(ALC) Music

MANTIS Festival

14:00 - 15:00 28 October 2018
MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound) presents concerts of new electroacoustic music, featuring Danny Saul and Brona Martin (commissioned by Trafford's Seed Studios and the Vonnegut…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Citizen of Nowhere: Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919 - 1996) A Sung Life

13:10 - 14:00 8 November 2018
This performance, from Jewish vocal music specialist Mark Glanville and the renowned Israeli pianist Marc Verter, journeys through the extraordinary vocal output of a major twentieth-century…

Manchester University Music Society Vocal Showcase

13:10 - 14:00 9 November 2018
MUMS presents a highly engaging concert celebrating the vocal talent within the society. With a wide range of voices and styles, this promises to be an exciting varied Lunchtime Concert,…

Manchester University Music Society Chamber Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 10 November 2018
The year 1788 saw Mozart push the boundaries of contemporary composition to unseen heights of contrapuntal mastery and genius, emulated in his Adagio and Fugue and final symphony.…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Quatuor Danel

13:10 - 14:00 15 November 2018
Vissarion Shebalin was four years Shostakovich’s senior and regarded initially as his Moscow counterpart while Shostakovich dominated the Leningrad scene. Shebalin’s Sonata is a wartime…

Manchester University Music Society - New Sounds from Manchester

13:10 - 14:00 16 November 2018
In this free Public Lunchtime Concert, you have the opportunity to hear some of Manchester University Music Society’s newest and best student compositions. Comprising of varying forces…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:00 16 November 2018
Two monuments of the quartet repertoire: Beethoven’s seven-movement C sharp minor, with its colossal range of character and correspondingly power of determined integration; and Schubert’s…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Rosalind Dobson (Soprano) and Michelle Assay (Piano) perform the songs of Shostakovich and Weinberg

13:10 - 14:00 22 November 2018
Songs from the height of the USSR by Weinberg, and one of his main influences, Shostakovich. Shostakovich Satires, Op. 109 Weinberg Old Letters after J. Tuwim Op. 77 Price: FREE

Manchester University Wind Orchestra (MUWO)

19:30 - 21:00 24 November 2018
Programme to Include: Kevin Malone Godzilla Manchester University Wind Orchestra returns with an action-packed night of fantastic music, featuring Rohan Iyer on solo Tuba! Experience…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Kevin Malone 60th Birthday Concert

13:10 - 14:00 29 November 2018
Kevin Malone celebrates his 60th birthday and 19 years at The University of Manchester’s Music Department throughout the concert season, with this concert featuring one of his earliest…

The University of Manchester Chorus and Symphony Orchestra

19:30 - 21:00 2 December 2018
After a sterling succession of concerts, The University of Manchester Chorus returns with Brahms’s A German Requiem, accompanied by The University of Manchester Symphony Orchestra and…

Manchester University Big Band (MUBB)

19:30 - 21:00 6 December 2018
The Manchester University Big Band take the stage for their first concert this year, pushing the ensembles capabilities and featuring soloists from all areas of the band. Expect new…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Quatuor Danel with Richard Whalley (piano)

13:10 - 14:00 6 December 2018
This Lunchtime Concert includes the performance of a piece by the university’s Professor emeritus, John Casken, derived from his opera-in-progress Sylvie and the Songman, precedes the…

Baroque Orchestra The Majesty of Versailles: Court and Theatre Music from Baroque France

13:10 - 14:00 7 December 2018
The University’s period-instrument Baroque ensemble undertakes an exploration of the rich and varied repertory of late seventeenth-century France including special music for Christmas…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert

19:30 - 21:00 7 December 2018
Schubert’s profound masterpiece, with its variations on his song ‘Death and the Maiden’ at its core, is preceded by the Variations on a Russian Folk Song, co-authored by ten composers…

Manchester University String Orchestra & University of Manchester Brass Band (MUSO)

19:30 - 21:00 8 December 2018
MUSO will contrast pieces of core string repertoire by British Composer’s Gerald Finzi and Benjamin Britten, then Brass Band will present an exciting range of music that will showcase…

Manchester University Music Society: Festive Concert

19:30 - 21:00 13 December 2018
Ad Solem take on a broad range of festive repertoire, extending from Bach to Anderson, to end the musical year on a jubilant festive note. The first part of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concerts: Flickering Presences - New Works for Flute and Video

13:10 - 14:00 13 December 2018
Gavin Osborn (flute) Flickering presences: a concert of specially commissioned extraordinary pieces for flute and video, with the projected image also forming the score for the flautist…

Festive Sing Along Relaxed Performance

13:10 - 14:00 14 December 2018
Get yourself in the festive spirit with a free and extremely relaxed event full of carols and festive participation, with an informal atmosphere unlike a traditional concert. Manchester…

Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Between East and West

13:00 24 - 15:30 27 January 2019
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic rediscovery of the music of Mieczys?aw Weinberg (1919–1996), the Polish-born composer who twice escaped from Nazi invasions and finally settled…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert - Weinberg Cycle

19:30 - 21:00 24 January 2019
Settled in Moscow from September 1943, Weinberg embarked on an extraordinary series of chamber-music masterpieces, gradually finding his voice in his increasingly ambitious third, fourth…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert (part of the Weinberg Cycle)

13:10 - 14:00 24 January 2019
Weinberg was a young virtuoso pianist, self-taught as a composer, when he composed his first expressive and energetic first string quartet in 1937. Its serenade-like successor followed…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert - Weinberg Cycle

19:30 - 21:00 25 January 2019
Following a gap between 1946 and 1957, Weinberg resumed his quartet cycle with a more restrained lyrical voice, heard at its most touchingly individual in the Eighth Quartet. The surrounding…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert (part of the Weinberg Cycle)

13:00 - 14:00 25 January 2019
The six-movement Sixth Quartet marks the summit of Weinberg’s first flowering as a chamber-music composer. Appearing in 1946, it was blacklisted two years later in the Anti-formalist…

Quatuor Danel Teatime Concert (part of the Weinberg cycle)

16:30 - 17:30 25 January 2019
Weinberg Old Letters, Eight Romances to words by Julian Tuwim, Op. 77 Shostakovich ‘Music’ from Seven Romances to Words by Alexander Blok, Op. 127 Weinberg ‘Dedication’, from…

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