The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival was established thirteen years ago by the internationally acclaimed viola player Lawrence Power. Each September he returns to the area to direct and perform in this three-day festival which attracts an array of top flight musicians who join him to take part in this exclusive series of concerts.
The Guardian newspaper, hailed the 2021 Festival as “One of the top ten classical music events of 2021”
A welcome from Lawrence Power, the Festival's Artistic Director
I’m delighted to be welcoming you once again to the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival. It has become a key musical event in our locality and has now earned a much wider following.
The 2024 Festival, running over three days 19th – 21 September, is returning to the Church of St Mary the Virgin in the exquisite village of Hambleden, Buckinghamshire.
I’m very excited to bring you a programme with the theme ‘Enchanted’ which gives us some wonderful music to enjoy. Many of the artists have joined us in previous festivals but there are one or two new faces and we are delighted that Anna Madely (from All Creatures Great and Small) is narrating for the Friday lunchtime concert.
This theme, Enchanted, offers the opportunity of a wide range of programming with composers ranging from Telemann via four of the great Romantic piano quintets through to Berio's music for viola and percussion and Hermann's score for Hitchcock's film, Psycho.
Concert #1
“Mysterious Barricades’
- Mozart – Overture to the Magic Flute (arranged for quartet)
- Mozart – Piano Concerto K 414
Interval - Couperin – Les Barricades Mystérieuses
- Brahms – Quintet for Piano and Strings Op 34
Performers: Charlotte Spruit and Annabelle Meare (violins), Lawrence Power (viola), John Myerscough (cello), Ryan Wigglesworth (piano)
Tickets: 01494 528569 / 07948 897148 tickets@westwycombemusic.org.uk
