Leamington Music Festival 2024. Kukal String Quartet Eliška Kukalová and Klára Lešková violins Daniel Macho viola, Filip Rufer cello Coffee Concert Schulhoff Five Pieces Sylvie Bodorová Shofarot Smetana Quartet No 2 Dvořák Cypresses – a selection The Kukal Quartet is making its UK debut on this visit, having been specially chosen by The Czech Centre. Named after a leading… Read More »
Leamington Music Festival 2024. A talk by David Beveridge Following The Dvořák Society’s AGM, there will be tea and a 50th anniversary cake served before the talk starts at 3.30pm. David Beveridge is a musicologist and Dvořák specialist who lives in Prague. Free entry | Donations welcome
Leamington Music Festival 2024. Martinů String Quartet Lubomír Havlák violin and Adéla Štajnochrová violins Martin Stupka viola, Jitka Vlašánková cello with Vilém Veverka oboe and Martin Kasík piano Mozart Oboe Quartet in F K370 Sylvie Bodorová Psalms and Exhortations for Oboe Quintet (Première) Dvořák Piano Quintet in A Op 81 The Martinů Quartet returns to Leamington for three concerts, two of them… Read More »
Leamington Music Festival 2024. Mahler Lieder eines fahrende Gesellen Suk Životem a snam Op 30 Haas Four Songs on Chinese Poetry Ullmann Two Chinese Songs Korngold Der Kranke Op 38 No 2 Suk Longing from Spring Op 22a Janáček Andante from In the Mists Dvořák Gypsy Songs Op 55 Simon Wallfisch returns to Leamington for the first time since… Read More »
Leamington Music Festival 2024. Royal Pump Rooms | Assembly Hall A platform which again showcases the cream of Warwickshire Music’s students from across the county. The programme will reflect the Czech theme of the Festival. £4 students & children | £8 adults Includes tea and cake served afterwards
Leamington Music Festival 2024. Royal Pump Rooms | Conservatory Daniel Low-Beer talks about The Low-Beer story behind Schindler’s List and the Brněnec project. In association with the Friends of Czech Heritage. Donations to the project welcome. Tickets: £8 Includes tea and cake served afterwards
Leamington Music Festival 2024. Martinů String Quartet Lubomír Havlák violin and Adéla Štajnochrová violins Martin Stupka viola, Jitka Vlašánková cello with Vilém Veverka oboe and Martin Kasík piano Bohemian Pot Pourri Martinů Quartet for oboe, violin, cello & piano H315 Haas Suite for oboe and piano Op 17 Klein Wiegenlied Smetana From My Homeland Dvořák Silent Woods Op 68 Dvořák Humoreske Op… Read More »
Leamington Music Festival 2024. Dvořák Song to the Moon from Rusalka Eben Okna Smetana Vltava from Má vlast Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E flat One of the big successes in the Warwick & Leamington Midsummer Music Festival after lockdown in 2021 was a recital at Holy Trinity Church when Imogen Whitehead played Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto. Johann Nepomuk Hummel was… Read More »
Leamington Music Festival 2024 Kalivoda Introduction & Rondo Kofron Horn Sonatina Mahler Urlicht from Des Knaben Wunderhorn Janáček On an Overgrown Path selections Punto Adagio from Horn Concerto No 5 Beethoven Horn Sonata in F Op 17 Ben Goldscheider’s stunning performance in the final concert of the 2023 Festival, plus his family’s Czech background, made an invitation to return inevitable.… Read More »
In association with the Leamington History Group, Sidney Syson will lead an hour’s walk to take in a selection of sites that relate to the Czechoslovakian Free Army’s time in Leamington. Assemble at Royal Pump Rooms Visitor Information Centre – advance booking essential Email [email protected] to book (places limited) Donations to Leamington History Group
Leamington Music Festival 2024. Martinů String Quartet Lubomír Havlák violin and Adéla Štajnochrová violins Martin Stupka viola, Jitka Vlašánková cello with Simon Wallfisch baritone and Gemma Rosefield cello Krása String Quartet Tauský Coventry Sylvie Bodorová Terezín Ghetto Requiem Schubert String Quintet in C D956 The Festival’s final concert includes Vilém Tauský’s Coventry, written in 1940 after visiting the recently ruined cathedral. Sylvie Bodorová’s Terezín… Read More »