Ensemble Molière
Flavia Hirte flute, Alice Earle violin, Catriona McDermid bassoon
Kate Conway viola da gamba, Satoko Doi-Luck harpsichord
The King’s Playlist
Charpentier Ouverture from ‘Les Arts Florissants’
Lully Premier et Deuxièmes Air from ‘Phaéton’
Couperin Deuxième Concert from ‘Concerts Royaux’
Charpentier Le Mariage Force
Delalande Première Suite from ‘Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy’
Anon Ballet Royal de la Nuit
Marais Suite en Sol Mineur from ‘Trios pour le coucher du Roy’
The first ever Radio 3 New Generation Baroque Ensemble finishes the season in the Court of the Sun King, Louis XIV, with a soundtrack of music written and dedicated to every moment of the King’s Day.
£27 | £17 | £12
(£1 children / students)
Carducci Quartet
Matthew Denton & Michelle Fleming violins
Eoin Schmidt-Martin viola, Emma Denton cello
Haydn Quartet in D Op 20 No 4 ‘Sun’
Ravel Quartet in F
Mendelssohn Quartet in F minor Op 80
The Carducci Quartet first played for Leamington Music in 2009 and this is its eighth concert in the town. The Carducci’s recent programmes here have included Shostakovich, whose full cycle the Quartet toured throughout 2015 with an accompanying CD release and which won a Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award. With welcome inclusions in the programme of works by Haydn, Ravel, and Mendelssohn, this is a sunny delight with musical flavours from across Europe for everyone to enjoy.
£27 | £17
(£1 children / students)
Ensemble 360
Brahms Serenade in D Op 11
Martinů Nonet No 2
Dohnányi Sextet in C Op 37
It’s becoming an annual tradition for Ensemble 360 to follow the morning Sunday Family Concert with a large-scale afternoon chamber music concert and in using all eleven members of the group, this year’s is rather special. Brahms’s first Serenade and Martinů’s Nonet have been much enjoyed by our audiences before, but the Sextet by Dohnányi is programmed for the first time. Written in Budapest in 1935, it is a Romantic work, richly scored and bubbling in tunes – a work to be fully discovered by most of us!
£22 unreserved
(£1 children / students)
Ensemble 360
Lucy Drever narrator
The much-loved story of Chutney the Chimp is brought to life through Paul Rissman‘s brilliant live music and colourful projected illustrations, captivatingly performed by the wonderfully dynamic and hugely engaging Ensemble 360 and Lucy Drever. This concert is a great introduction to live music for children. Full of wit, invention, songs and actions, and plenty of opportunities to join in, it is ideal for ages 3-7 but great fun for everyone!
Children £8 | Adults £14
Family Ticket £38
(2 adults + 2 children)
Dudok Quartet
Judith Van Driel & Marleen Wester violins
Marie-Louise de Jong viola, David Faber cello
Mozart Quartet in F K590 ‘Prussian’
Bacewicz Quartet No 4
Beethoven Quartet in E flat Op 74 ‘Harp’
The Dudok Quartet, based in Amsterdam and named after a famous modernist Dutch architect, Willem Dudok, not only excels in the core quartet repertoire but is admirably enterprising in the range of composers it programmes. The Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, who studied with Nadia Boulanger, features in a Leamington Music concert for the first time; a fine violinist, pupil of Carl Flesch, and also a novelist, her Quartet No 4 was written in 1951 and immediately won First Prize at the Quartet Composition Competition in Liege that year.
Concert generously supported by David & Gina Wilson
£27 | £17
(£1 children / students)
Valencia Baryton Trio
Matthew Baker baryton | Estevan de Almeida Reis viola | Benjamin Birtle cello
Haydn & Friends
Haydn Baryton Trio No 67 in G
Lidl Divertimento No 4 in C
Tomasini Baryton Trio in C K19
Haydn Baryton Trio No 113 in D
Lidl Divertimento No 6 in G
Haydn Baryton Trio No 58 in D
A rare opportunity to hear and see a baryton, an extraordinary string instrument that was favoured and played by Prince Nicholas at the Court in Esterhazy. Haydn composed some 80 string quartets, 104 symphonies, but in a golden decade (1765-75), he wrote nearly 200 works featuring the baryton, including 123 Trios. Luigi Tomasini, born in Pesaro, was leader of the orchestra at Esterhazy and the Austrian virtuoso gamba player Andreas Lidl eventually moved to London where he died in 1789. The Valencia Trio regularly tours North and South America and in Europe and in June 2023 gave two concerts in the English Haydn Festival in Bridgnorth.
£27 | £17 | £12
(£1 children / students)
El Ultimo Tango
Nicholas Bricht flute, Mark O’Brien saxophone, Eduardo Vassallo cello
Mark Goodchild double bass, John Turville piano
Music by Astor Piazzolla and traditional tango numbers played by the group formed by Eduardo Vassallo, Principal Cello of City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and, like Nicolas Bricht, born in Buenos Aires. Astor Piazzolla took the rigid traditional tango out of the smoky, dark dance halls of Buenos Aires into the light, airy concert halls of Europe and America, and embraced by countless of our musicians!
Concert generously supported by the Arts Society Royal Leamington Spa
£22 unreserved
(£1 children / students)
Stile Antico
Dante: A Divine Hope
Dante Alighieri’s Comedia (Divine Comedy) is considered one of the greatest works of literature ever written. Its enduring imagery has shaped our western culture’s views and understanding of the afterlife for more than 700 years. With this programme, Stile Antico descends with Il Divino into Hell, journeys together through Purgatory, and finally arrives at the gates of Heaven. Renaissance madrigals and sacred music by composers such as Victoria, Palestrina, and Morales illustrate the way, and texts by Dante himself, set to music by Lazzaschi and Merulo, also narrate the story. At the pinnacle of Heaven we meet the Virgin Mary in Giovanni Gabrieli’s glorious 12-part Magnificat.
£29 | £19 | £14
(£1 children / students)
London Haydn Quartet
Catherine Manson and Michael Gurevich violins
John Crockatt viola, Jonathan Manson cello
Jadin Quartet in B flat Op 1 No 1
Haydn Quartet in F Op 74 No 2
Mendelssohn Quartet in E flat Op 12
One of the world’s leading period instrument string quartets, The London Haydn Quartet was born out of a passion for Haydn. Founded in 2000, the Quartet has received invitations to many of the most important concert series throughout the world, and its recordings of the complete Haydn quartets on Hyperion has met with international critical acclaim. But, while Papa Haydn was these musicians’ original love, their discoveries along the way of the music of his contemporaries have uncovered much to be enjoyed, and this first quartet of Hyacinthe Jadin is one such treat.
£27 | £17
(£1 children / students)
Joglaresa
Katharine Hawnt voice, Victoria Couper voice & harp, May Robertson fidel
Jordan Murray percussion & dulcimer, Jonny Akerman percussion
Sing we Yule
Celebrate Yule effervescently with Joglaresa – and chase out the chill from the Celtic fringes of Europe – with traditional carols and wassails from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. With fidel, harp, bells and voices, Joglaresa ring in Christmas and New Year in this joyful programme of carols, lullabies, dance tunes and wassails. Joglaresa’s cleverly imaginative programming transcends the limits of what is often thought of as early music, and the ensemble has made many visits over the years since its formation in 1992.
Concert generously supported by Michael & Pat Bird
£27 | £17 | £12
(£1 children / students)
includes mulled wine and mince pies