Festival Evensong
Festival Evensong © Michael Whitefoot This year’s choice of music represents some of the best compositions written for Cathedral music. International concert organist David Briggs’ responses were commissioned by the Cathedral Chamber Choir for the 3 Choirs Festival in 2014. Sir George Dyson’s effusive Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis and of course, music from Worcester’s own […]
Piano Recital
Piano Recital Winner of numerous international competitions, pianist Roman Kosyakov closes the 2026 festival with a wonderfully virtuosic programme that includes Elgar’s Enigma Variations arranged for piano. £15 Click my moustache or call Worcester Theatres on 01905 611427 Sunday 31 May @ 2pm Piano Recital Performers Roman Kosyakov, piano Programme Schumann: Novelette op.21 n. […]
The Elgar Society Lunch
The Elgar Society Lunch The Elgar Society hosts its annual festival lunch, open to all, in the beautiful setting of the Museum of Royal Worcester surrounded by treasures of the past. Pre-booking essential – please contact chairman@elgarsociety.com tbc Click my moustache or call Worcester Theatres on 01905 611427 Sunday 31 May @ 12pm The […]
The Elgar Society A.T. Shaw Lecture – ‘Recording Elgar’
The Elgar Society A.T. Shaw Lecture – ‘Recording Elgar’ The independent recording producer Andrew Keener talks with Kenneth Woods about his work in the studio with some of the most renowned Elgar conductors and instrumentalists from the 1980s to the present day. Free entry Click my moustache or call Worcester Theatres on 01905 611427 […]
ESO Gala Concert
ESO Gala Concert © Michael Whitefoot Our Gala this year is built around the two works that frame Elgar’s unique career as a composer of orchestral music. His ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’ The Black Knight is one of his earliest works, and with it Elgar astounded the musical world with his brilliance, originality and mastery of […]
Festival Evensong
Festival Evensong © Michael Whitefoot This year’s choice of music represents some of the best compositions written for Cathedral music. International concert organist David Briggs’ responses were commissioned by the Cathedral Chamber Choir for the 3 Choirs Festival in 2014 and Australian/English composer Paul Paviour’s canticles were recorded by the choir for a complete cd […]
Worcestershire Symphony Orchestra – Meet Elgar’s Orchestra
Worcestershire Symphony Orchestra – Meet Elgar’s Orchestra © Michael Whitefoot The annual free performance of the orchestra co-founded by Sir Edward Elgar himself offers families a great chance to experience the thrill of orchestral music up-close in an informal environment. A wonderful programme featuring Elgar, Bach and Mozart alongside 1950’s film composer Doreen Carwithen Come […]
Elgar Chorale
Elgar Chorale © Michael Whitefoot © Michael Whitefoot This ever-popular local choir named after Sir Edward present a varied programme of works by Coleridge-Taylor, Thea Musgrave and including Elgar’s “So many true princesses”. £10 Click my moustache or call Worcester Theatres on 01905 611427 Saturday 30 May @ 11am Elgar Chorale Performers Piers Maxim, director […]
Reaching For The Stars – Great British Tone Poems
Reaching For The Stars – Great British Tone Poems © Michael Whitefoot This concert celebrates the descriptive and evocative powers of three of British music’s greatest tone poets. Bax’s masterpiece, Tintagel, is a uniquely stirring evocation of the mysterious hinterlands in which the Arthurian legends were born, while Elgar’s Falstaff is a richly textured portrait […]
Come and Play Elgar’s ‘In The South’ and ‘Froissart’
Come and Play Elgar’s ‘In The South’ and ‘Froissart’ © Michael Whitefoot © Maddy Pennock Love to play Elgar? Following the success of our previous Come and Play events, we’re once more welcoming amateur musicians from all over the country for a day of rehearsals and an informal performance in Malvern. This year we turn […]