Instruments in
the collection are used in concerts during the summer and autumn.
Concerts are held in the original Music Room of the house, designed
by Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1903.
During the mid-summer break in the concert programme, July, August
& September, the Music Room is displayed as a Composer Museum.
Lunchtime
recitals
Last 50 minutes and take place on Wednesdays from March to June
and in October and November.
Evening
concerts
Tours of the Cobbe Collection and evening concerts also take place
during the season.
All keyboard
instruments used in this series of concerts are from the Cobbe Collection.
Brochure
available and website listing updated from end of January 2012
Autumn Concerts
2011
Wednesday
21st September at 12 noon
Ensemble Caravaggio
Beatrice Scaldini – violin;
Carina Drury – cello;
Nathaniel Mander – piano
Thursday 6th October at 7.30pm
John Julius Norwich
Geoffrey Govier – piano
An evening in honour of the Haydn
scholar, the late H.C. Robbins Landon. John Julius Norwich talks
about his work and the television programmes he made with ‘Robbie’.
Geoffrey Govier plays music by Haydn on the grand piano by Longman
and Broderip, c. 1794, that Landon discovered in Vienna, almost
certainly the piano brought back from London by the composer
in 1795.
Tickets £27.00
AVAILABLE
Wednesday 12th
October at 12 noon
Margaret Faultless – violin;
Terence Charlston – harpsichord