ESSENTIAL repairs to the roof of the Pump Rooms mean classical music fans will have to travel to the other end of the Parade for the new season of chamber concerts from Leamington Music.
Performances for the 2025/26 winter season will take place at locations including the Unitarian Chapel in Warwick and Holy Trinity Church in Leamington from September 26 to March 20. including music inspired by Jane Austen, the Golden Renaissance and Christmas fireside favourites.
Sense and Musicality at the Unitarian Chapel in Warwick on Friday September 26 will enable fans of music, history and literature to while away an hour in the drawing room exploring the author’s relationship with music, emotion, and romance, in celebration of her 250th anniversary.
Sung by early music specialist Penelope Appleyard and accompanied by Jonathan Delbridge on a Broadwood Square Piano very similar to Austen’s own, listeners will be transported to an early 19th century domestic scene.
Music includes Jane’s favourite pieces, works from the Austen family collection that she played and sang, music by the only composer named in her work, pieces that are thought to have inspired the novels, fashionable music she heard in concert, themes from film and television adaptations, and a new song, Ode to Pity – a rare musical setting of an Austen poem, commissioned specially for this programme.
Marmen String Quartet will perform works by Haydn and Bartok at Holy Trinity Church in Leamington on Friday October 10.
The Golden Renaissance at St Mary’s Church in Warwick on Tuesday October 21 will see Stile Antico select one piece from each of their sixteen award-winning albums to create a journey through some of the greatest music of the Renaissance.
Gildas String Quartet will take to the stage at Holy Trinity Church on Friday November 14.
And The Mellstock Band are handing out invitations to their Christmas fireside on Thursday December 4 at Unitarian Chapel with a seasonal mix of jovial songs, dance music, and carols, assisted by Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, John Clare, and William Barnes.
Visit www.leamingtonmusic.org for a full line-up of events.
