Concerts - Present Season
95th Season 2025-2026
"Youth's the Season"
Concerts take place at 3.00pm in the Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street, Gloucester GL1 2BH
Sunday 28 September 2025 - Paddington Trio
Shostakovich - Piano Trio no 1 in C minor, Op 8
Schumann - Piano Trio no 1 in D minor, Op 63
Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor, Op 49
(Please note change to advertised programme)
Sunday 26 October 2025 - Nathaniel Boyd - cello, Alexander Boyd - piano
Debussy - Sonata no 1 in D minor
Rachmaninov - Sonata in G minor, Op 19
Brahms - Sonata no 1 in E minor, Op 38
Sunday 16 November 2025 - Milo Harper - harp
York Bowen - Arabesque
CPE Bach - Sonata for harp, Wq 139
Spohr - Fantasie in C minor, Op35
Fauré - Impromptu, Op 86
Poulenc arr Harper - Mélancolique, FP105
Hindemith - Sonata for harp
Debussy arr. Harper - 'Clair de Lune' from Suite Bergamasque
Tournier - Sonatine, Op 30
Sunday 18 January 2026 - Fibonacci Quartet
Beethoven - String Quartet no 2 in F major, Op 18 no 1
Bartok - String Quartet no 5 in D minor, Sz 102
Beethoven - String Quartet no 14 in C# minor, Op 130
Sunday 1 March 2026 - Ruth Rogers - violin, Simon Callaghan - piano
Beethoven - Violin Sonata no 2 in A major, Op 12
Fauré - Violin Sonata no 1 in A major, Op 13
Fauré - Les Berceaux
Elgar - Violin Sonata in E minor, Op 82
Saint Saens - Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Sunday 12 April 2026 - Piers Adams - recorders, Lyndy Mayle - kepboards
Baroque Alchemy
A genre crossing adventure combining the drama of baroque music with the universe of sounds afforded by modern synth technology.
94th Season 2024-2025
Concerts take place at 3.00pm in the Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street, Gloucester GL1 2BH
Sunday 22 September 2024 - Lumas Winds
Mathias - Wind Quintet (1963)
Musgrave - Wind Quintet (1992)
Gavin Higgins - After Fallout (2010)
Ligeti - Six Bagatelles (1953)
Mozart - Adagio for Glass Harmonica arr. Sally Beamish
Nielsen - Wind Quintet Op 43 (1923)
Sunday 27 October 2024 - Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin) Duncan Honeybourne (piano)
Bliss - Sonata for Violin and Piano
Whettam - Sonata no 2 for Solo Violin
Howells - Selections from "Lambert's Clavichord" & "Howells' Clavichord"
Gurney - Sonata in D major for Violin and Piano
Sunday 24 November 2024 - Octavo
A welcome return to this local ensemble which will be bringing a seasonal programme
Sunday 19 January 2025 - Veles Ensemble
Haydn - String Trio Op 53 no 3
Kodály - Intermezzo
Dohnányi - Serenade in C major for String Trio Op 10
Leó Weiner - String Trio
Beethoven - String Trio Op 9 no 3
Sunday 23 February 2025 - Martina Baroni (mezzo soprano) James Cheung (piano)
Purcell - Music for a while, Sweeter than Roses
Gurney - 5 Elizabethan Songs
Brahms - Selection of Songs
Schumann - Dichterliebe
Sunday 23 March 2025 - Craig Ogden (guitar) Miloš Milivojevic (accordion)
Vivaldi - Concerto in D RV93
Falloni - Pirotango & Felix Tango
Semenov - Don Rhapsody no 2, 2nd movement
Scarlatti - Sonata in D minor K.1 & Sonata in F major K.44
Albéniz - Asturias
Rodrigo - Tres Piezas Españolas: Fandango & Zapateado
Coste - "Le Depart" Op 31
Boccherini - Introduction and Fandango
Truhlar - Kontroverse
Piazzolla - Libertango
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93rd Season 2023 - 2024
Concerts take place at 3.00pm - in the Ivor Gurney Hall. Pitt Street. Gloucester GL1 2BH
Sunday 1 October 2023 - Robert Max - cello
The Six Bach Suites
Please note that this will be a longer concert expected to finish approx. 5.30pm
Sunday 29 October 2023 - Howard Blake 85th Birthday Celebration Concert
Howard Blake - composer and piano, Lana Trotovsek - violin, Jonathan Barritt - viola, Peter Adams - cello
Pianot Trio no 3
Prelude for solo Viola
Piano Solo - Chaconne and Scherzo from 'Lifecycle'
Violin - Burlesca, Archangel's Lullaby, Snowman Suite
Cello - Soliloquy
Piano Quartet
This concert is kindly sponsored by Howard Blake
Sunday 3 December 2023 - Mark Bebbington - piano
Alwyn - Sonata alla toccata (1945/1946)
Bliss - Masks (1924): Comedy/Romantic/Sinister/Military
Doreen Carwithen - Sonatina (1945/1946)
Ian Venables - Caprice
Robert Matthew-Walker - Three American Pieces (Op 157)
1. Break Dancing at Washington Square
2. At Gershwin's Grave
3. A Bad Night in Los Angeles
We are grateful for support from the John Irelnd Trust and the William Alwyn Foundation for this concert.
Sunday 28 January 2024 - Quatuor Agate
Mozart - String Quartet in E flat major, K428/421b
Brahms - Romance Op 118 no 5
Dinuk Wijeratne - String Quartet "The Disappearance of Lisa Gherardini"
Ravel - String Quartet
Sunday 3 March 2024 - Sirius Chau - flute and Kumi Matsuo - piano
Hisaishi - One Summer's Day from 'Spirited Away'
Berkeley - Sonatina for Flute and Piano, Op 12
Schumann - Three Romances, Op 9
Rutter - Suite Antique
Clarke - Hypnosis
Bowen - Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op 120
Taffenel- Fantasy on'Der Freischutz' for Flute and Piano
Massenet - Meditation from Thais
Sunday 7 April 2024 - Linos Pianno Trio
CPE Bach - Piano Trio in G major, Wq 90 No 2
Fanny Mendelssohn - Piano Trio in D minor, Op 1
Prach Boondiskulchok - Old Love Song (from) Piano Trio no 2, Songs Without Words
Beethoven - Piano Trio in B flat major Op 97 'Archduke'
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92nd Season - 2022- 2023
Concerts take place at 3.00pm in the Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street, Gloucester GL1 2BH
Sunday 2 October 2022 - Valencia Baryton Project
Matthew Baker - baryton, Estevan de Almeida Reis - viola, Alexander Friedhoff - cello
Haydn - Baryton Trio n.71 in A major, Hob XI:71
Ivan Moody - 3 Nocturnes (2022)
Haydn - Baryton Trio n.62 in C major, Hob XI:93
John Pickup - Prelude 1 (2021)
Haydn - Baryton Trio n.87 in A minor, Hob XI:87
Steve Zink - The River (2020)
Haydn Baryton Trio n. 69 in D major, Hob XI:69
Sunday 23 October - Gabriella Jones - harp
Debussy arr Jones - Images Oubliees: Lent, Douz et Mélancolique
Britten - Suite for Harp in C major, Op 83
Rachmaninov arr Jones - Prelude in D major, Op 23 no 4
Marcel Grandjany - Rhapsodie pour La Harpe
Judith Weir - Fragile
Caroline Lizotte - Suite Galactique
Henriette Renie - Deuxieme Ballade
Sunday 13 November 2022 - Roderick Williams OBE and Susie Allan
Birthday Celebration for Ralph Vaughan Williams
Songs by Vaughan Williams including 'Songs of Travel'
plus songs by Wood, Ravel, Bruch, Rebecca Clarke, Grace Williams, Butterworth, Holst,
Ina Boyle, Gurney, Stanford, Ruth Gipps, Howells, Parry, Finzi, Maconchy and Dring
Sunday 5 February 2023 - Astatine Trio
1st Prize Winners of the Intercollegiate Piano Trio Competition 2022
Mozart - Piano Trio in Bb, K502
Shostkovich - Piano Trio no 2 in E minor, Op 67
Brahms - Piano Trio no 1 in B major, Op 8
Sunday 12 March 2023 - Jeremy Huw Willams and Paula Fan
The Bawdy Bard meets a Dark Lady
Finzi - O Mistress Mine (Twelfth Night), It was a lover and his lass (As you like it)
Who is Sylvia (The Two Gentlemen of Verona), Fear no more the heat o'the sun (Cymbaline)
German - Nocturne (Romeo and Juliet), Gigue (Much Ado about Nothing), Korngold - Sonnet 130
Purcell - If music be the food of love (Twelfth Night)
Burgess - Under the Greenwood Tree (As you like it), Sonnet 116
Dankworth - Where the bee sucks (The Tempest), The Compleat Works
arr Vaughan Williams - Greensleeves (Sir John in Love)
Sunday 16 April 2023 - Ensemble Hesperi
Oswald - Airs for Spring, The Ranunculus, The Sweet Sultan,
A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes, Airs for the Summer
Handel - Trio Sonata in F major HWV 389, Chaconne in F major HWV 485
Playford - A Collection of Scots Tunes, Whichello - Suite no 2 in F major
Geminiani - Trio Sonata on 'Bush aboon Tranquair'
Nicola Matteis - Ayres for the Violin, Part Four, Gunn - Solo IV in B minor
Purcell - Sonatas of Three Parts no 2 in D minor
Avison - Trio Sonata Op 1, no 4 in D minor, Bremner - Variations on a Scots Theme