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Saturday 2 May WORCESTER
Swan Theatre, The Moors WR1 3ED, 7.30pm ENGLISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ACADEMY THEATRE ARTS KENNETH WOODS – conductor Joplin Four Rags (The Entertainer, The Chrysanthemum, Sun Flower Slow Drag, Maple Leaf Rag) James Reese Europe The Castle House Rag, Castle Walk Eubie Blake Charleston Rag Gershwin An American in Paris (chamber version) English Symphony Orchestra eso.co.uk worcesterlive.co.uk 01905 611427 £20 (ESO Friends £18, u18s £5) Wednesday 6 May BIRMINGHAM
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road B4 7XR, 7.00pm ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN PHILIP SHEPPARD – conductor Beethoven Grosse Fuge Philip Sheppard/David Le Page New work based on songs by David Bowie Beethoven Symphony No 5 Orchestra of the Swan orchestraoftheswan.org 01789267567 £18/£20/£25 (£5 BCU staff and students) Saturday 9 May ALVECHURCH
St Laurence Church, School Lane B48 7SB, 7.30pm TEDESCA QUARTET TIM GILL – cello Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op 103 Ravel String Quartet in F Schubert String Quintet in C Midland Sinfonia midlandsinfonia.co.uk midlandsinfonia@gmail.com 0121 447 7040 £13 (F/T students free) Friday 15 May BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm DANIEL TONG & JOSEPH TONG – piano Schumann Pictures from the East Op 66 Clara Schumann March in E flat Dvořák Three Legends Schubert Rondo in A D951 The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts Free Sunday 17 May ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Theatre, Rocester, Doveridge, Uttoxeter ST14 5BS, 7.30pm DERBY ACADEMY OF CLASSICAL DANCE Programme to be confirmed Abbotsholme Arts Society abbotsholmeartssociety.co.uk aas@tetley.org 07707 477082 £10 Wednesday 20 May BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 7.30pm LEON MCCAWLEY – piano Birmingham International Piano Festival Haydn Sonata in E flat Hob XVI:49 Schubert Three Piano Pieces D946 Grieg Three Lyric Pieces Op 43 Schumann Piano Sonata No 1 in F sharp minor Op 11 The Barber Institute of Fine Arts via barber.org.uk/concerts £18 (£15, £12, £5) Friday 22 May BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham B1 2LF, 1.10pm JAUME SANTONJA ESPINÓS – conductor OLIVER JANES – clarinet NIKOLAJ HENRIQUES – bassoon ELSPETH DUTCH – horn JONATHAN MARTINDALE & MORITZ PFISTER – violins CHRISTOPHER YATES – viola EDUARDO VASSALLO – cello TONY ALCOCK – double bass Du Puy Quintet in A minor for bassoon & strings Grace Evangeline Mason New Work (CBSO Centenary Commission: World Premiere) Strauss arr Franz Hasenöhrl Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders! City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 01217803333 cbso.co.uk/event/grace-evangeline-mason-making-musical-history Standard £10/u17 £6 Thursday 28 May BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 1.10pm BENJAMIN GROSVENOR – piano PHILIP BRETT & KATE OSWIN – violins DAVID BAMAUNG – viola LORENZO MESEGUER LUJÁN – cello Shostakovich String Quartet No 7 in F sharp minor Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 01217803333 cbso.co.uk/event/benjamin-grosvenor-plays-brahms £18/u17 £6 
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Monday 4 May BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square B3 5DQ, 6.00pm Pre-concert conversation at 4.15pm with Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla and BCMG Artistic Director Stephan Meier, followed by a pre-concert performance by Creative Composing Lab participants. NEXT Musicians Side-by-Side MIRGA GRAŽINYTĖ-TYLA and JAUME SANTONJA ESPINÓS – conductors Edgard Varèse (1883–1965) Intégrales (1923) Hyperprism (1923) Density 21.5 (1936) Ionisation (1931) Ecuatorial (1923) Octandre (1923) Déserts (1954) BCMG 0121 616 2616 bcmg.org.uk/Event/varse-density Friday 8 May BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm OLWEN FOULKES – recorder Handel Sonata in F Op 1 No 11 HWV 369 Maki Ishii East Green Spring Palestrina Diminutions on Vestiva i colli Calliope Tsoupaki Charavgi Corelli Sonata in C Op 5 No 10 The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts Free Saturday 9 May PAINSWICK
St Mary’s Church GL6 6UT, 3.00pm NASH ENSEMBLE CONCERT CANCELLED Schubert Quartetsatz in C minor D703 Beethoven String Quartet in C Op 29 Dvořák String Quartet in E flat Op 97 Painswick Music Society painswickmusicsoc.co.uk £20 (Child/Student £5) Saturday 16 May TETBURY
The Tetbury Goods Shed, Old Station Yard, Cirencester Road GL8 8EY, 7.30pm GOULD PIANO TRIO Korngold Piano Trio Op 1 Rushton Game, No Game (2000) Brahms Piano Trio No 2 in C Op 87 The Tetbury Goods Shed https://shed-arts.co.uk/piano-series/ 01666 505 496 £18/£20 Sunday 17 May BROMSGROVE
Routh Hall, Bromsgrove School B61 7HP, 3.30pm ESO WINDS (ENGLISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA) The Mozart Letters Mozart Serenade No 11 in E flat K375 Divertimento No 1 K439b for two clarinets and bassoon Excerpts from The Marriage of Figaro (arr James Topp) Divertimento in F K213 Finale from Symphony No 40 K550 (arr James Topp) Excerpts from The Magic Flute (arr Mike Revell/James Topp) English Symphony Orchestra eso.co.uk bromsgrove-school.co.uk/boxoffice 01527 579679 £20 (ESO Friends £18, u18s £5) Friday 22 May BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm MADELEINE MITCHELL – violin CLARE HAMMOND – piano Howells Three Pieces Saxton Suite Grace Williams Violin Sonata The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts Free Saturday 23 May ST BRIAVELS
St Briavels Church (opposite castle) GL15 6RG, 7.30pm MARY HOFMAN – violin RICHARD ORMROD – piano Beethoven in Wales – Concert 3 Beethoven Violin Sonata No 9 in A Op 47 Kreutzer Beethoven Violin Sonata No 10 in G Op 96 Beethoven Violin Sonata No 4 in A minor Op 23 Hilary Tann Specially commissioned work Wye Valley Music wyevalleymusic.org.uk 01291 330020 £15, £12, £2 
ELGAR FESTIVAL 2020
Thursday 27 - Sunday 31 May WORCESTER Pick of the Week - The Guardian Critic's Pick - The Sunday Times Header photo: Carducci Quartet (credit Tom Barnes)
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EXTRA CONCERTS!
LEOMINSTER EARLY MUSIC WEEKEND Friday 1 May LEOMINSTER Grange Court, Pinsley Road HR6 8NL 12.30pm ELIZABETH PALLETT (lute) and MUSICIANS FROM THE ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE Singers, accompanied by lute and viol, in ‘Musicall Phansies’, a celebration of Thomas Ravenscroft’s book Melismata 1611 Espressivo Concerts Leominster TIC 01568 616460 and courtyard.org.uk £10 (students half-price) Friday 1 May LEOMINSTER Leominster Priory, Church Street HR6 8NH 7.30pm BORDER VOICES directed by DAVID HATCHER 15th Century choral music featuring Walter Frye’s Missa Flos Regalis plus motets by Dunstable, Dufay and Busnoys Espressivo Concerts Free entry with retiring collection in aid of Leominster Priory Restoration (no tickets required) Saturday 2 May LEOMINSTER Grange Court, Pinsley Road HR6 8NL 4pm FLEURS DE LYS Music and song from the 13th to the 17th Centuries researched from original manuscripts and performed on authentically reconstructed instruments Espressivo Concerts Leominster TIC 01568 616460 and courtyard.org.uk £10 (students half-price) Saturday 2 May LEOMINSTER Grange Court, Pinsley Road HR6 8NL 7.30pm FONTANELLA RECORDER ENSEMBLE ‘Woods so Wild’ – a collection of Medieval and Renaissance consort pieces exploring the theme of nature expressed in music Espressivo Concerts Leominster TIC 01568 616460 and courtyard.org.uk £12 (students half-price) Sunday 3 May LEOMINSTER Lion Ballroom, off Broad Street HR6 8BT 3pm CLARINO TRIO Music by Mozart and Stadler played on basset horns and boxwood clarinets Espressivo Concerts Leominster TIC 01568 616460 and courtyard.org.uk £12 (students half-price) EXTRA CONCERT!
THE SIXTEEN CHORAL PILGRIMAGE 2020 Thursday 14 May HEREFORD Hereford Cathedral, Cathedral Close HR1 2NG, 7.30pm THE SIXTEEN HARRY CHRISTOPHERS – conductor Plainsong De Lamentatione Victoria Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday 1-3 1. Recessit pastor noster 2. O vos omnes 3. Ecce quomodo moritur iustus Josquin Pater noster / Ave Maria Victoria Tenebrae Responsories for Holy Saturday 4-6 4. Astiterunt reges 5. Aestimatus sum 6. Sepulto Domino Felice Anerio Litaniae Beatissimae Virginis Mariae Josquin Gaude virgo Mater Christi Allegri Gloria from Missa In lectulo meo a 8 Josquin Illibata dei virgo Allegri Miserere (its evolution) Felice Anerio Regina caeli laetare a 8 Victoria Salve Regina a 8 The Sixteen thesixteen.com https://tinyurl.com/vp9e75j | 0333 010 2850 £10/£25 
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