Tickets for the 13th West Meon Music Festival are on sale from June 1 with eight concerts over the four-day event from September 14-17. 

This year’s festival promises a wide range of classical music to appeal to all tastes: favourite chamber pieces, song and piano recitals, early music and composers from Monteverdi to Mahler, Schubert to Schoenberg.

The festival, opens with the event’s founders the Primrose Piano Quartet, performing Brahms’ A major Piano Quartet as well as duo works by Mozart and Schubert. 

Friday evening sees a recital by Thomas Kelly – winner of numerous international piano competition prizes – followed by Who’s afraid of Arnold Schoenberg? an informal late night concert by the Primrose exploring his work.

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On Saturday September 16, the festival spreads out across the Meon Valley. In the morning the strings of the Primrose will perform a version of Bach’s Goldberg Variations at East Meon’s historic All Saints Church, while in the afternoon the 12th century Church of Our Lady at Warnford hosts The Gonzaga Band performing works from the Age of Monteverdi.

On Saturday evening, the Primrose are back at West Meon Church with Schubert’s Trout Quintet followed on Sunday by a morning recital of French song with acclaimed young soprano Harriet Burns. 

The French theme continues for the Festival Finale in the afternoon with works by Fauré, Chopin, Saint-Saëns, Françaix and Bizet.

Full details of all concerts and tickets are available at westmeonmusic.co.uk.