- Wednesday 4 February
- ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester near Uttoxeter 8.00
WALDSTEIN ENSEMBLE
- Reger
- String Trio in A minor Opus 77b (1904)
- Fauré
- Piano Quartet in C minor Opus 15 (1876-79/1883)
- Dvorak
- Piano Quartet in E flat major Opus 87
- Abbotsholme Arts Society 01543 263304
- £15.00 (£5.00)
- Friday 6 February
- BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street 1.10
CBSO CENTRE STAGE
Eduardo Vassallo - cello Laurence Jackson - violin
CBSO Colleagues
- Vanraj Bhatia
- Sinfonia Concertante for Strings (world première)
- Jorge Bosso
- Duo for violin and cello (world première)
- CBSO Society Ltd 0121 767 4050 or www.cbso.co.uk
- £7.50
- Sunday 8 February
- WARWICK
Bridge House Theatre, Myton Road 3.00
NAVARRA STRING QUARTET and SACCONI STRING QUARTET
- Brahms
- Sextet No 1 Opus 18
- Mendelssohn
- Octet Opus 20
- Brahms
- Sextet No 2 Opus 36
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £14.50
- Sunday 8 February
- WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Deansway 12.00
CATHRYN DEW - Recorder Workshop
The workshop will give young people the opportunity to develop their recorder playing skills and to learn some music which they will perform.
Huntingdon Hall, Deansway 3.00
CATHRYN DEW - recorder
MICAELA SCHMITZ - harpsichord
Grand European Recorder Tour
This programme traces the development of music for accompanied solo instrument from the earliest virtuosic single movement pieces of the early 17th century Venice through to the time when the multi-movement solo sonata had become an established form shaped by composers such as Corelli, Handel and Telemann.
- Worcester Concert Club 01905 611427
- £14.00 (St £5.00)
- Tuesday 10 February
- WARWICK
St Mary's Church 7.30
ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS with CATHERINE KING - singer
Ayres and Fancies
Music by Byrd, Dowland and Purcell
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £16.00/£13.50/£11.00
- Friday 13 February
- BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) 8.00
LONDON BRIDGE ENSEMBLE
- Bridge
- Phantasy Piano Quartet in F sharp minor
- Schumann
- Dichterliebe Opus 48
- Bridge
- Three Songs with Viola
- Schumann
- Piano Quartet in E flat Opus 47
- Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 874163
- £15.00 (£14.00/£5.00)
- Saturday 14 February
- BIRMINGHAM
Adrian Boult Hall 7.15
ZEPHYR WINDS
- Verdi
- The Force of Destiny Overture
- Reicha
- Quintet in E flat major Opus 88 No 2
- Milhaud
- La Cheminée du Roi René
- Patterson
- Westerly Winds Opus 84
- Vintner
- Two Miniatures
- Damase
- Dix-Sept Variations
- Hallam
- Dance Suite
- Birmingham CMS 0121 303 2323
- £14.00 (£13.00/£3.00)
- Saturday 14 February
- DROITWICH
Methodist Church, Worcester Road 7.30
SIMON CRAWFORD-PHILLIPS & PHILIP MOORE - piano duo
- Schubert
- Variations on an Original Theme in A flat D813
- Ravel
- Daphnis & Chloe
- Mendelssohn
- Allegro Brillante Opus 92
- Brahms
- Variations on a theme by Schumann Op.23
- Stravinsky
- 3 movements from Firebird Suite (trans. Moore)
- Droitwich Concert Club 01905 775246
- £15.00 (£13.00)
- Sunday 15 February
- STRATFORD-upon-AVON
Shakespeare Institute, Church Street 8.00
RHODES PIANO TRIO
- Mozart
- Trio in C major K548
- Beethoven
- Trio in E flat major Opus 1 No 1
- Dvorak
- Trio in F minor Opus 65
- Stratford-upon-Avon CMS 01789 740791
- £14.00 (£5.00)
- Sunday 15 February
- WARWICK
Bridge House Theatre, Myton Road 3.00
ENSEMBLE 360
- Beethoven
- Piano Trio Op 70 No 1 The Ghost
- Huw Watkins
- Broken Consort
- Brahms
- Serenade No 1 in D Opus 11
Preceded by Family Concert at 11.30
Paul Rissman's Giddy Goat for 3-8 year olds
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £16.00/£13.50/£11.00
- Wednesday 18 February
- CHELTENHAM
St Andrews Church, Montpellier Street 8.00
ROLF HIND - piano
- Rolf Hind
- The Towers of Silence
- Claudia Molitor
- Tango
- Mauro Lanza
- Predillo
- Marco Stroppa
- Miniature Estrose
- John Woolrich
- Pianobook X
- Per Norgard
- various pieces
- Olesen
- 6 Sonatas
- Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts 01242 227979
- £10.00
- Thursday 19 Febuary
- GLOUCESTER
St Mary de Lode, Archdeacon Street 7.30
ENGLISH PIANO TRIO
The Viennese Tradition
- Haydn
- Trio in C Hob XV21
- Beethoven
- Trio in C minor Opus 1 No 3
- Schubert
- Trio in B flat D898
- Gloucester Music Society 01242 620736
- £13.00 (St £5.00/U15 free)
- Friday 20 February
- LEAMINGTON SPA
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade 7.30
HEROLD STRING QUARTET
- Haydn
- Quartet Opus 64 No 5
- Sylvie Bodorova
- Quartet No 4
- Beethoven
- Quartet in C sharp minor Opus 131
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £16.00/£13.50/£11.00
- Monday - Friday 23-27 February
- BIRMINGHAM
Birmingham Conservatoire, Paradise Place
CHAMBER MUSICFEST
Birmingham Conservatoire's 2009 Chamber MusicFest is a week-long celebration of chamber music in all its forms performed by some of the Conservatoire's most exciting young players. Past Chamber MusicFests have included lectures, song evenings, instrument displays and films alongside first-class performances. The 2009 event explores the music of Haydn and Mendelssohn in particular.
Further details nearer the time on www.conservatoire.uce.ac.uk
- Tuesday 24 February
- BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street 1.10
CBSO CENTRE STAGE
CBSO Players
- Rossini
- String Sonata No 1 in G
- Rossini
- String Sonata No 3 in C
- Barrière
- Sonate à Deux
- Rossini
- String Sonata No 4 in B flat
- CBSO Society Ltd 0121 767 4050 or www.cbso.co.uk
- ££7.50
- Tuesday 24 February
- CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room 8.00
PAVEL HAAS QUARTET
- Pavel Haas
- Quartet No 3 Opus 15
- Prokofiev
- Quartet No 1 in B minor Opus.50
- Smetana
- Quartet No 1 in E minor From My Life
- Cheltenham Music Society 01242 227979
- £15.00 & £10.00
- Tuesday 24 February
- HEREFORD
The Courtyard, Edgar Street 7.30
BELLA TOOMBA
4 Girls, 4 Trumpets
J.S. Bach arr. H. Lund
Fugue in A minor; J.S. Bach arr. M. Greig Esurientes Implevit Bonis (Magnificat in D); Karl Heinz Koper Music for Four Trumpets; Paul Whitmarsh Berceuse in a Box; Webb arr. Davies Share my Yolk; Broom There'll never be another you; Corrado Saglietti Regina della Vittorie; Purcell arr. A. Hume Funeral Music for Queen Mary; Handel Water Music on Hosepipes; Folk-songs from the time of Henry Purcell arr. Brown; Booze, Ballads and Bloodshed; Reich Clapping Music; Gershwin arr. M Walton Nice Work if You Can Get It; Love Walked In; Arban arr. Hultmark Carnival of Venice
- Hereford Concert Society 0870 1122330
- £18.00 (£16.00/£2.00)
- Friday 27 February
- BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) 8.00
SMITH QUARTET
- Philip Glass
- String Quartet No 2 Company
- Howard Skempton
- Tendrils
- Joe Cutler
- Folk Music (Daithi's Dumka)
- Steve Martland
- Patrol
- Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 874163
- £11.00 (£10.00/£3.50)
- Saturday 28 February
- ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester near Uttoxeter 8.00
SHAI WOSNER - piano
- Vivier
- Shiraz
- Debussy
- Préludes Book 1
- Schumann
- Carnaval Opus 9
- Abbotsholme Arts Society 01543 263304
- £15.00 (£5.00)
- Saturday 28 February
- STOURBRIDGE
St James's Church, Bridgnorth Road, Wollaston 7.30
JANINE SMITH - piano
Beethoven
- Beethoven
- Sonata in C minor Opus 13 Pathétique
- Beethoven
- Sonata in C sharp minor Opus 27 No 2 Moonlight
- Beethoven
- Sonata in F minor Opus 57 Appassionata
- Local & Live 01384 396531
- £6.00