Performances

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…

Quatuor Danel Evening Concert - Weinberg Cycle

19:30 - 21:00 26 January 2019
Three quartets composed in quick succession between 1977 and 1979 inaugurate the third phase of Weinberg’s quartet output, in which continued experimentation takes him through the quizzical…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert (part of the Weinberg Cycle)

13:00 - 14:00 26 January 2019
Between 1965 and 1970 Weinberg approached a second apex of his string quartet output, working through the increasingly adventurous tenth and eleventh and culminating in the notably…

Quatuor Danel Teatime Concert (part of the Weinberg cycle)

16:30 - 17:30 26 January 2019
Weinberg Sonata for Double Bass Solo, Op. 108 Weinberg Sonata No. 6 for Piano, Op. 73 Two of Weinberg’s most striking solo sonatas, featuring the Hallé Orchestra’s star principal…

Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert (part of the Weinberg Cycle)

13:00 - 14:00 27 January 2019
A quartet dedicated to the memory of Weinberg’s sister, who perished at the hands of the Nazis, followed by a farewell to the genre that leads towards the light. And to finish, the…

LITERATURE LIVE: Michael Hofmann and Igor Klikovac

18:30 - 21:00 28 January 2019
Michael Hofmann was born in Germany, grew up in England, and teaches at the University of Florida. Ingenious and brilliantly entertaining, One Lark, One Horse (2018), his fifth collection,…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: David Francis (harpsichord)

13:10 - 14:00 31 January 2019
L. Couperin Prelude à l’imitation de Mr. Froberger Rameau Suite in D minor F Couperin 18th Ordre Balbastre La Suzanne The improvisatory prelude exemplified by Louis Couperin…

Sunday Concerts: Lucida Saxophone Quartet

15:00 - 16:00 3 February 2019
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. At 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons, students from the Royal Northern College of Music perform…

LITERATURE LIVE: Andrew Miller & Kamila Shamsie

19:30 - 21:00 4 February 2019
Andrew Miller was born in Bristol in 1960. A winner of the Dublin International Literary Award and the Costa Prize, 'Now We Shall Be Entirely Free' (2018) “his excellent eighth book,…

University of Manchester Drama Society: MIFTAs

19:00 - 20:30 13 February 2019
The University of Manchester Drama Society usher in the start of their innovative and inventive MIFTA season with this first production. The most prestigious season of productions in…

University of Manchester Drama Society: MIFTAs

19:00 - 20:30 14 February 2019
The University of Manchester Drama Society usher in the start of their innovative and inventive MIFTA season with this first production. The most prestigious season of productions in…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Rob Hall and Chick Lyall (followed by a workshop)

13:10 - 14:00 14 February 2019
Rob Hall (saxes, clarinets, wind synth) Chick Lyall (piano, electronics) In a partnership spanning over a decade and five CDs, the improvisational synergy between composers Rob Hall…

Gestures: Writing that Moves Between

19:30 - 21:00 15 February 2019
Daisy Lafarge is a writer, artist and editor. In 2017 she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, and her poetry pamphlet, understudies for air, was published by…

MUMS Lunchtime Concerts: New Sounds

13:10 - 14:00 15 February 2019
Come and enjoy a lunchtime concert performed by the Manchester University Music Society. These concerts are free, no need to book just turn up. In this free public lunchtime concert,…

University of Manchester Drama Society: MIFTAs

19:00 - 20:30 15 February 2019
The University of Manchester Drama Society usher in the start of their innovative and inventive MIFTA season with this first production. The most prestigious season of productions in…

Sunday Concerts: Freeman String Quartet

15:00 - 16:00 17 February 2019
Friends of the Whitworth present a series of free Sunday Concerts that are open to all. At 3pm on selected Sunday afternoons, students from the Royal Northern College of Music perform…

LITERATURE LIVE: Cathleen Miller and Horatio Clare

19:30 - 21:00 18 February 2019
Cathleen Miller is a visiting Fulbright Scholar and Distinguished Chair of the Humanities at the University of Manchester. She is a bestselling author whose biography of UN leader Nafis…

The Adhesion of Love

19:00 - 21:00 20 February 2019
A new play by Stephen M Hornby Directed by Helen Parry In 1885, John W Wallace, a working-class man from Bolton, sets up the Eagle Street ‘College’, a book group that celebrates his…

Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series: Nicholas Ashton, piano: Wasserklavier

13:10 - 14:00 21 February 2019
This programme explores the theme of water: The dark surface of a Venetian canal; grey clouds, distant thunder; snow-fall; footstep imprints on a frozen surface; rainfall; a glimpse…

MUMS Opera Project

19:00 - 21:00 22 February 2019
MUMS present a night of opera! Witness the World Stage Premier of Judith Weir’s ‘Armida’, a modern tale of love and war, alongside a chance to see Ravel’s magical, entrancing and enthralling…

MUMS Opera Project

19:00 - 21:00 23 February 2019
MUMS present a night of opera! Witness the World Stage Premier of Judith Weir’s ‘Armida’, a modern tale of love and war, alongside a chance to see Ravel’s magical, entrancing and enthralling…

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