The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival was established 13 years ago by the internationally acclaimed viola player Lawrence Power. Each year he returns to the area to direct and perform in this 3-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”
Lawrence Power, Festival Artistic Director, writes:
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, from 19–21 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, some are 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 #4
“Gulliver’s Travels”
- Prokofiev – ‘Dance of the Knights’ (arranged for viola)
- Dvorak – Quartet no 2 for Piano & Strings Op 87 – Allegro con fuoco
- Telemann – Gulliver Suite for two violins
- Fauré – Quintet for Piano and Strings Op 89 – Molto moderato
- Ravel – Tzigane
Performers: Charlotte Spruit, Maya Crawford-Phillips and Annabelle Meare (violins), Lawrence Power (viola), John Myerscough (cello), Gabriel Power and Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano)
Tickets: 01494 528569/07948 897148
