Classical Concerts in Worcestershire UK
A selection of forthcoming music in and around Elgar country

18 February 2012
 
7.15pm
Adrian Boult Hall
Paradise Place
Birmingham
B3 3HG
United Kingdom

Details:
Birmingham Box Office
Web site
+44 (0)121 245 4455

£16, Student (16+) £4. Children under 16 free if accompanied by an adult
John McCabe and the Conservatoire Tutors Ensemble

*John McCabe (piano)

The Conservatoire Tutors Ensemble:
Nathaniel Vallois (violin)
John Todd (cello)
Richard Lewis (double bass)
Robert Markham (piano)

Schubert: Fantasy in C for violin and piano, D934
Britten: Lachrymae
*McCabe: Berceuse for piano (World première - BCMS commission)
BCMS Composition Prize-winning work (World première)
Schubert: Quintet in A, D667 (Trout)

Birmingham Chamber Music Society

Tickets available at the door or in advance from the Birmingham Box Office at Birmingham Central Library
 
10 March 2012
 
7.30pm
Malvern Theatres
Great Malvern
Worcestershire
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site
Britten: St Nicolas

Simon Berridge, tenor
Malvern Festival Chorus
Iain Sloan, conductor

 
17 March 2012
 
7.30 pm
St Mary's Church
Pembridge
Herefordshire
United Kingdom

Details:
Robert Anderson, The Garth, Pembridge, Herefordshire
+44 (0)1544 388292

£25 (cheques payable to Pembridge PCC - please enclose stamped, addressed envelope)
Concert in memory of Simon Boosey

Marcus Farnsworth (baritone)
Alberni String Quartet

Mozart: String Quartet in C, K465 (Dissonance)
McCabe: Silver Nocturnes (String Quartet No 6, with baritone) (world premiere)
Barber: Dover Beach for baritone and string quartet
Dvorak: String Quartet in F, Op 96 (American)

Proceeds to be divided between Pembridge Church and the Presteigne Festival
 
24 March 2012
 
7pm
Thinktank Science Museum Planetarium
Millennium Point
Birmingham
B4 7XG
United Kingdom

£12, 10 and 8
Gustav Holst's Space Opera

Neil Arthur Williams, musicologist and Holst scholar

Tickets are now on sale for Gustav Holst’s Space Opera, a superb double-bill featuring some visual hi-tech wizardry and edutainment in Dolby Digital sound at the Thinktank Science Museum Planetarium at Millennium Point, Birmingham at 7pm on 24th March 2012.

Full details and online booking can be found here: http://www.thinktank.ac/page.asp?section=996§ionTitle=Space+Opera

If you also click on the Space Opera website link, you will gain some idea of how wonderful, amazing and hi-tech the 360-degree panoramic dome show part of the evening will be. The first-half of the double bill show is an audio-visual illustrated lecture by Neil Arthur Williams entitled, Gustav Holst’s The Planets: From Hollywood to Bollywood and Beyond! (An Incredible Tale of How One of the Most Cherished Works of the Classical Concert Hall Has Gone on to Inspire and Influence Worldwide Popular Culture in Television, Movies, Sci-Fi, Sport, Multimedia and Rock, Pop & Jazz.)

Aside from being a self-employed clinical hypnotherapist and freelance writer and composer, Neil Arthur Williams is one of the world’s leading scholars of Gustav Holst and The Planets and his expertise in these subjects was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 programme in April 2011. As well as being a published musicologist, he is also an historian of popular culture, both of which areas of expertise will be brought into play when he delivers his first-half audio-visual illustrated lecture of the double bill, Gustav Holst’s The Planets: From Hollywood to Bollywood and Beyond!

 
25 May 2012 until 27 May 2012
 
Highnam
Gloucestershire
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site
Carducci Festival

The Carducci Quartet
Emma Johnson, clarinet
Roderick Williams, baritone
Julius Drake, piano

 
15 June 2012
 
7.30pm
Civic Hall
Stratford-on-Avon
Warwickshire
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site
Music for trumpet and orchestra

Simon Desbruslais, trumpet
Orchestra Of The Swan
David Curtis, conductor

Tippett: Little Music for Strings
Deborah Pritchard: New work for trumpet and orchestra (first performance)
A group of madrigals
Saxton: Psalm for trumpet and orchestra
McCabe: new work for trumpet and orchestra (first performance)
Tippett: Divertimento on 'Sellenger's Round'

 
16 June 2012
 
7.30pm
The Priory
Great Malvern
Worcestershire
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site
An evening of French Music

Malvern Festival Chorus
Iain Sloan, conductor

To include:
Fauré: Requiem
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine

 
23 August 2012 until 28 August 2012
 
St Andrew's Church
Presteigne
Powys
United Kingdom

Details:
Web site
Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts

 


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