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Friday 2 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.10pm Birmingham International Piano Festival JAMES NEWBY – baritone JOSEPH MIDDLETON – piano Debussy Trois Mélodies Ravel un grand sommeil noir, Les Grands Vent Ravel Histoires Naturelles Duparc Extase, La vague et la cloche, Phidylé The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Friday 2 November WORCESTER
St George’s Church, St George’s Square, Barbourne WR1 1HX, 7.30pm KLANGLUST Corelli Concerto Grosso in D Op 6 No 4 Derek Smith Bachorales for Strings Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G Reger Lyrisches Andante Mendelssohn String Symphony in C Swiss Espressivo Concerts/ Worcester TIC 01905 726311 £12 (students £6) Sunday 4 November GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street, GL1 2BH, 3.00pm JAN ŠKRDLIK – cello PETRA BESA – piano Beethoven Cello Sonata No 3 in A Op 69 Dvořák Cello Concerto arr Dvořák Franck Sonata in A Gloucester Music Society gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk 01242 620736 £17 (£16/£8/£5,free) Friday 9 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.10pm Birmingham International Piano Festival KENNETH HAMILTON – piano The Romantic Erard: A Concert with Conversation Mendelssohn/Liszt On Wings of Song Chopin Variations on a Theme of Herold Op 12 Chopin Polonaise Fantasy Liszt Fantasia on Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor Liszt Fantasy on Verdi’s Rigoletto The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Friday 9 November LEAMINGTON
Royal Spa Centre Studio, Newbold Terrace CV32 4HN, 7.30pm KOSMOS HARRIET MACKENZIE – violin MEG HAMILTON – viola MILOŠ MILIVOJEVIČ - accordion Inspiring music from around the world – a heady mix of Balkan, gypsy, klezmer, tangos and JS Bach! Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £12.50 (£1) Friday 9 November BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN, 8.00pm ATEA WIND QUINTET Bach Goldberg Variations (excerpts) Bozza Trois Pieces pour Une Musique de Nuit Mike Mower Jazz Suite (2010) Frank Bridge Divertimenti Nielsen Wind Quintet Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 577330 £20 (Dis/Unemp £10, 8-25 years free) Saturday 10 November MONMOUTH
Bridges Community Centre, Drybridge House, Wonastow Road NP25 5AS, 7.30pm YSTRADIVARIUS A programme of baroque music by Father/Son/Godfather – Bach/Bach/Telemann Wye Valley Music wyevalleymusic.org.uk 01291 330020 £18 (WVM Members £15, Students £2) Sunday 11 November STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Shakespeare Institute (Mason Croft), Church Street CV37 6HP, 7.30pm CHRISTINA MCMASTER – piano Works by Debussy and Schumann Stratford-upon-Avon Chamber Music Society stratfordchambermusic.co.uk 01789 740791 £18 (students £5) Tuesday 13 November WARWICK
St Mary’s Church, Old Square CV34 4RA, 7.30pm STILE ANTICO Queen of Muses Elizabeth I as Monarch, Patron and Lover. Music by Byrd, Farmer, Ferrabosco, de Lassus, Sandrin, Tallis, Taverner, Weelkes, Wilbye and Willaert. Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £24/£19/£15/£13 (£1) Wednesday 14 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 7.30pm Birmingham International Piano Festival MAKEDONISSIMO Music from Macedonia Following on from the UK premiere in January 2018, we welcome Simon Trpčeski and his folk music project Makedonissimo, celebrating the music and culture of his native Macedonia. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333 barber.org.uk/concerts £22 (£18, £15, £10) Thursday 15 November ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School, Rocester, Uttoxeter ST14 5BS, 7.30 pm ELIZABETH LEONSKAJA – piano Schubert Sonata in E D459 Schoenberg 6 Pieces Op 19 Schubert Fantasy in C Wanderer D760 Webern Variations Op 27 Schubert Sonata in B flat D960 Abbotsholme Arts Society abbotsholmeartssociety.co.uk 01543 263304 aas@tetley.org £22 Friday 16 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.10pm KING EDWARD’S SCHOOL AND KING EDWARD VI HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS A selection of talented young musicians present their annual concert in the Barber Concert Hall. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Saturday 17 November WORCESTER
Worcester Cathedral, College Yard WR1 2LA, 7.30pm WORCESTER FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY MERIDIAN SINFONIA PETER NARDONE – conductor Poulenc Gloria Vaughan Williams Hodie Worcester Festival Choral Society worcesterfestivalchoralsociety.org.uk 01905 611427 £10-£25 (some concessions available / children 9-15 free) Sunday 18 November BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 7.00pm BIRMINGHAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GROUP Debussy arr Boulez Chansons de Bilitis (1901/1954) Harrison Birtwistle Three Songs from The Holy Forest (2016-17) David Sawer Caravanserai (2016) Oliver Knussen O Hototogisu – fragment of a Japonisme (2015-16) BCMG bcmg.org.uk 0121 616 2616 £15 Wednesday 21 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 7.30pm GUY JOHNSTON – cello SAM HAYWOOD – piano Beethoven Magic Flute variations Schubert Arpeggione MacMillan Kiss on Wood Grieg Sonata The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333 barber.org.uk/concerts £18 (£15, £12, £5 ) Wednesday 21 November KEELE
Westminster Theatre, Keele University ST5 5BG, 7.30pm SONGS OF ROMA A new Romani musical journey full of spiritual intensity, catharsis and joy by one of the UK's most expansive musical figures, Simon Thacker (classical guitar), with the much admired Polish cellist Justyna Jablonska and leading Roma exponent, Lublin based singer/violinist Masha Natanson. keele.ac.uk/artskeele 01782 734340 £16 (£5 students | free to Keele music students and 16 & under) Thursday 22 November MALVERN
Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30pm JAMES GILCHRIST – tenor PHILIP DUKES – viola ANNA TILBROOK – piano Faith, Fate and the Futility of War Works by Purcell arr Britten, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Rebecca Clarke, Gurney, Ireland, Britten, David Bednall Malvern Concert Club malvern-concert-club.co.uk malvern-theatres.co.uk 01684 892277 £23.52 (students in full-time education £6.72) Friday 23 November EVESHAM
All Saints Church, Market Place WR11 4RW, 7.30pm NYJO AMBASSADORS Programme to include: Strayhorn Take the A Train Gershwin I Got Rhythm Davis All Blues Green Body and Soul Ellington In a Sentimental Mood Evesham and District Music Club evesham-music-club.co.uk eveshamartscentre.co.uk Almonry Museum 01386 446944 £16 Saturday 24 November HEREFORD
Holy Trinity Church, 166 Whitecross Road HR4 0DU, 7.30pm HEREFORD STRING ORCHESTRA ROLAND MELIA and JOSH BALANCE – conductors MATTHEW JONES – viola Copland Appalachian Spring Debussy Prelude à l’aprés-midi d’une faune Berlioz Harold in Italy Hereford String Orchestra herefordstringorchestra.co.uk 01568 760633 Tickets: Off the wall Gift Shop, St. Peter’s Street, Hereford HR1 2LA 01432 354892 £12 (concessions £10), Students £5, U12s free Tuesday 27 November ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School, Rocester, Uttoxeter ST14 5BS, 7.30 pm TASMIN LITTLE – violin PIERS LANE – piano Schubert Sonatina No 2 in A minor D385 Brahms Sonata No 3 in D minor Op 108 Brahms Sonatensatz (from the F.A.E. Sonata) Schubert Fantasy in C D934 Abbotsholme Arts Society abbotsholmeartssociety.co.uk 01543 263304 aas@tetley.org £22 Friday 30 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.10pm KATIE STEVENSON – mezzo soprano JÂMS COLEMAN – piano Mahler Rückert Lieder Britten A charm of lullabies Quilter Autumn Evening, My Life’s Delight, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Friday 30 November BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN, 8.00pm GOULD PIANO TRIO ROBERT PLANE – clarinet Ravel Piano Trio Huw Watkins Quartet (2018) (Gould/Plane Commission) Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade arr Noack and Engeli Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 577330 £20 (Dis/Unemp £10, 8-25 years free) |
Friday 2 November LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET SOPHIE RENSHAW – viola Bach Contrapunctus I and XI from The Art of Fugue Mozart Quintet K516 Bruckner Quintet in F Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 or royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £24/£19/£14 (£1) Saturday 3 November WORCESTER
St Martin's Church, London Road WR5 2ED, 7.30pm KEITH SLADE – clarinet MARTIN CROPPER – violin RICHARD JENKINSON – cello ANNE BOLT – piano Haydn Piano Trio No 39 in G Gypsy Rondo Shostakovich Piano Trio No 2 in E minor Op 67 Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time A charity chamber concert in aid of Music at St Martin's Piano Appeal Music at St Martin's stmartinsworcester.org.uk 01905 358083 £10 (full-time students £5, U16s free) Wednesday 7 November KEELE
Keele University Chapel ST5 5BG, 7.30pm MUSICIANS FROM THE ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC The Entente Cordiale in 1918 Debussy Centenary commemoration programme to include: Debussy En blanc et noir Cinq poèmes de Baudelaire Mélodies keele.ac.uk/artskeele 01782 734340 £16 (£5 students | free to Keele music students and 16 & under) Friday 9 November BRISTOL
St George’s Bristol, Great George Street (Off Park Street) BS1 5RR, 7.30pm BRODSKY QUARTET In Time of War Karen Tanaka At the Grave of Beethoven Schulhoff String Quartet No 1 Shostakovich String Quartet No 8 Brubeck Regret George Crumb Black Angels St George’s Bristol stgeorgesbristol.co.uk 0845 40 24 001 £25, £20, £15, £10, £5 students (ltd no), Free 8-25s (Cavatina) Friday 9 November WITNEY
High Street Methodist Church, High Street OX28 6HG, 7.30pm GIACOMO SUSANI – guitar Frescobaldi Toccata per spinettina sola over liuto Aria con Variazioni detta La Frescobalda Sor Grand Solo Op 14 Pasieczny Tate Sonata (dedicated to Susani) Mertz Elegie Tarrega Mazurka en sol, Maria Gavota Rodrigo En Los Trigales Walton Five Bagatelles Witney Music Society witneymusicsociety.org.uk 01993 702296 £12 (under 19 £1) Saturday 10 November CHELTENHAM
Cheltenham Town Hall, Imperial Square GL50 1QA, 7.30pm CHELTENHAM BACH CHOIR THE REGENCY SINFONIA LUCI BRIGINSHAW, CATHERINE CARBY, OLIVER JOHNSTON, MICHAEL MOFIDAN soloists DAVID CROWN – conductor Verdi Requiem Cheltenham Bach Choir cheltbachchoir.com/concerts.html £22, £20, £15, £10 (students / children £8) Sunday 11 November WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00pm LLYR WILLIAMS – piano Beethoven 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor Woo80 Schumann Humoreske in B flat Op 20 Brahms Theme & Variations in D minor Op 18b Brahms Sonata No 3 in F minor Op 5 Worcester Concert Club worcserenade.co.uk 01905 611427 £16 (students £5) Tuesday 13 November CHIPPING SODBURY
Chipping Sodbury Town Hall, Broad Street BS37 6AD, 7.30pm ANDREAS MOUTSIOULIS – classical guitar Domeniconi Koyunbaba Suite Op 47 (I & IV mvmts) Piazzolla Milonga del Angel Bonfa Manha de Carnival Piazzolla Libertango and more … Chipping Sodbury Music Society 01454 315741 ticketsource.co.uk/csmusicsociety £15, school-age children free Wednesday 14 November COVENTRY
Coventry Cathedral, Priory Street CV1 5AB, 7.00 pm COVENTRY CATHEDRAL CHORUS BRIGHTON FESTIVAL CHORUS ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ILONA DOMNICH, GWILYM BOWEN, LAWRENCE WHITE – soloists PAUL LEDDINGTON WRIGHT and SIMON OVER – conductors Britten War Requiem Coventry Cathedral plumb-line2018.co.uk 024 7652 1228 £50/£40/£30, concessions Wednesday 14 November KEELE
Westminster Theatre, Keele University ST5 5BG, 7.30pm BALUJI SHRIVASTAV One of the greatest instrumentalists India has produced, excelling in sitar, surbahar, dilruba, pakhavaj and tabla. keele.ac.uk/artskeele 01782 734340 £16 (£5 students | free to Keele music students and 16 & under) Thursday 15 November CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30 pm PRAŽÁK QUARTET Smetana String Quartet No 2 in D minor Jiří Gemrot String Quartet No 2 Dvořák String Quartet in C Op 61 Cheltenham Music Society cheltmusicsoc.co.uk cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk 01242 227979 or 0844 576 2210 £25 & £20, under 26 £5 riday 16 November CHELTENHAM
College Chapel, Cheltenham College, Bath Road GL53 7LD, 7.30pm CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHORAL SOCIETY Bernstein Chichester Psalms Goodall Eternal Light Cheltenham College Subscription Concerts cheltenhamcollege.org.uk 01242 265656 ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenham-college £10 Sunday 18 November MALVERN
Christ Church, Avenue Road WR14 3AY, 3.00pm ORCHESTRA PRO ANIMA MICHAEL BOCHMANN – director/violin TIM SIDFORD – piano ANGUS GIBBON – violin JACQUI ALLEN – violin HELEN ROBERTS – viola Vivaldi Double Violin Concerto in A minor Handel Pastoral Symphony from Messiah Mozart Piano Concerto in A K414 Debussy Clair de Lune (piano solo) Stephen Roberts Amaryllis Dances for viola & strings Saint-Saëns Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso Mendelssohn String Symphony No 10 in B minor Espressivo Concerts/Malvern TIC 01684 892289 £17 and £13 (students half-price, U11s free) Wednesday 21 November COVENTRY
Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick CV4 7AL, 7.15pm COULL QUARTET JOAN-ENRIC LLUNA – clarinet Haydn Quartet in C Op 54 No 2 Pamela Harrison Clarinet Quintet Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op 115 Warwick Arts Centre warwickartscentre.co.uk 02476 524524 £21 (£19) Wednesday 21 November BRISTOL
St George’s Bristol, Great George Street (Off Park Street) BS1 5RR, 7.30pm LA SERENISSIMA The Godfather Concertos by Telemann, Pisendel, Brescianello, JS Bach, Vivaldi, and Fasch St George’s Bristol stgeorgesbristol.co.uk 0845 40 24 001 £27, £22, £15, £10, £5 students (ltd no) Thursday 22 November LEAMINGTON
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm INVENTUS WIND QUINTET Leamington Music Prize Winner’s concert Flavours of France – music, art, wine and food to be enjoyed in equal measure Debussy Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune Milhaud La cheminée du roi René Op 205 Ibert Trois pièces brèves Françaix Wind Quintet No 2 Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin Piazzolla Libertango Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £17.50 (£1) Friday 23 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.10pm SCHOLARS AND GENTLEMEN IVA FLEISCHHANSOVÁ – baroque violin NIKOLAY GINOV – baroque cello LUKE GREEN – harpsichord The Enrag'd Musician: A Portrait of Handel's Violinist, Pietro Antonio Castrucci The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Saturday 24 November BIRMINGHAM
St Philip’s Cathedral, Colmore Row B3 2QB, 7.30pm BIRMINGHAM BACH CHOIR PAUL SPICER – conductor NATALIE CLIFTON-GRIFFITH, SIMON PONSFORD, DANIEL AUCHINCLOSS, JULIAN DEBREUIL – soloists THE MUSICAL & AMICABLE SOCIETY Brilliant Bach Bach Cantata 29 Wir danken dir, Gott Missa Brevis in G minor BWV235 Cantata 21 Ich hatte viel bekümmernis Birmingham Bach Choir birmingham.bachchoir.com 07901 798442 £18 (£16 conc), £10 Saturday 24 November LUDLOW
Henderson Hall, Moor Park, Overton SY8 4DZ, 7.30pm RODERICK WILLIAMS – baritone SUSIE ALLAN – piano Everyone Sang Roderick Williams brings the centenary of the Great War to a close. Ludlow Music Society ludlow-arts-classical.org.uk 01584 876141 ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk £18 (students £6) Wednesday 28 November KEELE
Keele University Chapel ST5 5BG, 7.30pm BOXWOOD AND BRASS Beethoven Sextet in E flat Op 71 Mozart arr Percival Serenade in C minor K388 Beethoven arr Czerny Septet in E flat Op 21 keele.ac.uk/artskeele 01782 734340 £16 (£5 students | free to Keele music students and 16 & under) Friday 30 November LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm MARTINŮ STRING QUARTET (Czech Republic) Haydn Quartet Op 64 No 2 Schulhoff Quartet No 2 Dvořák Quartet Op 96 American Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £24/£19/£14 (£1) |
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