Sunday 1 October OXFORD
Wolfson Hall, Linton Road OX2 6UD, 11.30am IBRAHIM KEIVO, GRAHAM TOPPING AND OCMF ARTISTS Open, Sesame! Concert for Children Readings from One Thousand and One Nights with music from Persia and the Orient Oxford Chamber Music Festival ocmf.net 01865 305305 £10 (children free) Monday 2 October STRATFORD UPON AVON
Stratford ArtsHouse, 14 Rother Street CV37 6LU, 12.00 noon ANNELIEN VAN WAUWE – clarinet AMATIS PIANO TRIO Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time Stratford on Avon Music Festival stratfordmusicfestival.com 01789 207100 stratfordartshouse.co.uk £10 Tuesday 3 October STRATFORD UPON AVON
Stratford ArtsHouse, 14 Rother Street CV37 6LU, 12.00 noon AMATIS PIANO TRIO Mendelssohn Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Schubert Piano Trio No 1 in B flat Stratford on Avon Music Festival stratfordmusicfestival.com 01789 207100 stratfordartshouse.co.uk £10 Wednesday 4 October BURFORD
Burford School, Cheltenham Road OX18 4PL, 7.30pm BOCHMANN TRIO PAUL TURNER – piano Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat Beethoven Serenade Op 8 for String Trio Mahler Piano Quartet Schubert Adagio and Rondo Concertante D487 Lenthall Concerts lenthallconcerts.org.uk 01993 823260 £13 (students £3) Friday 6 October BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 1.10pm JÖRG WIDMANN – Clarinet / Artist in Residence CBSO MUSICIANS Jörg Widmann String Quartet No 3 Jagdquartett Jörg Widmann Three Shadow Dances for solo clarinet Weber Clarinet Quintet Op 34 CBSO Centre Stage cbso.co.uk 0121 780 3333 £10 Friday 6 October WORCESTER
Claines Church, Claines Lane, Claines WR3 7RN, 7.30pm ASTARIA STRING QUARTET CM@W Festival Opening Concert Ravel String Quartet in F New Work Commissioned by the 2017 Chamber Music @ Worcester Festival Kreisler Liebesleid Liszt ANGELUS! Prière aux Anges Gardiens Bazzini String Quartet No 2 in D minor Op 75 Chamber Music @ Worcester Festival chambermusicatworcester.com 01905 412358 / 07931 781737 Admission free: retiring collection to support the work of CM@W Saturday 7 October WORCESTER
Claines Church, Claines Lane, Claines WR3 7RN, 9.30am – 1.15pm ASTARIA STRING QUARTET CM@W Making Music For Children Whether they play an instrument or not, children will love this interactive music workshop. Ideal for primary school age children, no musical experience needed and bring an instrument if you have one. Chamber Music @ Worcester Festival chambermusicatworcester.com 07798 860771 Admission free: retiring collection to support the work of CM@W Saturday 7 October WORCESTER
Claines Church, Claines Lane, Claines WR3 7RN, 7.30pm ASTARIA STRING QUARTET CM@W Festival Concert Kreisler String Quartet in A minor Rachmaninov Two Movements for String Quartet Tchaikovsky Andante Cantabile (String Quartet No 1) Mozart String Quartet in C KV157 Chamber Music @ Worcester Festival chambermusicatworcester.com 01905 412358 / 07931 781737 Admission free: retiring collection to support the work of CM@W Sunday 8 October MUCH MARCLE
Hellens, Much Marcle, Ledbury HR8 2LY, 3.00pm MARK BEBBINGTON – piano Scarlatti Sonatas in D L14 and B minor L33 Schubert Sonata in A D664 Ireland Sarnia: An Island Sequence Derek Smith Sonatine (première) Debussy La Cathédrale engloutie (from Preludes Book I) Debussy Feux d’artifice (from Preludes Book II) Chopin Nocturne in B flat minor Op 9 No 1, Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23 Espressivo Concerts espressivo.org.uk Hereford Courtyard 01432 340555 £15 (students £7.50) Sunday 8 October WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00pm DINARA KLINTON – piano Bach-Busoni Prelude and Fugue BWV 532 Beethoven Sonata in C sharp minor Op 27 No 2 Moonlight Chopin Barcarolle, Mazurkas Op 30 Chopin Sonata No 2 in B flat minor Op 35 Worcester Concert Club worcserenade.co.uk 01905 611427 £16 (students £5) Tuesday 10 October TELFORD
Oakengates Theatre, Limes Walk, Oakengates TF2 6EP, 7.00pm ARMONICO CONSORT AC ACADEMY SINGERS ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS – soprano CATRIN FINCH – harp TOBY YOUNG – keyboards (narrator tbc) CHRISTOPHER MONKS – conductor Toby Young Beowulf Armonico Consort armonico.org.uk theplacetelford.com 01952 382 382 £12.50 (£8.50 children) Tuesday 10 October ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester, Uttoxeter ST14 5BS, 8.00 pm ALEXANDER GAVRYLYUK – piano Bach/Busoni Toccata and Fugue in D minor Haydn Sonata in B minor No 47 XVI:32 Chopin Etudes Op 10 (selection) Scriabin Sonata No 5 Op 58 Rachmaninov Preludes Nos 1, 5, 2 Op 23 Rachmaninov Sonata No 2 (2nd edition) Abbotsholme Arts Society abbotsholmeartssociety.co.uk 01543 263304 £17.50 (U25 £5) Wednesday 11 October SOLIHULL
Bushell Hall, Solihull School, Warwick Road B91 3DJ, 7.00pm ARMONICO CONSORT AC ACADEMY SINGERS ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS – soprano CATRIN FINCH – harp TOBY YOUNG – keyboards (narrator tbc) CHRISTOPHER MONKS – conductor Toby Young Beowulf Armonico Consort armonico.org.uk thecoretheatresolihull.co.uk 0121 704 6962 £12.50 (£8.50 children) Thursday 12 October WORCESTER
Worcester Cathedral, College Yard WR1 2LA 7.00pm ARMONICO CONSORT AC ACADEMY SINGERS ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS – soprano CATRIN FINCH – harp TOBY YOUNG – keyboards (narrator tbc) CHRISTOPHER MONKS – conductor Toby Young Beowulf Armonico Consort armonico.org.uk 0844 581 0750 £12.50 (£8.50 children) Sunday 15 October ST BRIAVELS
St Briavels Church (opposite castle) GL15 6RU, 3.30pm PARK WEST ENSEMBLE A concert of Early Music and Song Wye Valley Music wyevalleymusic.org.uk 01291 330020 £15 (WVM Members £12, Students £2) Tuesday 17 October CARDIFF
Cardiff University Concert Hall, Corbett Road CF10 3EB, 7.00pm PETER DONOHOE – piano Scriabin Sonata No 2 (1898) Stravinsky Serenade in A (1925) Rachmaninov Preludes Nos 1-5 from Op 23 (1901-3) Prokofiev Sonata No 3 (1917) Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues No 6 in B minor & No 7 in A (1950-1) Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (1874) Cardiff University Concert Series 0333 666 3366 concerts.cardiff.ac.uk £10, £8, students and U18s free Friday 20 October BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10pm RICHARD JENKINSON – cello ALEX BOYD – piano Kodály Cello Sonata Op 4 Rachmaninov Sonata in G minor Op 19 The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Saturday 21 October LUDLOW
Henderson Hall, Moor Park, Overton SY8 4DZ, 7.30pm ELENID OWEN – violin EVGENIA STARTSEVA – piano Debussy Violin Sonata in G minor L140 Reynolds So Soft this Morning Ours Prokofiev Visions Fugitives Op 22 (selection) Ravel Tzigane Ludlow Music Society ludlow-arts-classical.org.uk 01584 876141 ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk £18 (students £6) Wednesday 25 October BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square B3 3DQ, 2.30pm ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN JULIAN BLISS – clarinet DAVID CURTIS – conductor Rossini Overture The Barber of Seville Weber Clarinet Concerto No 2 in E flat Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F Orchestra of the Swan orchestraoftheswan.org 0121 780 3333 thsh.co.uk £9.50 - £27.50 Friday 27 October BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10pm BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL KENNETH HAMILTON – piano From Stein to Steinway – 300 years of the piano The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Saturday 28 October WARWICK
St Mary’s Church, Old Square CV34 4RA, 5.00pm and 7.30pm RAPHAEL WALLFISCH – cello JS Bach Six Cello Suites Fundraising evening for St Mary’s Church Tower and Leamington Music – two concerts with supper interval Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 £22/£18/£15/£13 (£1) Saturday 28 October WORCESTER
St George’s Roman Catholic Church, 1 Sansome Place WR1 1UG, 7.30 pm ELGAR CHORALE with TRIANON from Suffolk An Autumn Serenade Programme includes music by Elgar, Rutter, Karl Jenkins and Will Todd Elgar Chorale elgarchorale.com 01684 594570 £12 Monday 30 October BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square, B3 3DQ, 7.30pm MITSUKO UCHIDA – piano Schubert Sonata in B D575 Schubert Sonata in A minor D845 Schubert Sonata in D D850 Town Hall Symphony Hall, Birmingham thsh.co.uk 0121 780 3333 £12.50 - £38 |
Sunday 1 October OXFORD
Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street OX1 3BN, 5.00pm MATTHEW BARLEY - cello PRIYA MITCHELL - violin DIRK MOMMERTZ - piano O/MODɘRNT ENSEMBLE OCMF ARTISTS Across the Universe Bach Aria from Goldberg Variations Impro/devised piece on Pärt’s ‘Spiegel im Spiegel’ Sultan Khan Song of Separation and Waiting for cello and tabla The Beatles Indian inspired songs from Sexy Sadie, Norwegian Wood, Within You Without You, Tomorrow Never Knows Giovanni Sollima Lamentatio for cello Terry Riley Half-Wolf Dances Mad in Moonlight Bach Prelude in G major (with variations) for cello, tabla, sarod, violin Anon Raag Bhairavi, into devised piece – The Beatles Across the Universe Oxford Chamber Music Festival ocmf.net 01865 305305 £25 Monday 2 October STRATFORD UPON AVON
Stratford ArtsHouse, 14 Rother Street CV37 6LU, 7.30pm JULIAN BLISS SEPTET Tribute to Benny Goodman George Pragnell Concert Series, Stratford on Avon Music Festival stratfordmusicfestival.com 01789 207100 stratfordartshouse.co.uk £9.50-£27.50 (student concessions) Tuesday 3 October STRATFORD UPON AVON
Stratford ArtsHouse, 14 Rother Street CV37 6LU, 7.30pm ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN DAVID CURTIS – conductor JULIAN BLISS – clarinet Rossini Barber of Seville Overture Weber Clarinet Concerto in E flat Op 74 Beethoven Symphony No 8 in F George Pragnell Concert Series, Stratford on Avon Music Festival stratfordmusicfestival.com 01789 207100 stratfordartshouse.co.uk £9.50-£27.50 (student concessions) Friday 6 October BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10pm GILDAS QUARTET JACK MCNEILL – clarinet Programme includes: Mark-Antony Turnage An Invention on ‘Solitude’ Nicola LeFanu Invisible Places The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Friday 6 October LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm NAVARRA STRING QUARTET Haydn Quartet Op 9 No 4 Shostakovich Quartet No 5 in B flat Op 92 Schubert Quartet in G D887 Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org £21/£17/£13 (£1) Saturday 7 October WORCESTER
Claines Church, Claines Lane, Claines WR3 7RN, 9.30am – 1.15pm ASTARIA STRING QUARTET CM@W Festival Morning Masterclasses The in-house education project for the Chamber Music @ Worcester Festival. The chance for students to come and play to us - and have fun! Students will discover 'trade secrets' and practice short cuts as well as receive advice, suggestions and feedback on all aspects of their playing and performance. Friends, family and teachers are welcome to listen. Application forms on line. Chamber Music @ Worcester Festival chambermusicatworcester.com 01905 412358 / 07931 781737 £12 per student Saturday 7 October WORCESTER
Claines Church, Claines Lane, Claines WR3 7RN, 2.30pm ASTARIA STRING QUARTET CM@W Community Concert with Young Performers Selected participants from our Morning Masterclasses, with music groups from the local community, will form the basis of this concert. Chamber Music @ Worcester Festival chambermusicatworcester.com 01905 412358 / 07931 781737 Admission free: retiring collection to support the work of CM@W Sunday 8 October GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street GL1 2BH, 3.00pm ANGELA BROWNRIDGE – piano Beethoven Sonata in C Op 2 No 3 Chopin Fantasy in F minor Op 49 Debussy Preludes: Feuilles Mortes, Ce qu'a vu le vent de l'ouest Beethoven Sonata in F minor Op 57 Appassionata Chopin Andante Spianato & Grande Polonaise Op 22 Gershwin The Man I Love, Fascinating Rhythm, I Got Rhythm Improvisations on Gershwin songs Gloucester Music Society gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk 01242 620736 £17 (£16/£8/£5,free) Sunday 8 October WORCESTER
Claines Church, Claines Lane, Claines WR3 7RN, 3.00pm ASTARIA STRING QUARTET GEMMA MARTYN SMITH – narrator CM@W Festival Family Concert Join the Astaria String Quartet, and narrator Gemma Martyn Smith, as good faces evil and magic fills the air in the story of Swan Lake, with music from Tchaikovsky’s ballet score. It is a story about a prince who is yet to meet the love of his life – who would believe that the Princess he’d been hoping to find has been turned into a swan by a wicked sorcerer! Chamber Music @ Worcester Festival chambermusicatworcester.com 01905 412358 / 07931 781737 Admission free: retiring collection to support the work of CM@W Monday 9 October BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 7.30pm CANADIAN BRASS We welcome the world's finest brass quintet, Canadian Brass to the Barber Institute for an awe-inspiring evening of brass playing. With original member Chuck at the helm on Tuba and the latest line-up of spectacular players this group of five will no doubt blow the roof off the Barber. Programme to be announced from the stage. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333 or via barber.org.uk/concerts £18 (£15, £12, £5) Tuesday 10 October CHIPPING SODBURY
Chipping Sodbury Town Hall, Broad Street BS37 6AD, 7.30pm AMADEUS ORCHESTRA PHILIP MACKENZIE – conductor CLARE KING – clarinet Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Mozart Clarinet Concerto Handel Water Music Chipping Sodbury Music Society csmusicsociety.co.uk 01454 315741 ticketsource.co.uk/csmusicsociety £15 (school-age children free Tuesday 10 October WARWICK
St Mary’s Church, Old Square CV34 4RA, 7.30pm EX CATHEDRA JEFFREY SKIDMORE – director Monteverdi – In Search of 1610 Exploring how Monteverdi developed the brilliant fusion of musical styles in his famous 1610 collection through his madrigals ‘made spiritual’ Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org £21/£18/£15/£13 (£1) Thursday 12 October COVENTRY
Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick CV4 7AL, 7.15pm COULL QUARTET PAUL BARRITT – violin JAMES LISNEY – piano Haydn Quartet in G Op 64 No 4 Mendelssohn Andante and Scherzo Op 81 Nos 1 & 2 Debussy Sonata in G minor for violin and piano Chausson Concerto for violin, piano and string quartet Op 21 Warwick Arts Centre warwickartscentre.co.uk 024 7652 4524 £20 (£18) Friday 13 October COVENTRY
The Albany Theatre, 53 Butts Road CV1 3BH 7.00pm ARMONICO CONSORT AC ACADEMY SINGERS ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS – soprano CATRIN FINCH – harp TOBY YOUNG – keyboards (narrator tbc) CHRISTOPHER MONKS – conductor Toby Young Beowulf Armonico Consort armonico.org.uk albanytheatre.co.uk 024 7699 8964 £12.50 (£8.50 children) Tuesday 17 October CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30pm PARNASSIUS DUO Brahms Selection from Hungarian dances WoO 1 Schubert Allegro in A minor D947 Lebensstürme N Kapustin Sinfonietta Op 49 Poulenc Sonata for piano four hands Rachmaninov Six Morceaux Cheltenham Music Society cheltmusicsoc.co.uk cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk 01242 227979 £20, £15, U26 free Thursday 19 October BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 1.10pm JOHN THWAITES – piano JONATHAN MARTINDALE – violin MICHAEL JENKINSON – viola HELEN EDGAR – cello OLIVER JANES – clarinet ELSPETH DUTCH – horn Beethoven Trio in B flat Op 11 Gassenhauer Dohnányi Sextet Op 37 CBSO Centre Stage cbso.co.uk 0121 780 3333 £10 Friday 20 October BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN, 8.00pm FLORIAN KITT – cello CARLOS RIVERA-AGUILAR – piano Beethoven Cello Sonata Op 102 No 1 Takemitsu Orion (1984) Britten Cello Sonata Op 65 Cerha 5 Sätze (2013) Prokofiev Cello Sonata Op 119 Bromsgrove Concerts bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk 01527 577330 £20 (Dis/Unemp £5, 8-25 years free) Monday 23 October BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square, B3 3DQ, 7.30pm QUATUOR VAN KUIJK Haydn Quartet Op 33 No 2 Janacek Quartet No 1 Edith Canat de Chizy New work Ravel Quartet in F Town Hall Symphony Hall, Birmingham thsh.co.uk 0121 780 3333 £12.50 - £31 Thursday 26 October MALVERN
Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30pm DORIC STRING QUARTET Thomas Adès The Four Quarters Op 28 (2010) Haydn String Quartet in A Op 20 No 6 Mendelssohn String Quartet No 6 in F minor Op 80 Malvern Concert Club malvern-concert-club.co.uk malvern-theatres.co.uk 01684 892277 £19.75 Friday 27 October COVENTRY
Coventry Cathedral, Priory Street CV1 5FB, 7.30pm THE SIXTEEN HARRY CHRISTOPHERS – conductor The Choral Pilgrimage 2017 The Olive Branch – Palestrina and Poulenc The Sixteen thesixteen.com tickets.ncem.co.uk 01904 651485 £15, £25 Saturday 28 October BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 7.30pm BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL EUROPEAN UNION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA STEVEN DEVINE – harpsichord Handel Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 7 Haydn Concerto for Violin and Harpsichord Mozart Divertimento in F JS Bach Harpsichord Concerto in D minor The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 £22 (£18, £15, £10) Sunday 29 October CHELTENHAM
Prince Michael Hall, Dean Close School GL51 6EP, 3.00pm DANIEL SHAO – flute DANIEL SMITH-KING – piano Hamilton Harty In Ireland John Stanley Solo No 5 York Bowen Sonata Andy Scott Salt of the Earth, My Mountain Top Bridge Rosemary Brian Ferneyhough Cassandra’s Dreamsong Elgar In Smyrna Lennox Berkeley Sonatina Cheltenham Music Society cheltmusicsoc.co.uk £10 on the door |
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