerny Theme from Bellini’s I Puritani) The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333 Admission: Free Saturday 28 January LUDLOW
Henderson Hall, Moor Park, Overton SY8 4DZ, 7.30 pm ENDYMION Beethoven Violin Sonata No 5 in F Op 24 Spring Ligeti Trio for horn, violin and piano Hommage à Brahms Brahms Trio for horn, violin and piano in E flat Op 40 Ludlow Music Society 01584 876141 £18 (students £6) |
Wednesday 11 January CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30 pm JULIETTE BAUSOR – flute ALASDAIR BEATSON – piano Fauré Fantasie Op 79 Reinecke Sonata Op 167 Undine Widor Suite Op 34 J.S Bach Sonata in E BWV1035 Debussy Syrinx Franck Sonata in A Cheltenham Music Society 01242 234791 £20 & £15 Friday 13 January BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 1.10 pm CBSO Centre Stage: Oboe Quartets with Rainer Gibbons RAINER GIBBONS – oboe LENA ZELISZEWSKA – violin CHRISTOPHER YATES – viola DAVID POWELL – cello J C Bach Oboe Quartet in C Britten Phantasy Quartet Mozart Oboe Quartet K370 CBSO 0121 780 3333 £10* Sunday 15 January STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Shakespeare Institute, Church Street CV37 6HP, 3.00 pm POMEGRANATE PIANO TRIO Haydn Piano Trio in E flat Hob16 No 29 Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat Op 97 Archduke Smetana Piano Trio in G minor Op 15 Stratford upon Avon Chamber Music Society 01789 740791 £17 (£5 students) Friday 20 January BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10 pm KENNETH HAMILTON LECTURE RECITAL Chopin Mazurka in C sharp minor Op 30 No 4 Liszt Transcendental Étude No 1 Preludio Grand Concert Paraphrase: God Save the Queen S235 Transcendental Étude No 3 Paysage (Scenery) Schubert/Liszt Leise flehen meine Lieder Donizetti/Liszt Reminiscences of Lucia di Lammermoor The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333 Admission: Free Tuesday 24 January WARWICK
St Mary’s Church CV34 4AR, 7.30 pm EMMA KIRKBY – soprano with CHELYS CONSORT OF VIOLS The Sorrows of John Dowland The Lachrimae pavans of John Dowland with works by Anthony Holborne, John Danyel, and Robert Jones who each ‘borrowed’ Dowland’s theme Leamington Music Box Office 01926 334418 £22/£18/£15/£13 (£1) Wednesday 25 January NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME
New Vic Theatre, Etruria Road ST5 0JG, 7.30 pm MARIA CAMAHORT QUINTET Iberian Colours Maria Camahort Quintet presents a uniquely original project of music by Spanish composers, sharing with the audience the vivid colours, earthy textures and rhythms of Spanish musical art. Their programme Iberian Colours explores the relationship between Spanish Classical repertoire and influences from Iberia’s traditional music. Concerts at Keele in partnership with New Vic Theatre 01782 734340 £15 (students £8,16 & under, Keele Music Students FREE) Thursday 26 January MALVERN
Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30 pm SACCONI STRING QUARTET with ROBERT PLANE – clarinet Haydn String Quartet in G Op 76 No 1 York Bowen Phantasy Quintet Op 93 Glazunov Oriental Reverie Op 14 Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op 115 Malvern Concert Club / Malvern Theatres 01684 892277 £19 (students £6) + 12% Theatres’ booking fee Friday 27 January LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30 pm ROYAL STRING QUARTET (Poland) Mozart Quartet in D minor K421 Philip Glass Quartet No 3 Mishima Gorecki Quartet No 1 Op 62 Already it is dusk Mozart Quartet in C K465 Leamington Music Box Office 01926 334418 £21/£17/£13 (£1) |
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