Thursday 1 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Symphony Hall, Broad Street, Birmingham

Cello Concerto
(plus Mahler - Symphony No. 5)

Steven Isserlis - cello;
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Sakari Oramo

Tickets: £29 - £9.50, telephone 0121 780 3333

Thursday 1 May 2008, 7.30 pm
The Hexagon, Queens Walk, Reading, Berkshire

Violin Concerto
(plus Glinka - Ruslan and Ludmilla - overture, Dvorak - Symphony No. 6)

Julia Fischer - violin;
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Yakov Kreizburg

Tickets: £29 - £14, telephone 0118 960 6060

Thursday 1 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Violin Concerto
(plus Harty - The Mystic trumpeter)

Thomas Zehetmair - violin;
Halle Orchestra, conductor - Mark Elder

For further details: telephone 0161 907 9000

Saturday 3 May 2008, 7.00 pm
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape, Suffolk

The Dream of Gerontius

Andrew Staples - tenor; Benjamin Bevan - bass;
University of Essex Choir,
Essex Sinfonia, conductor - Richard Cooke

Tickets: £20 - £10 (concessions available), telephone 01728 687110

Saturday 3 May 2008, 8.00 pm
Civic Hall, 14 Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

Serenade for Strings
(plus Warlock - Capriol Suite, Waggoner - My Penelope,
Finzi - Romance, Finzi - Clarinet Concerto)

Sarah Williamson - clarinet;
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, director - Kenneth Sillito

Tickets: £22.50 - £14.50, telephone 01789 207100

Saturday 10 May 2008, 8.00 pm
Weald of Kent Grammar School for Girls, Tudeley Lane, Tonbridge, Kent

Violin Sonata
(plus music by Brahms, Schubert and Ravel)

Tasmin Little - violin; Piers Lane - piano

Tickets: £15 (concessions available) telephone 01732 838698

Saturday 10 May 2008, 12.45 pm
Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire

Falstaff
(plus Berio - Opus Number Zoo, Britten - 3 Divertimenti)

Ensemble 360

Tickets: £9 (concessions available), telephone 0114 249 6000

Saturday 10 May 2008, 7.45 pm
Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire

Piano Quintet
(plus Arnold - 3 Sea Shanties, Watkins - Broken Consort

Ensemble 360

Tickets: £9 (concessions available), telephone 0114 249 6000

Saturday 10 May 2008, 7.30 pm
St. Mary's Church, Churchgate, Stockport, Cheshire

Serenade for Strings
Sospiri
The Shower
(plus music by McDowall, Bullard, Hopkins, Warlock, Holst and Rutter)

The Maia Singers;
Manchester Chamber Ensemble, director - John Pomphrey

Tickets: £10 (concessions available), telephone 0161 4330 3899

Saturday 10 May 2008, 7.30 pm
All Saints, Hockerill Church, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire

From the Bavarian Highlands
(plus music by Brahms and Shearing)

Harlow Chorus, conductor - Daniel Hyde

Tickets: £13 (concessions available) telephone 01277 362440

Saturday 10 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Croydon Parish Church, Church Street, Croydon, Surrey

Froissart Overture
(plus Tchaikovsky - Rococo Variations, Delius - Summer Evening,
Brahms - Symphony No. 4)

Croydon Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Darrell Davison

Tickets: £10, telephone 020 8680 2639

Sunday 11 May 2008, 4.00 pm
Philharmonie Grosser Sall, Herbert-von-Karajan-Strasse 1, Berlin, Germany

The Dream of Gerontius

Peter Auty - tenor; Jane Irwin - mezzo-soprano;
Paul Whelan - baritone;
Salisbury Musical Society, Philharmonischer Chor Berlin,
Staatskapelle Halle Orchestra, conductor - Jorg-Peter Weigle

Tickets: 28 euro - 13 euro, telephone (Germany) 030 254 880

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Cadogan Hall, London

Serenade for Strings
(plus Walton - Cello Concerto, Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 4)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor - Vernon Handley

Friday 16 May 2008, 7.30 pm
St. Anne's Church, Kew Green, Kew, London

Serenade for Strings
(plus Bottesini - Gran Duo Concertante, Faure - Elegie,
Beethovcen - Piano Concerto No. 2)

Anete Graudina - violin; Ben Griffiths - double bass;
Adrianne Wininsky - cello; Aya Kawabata - piano

Tickets: £8 (concessions available), telephone 020 8942 2801

Saturday 17 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Peterborough Cathedral

The Kingdom

Emma Bell - soprano; Leigh Woolf - mezzo-soprano;
Daniel Norman - tenor; Christopher Maltman - bass;
Stamford Choral Society;
Chameleon Arts Orchestra, conductor - Paul White

Tickets: £15 - £5, telephone 01733 570262

Saturday 17 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Trintiy Church, 15 Nether Street, North Finchley, London

Part Songs, op. 53
(plus music by Britten, Ravel,, Poulenc, Finzi, Parry,
Saint-Saens, Stanford and Vaughan Williams)

Finchley Chamber Choir, conductor - David Lardi

Tickets: £19 (concessions available), telephone 020 8449 1899

Saturday 17 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Leeds Town Hall, The Headrow, Leeds, Yorkshire

The Music Makers
(plus Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky))

Sara Fulgoni - mezzo-soprano;
Leeds Festival Chorus; Leeds Philharmonic Chorus;
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Simon Wright

Tickets: £27 - £14, telephone 0113 224 3801

Saturday 17 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Kidderminster Town Hall, Vicar Street, Kidderminster, Warwickshire

Give unto the Lord
(plus Walton - Coronation March Crown Imperial, Parry - I was glad,
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves, Stanford - Sings of the Fleet)

Elgar Sinfonia, conductor - Geoffrey Weaver

Tickets: £14 - £10, telephone 01562 60112

Saturday 17 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Salisbury Cathedral, The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire

The Dream of Gerontius

Peter Auty - tenor; Jane Irwin - mezzo-soprano;
Paul Whelan - baritone;
Salisbury Musical Society, Philharmonischer Chor Berlin,
Chelsea Opera Group Orchestra, conductor - David Halls

Tickets: £15 - £6, telephone 01722 320333

Saturday 17 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Rochester Cathedral, The Precinct, Rochester, Kent

Give unto the Lord
Great is the Lord
They are at Rest
Imperial March

Dan Soper - organ;
Rochester Cathedral Choir, conductor - Roger Sayer

Admission free telephone -1634 843366

Saturday 17 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucestershire

Enigma Variations
(plus Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 1,
Walton - Spitfire Prelude and Fugue)

Stroud Choral Society;
Stroud Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Benjamin Nicholas

Tickets: £12, telephone 01684 850959

Saturday 17 May 2008, 7.30 pm
St. Mary's Church, Cemetery Road, Thirsk, Yorkshire

Give unto the Lord
(plus Parry - Blest pair of sirens, Faure - Requiem,
Faure - Cantique de Jean Racine)

North Yorkshire Chorus, conductor - Greg Smth

Tickets: £10, telephone 01845 537244

Saturday 17 May 2008, 8.00 pm
United Reformed Church, Mill Lane, Broxborne, Hertfordshire

Sea Pictures
(plus music by Britten, Brahms and Rubbra)

Christine Petch - mezzo-soprano; Christopher Benham - piano

Tickets: £10 (concessions available), telephone 01992 462528

Sunday 18 May 2008, 1.30 pm
St. Mary's Church, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria

From the Bavarian Highlands
(plus Bernstein - excerpts from West Side Story)

Kirkby Lonsdale Choral Society, piano - Ann Rudge

Tickets: £6, telephone 01524 271320

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 8.00 pm
Chateau Guadet, St. Emilion, France

Piano Quintet

Pria Mitchell, Alexander Sitkovetsy, Razvan Popovici,
David Cohen, Diana Ketler

For further details: telephone (France) +49 30 2759 4174

Thursday 22 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Symphony No. 1
(plus Debussy - Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune,
Bartok - Piano Concerto No. 2)

Andras Schiff - piano;
Halle Orchestra, conductor Mark Elder

For further details: telephone 0161 907 9000

Friday 23 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London

Piano Quintet
(plus Arnold - 3 Sea Shanties, Watkins - Broken Consort

Ensemble 360

Tickets: £25 - £12, telephone 020 7935 2141

Saturday 24 May 2008, 8.00 pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford

Enigma Variations
(plus Mozart - overture to The Marriage of Figaro,
Wagner - Siegfried Idyll, Bizet - Suite from Carmen)

Oxford Chamber Orchestra, conductor - Jonathan Williams

Tickets: £12 (concessions available), telephone 01865 305305

Saturday 24 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Volunteer Hall, Galashiels, Scotladd

The Sanguine Fan
(plus Arutiunian - Trumpet Concerto, Dvorak Symphony No. 9)

Scottish Borders Community Orchestra, conductor - Robert Dick

For further details: telephone 01573 228464

Saturday 24 May 2008, 2.30 pm
Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire

There is sweet music
Serenade
(plus music by Finzi, Holst, Vaughan Williams and Howells)

Vox Music,
Southbank Sinfonia

Tickets: £15, telephone 01865 305 305

Part of The English Music Festival.

Sunday 25 May 2008, 8.00 pm
Schlosskirche, Weilburg, Germany

The Music Makers
(plus Mendelssohn - Psalm 95)

Ralph Mangelsdorff - counter-tenor;
Waltham Singers; Schlosskirchenkantorie Weilburg;
Sudwestphilharmonie, conductor Doris Hagel

Sunday 25 May 2008, 2.30 pm
Silk Hall, Radley College. Dorcester, Oxfordshire

Introduction and Allegro
(plus Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis,
Finzi - Clarinet Concerto, Ireland - Downland Suite)

Amaretti Chamber Orchestra

Tickets: £15, telephone 01865 305 305

Part of The English Music Festival.

Sunday 25 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Aberdeen Music Hall, Union Street, Aberdeen, Scotland

Cockaigne Overture
(plus Strauss - Oboe Concerto, Brahms - Symphony No. 3)

Nicholas Daniel - oboe;
Aberndeen Sinfonietta, conductor - Julian Clayton

Tickets: £12 (concessions available), telephone 01224 641122

Monday 26 May 2008, 11.00 am
Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire

Songs
(plus songs by Butterworth, Quilter, Purcell, Vaughan Williams,
Handel and Sullivan)

James Bowman & Co

Tickets: £15, telephone 01865 305 305

Part of The English Music Festival.

Monday 26 May 2008, 7.00 pm
Dorchester Abbey, High Street, Dorchester, Oxfordshire

The Banner of St. George
(plus music by Dyson)

Andover Choral Society,
David Bednall - organ;
David Owen Norris - piano

Tickets: £17.50, telephone 01865 305 305

Part of The English Music Festival.

Tuesday 27 May 2008, 7.00 pm
Kudowa Zdroj Town Theatre, Poland

Enigma Variations

Leicester Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Pavel Kotla

For further details: telephone 01162 677372

Thursday 29 May 2008, 7.30 pm
City Hall, Barker's Pool, Balm Green, Sheffield, Yorkshire

The Music Makers
(plus Poulenc - Les Biches, Britten Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes)

Christine Rice - mezzo-soprano;
Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus;
Halle Orchestra, conductor Martyn Brabbins

Tickets: £25 - £7.50, telephone 01142 789789

Thursday 29 May 2008, 7.00 pm
Jablone nad Nisou Town Theatre, Czech Republic

Enigma Variations

Leicester Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Pavel Kotla

For further details: telephone 01162 677372

Friday 30 May 2008, 7.30 pm
The Royal Danish Opera, Copenhagen, Denmark

Cello Concerto
(plus Bax - Tintagel, Brahms - Symphony No. 1)

Natalie Klein - cello;
Royal Danish Opera Orchestra, conductor - Vernon Handley

Friday 30 May 2008, 7.30 pm
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London

Serenade for Strings
(plus music by Mozart, Holst, Finzi, Pucell, Barber, Walton, Handel and Bach)

New London Soloists Orchestra, conductor - Ivor Setterfield

Tickets: £22 - £6, telephone 020 7766 1100

Saturday 31 May 2008, 7.30 pm
Southwell Minster, Bishops Drive, Southwell, Nottinghamshire

Serenade for Strings
(plus Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music,
Finzi - In terra pax, Britten - St. Nicolas)

Orchestra da Camera, conductor - Murray Stewart

Tickets: £12 - £10 (concessions available), telephone 01636 812291

Saturday 31 May 2008, 5.30 pm
St. Nicholas' Church, Wareham Road, Corfe Mullen, Dorset

In The South
(plus Chabrier - Espana, Loewe - My Fair Lady,
Schubert - Symphony No. 9)

Bournemouth Philharmonic Society - conductor - Sam Newgarth

Tickets: £9 (concessions available), telephone 01258 473073