We welcome back Amici to St Mary’s Thornham Parva after a three year interval for what is sure to be a very enjoyable afternoon of choral music. The programme by this local chamber choir, directed by its founder, Adrian Knott, will include … Continue reading
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The Revolutionary Drawing Room
Sunday 6th September at 4pm St Mary Magdalene, Thornham Magna Adrian Butterfield & Kathryn Parry violins Rachel Stott viola Ruth Alford cello Josef Haydn: opus 33 no.3 ‘The Bird’ Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf: Quartet no.6 in A major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: K387 … Continue reading
Summer Music 2015
A Weekend festival of four concerts directed by Corentin Chassard Four programmes of works by Haydn, Mozart, Brahms, Bruch, Messiaen, Piazzola, and many more: classical and romantic works, classic pieces from the 20th century, alongside some short pieces from contemporary composers. Aisha Orazbayeva, Rosie Kennally, Charlotte … Continue reading
Louis de Bernières at Yaxley Hall
Louis de Bernières reads from recent and unpublished works by kind invitation of Dominic Richards a fund-raising event for Thornham Summer Music 2015 4pm, Sunday 28th June 2015 at Yaxley Hall On the eve of the publication of a major … Continue reading
Viva Voce: Music for a Summer Evening
Saturday 13th June 2015 7pm St Mary Magdalene Thornham Magna Viva Voce Singers present a mixed programme of nineteenth century sacred music, English madrigals and close harmony arrangements of popular classic songs. Tickets £10 with refreshments included. To reserve for this concert … Continue reading
The Sweet Delights of Love – Sacred & Secular
Sunday 15th March at 4pm St Mary’s Thornham Parva Claire Tomlin & Emma Bishton, soprano Louise Jameson, bass violin & treble viol Peter Holman, harpsichord A programme of 17th and 18th century vocal solos and duets from England, France and Italy. … Continue reading
Rameau & Bach
St Mary Magdalene Thornham Magna Sunday 12th October 2014 at 3pm music by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Jean-Philippe Rameau Jennifer Morsches baroque cello Robin Bigwood harpsichord A concert in celebration of two most significant composers of the 18th century … Continue reading
Skip Finn: acoustic folk blues in Thornham Magna
Church of St Mary Magdalene, Thornham Magna A candlelit concert of acoustic folk blues with Skip Finn 7.30pm, Saturday 27th September £8 reservations / enquiries 01379 788036 or 788130 Licensed bar from 7pm Distinguished folk and blues artist Skip Finn comes to … Continue reading
Summer Music July 2014
Corentin Chassard and colleagues return for this year’s festival which will feature works by Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, and more: 17th – 20th July 2014. Leslie Boulin Raulet, Xandrija Edwins and Hun Ouk Park violins, Elitsa Bogdanova and Becky Hopkin violas, Axelle Porret and Corentin Chassard cellos, Vesselina Tchakarova … Continue reading
Yaxley Hall: Daryl Runswick & Alison Truefitt
An Afternoon Concert with Daryl Runswick and Alison Truefitt to be followed by drinks and canapés The Music Room, Yaxley Hall by kind invitation of Mr. Dominic Richards at 3pm on Sunday 30th March 2014 A stimulating and fascinating afternoon of … Continue reading
Jennifer Morsches : The Violoncello Piccolo
(photo: Taro Takeuchi) Saturday 15th March 12 noon St Mary’s Thornham Parva The Violoncello Piccolo a solo recital on a rarely heard instrument music by Georg Philip Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach performed by Jennifer Morsches An almost forgotten precursor … Continue reading
Orlando Jopling : Bach and Britten for solo cello
We are delighted to welcome back Orlando Jopling to Thornham for a recital of works by Bach and Britten. Sunday October 6th at 4pm, St Mary Magdalene Thornham Magna J S Bach: Suite no. 1 in G major Benjamin Britten: Suite … Continue reading