MUSIC TO YOUR EARS AUTUMN ISSUE IS OUT

NEW SEASON STARTS 1 SEPTEMBER

This August has certainly seen some rain, but musically there has been something of a drought in the Warwick and Leamington area.  The good news is that the new season kicks off on Wednesday 1 September with an organ recital by a leading local performer, Colin Druce, in the church of St Mary Magdalene in Lillington.

Organ recitals dominate the month with further Wednesday evenings in Lillington featuring Thomas Koegh from Birmingham Conservatoire on 8 September, Peter Summers from Stratford on 15 September, Adrian Moore, Director of Music at Holy Trinity Leamington on 22 September and Ruaraidh Sutherland from St Mary’s Church Warwick on 29 September.  Promoted by Lillington Church Music, all these recitals are free.

On Saturday 25 September Ruaraidh Sutherland marks the 30^th anniversary of the installation of the Nicholson Organ at St Mary’s Church Warwick with a Birthday Concert which will include works by Liszt, Bach, Langlais and Hollins.

The same evening the outstanding British violinist Tasmin Little, accompanied by John Lenehan performs at St Mark’s Church Bilton in the series promoted by Music at Leamington Hastings that has had to be transferred from there, due to the fire last winter.

The Midland Concert Orchestra gives a Prom evening for charity in the Guy Nelson Hall Warwick on 12 September and the Korean pianist Young-Choon Park is the soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 20.  On 18 September in a Charity Concert for the High Sheriff, in the Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick, the Oriflamme Chamber Ensemble under Antoine Mitchell performs wind serenades by Strauss, Gounod and Mozart.

On 26 September the Leamington Chamber Orchestra returns to the Town Hall with their conductor Richard Laing and the highlight will be a rare performance in this area of the Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with Tom Kemp and Nick Stringfellow as soloists.

The most intriguing musical event of the month is “Monteverdi’s Flying Circus”, another eagerly-awaited collaboration between Kit Hesketh-Harvey and Armonico Consort.  This takes place on 24 and 25 September at Warwick’s Bridge House Theatre.

The Autumn issue of Music to your Ears contains details of some eighty concerts going into next January.  Read it all on www.musictoyourears.org.uk