Our Café Bar will open at 12.30pm on Tue 24 Jun due to a private event.

Please note – there’s currently a road closure on Great George Street. Pedestrian access to our Great George Street entrance remains open. For vehicle access, please follow the diversion via Hill Street and Charlotte Street. Our Charlotte Street entrance remains open as normal.

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Rachel Podger and Chris Glynn

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We’re delighted to be able to offer free tickets to 8 – 25 year olds for this concert, via the CAVATINA scheme. Select a CAVATINA ticket when booking, and make sure you bring proof of age to our Box Office when collecting your tickets.

Mozart Violin Sonata No 20 in C K303
Beethoven Violin Sonata No 1 in D 
Mozart Violin Sonata in E minor K304
Beethoven Violin Sonata in F ‘Spring’ No 5 Op 24

2018 Gramophone Artist of the Year, Rachel Podger, makes a welcome return to St George’s with Grammy award-winning pianist Chris Glynn in a programme of Beethoven and Mozart.

Beethoven learned to play the violin as a boy and mastered the piano as a man.  His profound understanding of both instruments, and ability to combine them with astonishing invention and originality, is heard in ten sonatas, of which two will be performed in our programme – the high-spirited first sonata and the famously lyrical fifth sonata nicknamed ‘Spring’.  In each work, violin and piano are engaged in an endlessly fascinating and varied dialogue.

Mozart’s Sonata in E minor is the only one of the composer’s violin sonatas in a minor key, published in 1778, and this emotional and often intense work is thought to be the composer’s musical response to the death of his mother.

 

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Pre-event Food & Drink

Enjoy delicious drinks and light bites from our Café Bar ahead of the event.

Available to pre-order when booking your tickets, you can choose from a selection of house drinks on arrival, accompanied by a mezze board of bread, dips, olives, stuffed peppers, falafel, feta cheese and garden salad (all vegetarian). Just select which option – for one or two people – you would like, before checkout. Or if you’ve already booked, please email boxoffice@stgeorgesbristol.co.uk to add your food to your order.

Your pre-ordered food and drink will be available to collect from the Café Bar from 90 minutes before the event. It’s the perfect way to begin your event experience at St George’s!