Jackdaws Songbirds are feeling good to be singing! They have tales to tell: songs of seas, rivers, fields and factories, ditties from way across the globe to right here in Frome. What more could you want? Oh yes: heavenly homemade treats and teas. Retiring collection for Jackdaws Educational Trust.
Jazz pianist and composer John Law's new duo with brilliant London guitarist Ant Law (no relation!). Interweaving guitar and piano lines, lush melodies and textures, and pulsing rhythms. Come and hear one of the UK's leading contemporary guitarists, a globe-trotting superstar of the UK jazz scene, Concert kindly supported by All Instruments, Westbury.
Christ Church Singers and conductor Alan Burgess present two contrasting choral masterworks; Mozart's Vesperae solennes de confessore, including the famous Laudate Dominum with soprano solo, and Zoltan Kodaly's powerful & mystical Missa Brevis, composed in the shadow of the Second World War.
After deep-diving into the world of British folk song and classical music, Madeleine Athané-Best (Master's student at the Paris Conservatoire) fell in love with its unique personality. Accompanied by her friend Mathilde Nguyen, experience this sound world through music by Rebecca Clarke, Benjamin Britten, Frank Bridge, George Benjamin and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Multi award winning British pianist Nicola Meecham presents an exciting programme featuring Beethoven's totemic Appassionata Sonata, a selection from Janacek's 'On an Overgrown Path' and Chopin's Mazurka in A flat major Op 59 No 2 and Ballade No 4 in F minor Op 52. Nicola's playing has been described as "sensational" (Gramophone).
This husband and wife team present a feast of musical delights including works by Schubert, Dvorak and Debussy.
Organ music by composers with names beginning with letters from E to I, following last year's 'Alphabet 1' recital by Ann Burgess. This varied programme includes works by Elgar, Franck, Guilmant, Handel and Ireland.
Richard Pinnock and Gareth Burgess present a programme of sumptuous songs from the early 20th-century Elizabethan revival, including cycles by Roger Quilter and Ivor Gurney, a bouquet of songs by Peter Warlock, and piano music by Herbert Howells and others.
Lucy Hewson (violin) and Matthew Greswell (cello) perform Zoltán Kodály’s breathtaking duo. Immersed in Hungarian folk music from an early age, Kodály later collected and transcribed folk music with Béla Bartók in the early years of the 20th Century. His fabulous 1914 duo combines these traditions with his Western musical training in Paris and the […]
Experience masterpieces by of one of England’s greatest composers, Orlando Gibbons, 400 years since his death. His memorial in Canterbury Cathedral describes him as “an upright and charming man. . . now transcribed to the celestial choir”. Enjoy the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis from his Second Service alongside his eight-part anthem “O clap your hands”.
Enjoy ten very short and different pieces of music played by Ann Burgess on the pedal organ and the box organ. Once you’ve heard the music, young pianists can try playing a short piece on the beautiful box organ themselves! Open to children and curious adults of all ages. No unaccompanied children. Donations to church […]
Pianist Charles Wiffen once again joins Quorum to perform Brahms' magnificent piano quintet alongside Hugo Wolf's charming Italian Serenade. The programme concludes with the passionate second quartet by Tchaikovsky.
