West Meon Music Festival

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A festival with wide appeal.

This year's West Meon Music Festival, from 14th to 17th September, promises a wide range of classical music to appeal to all tastes: favourite chamber pieces, song and piano recitals, early music and composers from Monteverdi to Mahler, Schubert to Schoenberg.

The festival, now in its thirteenth year, opens with the event's founders the Primrose Piano Quartet, performing Brahms' A major Piano Quartet as well as duo works by Mozart and Schubert. Friday evening sees a recital by Thomas Kelly – winner of numerous international piano competition prizes – followed by "Who's afraid of Arnold Schoenberg?"an informal late night concert by the Primrose exploring his work.

On Saturday 16th September the festival spreads out across the Meon Valley: in the morning the strings of the Primrose will perform a version of Bach's Goldberg Variations at East Meon's historic All Saints Church while in the afternoon the beautiful twelfth century Church of Our Lady at Warnford hosts the Gonzaga Band performing works from the "Age of Monteverdi".

On Saturday evening the Primrose are back at West Meon Church with Schubert's Trout Quintet followed on Sunday by a morning recital of French song with exciting young soprano Harriet Burns. The French theme continues for the "Festival Finale" in the afternoon with works by Fauré, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Françaix and Bizet.

Full details of all concerts are now available at www.westmeonmusic.co.uk and the box office is now open. The West Meon Music Festival is a registered charity no. 1185082