What's on: Free events
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WCLC: Quatuor Danels (Weinberg Cycle)
13:10 - 13:55 21 March 2024
Weinberg Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 2 Weinberg Quartet No. 2 in G, Op. 3 The first concert in the Danels’ 2024 Weinberg cycle shows the composer as a precocious 18-year-old in Warsaw, self-taught in composition, then two years later as a rising star in Minsk. Phenomenal debuts! The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter...
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Quatuor Danel Lunchtime Concert (Weinberg Cycle)
13:00 - 13:55 22 March 2024
Weinberg Quartet No. 5 in B flat, Op. 27 Weinberg Quartet No. 6 in E minor, Op. 35 The five-movement Fifth Quartet and the six-movement Sixth are products of the extraordinary flowering of Weinberg’s chamber music during his first years in Moscow, from 1944 to 1946. The Danels were the first to perform the complete 17 quartets of Mieczyslaw...
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WCLC: Songs of Sustainability
13:10 - 13:55 18 April 2024
A concert of songs concerned with the environment and sustainability, born from a collaboration between poet John McAuliffe and composer Richard Whalley. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter Carroll Lunchtime Concert Series, which is supported by the Ida Carroll Trust. They provide a wide-ranging programme to suit all tastes...
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Just One Cornetto: Late Baroque Music from Northern Europe
13:10 - 13:55 19 April 2024
Experience voices and instruments from 18th-century northern Europe, including Bach, Telemann and Johann Daniel Berlin with the university’s Baroque orchestra, including the rarely heard cornetto.
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WCLC: Aria Vocal Trio Lunchtime Concert
13:10 - 13:55 25 April 2024
Aria Vocal Trio from Bulgaria presents their debut album with traditional Bulgarian songs. Singers Mariya Angelova, Asya Pincheva and Vanya Dimitrova perform acapella polyphonic arrangements by Mariya Angelova, Gancho Gavazov, Stoyan Gagov ect.of songs from all the Bulgarian ethnic regions. The Thursday lunchtime concerts are part of the Walter...
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WCLC: Trio Atem presents Atem x Atem
13:10 - 13:55 2 May 2024
Trio Atem return to Manchester with Atem x Atem: a programme of new pieces composed by the Trio themselves. Includes the premiere of the final work in Nina Whiteman's Cybird Trilogy - Incandescent, for trio with digital sound & video. Twitter: @TrioAtem #TrioAtem Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/trioatem/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/trioatem/ The...
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Gamelan Music from West Java
13:10 - 13:55 10 May 2024
Experience the vibrant gamelan music from West Java, Indonesia. Our concert features instruments performing a variety of classical and contemporary pieces.
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