WCC : Concerts : 2023/24 Season

Concerts

Our 2023/24 season features six classical concerts and a lunchtime workshop.

Click here for details of the 2022/23 season's concerts.

Sunday 8 October at 3.00pm

Sarah Beth Briggs

Sarah Beth Briggs' professional career was launched at the age of eleven when she became the youngest ever finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year. Four years later she gained international recognition as joint winner of the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg.

Mozart – Variations on a theme by Duport, K.573
Hans Gál – Sonata, Op. 28 (1927)
Mendelssohn – Variations Serieuses, Op. 54
Beethoven – Variations on God Save the King, Wo0 78
Schubert – Impromptu in B flat, D935 no. 3
Chopin – Berceuse, Op. 57
Chopin – Ballade in F minor, Op. 52

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Sunday 19 November at 3.00pm

The Tedesca Quartet

Nic Fallowfield (violin), Clare Bhabra (violin), Richard Muncey (viola) and Jenny Curtis (cello)

The Tedesca Quartet was formed in 2010 and has a wealth of experience from a wide range of music-making at the highest level and quickly established a reputation for performances of maturity and integrity. They play regularly for music clubs and societies through the UK. Their first foreign performance was in Italy in 2022.

Frank Bridge – Novelletten
Elgar – Quartet in E minor
Dvořák – Quartet in E flat, Op. 51

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Sunday 10 December at 3.00pm

From Bach to the Beatles

Katona Twins (guitars)

Critically acclaimed by the Daily Telegraph as "the classical world's best known guitar duo", Peter and Zoltán Katona effortlessly transfer from strictly classical into more popular musical genres.

Their unusual style combines classical, flamenco and finger picking techniques with the energetic stage presence of lead guitarists.

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Sunday 28 January at 3.00pm

The Revolutionary Wind Machine

Mark Baigent (oboe), Cait Walker (oboe), Richard Bayliss (horn), Clare Penkey (horn), Robert Percival (bassoon) and Inga Matia Klaucke (bassoon)

Harmonie music : The revolutionary wind machine present a programme of classical works for oboes, horns and bassoon including wonderful and rarely-heard works by Salieri, Besozzi and Druchetzky. Fresh from the Bridgnorth festival where they have given three performances in two years due to the popularity of their concerts, you will be immersed in the sounds and colours heard in 18th century stately homes and palaces where Harmonie bands were all the rage.

The Revolutionary Wind Machine was formed in 2022 to explore and promote chamber music for wind instruments from the classical era through to the early twentieth century. Wonderful chamber music is brought back to life and presented here on period instruments.

See Mark Baigent for more details

Sunday 25 February at 3.00pm

Emmanuel Bach & Jenny Stern

Emmanuel Bach (violin) and Jenny Stern (piano)

Described as an 'outstandingly well-matched duo', they have recorded three CDs, most recently 'Lennox In Paris', an album of British and French works, which was widely praised.