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MARCH CONCERTS

Saturday 2 March                                        LANCASTER
Great Hall, Lancaster University LA1 4YW, 7.30pm
THE HAFFNER ORCHESTRA
ALEX ROBINSON – conductor
APRIL KOYEJO-AUDIGER – soloist
JULIAN CANN – leader

Debussy           Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Berlioz              Les nuits d’été
Elgar                 Enigma Variations
Haffner Orchestra
www.haffnerorchestra.org/concerts
£16 (£5 for students and benefit claimants, Free U18)

Wednesday 6 March                                          KENDAL
Kendal Town Hall, Highgate LA9 4DL, 1.00pm
TANGO SIEMPRE QUARTET
JONATHAN TAYLOR – piano
ROS STEPHEN – violin
JULIAN ROWLANDS – bandoneon
RORY DEMPSEY – double bass

- Tango music from the golden age orchestras of Osvaldo Pugliese and Anibal Troilo
- Nuevo tango classics by Astor Piazzolla including Libertango and Adios Nonino
- Contemporary works by Tango Siempre
Tickets on sale at the Hall from 12 noon  www.kendalmiddayconcertclub.org    £10 (students £2)
Friday 8 March                                     PORT SUNLIGHT
Hulme Hall, 23 Bolton Road, Bebington, Wirral CH62 5DH, 7.30pm
NORTHERN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
CALLUM SMART – violin and director
JAREN ZIEGLER – viola

Rameau           Rondeau des Indes Galantes
Biber                Battalia
Albinoni          Concerto for Oboe in D minor
Tabakova        Suite in the Old Style
Vivaldi             Concerto for Two Flutes in C major
Bach                 Concerto for Two Violins in D minor
Northern Chamber Orchestra  0161 706 1990  www.ncorch.co.uk/concerts  £22.50 (free)
Saturday 9 March                                MACCLESFIELD
St. Michael’s Church, Market Place SK10 1DY, 7.30pm
NORTHERN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
CALLUM SMART – violin and director
JAREN ZIEGLER – viola

Rameau           Rondeau des Indes Galantes
Biber                Battalia
Albinoni          Concerto for Oboe in D minor
Tabakova        Suite in the Old Style
Vivaldi             Concerto for Two Flutes in C major
Bach                 Concerto for Two Violins in D minor
Northern Chamber Orchestra  0161 706 1990  www.ncorch.co.uk/concerts  £27 (£17, free)
Monday 11 March                                              PENRITH
Penrith Methodist Church, Wordsworth Street CA11 7QY, 7.30pm
MAXWELL STRING QUARTET
Haydn                           Quartet in E flat, op.20 no.1
Maxwell Quartet         Worksongs (Folk Music of
                                       Scotland)
Beethoven                    Quartet in C sharp minor, op.131
Penrith Music Club  01768 863518  www.penrithmusicclub.com    £20 (students £5)
Friday 15 March                                                     LEEDS
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire, 3 Quarry Hill LS2 7PD, 7.30pm
ALEXANDRA DARIESCU – piano
Camille Pépin                   Number 1
Lili Boulanger                   Prélude
Lili Boulanger                   Trois morceaux pour piano
Frédéric Chopin               Andante spianato et Grande
                                            polonaise brillante
PyotrIlyich Tchaikovsky   Suite:The Nutcracker
   (arr. M Pletnev, Grainger, Sutherland)
Leeds International Concert Season as part of the Leeds International Piano Series.
0113 376 0318 / leedsconcertseason.co.uk
£26/£24 (£24/£22/£10)

Saturday 16 March                                   MANCHESTER
Christ Church West Didsbury, Darley Avenue M20 2ZD, 7.30pm
WILLIAM BYRD SINGERS
KEITH ORRELL – musical director

Pizzetti                   De profundis
Bruckner               Prologue
Rheinberger         Mass in E flat Op. 109
Pizzetti                  Sanctus (from Messa di Requiem)
Rheinberger         Organ sonata no. 4 in A minor Op. 98
Bruckner               Locus iste a Deo factus est
Bruckner               Christus factus est pro nobis
Bruckner               Os justi
Rheinberger         Oster-Hymne Op. 134
Rheinberger         Abendlied
William Byrd Singers  williambyrdsingers.org.uk
£15 (£12 concessions, £5 students)

Thursday 21 March                                   MANCHESTER
Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street M2 3WS, 1.10pm
VICTOR LIM – piano
Claude Debussy            Suite Bergamasque, L.75
Missy Mazzoli                Bolts of Loving Thunder
Sergei Rachmaninoff   Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat
                                         minor, Op.36 (Revised version)
Sponsored by the Friends of the Manchester Middays
Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society  0161 907 9000 www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk   £10 (£8.50, £5)
Saturday 23 March                                             KENDAL
Westmorland Hall, Kendal Leisure Centre LA9 7HX, 7.30pm
WESTMORLAND ORCHESTRA
Berlioz                           Overture King Lear
R. Strauss                     Horn Concerto No. 2
Vaughan Williams       Symphony No. 2 ‘London’
www.WestmorlandOrchestra.org.uk
01539 896299    £0/£15


Sunday 24 March                                           DUMFRIES
The Bridge, Glasgow Road DG2 9AW, 3.00pm
MARSYAS PIANO TRIO – flute, cello, piano
Beethoven’s Vienna
Friedrich Kuhlau               Trio in G minor Op. 119
Johann Wilhelm Wilms   Trio for flute, cello and piano
Fanny Mendelssohn-      Overture in C, arr. for flute,
   Hensel                            cello and piano
Carl Maria von Weber    Trio in G minor Op. 63
Music in Dumfries  07972 503895  www.musicindumfries.com    £15, £5 student, U18 free
Monday 4 March                                   HUDDERSFIELD
St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate HD1 3DH, 7.30pm
TRIO KURTAG (Countess of Munster Musical Trust)
Gideon Klein         String trio (1944)
Dohnányi               Serenade Op 10
Mozart                    Divertimenti K563
Huddersfield Music Society  07525 337233  www.huddersfield-music-society.org.uk/
£25 (£18, £5)



Friday 8 March                                            MANCHESTER
The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street M2 3WS, 7.30pm
PHILHARMONIA
SANTTU-MATIAS ROUVALI – conductor
FRANK DUPREE – piano

Rimsky-Korsakov        Capriccio Espagnol
Tchaikovsky                 Piano Concerto No.1
Borodin                        Symphony No.2
The Bridgewater Hall  0161 907 9000  www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/whats-on
£20–£42 (concessions may apply)

 

Saturday 9 March                                              KENDAL
Kendal Leisure Centre, Burton Road LA9 7HX, 7.30pm
LAKELAND SINFONIA
MELVIN TAY – conductor
MARTIN ROSCOE – piano

A Beethoven Concert
Beethoven           Overture to Coriolan
Beethoven           Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
Beethoven           Symphony No. 7 in A major
Lakeland Sinfonia  03300 101761  www.lakelandsinfonia.org.uk
£33 (£23, £16, £5)



Sunday 10 March                                              CHESTER
Storyhouse, Hunter Street CH1 2AR, 3.00pm
NORTHERN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
CALLUM SMART – violin and director
JAREN ZIEGLER – viola

Rameau           Rondeau des Indes Galantes
Biber                Battalia
Albinoni          Concerto for Oboe in D minor
Tabakova        Suite in the Old Style
Vivaldi             Concerto for Two Flutes in C major
Bach                 Concerto for Two Violins in D minor
Northern Chamber Orchestra  01244 409 113  www.ncorch.co.uk/concerts  £22.50 (free)
Thursday 14 March                                      GATESHEAD
Sage Two, Sage Gateshead, St Mary’s Square NE8 2JR, 7.30pm
SARAH TYNAN – soprano
JAMES NEWBY – baritone
ADAM JOHNSON – piano

John Ireland                   Great Things
Dilys Elwyn-Edwards   The Cloths of Heaven
Schumann                      Dichterliebe
Strauss                            Selection of songs
Mahler                             Selection from Des Knaben
                                         Wunderhorn

Part of the Newcastle International Chamber Music Series 2023/24
sagegateshead.com/whats-on/nicms-sarah-tynan-james-newb/   0191 443 4661
£23, £15, students half price

Friday 15 March                                        MANCHESTER
The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street M2 3WS, 7.30pm
CHINA SHENZHEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
DAYE LIN – conductor
TAMSIN WALEY COHEN – violin
JIAPENG NIE – cello

Tan Dun             Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon –
                            Concerto for Cello
Chausson          Poème
Saint-Saëns      Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Respighi            Fountains of Rome; Pines of Rome
The Bridgewater Hall  0161 907 9000  www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk/whats-on
£19.50–£41.50 (concessions may apply)

Wednesday 20 March                                       KENDAL
Kendal Town Hall, Highgate LA9 4DL, 1.00pm
SIMON CALLAGHAN – piano
GALLIARD ENSEMBLE
KATHRYN THOMAS – flute
OWEN DENNIS – oboe
KATHERINE SPENCER – clarinet

Mozart           Piano and Winds Quintet in E flat major,
                       K452
Milhaud         La Cheminée du Roi René (selection)
Poulenc         Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano in
                       C major
Tickets on sale at the Hall from 12 noon  www.kendalmiddayconcertclub.org    £10 (students £2)



Saturday 23 March                                     BLACKBURN
Blackburn Cathedral, Cathedral Close BB1 5AA, 7.30pm
BLACKBURN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Nielsen           Helios Overture
Brahms           Violin Concerto
Sibelius          Symphony No 5
Blackburn Symphony Orchestra  blackburnsymphony.org.uk    £13 (under 18s free)
Sunday 24 March                                              BUXTON
St John’s Church Buxton, 6 St John’s Rd SK17 6XN, 7.30pm
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF BUXTON MUSICAL SOCIETY
MICHAEL WILLIAMS – conductor
SAM HAYES – choral director
Soloists tba

Dvořák       Stabat Mater
Buxton Musical Society 01298 72190  buxtonoperahouse.org.uk/    £15
Tuesday 26 March                                                 LEEDS
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire, 3 Quarry Hill LS2 7PD, 7.30pm
ADAM WALKER – flute
KATYA APEKISHEVA – piano

Henri Dutilleux               Sonatine
Albert Roussel                Joueurs de Flûte
Francis Poulenc              Sonata
Lili Boulanger                 Nocturne
Charles-Marie Widor    Suite
André Jolivet                  Chant de Linos
Leeds International Concert Season as part of the Leeds International Chamber Season.
0113 376 0318 / leedsconcertseason.co.uk
£26/£24 (£24/£22/£10)


Header photo: China Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra
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Extra concert

Monday 11 March                                          LIVERPOOL
Music Room, Philharmonic Hall, Sugnall Street L1 9BP, 8.00pm
HELEN WILSON – flute
RUTH DAVIES – oboe
AUSIÀS GARRIGÓS MORANT – clarinet
GARETH TWIGG – bassoon
STEPHEN NICHOLLS – horn
Berio                       Opus Number Zoo
Amy Beach             Pastorale
Elliott Carter          Wind Quintet
Frank Bridge          Divertimenti for Wind Quartet
Damase                  Dix-Sept Variations
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic   0151 709 3789  www.liverpoolphil.com     £20/£17

Extra concert

Monday 25 March                                        LIVERPOOL
Music Room, Philharmonic Hall, Sugnall Street L1 9BP, 1.00pm
JAMES PATTINSON – violin
EMILY MOWBRAY – violin
RACHEL JONES – viola
SIMON DENTON – cello
Shostakovich           String Quartet No.3
Osvaldo Golijov      Tenebrae
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic   0151 709 3789  www.liverpoolphil.com     £12/£8
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