Tuesday 1 November WARWICK
St Mary’s Church, Old Square CV34 4RA, 7.30pm FRETWORK Matthew Locke at 400 and his genius pupil Henry Purcell Leading British viol group performs consorts by Locke, and Fantasias and other works by Purcell and Jenkins. Leamington Music 01926 334418 or www.leamingtonmusic.org £26/£18/£12 (£1) Friday 4 November LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm EUSEBIUS STRING QUARTET Haydn Quartet in G Op 76 No 1 Howard Skempton Tendrils Beethoven Quartet in E flat Op 127 Leamington Music 01926 334418 or www.leamingtonmusic.org £26/£16 (£1) Sunday 6 November WORCESTER
The Angel Centre, Angel Place WR1 3QN, 3.30pm LINAROL CONSORT OF VIOLS DAVID HATCHER, ALISON KINDER, CLAIRE HORACEK, TIMOTHY LIN HELOISE BERNARD – soprano Epitaph for a Green Lover Music from the songbooks of Marguerite of Austria (1480–1530). Worcestershire Early Music www.earlymusicworcs.org £20 (free to students) Thursday 10 November WARWICK
Warwick Hall, Warwick School, Myton Road CV34 6PP, 7.30pm ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN PRIYA MITCHELL – violin JASON LAI – conductor From the New World Copland Hoe Down Jessie Montgomery Banner Barber Violin Concerto Op. 14 Dvořák arr. Symphony No. 9 in E minor Iain Farrington 'From the New World’ Bridgehouse Theatre bridgehousetheatre.co.uk boxoffice@bridgehousetheatre.co.uk £15, £5 Sunday 13 November BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square B3 3DQ, 4.00pm EX CATHEDRA JEFFREY SKIDMORE – conductor Songs of Protest MacMillan Cantos sagrados Beamish A Knock at the Door (world première) Joubert South of the Line Roth A Prayer for Fellow Prisoners (world prèmiere) Ex Cathedra excathedra.co.uk Sunday 13 November LEAMINGTON
Royal Spa Centre Newbold Terrace CV32 4HN, 7.00pm TREDEGAR BAND ROYAL BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE BRASS BAND YOUTH BRASS 2000 IAN PORTHOUSE and CHRIS JEANS – conductors Music for Remembrance Sunday, Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th anniversary and popular band pieces. Leamington Music 01926 334418 or www.leamingtonmusic.org £20 (£1) Tuesday 15 November CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30pm ELIAS STRING QUARTET Haydn String Quartet in F sharp minor Op 50 No 4 Florence Price String Quartet No 2 in A minor Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op 59 No 2 Razumovsky Cheltenham Music Society 01242 528764 www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk £25, £20 (£5 under 26) Friday 18 November LEAMINGTON
Kingsley School, Beauchamp Avenue CV32 5RD, 7.30pm FELICITE PIANO TRIO Winners of 2022 Leamington Music Prize Fanny Mendelssohn Piano Trio Lili Boulanger D’un soir triste and D’un matin du printemps Nadia Boulanger Three pieces for cello and piano Amy Beach Romance for violin and piano Clara Schumann Piano Trio in G minor Leamington Music 01926 334418 or www.leamingtonmusic.org Tuesday 22 November LEAMINGTON
The Dream Factory, Playbox Theatre, Stratford Road CV34 6LE, 7.30pm SHE’KOYOKH Jewish Music, Gypsy Music, Klezmer Music, Balkan Music She’Koyokh means “nice one” in Yiddish. The programme is a melting pot of culture and style, from 19th century Eastern European Jewish wedding music to Sephardic songs and festive music from the Balkans, Greece and Turkey. Leamington Music 01926 334418 or www.leamingtonmusic.org £20 (£1) Friday 25 November BROMSGROVE
Routh Hall, Bromsgrove School B61 7DU, 7.30pm ALEXANDER BAILLIE – cello (a) JOHN THWAITES – piano (a) EMANUIL IVANOV – piano (b) Debussy Cello Sonata (a) Bax Folk-Tale (a) Beethoven Piano Sonata No 17 in D minor Op 31 No 2 ‘Tempest’ (b) Chopin/Liszt Six Polish Songs (b) Chopin Cello Sonata Op 65 (a) Bromsgrove Concerts 07849 774529 bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk £22 (Students & Children free, subscriptions available) |
Friday 4 November BROMSGROVE
Cobham Theatre, Bromsgrove Preparatory School B60 2BU, 7.30pm DANTE STRING QUARTET Shostakovich String Quartet No 4 Ian Venables String Quartet Op 32 Beethoven String Quartet Op 130 (version with replacement finale) Bromsgrove Concerts 07849 774529 bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk £22 (Students & Children free, subscriptions available) Sunday 6 November EVESHAM
All Saints Church, Market Place WR11 4RW, 2.45pm THE AQUARIUS QUARTET Programme to include: Haydn Quartet in D minor op. 9 no. 4 Haydn Quartet in C ‘Emperor’ op. 76 no. 3 Spilsbury Quartet no. 2 Kern Songs Evesham and District Music Club www.evesham-music-club.co.uk www.eveshamlive.co.uk Almonry Museum 01386 446944 £20 (u18 £5) Thursday 10 November BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 2.00pm PHILIP BRETT – violin CHARLOTTE SKINNER – violin CHRISTOPHER YATES – viola CATHERINE BOWER – viola EDUARDO VASSALLO – cello Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet Beethoven String Quintet Op. 29 in C Major City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | cbso.co.uk | B:Music Box Office: 0121 780 3333 £10 Saturday 12 November COVENTRY
Coventry Cathedral CV1 5AB, 7.00pm COVENTRY CATHEDRAL CHORUS WARWICKSHIRE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PAUL LEDDINGTON WRIGHT – conductor Vaughan Williams Lord thou hast been our refuge Toward the unknown region Te Deum in G Dona nobis pacem Coventry Cathedral Chorus 01926 854981 / 07774 524352 www.ticketweb.co.uk tickets@coventrycathedralchorus.com 01676 532436 £22/£15 Students/U18 half-price Sunday 13 November GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street GL1 2BH, 3.00pm RODERICK WILLIAMS OBE – baritone SUSIE ALLAN – piano Birthday Celebration for Ralph Vaughan Williams Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams including “Songs of Travel” plus songs by Charles Wood, Maurice Ravel, Max Bruch, Rebecca Clarke, Grace Williams, George Butterworth, Gustav Holst, Ina Boyle, Ivor Gurney, Charles Villiers Stanford, Ruth Gipps, Herbert Howells, Hubert Parry, Gerald Finzi, Elizabeth Maconchy and Madeleine Dring. Enquiries 01242 620736 www.gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk £20 (£18, £5, children free, accompanying adults £15) Sunday 13 November WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00pm THE CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet Shostakovich Quartet no 4 Beethoven Quartet in E flat opus 127 Worcester Concert Club 01905 611427 worcserenade.co.uk £20 Students £5 Wednesday 16 November STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Stratford Play House, Rother Street CV37 6LU, 7.00pm ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN NICHOLAS DANIEL – oboe JASON LAI – conductor An English Fantasia Britten Simply Symphony, Op. 4 Purcell Chacony in G minor, Z.730 Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto in A minor Delius Two Aquarelles Walton Two Pieces from Henry V James Wilson The Green Fuse Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Orchestra of the Swan 01789 267567 orchestraoftheswan.org £15–£32 Saturday 19 November LICHFIELD
Lichfield Cathedral, The Close WS13 7LD, 7.00pm BIRMINGHAM BACH CHOIR PAUL SPICER – conductor THE MUSICAL & AMICABLE SOCIETY – orchestra THOMAS HOBBS – Evangelist SOFIA LARSSON – soprano JAMES LAING – counter tenor DANIEL AUCHINCLOSS – tenor ASHLEY RICHES – bass J S Bach Christmas Oratorio (parts 1, 2, 3 & 6) Birmingham Bach Choir www.birmingham.bachchoir.com or tickets@birmingham.bachchoir.com £32, £25, £18 (concessions £25, £21, £15) Student: £12 Disability + carer ticket: £21 for both Thursday 24 November MALVERN Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30pm TRIO WANDERER VINCENT COQ – piano JEAN-MARC PHILLIPS-VARJABÉDIAN – violin RAPHAËL PIDOUX – cello Beethoven Piano trio No. 5, Op. 70 No. 1 in D, Ghost Liszt Tristia, S.723 Saint-Saëns Piano trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 92 Malvern Concert Club For contact details, ticket prices and subscription options, please see display ad Saturday 26 November WORCESTER
Worcester Cathedral, College Yard WR1 2LA, 7.30pm WORCESTER FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY SAMUEL HUDSON – conductor SARAH FOX – soprano ANDREW MAYOR – bass baritone MERIDIAN SINFONIA Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony Delius Sea Drift Worcester Festival Choral Society www.wfcs.online / 0333 666 3366 (TicketSource) £15–£25 Header photo: Fretwork Viol Consort
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![]() Saturday 12th November A DAY OF LIVE MUSIC-MAKING – HOSTED BY THE HOLST SOCIETY www.holstsociety.org/ Three Holst/ Vaughan Williams events in a day for just £30 per person The Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams Societies are pleased to announce a festival of music by Holst/ Vaughan Williams on Saturday 12th November 2022 at Gloucester Cathedral. 11am Chapter House, Gloucester Cathedral Songs for voice/piano by Holst (15 songs)/ Vaughan Williams (11 songs). Soloists – Emily Khatib, Maisie O’Shea and James Lawson Pianist – Adrian Partington 2pm Chapter House, Gloucester Cathedral Works for violin/piano by Holst/ Vaughan Williams. Soloist – Hannah Roper Pianist – Adrian Lucas Holst Five Early Pieces – Song Without Words; A Spring Song; Greeting; Maya; Valse-etude (1902-1904), Song of the Night (1905) Vaughan Williams Romance and Pastorale (1923), Six Studies in English Folk Song (1926), The Lark Ascending (1920) – a rare opportunity to hear this arrangement. 4.30pm Gloucester Cathedral (Instead of Choral Evensong and Evening Prayer. For Remembrance). Choir – Gloucester Cathedral Organist – Jonathan Hope Conductor – Adrian Partington Holst Turn Back O Man (from Three Festival Choruses) (1916), Psalm 86 (from Two Psalms) (1912), Ave Maria (1900), Short Festival Te Deum (1919), Nunc Dimittis (1915) Vaughan Williams Five Mystical Songs, Lord thou hast been our refuge (1921), O Clap your hands (1920) Information For further information, please contact Chris Cope at chairman@holstsociety.org (01769 580041). Please note that we will not issue tickets. Payment in advance will guarantee a seat. List of songs available. Prices £15 for each recital. Although admission is free for the 4.30pm concert, there will be a retiring collection. Payment In order to secure a reservation, please click on the links below. To buy in multiples (e.g. for couples), please adjust quantities in the PayPal screen. 11.00 am recital only: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=VB8CJKSCDPRSL 2 pm recital only: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=R9USSFCE4ZYDY Both recitals: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JNS5P9ZWVAJLG Extra concert!
Friday 4th November 6pm at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Illuminating Women: music for string quartet and soprano Florence Price String Quartet in G major 1st Movement Angela Elizabeth Slater Falling Watercolours for string quartet Errollyn Wallen Daedulus for string quartet and mezzo soprano Angela Elizabeth Slater Ways of Looking at a Blackbird for soprano and string quartet Grażyna Bacewicz String Quartet No.3 Featuring Sarah Parkin (voice) and the Brompton String Quartet. This chamber music concert, curated by Illuminate Women’s Music’s artistic director and composer Dr Angela Elizabeth Slater, presents a wonderful array of string quartet music and string quartet with soprano written by women composers from the past and present. In this concert the Brompton Quartet and soprano Sarah Parkin will take the listener on a journey through explorations of the visual arts, mythology and the natural world. This concert has been supported by RVW Trust, Ambache Charitable Trust and PRS Women Make Music. Tickets £10 (£8) This concert will be followed by an evening programme with Royal Birmingham Conservatoire's Symphony orchestra at the Bradshaw Hall starting at 7.30pm. Find out more. |
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