- Thursday 5 March
- EVESHAM
Arts Centre, Victoria Road 7.30
AMANDINE SAVARY - piano
- J.S Bach
- Toccata in D minor BWV 913
- Frank Martin
- 8 Preludes
- Beethoven
- Piano Sonata No 17 in D minor Opus 31 No 2
- Messiaen
- Le Merle de Roche
- Evesham & District Music Club 01386 861206
- £13.00 (£12.00/£3.00)
- Friday 6 March
- BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street 1.10
CBSO CENTRE STAGE
CBSO Players
- Schubert
- String Quartet in G D887
- CBSO Society Ltd 0121 767 4050 or www.cbso.co.uk
- £7.50
- Friday 6 March
- BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) 8.00
GEMMA ROSEFIELD - cello
SIMON LEPPER - piano
- Beethoven
- Twelve Variations on "See the conqu'ring hero comes" WoO45
- Mendelssohn
- Sonata No 2 in D Opus 58
- Vaughan Williams
- Six Studies in English Folksong
- Shostakovich
- Sonata in D minor Opus 40
- Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 874163
- £15.00 (£14.00/£5.00)
- Saturday 7 March
- REDDITCH
Ecumenical Centre, Evesham Walk 7.30
THE ERATO PIANO TRIO
- Haydn
- Trio in G major Gypsy
- Dvorak
- Trio No 2 in F minor
- Debussy
- Trio in G major
- Frank Bridge
- Fantasy Trio in C
- Redditch Music Society 01527 546056
- £8.00 (£7.00/£3.00)
- Saturday 7 March
- WORCESTER
Worcester Arts Workshop, Sansome Street 7.30
EDEN STELL GUITAR TRIO
Music for an Island
The prize winning Eden Stell Guitar Duo present a finely crafted synchronised multimedia concert of music and images inspired by landscapes and locations from around the UK. Covering the length and breadth of the British Isles from the Orkney Isles to the seaside promenade of Eastbourne, taking in the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, leafy Sherwood Forest, and the Beatles' Liverpool along the way
- Worcester Classical Guitar Soc 01886 832715
- £12.00 (£8.00/ U16 free)
- Sunday 8 March
- BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street 7.30
CBSO CENTRE STAGE
CBSO Baroque Ensemble (on period instruments)
A Pepys Portrait
A portrait in words and music of Samuel Pepys and his world, including Sonatas and Suites by Purcell, Locke, Mattheis and Gottfried Finger.
- CBSO Society Ltd 0121 767 4050 or www.cbso.co.uk
- £11.00
- Sunday 8 March
- WARWICK
King's High School Performance Hall 3.00
PAVEL HAAS STRING QUARTET
- Janacek
- Quartet No 1 The Kreutzer Sonata
- Haas
- Quartet No 2
- Dvorak
- Quartet in G Opus 106
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £14.50
- Sunday 8 March
- WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Deansway 3.00
EDGAR BAILEY - violin
- Beethoven
- Violin Sonata in A Opus 12 No 2
- Jeremy Pike
- Aphelion
- Delius
- Violin Sonata in B (posthumous)
- Gershwin
- A short piece
- Tchaikovsky
- Valse - scherzo
- Worcester Concert Club 01905 611427
- £14.00 (St £5.00)
- Wednesday 11 March
- CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room 8.00
CLAIRE BOOTH - soprano
ANDREW MATTHEWS-OWEN - piano
- Britten
- On this Island
- Philip Cashian
- New Work
- Arlene Sierra
- New Work
- Hoddinott
- One must always have love
- Knussen
- Whitman settings
- Robert Fokkens
- Africa
- Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts 01242 227979
- £10.00
- Thursday 12 March
- MALVERN
The Forum, Malvern Theatres 7.30
DANTE STRING QUARTET
- Purcell
- Chacony in G minor
- Haydn
- Quartet in C Opus 54 No 2
- John McCabe
- Quartet No 4 (1982)
- Mendelssohn
- Capriccio in E Minor Opus 81 No 3
- Haydn
- Quartet in G Minor The Rider Opus 74 No 3
- Malvern Concert Club 01684 892277
- £15.00 (£14.00/St £5.00)
- Saturday 14 March
- BIRMINGHAM
Adrian Boult Hall 7.15
CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET
- Beethoven
- Quartet Opus 59 No3 Rasoumovsky
- Maxwell Davies
- Naxos Quartet No 5
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- Lighthouses of Orkney and Shetland
- Schubert
- Quartet in D minor Death and the Maiden
- Birmingham CMS 0121 303 2323
- £14.00 (£13.00/£3.00)
- Saturday 14 March
- BIRMINGHAM
The Oratory, Hagley Road 7.30
EX CATHEDRA CHOIR
Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore
Monteverdi made Spiritual: In search of 1610
Explore how Monteverdi so brilliantly arrived at the fusion of musical styles in his famous 1610 collection via his madrigals 'made spiritual' and the secular settings from which they were adapted.
- Ex Cathedra 0121 236 4455
- £30.00 & £25.00 with concessions
- Saturday 14 March
- LUDLOW
Moor Park School (on B4361) 7.30
MARTIN ROSCOE - piano
- Beethoven
- Piano Sonata in C minor Opus 13 Pathetique
- Beethoven
- Piano Sonata in A Opus 2 No 2
- Beethoven
- Piano Sonata in E flat Opus 27 No 1
- Beethoven
- Piano Sonata in C minor Opus 111
- Ludlow Music Society 01584 876141
- £13.50
- Sunday 15 March
- STRATFORD-upon-AVON
Shakespeare Institute, Church Street 8.00
DANTE STRING QUARTET
- Haydn
- Quartet in C major Opus 20 No 2
- Haydn
- Quartet in E flat major Opus 76 No 6
- Haydn
- Quartet in C major Opus 54 No 2
- Haydn
- Quartet in G minor Rider Opus 74 No 3
- Stratford-upon-Avon CMS 01789 740791
- £14.00 (£5.00)
- Sunday 15 March
- WARWICK
King's High School Performance Hall 4.00
ALISTAIR ANDERSON - accordion/bagpipes
PETER CROPPER - violin DONALD GRANT - violin
CATRIONA MCKAY - clarsach
Roots
Classical and folk traditions.
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £14.50
- Wednesday 18 March
- ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester near Uttoxeter 8.00
NICHOLAS MULROY - tenor
JOHN REID - piano
- Schumann
- Liederkreis Opus 24
- Errollyn Wallen
- New Work
- Tippett
- The Heart's Assurance
- Abbotsholme Arts Society 01543 263304
- £15.00 (£5.00)
- Wednesday 18 March
- BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street 1.10
CBSO CENTRE STAGE
CBSO Players
- Mozart
- String Quintet in C K515
- CBSO Society Ltd 0121 767 4050 or www.cbso.co.uk
- £8.50 (£7.00)
- Thursday 19 March
- GLOUCESTER
St Mary de Lode, Archdeacon Street 7.30
THE HEATH QUARTET
- Webern
- Langsamer Satz (1905)
- Berg
- Lyric Suite
- Schubert
- String Quartet in D minor Death and the Maiden
- Gloucester Music Society 01242 620736
- £13.00 (St £5.00/U15 free)
- Thursday 19 March
- HEREFORD
The Courtyard, Edgar Street 7.30
NICHOLAS DANIEL WIND QUINTET
- Mozart
- Fantasia in F minor - Adagio & Allegro K594
- Mozart
- Quintet in C minor K406 arr. Rechtman
- Milhaud
- La Cheminée du Roi
- Bozza
- Piece pour une musique de nuit
- Ravel
- Le Tombeau de Couperin
- Hereford Concert Society 0870 1122330
- £20.00 (£18.00/£2.00)
- Friday 20 March
- BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) 8.00
ATRIUM QUARTET
- Mozart
- Quartet No 23 in F K590
- Walton
- Quartet in A minor
- Tchaikovsky
- Quartet No 3 in E flat minor Opus 30
- Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 874163
- £15.00 (£14.00/£5.00)
- Friday 20 March
- LEAMINGTON SPA
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade 7.30
ROYAL STRING QUARTET
- Mozart
- Quartet in D K499
- Mendelssohn
- Quartet in A Opus 13
- Beethoven
- Quartet in F Opus 135
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £16.00/£13.50/£11.00
- Saturday 21 March
- DROITWICH
Methodist Church, Worcester Road 7.30
ALBION QUARTET
- Mozart
- Quartet in B flat K458 The Hunt
- Mendelssohn
- Quartet in A minor
- Ravel
- Quartet
- Droitwich Concert Club 01905 775246
- £15.00 (£13.00)
- Sunday 22 March
- CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room 8.00
PLANE, DUKES, RAHMAN TRIO
clarinet, viola, piano
- Bruch
- Three Pieces
- Brahms
- Sonata for Viola and Piano in E flat Opus 120 No 2
- Ireland
- Fantasy Sonata
- Mozart
- Trio in E flat K498 Kegelstatt
- Cheltenham Music Society 01242 227979
- £12.00 & £8.00
- Tuesday 24 March
- WARWICK
St Mary's Church 7.30
THE YORK WAITS
The King's Pavan
Programme to mark birth of King Henry VIII in 1509.
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £16.00/£13.50/£11.00