Wednesday 6 September                       MANCHESTER
Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street M2 3WS, 1.10pm
ROKAS VALUNTONIS – piano
Chopin                   Andante Spianato and Grande
                                Polonaise Brillante, Op.22
Couperin                Les Ombres Errantes, Tricoteuses,
                                Le Bandoline, Le Tic-toc-Choc ou
                                les Maillotins
Balys Dvarionas   First snowflakes, Birds in the winter,
                                Impromptu in E flat minor, Waltz in
                                G minor, Down the hill in a sled
Liszt/Horowitz      Hungarian Rhapsody no 2
Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society  0161 907 9000 www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk   £10 (£8.50, £5)


Saturday 16 September                                     KENDAL
Stricklandgate Methodist Church, Windermere Road LA9 4QJ, 10.00am–4.00pm
KENDAL SOUTH CHOIR
GEOFFREY FIELD – conductor
ANDY PLOWMAN – accompanist
Come and Sing
Messiah choruses and Queen choral medley
Kendal South Choir  01539 725955  kendalsouthchoir.weebly.com  Day fee £20
Wednesday 20 September                               KENDAL
Kendal Town Hall, Highgate LA9 4DL, 1.00pm
ROBERT HUNTER, ZOE MATHER – piano duet
80th Birthday Gala Concert
Holst           Planets Suite (with NASA videofootage)
Tickets on sale at the Hall from 12 noon  www.kendalmiddayconcertclub.org   £10 (students £2)
Thursday 28 September                         MANCHESTER
Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street M2 3WS, 1.10pm
ROMAN KOSYAKOV – piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart    Sonata No.12 in F major,
                                                      K.332
Sergei Rachmaninoff                Etudes-Tableaux, Op.33
Manchester Mid-day Concerts Society  0161 907 9000 www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk   £10 (£8.50, £5)
Saturday 30 September                             GATESHEAD
Sage Two, Sage Gateshead, St Mary’s Square NE8 2JR, 7.30pm
SACCONI QUARTET with EMMA ABBATE – piano
Shostakovich          Piano Quintet
Caroline Shaw        Entr’acte
Dvořák                     Piano Quintet No. 2 in A
Part of the Newcastle International Chamber Music Series 2023/24
sagegateshead.com/whats-on/nicms-sacconi-quartet/ 0191 443 4661    £23, £15, students half price
Saturday 30 September                                    KENDAL
Kendal Leisure Centre, Burton Road LA9 7HX, 7.30pm
THE HALLÉ
ALPESH CHAUHAN – conductor
PAVEL KOLESNIKOV – piano
Mendelssohn          Hebrides Overture ‘Fingal’s Cave’
Shostakovich           Piano Concerto No. 2
Tchaikovsky             Symphony No. 5
Lakeland Sinfonia  03300 101761  www.lakelandsinfonia.org.uk   £41 (£29, £19, £5)
Saturday 16 September                                    BUXTON
St John’s Church Buxton, 6 St John’s Rd SK17 6XN, 7.30pm
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF BUXTON MUSICAL SOCIETY AND GUEST SINGERS
MICHAEL WILLIAMS – conductor
JACK APPERLEY – choral director
GEORGIE MALCOLM – soprano
Handel Coronationfest
Handel           Zadok the Priest
                        Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened
                        The King Shall Rejoice
                        My Heart Is Inditing
J S Bach          Concerto for two violins
                        Cantata 51
Buxton Musical Society  01298 72190 buxtonoperahouse.org.uk   £15
Monday 18 September                                     PENRITH
Penrith Methodist Church, Wordsworth Street CA11 7QY, 7.30pm
ROSCOE PIANO TRIO
Frank Bridge         Phantasie Trio
Mendelssohn        Trio no.1 in D minor, op.49
Beethoven             Trio in B flat major (Archduke)
Penrith Music Club  01768 863518 www.penrithmusicclub.com  £20 (students £5)

Sunday 24 September                                  SHEFFIELD
Starts at St Anne’s Church, Beeley DE4 2NY, 1.30pm & visits St Peter’s Church, Edensor DE45 1PH
ENSEMBLE 360
JS Bach         Selection of Partitas and Sonatas
Miller            About Bach
JS Bach         Goldberg Variations (arr. for string trio)
3 performances plus guided BACH WALK
Music in the Round  0114 249 6000 www.musicintheround.co.uk   £37 (£24, £20)
Friday 29 September                                     DUMFRIES
The Bridge, Glasgow Road DG2 9AW, 7.30pm
EMMA ABBATE AND THE SACCONI QUARTET – piano quintet
Caroline Shaw     Entr’acte for string quartet
Shostakovich       Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57
Dvorak                  Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 81 in A major
Music in Dumfries  07972 503895  www.musicindumfries.com    £15, £5 student, U18 free
Saturday 30 September                                    KENDAL
St Thomas’s Church, Stricklandgate LA9 4QG, 10.30am–5.00pm
MATTHEW COLERIDGE and CUMBRIA FESTIVAL CHORUS
Requiem in a Day
Matthew Coleridge       Requiem
Cumbria Festival Chorus  01539 720168 cumbriafestivalchorus.weebly.com
Day fee £20 (students £5)

Saturday 30 September                               SHEFFIELD
Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street S1 2JD, 7.00pm
ENSEMBLE 360
Doráti                 Duo Concertante
Ligeti                  Selection of Études for solo piano
Lutosławski       Dance Preludes for Clarinet and Piano
Farkas                Five Antique Hungarian Dances
Ligeti                  Ten Pieces
Music in the Round  0114 249 6000  www.musicintheround.co.uk    £21 (£14, £5)
Header photo: Sacconi Quartet (credit Alejandro Tamagno)