Despite the latest government announcement on relaxing restrictions from 4 July, we are still no clearer about when theatres might be able to open and what the exact rules may be when they do so. It seems likely that there will need to be social distancing rules – for performers …
A report from our retiring Publicity Officer We have all missed attending concerts and hearing live music during the past few months. Like me, I feel sure you will have rediscovered forgotten CDs lying at the back of the shelf and enjoyed listening to recorded music you had overlooked in …
From Sarah Musgrave: As you will have noted from the AGM item, I have retired from the committee, having served for six years. After having acted as the Club’s Publicity and Marketing Officer for the latter part of my first year, I agreed to take on this role for a …
Malvern Concert Club has for many years maintained an Outreach programme to bring the joy, excitement and beauty of live music to young people in Malvern. We are delighted to announce that discussions have begun with Severn Arts to fund a series of school concerts to Primary schools in the …
As the coronavirus pandemic developed, and the social distancing guidelines prevented a physical Annual General Meeting, the Committee decided to hold a virtual meeting, to take effect on the date we had originally planned – Thursday 2 July. Unsurprisingly, this was new ground for all of us. If the crisis …
Covid-19 presents an uncertain future for our theatres and concert halls and we are all feeling the loss of live stage performances at present. An appeal has been launched to help support Malvern Theatres through this difficult time. Malvern Concert Club very much values the position of the Theatres in …
It is with great sadness that we report the death recently of our former Club Secretary, Peter Thomas. He had been suffering from Motor Neurone Disease. Peter retired as Secretary at the last AGM after five years in that office, a period of considerable innovation and achievement for the Club, …
Those of you attending the inspirational piano recital by Pavel Kolesnikov last November will have noticed that the lighting in The Forum was quite subdued – unlike the artist or indeed the audience. Some liked it, and felt it aided their concentration on an intense, and through- played programme. Others …
Dvořák: Carnival Overture Chopin: Piano Concerto No.1 (Soloist: Benjamin Grosvenor) Beethoven: Symphony No.7 Conductor: Jonathan Bloxham Join us for our final coach trip to Symphony Hall this season for the 7.30pm concert on Wednesday 27 May. Ticket prices range from £35 to £45 and include coach travel. Places must be …
It was very unfortunate that our advertised February Sunday afternoon concert coincided with Storm Ciara and we had to cancel the event. The Gesualdo Six, unable to travel from London, were as disappointed as we were. They spread the word on Twitter and organised an informal performance at a London …
Booking for the coach trip on 4 March to the evening CBSO concert at Symphony Hall closed on 2 February. Brahms’ German Requiem will be conducted by the CBSO’s Music Director, Mirga Gražinyté-Tyla, with Camilla Tilling and Florian Boesch and the CBSO Chorus. In the first half the CBSO winds …
This wonderful recital began with a surprise: Chopin’s exquisite posthumous waltz in A minor, (because the pianist loves it!), preceding the Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor and setting the tone for a musical journey from darkness to light, or perhaps from moonlight to a radiant dawn. The audience were immediately …
You may already have heard that the concert on Thursday 23 January 2020: Tasmin Little and Martin Roscoe, has been postponed. Tasmin has, unfortunately, sustained an injury to her fretting hand. Rather than our attempting to seek a substitute concert at short notice, we have rescheduled the concert for Wednesday …
Congratulations to Club Member and composer Liz Johnson whose major new cantata Gentle Flame was given a five star review by Chris Morley, when it received its première performance on Tuesday 12 November at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. The words of Greta Thunberg thread through Gentle Flame, with additional texts …
On Wednesday 16 October 2019, at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards, the guitarist Sean Shibe was the first recipient of the Concept Album Award for SoftLOUD, which combines Scottish traditional dances with pieces by James MacMillan, Julia Wolfe, David Lang and Steve Reich. Sean’s performance of the latter’s Electric Counterpoint …
Many of the artists who perform at Malvern Concert Club can also be heard in radio broadcasts, both as performers and presenters. Following the broadcast by BBC Radio 3 of our Elgar Chamber Music Centenary concert in May by the Brodsky Quartet and Martin Roscoe, the latest in a line …
The MCC committee is looking for someone to edit the newsletter when I retire from the position of Publicity and Marketing Officer at the end of this season. The job description of my role has grown and this particular part of it could easily be undertaken by someone else who …
The new season opened in fine form with the Frith Piano Quartet (piano, violin, viola and cello), with the support of John Tattersdill’s double bass for two of the three pieces. The first item was Louise Farrenc’s Piano Quintet No.1 in A minor, of 1839, a rarity nowadays but popular …
The Club’s 2018-19 AGM was held at 7pm on Thursday 4 July at St Edmund’s Hall, College Road, Malvern, WR14 3DF . After the business part of the meeting, there was a recital by duo Griffith Wadkin (cello) and Domonkos Csabay (piano) from The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. They will perform: …
The Malvern Club Concert held on 2nd May is being broadcast on Radio 3 on Tuesday 7th May at 7.30pm. The broadcast is available on BBC Sounds for a month after the programme and can be accessed here.
