Saturday 15 October 2011

Concerts for November and December

Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
Bradninch Folk Club, Castle Hotel
Tuesday 1 November 8pm
Chaturanga Guitar and Violin
sound samples


Lunchtime Concert
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 2 November 12.30
David Lee and David Southerns
Piano and Organ duets
Admission Free retiring collection


Thursday 3 November 7.30pm
Conductor: Krzysztof Urbanski
Violin: Alina Pogostkina
My Country
Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1
Antonin Dvořák: Violin Concerto
Bedrich Smetana: Ma Vlast
Tickets: £35/£29/£21/£17.50/£11.50
Generous concessions and season tickets available
Student stand-by £5
BSO Kids - under 18 (under 13 accompanied) £1
Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080




Autumn Music
Southernhay Church Exeter
Friday 4 November 7.30pm
Songs and Clarinet Favourites with Piano
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Paul Reade's 'Kitchen Garden Suite'
Franz Schubert 'Shepherd on the Rock'
Gabriel Fauré, Gerald Finzi
Soprano: Janet MacDonald
Baritone: Iain McDonald
Clarinet: Philip Bonser
Piano: Margaret Chave
Tickets £5



Devon Baroque
Dartington Great Hall Sunday 6 Nov 3pm Birds, Beasts & Battles
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Die Musikalische Fechtschul
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Sonata Representativa
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Battalia à 10
Carlo Farina: Capriccio Stravagante
Cyriacus Wilche: Battaglia
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3

Tickets: £18 (student £5)
01803 847070
http://www.dartington.org/arts/birds-beasts-and-battles

Bach Cantata Service
Exeter Cathedral Quire
Sunday 6 November 6pm
J. S. Bach: Cantata 48
St Peter's Singers of Exeter Cathedral
Exeter Bach Society
(This is an Anglican Church Service.
   There is no charge for admission.)



Exeter Singers - Concert for FORCE
St Margaret's Church Topsham
Tuesday 8 November 7.30pm
Choral music from the reign of Henry VIII
to the present day.
Director: Tony Yeates
Tickets: £6 (includes refeshments)
in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity


The Threepenny Opera
Matthews Hall Topsham
Tue - Fri  8-11 November
Topsham Estuary Players
Tickets: £7.50 (Fri sold out)
www.topshamestuaryplayers.org.uk


Soprano Lunchtime Recital
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 9 November 12.30pm
Soprano: Mary O'Shea
Piano: John Scarfe
 1. Where E'er You Walk (Handel)
 2. Gia il sole dal Gange (Scarlatti)
 3. When I Am Laid In Earth (Purcell)
 4. Bist du bei mir (Stolzel)
 5. Voi che sapete (Mozart)
 6. Standchen (Schubert)
 7. Der Nussbaum (Schumann)
 8. Widmung (Schumann)
 9. Fair House of Joy (Quilter)
10. Ophelia's Song (Maconchy)
Admission Free, retiring collection


Tasty Music'Cello Chaconne
Bicton College
Wednesday 9 November 12.30pm
'Cellists: Hilary Boxer & Jane Pirie
Tickets: £10 (includes lunch & wine)
Box: 01395 562300


Howells' Requiem
Church of St Michael & All Angels Pinhoe
Friday 11 November 9pm
A Concert for Remembrance
The Starling Octet
a capela singing by candlelight
readings and war poetry
Admission  Free  retiring collection




Classics Galore!
Exeter University Great Hall
Saturday 12 November 7.30pm
Strauss: Wine, Women and Song
Walton: Crown Imperial
Tchaikovsky: Valse des Fleurs
Vivaldi: Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Handel: Hallelujah Chorus/Zadok the Priest
(& an aria from 'Rinaldo' - Lascia ch'io pianga)
Coates: The Knightsbridge March
Lloyd Weber: Medley
Langford: Marching with Sousa
Jerusalem, Rule Britannia, Pomp and Circumstance
Exeter Symphony Orchestra
Lympstone SWT Brass Band
Ottery Choral Society
St David's Players
Soprano: Penny Daw
Tickets:
Gallery: £16.50 - !Sold Out!
Gallery Box: £12.50
Auditorium: £12.50 (U16 £7.50)
From 'Classics Galore': 01392 832405
classics@classicsgalore.co.uk
Auditorium tickets also from Exeter Visitor Centre,
Dix's Field - 01392 665885
http://www.classicsgalore.co.uk/index.html





Remembrance Concert
St George's Church Tiverton
Saturday 12 November 7.30pm
East Devon Choral Society
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Soprano: Lucy Bray
Baritone: Oli Peat
Peter Milmer: 'Requiem' (q.v.)
Howard Goodall: Eternal Light
Nigel Walsh: Pie Jesu
John Rutter: "The Lord Bless and Keep You"
Tickets: £10 (child £4)
Box Office: 01884 253494


Tasty Music'Cello Chaconne
The Corn Barn, Cullompton
Sunday 13 November 4pm
'Cellists: Hilary Boxer & Jane Pirie
Tickets: £5 (includes tea and cakes)
Box: Yta Batchelor, 01884 32107




ENGLISH  TOURING  OPERA
               (15-20 November)

BuxtehudeMembra Jesu Nostri
Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh
Tuesday 15 November 7.30pm
In collaboration with:
The Royal School of Music
Tickets: £12 unreserved
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
boxoffice@exeternorthcott.co.uk


Handel: Flavio
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Wednesday 16 November 7.30pm
English Translation:
Soprano: Paula Sides
Counter Tenor: Clint van der Linde
Bass Bariton: Andrew Slater
- Pre Show Talk -
Tickets: £17-30
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
boxoffice@exeternorthcott.co.uk

Henry PurcellThe Fairy Queen
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Thursday 17 November 7.30pm
Production: Thomas Guthrie
Set Design: Roger Butlin
(who died 23 July this year, aged 76)
Tenor: Mark Wilde
(Titus in 'La Clemenza di Tito' 23&26 March)
- Pre Show Talk -
Tickets: £17-30
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
boxoffice@exeternorthcott.co.uk


HandelXerxes
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Friday and Saturday 18 & 19 November 7.30pm
Nicholas Hytner's English translation
Soprano: Laura Mitchell
- Pre Show Talk on 18 November -


Tickets: £17-30
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493


Carlo Gesualdo: Tenebrae Music
Southernhay United Reformed Church
Saturday 19 November 4pm
Motet for Six Male Voices
with readings from Gesualdo's letters and journals
Tickets: £7.50 unreserved
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
boxoffice@exeternorthcott.co.uk

JSBachCantatas 154, 156, 159 & 161
Church of the Holy Cross, Crediton
Sunday 20 November 3pm
In collaboration with:
Holy Cross Church Choir
With soloists and period players from:
The Old Street Band
Tickets: £8 unreserved
Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
boxoffice@exeternorthcott.co.uk

- - - - -  End of ETO Tour - - - - -


Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Exeter University Great Hall
Friday 18 November 7.30pm
Greatest Hits
Conductor: Gui Pinheiro
Piano: Alexander Romanovsky
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Overture
Bizet: Carmen Suite
Pre-Concert Talk in the Lower Exam Hall: 6.40pm
Tickets: £11.50 - £35
Season Ticket reductions
Concessions: 50% off
Student Standby: £5
BSO Kids (U18, U13 accompanied): £1


Ballet Theatre UK
Barnfield Theatre
Friday 18 November 7.30pm
Hans Christian Anderson: The Snow Queen
Tickets: £15 (£13/11)
Box Office 01392 270891 (Mon-Fri 10am-4pm)
Quay Tickets 08432 080500 (24 Hour - 5p per min)
www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk


Broadclyst Coffee and Music
Broadclyst Parish Church
Saturday 19 November 10.30 for 11am
John Scarfe: Organ Recital

Denis Bédard (b. 1950 Quebec): Andantino and Fantasy
Joseph Rheinberger (1839-1901 Liechtenstein): Cantilène Sonata
( - listen out for the bass line from Bach's 'Adagio in C')
Johann Goggried Walther (1684-1748 Thuringia - a cousin of Bach)
 - Violin Concerto after Joseph Meck (1690-1758)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937 Paris): Berceuse & Lied
Gaston Bélier (1863-1938 Paris) Toccata in D minor
( - more bass in the style of Bach - listen for the pedal line)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750 Weimar)
 - Chorale Prelude "Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier."

Admission Free retiring collection


Clyst Valley Choral Society
St Margaret's Church Topsham
Saturday 19 November 7.30pm
Sunday 20 November 7.30pm
Bach: Nun Danket Alle Gott
Charpentier: Te Deum
Schubert: Mass in G
Soprano: Janet MacDonald
Tenor: Christopher Hunt
Bass: Julian Rippon
Organist: Mark Perry
Conductor: Paul Stock
Tickets: £8 (advance £7)

The Topsham Bookshop: 013921 877895
(formerly Joel Segal Books)
or Box Office: 01392 271858
www.clystvalleychoral.org.uk


Exeter Festival Chorus

Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 19 November 7.30pm
John Rutter: Gloria
Bob Chilcott: Salisbury Vespers
Exeter Festival Chorus
Bath Camerata
Devon County Junior Choir
Wells Cathedral School Brass Ensemble
Conductor: Nigel Perrin
Tickets: £10-22  08456 005441
Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
http://www.exeterfestivalchorus.org.uk/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=148


Voces Renaissance Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 19 November 7.30pm
Conductor: Martyn Warren
Cantor: Michael Vian Clark
Tomas Luis De Victoria (1548-1611)
'Requiem for Six Voices'
Giovanni Francesco Anerio (1567-1630)
'Dies Irae'
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1526-94)
'Sicut Servus'
Admission Free   retiring collection
Info: 01626 369622
www.voceschoral.org

Soprano Lunchtime Recital
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 23 November 12.30pm
Soprano: Dorothy Ferrier
Piano: Dorothy Worthington
Admission Free, retiring collection

Schubert's Winterreise
St Mary Arches Church Exeter
Wednesday 23 November 7.30pm
Baritone: Alex Poulton
Accompanist: Andrew Daldorph
Tickets: £10 (includes wine and refreshments)
Proceeds in aid of the St Stephen's Project
Box Office: 01392 851207


'Floating Messages and Fading Frequencies'
Dartington Great Hall
Wednesday 23 November 8pm
Athelas Sinfonietta
Conductor: Pierre-André Valade
The Annie Gosfield Trio
(sampler keyboard, electric guitar, percussion)
WORLD PREMIERE:Annie Gosfield: 'Floating Messages and Fading Frequencies'
(The story of secret wartime signals in music)
Karsten Fundal: 'Flame & Citron'
(Theme to Danish film about resistance fighters)
Annie Gosfield: 'EWA7'
(Annie's signature tune - the music of industry)
Tickets: £14 (student/U16 £5)
Box Office: 01803 847070
www.dartington.org/arts


Alexandra Dariescu and Marion Wood
Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra
Exeter Cathedral
Thursday 24 November 7.30

(BEWARE LATE NIGHT SHOPPING - PARK EARLY!)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1
Piano Soloist: Alexandria Dariescu
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Conductor: Marion Wood
Leader: Clare Smith

Tickets: £15 - front 11 rows numbered
               £12 - rows 12-20 unreserved
                £10 - back row unreserved
                  £8 - side aisles unreserved
                    £5 - side aisle, NUS card or U18
                      Under 16 accompanied - FREE
Exeter Tourist Information Centre, Dix's Field
01392 665885 (9.30am-4.30pm Mon-Sat)
In person from Devon Strings Workshop
(10am-6pm Wed-Sat)
Credit Cards £1.50 extra
Possible tickets available on the door.
Poetry & Jazz & Supper
Sladers Yard, West Bay, Bridport
Friday 25 November 7.30pm
Dan Shackell & Friends play jazz
Local poets recite their new works:
John Torrance, Kim Squirrell
Svetlana Savrosova, Rowland Molony
Tickets: £7.50 (with supper £17.50)
Sladers Yard: 01308 459511

Music For Two Pianos
Exeter Cathedral
Friday 25 November 7.30pm
Including Rachmaninov: Second Suite
Andrew Millington
David Davies
Tickets: £12 (student £5)
The Cathedral Shop 01392 271354

The Pearl of Africa Children's Choir
Exeter Cathedral Quire
Saturday 26 November 12.45 pm
20th Tour
Admission Free: retiring collection



Wellington Choral Society
St John's Church Wellington
Saturday 26 November 7.30pm
Musical Director: Laurence Blyth
Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
George Shearing: Songs and Sonnets
Eric Whitacre: The Seal Lullaby
Morten Lauridsen: Sure on this Shining Night
Tickets: £10 (student/child £3)
Box Office: 01823 400964


"South Molton Sings Messiah"
South Molton Pannier Market

Sunday 27 November 6.30pm
Refreshments and entertainments
before the performance.
Mass Choir from across the South West
Soprano: Tina Gladwyn
Contralto: Emma Hewitson
Tenor: David Webb
Bass John Hobbs
Proceeds to Radio Devon Air Ambulance Fund


Cabaret with 'MUSIC DECO'
Kennaway House Sidmouth
Sunday 27 November 6.45 for 7.30pm
Soprano: Kate Walker
Clarinets/Saxophones: Chris Gradwell
Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Tickets: £8  Box: 07583 796855
glyn.holford@sky.com


The Pearl of Africa Children's Choir
St Peter's School Exeter
Monday 28 November 6.30 pm
Sorry - no information on tickets/admission

'Duo Teresa Carreño'
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 30 November 12.30pm
(Beautiful music from Venezuela
Piano: Anna Laura Manero
'Cello: Arturo Serna
Admission Free, retiring collection


Exeter Bach Society
will perform
Bach's 'Christmas Oratorio'
St David's Church, Exeter

Saturday 3 December
('Cellos Hilary Boxer, Ruth Lass,
Double Bass Imogen Fernando)
Exeter Bach Society
St David's Church Exeter
Saturday 3 December 7.30pm
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio
Conductor: Nicholas Marshall
Orchestra Leader: Anna Cockroft
Soprano: Raphaela Papadakis
Mezzo-Soprano: Juliet Curnow
Tenor: Thomas Hobbs
Bass: Julian Rippon
Tickets: £15 (student £7.50)
Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
Roger Churchward: 01392 468867
www.exeterbachsociety.org.uk


A Concert for Advent
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 3 Dec 7.30pm
Antiphon Choir
Director: Matthew Cann
Fantastic programme, including:
Gabriel Jackson: 'I look from afar'
Thomas Tallis: Videte Miraculum
Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
Henryk Gorecki: Totas Tuas
Eric Whitacre: Lux Arumque
Tickets: £16 (advance £14)
Info: antiphonvox@gmail.com


Exeter Chamber Choir
The Great Barn Higher Ashton
Saturday 3 December 7.30pm
'A Concert of Seasonal Music'
Admission Free retiring collection



Tasty Music
'The Corn Barn' Cullumpton
Sunday 4 Decmber 4pm
'Festive Flute'
Flute: Ruth Molins (née Ruth Avis!)
'Cello: Hilary Boxer
Tickets: £5
Contact Yta Batchelor 01884 32107



Music for Advent and Christmas
James Wyatt Music Room, Powderham Castle
Tuesday 6 December 7.30pm
Choristers and Gentlemen of Exeter Cathedral
Director: Andrew Millington
Tickets: £14  Box: 01626 890243


Exeter Chamber Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Tuesday 6 December 7.30pm
'A Service of Christmas Music and Readings'
Admission Free retiring collection


Lunchtime Recital of Piano and Clarinet
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 7 December 12.30pm
Piano: Frances Waters
Clarinet: Kevin Hurst
Admission Free, retiring collection


Tasty Music
Bicton College Music Room
Wednesday 7 Decmber 12.30pm
'Festive Flute'
Flute: Ruth Molins (née Ruth Avis!)
'Cello: Hilary Boxer
Tickets: £10 (includes lunch and wine)
College Reception: 01395 562300


Nonclassical
Exeter Bikeshed Theatre
Sunday 11 December 7.30pm
Cutting edge modern music
Talented classical musicians
Piano: Rebecca Willson
Flute: Ruth Avis
Admission: £3




Dartington Community ChoirDartington Community Choir
Dartington Great Hall
Sunday 11 December 7.30
Baroque Orchestra
Conductor: Johathan Watts
Counter-Tenor: Nicholas Clapton
Bach: Christmas Oratorio
(parts 1 & 2 in German)
Handel: Messiah, Part 1
Tickets: £14 (student £5)
!! Contact the box office early
to join the waiting list for tickets:
01803 847070  (12.30 - 7.00 pm)



Lunchtime Recital of Piano, Soprano & Baritone
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 14 December 12.30pm
Piano: Frances Waters
Soprano: Val Howels
Baritone: John Brindley
Admission Free, retiring collection



Exeter Chamber Choir
St Mary Arches Church Exeter
Tuesday 20 December 7.30pm
'A Concert of Christmas Music'
featuring:
Nick Cornish: Oboe & Saxophones
Todd Gibson Cornish: bassoon
(Father and son)
Tickets: £10 (in aid of the St Stephen's Project)
Box Office: 01392 851207
www.clystvalleychoral.org.uk