West Meon Music Festival: Jane Austen's Playbook at St John the Evangelist Church, West Meon on Sunday 14th September 2025

West Meon Music Festival

Jane Austen's Playbook

Part of the 15th West Meon Music Festival - 2025

Add to my Calendar 14-09-2025 15:30 14-09-2025 17:30 36 West Meon Music Festival Inspired by Jane Austen's love of music and her hand-written playbooks, this gala concert celebrates her 250th anniversary in music and words. With thanks to the curator of  Jane Austen’s House and her team for their help in researching this project West Meon Festival is delighted to welcome Felicity Kendal to read from Austen's letters, notebooks, and extracts from her works curated by internationally celebrated director Nancy Meckler. The short first half will showcase works contemporary to Austen, including Beethoven's D Major string trio and Schubert's "Einsamkeit" D620. The main feature, "Jane Austen's Playbook" includes an exciting world première of a new commission by the West Meon Music Festival, "Notes for a Novel - or ‘how a tune a day inspired the development of Pride & Prejudice . . .’", by composer Peter Salem (BBC TV productions including Call the Midwife, Cider With Rosie, Great Expectations). The Festival also welcoms back world-famous tenor James Gilchrist to join with the Primrose Piano Quartet in songs and chamber music of the time including works by Schubert, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Maria Teresa von Paradis and James Hook. Tea and cakes are included in the ticket price, will be served in the interval.   St John the Evangelist Church, West Meon DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John the Evangelist Church
Church Lane
West Meon
Hampshire
GU32 1LF
England

Sunday 14th September 2025
3:30 PM

Tickets

Prices: £27 main aisles, £23 side aisles, students (side aisles unless accompanying centre aisle ticket holder) £5, under 16 (accompanied by adult ticket holder) £1
Season tickets: Festival pass main aisles £135, side aisles £115
Booking line: 01489 891055 (9am-5pm)
Book Tickets

Programme

Peter Salem – Notes for a Novel - or ‘how a tune a day inspired the development of Pride & Prejudice . . .’
Franz Schubert – Einsamkeit, D.620
Ludwig van Beethoven – String Trio in D Major, Op.9 no.2

Performers

James Gilchrist – tenor
Susanne Stanzeleit – violin
Andrew Fuller – Cello
Dorothea Vogel – viola
John Thwaites – piano
Felicity Kendal – Voice

Primrose Piano Quartet

Other concerts in this Series (+)

Programme Note

Inspired by Jane Austen's love of music and her hand-written playbooks, this gala concert celebrates her 250th anniversary in music and words. With thanks to the curator of Jane Austen’s House and her team for their help in researching this project

West Meon Festival is delighted to welcome Felicity Kendal to read from Austen's letters, notebooks, and extracts from her works curated by internationally celebrated director Nancy Meckler.

The short first half will showcase works contemporary to Austen, including Beethoven's D Major string trio and Schubert's "Einsamkeit" D620. The main feature, "Jane Austen's Playbook" includes an exciting world première of a new commission by the West Meon Music Festival, "Notes for a Novel - or ‘how a tune a day inspired the development of Pride & Prejudice . . .’", by composer Peter Salem (BBC TV productions including Call the Midwife, Cider With Rosie, Great Expectations).

The Festival also welcoms back world-famous tenor James Gilchrist to join with the Primrose Piano Quartet in songs and chamber music of the time including works by Schubert, Beethoven, Handel, Haydn, Maria Teresa von Paradis and James Hook.

Tea and cakes are included in the ticket price, will be served in the interval.

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