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OCTOBER CONCERTS

Saturday 1 October                                      TETBURY
St Marys' Church, Church Street GL8 8JG, 6.30pm
JULIAN BLISS – clarinet
CHARLES OWEN – piano

Schumann       Adagio and Allegro, Opus 70 
Olah                 Sonata for Solo Clarinet
Weber             Grand Duo Concertant in E Flat, Opus 48
Debussy          Première Rhapsodie
Brahms            Sonata No 1 in F minor
Tetbury Music Festival  0792 639 7827 www.tetburymusicfestival.org/2022-concerts
£35 (£30, £25, £20, £15, £10)

Sunday 2 October                                   GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street GL1 2BH, 3.00pm
MATTHEW BAKER – baryton
ESTEVAN DE ALMEIDA REIS – viola
ALEXANDER FRIEDHOFF – cello
Valencia Baryton Project

Haydn                 Baryton Trio in A major Hob XI:71
Ivan Moody        3 Nocturnes (2022)
Haydn                 Baryton Trio in C major Hob XI:93
John Pickup        Prelude 1 (2021)
Haydn                 Baryton Trio in A minor Hob XI:87
Steve Zink          The River (2020)
Haydn                 Baryton Trio in D major Hob XI:69
Enquiries 01242 620736 www.gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk
£20 (£18, £5, children free, accompanying adults £15)

Sunday 2 October                                           TETBURY
St Marys' Church, Church Street GL8 8JG, 5.00pm
THE ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN’S
JOHN LUBBOCK – conductor

Elgar             Serenade for Strings 1892
Mozart          Oboe Concerto in C major K 314
Walton         Two Pieces from Henry V
Haydn          Symphony No 44 in E minor Hoboken I/44
Tetbury Music Festival  0792 639 7827 www.tetburymusicfestival.org/2022-concerts
£35 (£30, £25, £20, £15, £10)
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Thursday 6 October                              CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30pm
GUY JOHNSTON – cello
TOM POSTER – piano

Beethoven            Variations on Handel’s “See the
                               conquering hero comes”
Poulenc                 Sonata for cello and piano
Joseph Phibbs      Cello Sonata (2021)
Brahms                 Cello Sonata No 2 in F major Op 99
Cheltenham Music Society  01242 528764  www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk  £25, £20 (£5 under 26)
Sunday 9 October                                 BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square B3 3DQ, 4.00pm
EX CATHEDRA
EX CATHEDRA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
JEFFREY SKIDMORE – conductor  
King for a Day: Music for royal occasions

Handel           The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Handel           Coronation Anthems
Lalande          La grande pièce royale
Lalande          Te Deum
Lalande           De profundis
Ex Cathedra   excathedra.co.uk

Sunday 9 October                                   WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 12.30pm        
TABEA DEBUS – recorder       MASTERCLASS
Tabea Debus is ‘one of the most exciting young musicians in the early music world’ [Classic FM]. Recorder players on the Historically Informed Performance Course at Birmingham Conservatoire will be students at our Masterclass, to be given by Tabea, with support from Jonathan Rees [viola da gamba] and Liz Kenny [lute/theorbo]
Worcester Concert Club  worcserenade.co.uk
01905 611427
Free to ages 18 and under and to those with a ticket for the afternoon concert. Otherwise £5 entry


Tuesday 11 October                                     HEREFORD
The Courtyard, Edgar Street HR4 9JR, 7:30pm
ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN
MICHAEL COLLINS – conductor
TAI MURRAY – violin
From a Far Country

Mendelssohn          Hebrides Overture, Op. 26
Bruch                        Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor,
                                   Op. 26
Anna Meredith        Fringeflower
Mendelssohn          Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish’, Op. 56
The Courtyard  01432 340555  courtyard.org.uk  £24–£26
Wednesday 12 October                              WARWICK
Unitarian Chapel, High Street CV34 4AX, 7.30pm
MORGAN SZYMANSKI – guitar
A Musical Journey through Latin America

A return visit from the Mexican guitarist will take us from Mexico to Cuba, Venezuela, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina to include music by Brouwer, Cardoso, Lauro, Mangore, Oliva, Piazzolla, Ponce and Villa Lobos.
Leamington Music  01926 334418  or www.leamingtonmusic.org
£22.50 to include glass of wine and tapas in interval



Friday 21 October                                 BROMSGROVE
Routh Hall, Bromsgrove School B61 7DU, 7.30pm
POMEGRANATE PIANO TRIO                  
Debussy         Piano Trio in G      
Fauré              Piano Trio in D minor Op 120
Ravel              Piano Trio
Bromsgrove Concerts  07849 774529
bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk   £22 (Students & Children free, subscriptions available)

Sunday 23 October                                GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street GL1 2BH, 3.00pm
GABRIELLA JONES – harp
Debussy arr. Jones            Images Oubliées; Lent,
                                             Doux et Mélancolique
Britten                                 Suite for Harp in C major
                                             op 83
Rachmaninov arr. Jones   Prelude in D major no 4
Marcel Grandjany             Rhapsodie pour la Harpe
Judith Weir                         Fragile
Caroline Lizette                 Suite Galactique
Henrietta Renie                 Deuxième Ballade
Enquiries 01242 620736 www.gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk
£20 (£18, £5, children free, accompanying adults £15)

Wednesday 26 October                            HEREFORD
The Courtyard, Edgar Street HR4 9JR, 3.00pm
ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN
ALASDAIR MALLOY – director/narrator
TOYBOX! – Half-Term Family Concert

Tchaikovsky          The March of the Toy Soldiers
                               (from The Nutcracker)
Bizet                       The Spinning Top - Children’s Games
Mike O’Donnell   Thomas the Tank Engine 
Fauré                      Dolly’s Lullaby - The Dolly Suite 
Randy Newman   You’ve Got a Friend in Me - Toy Story
Booker T. &           Soul Limbo
   the M.G’s
Alasdair Malloy    Quiz medley
The Courtyard  01432 340555  courtyard.org.uk
Tickets TBC

Saturday 29 October                              TEWKESBURY
Tewkesbury Abbey, Church Street GL20 5RZ, 7.30pm 
KATY CROMPTON – soprano
REBECCA AFONWY-JONES – mezzo
JOSEPH DOODY – tenor
EDWARD GRINT – baritone
CHELTENHAM BACH CHOIR
GÖTTINGER STADTKANTOREI
REGENCY SINFONIA

DAVID CROWN – director
Mozart              Requiem in D minor K. 626
Ola Gjeilo         Sunrise Mass
Cheltenham Bach Choir  www.cheltbachchoir.com tickets@cheltbachchoir.com
Sunday 2 October                                          EVESHAM
All Saints Church, Market Place WR11 4RW, 2.45pm
THE PLEYEL ENSEMBLE
Programme to include:
Mozart              Quintet in E flat K452
Poulenc             Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano FP43
Beethoven        Quintet in E flat op. 16
Evesham and District Music Club
www.evesham-music-club.co.uk
www.eveshamlive.co.uk
Almonry Museum  01386 446944
£20 (u18 £5)

Sunday 2 October              STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Town Hall, Sheep Street CV37 6EF, 7.30pm
BOGLÁRKA GYÖRGY – violin  
AMY BUTLER – piano

Beethoven                     Sonata Op. 24 in F Spring
Vaughan Williams        The Lark Ascending
Ponce arr. Heifetz         Estrellita
Ravel                              Sonata in G major                    
Gershwin arr. Heifetz   Excerpts from Porgy and Bess
Tickets £20 from 01608 662597 or www.stratfordchambermusic.co.uk
Tuesday 4 October                                      WARWICK
St Mary’s Church, Old Square CV34 4RA, 7.30pm
THE MARIAN CONSORT
RORY MCLEERY – director

Why do I use my paper, ink and pen?
Treasures from the manuscripts of Elizabethan England with music by Byrd, Clemens non Papa, Giles, Parsley, Parsons, Tallis and Van Wilder.
Leamington Music  01926 334418  or www.leamingtonmusic.org
£26/£18/£12 (£1)

Friday 7 October                                    LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm
BRODSKY QUARTET
Borodin                Scherzo from ‘Les Vendredis’
Beethoven           Quartet in F Op 135
Shostakovich       Quartet No 3 in F Op 73
Leamington Music  01926 334418  or www.leamingtonmusic.org
£26/£16 (£1)





Sunday 9 October              STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Stratford Play House, Rother Street CV37 6LU, 3.00pm
ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN
TAI MURRAY – violin
MICHAEL COLLINS – conductor
From a Far Country

Mendelssohn          Hebrides Overture, Op. 26
Bruch                        Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor,
                                   Op. 26
Anna Meredith        Fringeflower
Mendelssohn          Symphony No. 3 ‘Scottish’, Op. 56
Stratford Play House  01789 333990 orchestraoftheswan.org  £15–£32
Sunday 9 October                                    WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00pm        
TABEA DEBUS – recorder   
ELIZABETH KENNY – lute    
JONATHAN REES – viola da gamba

Ohrwurm
Ohrwurm explores how tunes and dances wormed their way into many aspects of music-making in  seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe – and in traversing the centuries, contemporary compositions testify to the earworm’s secured place in modern life. Programme to include works by Monteverdi, Caccini, Dowland and J S Bach.             
Worcester Concert Club in association with Worcestershire Early Music www.earlymusicworcs.org worcserenade.co.uk  01905 611427    £20  Students £5
Wednesday 12 October                         CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30pm
CARDUCCI QUARTET
JAMES GILCHRIST – tenor
QUENTIN HAYES – baritone
PHILIPPA HARRISON – piano
CHELTENHAM CHAMBER CHOIR – a  new consort of professional singers from around Gloucestershire 
BEN SAWYER – conductor

Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th Birthday Concert
Vaughan Williams     Serenade to Music
                                     Five Mystical Songs
                                     On Wenlock Edge
                                     Three Elizabethan Songs
                                     Sun, Moon Stars and Man
Imogen Holst             Hymne to Christ
Rebecca Clarke          Poem
Tickets: cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk
Wednesday 19 October                         BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 2,00pm
ANNABEL KNIGHT – baroque flute/recorder
JULIA ÅBERG – baroque violin
KELLY MCCUSKER – baroque violin
JACQUELINE TYLER – baroque cello
WARWICK COLE – harpsichord

Uccellini         Aria Sopra la Bergamasca
Mancini          Recorder Concerto in D minor
Vivaldi            Op. 1 No. 12 RV63
Corelli            Violin Sonata Op.2 No.7
Vivaldi            Chamber Concerto RV108
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | cbso.co.uk
| B:Music Box Office: 0121 780 3333  £10

Friday 21 October                                        PERSHORE
Number 8, 8 High Street WR10 1BG, 7:30pm
ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN WIND QUINTET
Americana – Night Owl

Denes Agay                   Five Easy Dances
Barber                            Summer Music
George Perle                 Monody 1
Valerie Coleman           Tzigane
Kazimierz Machala       American Folk Suite
Reich                              New York Counterpoint
Valerie Coleman           Red Clay and Mississippi Delta
Dvořák                          ‘American’ quartet arranged for
                                        wind quintet
Number 8   01386 555488   number8.org
£16 and £10 (under 16s)

Sunday 23 October            STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
United Reformed Church, Rother Street CV37 6LU, 7.30pm
ELMORE STRING QUARTET
Webern              Langsamer Satz 
Britten                Quartet no. 3     
Beethoven         Quartet in A minor, Op. 132               
Tickets £20 from 01608 662597 or www.stratfordchambermusic.co.uk 
Thursday 27 October                                   MALVERN
Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30pm
RODERICK WILLIAMS – baritone
SUSIE ALLAN – piano
A Birthday Celebration for Ralph Vaughan Williams 

Songs by Vaughan Williams, Ravel, Bruch, Butterworth, Holst, Gurney, Stanford, Gipps, Howells, Maconchy, Parry, Finzi and others.
Malvern Concert Club   For contact details, ticket prices and subscription options, please see display ad


Header photo: Tabea Debus (credit Anna McCarthy)
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17th INTERNATIONAL MALCOLM ARNOLD FESTIVAL 2022 – 'THE DANCING MASTER'
www.malcolmarnoldfestival.com
 
Sunday October 30th – Online
A day of music-making available to all online, visiting various locations across the UK and Ireland that inspired Malcolm Arnold and produced some of his most memorable music. This will include performances of all of Malcolm’s dances on location:
 
English Dances performed by Northampton County Youth Orchestra
 
Welsh Dances performed by members of the Royal Welsh Conservatoire
 
Scottish Dances - performers TBC
 
Cornish Dances and The Padstow Lifeboat performed by the St Dennis Band in Cornwall (Including members that played the premiere of The Padstow Lifeboat back in 1967)
 
Irish Dances performed where Malcolm lived in the 1970s.
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