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april CONCERTS

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
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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*

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Shropshire Music Trust
Tickets from Windband 01743 367482 info@windband.co.uk or Ticketsource 0333 666 3366 www.ticketsource.co.uk/smt


*all tickets are inclusive of the per ticket commission, plus £1.50 (optional) postage will be charged on all bookings except purchases made in person at the Town Hall or Symphony Hall Box Office.
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