Concert Run-Down for the Next Two Weeks - 7-16 October 2011 !!!

NB - this post is for October 2011!!

'run-down for October 2012' will come out soon

Meanwhile there is a post showing

what's on for the last week of September 2012

Music for String Quartet and Organ

Powderham Castle Friday 7 October 7.30pm

Wu String Quartet – International prizewinners
Paul Morgan – Emeritus organist of Exeter Cathedral

String Quartets:          Haydn Op.77 No.1
                                    Mendelssohn Op.80
                                    Dvorak Op. 106
Organ Concerto:        JS Bach - reconstruction

                                    In the James Wyatt Music Room

Tickets (£14) from Powderham Castle, 01626 890243

Conductor Andrew Daldorph

Milmer Requiem

Exeter Cathedral Saturday 8 October 7.30pm

East Devon Choral Society

Exeter Chamber Choir

Exeter Concert Orchestra

Conductor: Andrew Daldorph

Holst: St Paul's Suite

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 3

Handel: Zodok the Priest

Peter Milmer: Requiem

Tickets: from £10 (including concessions)

Exeter Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080

St Davids Players

Exeter Barnfield Theatre

Tue-Sat 11-15 October 7.30pm

Gilbert & Sullivan

The Yeomen of the Guard

Another chance to hear

Mezzo-Soprano Carolyn Harries

singing contralto as the

housekeeper of the Tower

Dame Carruthers.

Tickets: £13 (student/child £10)

Barnfield Box Office: 01392 270891 (10am-4pm)

Quaytickets: 08432 080500  24 hr (to be listed soon)

http://www.stdavidsplayers.co.uk/

http://www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk/

http://www.quaytickets.com/

Beacon Piano Trio

Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth

Wednesday 12 October 12.30pm

Piano: Joyce Clarke

Violin: Anna Cockroft

'Cello: Ruth Lass

Free Admission, retiring collection

The Two Moors Festival - Opening Recital

St Andrew's Church Ashburton

Thursday 13 October 7.30pm

Johannes Brahms 1864:

A series of beautifully written monologues

describing Brahms' work with Clara Schumann

and Josef Joachim during this very creative year,

and performances of Brahms two great compositions:

Variation on Schumann's 'Letzer Gedanke' ('Last Thought')

D Minor Piano Concerto (first UK performance)
Piano: Christoph Berner
Piano: Ashley Wass
Narration: Ian Price
Script: Sarah Adie
Tickets: £18-22 (numbered)
Box Office: 01643 831006

The Two Moors Festival
Nine days of classical concerts
across Dartmoor and Exmoor
Thursday 13 - Saturday 22 October
http://www.thetwomoorsfestival.com/2011/Concerts2011.htm

An Evening of Rich Polyphony & Lute Songs
Buckfast Abbey Saturday 15 October 7.30pm
Counterpoint Choir
Musical Director: David Acres
Counter-Tenor: James Bowman
Lutenist: Dorothy Linell
Byrd, Dowland, Lassus, Palestrina, Purcell, Tallis . . .
Tickets: £14 (advance £12)
01392 490398CounterpointVox@aol.com
http://www.counterpoint.org.uk/concerts.html


Classical Concert Series
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Sunday 16 October 7.30pm
Piano Soloist: John Lill
Mozart: Sonata in D K576
Beethoven Sonata in C Op 53 'Waldstein'
Chopin: Ballade No 4 
in F minor Op 52
Liszt: Sonata in B minor
Tickets: £16.50 (student standby £8)
Box: 01392 493493http://www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/
Future Concerts:
Tim Lowe, 'Cello/James Baillieu, Piano Sun 27 Nov
Sitkovetsky Piano Trio Sun 5 Feb 2012
Navarra String Quartet Sun 4 March 2012