£25

Coffee and an introduction to the museum are followed by a performance by a chamber group from the Birmingham Conservatoire and a tour of the cottage where Elgar was born.

Owing to the limited parking at the museum, we ask that all ticket purchasers travel on the coach departing from Worcester Cathedral at 9.30 am. The ticket price for the event will be inclusive of travel.

A Friends of Worcester Cathedral event.

£8

To Great Witley Church. Coaches will depart from King Street.

£5

Following our successful conducting masterclasses at the Gloucester festival in 2010, senior members of the Philharmonia brass section lead this four-hour masterclass for brass quintets with students from five top music colleges.

£19

Piers Adams recorder
David Wright harpsichord

Castello Sonata Secunda
Corelli Sonata in F Op. 5 No 4
Bassano Divisions on ‘Onques Amour’
Van Eyck Variations on ‘What shall we do this evening?’
Handel ‘Vo’ far guerra’ from Rinaldo (arr. William Babel)
Handel Sonata in D minor
Rubbra Meditazioni sopra ‘Couers Désolés’
Hans-Martin Linde Music for a Bird
Ligeti Continuum (harpsichord solo)
Debussy Syrinx
Piazzolla Tango: Café 1930
Kraehmer Variations Brillantes Op. 18

Piers left us gasping with his virtuoso recorder recital in College Hall in 2008 during which he must have played on about 20 different recorders! We are in for a treat again but this time in the beautiful setting of Great Witley’s baroque church.

£6

To St Martin’s Church. The coach will depart from King Street.

£5

Douglas Tang

The second in the series of four recitals given by prize-wining young players selected by the Royal College of Organists.

Hot and cold drinks and snacks will be available in the church before and after this concert.  

£39/£34/£27/£18/£10

Three Cathedral Choirs
The Academy of Ancient Music
Adrian Lucas  conductor

Alison Balsom  trumpet
Crispian Steele-Perkins  trumpet
Lucy Bowen soprano
Hannah Atherton soprano
James Bowman  countertenor
Simon Wall tenor
Marcus Farnsworth bass

£5

Kindly supported by the Angus Allnatt Charitable Trust

Five brass quintets from the earlier masterclass will compete in an hour-long performance to win the opportunity to appear at the Hereford festival in 2012.

The performance will be adjudicated by two senior members of the Philharmonia Brass and by Crispian Steele-Perkins.

£10

David Briggs speaker

A talk on the ethos, technique and ethics of transcribing a major symphony for the organ. David will premiere his transcription of Elgar's Symphony No 2 in the Cathedral at 10.15pm.

£39/£34/£27/£18/£10

To be recorded by BBC Radio 3 for broadcast in September 2011

The Sixteen

Harry Christophers conductor

Rachmaninov Bogoroditse Devo (Hail, O Virgin)
Stravinsky  Ave Maria
Rachmaninov Izhe keruvimy (The Cherubic Hymn)
John Tavener Exhortation and Kohima
Eben Landscape with Horses (from Landscapes of Patmos)
Arvo Pärt The woman with the alabaster box
John Tavener Song for Athene
Rachmaninov Tebe poyem (We hymn thee)
Bruckner  Locus iste
Stravinsky Pater noster
Chesnokov Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Ghospoda (Bless the Lord, O my soul)
Arvo Pärt De profundis
James MacMillan  A Child's Prayer
Eben Landscape with Elders (from Landscapes of Patmos)
Kalinnikov Lord now lettest thou (Nine otpushchayeshi)
James MacMillan A New Song
Arvo Pärt  Nunc Dimittis
Chesnokov We hymn thee (Tebe poem)
Arvo Pärt  O Weisheit (from Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen)
Holst  Nunc Dimittis

£10

David Briggs

Elgar Symphony No 2 (organ transcription by David Briggs, world premiere)

To mark the centenary of the first performance of Elgar’s symphony, David has transcribed the symphony for organ. His transcriptions of orchestral symphonies, which include Schubert’s Eighth, Tchaikovsky’s Fourth, Bruckner’s Seventh, Mahler’s Fifth and Sixth, and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe, are becoming increasingly popular and have been praised by critics for helping make organ music accessible to broader audiences.