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The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival at Hambleden

Name: The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival at Hambleden 19 Sep
Start: 2026-09-19T00:00:00.0000000
End: 2026-09-19T00:00:00.0000000
Location: The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Hambleden, Buckinghamshire RG9 6RX

The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival is now in its 16th year and continues to attract support from audiences and musicians. The Guardian newspaper hailed the recent 2021 Festival as “One of the top ten classical music events of the year”. This year Lawrence Power, the Festival’s founder and Artistic Director has created a fabulous musical feast, unlike anything one could experience elsewhere. It is based on the theme of ‘Time’.
The five Festival concerts span five centuries. They will be performed by some of the finest musicians in the world of chamber music today.

This concert is entitled Time Re-imagined
Programme:
Bayard Rustin -‘I saw her as I came and went’
Diego Ortiz -Ricercata Segunda
Bach -Air from Suite no.3
Rameau -Entrance of Mercury
Terry Riley -Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector
Vivaldi -Cello Concerto in B minor RV 423
Finzi -Eclogue for piano and strings
Machaut ‘My end is my beginning’
Piazolla -Calle 92
Falconieri -Suave Melodie
Edith Piaf ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’
Hans Zimmer -Time
Haydn -Symphony no.101 ‘The Clock’ – Andante
Rameau -Les Sauvages from Les Indes Gallantes
Geminiani -Concerto Grosso ‘La Folia’
Performers:
Stephanie Gonley, Charlotte Spruit and Annabelle Meare (violins), Lawrence Power (viola), John Myerscough (cello), Sergio Bucheli (lutes), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano).

Lawrence comments:
“In this year’s five concerts we will be exploring the idea of “TIME”. I never cease to be amazed by howdeeply music and time are intertwined and it’s inspiring to remember that in Ancient Greece astronomy, music, maths and physics were all equally studied. The Quadrivium as it was known brought these four disciplines together with equal significance in an attempt to understand the mysteries of the universe. Music unfolds in time and time is made tangible through music.”
All the concerts are performed in the beautiful Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Hambleden. Patrons are strongly advised t