All roads lead to Dartmoor on 23- 25 October, when one of the country’s best loved folk festivals hits the streets, halls and pubs of Okehampton.
The 17th Baring-Gould Weekend, organised by Okehampton-based music charity Wren Music, combines intimate concerts by established acts alongside community orchestras and choirs, impromptu street performances, dancing, and plenty of local food...
Beethoven: Egmont Overture Delius: Walk to the Paradise Garden Coates: London Suite Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel Overture Mozart: Symphony No 41 in C major Jupiter
Including music for String and Wind ensembles.
Thursday 10 December 2015 | 20:00 Main Hall, Davy Building, Plymouth University Free admission, donations invited to support concert costs
Simon Ible, conductor Laura Mitchell, soprano Angela Simkin, mezzo-soprano Ross Scanlon, tenor Christopher Cull, baritone
Pergolesi: Magnificat in B flat major Mozart: Missa Brevis No.2 in D minor
Plus carols for audience participation
Archbishop Colerado of Salzburg liked his masses short and composed in a simple direct musical style. Mozart produced for him a glorious and delightful miniature. You can hear in Pergolesi’s Magnificat the early stylistic traits which were to grow into the classical style, and which would one day, albeit retrospectively, be called...
The Band of HM Royal Marines Plymouth is based at the Royal Navy Initial Training Establishment, HMS Raleigh, in Torpoint, Cornwall. Performing at Plymouth University gives the band a fantastic opportunity to demonstrate its versatility in the concert band idiom with some outstanding soloists, big band jazz ensemble, and contemporary symphonic wind band compositions, as well as giving an insight into a career in military music.
Saturday 28 November 2015 | 19:30 Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University Free admission:...
Grieg: Solveig's song (arrangement for violin and piano) Sibelius: Five pieces for Piano, Op.75 Glinka: Trio - Pathétique Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel, for cello and piano Gade: Piano Trio op.42 in F major Dyson: Lowlands Away for violin and cello
From a Norwegian drama to a Scottish voyage, through early Russian music and Estonian instrumental dialogue, this musical endeavour will take us deep into the harmonies of the Baltic and North seas, sailing on waves of common Northern...
Leland Chen, violin Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Overture Beethoven: Violin Concert in D major Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D major, Haffner
War with France put a damper on artistic life in Vienna in the summer of 1806, but winter brought a revival and the first large-scale orchestral concert was given by the violinist Franz Clement, leader of the Vienna Opera Orchestra. Beethoven wrote his violin concerto for this event. Today, it is praised as a masterpiece of tenderness and serenity.
Mike Westbrook, “Britain’s most innovative big band leader” (The Wire) presents his Jazz Rock Oratorio with his current 22-piece ensemble. Vocalists Kate Westbrook, Martine Waltier and Billy Bottle head an impressive assembly of jazz, classical, pop and rock musicians.
Kate Westbrook and Martine Waltier: voice Billy Bottle: voice and bass guitar Roz Harding, Sarah Dean, Alan Wakeman, Lou Gare, Gary Bayley, Ian Wellens: saxophones Mike Brewer and Sam Massey: trumpets Dave...
Brahms: Symphony No.1 in C minor Nicolai: The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture
Brahms took 21 years to compose his first symphony. The conductor for the premiere, Hans von Bülow, referred to it as 'Beethoven's 10th' - but it's more of a homage than plagiarism. From the opening bar this work is impressive and magnificent – and yes the finale does sound much like that of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy.
This event is free, with donations to Plymouth University Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence gratefully received.
Holst: St Paul’s Suite Delius: Two Aquarelles Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto Elgar: Serenade for Strings Pitkin: Whispering, clamoring Britten: Simple Symphony
A renaissance in English music emerged toward the end of the 19th century. The new musical style identified with folk song and Elizabethan dances that revitalized the genre of the chamber orchestra. This is a selection from our best-loved British composers and includes Jonathan Pitkin’s Whispering, clamoring commissioned by Ten Tors Orchestra in 2005.
