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MARCH CONCERTS

Wednesday 4 March                           BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham B1 2LF, 1.10pm
PHILIP BRETT & KATE OSWIN – violins
CATHERINE BOWER & AMY THOMAS – violas
EDUARDO VASSALLO – cello

Janáček        String Quartet No 1 Kreutzer Sonata
Brahms        String Quintet No 2 in G
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 01217803333 cbso.co.uk/event/janáček-and-brahms
Standard £10/u17 £6

Saturday 7 March                                CHELTENHAM
St Andrew's Church, Montpellier Street GL50 1SP, 7.30pm
CHELTENHAM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
TOBY PURSER – conductor
GEORGE EWART – leader and violin soloist

Lennox Berkeley    Divertimento in B flat
Bruch                        Violin Concerto No 1 in G minor    
Mendelssohn          Symphony No 3 in A minor Scottish
Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra   cheltenhamchamberorchestra.org.uk
01452 856700     Ticket prices tbc

Wednesday 11 March                                          KEELE
Keele University Chapel, Keele University ST5 5NN, 7.30pm
PAPAGENA
Sparkling female vocalists Papagena sing medieval, classical, folk and contemporary a cappella from around the world.
Keele Concerts Society  keele.ac.uk/artskeele
01782 734340    £16/£5 (students)

Friday 13 March                                    BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm
JOEL SACHS – piano  CONCERT CANCELLED
CrossCurrents Plus
Charles Ives       Piano Sonata No 1
A rarely-heard masterpiece of 20th-century piano music.
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts   barber.org.uk/concerts
Free – latecomers will not be admitted

Saturday 14 March                                      MALVERN
Great Malvern Priory, Church Street WR14 2AY, 7.30pm
ENGLISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
KENNETH WOODS – conductor
MAJA BOGDANOVIC – cello

Adrian Williams        Russells’ Elegy
Haydn                         Cello Concerto in C
Beethoven                  Symphony No 1
English Symphony Orchestra  eso.co.uk
eventbrite.co.uk   £20 (ESO Friends £18, u18s £5)

Sunday 15 March                                  LEAMINGTON
Royal Spa Centre Studio, Newbold Terrace CV32 4HN, 11.30am
ENSEMBLE 360
POLLY IVES – narrator

Family concert with Paul Rissmann’s Sir Scallywag and the Battle of Stinky Bottom.
Recommended for ages 3-7
Leamington Music 01926 334418 or royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk
£12/£8/£32 (family ticket)

Sunday 15 March                                     ST BRIAVELS
St Briavels Church (opposite castle) GL15 6RG, 3.00pm
RWCMD SHOWCASE
Artists from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Programme to be confirmed
Concert by top-ranking students from Cardiff’s Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama – we have never failed to be impressed by the talent and virtuosity shown by these young artists-in-the-making.
Wye Valley Music  wyevalleymusic.org.uk
01291 330020   £12, £10, £2
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Thursday 19 March                                      MALVERN
Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30pm
IESTYN DAVIES – countertenor
THOMAS DUNFORD – lute
England’s Orpheus

Programme includes music by Dowland, Purcell, Bach and Handel.
Malvern Concert Club  malvern-concert-club.co.uk 
malvern-theatres.co.uk  01684 892277
£24.08  Students in full time education £6.72

Friday 20 March                                  BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN, 7.30pm    CONCERT POSTPONED
FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET
please note change of programme
Wolf                    Italian Serenade
Shostakovich     String Quartet No 12
Beethoven          String Quartet in C sharp minor Op 131
Bromsgrove Concerts  bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk 07936 984415    £20 (Dis/Unemp £10, 8-25 years free)
Saturday 21 March                               BIRMINGHAM
St Chad’s Cathedral, Colmore Row B3 2QB, 2.00 - 3.00pm
MARTYN RAWLES
With guest organists NIGEL ARGUST, PAUL CARR, RUPERT JEFFCOAT AND ROBERT SHARPE
Special Centenary Organ Recital 

Birmingham Bach Choir  birmingham.bachchoir.com    Tickets on the door only: £5 (£2.50 students & conc)
Saturday 21 March                                   PAINSWICK
St Mary’s Church GL6 6UT, 3.00pm
TASMIN LITTLE – violin     CONCERT CANCELLED
PIERS LANE – piano

Bach                   Sonata No 3 in E BWV 1016
Amy Beach        Romance
Amy Beach        Sonata
Szymanowski   Romance
Strauss               Sonata
Painswick Music Society   painswickmusicsoc.co.uk   
£20 (Child/Student £5)
Saturday 21 March                                 WORCESTER
Worcester Cathedral, College Yard WR1 2LA, 7.30pm
WORCESTER FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY
MERIDIAN SINFONIA
SAMUEL HUDSON – conductor

Vaughan Williams       A Sea Symphony
Britten                           Sea Interludes
Mendelssohn               Fingal’s Cave
Worcester Festival Choral Society  wfcs.online / Worcester Live 01905 611427  
£10-£25 (some concessions / children 9-15 free)
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Tuesday 24 March                                      WARWICK
St Mary’s Church CV34 4RA, 7.30pm
THE ORLANDO CONSORT
Guillaume de Machaut: Portrait of a Genius

This new programme demonstrates the full lyrical beauty, the sensual imagery and the inspired harmonic brilliance that lies in the work of this truly great poet – a direct inspiration to Chaucer – and composer.
Leamington Music 01926 334418 or royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk  £22/£19/£15/£13 (£1)
Wednesday 25 March                                        KEELE
Westminster Theatre, Keele University ST5 5AZ, 7.30pm
DODO STREET BAND
A trailblazing, joyously wild musical odyssey, encompassing melodies from the shores of the Hebrides to the mountains of Eastern Europe.
Keele Concerts Society   keele.ac.uk/artskeele
01782 734340   £16/£5 (students)

Friday 27 March                                    BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm
WILLIAM THOMAS – bass
JOSEPH MIDDLETON – piano

Acclaimed pianist and University of Birmingham alumnus Joseph Middleton makes a welcome return to the Barber Institute of Fine Arts with winner of the 2018 Kathleen Ferrier Award William Thomas.
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts   barber.org.uk/concerts        Free​
Saturday 28 March (date tbc)                   MALVERN
Venue to be confirmed, 7.30pm
ELGAR CHORALE
PIERS MAXIM – conductor

Elgar         From the Bavarian Highlands
Elgar Chorale 01684 594570                                            £12.50, £15 on door
Sunday 29 March                              ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester, Doveridge, Uttoxeter ST14 5BS, 3.00pm
BRODSKY QUARTET
Wolf                      Italian Serenade
Puccini                  Crisantemi
Debussy               String Quartet
Beethoven           String Quartet Op 130
Abbotsholme Arts Society   abbotsholmeartssociety.co.uk  aas@tetley.org  
07707 477082   £20/£5

Sunday 29 March                                   WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00pm
CHRISTOPHER ALLSOP
Lecture/Recital on the historic Nicholson organ of 1840
An illustrated lecture exploring the history and sound-world of this small and beautiful instrument, featuring music by English composers as well as Bach, Mendelssohn and Guilmant.
Worcester Concert Club  worcserenade.co.uk
01905 611427  £17 (students £5)

Friday 6 March                                     BIRMINGHAM 
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm
BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONIC BRASS
STEPHEN ROBERTS – director

An exciting programme of brass arrangements from The University of Birmingham’s brass dectet, directed by founding Fine Arts Brass member, Stephen Roberts.
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts   barber.org.uk/concerts       Free


Saturday 7 March                                 ALVECHURCH
The Ark, St Laurence Church, School Lane B48 7SB, 7.30pm
CRAIG OGDEN – guitar
Programme to include:
Tarrega                  Recuerdos de la Alhambra           
D Scarlatti             Sonata K380
Coste                     Fantasie Dramatique Le Depart Op 31
George Harrison  Here Comes the Sun
Albeniz                   Torre Bermeja
Midland Sinfonia   midlandsinfonia.co.uk  midlandsinfonia@gmail.com   0121 447 7040/
07889 147861     Ticket price tbc

Thursday 12 March                                    COVENTRY
Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick CV4 7AL, 7.15pm
COULL QUARTET
Beethoven             Quartet Op 18 No 1 in F
Tippett                    Quartet No 2
Mendelssohn        Quartet in E minor Op 44 No 2
Warwick Arts Centre  warwickartscentre.co.uk
02476 524524     £21 /£19

Friday 13 March                                               WITNEY
High Street Methodist Church, High Street OX28 6HG, 7.30pm
THE CARICE SINGERS
GEORGE PARRIS – director

Howells                      The Summer is coming
Elgar                            Two Partsongs Op 71: The
                                     Shower; The Fountain
Monteverdi                Zefiro torna e il bel tempo rimera
                                     (Sixth Book of Madrigals, 1614)
Rued Langgaard       Lokkender toner (Enticing tones)
Ireland                        Spring, the Sweet Spring
Elgar                           Owls: An Epitaph; O Wild West
                                     Wind!  (Four Partsongs Op 53)   
Reger                          Schweigen (Silence)
Stanford                     The Blue Bird
Vaughan Williams    Silence and Music
Berg                            Die Nachtigall (The Nightingale)
                                    (arr for choir)
Ross Edwards           Sacred Kingfisher Psalms
Witney Music Society  witneymusicsociety.org.uk  01993 702296   £12 (under 19 £1)
Saturday 14 March                                        TETBURY
The Tetbury Goods Shed, Old Station Yard, Cirencester Road GL8 8EY, 7.30pm
IVANA GAVRIC – piano
Beethoven                       Sonata in A Op 2 No2
Grieg                                 Two pieces from Slatter Op 72
Grieg                                 Three Lyric Pieces from Op 43
                                           and Op 65
Cheryl Frances-Hoad     Three Pieces from Homages
                                           (2009-15)
Beethoven                        Sonata No 23 in F minor Op 57
                                            Appassionata
The Tetbury Goods Shed  https://shed-arts.co.uk/piano-series/   01666 505 496   £18/£20
Sunday 15 March                                  LEAMINGTON
Royal Spa Centre Studio, Newbold Terrace CV32 4HN, 3.00pm
ENSEMBLE 360
Amadeus 5 x 3

Mozart         Horn Quintet in E flat K407
Mozart         String Quintet in C K515
Mozart         Clarinet Quintet in A K581
Leamington Music 01926 334418 or royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk  £20/£15 (£1)
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Wednesday 18 March                          BIRMINGHAM 
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 7.30pm
QUATUOR BOZZINI   CONCERT CANCELLED
Programme includes:
Michel Zev Gordon    New work
Shostakovich              String Quartet No 15 in E flat
                                      minor Op 144 
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 01782 206 000 barber.org.uk/concerts    £18 (£15, £12, £5)

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Friday 20 March                                    BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm
LINAROL CONSORT   CONCERT CANCELLED
Nouvelle Musique
Innovative music for viols from the court of Philip the Fair.  Explore the rich diversity of music heard in the Flemish court of Philip the Fair in the 15th and 16th centuries.
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts   barber.org.uk/concerts       Free

Friday 20 March                                   LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm
PRAŽÁK STRING QUARTET (Czech Republic)
Haydn                    Quartet in F Op 77 No 2
Dvořák                   Quartettsatz in F B120
Karel Janovický     Quartet No 4 (UK première)
Dvořák                    Quartet in G Op 106
Leamington Music 01926 334418 or royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk  £25/£20/£15 (£1)
Saturday 21 March           MICHAELCHURCH ESCLEY
St Michael’s Church HR2 0JW, 5.00pm
DUO MADDALENA
AMYAS (Emily Baines and Arngeir Hauksson)

Landini                Ecco la primavera       
Ciconia                La rosa bella
Anon                    Polorum regina omnia nostra
Anon                    Two mediaeval troubadour/trouvère
                              duets in old French and Spanish
Anon                     L’on dit q’amors
Alfonso X             Two songs from the Cantigas de
                              Santa Maria
collection 
Anon                     Sumer is icumen in
Anon                     Miri it is
Dowland              Two English renaissance songs/duets
Strozzi                  Sonetto
Strozzi                  Begli occhi
Anon                     Three instrumental dances and
                               variations
Concerts for Craswall  concertsforcraswall.org
01981 510112  £15/£7.50

Sunday 22 March             STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Shakespeare Institute, Church Street CV37 6HP, 7.30pm
CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET
Borodin               String Quartet in D
Shostakovich      String Quartet No 7 in F sharp
Beethoven          String Quartet in C Op 59 No 3
Stratford-upon-Avon Chamber Music Society stratfordchambermusic.co.uk  01608 662597
£20 (conc £5)


Wednesday 25 March                                  EVESHAM
Evesham Arts Centre, Victoria Avenue WR11 4QH, 7.30pm
TRIO VOLANT
A French Fancy

Canteloube          Rustiques
Pierné                   Bucolique Variée
Françaix               Divertissement
Milhaud                Pastorale Op 147
Mozart                  Divertimento No 5
Evesham and District Music Club                          evesham-music-club.co.uk
eveshamartscentre.co.uk
Almonry Museum   01386 446944   £17

Thursday 26 March                              CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30pm
LEON MCCAWLEY – piano
Schubert      Sonata in A D664
Janácěk        On an Overgrown Path Book 1
Grieg            Three Lyric Pieces from Op 43 (Butterfly;
                      Little Bird; To the Spring)
Schumann   Kreisleriana Op 16
Cheltenham Music Society, Cheltenham Town Hall
box office, Imperial Square, 01242 227979, or 0844 576 2210    £25 & £20, under 26 £5

Saturday 28 March                                        LUDLOW
Henderson Hall, Moor Park, Overton SY8 4DZ, 7.30pm
SARAH FOX – soprano
SUSIE ALLAN – piano
MICHAEL PENNINGTON – narrator  
My Dearest Hedgehog

A narrated recital, devised and written by Henrietta Bredin, explores the relationship between Richard Strauss and his wife, Pauline. Strauss wrote many of his greatest songs with her voice in mind and the fascinating and witty narrative is interspersed with a number of these works.
Ludlow Music Society  ludlow-arts-classical.org.uk ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk  01584 878141
£18 (students £6)

Saturday 28 March                               TEWKESBURY
Tewkesbury Abbey, Church Street GL20 5RZ, 7.30pm
CHELTENHAM BACH CHOIR
DAVID CROWN – conductor

Rachmaninov       Vespers
Cheltenham Bach Choir cheltbachchoir.com/concerts.html​
Sunday 29 March                                   GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street GL1 2BH, 3.00pm
CHRISTA QUARTET  concert postponed
JAMES BOLAM – actor
SUSAN JAMESON – actor
In Gloucestershire

A celebratory programme written by Christine Talbot-Cooper including readings from Gloucestershire poets and the string quartet In Gloucestershire by Herbert Howells.
Gloucester Music Society 01242 620736
£20 (£18/£10/£5,free)


Header photo: Iestyn Davies (credit Chris Sorensen)
EXTRA CONCERT!

Saturday 7 March                               PERSHORE

Pershore Abbey WR10 1BB, 2.30pm
WORCESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
IRINA LYAKHOVSKAYA – piano
JOE DAVIES – conductor

Mozart                Overture: Don Giovanni
Grieg                  Piano Concerto
Beethoven         Symphony No 6 Pastoral
Worcester Philharmonic Orchestra  worcesterphilharmonic.co.uk
worcesterphilharmonicorchestra.ticketsource.co.uk  £12 (under 16s free)



EXTRA CONCERT!

Saturday 7 March                               WORCESTER
St Martin's Church, London Road WR5 2ED, 7.30pm
ORIEL SINGERS
WORCESTER EARLY MUSIC BAND
BEN SAWYER - conductor

IN ECCLESIIS - 17th century polychoral music from across Europe
programme includes:
Gabrieli               In Ecclesiis
Monteverdi        Beatus Vir
De Padilla          Mass Ego flos campi
Gabrieli               Jubilate Deo
Schütz                 Alleluja Lobet den Herrn
Gesualdo            O vos omnes
Rossi                   Sonata quarta sopra l'Arie di Ruggiero
Worcestershire Early Music/Oriel Singers
orielsingers.org.uk/diary  01905 611427 (Worcester Live Box Office)   £15 (£13 in advance)

EXTRA CONCERT!
Sunday 8 March                   MUCH MARCLE

Hellens HR8 2LY  3pm
PETER FISHER - violin
MARGARET FINGERHUT - piano

Beethoven   Violin Sonata in F Op 24 ’Spring’
Clive Jenkins   Pastorale and Allegro
Debussy   Violin Sonata in G minor
Korngold   Four Pieces from ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
James MacMillan   Kiss on Wood
Ravel   Tzigane
Espressivo Concerts
Hereford Courtyard 01432 340555 and courtyard.org.uk
Ticket Source 0333 6663366 and ticketsource.co.uk             £16 (free entry for students in full-time education)


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EXTRA CONCERTS!
THE SIXTEEN CHORAL PILGRIMAGE 2020
Saturday 21 March                    OXFORD
Christ Church Cathedral, St Aldates OX1 1DP, 8.00pm
https://tinyurl.com/t3lp9ad | 0333 010 2850      £15/£35

Wednesday 25 March                     CAMBRIDGE
St John’s College Chapel, 11 St Johns Street CB2 1TW, 7.30pm
https://tinyurl.com/wzq6x4o | 0333 010 2850      £15/£32

THE SIXTEEN
HARRY CHRISTOPHERS – conductor

Plainsong        De Lamentatione   
Victoria            Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday 1-3   
                                 1.     Recessit pastor noster
                                 2.     O vos omnes
                                 3.     Ecce quomodo moritur iustus
Josquin             Pater noster / Ave Maria   
Victoria             Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday 4-6
                                 4.     Astiterunt reges
                                 5.     Aestimatus sum
                                 6.     Sepulto Domino
Felice Anerio     Litaniae Beatissimae Virginis Mariae  
Josquin               Gaude virgo Mater Christi  
Allegri                 Gloria from Missa In lectulo meo  a 8   
Josquin               Illibata dei virgo  
Allegri                 Miserere (its evolution)  
Felice Anerio     Regina caeli laetare  a 8  
Victoria               Salve Regina  a 8    
The Sixteen thesixteen.com


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EXTRA CONCERT!
Sunday 29 March                        LEOMINSTER

Lion Ballroom, off Broad Street HR6 8BT  3pm
STELLA SEATON-SIMS (mezzo)
CORINNE FROST (cello),
JANINE PARSONS (piano)
MICHAEL JONES (piano)

A programme of French and Russian music to include:
Fauré   Sicilienne
Saint-Saëns   Allegro Appassionato
Debussy   Pour le Piano (1st mvt)
Ravel   Mother Goose Suite (3rd mvt)
Rachmaninov   Cello Sonata in G minor (3rd mvt)
Shostakovich   Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 (2nd mvt) and
songs by Fauré, Duparc, Rachmaninov and Balakirev
Espressivo Concerts
Leominster TIC  01568 616460                                                   £12 (students half-price)
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