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Friday 1 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm BENJAMIN FRITH – piano LIANG SHAN – piano Birmingham International Piano Festival Messiaen Visions de l’Amen A colossal affirmation of faith in the face of inhumanity. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts Free – latecomers will not be admitted Saturday 2 November ALVECHURCH
St Laurence Church, School Lane B48 7SB, 7.30pm THE MIDLAND SINFONIA NIC FALLOWFIELD – conductor Mozart Divertimento in F K138 Hindemith Five Pieces for Strings Britten Simple Symphony Fauré Nocturne Dvořák Serenade for Strings Midland Sinfonia midlandsinfonia.co.uk midlandsinfonia@gmail.com 0121 447 7040 / 07889 147861 £16 (F/T students free) Monday 4 November OXFORD
St Michael’s Church near Northgate, Cornmarket Street OX1 3EY, 1.00pm ILLUMINATE WOMEN’S MUSIC STRING QUARTET AND SOPRANO YFAT SOUL ZISSO – soprano CLARICE RARITY, CHRISTINE CORNWELL – violin KATHERINE CLARKE – viola CECILIA BIGNALL – cello Barbara Strozzi arr Slater La grime mie Rebecca Clarke Daybreak Angela Elizabeth Slater Looking at a Blackbird Blair Boyd New work for string quartet Vivian Fine Four Songs for soprano and string quartet Joanna Ward New work Caroline Bordignon New work Rebecca Clarke Poem for string quartet Sarah Westwood New work Soul Zisso New work Ruth Crawford Seeger 1931 String Quartet Illuminate Women’s Music illuminatewomensmusic.co.uk/2019-season-ii-whats-on.html illuminatewomensmusic@outlook.com Free entry Wednesday 6 November CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30 pm TAKÁCS QUARTET Haydn String Quartet in C Op 33 No 3 The Bird Bartók String Quartet No 6 in D Mendelssohn String Quartet No 2 in A minor Op 13 Cheltenham Music Society, Cheltenham Town Hall box office, Imperial Square, 01242 227979, or 0844 576 2210 £30 & £25, under 26 £5 Thursday 7 November BIRMINGHAM
Elgar Concert Hall, The Bramall, University of Birmingham B15 2TT, 8.00pm 6 HANDS Birmingham International Piano Festival An unexpected yet exciting departure as the Piano Festival switches keyboards for fretboards and giants of the guitar world. Join John Williams, John Etheridge and Gary Ryan in a colourful collection of solos, duos and trios. Birmingham International Piano Festival 01782 206 000 birminghampianofestival.com £22 (£18, £5) Friday 8 November BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN, 7.30pm HYUNGI LEE – percussion Mixed Percussion Programme Bromsgrove Concerts bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk 07936 984415 £20 (Dis/Unemp £10, 8-25 years free) Friday 8 November WITNEY
High Street Methodist Church, High Street OX28 6HG, 7.30pm TOBY HUGHES – double bass DANIEL KING SMITH – piano Bottesini Elegy Desenclos Aria et Rondo Schumann Adagio and Allegro Brahms Sonata No 1 in E minor Op 38 Witney Music Society witneymusicsociety.org.uk 01993 702296 £12 (under 19 £1) Saturday 9 November CHELTENHAM
Cheltenham Town Hall, Imperial Square GL50 1QA, 7.30pm CHELTENHAM BACH CHOIR DAVID CROWN – conductor JOSHUA ELLICOTT – Gerontius CATHERINE CARBY – The Angel GARY GRIFFITHS – The Angel of the Agony REGENCY SINFONIA Elgar The Dream of Gerontius Cheltenham Bach Choir cheltbachchoir.com/concerts.html cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk 0844 576 2210 £25/£20/£15/£10 Saturday 9 November MALVERN
Holy Trinity Church, 1 North Malvern Rd, Malvern Link WR14 4LR, 7.30pm ELGAR CHORALE PIERS MAXIM – conductor Canticles of Light Lauridsen Lux aeterna Chilcott Canticles of Light Programme also includes works by Elgar and Rutter Elgar Chorale 01684 594570 £12.50, £15 on door Sunday 10 November WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 12.00 midday Masterclass with the Carducci String Quartet With breadth of experience in working with young people, the Carducci String Quartet will tutor young musicians from the Elgar School and Severn Arts. Free Entry to under 18s and those with a ticket to the afternoon concert (otherwise £5) Sunday 10 November STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Shakespeare Institute, Church Street CV37 6HP, 7.30pm MICHAEL FOYLE – violin MAKSIM STSURA – piano Debussy Sonata in G minor Elgar Sonata in A minor Respighi Sonata in B minor Stratford-upon-Avon Chamber Music Society stratfordchambermusic.co.uk 01608 662597 £20 (conc £5) Wednesday 13 November MALVERN
Great Malvern Priory, Church Street WR14 2AY, 7.30pm ENGLISH STRING ORCHESTRA KENNETH WOODS – conductor ZOË BEYERS – violin Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Weinberg Concertino for Violin and Strings Doreen Carwithen arr Woods Lento for Strings Tchaikovsky arr Woods String Quartet No 3 in E flat minor English Symphony Orchestra eso.co.uk eventbrite.co.uk £20 (ESO Friends £18, u18s £5) Saturday 16 November LICHFIELD
Lichfield Cathedral, The Close WS13 7LD, 7.30pm BIRMINGHAM BACH CHOIR PAUL SPICER – conductor THE MUSICAL AND AMICABLE SOCIETY Soloists: ANITA WATSON, SAMANTHA PRICE, MARK WILDE, FELIX KEMP BIRMINGHAM BACH CHOIR GALA CONCERT – Celebrating 100 years JS Bach Singet dem Herrn Handel Dixit Dominus Haydn Nelson Mass Birmingham Bach Choir birmingham.bachchoir.com 07901 798442 £25 (£20 conc) or £15 Tuesday 19 November STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Stratford Play House, 14 Rother Street CV37 6LU, 7.30pm ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN ROSE REDGRAVE – viola DANIELE ROSINA – conductor Haydn Symphony No 88 Joe Cutler Music for Sunflowers Beethoven Symphony No 6 Pastoral Orchestra of the Swan orchestraoftheswan.org 01789 267567 £10/£21.50/£23.50/£25.50/£27.50/£29.50 Thursday 21 November BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham B1 2LF, 7.00pm KATE SUTHERS & MORITZ PFISTER – violins ADAM RÖMER – viola EDUARDO VASSALLO – cello ROBERT MARKHAM – piano Brahms Piano Quartet No 1 in G minor Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 01217803333 cbso.co.uk/event/brahms-and-schumann Standard £10/u17 £6 Friday 22 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm KING EDWARD’S SCHOOL AND KING EDWARD VI HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS An annual concert featuring exceptionally talented young student musicians. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts Free Friday 22 November EVESHAM
All Saints Church, Market Place WR11 4RW, 7.30pm BARBICAN QUARTET Haydn Quartet Op 20 No 4 in D Janáček Quartet No 1 Kreutzer Sonata Mendelssohn Quartet Op 44 No 1 in E minor Evesham and District Music Club evesham-music-club.co.uk eveshamartscentre.co.uk Almonry Museum 01386 446944 £17 Saturday 23 November WARWICK
Unitarian Chapel, High Street CV34 4AX, 11.30am PALISANDER RECORDER QUARTET Family Concert - Beware the Spider! A musical illustration of the side effects experienced by those encountering a spider in the seventeenth century, featuring works by Dowland, Vivaldi, and Byrd along with traditional Italian Tarantellas. With coffee, sherry or squash included in the ticket, this is a concert for children of all ages! Leamington Music 01926 334418 or royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £12.50/£6/£32 (family ticket) includes refreshments Wednesday 27 November KEELE
Westminster Theatre, Keele University ST5 5AZ, 7.30pm CAVENDISH WINDS Schuller Suite for Wind Quintet (1945) Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik (1922) Ehrlich By Air (2016) Tomasi Cinq Danses Profanes et Sacrées (1963) Muczynski Fragments for Wind Trio (1958) Ligeti Sechs Bagatellen (1953) Keele Concerts Society keele.ac.uk/artskeele 01782 734340 £16/£5 (students) Friday 29 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm BINCHOIS CONSORT ANDREW KIRKMAN – director Music from Antwerp in the time of Jan de Beer, performed by the Gramophone Award-winning vocal ensemble. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts Free Friday 29 November LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm TALICH STRING QUARTET (Czech Republic) Kalivoda Quartet No 2 in A Op 62 Dvořák Quartet in C Op 61 Beethoven Quartet in E minor Op 59 No 2 Razumovsky Leamington Music 01926 334418 or royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £25/£20/£15 (£1) Saturday 30 November HEREFORD
Holy Trinity Church, 166 Whitecross Road HR4 ODU, 7.30pm HEREFORD STRING ORCHESTRA MICHAEL BELL – conductor Holst Brook Green Suite Bartók Romanian Dances Vaughan Williams Five Variations on Dives and Lazarus Janáček Idyll for strings Leroy Anderson Selection of pieces for strings 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 |
Friday 1 November LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm LONDON HAYDN QUARTET ERIC HOEPRICH – clarinet Krommer Quintet in B flat Op 95 Haydn Quartet in D Op 71 No 2 Weber Quintet in B flat Op 34 Leamington Music 01926 334418 or royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £25/£20/£15 (£1) Sunday 3 November GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street GL1 2BH, 3.00pm MARIA MARCHANT – piano Handel Chaconne in G Britten Holiday Diary Adrian Williams New Commission - World Première Bliss No 3 of Valses Fantastiques, Triptych, A One Step Roderick Williams Goodwood by the Sea Ireland arr Williams Sea Fever Bingham The Moon Over Westminster Cathedral Howells Slow Dance, Cobbler’s Hornpipe Bantock Cloisters at Midnight, Memories of Sapphire Ireland Decorations: The Island Spell, Moon-glade, The Scarlet Ceremonies Gloucester Music Society 01242 620736 £20, (£18/£10/£5,free) Wednesday 6 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 7.30pm FREDDY KEMPF – piano Birmingham International Piano Festival Chopin Ballade No 2 in F Op 38 Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor Op 31 Nocturne in D flat Op 27 No 2 Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante in E flat Op 22 Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52 Scherzo No 4 in E Op 54 Nocturne in B Op 62 No 1 Polonaise in A Op 53 The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 01782 206 000 barber.org.uk/concerts £18 (£15, £12, £5) Wednesday 6 November LEAMINGTON
Christ Church, Priory Terrace CV31 1BA, 7.30pm TOM PICKLES – cello ROMAN KOSYAKOV – piano 2019 Leamington Music Prize Winner’s concert Bridge Four Short Pieces Beethoven Cello Sonata in F Op 5 No 1 James MacMillan Kiss on Wood Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in G minor Op 19 Leamington Music 01926 334418 or royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £15 (£1) includes interval drink Friday 8 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm SAM LEAK TRIO Birmingham International Piano Festival Contemporary jazz with a gospel-tinged and folk-inspired freedom makes a perfect alternative way to spend a lunch hour. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts Free Friday 8 November OXFORD
University College OX1 4BH, 7.30pm ILLUMINATE WOMEN’S MUSIC STRING QUARTET AND SOPRANO YFAT SOUL ZISSO – soprano CLARICE RARITY, CHRISTINE CORNWELL – violin KATHERINE CLARKE – viola CECILIA BIGNALL – cello Barbara Strozzi arr Slater La grime mie Rebecca Clarke Daybreak Angela Elizabeth Slater Looking at a Blackbird Blair Boyd New work for string quartet Vivian Fine Four Songs for soprano and string quartet Joanna Ward New work Caroline Bordignon New work Rebecca Clarke Poem for string quartet Sarah Westwood New work Soul Zisso New work Ruth Crawford Seeger 1931 String Quartet Illuminate Women’s Music illuminatewomensmusic.co.uk/2019-season-ii-whats-on.html illuminatewomensmusic@outlook.com £10 (concessions £7, students & children free) Saturday 9 November COVENTRY
Coventry Cathedral, Priory Street CV1 5AB, 7.00pm COVENTRY CATHEDRAL CHORUS PARLIAMENT CHOIR SOUTH BANK SINFONIA CATHERINE WYN-ROGERS – contralto ROBERT MURRAY – tenor SIR THOMAS ALLEN – bass Elgar Dream of Gerontius Coventry Cathedral Chorus coventrycathedralchorus.com 01676 522572 ticketweb.co.uk 0844 477 1000 or tickets@coventrycathedralchorus.com 01676 532436 £22/£15 (students/U18 half price) Saturday 9 November MONMOUTH
Bridges Community Centre, Drybridge House, Wonastow Road NP25 5AS, 7.30pm MACONCHY STRING QUARTET Haydn String Quartet Op 76 No 1 Elizabeth Maconchy String Quartet No 5 Ravel String Quartet in F Wye Valley Music wyevalleymusic.org.uk 01291 330020 £15, £12, £2 Sunday 10 November WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00pm CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET First in a series of three concerts each containing a Bartók String Quartet Beethoven Quartet No 11 in F minor Op 95 Serioso Borodin Quartet No 2 in D Bartók Quartet No 1 in A minor Sz40 Worcester Concert Club worcserenade.co.uk 01905 611427 £17 (students £5) Tuesday 12 November WARWICK
St Mary’s Church CV34 4RA, 7.30pm MUSICA SECRETA DEBORAH ROBERTS and LAURIE STRAS – directors ALISON KINDER – bass viol From Darkness into Light The UK’s premier female-voice early music ensemble comes to Warwick presenting the complete setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday by Antoine Brumel, with works by Compère, Moro, Mouton, des Prez, and beautiful Gregorian chant, offering an unique insight into the musical life of a sixteenth-century Italian convent. Leamington Music 01926 334418 or royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £22/£18/£15/£13 (£1) Friday 15 November BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.00pm ONYX BRASS Rameau arr David Gordon-Shute Entrée de Polymnie from Les Boréades Bach arr David Gordon-Shute Fugue in A flat Shostakovich arr Andrew Sutton Fugue in A flat Simon Dobson New Work (world premiere) Tim Jackson Anything But Mark Nightingale For Rosie Jason Rebello Inevitable Outcome Bach arr Powell Chorale Prelude Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts Free Saturday 16 November WORCESTER
Worcester Cathedral, College Yard WR1 2LA, 7.30pm WORCESTER FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY MERIDIAN SINFONIA SAMUEL HUDSON – conductor Mozart Requiem Willcocks Lux Perpetua Worcester Festival Choral Society wfcs.online / Worcester Live 01905 611427 £10-£25 (some concessions / children 9-15 free) Wednesday 20 November COVENTRY
Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick CV4 7AL, 7.15pm COULL QUARTET Haydn Quartet in D minor Op 76 No 2 The Fifths Shostakovich Quartet No 7 Op 108 Schubert Quartettsatz in C D703 Mendelssohn Quartet Op 44 No 1 in D Warwick Arts Centre warwickartscentre.co.uk 02476 524524 £21 /£19 Thursday 21 November LEAMINGTON
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.00pm ANDREY LEBEDEV – guitar Savours of Spain An evening of Spanish flavours amongst works of art from Spain, served with Paella and Cava. Regondi Reverie Nocturne Albeniz Asturias and Granada Llobet Two Catalan Folk Songs Brett Dean Three Caprichos after Goya de Falla The Miller’s Dance; Homenaje a Claude Debussy Villa-Lobos Three Preludes JS Bach Chaconne BWV 1004 Ginastera Sonata for Guitar Leamington Music 01926 334418 or royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £22.50 includes Cava and Paella Friday 22 November BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN, 7.30pm MARK BEBBINGTON – piano with JENNY WOOD and RICHARD TATTAM (Poulenc) Fauré Nocturne No 6 in D flat Op 83 Poulenc Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon Franck Prelude, Chorale and Fugue Chopin Piano Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58 Bromsgrove Concerts bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk 07936 984415 £20 (Dis/Unemp £10, 8-25 years free) Saturday 23 November LUDLOW
Henderson Hall, Moor Park, Overton SY8 4DZ, 7.30pm GOULD PIANO TRIO Haydn Trio in A Hob XV:9 Rebecca Clarke Piano Trio (1921) Schubert Piano Trio No 1 in B flat D898 Ludlow Music Society ludlow-arts-classical.org.uk ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk 01584 878141 £18 (students £6) Sunday 24 November CHELTENHAM
Cheltenham Town Hall, Imperial Square GL50 1QA, 7.30pm ENGLISH STRING ORCHESTRA KENNETH WOODS – conductor TAMSIN WALEY-COHEN – violin Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Gál Concertino for violin & strings Elgar Introduction & Allegro for strings Tchaikovsky arr Woods String Quartet No 3 in E flat minor English Symphony Orchestra eso.co.uk cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk £33.50/£28.50/£17.50/£13.30 Thursday 28 November MALVERN
Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30pm PAVEL KOLESNIKOV – piano Chopin Fantasie Impromptu in C sharp minor Op 66 Nocturne in F sharp Op 15 No 2 Scherzo No 3 in C sharp minor Op 39 Prelude in D flat Op 28 Beethoven Sonata No 14 in C sharp minor Op 27 No 2 Moonlight Schumann Nachtstück Op 23 No 1 Bartók Out of Doors from The Night’s Music Debussy Prélude Book II No 12 Feux d’artifice Beethoven Sonata No 21 in C Op 53 Waldstein Malvern Concert Club malvern-concert-club.co.uk Friday 29 November BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham B1 2LF, 1.10pm JONATHAN MARTINDALE & JANE WRIGHT – violins CHRISTOPHER YATES – viola HELEN EDGAR – cello Schubert String Trio movement in B flat D471 Schubert String Quartet in D minor Death and the Maiden City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 0121 7803333 cbso.co.uk/event/schuberts-death-and-the-maiden Standard £10/u17 £6 Saturday 30 November ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester, Doveridge, Uttoxeter ST14 5BS, 7.30pm JENI BERN – soprano TONY KRAUS – piano Programme to be confirmed Abbotsholme Arts Society abbotsholmeartssociety.co.uk aas@tetley.org 07707 477082 £20/£5 Header photo: Musica Secreta (credit Robert Piwko)
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EXTRA CONCERT!
Sunday 3 November LEOMINSTER Lion Ballroom, Lion Yard, off Broad St HR6 8BT 3pm ORCHESTRA PRO ANIMA Mozart Violin Concerto in D K211 Mendelssohn String Symphony No 9 Swiss Bottesini Gran Duo for violin, double bass & strings Ireland Berceuse, Bagatelle, Cavatina for cello & strings Warlock Capriol Suite Espressivo Concerts Leominster TIC 01568 616460 and courtyard.org.uk £15 
EXTRA CONCERTS!
Saturday 16 November TETBURY The Tetbury Goods Shed, Old Station Yard, Cirencester Road GL8 8EY, 7.30pm CARDUCCI QUARTET WILLIAM HOWARD – piano Beethoven String Quartet No 11 in F minor Serioso Op 95 Glass String Quartet No 3 Mishima (1985) Dvořák Piano Quintet No 2 Op 81 The Tetbury Goods Shed 01666 505 496 shed-arts.co.uk/piano-series/ £18 / £20 Saturday 16 November DERBY Derby Cathedral, Irongate DE1 3GP, 7.00pm THE DERBYSHIRE SINGERS THE DERBYSHIRE SINFONIA ELEANOR KORNAS - piano Britten St Nicolas Gjeilo Song of the Universal Finzi Eclogue for Piano and String Orchestra Derbyshire Singers derbyshiresingers.org Foulds (Irongate Derby), Natural Choice (Ashbourne 01335 346096), Robert Young Florists (Matlock) or £16 (f/t students & accompanied U-16s free) EXTRA CONCERT!
Sunday 24 November MALVERN Christ Church, Avenue Road WR14 3AY 3pm ORCHESTRA PRO ANIMA Vivaldi ‘Winter’ from The Four Seasons Corelli Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 8 Christmas Bach Violin Concerto in A minor Bottesini Gran Duo for violin, double bass & strings Bruch Andante Mozart Divertimento in F K138 Espressivo Concerts Malvern TIC 01684 892289 and courtyard.org.uk £17 & £13 (students half price and free entry for children aged 10 and under) |
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