- Wednesday 1 October
- CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room 8.00
CARDUCCI QUARTET
NICHOLA EIMER - piano
- Britten
- Quartet No 1 in D Opus 25
- Joseph Horovitz
- Quartet No 5
- Shostakovich
- Piano Quintet in G minor Opus 57
- Cheltenham Music Society 01242 227979
- £12.00 & £8.00
- Friday 3 October
- MALVERN
Malvern College, Big School - College Road 8.00
EUROPEAN UNION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Matthias Wollong - Director
Arco van Zon - oboe
- Haydn
- Divertimento HobX No3
- Bach
- Concerto in D minor for Oboe & Violin
- Schubert
- Five German Dances
- Mozart
- Divertimento in D K251
- Autumn in Malvern Festival 01684 892277
- £16.00, £12.00
- Friday 3 October
- LEAMINGTON SPA
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade 7.30
ST PETERSBURG STRING QUARTET
- Borodin
- Quartet No 1 in A
- Tchaikovsky
- Quartet No 2 in F Opus 22
- Shostakovich
- Quartet No 3 in F Opus 73
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £16.00/£13.50/£11.00
- Friday 3 October
- WORCESTER
Worcester Arts Workshop, Sansome Street 7.30
THE MODERN GUITAR TRIO
Vincent Lindsey-Clark, Roland Chadwick, Roland Gallery
- Vincent Lindsay-Clark
- Sonata Melodica
- Roland Chadwick
- The Wendy House
- Roland Gallery
- Two Fusion Pieces
- Roland Chadwick
- Letter From LA
- Worcester Classical Guitar Soc 01886 832715
- £12.00 (£8.00/ U16 free)
- Saturday 4 October
- ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester near Uttoxeter 8.00
ENDELLION STRING QUARTET
- Haydn
- String Quartet Opus 50 No 5
- Britten
- String Quartet No 3
- Janácek
- String Quartet No 1 Kreutzer Sonata
- Mozart
- String Quartet in C major K465 Dissonance
- Abbotsholme Arts Society 01543 263304
- £15.00 (£5.00)
- Saturday 4 October
- BIRMINGHAM
Adrian Boult Hall 7.30
EDUARDO VASSALLO - cello
MARK BEBBINGTON - piano
- Chopin
- Sonata Opus 65
- Jorge Bosso
- World Premiere tba
- Stuart
- Lies & Magic
- Rachmaninov
- Sonata in G minor Op 19
- Birmingham CMS 0121 303 2323
- £14.00 (£13.00/£3.00)
- Saturday 4 October
- DROITWICH
Methodist Church, Worcester Road 7.30
FRITH PIANO QUARTET
- Mozart
- Quartet in E flat K493
- Walton
- Quartet in D minor
- Schumann
- Quartet in E flat Opus 47
- Droitwich Concert Club 01905 775246
- £15.00 (£13.00)
- Sunday 5 October
- WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Deansway 3.00
CHARLES OWEN - piano
- Bach
- Partita No 5 in G major
- Fauré
- Barcarolles, Nocturnes
- Chopin
- Nocturne, Barcarolle
- Schubert
- Sonata in A minor D845
- Worcester Concert Club 01905 611427
- £14.00 (St £5.00)
- Tuesday 7 October
- WARWICK
St Mary's Church 7.30
EX CATHEDRA
Directed by Jeffrey Skidmore
Lassus - Renaissance Passion
Ave Verum, Salve Regina, Vide Homo, Musica Dei Donum, Lamentations for Tenebrae on Maundy Thursday, St Matthew Passion
- Leamington Music 01926 776438
- £16.00/£13.50/£11.00
- Wednesday 8 October
- BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street 1.10
CBSO CENTRE STAGE
Byron Parish & Owen Cox - violins
Ella Brinch - viola
- Mozart
- Duo in G K423
- Prokofiev
- Sonata for Two Violins
- Dvorak
- Terzetto
- CBSO Society Ltd 0121 767 4050 or www.cbso.co.uk
- £7.50
- Wednesday 8 October
- CHELTENHAM
St Andrews Church, Montpellier Street 8.00
NOSZFERATU
Finn Peters - saxophone Dave Price - percussion
Ivo deGreet - piano
David Price Lee Games II; Howard Skempton New Work and In Tandem; Jun Lee New Work; Johan Ericsson New Work; Joe Cutter Sikorski B; Michael Wolters Personalising History; Ed Bennett New Work; Donnacha Dennehy Paddy
- Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts 01242 227979
- £10.00
- Thursday 9 October
- HEREFORD
The Courtyard, Edgar Street 7.30
JOHN LENEHAN - piano
- Mendelssohn
- Variations Serieuses Opus 54
- Schubert
- Sonata in A Major D664
- Ireland
- The Darkened Valley Amberley Wild Brooks
- Debussy
- Children's Corner Suite
- Gershwin
- Rhapsody in Blue
Music by Fats Waller and Duke Ellington
- Hereford Concert Society 0870 1122330
- £20.00 (£18.00/£2.00)
- Friday 10 October
- BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) 8.00
COULL QUARTET
DAVID SMITH - cello
Fred Darley Memorial Concert
- Kodaly
- Quartet No 2 in D Opus 10
- Beethoven
- Quartet in B flat Opus 18 No 6
- Schubert
- Quintet in C D956
- Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 874163
- £15.00 (£14.00/£5.00)
- Saturday 11 October
- REDDITCH
Ecumenical Centre, Evesham Walk 8.00
DAVID QUIGLEY - piano
- Beethoven
- Sonata Opus 2 No 3 in C major
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- Sonata Opus 27 No 2 in C sharp minor Moonlight
- Schumann
- Papillons
- Chopin
- Nocturne Opus 27 No 2 & Barcarolle Opus 60
- Gershwin
- The Man I Love, Love Walked In (arr Grainger)
- Philip Martin
- Three Jazz Pieces
- Redditch Music Society 01527 546056
- £8.00 (£7.00/£3.00)
- Saturday 11 October
- STOURBRIDGE
St James's Church, Bridgnorth Road, Wollaston 7.30
CATHERINE LETT - violin
LIVIU POPESCU - viola
MICHAEL JONES - piano
- Beethoven
- Sonata in F major Opus 24 Spring
- Schubert
- Duo in A major D574
- Brahms
- Sonata in E flat major Opus 120 No.2
- Enescu
- Concert Piece
- Local & Live 01384 396531
- £6.00
- Sunday 12 October
- MALVERN
Great Malvern Priory 3.00
ST. PETERSBURG STRING QUARTET
- Shostakovich
- Two Pieces for String Quartet
- Debussy
- Quartet
- Ravel
- String Quartet in F
- Autumn in Malvern Festival 01684 892277
- £12.00, £9.50
- Sunday 12 October
- STRATFORD-upon-AVON
Shakespeare Institute, Church Street 8.00
NATALIE CLEIN - cello
JULIUS DRAKE - piano
- J.S.Bach
- Suite for solo cello No 3 in C major
- Schubert
- Sonata in A minor D821 Arpeggione
- Brahms
- Sonata in E minor Opus 38
- Stratford-upon-Avon CMS 01789 740791
- £14.00 (£5.00)
- Thursday 16 October
- GLOUCESTER
St Mary de Lode, Archdeacon Street 7.30
ENGLISH AYRES - lute, voice and violin
Along the Field - A Vaughan Williams Anniversary concert
- Holst
- Four mediaeval songs
- Vaughan Williams
- Six folk song arrangements
- Anon
- In Wilderness
- Robert Johnson
- As I walked forth
- Henry Cary
- The lady's lamentation for the lost of Senesino
- Vaughan Williams
- Two Shakespearean Songs
- Bliss
- Sea Love
- Vaughan Williams
- Song Cycle - Along the Field
- Gloucester Music Society 01242 620736
- £13.00 (St £5.00/U15 free)
- Friday 17 October
- EVESHAM
Arts Centre, Victoria Road 7.30
BOCHMANN QUARTET
KEITH RUBACH - bassoon
- Beethoven
- Quartet in A Opus 18 No 5
- Krommer
- Quartet Opus 46 No 1 for bassoon, 2 violas and cello
- Devienne
- Quartet in C Opus 73 No 1
- Debussy
- Quartet in G minor
- Evesham & District Music Club 01386 861206
- £13.00 (£12.00/£3.00)
- Saturday 18 October
- BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall 6.30
EX CATHEDRA XL ANNIVERSARY CHOIR
ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore
Elijah: James Rutherford
- Mendelssohn
- Elijah
The original 1846 version, using a new edition specially created for the occasion.
- Ex Cathedra 0121 780 3333
- £37.50 to £8.50 with concessions
- Saturday 18 October
- LUDLOW
Moor Park School (on B4361) 7.30
THE CALVERT-TURNER DUO
Bach Adagio and allegro from Sonata in D major BWV 1028; De Falla Suite Populaire Espagnole; Massenet Meditation from Thais; Mozart Two allegros from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; Ravi Shankar Sonata No 1for Cello and Harp; Gershwin Summertime; Glazunov Chant Du Menestral Opus 71; Glazunov Serenade Espagnole Opus 20 No 2 Saint-Saëns The Swan; Piazzola Le Grand Tango
- Ludlow Music Society 01584 876141
- £7.50
- Saturday 18 October
- MALVERN
Great Malvern Priory 3.00
JOHN SCOTT-WHITELEY - Organist of York Minster
MIRIAM KRAMER - violin
- Bach
- Toccata, Adagio & Fugue in C
- Jongen
- Pensée d'automne
- Ysaye
- Solo Violin Sonata in A minor
- Alain
- Litanies
- Bach
- Trio Sonata in G
- Prokofiev
- Solo Violin Sonata
- Bach
- Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott
- Messiaen
- Dieu parmi nous (La nativité Du Seigneur )
- Autumn in Malvern Festival 01684 892277
- £8.50, £6.50
- Thursday 23 October
- MALVERN
The Forum, Malvern Theatres 7.30
GOULD PIANO TRIO
ROBERT PLANE - clarinet
- Beethoven
- Piano Trio in C Minor Opus 1 No 3
- Brahms
- Clarinet Trio in A Minor Opus 114
- Messiaen
- Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps (1941)
- Malvern Concert Club 01684 892277
- £15.00 (£14.00/St £5.00
- Friday 24 October
- BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street 1.10
CBSO CENTRE STAGE
Elspeth Dutch - horn
CBSO Colleagues
- Beethoven
- Sextet for two horns and strings Opus 81a
- John Ireland
- Sextet for horn, clarinet and strings
CBSO Society Ltd 0121 767 4050 or www.cbso.co.uk £7.50
- Saturday 25 October
- MALVERN
Great Malvern Priory 2.00
ALDWYN VOICES
Stuart Nicholson - conductor
Carleton Etherington - organ
- Mouton
- Nesciens Mater
- Lallouette
- O mysterium ineffabile
- Durufle
- Ubi caritas & Tu es petrus
- Villette
- Ave verum & O salutaris hostia
- Duruflé
- Fugue on the theme of the Carillon, Soissons Cathedral
- Messiaen
- O sacrum convivium
- Vaughan Williams
- Three Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes
- Vaughan Williams
- Silence and Music, Psalm 47
- Autumn in Malvern Festival 01684 892277
- £7.50
- Tuesday 28 October
- CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room 8.00
YCAT TRIO
Adam Walker - flute Bartholomew La Follette - cello John Reid - piano
- Haydn
- Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano in G Hob.XV 15
- Prokofiev
- Sonata for Flute and Piano in D Opus 94
- Brahms
- Sonata for cello and piano No 1 in E minor Opus 38
- Weber
- Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano in G minor J259
- Cheltenham Music Society 01242 227979
- £12.00 & £8.00
- Friday 31 October
- ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester near Uttoxeter 8.00
ZOE RAHMAN - piano
IDRIS RAHMAN - clarinet
OLI HAYHURST - double bass
GENE CALDERAZZO - drums
KULJIT BHAMRA - percussion/tabla
Zoe Rahman, the Mercury Music Prize nominated pianist and composer, collaborates with her brother, Idris Rahman, on jazz inspired interpretations of Bengali music, including the songs of Rabindranath Tagore, Abbasuddin and Hemanta Mukherjee. An utterly compelling and brilliant meeting of musical worlds.
- Abbotsholme Arts Society 01543 263304
- £15.00 (£5.00)