The list below gives details of musical events which took
place in the
Leicestershire area in 2005. Although now passed (but hopefully not
forgotten), they are retained here for interest. To see a list of current events, click on CURRENT
Date Society Programme Venue 2 January 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival ‘From Darkness to Light’: candle-lit Carol Service with West
Gallery and traditional carols St Mary de Castro 16 January 2005 Leicester International Chamber Music Series Mi-Kyung Lee (violin), Ronan O'Hara (piano): Mozart: Sonata
for violin & piano in A K305; Stravinsky: Divertimento for ballet
“Fairy's Kiss”; Debussy: Five Preludes from Book 1; Ravel: Sonata for
violin & piano (1927) De Montfort Hall 20 January 2005 University of Leicester Graham Caskie (piano); Schubert: Sonata in B flat D960;
Tippett: Third Sonata (1973); Stephen Goss: The Hatter from “an ideal
insomnia”; Gershwin: Rhapsodie in Blue Music Room, Floor 10, Charles Wilson Building 22 January 2005 University Sinfonia, with Deborah Fink (soprano) Mozart: Symphony no.40 in G minor; Britten: Les Illuminations,
for soprano & strings; Mozart: Symphony no.25 in G minor Fraser Noble, London Road 26 January 2005 University of Leicester Lunchtime Concerts Archduke Trio: Schubert: Trio in B flat major D898 Music Room, Floor 10, Charles Wilson Building 27 January 2005 University of Leicester Glorious Baroque: Bizzaries with Monica Mauch (soprano) &
David Blackadder (natural trumpet); music by Bach, Buxtehude and Schutz
Fraser Noble, London Road 28 January 2005 Uppingham Concerts Uppingham Keyboard Festival Weekend - A series of three
concerts. Philip Fowke and the Uppingham School Symphony Orchestra;
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor; Franck: Symphony in D Minor Uppingham School Memorial Hall 29 January 2005 Bardi Symphony Orchestra, with David Fruwirth (violin) Brahms: Violin Concerto; Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.4 De Montfort Hall 29 January 2005 Uppingham Concerts Uppingham Keyboard Festival Weekend - A series of three
concerts. Acoustic Triangle - Unique trio perform a fascinating and
unique blend of melodic jazz and European classical styles Uppingham School Memorial Hall 30 January 2005 Uppingham Concerts Uppingham Keyboard Festival Weekend - A series of three
concerts. Keyboard Festival Prize-Winners Concert. Hear some of the
finest and most promising talent from Uppingham School Uppingham School Memorial Hall 2 February 2005 University of Leicester Lindsay Series. Mozart: Quartet in E flat K428; Tippett:
Quartet no.4; Schubert: Quartet in B flat D112; Quartettsatz in C minor
Fraser Noble, London Road 5 February 2005 Helix Ensemble, conducted by Anthony Weeden Pre-Concert talk by Anthony Pither; Wagner: Siegfried Idyll;
Stravinsky: Suite no.1 for small orchestra; Ligeti: Five Bagatelles;
Copland: Appalachian Spring (original scoring); Pither: New Commission.
Fraser Noble, London Road 5 February 2005 Philharmonia, with Janine Jansen (violin), Mikhail Pletnev
(conductor) Sibelius: The Bard; Violin Concerto; Rachmaninov: Symphony
No.2 De Montfort Hall 8 February 2005 Knighton Chamber Orchestra, with Rachel Calverley (cello) Mozart: Symphony no.25 in G minor; Haydn: Cello concert in C;
Schubert: Symphony no.5 in B flat Fraser Noble, London Road 9 February 2005 University of Leicester Lunchtime Concerts Young Players' Platform: Camille Farrar (violin) & Lucy
Colquhoun (piano); Music Room, Floor 10, Charles Wilson Building 11 February 2005 University of Leicester Miranda Phythian Adams (cello) & Moira Finch (piano);
Beethoven: Variations on duet from Moart's Magic Flute; Martinu:
Variations on a theme of Rossini; Brahms: Sonata in E minor; Cassado:
Requiebros Music Room, 10th Floor, Charles Wilson Building 12 February 2005 Leicester Symphony Orchestra Britten: Four Sea Interludes; Copland: Four Dance Episodes
(Rodeo); Berlioz: Harold in Italy (viola soloist Graham Oppenheimer) De Montfort Hall 13 February 2005 Wyvern Singers Sung Eucharist & Evensong Leicester Cathedral 16 February 2005 University of Leicester Lindsay Series. Mozart: Quartet in A K464; Tippett: Quartet
no.5; Schubert: Quartet in G D887 Fraser Noble, London Road 19 February 2005 Tudor Choir 5 centuries of popular music Fraser Noble, London Road 22 February 2005 Philharmonia, with Benjamin Schmid (violin), Andrey Boreyko
(conductor) Mussorgsky: Night on a bare mountain; Bruch: Scottish Fantasy;
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5 De Montfort Hall 23 February 2005 University of Leicester Lunchtime Concerts Leigh Woolf (mezzo), Peter Hewitt (piano), Edward Storey
(reader): Recital in words & music in memory of Trevor Hold,
including his songs and Piano Sonata no.3 (2002) Music Room, Floor 10, Charles Wilson Building 26 February 2005 University Singers & Proteus Chamber Orchestra Handel: Israel in Egypt St James the Greater Church, London Road 4 March 2005 Uppingham Concerts The Lindsays - one of the world's foremost string quartets in
a programme of Haydn, Janacek and Beethoven Uppingham School Chapel 5 March 2005 The Cecilian Singers Celebrity Concert with guests Anthony Goldstone and Caroline
Clemmow piano duo. Programme to include Brahms: Liebersliederwalzer;
Britten: Five Flower Songs St James the Greater, London Road 5 March 2005 Leicestershire Chorale, with selected school choirs and senior
strings from LSSO Vivaldi: Gloria; J.S. Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm; Matthew King:
Timepiece Guthlaxton College, Wigston 5 March 2005 Rutland Sinfonia Verdi: Sicilian Vespers Overture; Janacek: Taras Bulba;
Malcolm Sargeant: Impressions on a windy day; Elgar: Enigma Variations St Mary's Church, Melton Mowbray 9 March 2005 University of Leicester Lunchtime Concerts Joanna Kirkwood (flute) & Jo Sealey (piano); Copland: Duo
for flute & piano; Messiaen: Le merle noir; Prokofiev: Sonata in D Music Room, Floor 10, Charles Wilson Building 10 March 2005 University of Leicester Exquisite Baroque: Lisa Baznosiuk (flute), Richard Tunnicliffe
(cello/viola da gamba), Paula Chateauneuf (flute); music by Bach,
Handel, Hotteterre, Marin Marais, De La Barre Fraser Noble, London Road 11 March 2005 City of London Sinfonia, with Jennifer Pike (BBC Young
Musician of the Year 2002) John Woolrich: It is Midnight Dr Schweitzer; Mozart: Violin
concerto no.5 in A; Eleanor Graff-Baker: Regeneration Suite;
Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso; Tchaikovsky:
Serenade for Strings St Mary's, Melton Mowbray 11 March 2005 University of Leicester The Fairer Sex? a portrait of women in music: Diana Sharp
(soprano), Sara Norris (mezzo) & Moira Finch (piano); music by
Mozart, Rossini, Bizet, Offenbach, Gershwin, Weill Fraser Noble, London Road 11 March 2005 Uppingham Concerts King's Singers. This prominent group perform a diverse
repertoire Uppingham School Memorial Hall 12 March 2005 Charnwood Ochestra Berlioz: Roman Carnival; Walton: Cello concerto (Kevin McCrae,
cello); Nielsen: Symphony no.1 The Cope Auditorium, Epinal Way, Loughborough 12 March 2005 City of Leicester Singers Rutter: Requiem; Allegri: Miserere St James the Greater, Leicester 12 March 2005 Dufay Collective The Art of Minstrelsy in medieval Europe Fraser Noble, London Road 12 March 2005 Leicester Cathedral Brahms: Academic Festival Overture; Beethoven: Choral
Fantasia; Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man De Montfort Hall 12 March 2005 Leicestershire Chorale, with selected school choirs and senior
strings from LSSO Vivaldi: Gloria; J.S. Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm; Matthew King:
Timepiece All Saints, Loughborough 12 March 2005 Wyvern Singers Dvořak: Mass in D; Kodaly: Pange Lingua; and other music from
Eastern Europe St John the Baptist, Hugglescote 13 March 2005 Leicester International Chamber Music Series Marianne Thorsen (violin), Graham Oppenheimer (viola),
Nicholas Jones (cello), Martin Roscoe (piano): Schumann: Kinderscenen
op15 for solo piano; Lekeu: Piano Quartet in B minor; Brahms: Piano
Quartet in A op.26 De Montfort Hall 16 March 2005 University of Leicester Lunchtime Concerts Peter Cropper (violin) & Martin Roscoe (piano); Schubert:
Sonata in G minor; Webern: Four Pieces (1910); Beethoven: Sonata in G
op.96 Fraser Noble, London Road 16 March 2005 University of Leicester Lindsay Series. Mozart: Quartet in C “Dissonance”; Bartok:
Quartet no.6; Beethoven: Quartet in C sharp minor Fraser Noble, London Road 18 March 2005 University of Leicester Peace concert for M.A.N.A., with Moira Finch & friends Fraser Noble, London Road 18 March 2005 Uppingham School Concert Choir Haydn: The Creation Peterborough Cathedral 19 March 2005 Bardi Symphony Orchestra, with Adam Summerhayes (violin) Bruch: Violin Concerto no.1; Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade De Montfort Hall 19 March 2005 Hinckley Choral Union Haydn: Creation Mass To be announced 19 March 2005 Leicester Bach Choir Brahms: Schicksalslied; Mendelssohn: Psalm 95; Puccini: Messa
de Gloria Leicester Cathedral 24 March 2005 Philharmonia, with Paul Lewis (piano), Sir Charles Mackerras
(conductor) Brahms: Serenade No.2; Symphony No.3; Mozart: Piano Concert
No.23 K488 De Montfort Hall 1 April 2005 University of Leicester Intimate Baroque: James Gilchrist (tenor) & Matthew
Wadsworth (lute). Lute songs by Rosseter, Campion & Dowland Fraser Noble, London Road 9 April 2005 Broomleys Choral Society Spring concert of various short pieces Whitwick Methodist Church 15 April 2005 Philharmonia, with Piotr Anderszewski (violin), Jiri
Belohlavek (conductor) Smetana: Excerpts from Ma Vlast: Sarka & Vltava; Dvořak:
Golden Spinning Wheel; Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 De Montfort Hall 15 April 2005 Robert Smyth School Various songs/compositions by school ensembles and small
groups/soloists Methodist Church, Market Harborough 16 April 2005 Music in Lyddington Musica Donum Dei play Baroque music by Sammartini, Vivaldi,
Handel, Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Caccini and Corelli St Andrew's Church, Lyddington 17 April 2005 Leicester International Chamber Music Series Vogler String Quartet, with Graham Oppenheimer: Tchaikovsky:
Quartet no.1 op.11 in D; Schulhoff: Quartet no.1; Mozart: String
Quartet in D K593 De Montfort Hall 19 April 2005 Knighton Chamber Orchestra with Christine Taylor (clarinet) J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no.1 in F; Mozart: Clarinet
Concerto in A; Stravinsky: Pulcinello - concert suite from ballet Fraser Noble, London Road 22 April 2005 University of Leicester Ben Bryant Jazz Trio Richard Attenborough Centre 23 April 2005 Charnwood Choral Society English music on St George's Day Trinity Methodist Church, Loughborough 23 April 2005 Griffin Singers St George's Day concert in aid of VISTA, organised by the
Rotary Club Kibworth Community Centre 30 April 2005 University of Leicester: Proteus Orchestra Beethoven: Symphony no.8 in F; Bruckner: Symphony no.8 in C
minor St James the Greater Church 4 May 2005 University of Leicester Jonathan Twite (guitar) Music Room, Floor 10, Charles Wilson Building 5 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Early English Organ Project: Wetheringsett & Wingfield
organs on loan Leicester Cathedral 5 May 2005 University of Leicester: Gail Hennessy (oboe), Sally Holman
(bassoon), Nicholas Parle (harpsichord) Music by Bach, Handel, Telemann, Vivaldi Fraser Noble 6 May 2005 University of Leicester Sarah Williamson (clarinet), Christopher Ross (piano) Richard Attenborough Centre 7 May 2005 Bardi Wind Orchestra Gala Concert, for Kidney Care Appeal De Montfort Hall 7 May 2005 Beauchamp Choral Society German: Merrie England Trinity Methodist Church, Oadby 7 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Ascension Day Eucharist (Mozart) Leicester Cathedral 7 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Organathon Leicester Cathedral 8 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Evensong (Byrd) Leicester Cathedral 8 May 2005 Leicester International Chamber Music Series Britten Sinfonia Soloists: Mozart: Serenade for 13 winds in B
flat K361 De Montfort Hall 8 May 2005 Uppingham Concerts London Adventist Chorale. This well-known group of singers
perform spirituals, classical masterpieces, traditional hymn
arrangements and contemporary music Uppingham School Chapel 12 May 2005 University of Leicester: Modern Languages Chamber Choir Sacred and Profane songs Fraser Noble 14 May 2005 Leicester Philharmonic Choir, with Leicester Symphony
Orchestra Liszt: Christus De Montfort Hall 14 May 2005 Music in Lyddington Leopold String Trio play: Beethoven: String Trio in D op.9/2;
David Matthews: String Trio no.2; Mozart: Divertimento in E flat K563 St Andrew's Church, Lyddington 14 May 2005 Rutland Sinfonia Wagner: Prelude Die Meistersinger; Poulenc: Organ Concerto,
with Simon Kirk; Saint-Saëns: Symphony no.3 To be announced 15 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Communion (Palestrina) Leicester Cathedral 18 May 2005 University of Leicester Lunchtime Concert Archduke Trio: Schubert: Trio in E flat D929 Music Room, Floor 10, Charles Wilson Building 20 May 2005 University of Leicester Mariko Terashi (piano), Eva Fleischhansova (violin), Oliver
Gledhill (cello) Richard Attenborough Centre 21 May 2005 University of Leicester Sinfonia with Yuri Kalnits (violin) Brahms: Violin Concerto in D; Dvořak: Symphony no.6 in D Holy Trinity Church, Regent Road 23 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Early Music Organ Recital Leicester Cathedral 24 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Early Music Organ Recital Leicester Cathedral 25 May 2005 Humberstone Choral Society Spring into Summer St Mary's Church Hall, Lidster Close, Humberstone 25 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Early Music Organ Recital Leicester Cathedral 25 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Charivi Agréable St Mary de Castro, Leicester 26 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Early Music Organ Recital Leicester Cathedral 27 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Lunchtime Concert by Isidoro Roitman (lute) St Nicholas Church 27 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Lunchtime Recital To be announced 27 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Dance Workshop St Mary de Castro 28 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Junior Workshop Great Hall, Leicester Castle 28 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Longslade Consort St Mary de Castro 28 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Dance/Music Spectacular - 15th Century St Mary de Castro 28 May 2005 Leicester Symphony Orchestra Knussen: Flourish with Fireworks; Ravel: Mother Goose Suite;
Bolero; Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3 (Organ); conducted by Nicholas
Daniel De Montfort Hall 29 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival The Musicke Companie St Mary de Castro, Leicester 30 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Instrumental Workshop St Nicholas Church 30 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Come & Sing: Victoria: Missa quam gloriosum St Mary de Castro 30 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Service St Mary de Castro 30 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Castle Park Family Day Various Venues 30 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Family Concert by Courtlye Musick St Mary de Castro 31 May 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Songs of innocence & experience - Jeni Melia (soprano)
& Chris Goodwin (baritone & lute) Castle House 1 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Talk on Temperament Leicester Cathedral 2 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Fiddles & Pipes - The Burney Players St Nicholas Church 3 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Concert ZHL Guildhall, Leicester 3 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Whisky Tasting Guildhall, Leicester 3 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Concert ZHL Guildhall, Leicester 4 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Cecilian Singers - Purcell St Mary de Castro, Leicester 4 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Cecilian Singers - Purcell St Mary de Castro, Leicester 4 June 2005 Shepshed Singers A miscellany of works performed by the Singers on their Easter
Tour to Prague Trinity Methodist Church, Loughborough 1 May - 11 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Various events (see later entries) Various venues (see later entries) 1 May - 11 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Early English Organ Project: Wetheringsett & Wingfield
organs on loan Leicester Cathedral 10 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Wine Tasting St Nicholas Church 10 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Concert To Be Confirmed 10 June 2005 University of Leicester Formality: percussion quartet Richard Attenborough Centre 11 June 2005 Bardi Symphony Orchestra, with Bobby Chen (piano) Bernstein: Candide overture; Shostakovich: Piano Concerto
no.2; Dvořak: Symphony no.9 “New World” De Montfort Hall 11 June 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Champagne & Concert & 18th Century buffet with the
Longslade Consort Castle House, Castle Street 11 June 2005 Music in Lyddington Noriko Ogawa (piano) plays Grieg, Rachmaninov and Ravel St Andrew's Church, Lyddington 15 June 2005 University of Leicester Singers & Choral Society, Proteus
Orchestra (Anthony Pither's Final Concert) Haydn: Symphony no.99 in E flat; Piano concerto in G (Nikki
Ball); Motet: Insanae et vanae curae; Bruckner: Motets; Haydn: Te Deum Fraser Noble 17 - 26 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival Annual Festival, Artistic Director Nicholas Daniel.
Small-scale performances in City Centre venues: classical,
contemporary, jazz and world music. Featured composer James MacMillan.
Theme: Picasso. New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, and other Leicester venues 17 June 2005 Phil Houghton (viola/violin) & Gail Hobbs (piano).
Programme includes John Williams' 3 Pieces from Schindlers List, and
Viola Sonatas by Miaskovsky and Shostakovich. Fraser Noble, London Road 17 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: Stephen Hough (piano) Berg: Sonata op.1; Schubert: Sonata in G D894; Granados:
Valses Poeticas; Albeniz: Evocation & Triana (Iberia); Debussy: La
Serenade Interompue; Soirée dans Granade; Ravel: Alborada del
graciosa; Albeniz/Godowsky: Tango; Moszkowski: Caprice Espagnol New Walk Museum 18 June 2005 City of Leicester Singers To be announced St James the Greater, Leicester 18 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: Festival Ensemble Poulenc: Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano; James MacMillan:
Kiss on Wood for violin & piano; Boccherini: Quintet for string
quartet, guitar & castanets; Soler: Harpsichord Sonatas 85 &
90; Albeniz: Cordoba & Sevilla for guitar; Bach: Trio Sonata in C
minor BWV526 New Walk Museum 18 June 2005 or 25 June 2005 Wyvern Singers Concert Thorpe Arnold Parish Church 19 June 2005 Kingfisher Chorale Blaby Arts Festival St Thomas's Church, South Wigston 20 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: Festival Ensemble Turina: Guitar sonata op.61; Poulenc: Oboe sonata; MacMillan:
Intercession for 3 oboes; Bach: Trio sonata in G BWV1039 New Walk Museum 20 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: James MacMillan Film: Vigil Phoenix Arts 20 June 2005 Philharmonia, with Yundi Li (piano), Vladimir Ashkenazy
(conductor) Balakirev: Islamey; Liszt: Piano Concerto No.1; Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition De Montfort Hall 21 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: Festival Ensemble Bridge: Cello sonata; MacMillan: From Galloway for solo
clarinet; Granados: La Torre Bermeja for solo guitar; Falla:
Harpsichord concerto New Walk Museum 21 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: Festival Ensemble MacMillan: Tuireadh; Bach/Sitkovetski: Goldberg Variations for
string trio, with words by Jeannette Winterton New Walk Museum 21 June 2005 Knighton Chamber Orchestra with Robert Calow (clarinet) Elgar: Serenade for strings; Finzi: Five bagatelles for
clarinet & strings; Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas
Tallis; Britten: Variations on a theme by Frank Bridge Fraser Noble, London Road 22 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: Festival Ensemble Casals: Song of the Birds; Bach: Sonata BWV1031; MacMillan: In
Angustis for solo oboe; Mozart: Clarinet quintet New Walk Museum 23 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: Festival Ensemble Bach: Sonata in G minor; MacMillan: Untold for wind quintet;
Piazzolla: 2 movements from L'histoire du tango; Poulenc: Violin sonata
New Walk Museum 23 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: John Lenehan (piano)
& Festival Ensemble Film Fantasia Phoenix Arts 24 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: Festival Ensemble Bach: Prelude & Fugue in C sharp minor; MacMillan: Cello
sonata no.2; Barrios: La Catedral for guitar; Piazzolla: Adios Nonino
for guitar; Ibert: Entr'acte for oboe & guitar; Poulenc: Movements
perpetuels for flute & guitar New Walk Museum 24 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival Juan Martin & Friends play Flamenco The Y Theatre 24 June 2005 Wyvern Singers Concert Blaby District Council Chamber 25 June 2005 Leicestershire Chorale Venetian music, including works by Gabrieli & Monteverdi,
with Leicestershire Camarata St Mary's, Lutterworth 25 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: Festival Finale J.S. Bach: Sinfonia from Easter Oratorio; Britten: Prelude
& Fugue for 18 solo strings; Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen for 23
solo strings Fraser Noble 25 June 2005 Leicester Bach Choir French music, including Fauré: Requiem; Cantique de
Jean Racine; Duruflé: Motets; Poulenc: Litanies à la
vierge noir To be announced 26 June 2005 Leicester International Music Festival: Rakesh Chaurasia &
Niladri Kumar Indian Classical Music Phoenix Arts 26 June 2005 Uppingham School Midsummer Concerto Concert Memorial Hall, Uppingham School 2 July 2005 Broomleys Choral Society Music for a summer evening - a selection of short pieces St David's Church, Broomleys, Coalville 2 July 2005 Cantamici Summer Concert for Voices & Brass, including Giovanni
Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo Fraser Noble, London Road 2 July 2005 Charnwood Orchestra Sibelius: Finlandia; Violin Concerto (soloist Sarah Ewins);
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.6 “Pathétique” St James the Greater Church, London Road 2 July 2005 Helix Ensemble, director Ken Woods Barber: Adagio for strings; Summer Music for wind quintet;
Ives: Symphony no.3; Piston: Sinfonietta Emmanuel Church, Loughborough 2 July 2005 Leicestershire Chorale Summer concert Thurcaston Church 2 July 2005 Music in Lyddington The Schubert Ensemble play: Rory Boyle: Phaeton's Dancing
Lesson for piano trio; Schubert: Piano Trio no.1 in B flat D898;
Dvořak: Piano Trio op.90 (Dumky) St Andrew's Church, Lyddington 5 July 2005 Leicester Cathedral Summer Organ Recitals David Cowen with Cathedral Choir & Stephen Foster
(baritone) Leicester Cathedral 10 July 2005 Broomleys Choral Society Quorn British Legion Service Beaumanor House 12 July 2005 Leicester Cathedral Summer Organ Recitals Simon Headley & Leicestershire Arts Senior Brass Ensemble Leicester Cathedral 19 July 2005 Leicester Cathedral Summer Organ Recitals Roy Massey (President Royal College of Organists) Leicester Cathedral 26 July 2005 Leicester Cathedral Summer Organ Recitals Ivan Linford (Oakham School) Leicester Cathedral 2 August 2005 Leicester Cathedral Summer Organ Recitals Andrew Kirk (St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol) Leicester Cathedral 9 August 2005 Leicester Cathedral Summer Organ Recitals Scott Shaw (Rikkyo University, Tokyo) Leicester Cathedral 16 August 2005 Leicester Cathedral Summer Organ Recitals Mark Batten (St James the Greater, Leicester) Leicester Cathedral 20 August 2005 Music in Lyddington Wind/Brass soloists of Philharmonia Orchestra play Haydn,
Rossini, Arnold, Barber, Arrieu, Bozza, Debussy, Ibert St Andrew's Church, Lyddington 23 August 2005 Leicester Cathedral Summer Organ Recitals Robin Jackson & Maureen McAllister (international duet
recitalists) Leicester Cathedral 26 August 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Workshop for children: chance to try out early instruments The Guildhall, Leicester 26 August 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Recreating the Baroque, with Yvette Adams, John Bence &
friends: Handel, Vivaldi, Telemann - music for recorders & spinet The Guildhall, Leicester 26 August 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Recreating the Past, with music from 1200 to 1750, with the
Longslade Consort The Guildhall, Leicester 30 August 2005 Leicester Cathedral Summer Organ Recitals Jonathan Gregory (Leicester Cathedral) Leicester Cathedral 10 September 2005 Voice Quad Light Music: Concert in aid of Leukemia research Christchurch, Clarendon Park 17 September 2005 Griffin Singers Concert in aid of the Bible Society Trinity Methodist Church, Oadby 17 September 2005 Wyvern Singers Concert St Peter's Church, Whetstone 21 September 2005 Chamber Music at University of Leicester: Damien Thantray
(baritone) & Peter Hewitt (piano) Mahler song cycles: Kindertotenlieder; 5 Rückert Lieder;
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen Fraser Noble, London Road 22 September 2005 Young pianists Concert Fraser Noble, London Road 24 September 2005 David Briggs (organ) The Hunchback of Notre Dame: the classic 1923 silent film,
starring Lon Chaney, with improvised organ accompaniment St James the Greater Church, London Road 24 September 2005 Griffin Singers Harvest Concert Copt Oak Parish Church 24 September 2005 Music in Lyddington Barkham Harp Quartet play Handel, Corelli, Godefroid,
Nadermann, Debussy, Michael Mauldin, Kelly-Marie Murphy Harriet Adie St Andrew's Church, Lyddington 28 September 2005 Philharmonia Berlioz: Le Corsaire; Beethoven: Piano concerto no.3 (soloist
Till Fellner); Symphony no.5 De Montfort Hall, Leicester 1 October 2005 Come & Sing Handel: Messiah St Peter's, Church Langton 1 October 2005 Rutland Sinfonia To be announced Grantham Parish Church 1 October 2005 Sue Hutton (mezzo) & Gill Hawkes (accompanist) “Mother, I will have a husband”: English songs & Italian
arias Christchurch Methodist, Field Street, Shepshed 1 October 2005 Tempo Singers Autumn concert Cosby Methodist Church 5 October 2005 University of Leicester Lunchtime Series Robin Leonard (baritone) & Stuart Smith (piano) perform
British & American sea songs Floor 10, Charles Wilson 6 October 2005 Jacob Cordover (guitar) & Laura Karney (oboe) Astor Piazzolla: L'Histoire du Tango; Phillip Houghton: Stele
(solo guitar); Terry Mann: Melodicle Canon 3 (1st UK performance);
Hywel Davies: a work being given 1st UK performance; Paulo Bellinati:
Jongo (solo guitar); J.S. Bach: Adagio from BWV654 New Walk Museum 6 October 2005 Leicestershire Chorale Bring and Sing: Mozart Requiem All Saints, Loughborough 7 October 2005 ‘Duo Rosa’ Joanne Kirkwood (flute) & Victoria Green
(guitar) Ibert: Entr'acte; Takemitsu: Towards the Sea; Piazolla:
L'Histoire du Tango Fraser Noble, London Road 8 October 2005 Charnwood Orchestra Arnold: Sinfonietta; Mozart: Concerto for flute & harp
K299; Debussy: Danses for harp & strings; Haydn: Symphony no.45 Holy Trinity Church, Barrow upon Soar 9 October 2005 Peckleton Arts: London Mozart Players, with Sophie Bevan
(soprano) Haydn: Symphony No.49; Piazzolla: Four Seasons; Mozart:
Exsultate Jubilate; Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings Hinckley United Reformed Church 12 October 2005 Chamber Music at University of Leicester: Kathryn Stott &
Noriko Ogawa (piano duo) Schubert: Fantasie in F minor; Rachmaninov: Six Morceaux
op.11; Debussy: Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune;
Fauré: Dolly Suite: Dvořak: Slavonic Dances Fraser Noble, London Road 13 October 2005 Leicester Jazz House Henry Lowther & Jim Mullen The Y 15 October 2005 Bardi Orchestra and Chorus Stravinsky: Firebird Suite; Orff: Carmina Burana De Montfort Hall, Leicester 16 October 2005 Leicester Orphean Concert Orchestra Charity Concert to celebrate the 60th anniversary end of World
War 2 given in aid of the Lord Mayor's Appeal St James the Greater, London Road 16 October 2005 Uppingham Concerts London Adventist Chorale Uppingham School Chapel 19 October 2005 Chamber Music at University of Leicester: Chamber ViVA Mozart: Quintet in E flat for horn & strings; Richard
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel; Schubert: Octet in F D803 Fraser Noble, London Road 20 October 2005 Family concert with “Tubalate” - tuba & euphonium quartet Chick Corea: Spain; Anthony Pither: Finale, Finale; J.S. Bach:
Contrapunctus IX; Nicky Walton: Vite New Walk Museum 22 October 2005 Music in Lyddington Ruth Waterman (violin) & Florian Uhlig (piano) play:
Beethoven: Sonata in A op.12/2 & Rondo in G Wo041; Schumann: Sonata
no.1 in A minor op.105; Prokofiev: Sonata no.1 in F minor op.80 St Andrew's Church, Lyddington 22 October 2005 University of Leicester Sinfonia Includes two works by Sonia Grossner: Elegy 2; Street Life Fraser Noble, London Road 23 October 2005 International Chamber Music Series: Fine Art Brass Glinka: Ruslan & Ludmilla; Bach (arr): Violin concerto in
A minor; Philip Flood: Movement & Repose; Handel: Music for the
Royal fireworks; ‘A - Z of Jazz’ De Montfort Hall, Leicester 24 October 2005 Philharmonia Debussy: Jeux; Ravel: Piano concerto in G (soloist
Jean-Philippe Collard); Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade De Montfort Hall, Leicester 26 October 2005 University of Leicester Lunchtime Series Verona Piano Trio perform Mozart: Trio in B flat K502; Dvořak:
‘Dumky’ Trio op.90 Floor 10, Charles Wilson 26 October 2005 Coro Nostro Chamber Choir Madrigals, partsongs & ballads from Renaissance to C20th Fraser Noble, London Road 28 October 2005 Knighton Chamber Orchestra Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no.2; Beethoven: Piano concerto
no.2 in B flat (with Gail Hobbs); Mozart: Symphony no.39 in E flat Fraser Noble, London Road 29 October 2005 Griffin Singers Concert Oaks in Charnwood Parish Church 29 October 2005 Leicester Philharmonic Choir, English Festival Orchestra,
conducted by Brian Kay Porgy & Bess De Montfort Hall 3 November 2005 Early Music at the University: Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) Sweelinck: Variations on ‘More Palatino’; Couperin: Suite in D
minor; J.S. Bach: French Suite no.5 in G; Rameau: Suite in A minor Fraser Noble, London Road 3 November 2005 Ensembles VIVA & Philip Herbert “Perspectives - What's
Yours?”: black composers working in western classical tradition Ignatius Sancho: Minuets for strings; Le Chevalier de Saint
Georges: Sonata in B flat for violin & piano; Samuel Coleridge
Taylor: Clarinet Quintet; William Grant Still: Suite for violin &
piano; Adolphus Hailstock: Variations on a Guyanese Folksong for violin
& piano New Walk Museum 3 November 2005 Leicester Jazz House Hans Koller Big Band The Y 5 November 2005 Leicester Early Music Festival Music for London Coffeehouses 1712 Guildhall 5 November 2005 Wyvern Singers Concert St Michael & All Angels, Hallaton 6 November 2005 Music at Dingley Paul Lewis: Beethoven Piano Sonatas Dingley Church 9 November 2005 University of Leicester Lunchtime Series Voces Intimæ String Quartet play Mozart: Quartet in C
‘Dissonance’; Shostakovich: Quartet no.8 in C minor Floor 10, Charles Wilson 11 November 2005 Uppingham Concerts VIVA Orchestra of the East Midlands Uppingham School Chapel 12 November 2005 Cecilian Singers St Cecilia's Day Concert Victorian Gallery, New Walk Museum 12 November 2005 City of Leicester Singers Duruflé: Requiem; Bizet: Te Deum St James the Greater, Leicester 12 November 2005 Leicester Symphony Orchestra, with Evelyn Glennie Copland: Fanfare for the common man; Vivaldi: Piccolo concerto
arr. for vibraphone; Bach: Toccata & Fugue; Mascagni: Intermezzo
from Cavaleria Rusticana; Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture; Masson: Snare
Drum Concerto; Sibelius: Karelia Suite; Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre;
Maxwell Davies: Orkney Wedding De Montfort Hall, Leicester 12 November 2005 Music in Lyddington Craig Ogden (guitar) & Alison Stephens (mandolin) play
Tedesco, Albeniz, Norbert Sprongl, Manos Hadjidakis & many others! St Andrew's Church, Lyddington 12 November 2005 Shepshed Singers Adam Vaclav Michna: St Wenceslas Mass; Handel: Dettingen Te
Deum Emmanuel Church, Forest Road, Loughborough 16 November 2005 Leicester Bach Choir Charity concert for “Farms in Crisis”: Mozart: Requiem;
Vespers Kirby Muxloe Free Church 16 November 2005 Leicester Jazz House Renato D'Aeillo The Y 17 November 2005 Colin Stone (piano) Shostakovich: Three preludes & fugues; Ravel: Valses
nobles et sentimentales; Chopin: Nocturne in D flat; Ballade no.4 in F
minor New Walk Museum 19 November 2005 Broomleys Choral Society Fauré: Requiem Christ Church, Coalville 19 November 2005 Kingfisher Chorale In praise of St Cecilia - music by Scarlatti, Britten,
Purcell, Howells and Handel Fraser Noble, London Road 19 November 2005 Leicester Bach Choir Mozart: Requiem Leicester Cathedral 19 November 2005 Leicestershire Chorale Showcase, including music by Rachmaninov, Sullivan, Vaughan
Williams, with Jazz Group Uppingham Parish Church 23 November 2005 University of Leicester Lunchtime Series Yvonne Bloor (guitar) plays Lauro, Brouwer, Villa-Lobo,
Torroba Floor 10, Charles Wilson 23 November 2005 University Singers & Proteus Chamber Orchestra Boyce: Overture ‘Ode to St Cecilia’; Haydn: Symphony no.49 in
F minor ‘La Passione’; Handel arr. Mozart: Ode for St Cecilia's Day Fraser Noble, London Road 25 November 2005 Hinckley Choral Union Nautical Evening: selection form HMS Pinafore and Songs of the
Fleet Hinckley Concordia Theatre 26 November 2005 Charnwood Orchestra, with James Clark (violin) Brahms: Academic Festival Overture; Berg: Violin Concerto;
Beethoven: Symphony no.6 “Pastoral” Emmanuel Church, Loughborough 26 November 2005 Leicester Philharmonic Choir, with Canzona, conducted by Brian
Kay Handel: Messiah De Montfort Hall 26 November 2005 Rutland Sinfonia Mendelssohn: Fingal's Cave; Mozart: Piano Concerto no.24
(Jenny Firth - piano); Beethoven: Symphony no.1 Oundle Parish Church 26 November 2005 University Symphonic Concert Band & Big Band Concert Fraser Noble, London Road 27 November 2005 International Chamber Music Series: Matthew Trusler (violin)
& Wayne Marshall (piano) Brahms: Violin sonata in G op.78; Grieg: Violin sonata no.3 in
C minor; Selection of Broadway music by Gershwin, Porter, Scott joplin,
Flaherty De Montfort Hall, Leicester 28 November 2005 Philharmonia Mozart: Symphony no.35; Violin concerto K207 (soloist James
Ehnes); Shostakovich: Romance from The Gadfly; Symphony no.6 De Montfort Hall, Leicester 1 December 2005 Hugh Webb (harp): Traditional C16th Spanish Dances & Latin
American Dances J.S. Bach: Andante; Alphonse Hasselman: Nocturne 43; Marcel
Tourier: Feerie, Prelude & Dance; Carlos Salzedo: Chanson dans la
nuit; Colin Matthews: Suite New Walk Museum 3 December 2005 Bardi Orchestra Berlioz: Roman Carnival; Tchaikovsky: Piano concerto no.1
(soloist Katya Apekisheva); Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice; Tchaikovsky:
Nutcracker; Capriccio Italien De Montfort Hall, Leicester 3 December 2005 Kingfisher Chorale Charity Concert St Bartholomew's Parish Church, Quorn 3 December 2005 Leicestershire Chorale Britten: Ceremony of Carols; and music by Keith Roberts
(commission); Rachmaninov; Howard Skempton, Morton Lauridsen St Philip's Church, Evington 3 December 2005 University Orchestral Society Rossini: Overture ‘Barber of Seville’; Mozart: Oboe Concerto
in C K314 (with Hazel Cropper); Beethoven: Symphony no.5 in C minor Fraser Noble, London Road 3 December 2005 Uppingham Concerts I Fagiolini “Christmas Vespers” Uppingham School Chapel 3 December 2005 Wyvern Singers Christmas Concert St Peter's, Glenfield 6 December 2005 Coro Nostro Chamber Choir Christmas Music Fraser Noble, London Road 7 December 2005 The Cecilian Singers Christmas Soirée, with guest Alistair Parnell
(saxophone) Fraser Noble Hall, London Road 7 December 2005 Leicester Jazz House Bill McHenry Trio The Y 7 December 2005 University of Leicester Lunchtime Series Ashley Wass (piano) plays Beethoven: Sonata in C minor
‘Pathétique’; Liszt: Années de Pelerinage - Suisse
(excerpts) Floor 10, Charles Wilson 10 December 2005 Charnwood Choral Society Schubert: Mass in A flat Emmanuel Church, Loughborough 10 December 2005 Hinckley Choral Union Christmas Music, including Part One of Messiah St Peter's Church, Market Bosworth 10 December 2005 Leicester Bach Choir Christmas Music Leicester Cathedral 10 December 2005 Philharmonia Mussorgsky: The Marriage; Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
(extracts) De Montfort Hall, Leicester 10 December 2005 University Choral Society & Proteus Chamber Orchestra Charity concert for CREATE (autism): Howells: Te Deum;
Hely-Hutchinson: A carol symphony; Vaughan Williams: Hodie St James the Greater 13 December 2005 Coro Nostro Chamber Choir “Sing we Nowell!”: a concert of carols and festive music,
directed by Robert Kenny, with Laurence Rogers (organ) Bishop Street Methodist Church, Town Hall Square, Leicester 15 December 2005 Joglaresa An Italian Medieval Christmas New Walk Museum 15 December 2005 Leicester Philharmonic Choir Rutter: Magnificat - Christmas Carols St James the Greater Church 16 December 2005 Kingfisher Chorale Christmas Music and Readings Guildhall 16 December 2005 Wyvern Singers Christmas Concert with Wigston Band Braunstone Civic Centre 17 December 2005 City of Leicester Singers Christmas Music; with Britten: Ceremony of Carols St John the Baptist, Clarendon Park Road, Leicester 17 December 2005 Music at Dingley Celebration of Christmas Dingley Church 17 December 2005 Leicester Philharmonic Choir Carols St James the Greater, Leicester 17 December 2005 Rutland Choral Society Christmas Concert Oakham Methodist Churc 19 December 2005 Kingfisher Chorale Christmas Music and Readings Guildhall 21 December 2005 Kingfisher Chorale Christmas Music and Readings Guildhall 22 December 2005 Aitone - the early music consort An early music nine lessons and carols: Tuotilo of St Gall:
Versus ante Officium: Thomas Ravenscroft; Remember, O thou man; Stephen
Storace, arr. Thomas Williams: Angels, from the realms of glory; Samuel
Wise: Anthem for Christmas Day; anon. 13th century: Edi beo pu, hevene
quene; anon. 15th century: Ecce, quod natura; anon. 12th century:
Verbum patris umanatur; attrib. Joseph Watts: 'While shepherds
watched'; Thomas Mawdycke, via Thomas Sharp
Lully lulla: thow littel tyne child' anon, 18th century: Hark! the
herald angels sing; attrib. William Seal: Shepherds, rejoice! St Nicholas' Church, Lockington
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