Instruments in the collection are used in concerts throughout the year.
Concerts are held in the original Music Room of the house, design by Sir Reginald Blomfield 1903.
During the mid-summer break in the concert programmer, August, the Music Room is displayed as a Composer Museum.
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Michel Pignolet de Montéclair’s Sérénades offer a vivid snapshot of the musical life at the French court, capturing the festive atmosphere of royal balls through three distinct suites. With its elegant mix of recorders, oboes, and strings, this programme features his charming airs tendres and airs champêtres, evoking the grandeur and elegance of courtly occasions.
A tour of the Cobbe Collection of composer keyboard instruments, including pianos owned or played by Mozart, JC Bach, Haydn and Chopin, and other gems from 300 years of musical history.
Apolline Khou and Yoel Rubin invite you to join them for a concert of contemplative and heartwarming pieces for cello and piano. The programme includes songs, transcriptions and sonatas by Bach, Schubert, Brahms, Dvořák and Rachmaninov.
Craig Sheppard inaugurates the new acquisition of the Steinway Model ‘O’ owned by the Speyer family with a programme of French music.
Andrew Brownell turns the spotlight on music of the late-18th century which was popular in its day but has fallen out of the repertoire. A sonata by Clementi, the so-called "father of the pianoforte"; Dussek's The Sufferings of the Queen of France; and a sonata by Schroeter, a protégé of JC Bach and early advocate of the piano, round out a programme focussed on English classicism.
A tour of the Cobbe Collection of composer keyboard instruments, including pianos owned or played by Mozart, JC Bach, Haydn and Chopin, and other gems from 300 years of musical history.
Alec Cobbe will give a tour of the rare Cobbe Museum or Cabinet of Curiosities. Begun in the 1730s, it was known in the 18th century as the ‘Ark’ as was the Ashmolean Tradescant collection. It contains objects from all of the continents of the world excepting Antarctica, and some Giant Irish deer fossil antlers perhaps between 10,000 and 50,000 years old.
Beethoven Reimagined – the Violin Sonatas, seeks to explore alternative ways of interpreting these works by delving into historical performance practices and applying these insights to enliven realisations with dramatic impact and variety.
Pianist Naruhiko Kawaguchi will have his first concert in the Cobbe Collection with works by Chopin and his contemporaries. Naruhiko is the prize winner of the 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw and the International Competition Musica Antiqua Brugge, and this will be his first appearance in England as a pianist.
The young, multi-award-winning pianist Max Mostovetski from Leipzig (Germany) recounts the legendary meeting of Johannes Brahms, Edvard Grieg, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky which took place in his hometown in 1888 and performs masterpieces by these composers. Playing on a Russian Becker piano of 1886-7 and building on Tchaikovsky´s music, the program also features works by other great Russian composers of that era.
Pablo Devigo explores the Bach family's deep connection to the clavichord, an instrument they cherished for its nuanced expressivity and intimate charm.
Born in Kazakhstan and now based in London, pianist Evgenia Startseva will be presenting the jewels of Rameau’s clavier music as well as romantic oeuvres by Medtner and Schumann on the Russian Grand Piano by Jakob Becker c.1886-7.
A Christmas Concert on Jane Austen's 250th birthday with champagne and mince pies. Jane Austen’s deep interest in music will be explored by David Owen Norris delving into the riches of her own music books, and performing on the ‘Jane Austen’ pianoforte by Christopher Ganer of c. 1792.
Online booking is available but if you prefer to book tickets by post please download our booking form, complete and send with SAE and a cheque
Last approximately one hour.
Last approximately two hours with one interval
during which juice and wine are served.
Wheelchair access available. Please advise in advance.
Please note that tickets cannot be exchanged nor money refunded.
Tickets to recitals and concerts do not include free admittance to the house.
We reserve the right to refuse admission and change the programme and/or instrument without notice.
It may not always be possible to admit latecomers to the Music Room.
Stiletto heels should not be worn.
