What's on: Music
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Quatuor Danel Evening Concert (Weinberg Cycle)
19:30 - 21:00 21 March 2024
Weinberg Aria, Op. 9 and Capriccio, Op. 11 Weinberg Quartet No. 3 in D minor, Op. 14 Weinberg Quartet No. 4 in E flat, Op. 20 The Danels were the first to perform the complete 17 quartets of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, here at the University in November 2009. Since then, they have taken the cycle all over the world, and while others have recorded...
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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 Evening Concert (Weinberg Cycle)
19:30 - 20:45 22 March 2024
Weinberg Improvisation and Romance Weinberg Quartet No. 7 in C, Op. 59 Weinberg Quartet No. 8 in C, Op. 66 Weinberg Quartet No. 9 in F sharp minor, Op. 80 The Danels were the first to perform the complete 17 quartets of Mieczys?aw Weinberg, here at the University in November 2009. Since then, they have taken the cycle all over the world,...
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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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Quatuor Danel Afternoon Concert (Weinberg Cycle)
13:00 - 14:45 23 March 2024
Weinberg Quartet No. 10 in A minor, Op. 85 Weinberg Quartet No. 11 in F, Op. 89 Weinberg Quartet No. 12, Op. 103 The Danels were the first to perform the complete 17 quartets of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, here at the University in November 2009. Since then, they have taken the cycle all over the world, and while others have recorded the quartets,...
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Quatuor Danel Evening Concert (Weinberg Cycle)
19:30 - 21:00 23 March 2024
Weinberg Quartet No. 13, Op. 118 Weinberg Quartet No. 14, Op. 122 Weinberg Quartet No. 15, Op. 124 The Danels were the first to perform the complete 17 quartets of Mieczys?aw Weinberg, here at the University in November 2009. Since then, they have taken the cycle all over the world, and while others have recorded the quartets, their CPO set...
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Quatuor Danel Afternoon Concert (Weinberg Cycle)
13:00 - 14:00 24 March 2024
Weinberg Quartet No. 16 in A flat minor, Op. 130 Weinberg Quartet No. 17 in D, Op. 146 Weinberg’s quartet cycle comes to a conclusion with two highly contrasted works: No. 16 is dark and defiant, whereas No. 17 reaches for the light.
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MUMS Session Orchestra Concert
19:00 - 18 April 2024
MUMS Session Orchestra presents an evening of classical hits! Featuring medleys from The Lion King and La La Land, as well as popular classics by Gershwin and Shostakovich Instagram: @uommusicsociety Facebook: Manchester University Music Society (MUMS)
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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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