- Saturday 1 November
- WORCESTER
Rushwick Village Hall, Bransford Road 7.30
THE KREUTZER TRIO
Andrea Perrett - flute
Helen Wynne-Jones - oboe
Stephen Begley - classical guitar
Programme to include:
- J.S. Bach
- Sonata on the Royal Theme (Musical Offering) BWV 1079.8
- Josef Kreutzer
- Trio Opus 9 No 3
- Napoleon Coste
- Fantaisie de Concert Opus 35
- Mauro Giuliani
- Grand Potpourri Opus 53
- Worcester Classical Guitar Soc 01886 832715
- £8.00 (£6.00/ U16 free)
- Sunday 2 November
- WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Deansway 11.00 - 2.00
ANNE APPLIN and GEOFFREY PRATLEY
Piano Duet Master Class
Pre-formed duos should contact 01886 830021 to book a session at £15.00 each for adults and £10.00 for students; this includes a ticket to the afternoon recital. Observers are welcome at the usual workshop fee
Huntingdon Hall, Deansway 3.00
ANNE APPLIN and GEOFFREY PRATLEY - piano duets
Bach Sonata in A major; Schubert Sonata in B flat (1st mov); Rachmaninov Barcarolle and Scherzo Opus 11; Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 Op. 74 (1st mov); Brian Chapple Two Pieces from A Bit of a Blow; Elgar Serenade for Strings Opus 20; Ravel Mother Goose Suite; Moszkowski Spanish Dance Opus 21 No 3; Brahms Hungarian Dance No 8 in A minor; Chaminade - 4th Valse Opus 91 in G flat
- Worcester Concert Club 01905 611427
- £14.00 (St £5.00)
- Monday 3 November
- ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester near Uttoxeter 8.00
THE SONG COMPANY
The Seasons
The heat of summer and the hardship of winter, the nostalgia of autumn and the rebirth of spring. Direct from Australia, the Song Company presents an ever-changing panoply of songs and poems from across the centuries.
- Abbotsholme Arts Society 01543 263304
- £15.00 (£5.00)
- Tuesday 4 November
- HEREFORD
The Courtyard, Edgar Street 7.30
BRODOWSKI STRING QUARTET
- Haydn
- Quartet Opus 33 No 3 The Bird
- Schnittke
- Quartet No 3
- Mendelssohn
- Quartet Opus 80
- Hereford Concert Society 0870 1122330
- £18.00 (£16.00/£2.00)
- Tuesday 4 November
- WARWICK
St Mary's Church 7.30
MUSICA PETROPOLITANA with
MICHAEL CHANCE - counter-tenor
Directed by Jeffrey Skidmore
Music for Joys and Sorrows
Marini, Bach, Biber, Castello, Handel and Vivaldi
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £16.00/£13.50/£11.00
- Thursday 6 November
- BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street 1.10
CBSO CENTRE STAGE
CBSO Players
- Mendelssohn
- String Quintet in B flat Opus 87
- Mozart
- String Quintet in C minor K406
- CBSO Society Ltd 0121 767 4050 or www.cbso.co.uk
- £7.50
- Saturday 8 November
- BIRMINGHAM
Adrian Boult Hall 7.15
LEO STRING QUARTET
- Mozart
- Quartet No 14 in G major K387
- Ivor MacGregor
- Quartet No 2 - World Premiere
- Dvorak
- Quartet No 12 in F Opus 96 American
- Birmingham CMS 0121 303 2323
- £14.00 (£13.00/£3.00)
- Saturday 8 November
- BIRMINGHAM
The Oratory, Hagley Road 7.30
EX CATHEDRA CONSORT
Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore
Passion: A Renaissance Remembrance
- Lassus
- Lamentations for Tenebrae on Maundy Thursday
- MacMillan
- Tenebrae Responsories
- Lassus
- St Matthew Passion
- Ex Cathedra 0121 236 4455
- £25.00 to £7.00 with concessions
- Saturday 8 November
- LUDLOW
Moor Park School (on B4361) 7.30
MAXIM RYSANOV - viola
Katya Apekisheva - piano
- Brahms
- Viola Sonata in E flat Opus 120 No 2
- Bridge
- There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook
- Britten
- Lachrymae
- Brahms
- Violin Sonata No. 1 G Major Opus 78 (arr for viola)
- Brahms
- Viola Sonata in F minor Opus 120 No 1
- Ludlow Music Society 01584 876141
- £13.50
- Saturday 8 November
- REDDITCH
Ecumenical Centre, Evesham Walk 7.30
TRAVELLING BY TUBA
Chris Cranham - tuba
Stuart Death - piano
A concert spanning 15,000 years of music played on a wide variety of instruments ranging from the conch shell to modern brass and woodwind.
- Redditch Music Society 01527 546056
- £8.00 (£7.00/£3.00
- Sunday 9 November
- STRATFORD-upon-AVON
Shakespeare Institute, Church Street 8.00
BARBIROLLI STRING QUARTET
- Haydn
- Quartet in B flat major Opus 64 No 3
- Berg
- Lyric Suite
- Debussy
- Quartet in G minor Opus 10
- Stratford-upon-Avon CMS 01789 740791
- ££14.00 (£5.00)
- Tuesday 11 November
- EVESHAM
Arts Centre, Victoria Road 7.30
ALEC-FRANK-GEMMILL - horn
DANIEL TONG - piano
- Strauss
- Andante
- Beethoven
- Horn Sonata
- Schumann
- Adagio und Allegro
- Messiaen
- Appelle Interstellaire
- Debussy
- Danseuses de Delphes
- Hindemith
- Horn Sonata
- Mozart
- Concert Rondo
- Evesham & District Music Club 01386 861206
- ££13.00 (£12.00/£3.00)
- Tuesday 11 November
- LEAMINGTON SPA
The Kingsley School Hall, Beauchamp Road 7.30
EVA CABALLEO - flute,
JAMES TURNBULL - oboe
VICTORIA DAVIES - harp
Music by Bach, Berkeley, Debussy, Hoddinott, Ibert and Piazzolla
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £10.00/£1.00
- Wednesday 12 November
- ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester near Uttoxeter 8.00
HENSCHEL QUARTET
- Beethoven
- Quartet in B flat major Opus 18 No 6
- Shostakovich
- Quartet No 7
- Beethoven
- Quartet in E flat major Opus 127
- Abbotsholme Arts Society 01543 263304
- £15.00 (£5.00)
- Thursday 13 November
- MALVERN
The Forum, Malvern Theatres 7.30
CARDUCCI QUARTET
- Haydn
- Quartet in D Opus 20 No 4
- Ravel
- Quartet in F
- Mendelssohn
- Quartet in A Opus 13
- Malvern Concert Club 01684 892277
- £15.00 (£14.00/St £5.00)
- Friday 14 November
- BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) 8.00
ASHLEY WASS - piano
- Beethoven
- Sonata in E flat Opus 31 No 3
- Bax
- Sonata No 1 in F sharp minor
- Liszt
- Three Petrarch Sonnets
- Franck
- Prélude, Choral et Fugue
- Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 874163
- £15.00 (£14.00/£5.00)
- Friday 14 November
- LEAMINGTON SPA
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade 7.30
MARTINU STRING QUARTET
- Martinu
- Quartet No 2
- Dvorak
- Quartet in C Opus 61
- Schubert
- Quartet in D minor D810 Death and the Maiden
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £16.00/£13.50/£11.00
- Saturday 15 November
- DROITWICH
Methodist Church, Worcester Road 7.30
VANBRUGH QUARTET
- Schumann
- Quartet in A Opus 41 No 3
- Arvo Part
- Summa
- Brahms
- Quartet in A Opus 51 No 2
- Droitwich Concert Club 01905 775246
- £15.00 (£13.00)
- Monday 17 November
- CHELTENHAM
Pillar Room, Town Hall 8.00
VICTORIA DAVIES - harp
- Williams Mathias
- 3 Improvisations
- Grace Williams
- Hiraeth
- Alun Hoddinott
- Suite for Harp
- Benjamin Britten
- Suite for Harp
- Heinz Holliger
- Preludium, Arioso und Passacaglia
- Edmund Rubbra
- Transformations for Harp
- Alan Hovhanes
- Two Songs for Koto
- Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts 01242 227979
- £10.00
- Thursday 20 November
- GLOUCESTER
St Mary de Lode, Archdeacon Street 7.30
THE EMERALD ENSEMBLE
- Piazzolla
- Movements from Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
- Bartok
- Contrasts
- Messiaen
- Quartet for the End of Time
- Gloucester Music Society 01242 620736
- £13.00 (St £5.00/U15 free)
- Saturday 22 November
- STOURBRIDGE
St James's Church, Bridgnorth Road, Wollaston 7.30
THE HOLBORNE BRASS ENSEMBLE
RICHARD HALL - organ
The Golden Ages of Brass and Organ
Music from the Renaissance and Baroque by Gabrieli, Praetorius, Charpentier and Buxtehude.
- Local & Live 01384 396531
- £6.00
- Sunday 23 November
- COVENTRY
Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick CV4 7AL 3.00
COULL QUARTET
- Haydn
- Quartet in D minor Opus 76 No 2
- Mozart
- Quartet in B flat K458 The Hunt
- Beethoven
- Quartet in A minor Opus 132
Pre Concert Talk 2.00pm
- Warwick Arts Centre 02476 524524
- £22.00 to £8.50 (concs)
- Tuesday 25 November
- WARWICK
St Mary's Church 7.30
DANIEL SANFORD-CASEY - clarinet
ANYA OVSYARIKOVA - violin REBECCA HEWES - cello
RUSSELL HEPPELWHITE - piano
ST MARY'S CHURCH CHOIR
THOMAS CORNS - organ
Messiaen Centenary Concert
- Messiaen
- Sacrum Convivium
- Messiaen
- L'Ascension
- Messiaen
- Quartet for the End of Time
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £10.00
- Thursday 27 November
- BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street 1.10
CBSO CENTRE STAGE
Baiba Skride - violin
CBSO Players
- Brahms
- Clarinet Quintet
- Arnold Cooke
- Arioso and Scherzo
- CBSO Society Ltd 0121 767 4050 or www.cbso.co.uk
- £7.50
- Saturday 29 November
- BIRMINGHAM
Adrian Boult Hall 7.15
ROSAMUNDE PIANO TRIO
- Beethoven
- Trio in D major Opus 70 No 1 Ghost
- Fribbins
- Softly in the Dusk
- Tchaikovsky
- Trio in A minor Opus 50
- Birmingham CMS 0121 303 2323
- £14.00 (£13.00/£3.00)
- Sunday 30 November
- WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Deansway 3.00
JAMES OXLEY - tenor
CAROLINE DOWDLE - piano
- Schumann
- Four settings of poems by Robert Burns
- Brahms
- Variations on a Theme Opus 21 No 1
- W. Denis Browne
- Four Songs
- Tchaikovsky
- Three Russian Songs
- Mihaud
- Catalogue de Fleurs Opus 60
- Korngold
- Songs of the Clown Opus 29
- Worcester Concert Club 01905 611427
- £14.00 (St £5.00)