JANUARY 31, BATH: THE first of this year's series of Bath Recital Artists' Trust concerts at the Pump Room, Bath, on January 31, has a programme that ranges from a set of Shakespearian songs to that piece of stern advice from Noel Coward.

Presenting all this are baritone John Lofthouse and pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen, who have performed together as a duo for some time.

Lofthouse currently studies on the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with David Pollard. As a recitalist he recently made his Wigmore Debut in Songbook 2003 and has performed throughout the UK in recitals with Matthews-Owen.

Welsh-born Matthews-Owen studied at the Royal Academy of Music and is embarking on a busy career as a recitalist partnering some of the leading singers of his generation. He has performed extensively throughout the UK and abroad.

He studied piano accompaniment with Michael Dussek and Malcolm Martineau.

The programme includes Shakespeare for All Time with three Roger Quilter Shakespeare Songs Come away, Death, O Mistress Mine, Blow, Blow thou Winter Wind; Donald Swann selection; Franz Schubert; C H H Parry; Maurice Ravel works; Clara Schumann; Robert Schumann; Noel Coward including Don't Put Your Daughter On The Stage Mrs Worthington.

Tickets, unreserved at £5, are available from Tom Clarke, 42, Great Pulteney Street, Bath, (01225) 314344. The concert starts at 8 pm.

Reg Burnard