Saturday 1 April LUDLOW
Henderson Hall, Moor Park, Overton SY8 4DZ, 7.30 pm RUISI QUARTET Haydn String Quartet in C Op 20 No 2 Janáček String Quartet No 1 Kreutzer Sonata Wolf Italian Serenade Debussy String Quartet in G minor Ludlow Music Society 01584 876141 £18 (students £6) Friday 7 April BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 1.10 pm CBSO Centre Stage: THE LEO QUARTET with LIZ LARNER – guitar Byron Parish, Elizabeth Golding – violin Amy Fawcett – viola Kate Setterfield – cello Ivor McGregor Guitar Quintet CBSO 0121 780 3333 £10* Friday 7 April MALVERN
St Edmund’s Hall, Malvern College, College Road, Malvern WR14 3DF, 2.30pm CLARE HAMMOND - piano Jacquet de la Guerre Suite No.6 in G Beethoven Sonata No.4 in E flat, Op.7 Scriabin Sonata No.5, Op.53 Debussy L’isle joyeuse Dutilleux Au gré des ondes Fauré Nocturnes Nos. 8 & 12 Stravinsky Petroushka Suite Malvern Concert Club 01684 575066 £15 (students £3) Saturday 15 April GLOUCESTER
Chapter House, Gloucester Cathedral GL1 2LX, 3.00 pm PIVA Measure for Measure Running the gamut from village green to stately court, bringing alive music from Elizabethan theatre. Gloucester Music Society 01242 620736 £17 (£16/£8/£5,free) Saturday 22 April ST BRIAVELS
St Briavels Church GL15 6RU, 7.30 pm ABINGDON WIND QUINTET Mozart Andante and Allegro Barber Summer Music Hindermith Kleine Kammermusik Ibert Trois pièces brèves Wye Valley Music 01291 330020 £15 (WVM Members £12, Students £2) Wednesday 26 April ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester, Uttoxeter ST14 5BS, 8.00 pm JUICE VOCAL ENSEMBLE Juice (‘The 21st century’s answer to the Swingles or the King’s Singers’ The Times) are an experimental vocal trio at the forefront of the UK’s experimental/classical scene, performing new vocal music which draws on classical, world music, jazz, folk, pop and theatre with a large proportion of original works and improvisation. Abbotsholme Arts Society 01543 263304 £16.50 (£5 under 25) Thursday 27 April MALVERN
Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30 pm SCOTT BROTHERS DUO – one piano, four hands Music by Albéniz, Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Schubert and Tárrega Malvern Concert Club / Malvern Theatres 01684 892277 £19 (students £6) + 12 %theatre's booking fee Friday 28 April WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 3LD, 7.30 pm ASTARIA STRING QUARTET Like this? Like that Ravel String Quartet in F Piazzolla Tango Ballet Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Quartet plus second half to include Ravel’s Bolero, The Gadfly by Shostakovich and Piazzolla’s Libertango Astaria String Quartet / Worcester Live 01905 611427 £14 (conc £12, under 16’s £2) Saturday 29 April PAINSWICK
St Mary’s Church GL6 6UN, 3.00 pm THE FIBONACCI SEQUENCE PIANO TRIO Schubert Notturno in E flat Op 148 (D897) Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 49 Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat Op 97 Archduke Painswick Music Society 01285 821854 Ticket prices tbc |
Wednesday 5 April BIRMINGHAM
Symphony Hall, Broad Street B1 2EA, 7.30 pm MURRAY PERAHIA – piano ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS Beethoven Romance for violin and orchestra No 1 Beethoven Symphony No 1 Beethoven Piano concerto No 5 Emperor Town Hall & Symphony Hall 0121 345 0600 £53 - £12.50* Friday 7 April BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN, 8.00 pm BRITTEN OBOE QUARTET with NICHOLAS DANIEL Mozart Adagio K580a for cor anglais & strings Lennox Berkeley Oboe Quartet Moeran Phantasy Quartet Schubert String Trio Movement in B Flat D471 Richard Rodney Bennett Arethusa for oboe quartet Françaix Cor Anglais Quartet Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 577330 £19 (Dis/Unemp £5, 8-25 years free) Saturday 8 April PAINSWICK
St Mary’s Church GL6 6UN, 3.00 pm CARDUCCI QUARTET and FRIENDS with JULIAN BLISS – clarinet Weber Clarinet Quintet in B flat Op 70 Beethoven Quartet No 11 in F minor Op 95 Serioso Schubert Octet in F D803 Painswick Music Society 01285 821854 Ticket prices tbc Thursday 20 April CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30 pm MICHAEL PETROV – cello ALEXANDER ULLMAN – piano Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C Op 119 Janáček Pohádka (Fairy Tale) Carter Figment for Solo Cello (1994) Chopin Cello Sonata in G minor Op 65 Cheltenham Music Society 01242 234791 £20 & £15 Monday 24 April BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square B3 3DQ, 7.30 pm KRISTIINA ROKASHEVICH – piano Schubert Four Impromptus D935 Debussy Estampes Bartók Piano Sonata Sz80 Town Hall & Symphony Hall 0121 345 0600 £31 - £12.50* Thursday 27 April BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 1.10 pm CBSO Centre Stage: Boccherini String Quintets GABRIEL DYKER, AMANDA LAKE – violin AMY THOMAS – viola DAVID POWELL – cello SALLY MORGAN – double bass Boccherini Three String Quintets Op 39 CBSO 0121 780 3333 £10* Friday 28 April BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10 pm PESTOVA/ROCHE/REES TRIO Xenia Pestova – piano Carla Rees – flute Heather Roche – clarinet BEASTFEaST Formed by three internationally renowned new music soloists, this ‘supertrio’ specialise in performing 20th and 21st century works using extended techniques and new technology to develop the traditional limitations of the instruments and they bring us a programme of works as part of BEASTFEaST 2017. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333 Admission: Free Friday 28 April to Tuesday 2 May LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA LEAMINGTON MUSIC FESTIVAL WEEKEND The 28th Festival held over the first of the May bank holiday weekends will have eleven concerts and feature baritone Roderick Williams singing Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin on 30 April and Howard Skempton’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner on 1 May. The Festival celebrates the seventieth birthday of Howard Skempton. www.leamingtonmusic.org 01926 497000 Sunday 30 April BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square B3 3DQ, 3.00 pm MARK PADMORE – tenor PAUL LEWIS – piano Schubert Die Schöne Müllerin Town Hall & Symphony Hall 0121 345 0600 £38 - £12.50* |
Shropshire Music Trust
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