Sunday 1 October GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street GL1 2BH, 3.00pm ROBERT MAX – cello Bach The Cello Suites Gloucester Music Society 01242 620736 www.gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk £20 (£18, £5, children free, accompanying adults £15) Sunday 1 October TETBURY
St Marys’ Church, Church Street GL8 8JG, 5.00pm TENEBRAE NIGEL SHORT – director White Christe qui lux es III Byrd Mass for four voices Tallis O sacrum convivium; Sancte Deus; Miserere nostri; Loquebantur White Christe qui lux es IV Mundy Vox Patris caelestis White Exaudiat te Dominus Tetbury Music Festival 07756 349245 www.tetburymusicfestival.org/2023-concerts £35 (£30, £25, £20, £15, £10) Friday 6 October BIRMINGHAM
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building B15 2TT, 1.00pm LECTURE RECITAL: SCHUBERT’S MASTERPIECES FOR PIANO DUET JOSEPH & DANIEL TONG – piano Schubert Fantasia in F minor, D940 Schubert Variations on an Original Theme in A-flat, D813 Admission: Free Friday 6 October LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm LEONKORO STRING QUARTET (Berlin) 2022 London International String Quartet Competition winners Schubert Quartet in G minor D173 Janáček Quartet No 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’ Brahms Quartet in C minor Op 51 No 1 Leamington Music 01926 334418 or www.leamingtonmusic.org £27/£17 (£1) Tuesday 10 October WARWICK
St Mary’s Church, Old Square CV34 4RA, 7.30pm EX CATHEDRA CHOIR JEFFREY SKIDMORE – conductor MARTHA MCLORINAN – mezzo-soprano JAMES ROBINSON – tenor SIMONE REBELLO – bells Rachmaninoff 150 ‘Vespers’ Rachmaninoff – All-Night Vigil Ex Cathedra excathedra.co.uk Friday 13 October BIRMINGHAM
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building B15 2TT, 1.00pm GENEVA LEWIS – violin JULIA HAMOS – piano Handel Violin Sonata No. 4 in D, Op. 1 No. 13, HWV371 Bartók Romanian Folk Dances for violin and piano Simon Holt 'austerity measures' Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105 Admission: Free Friday 13 October WITNEY
High Street Methodist Church, High Street OX28 6HG, 7.30pm MICHAEL FOYLE – violin MAKSIM ŠTŠURA – piano Janáček Sonata for Violin and Piano Brahms Sonata in A major Op 100 Joachim Romance Beethoven Sonata No 9 in A major Op 47 ‘Kreutzer’ Witney Music Society 01993 898020 witneymusicsociety.org.uk £15 (under 19 £1) Sunday 15 October BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square B3 3DQ, 4.00pm EX CATHEDRA CHOIR JEFFREY SKIDMORE – conductor MARTHA MCLORINAN – mezzo-soprano JAMES ROBINSON – tenor SIMONE REBELLO – bells Rachmaninoff 150 ‘Vespers’ Rachmaninoff – All-Night Vigil Ex Cathedra excathedra.co.uk £15–£46 Sunday 15 October STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
United Reformed Church, Rother Street CV37 6LU, 7.30pm THE ELMORE STRING QUARTET Rachmaninov Quartet No.2 Mozart Quartet in D K575 Schubert Quartet in D minor D810 ‘Death and the Maiden’ Stratford Chamber Music Society Tickets £25 (students £5) from www.wegottickets.com or www.stratfordchambermusic.co.uk Thursday 19 October UTTOXETER
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester ST14 5BS, 7.30pm CLARE HAMMOND – piano Hélène de Montgeroult Etudes Nos. 62, 67, 104, 110, 111 Clara Schumann 3 Romances, Op. 21 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor ‘Thata Nabandji’, ‘Deep River’ and ‘The Bamboula’ from 24 Negro Melodies, Op. 59 Nos. 3, 10 and 8 Cécile Chaminade ‘Impromptu’ Étude de concert, Op. 35 No. 5 and Étude romantique, Op. 132 Maurice Ravel Miroirs Isaac Albéniz ‘Cádiz (El Puerto)’, ‘Evocación’ and ‘Triana’ from Iberia Abbotsholme Arts Society 07766 759886 www.abbotsholmeartssociety.co.uk £25 (under 25s £5) Sunday 22 October LEOMINSTER
Lion Ballroom, Lion Yard, off Broad Street HR6 8BT, 3.00pm FONTANELLA RECORDER QUARTET Byrdsongs (celebrating the 400th anniversary of William Byrd’s death) Consort music and songs by Byrd and his contemporaries with madrigals, catches, fantasias and folk song settings. Espressivo Concerts/Leominster TIC 01568 616460 and Hereford Courtyard 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk £18 (students half-price) Friday 27 October BIRMINGHAM
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building B15 2TT, 1.00pm ELLIOTT GASTON-ROSS – percussion Álvarez Temazcal Weiss Lute suite in D Minor Xenakis Rebonds A Anna Ignatowicz-Glińska Toccata Mark Glentworth Blues for Gilbert Casey Cangelosi A Cool Gadget Admission: Free Sunday 29 October GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street GL1 2BH, 3.00pm HOWARD BLAKE– piano/composer LANA TROTOVSEK – violin JONATHAN BARRITT – viola PETER ADAMS – cello Howard Blake 85th birthday celebration Piano Trio no. 3 Prelude for Solo Viola Piano solo – Chaconne and Scherzo from ‘Lifecycle’ Violin pieces – Burlesca, Archangel’s Lullaby, Snowman Suite Cello solo – ‘Soliloquy’ Piano Quartet Gloucester Music Society 01242 620736 www.gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk £20 (£18, £5, children free, accompanying adults £15) |
Sunday 1 October LEOMINSTER
Lion Ballroom, Lion Yard, off Broad Street HR6 8BT, 3.00pm ENGEGÅRD QUARTET Boyce String Quartet arrangement of (arr Derek Smith) Symphony No 4 Haydn String Quartet in B flat Op 76 No 4 ‘Sunrise’ Andrew Morris String Quartet Op 40 Beethoven String Quartet in C Op 59 No 3 ‘Razumovsky’ Espressivo Concerts/Leominster TIC 01568 616460 and Hereford Courtyard 01432 340555 www.courtyard.org.uk £18 (students half-price) Thursday 5 October BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 2.00pm Centre Stage: Piano Quintet Fauré Piano Quintet City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | cbso.co.uk | B:Music Box Office: 0121 780 3333 £10 Friday 6 October BIRMINGHAM
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building B15 2TT, 7.30pm JESS GILLAM ENSEMBLE Will Gregory Orbit C P E Bach Allegro Assai from Flute Concerto in A minor, H431 Thom Yorke Suspirium Thompson The Unseen Way Bernstein Extracts from West Side Story James Blake Retrograde Rune Sørensen Shine You No More Debussy Clair de Lune John Harle Briggflatts Box office 0121 414 4414 www.birmingham.ac.uk/musicevents £20 (£18, £15, £5) Sunday 8 October WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00pm SARAH BETH BRIGGS – piano Mozart Variations on a theme by Duport, K573 Hans Gál Sonata Op 28 (1927) Mendelssohn Variations Sérieuses Op 54 Beethoven Variations on God Save the King Woo 78 Schubert Impromptu in B flat D935 no 3 Chopin Berceuse Op 57 Chopin Ballade in F minor Op 52 Worcester Concert Club worcserenade.co.uk 01905 611427 £20 Students £5 Thursday 12 October WARWICK
Warwick Hall, Warwick School, Myton Road CV34 6PP, 7.30pm ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN MICHAEL COLLINS – conductor XUEFEI YANG – guitar Stravinsky Concerto in E-flat major 'Dumbarton Oaks’ Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez Albéniz Asturias Tárrega Recuerdos de la Alhambra Prokofiev Classical Symphony Bridgehouse Theatre 01926 776438 bridgehousetheatre.co.uk £20 (£10 under 35s) Friday 13 October HEREFORD
The Courtyard, Edgar Street HR4 9JR, 7.30pm ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN MICHAEL COLLINS – conductor XUEFEI YANG – guitar Stravinsky Concerto in E-flat major 'Dumbarton Oaks’ Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez Albéniz Asturias Tárrega Recuerdos de la Alhambra Prokofiev Classical Symphony The Courtyard 01432 340555 courtyard.org.uk £24 (£22) Saturday 14 October BIRMINGHAM
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building B15 2TT, 11.00am GROOVING WITH PIRATES – FAMILY CONCERT GROOVE BABY A swashbuckling, magical, mystical, musical, and nautical tale about friendship and treasure chests full of endless sweets! Box office 0121 414 4414 www.birmingham.ac.uk/musicevents £5 (£1 child) Sunday 15 October ST BRIAVELS
St Mary the Virgin Church, Church Street, GL15 6RG, 3.00pm DANIEL TONG – piano Beethoven Piano Sonatas Wye Valley Music 01291 330020 www.wyevalleymusic.org.uk £18 (£15, £5) Tuesday 17 October CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30pm LEONKORO QUARTET Schubert String Quartet in G minor D173 Janáček String Quartet No 1 ‘The Kreutzer Sonata’ Beethoven String Quartet in F major Op 59 No 1 Razumovsky Cheltenham Music Society 01242 528764 www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk £26, £21 (£5 under 26) Friday 20 October BIRMINGHAM
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building B15 2TT, 1.00pm LECTURE RECITAL: MORE DEMONIC AND DIVINE KENNETH HAMILTON – piano Chopin Barcarolle in F-sharp, Op. 60 Liszt/Busoni Fantasy and Fugue on ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’, S259 Admission: Free Thursday 26 October MALVERN
Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30pm SIQIAN LI – piano Mozart Nine Variations on a Minuet by Duport in D, K.573 Scriabin Sonata-Fantasy No.2, Op.19 Wanghua Chu Jasmine Flower Fantasia Ravel La valse (arr. Korsantia) Liszt Sonata in B minor, S.178 Malvern Concert Club For contact details, ticket prices and subscription options, please see display ad Saturday 28 October BIRMINGHAM
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building B15 2TT, 7.30pm VOICES OF THE CITY HOSTED BY CASEY BAILEY AND NEONE THE WONDERER NeOne the Wonderer and Casey Bailey come together for a special event showcasing Birmingham talent in Hip Hop and RnB-inspired music including the amazing sounds of Sanity, Indigo Marshall and Jordvn Emanuel. Box office 0121 414 4414 www.birmingham.ac.uk/musicevents £15 (£10, £7, £5) Header photo: Fontanella
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