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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 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 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 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 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 Ticket prices tbc 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) 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) Wednesday 18 March BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 7.30pm QUATUOR BOZZINI 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) Friday 20 March BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm LINAROL CONSORT 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 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)
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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) 
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