The latest series of Sidmouth Music concerts, bringing high quality chamber music and recitals to the town, will begin on Saturday, October 15. 

Details of the concerts are on display at Sidmouth Library until Friday, September 16. 

The first two concerts reinstate bookings originally planned for 2020/21 which were lost due to lockdown. The programme for the Ruisi String Quartet on October 15 will include Haydn’s Quartet no 64 in D major and Beethoven’s penultimate quartet, no 15 in A minor op 132. The remarkable third movement of this quartet was entitled by Beethoven as a thanksgiving for his recovery from illness. Other programme details are still to be finalised. 

The second rebooking brings pianist Antonina Suhanova on Saturday, November 12, in a concert supported by the Making Music Award for Young Concert Artists. She will play Mozart’s Sonata no 2 in F K280, Prokofiev’s sonata no 6 in A op 82, and Schubert’s sonata 16 in A minor D845. 

Then, on Saturday, December 10, the Mithras Piano Trio, supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, will play four trios, by Bridge, Beethoven, Brahms and Iván Erőd, a Hungarian-Austrian composer who wrote his trio in 1976. 

The New Year brings counter-tenor Jean-Max Lattemann, accompanied by pianist Dylan Perez, in a varied programme of song and lieder from Duparc, Tippett, Mahler, and others, along with solo piano pieces from Barber, Schubert and Debussy. Their concert is on January 21. Renowned Pianist Simon Callaghan makes a welcome return visit to Sidmouth on February 18 with a programme of Brahms, Enescu, and Schumann. 

The final concert in the season features the Wihan Quartet who, but for lockdown, would have come to Sidmouth as part of their 35th anniversary tour. On March 18 they will play Beethoven’s Quartet no 11, the Serioso, Martinu’s second quartet and Smetana’s intimate first quartet From my Life to bring the season to a majestic finish. 

Advance tickets are available on line at www.sidmouthmusic.org.uk or locally (twq weeks before each concert) through Paragon Books. For more information go to the website or ring 01395 597454.