Tea-Time Concert: Piano Trios
2022-09-25 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Christ Church, Newmarket Road, Nailsworth, GL6 0DQ, United Kingdom
Felix Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor
Frank Bridge Miniatures
In 1839, when Mendelssohn produced his Piano Trio in D minor, Op 49, Robert Schumann immediately proclaimed it ‘the master trio of the age’. The beloved chamber work has a classical-era structure but is unmistakably Romantic, with its extended lyrical themes, often a dialogue between the cello and violin, whilst the piano part is both characterful and passionately virtuosic. Frank Bridge’s Miniatures were composed in the early 20th century, delightful cameos full of sparkling detail.
Tea and home made cakes served at 4pm.
Tickets £15 (£13 for those on low incomes), available on the door. Under 18s free of charge.

A celebration of the music of William Herschel
2022-09-30 19:30 - 22:00 | Somerset
Bristol Ensemble Baroque
The Vauxhall Players
Introduced by Dr Matthew Spring
This programme intermixes music composed by William Herschel during his years in Bath (1766-82) and in the six years he spent in the North of England, with music by those who worked with him and whose music he knew: Charles Avison, Thomas Linley, Venanzio Rauzzini and Benjamin Milgrove. We include music intended for the home, for the church and chapels, for the Assembly rooms, and for the Pleasure Gardens. Instrumental items are intermixed with vocal pieces, both unaccompanied and accompanied, to produce an introduced varied programme that charts the musical life of William Herschel.
William Herschel: Symphony di Camera no.4 in D minor (1760), Allegro moderato; Adagio ma non troppo; Allegro moderato
William Herschel: Three movements from 24 Capriccios for solo violin (1763), nos. 1, 11, 17William Herschel: Service Music – Te Deum in G major
William Herschel: Solo for harpsichord in G major, from Sei Sonate per il Cembalo (1769): allegro grazioso
Charles Avison: trio sonata no.2, op.1, in G minor: Andante, Adagio, Allegro
Thomas Linley: Song with English guitar, ‘No flower that blows’;
William Herschel: Song with Eighteenth-Century Spanish guitar ‘Ah! non lasciami’;
Thomas Linley: Madrigal, ‘Let me careless and unthoughtful lying’
Venanzio Rauzzini – Opera Aria ‘Infelice! In tant orror’ from Pyramus and Tisbe (1775)
William Herschel; Serious Glee in three parts with band ‘We sing of love’; Duetto –‘with thee my Strephon; Pleasure Garden Patriot Song – ‘Let humble faithless France’ (1778)
William Herschel: Unaccompanied catches ‘You’r tipsy Tom’; ‘Pray let us sing a merry catch’; ‘Today I am just 29’;’ Echo catch’ (1778)
Benjamin Milgrove: ‘Funeral Hymn on the death of George Whitfield’; ‘The rose had been washed’ – pleasure garden song with band
William Herschel: Symphony no. 9 in F (1761): Allegro assai, Andante assai, Allegretto
Tickets at £14 may be purchased from Bath Box Office or at the door and are available now.

Henleaze Concert Society: German Orchestral Classics
2022-10-08 19:30 - 21:30 | Trinity-Henleaze URC, Waterford Road, Bristol, BS9 4BT, United Kingdom
Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture
Bruch Violin Concerto
Beethoven Symphony No.1
Emil Huckle-Kleve violin
Mendelssohn’s lyrical and dramatic Hebrides Overture (also known as Fingal’s Cave) opens this concert of music by German composers. Bruch’s iconic Violin Concerto is one of the most popular in the genre, full of sustained emotion, stunningly beautiful melodies, and romantic themes. The concert’s finale is Beethoven’s sparkling Symphony No. 1, the composer’s first foray into the form which was described at its premiere as a work of ‘considerable art, novelty and wealth of ideas’.
Tickets
Season ticket for six series concerts £85 including membership
Annual Society Membership £12
Tickets for members £15
Tickets for non members £18
Under 25 year olds £5
How to book
Book tickets online now at Eventbrite
Tickets are available from Henleaze Post Office.
You can also book by sending a cheque payable to Henleaze Concert Society, covering note and SAE to 2 Saville Mews, Kingsdown Parade, Bristol BS6 5UL
Season Tickets and Annual Society Membership
Season tickets are only £85 including Society Membership and admission to all six concerts from October to June. Alternatively, becoming a member of Henleaze Concert Society for £12 entitles you to book tickets for individual concerts at the members’ discounted rate. Season tickets and membership are available to buy by post by returning the Ticket Order Form with your payment and a stamped addressed envelope.

Thornbury Autumn Concert
2022-10-15 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Suite for Viola – Group 1
The Lark Ascending
On Wenlock Edge
Marking the 150th birthday of one of England’s best-loved and most distinctive composers, this programme features one of the nation’s most treasured works, The Lark Ascending, in an arrangement for solo violin, piano and string quartet. The ravishing and wistful Suite for Viola has three movements – an arpeggiotic Prelude develops into a soaring lyricism, and a simple Carol is followed by a hearty and celebratory Christmas Dance. The song cycle On Wenlock Edge, in which Vaughan Williams sets poetry from A.E. Housman’s quintessentially English collection A Shropshire Lad, completes this celebratory concert.
Tickets £18 (including a drink) are available from 01454 850933 or by email from AAGThornbury@gmail.com

Tea-Time Concert: Vaughan Williams at 150
2022-10-16 15:00 - 16:00 | Christ Church, Newmarket Road, Nailsworth, GL6 0DQ, United Kingdom
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Suite for Viola – Group 1
The Lark Ascending
On Wenlock Edge
Marking the 150th birthday of one of England’s best-loved and most distinctive composers, this programme features the nation’s most treasured work, The Lark Ascending, in an arrangement for solo violin, piano and string quartet. The ravishing and wistful Suite for Viola has three movements – an arpeggiotic Prelude develops into a soaring lyricism, and a simple Carol is followed by a hearty and celebratory Christmas Dance. The song cycle On Wenlock Edge, in which Vaughan Williams sets poetry from A.E. Housman’s quintessentially English collection A Shropshire Lad, completes this celebratory concert.
Tea and home made cakes served at 4pm.
Tickets £15 (£13 for those on low incomes), available on the door. Under 18s free of charge.

La Création du Monde
2022-10-22 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
Milhaud La Création du Monde
Max Richter Nature of Daylight
Haydn Symphony no 6 Le Matin
Wagner Siegfried Idyll
Copland Appalachian Spring
This performance opens with Milhaud’s La Création du Monde, a jazz-inspired ballet and ends with a celebration of nature with Copland’s Appalachian Spring. In between, the ensemble explores more complex human emotions with Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight and the wonderful Siegfried Idyll by Wagner, all whilst audience members are enveloped gorgeous lighting and images.
Tickets from £15, available from St George’s box office.

Bristol Choral Society: Symphony of Psalms
2022-11-05 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Bristol Choral Society
Bristol Ensemble
Hilary Campbell – conductor
Steven Kings – piano
Marija Struckova – piano
Vanessa Bowers – soprano
Jamie W Hall – baritone
Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
Fauré Requiem
Not for Fauré the Requiem ‘shock and awe’ of a Mozart, Berlioz or Verdi. Refined over a decade, his Mass for the Dead sustains an abiding solace discharged in the luminescent hope and reassurance of the concluding In Paradisium.
First though there’s profound spirituality of a different order as glittering woodwind, brass, two pianos and harp queue up to reflect the laser-sharp light of Stravinsky’s triptych ‘symphonising the singing of Psalms’.
It’s prefaced by more Stravinsky, his time in black and white: his wartime Sonata for two pianos, a work shot through with crystalline neoclassicism.
Tickets from £11 to £28, under 25s £5. Seniors 10% discount. Available online from Bristol Beacon box office

Music of Remembrance
2022-11-13 18:00 - 20:00 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
City of Bristol Choir
Bristol Ensemble
David Ogden conductor
Amy Dickson saxophone
Richard Johnson piano
Rebecca Afonwy-Jones mezzo soprano
Felix Kemp baritone
Richard Blackford Pietà
Ralph Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem
Anatoly Avdievsky Ukrainian Lullaby
With its dramatic, visual quality, gripping narrative and vividly descriptive scoring, Pietà by Richard Blackford is a beautiful setting of the Stabat Mater text interspersed with poems from the Ukrainian born poet Anna Akhmatova.
Described as a modern masterpiece, this intensely moving work was inspired by Michelangelo’s sculpture in St Peter’s Basilica in Rome and explores a mother grieving for her son. Since its premiere in 2019 the work has received an Ivor Novello award, and City of Bristol Choir is proud to be the first choir to bring this intensely moving and remarkable work to Bristol, joined by the internationally renowned saxophonist Amy Dickson, Bristol Youth Choir and the strings of the Bristol Ensemble.
The acclaimed tenor Jonas Kaufmann writes of Pietà: “Richard Blackford has created an outstanding choral work: a passionate and personal tribute in memory of all who suffer from violence, suppression and political persecution, which has deeply impressed me. A modern composer who is not afraid of writing beautiful and touching music!”
Marking the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, the choir performs Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem, a cry for peace which sets texts from the Bible and Walt Whitman to warn against the inevitability of an impending conflict. The composer’s service in the First World War gave him first-hand experience of the futility and suffering of war which he weaves into this dramatic and powerful piece.
City of Bristol Choir is pleased to present these two intensely moving pieces with their themes of consolation, peace, and reconciliation on Remembrance Sunday. Completing the programme is an arrangement of a tender Ukrainian Lullaby for saxophone and orchestra, remembering the casualties not only of World Wars but also of recent conflicts.
Tickets £18 to £25 (half price for students in full time education and under 18s) available from City of Bristol Choir box office, and St George’s box office.

Viva Vivaldi by Candlelight
2022-11-16 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
Bristol Ensemble
Fitzhardinge Consort
Raffaele Esposito – mandolin
Sally Bartholomew – bassoon
Roger Huckle – violin
Simon Kodurand – violin
Imogen Triner – oboe
Vivaldi
Gloria
Bassoon concerto in E RV484
Mandolin Concerto in C RV425
Oboe & Violin Concerto RV 548
Violin Concerto – Winter
St George’s is transformed into a candlelight auditorium taking us back to the Chiesa di Santa Maria Della Pieta in Venice where Antonio Vivaldi worked and performed many of his compositions.
100 candles will adorn the stage and the Bristol Ensemble along with the Fitzhardinge Consort will perform some of Vivaldi’s greatest works including the stunning Gloria and concertos for Bassoon, Mandolin and of course Winter from the Four Seasons.
Tickets from £15, available from St George’s box office

Stroud Choral Society: Messiah
2022-11-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Stroud Choral Society
Bristol Ensemble
Simon Bell conductor
A performance of Handel’s Messiah at St George’s Church, Nailsworth.
Tickets £20 for adults, £10 for children aged 12 to 17 years (plus booking fees), free for children under 12 years of age. Book online at www.ticketsource.co.uk.

Henleaze Concert Society: An American Landscape
2022-11-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Trinity-Henleaze URC, Waterford Road, Bristol, BS9 4BT, United Kingdom
Gershwin Concerto in F
Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
Phillip Glass Mishima
Copland Hoedown from Rodeo
Viv McLean piano
Viv McLean returns to perform Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, a jazzy, optimistic, richly-textured work packed full of fabulous tunes and toe-tapping rhythms. It was commissioned by Walter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, the day after he had heard the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue, which is also part of this programme. Philip Glass’s breakthrough work, music for the iconic film Mishima, and Copland’s lively and evocative work Hoe Down complete this distinctively American programme.
Tickets
Season ticket for six series concerts £85 including membership
Annual Society Membership £12
Tickets for members £15
Tickets for non members £18
Under 25 year olds £5
How to book
Book tickets online now at Eventbrite
Tickets are available from Henleaze Post Office.
You can also book by sending a cheque payable to Henleaze Concert Society, covering note and SAE to 2 Saville Mews, Kingsdown Parade, Bristol BS6 5UL
Season Tickets and Annual Society Membership
Season tickets are only £85 including Society Membership and admission to all six concerts from October to June. Alternatively, becoming a member of Henleaze Concert Society for £12 entitles you to book tickets for individual concerts at the members’ discounted rate. Season tickets and membership are available to buy by post by returning the Ticket Order Form with your payment and a stamped addressed envelope.

Monmouth Choral Society
2022-11-19 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Monmouth Choral Society performs Handel’s Messiah with Bristol Ensemble, conducted by Steven Kings

Tea-Time Concert: String Serenade
2022-11-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Christ Church, Newmarket Road, Nailsworth, GL6 0DQ, United Kingdom
Schubert String Trio in B flat D 471
Phillip Glass String Quartet No. 2 ‘Company’
Mozart String Quintet in G minor K.516
This programme of music for 3, 4 and 5 players is a fascinating exploration of the versatility and inventiveness of chamber string ensemble repertoire. Schubert’s Trio was an unfinished work, set aside by the composer at the age of 19 partway through the second movement and never completed. Schubert’s generosity of theme and melody contrasts with the minimalism of Philip Glass’s String Quartet. Mozart adds a second viola to the quartet for his rich and melancholic String Quintet, written in his ‘tragic’ key of G minor.
Tea and home made cakes served at 4pm.
Tickets £15 (£13 for those on low incomes), available on the door. Under 18s free of charge.

Stardust: A Musical Journey
2022-12-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Following two hugely successful performances in Bath Abbey, Voices for Life brings Stardust to Wiltshire Music Centre!
Join 80 local primary school children as they take you on a musically magical journey through space accompanied by the Bristol Ensemble, narrated by Jon Monie (Bath pantomime) and directed by Greg Hallam (London Youth Choir). Stardust tells the tale of 6 friends who, after a disastrous turn of events, each end up drifting alone through space. We follow their journey as they find their way back to planet Zarg, discovering all the emotions they experience on their adventure.
Written by Jools Scott and Sue Curtis, Stardust was commissioned by Voices for Life in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. In a series of school workshops, the children have explored these emotions through wellbeing activities and music. Proceeds from ticket sales will go towards future Voices for Life projects, helping children be happy and confident through singing.

Cirencester Choral Society
2022-12-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Handel Coronation Anthems
Mozart Coronation Mass K.317
Marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022 and the 70th anniversary of the Coronation in 2023, Cirencester Choral Society is joined by Bristol Ensemble to perform music by Handel and Mozart under the baton of conductor Carleton Etherington.
Handel’s Coronation Anthems were composed for the coronation of King George II in 1727, the year in which Handel was granted British Citizenship. The best known of the four anthems, Zadok the Priest, has been sung at every British coronation since.
Tickets available from Cirencester Visitor Information Centre (Corinium Museum, 01285 654180).

Bath Choral Society
2022-12-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Bath Choral Society
Bristol Ensemble
Handel Messiah
Bath Choral Society returns to Bath Abbey for its annual performances of Handel’s Messiah, the dramatic oratorio that tells the familiar story of Christ’s birth, death, and resurrection. It is full of glorious choruses and intricate arias that build to the overwhelming majesty of the final Amen.

Cosmos and Preludes Christmas concert
2022-12-08 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
Children from St George’s ‘Cosmos Choir’ project (based at Oasis Academy Connaught) team up with four primary schools from Bristol Ensemble’s ‘Preludes’ project (Perry Court, Four Acres, Somerdale and Ilminster Avenue) to sing a fabulously festive selection of songs, accompanied by a live band of musicians – what better way to start the seasonal festivities!
Admission is free with a retiring collection to support the continuation of these fantastic projects. Audience seating is in the gallery.

Christmas with the Choir of Royal Holloway
2022-12-09 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Join Bristol Ensemble and the Choir of Royal Holloway in the stunning surroundings of the college chapel for a concert full of festive favourites, with excerpts from Handel’s Messiah, mince pies and of course, a little carolling…

Fitzhardinge Consort & Bristol Ensemble
2022-12-15 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Suite for Viola
Valiant-for-Truth
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Lord, Thou Has been Our Refuge
Serenade to Music
Charterhouse Suite
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Thomas Tallis Tunes from Archbishop Parker’s Psalter
St George’s Bristol rounds off its celebration of Ralph Vaughan Williams in his 150th anniversary year with a special choral and orchestral tribute performed by Bristol Ensemble and the Fitzhardinge Consort.
The programme explores different influences on the composer, from his love of metrical psalms which is clearly evident in his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Lord, Thou Hast been Our Refuge – including a performance of the original psalm settings to demonstrate this – to his detailed research around English folk-melodies which form the basis of his popular Fantasia on Christmas Carols, an opportunity to hear some seasonal music in a different guise.
The programme also includes the rarely-performed Charterhouse Suite, a charming set of dances in the English style, and the sublime Serenade to Music, for sixteen solo voices, setting words from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Rachmaninov was at the first performance of the work and was so overcome by the beauty of it that he wept.
Tickets are £10 to £30, available from St George’s Bristol box office online and by phone on 0117 929 4929. A 5% booking fee applies online and over the phone. A £2 postage fee is charged where applicable.

Christmas Spectacular with City of Bristol Choir
2022-12-17 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
City of Bristol Choir
Bristol Ensemble
Roger Huckle director
David Ogden conductor
Under the baton of the inimitable David Ogden, come and enjoy some wonderful Christmas music with choir items, audience participation and festive orchestral music.
Bristol Ensemble and the 90-strong City of Bristol Choir join forces again to bring Christmas cheer and festivities in this Christmas Spectacular featuring a glorious mix of music and readings.
Tickets £15 to £30 from St George’s box office

Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum: Handel's Messiah
2022-12-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Bristol Ensemble joins the choristers of Dean Close School’s Schola Cantorum for their annual performance of Handel’s Messiah under the baton of conductor Simon Bell.

Children's Christmas Carnival
2022-12-18 14:00 - 15:00 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
Bristol Ensemble
Roger Huckle director
Kat Kleve narrator / singer
John Telfer narrator / pirate
Including
Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
A Pirate’s Christmas
I just can’t wait to be King Lion King
When you wish upon a Star Pinocchio
With plenty of audience participation in festive favourites, this is a seasonal delight for all the family.
Kick Christmas off to a brilliant start with this entertaining children’s Christmas concert featuring Prokofiev’s well loved musical tale, Peter and the Wolf.
“Thank you for a lovely afternoon of Christmas happiness. Fantastic music and so many thoughtful details to make it fun for my whole family.” Audience member comment
Tickets
Family ticket: £19 / £27 for a group of 4 (including at least one under 18s ticket)
1 child goes free; Simply add one U18 ticket when you purchase a full price ticket, and this will automatically be deducted from your total at checkout.
Book online at St George’s Bristol box office

Christmas Spectacular with Exultate Singers
2022-12-19 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
Exultate Singers
Bristol Ensemble
Roger Huckle director
David Ogden conductor
Under the baton of the inimitable David Ogden, come and enjoy some wonderful Christmas music with choir items, audience participation and festive orchestral music.
Bristol Ensemble and the accomplished chamber choir Exultate Singers join forces again to bring Christmas cheer and festivities in this Christmas Spectacular. Always a wonderfully entertaining and uplifting evening of Christmas music and readings, it was described by one audience member as a “fantastic Christmas show, beautiful music and great entertainment!”
Tickets from £15, available from St George’s Bristol box office

Festive Fiesta
2022-12-20 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
City of Bristol Choir
Bristol Ensemble
Roger Huckle director
David Ogden conductor
All your favourite carols wrapped up in one sparkling festive concert.
There will be plenty of audience participation in this sparkling festive concert featuring all your favourite carols, Christmas choral works and orchestral pieces. Come and enjoy a brilliantly festive and fun evening under the baton of David Ogden, with City of Bristol Choir and the Bristol Ensemble, guaranteed to put you in the Christmas mood.
One audience member said, “The Festive Fiesta contained everything you could possibly want from a Christmas concert. There was some moving, serious music and some great fun songs with a good amount of singalong opportunities. The Bristol Ensemble were fabulously festive too. This really marked the beginning of Christmas for me.”
Tickets from £15, available from St George’s Bristol box office

Handel's Messiah
2022-12-21 19:30 - 22:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
Choir of Royal Holloway
Bristol Ensemble
Rupert Gough conductor
Handel’s Messiah masterly brought to life in a semi-staged performance by one of the finest university choirs in Britain.
The Choir of Royal Holloway return to St George’s Bristol in another collaboration with Bristol Ensemble orchestra as they bring to life Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah. Talented young soloists drawn from the choir will perform the work’s arias from positions around the hall, bringing a freshness and vitality to this astonishing and compelling work.
Tickets from £15, available from St George’s Bristol box office

Handel's Messiah by candlelight
2022-12-23 19:00 - 22:00 | Somerset
Choral Clerks & Scholars of the Cardiff Oratory
Clare Lloyd Griffiths soprano
Hugh Cutting countertenor
Charles Daniels tenor
Stuart O’Hara bass
Bristol Baroque Ensemble
Stephen Hargreaves chamber organ
Shean Bowers conductor
Featuring period instruments in the only event of its kind in Wales, the Choral Clerks & Scholars of the Cardiff Oratory, conducted by Shean Bowers, present G.F. Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah.
First performed in Dublin in 1742, Handel’s Messiah one of the most popular oratorios ever written. The work is in three parts: part one takes the audience from the prophecies to the birth of Christ; part two, the dramatic heart of the work, tells of Christ’s Passion, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension, ending with the gloriously optimistic Hallelujah Chorus; part three consists entirely of beautifully crafted reflective commentary, principally on the the theme of Christian redemption.
Join the Fathers, Brothers, and musical family of the Cardiff Oratory in Swinton Street for this performance of one of the most beloved and powerful pieces of choral music ever written. Our Clerks and Scholars will be joined by some of Britain’s leading soloists and will be accompanied by period instruments — a real, authentic experience of Handel’s sensational triumph in the run up to Christmas Day.
Tickets
Premium Tickets, £25 — Seating in the front rows of the Oratory Church; a free glass of fizz during the interval; access to The Bar at St. Alban’s Hall for specially-priced ales, lagers, wines, fizz, and spirits during the interval and after the performance; and private introductions to the soloists, accompanists, and conductor after the performance with other Premium Ticket holders.
General Tickets, £15 — Adults and seniors; seating on a first-come, first-served basis in the Oratory Church; and access to The Bar at St. Alban’s Hall during the interval and after the performance for specially-priced ales, lagers, wines, fizz, and spirits
Students & Children, £5 — Children 12 and under and Students; seating on a first-come, first-served basis in the Oratory Church; for Students 18+, access to The Bar at St. Alban’s Hall during the interval and after the performance for specially-priced ales, lagers, wines, fizz, and spirits.

Henleaze Concert Society: Treasures of the Baroque
2023-01-21 19:30 - 21:30 | Trinity-Henleaze URC, Waterford Road, Bristol, BS9 4BT, United Kingdom
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major BWV 1051
Vivaldi Flute Concerto in C minor RV441Biber Battalia
Handel Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.11
Bach Oboe and Violin Concerto
Roger Armstrong flute, Roger Huckle violin, Imogen Triner oboe
A captivating programme of sparkling instrumental music from the Baroque period. Bach’s sixth Brandenburg Concerto is scored for violas and cellos so has a mellow sonority but is unfailingly upbeat and joyous in mood. Biber’s famous Battalia is wonderfully engaging – dedicated to Bacchus, the god of wine, vegetation and theatre, it features many non-traditional musical techniques including striking the bow on the instruments, and snare-drum effects with paper woven through strings. Principals of the Bristol Ensemble perform concertos by Bach and Vivaldi.
Tickets
Season ticket for six series concerts £85 including membership
Annual Society Membership £12Tickets for members £15Tickets for non members £18Under 25 year olds £5
How to book
Book tickets online now at Eventbrite
Tickets are available from Henleaze Post Office.
You can also book by sending a cheque payable to Henleaze Concert Society, covering note and SAE to 2 Saville Mews, Kingsdown Parade, Bristol BS6 5UL
Season Tickets and Annual Society Membership
Season tickets are only £85 including Society Membership and admission to all six concerts from October to June. Alternatively, becoming a member of Henleaze Concert Society for £12 entitles you to book tickets for individual concerts at the members’ discounted rate. Season tickets and membership are available to buy by post by returning the Ticket Order Form with your payment and a stamped addressed envelope.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons by candlelight
2023-02-03 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Bristol Ensemble
Roger Huckle – soloist / director
The Bristol Ensemble brings their memorable performances of Baroque masterpieces to the atmospheric candlelit chapel, including Vivaldi’s ever-popular Four Seasons, as well as Pachelbel’s Canon and music by Bach, Albinoni and Telemann.
Unreserved pew seating. Café-bar open from 6.30pm. Doors open at 7pm.
Tickets £20 / £18 concessions (over 65s / students)

Pasture & Storm - A Celebration Of Left Hand Alone Virtuoso Pianists
2023-02-04 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Scriabin Nocturne op.9 for left hand piano
Harrison Kabul: When I Wake at Midnight for 2 left hand pianists
Harrison Round Dances for flute and left hand piano
Harrison The People of His Pasture for left hand piano, string trio and percussion
Liszt Lieberstraum No.3 for left hand piano
Harrison The Nightingales of Afghanistan for left hand piano, chamber ensemble and birdsong
Harrison I Sha’n’t Be Gone Long for violin and left hand piano
Rachmaninov Prelude in G minor (arr. Nicholas McCarthy)
Nicholas McCarthy, Sophia Benton, Tomas Klement pianists
Bristol Ensemble
John Pickard conductor
Join us for a unique concert and CD launch celebrating three virtuoso left hand pianists.
They will be performing classics by Scriabin, Liszt and Rachmaninov alongside world premieres by Shaftesbury composer and teacher Sadie Harrison.
The Pasture & Storm project brings together a fabulous group of international musicians and features renowned pianist Nicholas McCarthy. Nicholas’s dazzling artistry and advocacy for disabled people have made him one of the world’s most sought after performers and motivational speakers.
Nicholas will be joined by two other exceptional pianists, Tomáš Klement and Sophia Benton (a left hand only pianist currently studying at the Welsh College of Music and Drama) and the Bristol Ensemble conducted by John Pickard.
Pasture & Storm is a kaleidoscope of musical moods and influences – joyful dances based on medieval tunes, poignant laments from Afghanistan, the drama of a Spanish bullfight and a gentle pastorale at dusk.
Profits from the event will go towards the UK’s One Handed Musical Instrument Trust (music-making for people with physical disabilities) and the International Campaign for Afghan Musicians.

Valentine's Day Concert
2023-02-14 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
A Valentine’s night to remember, featuring some of the most romantic pieces of music ever written, from the worlds of film, opera and classical music performed by the Bristol Ensemble.
Enjoy well-known themes from Lala Land, Doctor Zhivago, The Godfather and Romeo and Juliet as well as much-loved classics by Beethoven, Elgar, Mascagni, Einaudi and more.
Morricone Cinema Paradiso – Love Theme
Einaudi Love is a mystery
Piazzolla Libertango
Rota Love theme from Romeo and Juliet
Justin Hurwitz Lala Land Love theme
Elgar Salut d’amour
Gershwin The Man I love
Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Shostakovich Waltz No 2Beethoven Für Elise
Jarre / Webster Dr Zhivago – Somewhere My Love
Rota The Godfather Love Theme
Kern / Hammerstein Can’t help lovin’ dat man
Nigel Hess Ladies in Lavender – Main Theme
Francis Lai Love Story Theme
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