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2024-25 Season

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Ludlow

Wednesday 21 — Sunday 25 May 2025

St Laurence, Ludlow and Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Ludlow Piano Festival

Classical concerts here in adjacent panels. For other events see LPF website. Full programme and ticketing informationHERE.

Peter Donohoe

Thursday 22 May 2025

7:30pm

St Laurence, Ludlow

Peter Donohoe, piano

Works by Chopin, Grieg and Busoni

Over forty years, Peter has gained international renown as one of the foremost pianists of our time : now he comes to Ludlow to play music by arguably the greatest ever composer for the piano. A double dose of genius! ...read more...

Tickets £22 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.

Benjamin Frith and Heidi Rolfe

Friday 23 May 2025

2:00pm

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Benjamin Frith and Heidi Rolfe, piano duet

Holst's The Planets

After their scintillating performance of Scheherezade last year, the pair return with a rarely-heard piano duet arrangement of Holst's ever-popular Planets Suite: it promises to be another unmissable, tour de force. ...read more...

Tickets £18 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.

Jonathan Powell

Friday 23 May 2025

4:30pm

Palmers Hall, Ludlow College

Jonathan Powell, piano

From Pole to Pole

Works by Maria Szymanowska, Chopin, Paderewski and Szymanowski.

A fascinating afternoon of music from some lesser-known Polish composers and still a little something from their inspirational compatriot, Fryderyk Chopin. ...read more...

Tickets £18 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.

Alim Beisembayev

Friday 23 May 2025

7:30pm

St Laurence, Ludlow

Alim Beisembayev, piano

Works by Scarlatti, Ravel, Liszt, Ligeti, Eleanor Alberga, and Debussy.

This very special evening promises to be a real pianistic firework display from one of the most talked about and sought-after young pianists in the world.

The first time I heard him on Radio 3, I was stopped in my tracks by the sheer beauty of his playing. Alistair McGowan ...read more...

Tickets £22 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.

Clare Hammond

Saturday 24 May 2025

2:30pm

Palmers Hall, Ludlow College

Clare Hammond, piano

Works by Cécile Chaminade, Germaine Tailleferre, Mel Bonis, Doreen Carwithen, Hélène de Montgeroult and Clara Schumann.

Respected worldwide for her searching programmes, Clare plays music exclusively by female composers such as those in today''s programme who are starting to receive the air-time and gain the reputation that they deserve. ...read more...

Tickets £18 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.

Joanna MacGregor

Saturday 24 May 2025

6:00pm

St Laurence, Ludlow

Joanna MacGregor, piano

Works by Glass, Rameau, Couperin, Liszt and Mussorgsky

The impossibly-stylish Joanna thrilled us here at our closing concert in 2023. She will no doubt do so again with a typically quixotic and eclectic programme including music by Glass, Rameau, Couperin, Liszt and the atmospheric Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition. ...read more...

Tickets £22 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.

Mario Bobotsov

Sunday 25 May 2025

2:00pm

Palmers Hall, Ludlow College

Mario Bobotsov, piano

Young Artist Recital

Works by Beethoven, Franck and Rachmaninov.

A masterclass participant here last year and now completing his studies, Mario is being much talked about and today brings us Rachmaninov and other delights. ...read more...

Tickets £18 (u18 £5) from Ludlow Assembly Rooms box office HERE.

Marion Bettsworth

Saturday 7 June 2025

1:00pm

St Laurence, Ludlow

Marion Bettsworth, organ

Works by Florence Price, John Worgan, Sister Mary Theophane Hytrek, Nico Muhly and Louis Vierne.

Marion Bettsworth is a freelance organist, pianist, and teacher based in Hereford. She is Accompanist and Assistant Musical Director for Ludlow Choral Society and teaches piano and music theory at Hereford Cathedral School. ...read more...

Free entry. Donations welcome.

Bach's statue in Leipzig

Saturday 7 June 2025

7:30pm

All Saints, Richard's Castle

Edge Chamber Choir

Bach's Komm, Jesu, Komm and motets by Duruflé, Poulenc, Pärt, Bruckner, Stanford, Macmillan, Mendelssohn and Brahms.

This programme, on the theme of the Motet, is centred around one of Bach's most beautiful smaller works, Komm, Jesu, komm and will include motets by a panoply of other composers. ...read more...

Tickets: £12 HERE or £15 at the door (U16 free).

Gabriella Liandu

Saturday 14 June 2025

7:30pm

St Laurence, Ludlow

Ludlow Choral Society

Songs of the Sea

Works by Elgar, McDowell, Ayres, Parry, Trenet, Purcell and others

Songs of the Sea is an eclectic/varied programme of choral music on the theme of the sea built around Elgar's song cycle Sea Pictures. ...read more...

Free entry. Donations welcome.

Emma Winscom

Saturday 21 June 2025

1:00pm

St Laurence, Ludlow

Emma Winscom, mezzo-contralto
David Gaukroger, piano

Espoirs, Souhaits, Rêves et Prières
(Hopes, Wishes, Dreams & Prayers)

A recital of French songs.

Emma Winscom is a professional singer, singing teacher and composer. After her Classics degree at the University of Bristol, she continued her passion for singing at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. ...read more...

Free entry. Donations welcome.