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APRIL CONCERTS

Saturday 4 April                                   ALVECHURCH
St Laurence Church, School Lane B48 7SB, 7.30pm
THE MIDLAND SINFONIA
NIC FALLOWFIELD – conductor

Mozart and his Mentors
Mozart              Horn Concerto No 4 
Mozart              Adagio and Fugue in C minor
Boccherini        Symphony No 26
Haydn               Symphony No 67
Midland Sinfonia  midlandsinfonia.co.uk  midlandsinfonia@gmail.com   0121 447 7040               £16 (F/T students free)
Saturday 4 April                                        HEREFORD
St John’s Methodist Church, St Owen Street HR1 2PR, 7.30pm
HEREFORD STRING ORCHESTRA
EMMA PURSLOW – violin
ROLAND MELIA – conductor

Wagner           Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral
                         (from Lohengrin)
Prokofiev        Violin Concerto No 1
Beethoven      Symphony No 7
Hereford String Orchestra herefordstringorchestra.co.uk  01684 540870
Off the wall Gift Shop, 3 St Peter’s Street, Hereford HR1 2LA  01432 354892
£12 (concessions £10), Students £5 U12s free

Saturday 4 April                                      WORCESTER
Worcester Cathedral, College Yard, WR1 2LA, 9.30am (for 10:15 start) – 5.00pm
COME & SING! 1-DAY CHORAL WORKSHOP
hosted by Worcester Festival Choral Society
Elgar        The Music Makers
Worcester Festival Choral Society   wfcs.online
£25 (£10 students)

Friday 10 April                                            COVENTRY
Coventry Cathedral, Priory Street CV1 5AB, 6.00pm
COVENTRY CATHEDRAL CHORUS
ORCHESTRA PRO ANIMA
SOFIA LARSSON – soprano
MATTHEW MINTER – tenor
WILLIAM HAYNES – bass

Chilcott        St John Passion
Finzi              Lo, The full, final sacrifice
Coventry Cathedral Chorus coventrycathedralchorus.com  01676 522572
ticketweb.co.uk  0844 477 1000 tickets@coventrycathedralchorus.com  01676 532436 £22/£15 (students/U18 half price)

Thursday 16 April                                 BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham B1 2LF, 1.10pm
JONATHAN MARTINDALE & CHARLOTTE SKINNER – violins
CHRISTOPHER YATES – viola
KATE SETTERFIELD – cello
ROBERT MARKHAM – piano

Elgar        Piano Quintet in A minor
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra  01217803333 cbso.co.uk/event/elgars-piano-quintet
Standard £10/u17 £6
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Saturday 18 April                                   MONMOUTH
Bridges Community Centre, Drybridge House, Wonastow Road NP25 5AS, 7.30pm
MICHAEL CHRISTIAN DURRANT – classical guitar
INES DELGADO – violin
Music from Spain and South America

de Falla          Danza Española No 1 from La Vida Breve
                        Siete Canciones Populares Españolas
                        (Seven Spanish Folksongs)
Rodrígo          Set Cançons Valencianes (Seven
                         Valencian Songs)
Villa-Lobos     Bachianas Brasileiras No 5
Piazzolla arr   Histoire du Tango (The Story of Tango)
  Delgado/Durrant
Wye Valley Music wyevalleymusic.org.uk 01291 330020 £15, £12, £2
Saturday 25 April                                      PAINSWICK
St Mary’s Church GL6 6UT, 3.00pm
RODERICK WILLIAMS – baritone
IAIN BURNSIDE – piano    
CONCERT CANCELLED
Programme to include English Songs with a local theme with music by Gurney, Howells, Finzi, Butterworth, CW Orr, John Sanders, Ian Venables and John Sanders; plus the World Premiere of A Rondel of Gloucestershire by Louis Mander, and Three Houseman Parodies composed by Roderick Williams
Painswick Music Society    painswickmusicsoc.co.uk       £20 (Child/Student £5)
Sunday 26 April                                 ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester, Doveridge, Uttoxeter ST14 5BS, 3.00pm
4 GIRLS 4 HARPS
Mendelssohn             Incidental music for A Midsummer
                                     Night’s Dream

Bizet                            Entr’actes I, II and IV from Carmen
Rimsky-Korsakov      The Young Prince and Princess
                                     from Sheherazade
Prokofiev                    Grand Waltz from Cinderella  
Bernstein                    Overture to Candide
Massenet                    Scenes from L’histoire de Manon
Khachaturian              Mazurka and Waltz from
                                     Masquerade Suite
Henriette Renié         Légende
Abbotsholme Arts Society   abbotsholmeartssociety.co.uk  aas@tetley.org  
07707 477082  £20/£5
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Thursday 30 April                                 BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham B1 2LF, 1.10pm
MARIE-CHRISTINE ZUPANCIC – flute
KIRSTY LOVIE – violin
DAVID BAMAUNG – viola
MIGUEL FERNANDES – cello

Mozart                               Flute Quartet No 3 in C
Andrew Norman              Light Screens
Varèse                               Density 21.5
Mozart                               Flute Quartet No 1 in D
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra  01217803333 cbso.co.uk/event/mozart-flute-quartets
Standard £10/u17 £6

Saturday 4 April                                   BIRMINGHAM
St Philip’s Cathedral, Colmore Row B3 2QB, 7.30pm
BIRMINGHAM BACH CHOIR
PAUL SPICER – conductor

A Concert of Passiontide music
Vaughan Williams    O clap your hands
Leighton                     Mass for double choir; Give me
                                     the wings of faith
Walton                       Set me as a seal; Jubilate
Britten                        Rejoice in the Lamb
David Bednall           World premiere of commissioned
                                    work for Choir centenary
Birmingham Bach Choir  birmingham.bachchoir.com   07901 798442   £18 (£16 conc) or £10  
Saturday 4 April                                       PAINSWICK
St Mary’s Church GL6 6UT, 3.00pm
ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN
An English Idyll
     CONCERT CANCELLED
Holst                         St Paul’s Suite
Elgar                          Sospiri
Vaughan Williams   Oboe Concerto
Ireland                       Downland Suite
Walton                      Touch Her Soft Lips and Part
Britten                       Simple Symphony
Painswick Music Society    painswickmusicsoc.co.uk      
£20 (Child/Student £5)

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Sunday 5 April                                           HEREFORD
Hereford Shirehall, St Peters Square HR1 2HX, 3.30pm
ENGLISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
KENNETH WOODS / MICHAEL KARCHER-YOUNG – conductors
ALEXANDER SITKOVETSKY – violin

Adrian Williams   Three Gifts 
Beethoven            Violin Concerto
Dvořák                  Symphony No 9 From the New World
English Symphony Orchestra  eso.co.uk
eventbrite.co.uk  £25/£20 (ESO Friends £18, u18s £5)

Wednesday 15 April                            CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30pm
MAGNARD WIND ENSEMBLE
Ligeti                    Sechs Bagatellen
Schumann           Kinderszenen Op 15
Ibert                     Trois Pièces Brèves
Tomasi                Cinq Danses Profanes et Sacrées
Zemlinsky           Humoreske
Paul Patterson   Westerly Winds
Cheltenham Music Society, Cheltenham Town Hall
box office, Imperial Square, 01242 227979, or 0844 576 2210   £20 & £15, under 26 £5

Friday 17 April                                               MALVERN
Elmslie House, 8 Avenue Road WR14 3AG, 10.30 for 11.15am
RUISI QUARTET
Purcell               Three Fantazias
Beethoven        String Quartet No 7 in F Op 59 No 1
                           Razumovsky
Malvern Concert Club  malvern-concert-club.co.uk 
elmsliehouse.co.uk  07789 470780
£12 inc coffee and cake


Friday 24 April                                              EVESHAM
All Saints Church, Market Place WR11 4RW, 7.30pm
CHRISTOPHER ALLSOP – organ
With young singers drawn from Worcester
Programme to be confirmed

Evesham and District Music Club                          evesham-music-club.co.uk
eveshamartscentre.co.uk
Almonry Museum  01386 446944    £17

Saturday 25 April                                   WORCESTER
Worcester Cathedral, College Yard WR1 2LA, 7.30pm  
ENGLISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
WORCESTERSHIRE SCHOOLS CHORUS
NEIL FERRIS – conductor

Copland          Appalachian Spring
Sawyers          Mayflower on the Sea of Time
                        (World Premiere)
English Symphony Orchestra  eso.co.uk
Ticket price TBA  Tickets available from Jan 2020 from eso.co.uk

Wednesday 29 April                                    MALVERN
Great Malvern Priory, Church Street WR14 2AY, 7.30pm
ENGLISH STRING ORCHESTRA
KENNETH WOODS – conductor
ZOË BEYERS – violin

Adrian Williams                   Migrations
Vaughan Williams               The Lark Ascending (version
                                               for String Orchestra)
Emily Doolittle                     falling still
Elgar arr David Matthews  String Quartet
English Symphony Orchestra  eso.co.uk
eventbrite.co.uk   £20 (ESO Friends £18, u18s £5)

Thursday 30 April                                        MALVERN
Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30pm
NEW LONDON CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
MICHAEL DUSSEK – piano

Beethoven       Quintet in E flat for piano and wind
                          instruments Op 16
Nielsen             Wind Quintet Op 43
Poulenc            Flute Sonata FP164
Mozart              Quintet in E flat for piano and wind
                           instruments K452
Malvern Concert Club  malvern-concert-club.co.uk 
malvern-theatres.co.uk  01684 892277
£24.08  Students in full time education £6.72
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EXTRA CONCERT!
Wednesday 22 April                     BRISTOL
Bristol Cathedral, College Green BS1 5TJ, 7.00pm
THE SIXTEEN
HARRY CHRISTOPHERS – conductor

Plainsong              Regina caeli
Palestrina             ‘Kyrie’ from Missa Regina caeli
James MacMillan Dominus dabit benignitatem
Allegri                     Miserere (evolution version)
James MacMillan  Videns Dominus
Palestrina               Stabat Mater a8
Palestrina               Regina Caeli a8
Palestrina               Vineam meam non custodivi
James MacMillan  O radiant dawn
Palestrina               Pulchrae sunt genae tuae
James MacMillan  Miserere
Palestrina                Agnus Dei I-III from Missa Regina caeli
The Sixteen thesixteen.com
https://tinyurl.com/wc82798 | 0333 010 2850      £15/£30


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