Our 2025-26 Season

All concerts start at 7.30pm, except in November and March when they start at 4.30pm

Our concerts for the 2025-26 season

Details of the concerts that will be taking place during the forthcoming season are summarised on the right and below.

Concerts start promptly at 7.30pm except in November 2025 and March 2026 when they start at 4.30pm.

If you have any questions about the concerts, how to get tickets or would like to join the society, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Tuesday 21 October 2025 | 7.30pm

The Portrait Players

A Madness Most Discreet exploring ‘veiled expressions of love in 17th and 18th century salons, showcasing music of the period from Paris, London and Rome’.

le Camus Ah! fuyons ce dangereux séjour and Laissez durer la nuit
Campion J’ai juré mille fois
d’Ambruys   Le doux silence de nos bois
de Murcia   El Amor
Handel Cantata Spagnuola
Purcell The cares of lovers and Ah how sweet
Corbetta   Preludio and Caprice de Chaconne
Eccles I Burn and Find me a lonely cave

This concert is kindly supported by Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme

Sunday 23 November 2025 | 4.30pm

Galliard Ensemble

Rossini: Overture from The Italian Girl in Algiers
Mozart:    Fantasie in F minor, K. 594
Couperin: Rondeau from Les Moissonneurs
Ravel:    Selection from Le Tombeau de Couperin
Bozza:   Scherzo, Op. 48
Holst:   Wind Quintet in A flat major, Op. 14
Grainger:   Walking Tune; Lisbon from The Lincolnshire Posy
Patterson: Westerly Winds, Op. 84

Wednesday 11 February 2026 | 7.30pm

Kosta Popović and Valentina Wang

Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G BWV 1029
Saariaho: Sept Papillons
Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano L.135
de Falla: Suite populaire espagnole for Cello and Piano
Dvorak: Silent Woods op. 68/5
Britten: Sonata for Cello and Piano op.65 in C

This concert is made possible by support from The Countess of Munster Musical Trust

Saturday 7 March 2026 | 4.30pm

Connaught Brass

Bach: Fantasia Super: Komm, Heiliger Geist
Rameau: Selections from Dardanus
Handel:    Largo from Xerxes
Handel:   But Who May Abide from Messiah
Mozart:    Selections from Die Zauberflöte
Ewald:   Quintet No. 2
Bach:   Little Fugue in G Minor
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor
Blumenfeld: Sarabande
Fauré:   Pavane
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, 4th Movement