Your guide to classical music, jazz and folk in Oxfordshire from Friday, May 5, to Thursday, May 11. Updated every Friday. See also: Gigs. Send your entries to listings editor Wendy Broadway (wendy.broadway@nqo.com).
FRIDAY, MAY 5
Jacqueline du Pr Music Building, St Hilda's College: Oxford Philomusica Chamber Music Series. Jamie Walton (violin), Julian Gallant (piano). Beethoven, Sonata No 2 in G minor for Piano and Cello; Da Falla, El pano moruno and Nana; Piazzolla, Le Grand Tango; Bruch, Kol Nidrei; Franck, Sonata in A major. 8pm. 01865 798600.
Railway Inn, Culham: Jim Tomlinson Quintet. (saxophone), John Pearce (piano), Colin Oxley (guitar), Simon Thorpe (bass), Steve Brown (drums). 01367 710593.
SATURDAY, MAY 6
Newbury Spring Festival: Various venues in and around Newbury. May 6-20, for tickets and programmes please telephone 01635 522733.
Holywell Music Room, Oxford: The Trio Arioso. Beethoven, Piano Trio in E flat op 70, no 2; Mendelssohn, Piano Trio No 1 in D minor; Chopin, Piano Trio (rare performance). 8pm. 01865 798600.
Jacqueline du Pr Music Building: Apartment House. Presented by Oxford Contemporary Music. Programme to include Gehard Stabler, Belfast Breakfast Songs I-IV and Krusten/Crusts. 8pm. 01865 798600.
Challow Park Recital Hall, Wantage: Wadham College Music Society presents the Courtenay Quartet with Philip Fine (tenor) and Briony Williams (piano). Vaughan Williams, On Wenlock Edge; Smetana, Quartet in E minor 'From My Life'; works by Haydn and Mussorgsky. 8pm. 01865 515946.
Haddenham Village Hall: Ceilidh featuring Dave Hunt, All Blacked Up and The Ironmen and Severn Gilders. Special Shropshire evening. 7.15pm. 01296 415333.
SUNDAY, MAY 7
Holywell Music Room: Double Bill Emperor String Quartet: Shostakovich, String Quartet No 2. Amati Piano Trio: Schumann Piano Trio op 80 in F major.11.15am. 01865 798600.
Apollo Oxford: Hank Marvin. 0870 6063500.
Christ Church Cathedral: The Band of Instruments with Christ Church Choir. Director, Stephen Darlington. J S Bach, 'Ich bin ein guter Hirt', BVW 85. 6pm. Part of evensong service. Admission free.
Pagoda, Bonn Square, Oxford: Ilford Salvation Army Band, 3pm; and at 6pm, Songs of Praise in the Salvation Army Citadel, St Ebbe's, Oxford. Parking opposite the hall.
Great Barn, Garsington Manor: London Mozart Players with David Juritz (violin). Programme to include Mozart, Violin Concerto No 4 in D. 6.30pm. Grounds open 5pm. 01865 361636.
Wycombe Swan Theatre: City of London Sinfonia. Handel, Concerto Grosso; Purcell, Suite The Fairy Queen; Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G; Vivaldi, Four Seasons. 7.30pm. Residency launch concert. 01494 512000.
The Theatre, Chipping Norton: The Bochmann String Ensemble. Vivaldi's Venice. 3pm. 01608 642350.
Rose Revived, Newbridge: Graeme Swift's High Society Jazz Band with Mickey Cooke and Dave Moorwood.
Trout Inn, Lechlade: Trout Trio.
MONDAY, MAY 8
Nettlebed Folk Song Club: Maddy Prior, Nick Holland, Troy Donockley. 01628 636620.
Fuggle 'n' Firkin, Gloucester Green, Oxford: The Dino Baptiste Band.
Holywell Music Room: Lecture by Professor Ruth HaCohen. Arnold Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron: A Theological-Political-Aesthetic Tractate. 5pm. Presented by the Music Faculty.
Wycombe Swan Theatre: Counterfeit Stones. 01494 512000.
Fox Hotel, Chipping Norton: Chipping Norton Folk Club. 8.30pm. Meets every second Monday.
Hexagon Theatre, Reading: Philharmonia Orchestra. Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky. 7.30pm. 0118 960 6060.
TUESDAY, MAY 9
The Bullingdon, Cowley Road: Denny Ilett Jr Quartet.
Trout Inn, Lechlade: Jim's Five.
Wycombe Swan Theatre: Gene Pitney. 01494 512000.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 10
Wycombe Swan Theatre: Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. 01494 512000.
Catweazle Club, roots.net, Park End Street, Oxford: Acoustic open night for local musicians, songwriters, poets.
THURSDAY, MAY 11
The Spin, The Wheatsheaf, High Street, Oxford: Butch Thomas, (saxophones), with Pete Oxley, Mark Doffman, and Raf Mizraki. 01865 243276.
Golden Bough, roots. net, 27 Park End Street, Oxford: The Tango Band, 9pm. 01865 722227.
Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford: The English Concert. Conductor Trevor Pinnock. Leader Rachel Podger. Bach, Brandenburg Concertos no 1, 3, and 4; orchestral suites no 2 and 3. 8pm. Second concert on June 2. 01865 798600.
FRIDAY, MAY 12
Pegasus Theatre, Magdalen Road, Oxford: Spirit Talk Mbira. 7pm, 01865 722851.
roots. net, 27 Park End Street, Oxford: Orbestra. 01865 722227.
The Mill, Banbury: Satori. 01295 279002.
Oxford Folk Club, Port Mahon, St Clement's, Oxford: Open night.
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