A great day out is promised for music lovers at the West Meon Music Festival on September 12.

It will feature three concerts plus refreshments including coffee and biscuits in the morning, tea and cakes in the afternoon and a glass of wine to finish off the day.

The day will start at St John the Evangelist Church in West Meon by marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Benjamin Britten, one of the 20th century’s greatest British composers.

Festival founders the Primrose Piano Quartet will feature works by Britten and his mentor Frank Bridge. Coffee will be available from 10.30am.

The concert includes Bridge’s Phantasy Piano Quartet, written in 1910, which Benjamin Britten described as: “Sonorous yet lucid, with clear, clean lines, grateful to listen to and to play. It is the music of a practical musician, brought up in German orthodoxy but who loved French romanticism and conception of sound - Brahms happily tempered with Fauré.”

Internationally-renowned cellist Martin Stanzeleit will also join the celebrations to give a performance of Britten’s first Suite for Solo Cello Op.72, dedicated to the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who premiered the work in 1965.

After lunch the festival will move to the lovely 12th-century Church of Our Lady at Warnford at 3pm, when the duo Flute and Frets will provide Music from Europe's Courts, with works spanning three centuries by Guillaume Dufay - born 1474 - William Byrd, François Couperin and King Frederick the Great, who died in 1786. Tea and home-made cakes will be served after the concert.

The day will end back in West Meon with a 7.30pm concert of Romantic Masterpieces, with some of the best-loved works in the repertoire performed by individual members of the Primrose Piano Quartet.

It will include Brahms’ piano pieces, Franck’s ever-popular Violin Sonata and Schumann’s great Piano Quintet.

The Primrose Piano Quartet comprises Susanne Stanzeleit (violin), Dorothea Vogel (viola), Andrew Fuller (cello) and John Thwaites (piano).

One of the country’s leading ensembles, it founded the West Meon Music Festival in 2011. The group’s acclaimed discography includes classical favourites as well as many unjustly neglected works by early 20th-century British composers.

The quartet appears regularly in London at Kings Place and the Conway Hall, and has toured across Europe. It is a leading exponent of historically informed performance, and its recording of the complete Brahms piano quartets, made in Vienna on authentic pianos of the period, was highly recommended on Radio 3’s Record Review.

The full programme is: Opening Concert, St John the Evangelist, September 10, 7.30pm; Piano Recital, St John the Evangelist, September 11, 7.30pm; Hungarian Serenade, St John the Evangelist, September 11, 9pm; Britten and Bridge, St John the Evangelist, September 12, 11am; Courts and Cathedrals, Church of Our Lady, Warnford, September 12, 3pm; Romantic Masterpieces, St John the Evangelist, September 12, 7.30pm; Coffee Concert, All Saints East Meon, September 13, 11am; Schubertiade, St John the Evangelist, September 13, 3pm.

For tickets, priced from £13 to £28, visit www.westmeonmusic.co.uk