University of Bristol lunchtime concert

Bristol Ensemble Emma Tring soprano John Pickard conductor John Pickard Verlaine Songs (premiere) Anthony Payne The Undiscover’d Country Lim Kang Ning Hues (premiere) Bristol Ensemble performs new works by John Pickard and […]

Bristol Choral Society: Schubert

Schubert Mass in A flat Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture Bristol Choral Society Bristol Ensemble Imogen Russell soprano Angharad Lyddon alto Thomas Elwin tenor Thyemba Mvula bass Hilary Campbell conductor Michael Butterworth organ This summer concert with Bristol Choral Society […]

Tea-Time Concert

Christ Church Newmarket Road, Nailsworth, United Kingdom

Roger Huckle violin Paul Israel piano Beethoven Sonate for Violin and Piano No.5 ‘Spring’ Liszt Sonetto 104 del Petrarca S.161 Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel Gershwin Three Preludes Monti Csárdás […]

Voices for Life: Stardust Oratorio

Jools Scott and Sue Curtis Stardust Oratorio Directed by Francis Faux Jon Monie presenter Following the hugely successful 2021 premiere of Stardust, Voices for Life returns to take you on this musical journey […]

If Opera: La Rondine

Giacomo Puccini La Rondine Bruno Ravella director La rondine (The Swallow) is a moving tale of young love and heartbreak – and what else, you may ask, is opera about? […]

If Opera: Rita & Il Segreto di Susanna

Gaetano Donizetti Rita (in English) Directed by Lysanne Van Overbeek Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Il Segreto di Susanna (in Italian) Directed by Daisy Brown This duo of one act comedic operas presents […]

If Opera: Dido and Aeneas

Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas Libretto by Nahum Tate If Opera concert performance with guest conductor Christian Curnyn and the Bristol Ensemble. The course of true love runs far from […]

Tea-Time Concert: Piano Trios

Christ Church Newmarket Road, Nailsworth, 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 […]

A celebration of the music of William Herschel

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 […]

Henleaze Concert Society: German Orchestral Classics

Trinity-Henleaze URC Waterford Road, Bristol, 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 […]

Thornbury Autumn Concert

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 […]

Tea-Time Concert: Vaughan Williams at 150

Christ Church Newmarket Road, Nailsworth, 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 […]

La Création du Monde

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, 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 […]

Bristol Choral Society: Symphony of Psalms

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 […]

Music of Remembrance

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, 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 […]

Viva Vivaldi by Candlelight

St George's Bristol Great George Street, Bristol, 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 […]

Stroud Choral Society: Messiah

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 […]

Henleaze Concert Society: An American Landscape

Trinity-Henleaze URC Waterford Road, Bristol, 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 […]