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| The Saint David's Players Gilbert & Sullivan's "Princess Ida" ( or "Castle Adamant") Barnfield Theatre: Tuesday 9 - Saturday 13 October Penny Daw is Princess Ida, founding a women's university on feminist lines In 1884 this was satirical - Gilbert's ideas coming from Tennyson's 1847 pastiche poem 'The Princess' (photo kindly provided by Christopher Wilson) |
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| Midge Mullin is Ben Mike Gilpin is Gus - waiting in the basement . . . |
Substance & Shadow Theatre
Matthews Hall, Topsham
Sun 30 Sept & Mon 1 Oct
City Gate, Ironbridge, Exeter
Wed 3 & Thur 4 October
(All performances 7.30pm)
Harold Pinter: The Dumb Waiter
Director: Rosie Mullin
Ben: Midge Mullin
Gus: Mike Gilpin
(see also: Exeter Alternative Theatre)
writer and performer in 'Self-Centred'by Bare Bones Theatre, Exeter Ignite.
Tickets: £7
Topsham
Topsham Bookshop: 01392 877895
Exeter
City Gate: on the door
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| Brian Moore leader of Wind Machine (reviews, info & tracks) |
Barnfield Theatre Exeter
Sunday 30 September 7.30pm
BIG BAND CLASSICS OF
COUNT BASIE
featuring:
trumpet: Brian Moore
vocals: Josie Smith
Tickets: £13
(disabled/senior: £11 student: £9)
Box Office: 01392 270891
book online
Barnfield website
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| David Southerns & David Lee |
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Wednesday 3 October 12.30pm
David Southerns and David Lee
Recital of piano and organ duets
Admission FREE
retiring collection
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| Rua Macmillan Trio bodhran: Adam Brown guitar: Tia Files violin: Rua Macmillan |
Dartington Great Hall
Thursday 4 October 8pm
Traditional Highland Music
Violin: Rua MacMillan
Guitar: Tia Files
Bodhran: Adam Brown
Supported by Devon Folk Duo
Nick Wyke and Becki Driscoll
Tickets: £12 (student £5)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Dartington website
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Exeter Barnfield Theatre
Tuesday 9 - Saturday 13 October 7.30pm
plus Saturday Matinee 2.00pm
PRINCESS IDA (or Castle Adamant)
Producer & Director of Choreography:
Susan Gunn-Johnson
Director of Music: Nicky Perry
Princess Ida: Penny Daw
King Hildebrand: Tim Hunt
Hilarion: Mark Hurford
Lady Blanche: Carolyn Harries
Scinthius: Paul Luffman
Florian: Adrian Fox
Cyril: James Dunk
Tickets: £12/14
Box Office: 01392 270891 Mon-Fri 10-4
online: Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat 2.00 Sat 7.30
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| left: Janet Macdonald Phil Bonser & Margaret Chave above: Iain McDonald (with Michéle Banting at Glenorchy) |
Opera Glass
Exeter Central Library Music Room
Thursday 11 October 1.10pm
AUTUMN SERENADE
Songs Duets & Clarinet Favourites
Vaughan Williams, Faure, Finzi, Spohr
Bizet, Gershwin, Thomas Dunhill
Soprano: Janet Macdonald
Baritone: Iain McDonald
Piano: Margaret Chave
Clarinet: Philip Bonser
Tickets: £4
Box Office 01392 71858
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| Hannah Martin & Phillip Henry |
Phil Henry & Hannah Martin
The Barrel House Totnes
Thursday 11 October 8.30pm
(Doors open 8.00pm)
Chaturanga guitar: Phillip Henry
Violin/banjo: Hannah Martin
Tickets: £7
The Two Moors Festival
Thursday 11 October - Sunday 21 October
Thursday 11th: All Saints' Church, Dulverton
7.30pm Pianist Martin Roscoe & the Brodsky Quartet
Friday 12th: Dunster
11am Yarn Market Hotel - talk by Alan Caig on Exeter Museum
1.30pm St George's Church - The Two Moors Festival Ensemble
7.30pm The Tythe Barn - harpsichord Christopher Bucknall & string quartet
Saturday 13th: Ashburton
11am St Lawrence's Chapel - a talk by baritone Donald Maxwell
1pm St Andrew's Church - Young Musicians Platform Competition winners (incl. Lucy Bray)
7.30pm St Andrew's Church - Festival Ensemble & mezzo Charlotte Stephenson - Kathleen Ferrier
Sunday 14th: Widecombe-in-the-Moor
11am St Pancras's Church - Holy Communion
2pm Hay Tor Car Park - flautist Harry Winstanley - musical walk to the tor
7.30pm St Pancras's Church - Baritones Donald Maxwell and Marcus Farnsworth
Monday 15th: Tiverton - Hatherleigh - Exeter
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - violinist Tai Murray 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1.30pm St John's Church Hatherleigh - flautist Karhryn Thomas & schoolchildren - Pied Piper
7.30pm Exeter Cathedral - 'cellist Guy Johnston & Orchestra of the Swan - Haydn Concerto
Tuesday 16th: Tiverton - Okehampton
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - 'cellist Guy Johnson 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1.30pm All Saints' Okehampton - soprano Caroline MacPhie - Titanic Memorial
7.30pm All Saints' - flautist Kathryn Thomas & piano trio - Beethoven tribute with pre-show talk
Wednesday 17th: Tiverton - Witheridge - Tiverton
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1pm St John's Witheridge - violinist Heyeyoon Park & pianist Nareh Arghamanyan
4.30pm St John's - Richard Kay - talk about Royal portraits
7.30pm St Peter's Tiverton - Camaraderie Quartet - Book of Common Prayer 350th anniversary
Thursday 18th: Tiverton - Chagford - Tavistock
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - 'cellist Jing Zhao 'Season Ticket for Bach'
12.00pm St Michael's Chagford - David Davies/Martin Ford Psalms workshop
4.30pm St Michael's - Choral Evensong performed by workshop participants
7.30pm St Eustachius' Tavistock - The Military Wives Choir
Friday 19th: Tiverton - Simonsbath - Dunster
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - Harpist Keziah 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1.30pm St Luke's Simonsbath - Quintessence Brass Ensemble
7.30pm St George's Dunster - pianist Cédric Tiberghien Tribute to the Festival Bösendorfer grand
Saturday 20th: Withypool - North Molton - Barnstaple
11am Royal Oak Withypool - talk by Banjamin Mee on Dartmoor Zoo
1.30pm All Saints' North Molton - 4 Girls 4 Harps
7.30pm St Peter's Barnstaple - 2 guitarists John Williams & John Etheridge
Sunday 21st: All Saints' Church, Dulverton
11am Festival Eucharist (setting by Dom Gregory Murray)
1.30pm talk by Phyllida Lloyd on screening stage plays
7.30pm mezzo soprano Katarina Karnéus sings the Festival Finale
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| a highlight of last year's 'Two Moors Festival' Dandy tows the Vasari Quartet and audience in the 'Tivertonian' on the Grand Western Canal, Tiverton - see 'Memories of the Two Moors Festival' |
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| Joyce Clarke at the Arsenale Venice |
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Wednesday 10 October 12 for 12.30pm
Piano: Joyce Clarke
Edvard Grieg
'Gade' Opus 57 No 2
'Notturno' Opus 54 No 4
'Butterfly' Opus 43 No 1
(and one more - we hope!)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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| Joyce Clarke at Glenorchy |
'Prelude in G minor' Opus 23 No 5
Frédéric Chopin
'Barcarolle' Opus 60
(possibly a 'Valse Brillante' Opus 18/34)
Admission FREE
(retiring collection)
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| Anthem koor vour Kerkmusiek |
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Wednesday 10 October 1.15pm
Rachmaninov, Bruckner, Vaughan Williams
Admission FREE - retiring collection
('Anthem' will lead choral evensong at 5.30pm)
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| Daphne Cartwrigh (1945-2012) |
A Celebration of Daphne Cartwright
Sandford Village Hall
Saturday 13 October 7.30pm
Artist, Tutor, Actor
An event to celebrate the life, times and work
of Daphne Cartwright who most sadly died in June.
Come along and see, listen to and remember
the many sides of a person who inspired and
enriched the lives of so many people
from the local community and much further afield.
A fundraising event for the British Heart Foundation
and Crediton Arts Centre
Tickets: £6 Box: 01363 773260
book online from TicketSource
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| Andrew Daldorph conducts Exeter Chamber Choir St Peter's Church Shaldon (Friday 16 April 2011) |
St Peter's Church Shaldon
Saturday 13 October 7.30pm
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Saxophones: Chris Gradwell
Marimba: Edward Scull
Matthias Schmitt: Agnus Dei (marimba, choir)
Andrew Daldorph: 'Rise up my Love'
(voices, marimba, soprano saxophone)
Nigel Walsh (Exeter): 'In the Stillness'
6 songs for choir and piano with words by
Richard Skinner (after Julian of Norwich)
René Clausen: 'Tonight Eternity Alone'
Healey Willan: texts from 'Song of Solomon'
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| Ed Scull with marimba - see above |
Tickets: £10 (student £5 U16 FREE)
Box Office - Bradleys, Shaldon: 01626 873757
Helen Scull's Shaldon events website
see Choir websiteproceeds in aid of The Helen Foundation
This concert will be repeated:
Tuesday 16 October 7.30pm St Stephen's Exeter
(see below)
Ed Scull and Exeter Chamber Choir at Shaldon April 2011
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| James Bowman with Dorothy Linell (15 October 2011) |
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 13 October 7.30pm
AN EVENING OF HANDEL
(with Divertimento String Ensemble)
The choir will sing excerpts from:
'The Messiah'
'The Coronation of George II'
Countertenor James Bowman:
Arias from 'Solomon', 'Saul',
'Theodora', 'Judas Maccabaeus'
Tickets: £16 (advance £15)
01392 490398 or email:
CounterpointVox@aol.com
Counterpoint Website
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| Hannah Martin & Phillip Henry |
The Grapevine Exmouth
Sunday 14 October 8.30pm
(Doors open 7.45pm)
Chaturanga guitar: Phillip Henry
Violin/banjo: Hannah Martin
Tickets: £8 wegottickets
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| Andrew Daldorph conducts Exeter Chamber Choir for the St Stephen's Project (St Mary Arches Church Exeter Tuesday 20 December 2011) |
Exeter Chamber Choir
St Stephen's Church Exeter
Tuesday 16 October 7.30pm
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Saxophones: Chris Gradwell
Marimba: Edward Scull
Matthias Schmitt: Agnus Dei (marimba, choir)
Andrew Daldorph: 'Rise up my Love'
(voices, marimba, soprano saxophone)
Nigel Walsh: 'In the Stillness'
6 songs for choir and piano with words by
Richard Skinner (after Julian of Norwich)
René Clausen: 'Tonight Eternity Alone'
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| Chris Gradwell plays soprano saxophone with Andrew Daldorph ('Soarin High' at St Cyr's Tuesday 19 July 2011) |
Tickets: £10 (student £5 U16 FREE)
Box Office: 01392 851207
see Choir website
proceeds in aid of The St Stephen's Project
This concert is a repeat of:
Saturday 13 October 7.30pm St Peter's Shaldon
(see above)
Ed Scull and Exeter Chamber Choir at Shaldon April 2011
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| violin: Annabel Lainchbury |
St Margaret's Church Topsham
Wednesday 17 October 7.30pm
SOUTH WEST MUSIC SCHOOL
YOUNG ARTISTS PERFORMANCE SERIES
piano: Nina Savićević (11)
oboe: Matthew Jackson (14)
piano: Elle Lumb (15)
'cello: Xandier Baker (17)
violin: Annabel Lainchbury (18)
Tickets: £8 (U16 £5) on the door
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| Michael Francis |
Exeter University Great Hall
Thursday 18 October 7.30pm
TCHAIKOVSKY FOUR
Conductor: Michael Francis
'Cello Soloist: Paul Watkins
Ralph Vaughan Williams:
'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis'
Frederick Delius: 'Cello Concerto
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4
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| 'cello: Paul Watkins |
(Opposite the back of the Northcott)
for info call: 01202 644725
Tickets: TBA
Exeter Phoenix Box Office:
01392 667080 10am-8pm Mon-Sat
BSO website
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| piano: Riyad Nicolas |
St Paul's Church Honiton
Friday 19 October 1pm
(lunch from 12 noon)
PIANO RECITAL: Riyad Nicolas
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A flat
Frederic Chopin: Waltz Opus 34.1
4 Mazurkas Opus 24
3 Etudes Op 10.1,4 25.6
Ballade No 4
Tickets: £9
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| Show of Hands Miranda Sykes Phil Beer Steve Knightley |
Exeter University Great Hall
Friday 19 October 7.30pm
guitar/voice: Steve Knightley
violin/voice: Phil Beer
double bass: Miranda Sykes
Tickets: £17
Exeter Phoenix Box Office
01392 667080
wegottickets
West Devon Chorale
Buckfast Abbey
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| Michael Johnson conducts West Devon Chorale |
(Between Vespers and Compline)
THE FRENCH TRADITION
(aka IN PARADISUM)
Director: Michael Johnson
Organist: Christopher Moore
Mezzo-Soprano: Heather Reynolds
Bass: Peter Bawden
'Cello: Tirke Linnemann
Maurice Duruflé: 4 Gregorian Motets
Marcel Dupré: Cortège et Litanie Op19.2
Francis Poulenc:
Quatre Motets pour un temps de pénitence
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
Tickets: £10 (advance £8 student/child £3)
wegottickets West Devon Chorale website
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| The Aragon Guitar Quartet Julian Taylor, John Compton Alison Bendy, Petula Compton |
Glenorchy Church, Exmouth
Saturday 20 October 7.30pm
SPANISH & SOUTH AMERICAN
GUITAR MUSIC
'Grises y Soles' by Maximo Pugol
'Pastorale' by Ivan Andrews
'Adios Nonino' by Ástor Piazzolla
Tickets: £8
advance: 01392 411861 / 01395 266976
ivan.andrews@sky.com
all profits to the Bishop Simeon Trust
(Community projects in South Africa)
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| The Lighthouse Adam Tunnicliffe is Sandy Nicholas Merryweather is Blazes Richard Mosley-Evans is Arthur |
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Three Modern Operas - with English Lyrics
Wednesday 24 October 7.30pm
Peter Maxwell Davis: The Lighthouse
Director Ted Huffman
Conductor Richard Baker
Thursday 25 and Saturday 27 October 7.30pm
Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring
Director Christopher Rolls
Conductor Michael Rosewell
Mark Wilde, Jennifer Rhys Davies
Friday 26 October
7.30pm: Helen Chadwick 'Towards an Unknown Port'
a ten minute cycle of songs
in response to the following opera
sung by a local amateur choir
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| Mark Wilde is Albert Herring |
Viktor Ullmann: The Emperor of Atlantis
written with Peter Kien
in Terezin concentration camp
Producer James Conway
Accompanying Bach Cantata (in English)
'Christ lag in Todes Banden'
Tickets: £18-31
Box Office 01392 493493
Northcott website: Lighthouse/Herring/Atlantis
English Touring Opera website
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The Powderham Castle Kapellmeister Professor George Pratt |
James Wyatt Music Room
Friday 26 October 7.30pm
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
- works for 'cello & keyboard
- two solo 'cello suites
from the notebook of
Anna Magdalena Bach
- Errors in Anna's copy of
'Suite No 1'corrected
for the first time
(Exclusive!)
1769 Bryce-Seede organ & harpsichord:
Kapellmeister George Pratt
'Cello: Colin jackson
Tickets: £14
Call Emma (Powerham Castle office)
01626 890243 to book seats
(Students: ask if any remaining
FREE or ½-PRICE student tickets!)
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| Elizabeth Hornby |
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Saturday 27 October 1.15pm
pieces from Elizabeth's album:
'Lady of Lewesdon Hill'
(impressions of Dorset)
Admission FREE - retiring collection
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| James Boyd |
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| Susie Hodder-Williams Chris Caldwell |
St Michael's Church Chagford
Saturday 27 October 7.30pm
The Friends of St Michael's
present: music by Bach,
Debussy & Purcell
classical guitar: James Boyd
flute: Susie Hodder-Williams
saxophone: Chris Caldwell
Tickets: £12 - includes buffet
bookings: from Sally's News
01647 432215
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| Jasminka Stancul |
Exeter University Great Hall
Thursday 1 November 7.30pm
MOZART MAGIC
Don Giovanni Overture
Piano Concerto No 21
soloist: Jasminka Stancul
Idomeneo Ballet Music
Symphony No 29
conductor: Nicholas Collon
Tickets: gallery front £36
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| Nicholas Collon |
gallery box £21.50
ground £21.50 / £18 / £12
Exeter Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
book online
Exeter Alternative TheatreBarnfield Theatre, Exeter
Weds 31 Oct - Sat 3 Nov 8pm
A DARK VICTORIAN CABARET
An imagined re-opening of Exeter's
Theatre Royal - in 1889
'Before Dracula' - Bram Stoker in Exeter
'Lilly Laudanum' - danse macabre
'The Living Doll' - secrets of the music box
'Flaming Feathers' - can-can
'And then there was One' - Jack the Ripper
'Ms Johnson's Séance' - supernatural
'Kitty Brunel' - music hall songs
'The Phantom Juggler' - extraordinary skill
Tickets: £12.50 (student £10)
Box Office: 01392 270891
Barnfield website
Exeter Alternative Theatre website
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| The Laurence Blyth Singers in Exeter Cathedral Chapter House Soprano Josie Walledge, Counter-Tenor Laurence Blyth Baritone Matthew Cann, Tenor Edward Woodhouse Bass Julian Rippon 'Cello Hilary Boxer |
Exeter Cathedral
Friday 2 November 5.30pm
All Souls' Eucharist:
Eucharist of the Commemoration
of the Faithful Departed
Gabriel Fauré: 'Requiem Mass'
an Anglican church service - open to all
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| soprano: Keri Fuge |
1. St George's Church, Tiverton
Saturday 3 November 7.30pm
2. Dartington Great Hall
Sunday 4 November 3pm
BACH BY ARRANGEMENT
Harpsichordist & Director of Music:
Jonathan Watts
a) a parody of Pergolesi's 'Stabat Mater'
'Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden' (Psalm 51)
soprano: Keri Fuge, alto: Nicholas Clapton
b) a transcription of Harpsichord Concerto 6
Brandenburg Concerto IV
recorders: Alan Davis & James Risdon
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| alto: Nicholas Clapton |
Harpsichord Concerto in G minor BWV 975
harpshichord: Jonathan Watts
d) from a cantata by Bartolomeo Conti
'Languet anima mea'
soprano: Keri Fuge
Tickets: £18 (student/U18 £5)
Dartington: 01803 847070 (12.30-7pm)
Appearing soon on Dartington website
Tiverton: TIC 01884 255827
wegottickets
Devon Baroque website
'Café at 36' Cowick Street
Sunday 4 November 11.30am - 2.30pm
LATIN AMERICAN AND SPANISH
GUITAR MUSIC
Admission FREE
to book lunch: 01392 410352
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| Exeter Cathedral |
Exeter Cathedral
Sunday 4 November 6pm
Exeter Bach Society and St Peter's Singers
Cantata 150: 'Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich'
an Anglican church service - open to all
- followed by:
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| David Davies |
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Sunday 4 November 7pm
Director of Music: David Davies
A talk on pre-reformation church music
composer John Sheppard (1515-60)
with examples from the choir
Tickets: £10 details TBA
Exeter Bach Society website
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| Osiligi Maasai Warriors |
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Tuesday 6 November 1pm
Tribal songs and dances
Admission FREE - collection for:
'Osiligi Charity Projects'
(supporting Kenyan villages)
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| David Davies |
Mint Methodist Church Exeter
Wednesday 7 November 7.30pm
A FESTIVAL OF PSALMS
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
John Rutter: Psalmfest
Sir Edward Elgar: Great is the Lord
Organ: David Davies
Conductor: Andrew Millington
Tickets: £12 (student £10)
book online
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| 'cello: Oliver Gledhill |
Southernhay United Reformed Church
Saturday 10 November 7.30pm
ROMANTIC 'CELLO
Édouard Lalo: 'Cello Concerto in Dm (1876)
'cello soloist: Oliver Gledhill
George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad (1912)
(words by Alfred Edward Housman 1896)
Ralph Vaughan Williams: 4th Symphony (1935)
Tickets: details to follow
ESO website
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| Matthew Cann conducts 'Antiphon' Buckfast Abbey 3 December 2011 |
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 10 November 7.15pm
A TIME TO REMEMBER
plainsong: 'De Profundis'
Eric Whitacre: 'Lux Aurumque'
Herbert Howells: 'Requiem'
Matthew Cann:
'Call to Remembrance'
Samuel Barber: 'Agnus Dei'
Eric Whitacre: 'Sleep'
Benjamin Britten:
'Hymn ot St Cecilia'
plainsong: 'Dies Irae'
Douglas Guest:
'They shall not grow old'
Thomas Tallis: 'Te Lucis'
Musical Director: Matthew Cann
Tickets: £15 (adviance £10 formBooking: David Acres 01392 490398 or email: antiphonvox@gmail.com
(Hear Antiphon sing John Sanders' 'The Reproaches' on youtube)
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| Four members of the Divertimento Sextet 'cello: Vicky Evans viola: Andrew Gillett violins: Mary Eade & Lindsay Braga (photo: CecilHatfield/Dorota Turowska) |
St John's Church Totnes
Sunday 11 November 3pm
EXPLORING MUSIC
String Sextet:
violin: Mary Eade & Lindsay Braga
viola: Andrew Gillett & Tina Bennett
'cello: Vicky Evans & Barbara Degener
Arnold Schoenberg: "Verklarte Nacht"
Johannes Brahms: "Sextet number 1"
commentary: Colin Hodgetts
Tickets: £12 (student/child FREE)
from Divertimento: 01803 863677
enquiries@divertimento.uk.com
Totnes Tourist Info: 01803 863168
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| tenor viola: Jennifer Bennett |
United Free Church Totnes
Friday 16 November 7.30pm
IN STILE ANTICO E MODERNO
lute & theorbo: Yair Avidor
violin & viola da gamba: Jennifer Bennett
(both play with the Amphion Consort)
sonatas & toccatas by:
Dario Castello, Biagio Marini,
Johannes Heironymus Kapsberger,
Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi-Meali.
Tickets: £10 (student/U18 £5)
'pay as you enter'
Society website
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| theorbo: Yair Avidor |
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| Martyn Warren |
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 17 November 7.30-8.45pm
(between Vespers & Compline)
VOCES 25, GABRIELI & HASSLER 400
Giovani Bavrieli & Hans Leo Hassler
both died 1612 - Voces was formed 1987
Director of Music: Martyn Warren
Parking & Admission FREE
Retiring Collection
Voces website
Taunton Sinfonietta
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| violin: Mary Eade |
Sunday 18 November 3pm
Anniversary Finale Baroque Concert
J S Bach: E major Violin Concerto
violin soloist: Mary Eade
John Stanley: Harpsichord Concerto No 5 in A
King Frederick II of Prussia: Sinfonia in G
Tickets: £15 Box Office: 01823 336344
email: events@tauntondeane.gov.uk
Taunton Sinfonietta website
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| Benjamin Grosvenor |
Exeter University Great Hall
Friday 23 November 7.30pm
FIRE AND ICE
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No 4
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto
soloist: Benjamin Grosvenor
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: 'Francesca da Rimini'
conductor: James Gaffigan
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| James Gaffigan |
gallery box £21.50
ground £21.50 / £18 / £12
Exeter Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
book online
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| soprano: Mary O'Shea |
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| guitar: Clive Betts flute: Martha Söffker |
Mary, Martha and Clive
Southernhay United Reformed Church
Saturday 24 November 7.30pm
SEASONAL SONGS AND FESTIVE MUSIC
guitar: Clive Betts soprano: Mary O'Shea flute: Martha Söffker
John Dowland:
solo guitar - 'Queen Elizabeth's galliard', 'Orlando sleepeth', My Lady Hunsdon's puffe'
guitar and voice - 'If my complaints could passions move'.
George Frederic Handel: Semele: 'Where e'er you walk', Rodelinda: 'Art thou troubled?'
solo guitar - Isaac Watts: 'Joy to the world'. Johann Sebastian Bach: 'Cello Prelude'
guitar, flute and voice - 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring', 'Bist du bei mir'
guitar and flute - George Frederic Handel: Solomon 'Arrival of Queen of Sheba',
Xerxes 'Ombra ma fui', Suite No 5: 'The harmonious blacksmith'
Interval - mince pies & non-alcoholic punch
guitar - traditional: 'Romanza', Isaac Albéniz: Suite Española: 'Asturias'
guitar and flute - 'Tango in D', Sebastian Yradier: 'La Paloma'
guitar - Catalan folk songs: Miguel Llobet: 'El testament d'Amelia',
'Canço del lladre' (The robber's song), 'El noi de la mare' (The mother's child)
guitar and voice - Howard Blake: 'Walking in the air', John Newton: 'Amazing grace'
guitar flute and voice - traditional: 'I saw three ships', 'The holly and the ivy'
'The twelve days of Christmas'
Tickets: £10 (Student £5 U12 FREE) advance booking:
musicroom Sidwell Street 436258, 'Project Music' Mitre Lane
Clive Betts: 07791 333924
Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra
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| Marion Wood |
Saturday 24 November 7.30pm
EMG CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: 'Valse des Fleurs'
Peter Warlock: 'Capriol Suite'
Edvard Grieg: 'Holberg Suite'
Dmitri Shostakovich: 'Tahiti Trot'
Leroy Anderson: Christmas FEstival
Sergei Prokofiev: Troika
Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride
conductor: Marion Wood
leader: Clare Smith
Tickets: TBC
Julian Lloyd Webber
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| Julian Lloyd Webber |
Sunday 25 November 7.30pm
Johann Sebastian Bach: Adagio in G
Benjamin Britten: Scherzo Pizzicato
Gabriel Fauré: Elegie
Saint-Saëns: The Swan
Frederick Delius: Sonata (1915)
William Lloyd Webber: Nocturne
SergeiRachmaninov: Sonata in G minor
Tickets: £18 (student standby £8)
Box Office: 01392 493493
book online
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| Michael Trainor & Linn Carter |
St Paul's Church Honiton
Friday 30 November 1pm
(lunch from 12 noon)
VIOLIN & PIANO RECITAL:
Michael Trainor & Linn Carter
Schubert: Duo for violin and Piano in A
Beethoven: Soanta for Violin and Piano "Kreutzer"
Tickets: £9
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| Tina Guthrie Torbay Singers |
St Matthias Church Torquay
Saturday 1 December 7.30pm
HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Torbay Singers Chamber Orchestra
soprano: Jenny Stafford
alto: Rachel Kelly
tenor: Rupert Charlesworth
bass: Alistair Ollerenshaw
conductor: Tina Guthrie
Tickets: £12 (U16 accompanied, FREE)
Box Office: 01626 777556
book online
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| log fire in the music room Killerton House, Broadclyst |
Killerton House Broadclyst
Sunday 2 December 2-4pm
drop in any time
usual charges for admission
adult £9.30, child £4.70
National Trust members FREE
(repeated every Sunday in December)
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| Broadclyst Community Primary School Chamber Choire Carol Concert at Poltimore House |
Chamber Choir
Poltimore House Chapel EX4 0AU
Thursday 6 December 5.30-7.00pm
CAROL CONCERT
parking on the forecourt and front lawn
full wheechair access
passengers can get out at the chapel door
(bring warm clothes and a torch!)
Tickets: £3 (+71p handling)
advance booking online essential
(book with 'Eventbrite')
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| Elizabeth-Jane Baldry |
Killerton House Broadclyst
Friday 7 December 7pm
HARP RECITAL AND DINNER
a recital by Elizabeth-Jane
in the music room
followed by a three-course dinner
in the Killerton Kitchen restaurant
Tickets: £29 - booking essential
Box Office: 01392 881345
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| Andrew Daldorph |
St George's Church Tiverton
Saturday 8 December
HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
and - for the 'Hallelujah Chorus':
Tiverton High School Music Students
Tickets: £10 (student/child £4)
Tiverton Tourist Info: 01884 255827
Sue North: 01884 253494
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| David Davies |
St David's Church Exeter
Saturday 8 December 7.30pm
HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Conductor: David Davies
Tickets: £12
Box Office: 01392 468867
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| Andy Williamson |
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 8 December 7.30pm
Christmas Jazz at the Cathedral:
DUKE ELLINGTON SACRED CONCERT
with Jacqui Dankworth, &
Andy Williamson's Big Buzzard Boogey Band
Conductor: Nigel Perrin
Tickets: front nave £22
rear nave £17
side aisles £12
EFC tickets: 0845 6005441
Exeter tickets: 01392 665885
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| log fire in the music room Killerton House, Broadclyst |
Carols in the Killerton Music Room
Killerton House Broadclyst
Sunday 9 December 2-4pm
drop in any time
usual charges for admission
adult £9.30, child £4.70
National Trust members FREE
(repeated every Sunday in December)
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| Triumph brass |
Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday 12 December 7.30pm
CAROLS IN THE CATHEDRAL
with Triumph Brass
conductor: Andrew Millington
Tickets: premium nave £16
(with supper £38)
middle nave £14 rear nave £12
unreserved side aisle £8
student discounts
Exeter tickets: 01392 665885
book online
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| counter-tenor Christopher Ainslie |
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Exeter University Great Hall
Thursday 13 December 7.30pm
HANDEL'S MESSIAH
soprano: Gillian Ramm
counter-tenor: Christopher Ainslie
tenor: Benjamin Hulett
conductor: Nigel Perrin
Tickets: gallery front £36
gallery rear £29.50
gallery box £21.50
ground £21.50 / £18 / £12
Exeter Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
book online
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| Enjoy mulled wine in The State Dining Room at Powderham Castle built by Charles Fowler for William & William Courtenay 10th & 11th Earl of Devon between 1847 and 1860 |
James Wyatt Music Room
Powderham Castle
Friday 14 December 7.30pm
HANDEL'S "MESSIAH"
a 'domestic' performance for 8 voices
with strings, woodwind and trumpets
plus mulled wine and mincemeat pies
by the vast open log fire in the
Charles Fowler State Dining Room
Tickets: £14
Call Emma (Powerham Castle office)
01626 890243 to book seats
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| Mary O'Shea with the Jubilee Singers |
Killerton House Broadclyst
Saturday 15 December 7pm
CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT
with mulled wine by the log fire
Director of Music: John Scarfe
Tickets: 11.50 - booking essential
Box Office: 01392 881345
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| choristers Exeter Cathedral Choir |
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 15 December 7.30pm
CHRISTMAS CHORAL MUSIC
director of music: David Davies
Tickets: nave £12 (student/U18 £10)
aisle £8 (student/U18 £6)
Box Office: 01392 285983
book online
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| log fire in the music room Killerton House, Broadclyst |
Carols in the Killerton Music Room
Killerton House Broadclyst
Sunday 16 December 2-4pm
drop in any time
usual charges for admission
adult £9.30, child £4.70
National Trust members FREE
(repeated every Sunday in December)
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| log fire in the music room Killerton House, Broadclyst |
Carols in the Killerton Music Room
Killerton House Broadclyst
Sunday 23 December 2-4pm
drop in any time
usual charges for admission
adult £9.30, child £4.70
National Trust members FREE
(repeated every Sunday in December)
