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Patron HRH The Duchess of Cornwall of Duchess The HRH Box Office020 7222 1061 MAY sjss.org.uk ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE Mon 2 May 6.00pm Sat 7 May 7.00pm Fri 13 May 6.00pm Sat 14 May 4.00pm Sun 15 May 3.30pm Mon 16 May 1.05pm Wed 18 May 7.30pm Fri 20 May 7.30pm Thu 26 May 7.30pm ALLEYN'S ORCHESTRA FESTIVAL TALK: BRUCE DICKEY ROBERTA FUTURE MAHAN ESFAHANI GLEN ART LONDON SCHOOL OF THE AGE OF ONLY WORDS London Festival of INVERNIZZI BAROQUE I London Festival of Sir Nicholas Winton – MOZART Baroque Music 2016 Baroque Music 2016 A Celebration Symphony Orchestra ENLIGHTENMENT London Festival of London Festival of London Festival of PLAYERS Chamber Orchestra Baroque Music 2016 Bruce Dickey © Vojtěch Havlík Baroque Music 2016 Baroque Music 2016 Mahan Esfahani © Bernhard Musil / DG Rupert Graves reader Southbank Centre at Mozart Explored: 1783 Chamber Choir Jason Isaacs reader St John’s Smith Square Roberta Invernizzi Ceruleo Jazz Band CELLOSOUNDBIRMINGHAM © Jennifer Brady Chris Dearmer conductor Winds of Change Strozzi Mercé di voi • Amor Alexander Baillie director Jo Doley conductor dormiglione • Sospira, respira • Matthew Truscott director & £18 (Child £5) Ned Bennett conductor Begli occhi • L’Eraclito amoroso violin Barry Graham conductor Vizzana Amo Christum Peter Whelan bassoon Leonarda O flammae, O beatae Alleyn’s School is one of the Antony Pay clarinet • O Anima mea leading co-educational schools Sat 21 May 7.30pm Frescobaldi Canzona quinta in London, with a huge Mozart Symphony No. 33 in Bb Songs Without Words Key Words Dr Ruth Smith speaker detta La Tromboncina programme of musical activity K319 Bruce Dickey cornett Servant of the Words Mahan Esfahani harpsichord PUBLIC PASSIONS 2016 throughout the year. This Michael Gordon New work for Dr Ruth Smith, author of £10, YF An Academy in Vienna Alberto Rasi viola da gamba with Orchestra of St John's annual concert has become a bassoon and orchestra (world Handel’s Oratorios and Roberta Invernizzi soprano Maria Christina Cleary harp Thomas Hobbs tenor Dame Jenni Murray guest Janina Fialkowska piano highlight of the school’s year. premiere) Eighteenth-Century Thought, Craig Marchitelli theorbo Liuwe Tamminga organ John Lubbock conductor Gérard Korsten conductor JULY, & AUGUST & JULY, Mozart Symphony No. 1 in Eb explores the literary, political Star harpsichordist Mahan £9, £7, £5.50 (£5.50) One of the finest Baroque K16 • Clarinet Concerto in A and religious background to Bruce Dickey, widely Mon 16 May 7.30pm Esfahani explores how 16th and Dame Jenni Murray from Radio Salieri Overture to La Scuola de’ sopranos of our age performs K622 Handel’s Biblical oratorios acknowledged as the world’s 17th-century composers applied 4's Woman's Hour presents her gelosi MAY, JUNE MAY, songs and monologues from the Messiah and Israel in Egypt. greatest exponent of the the expressiveness and rhetoric choice of programme. Mozart Piano Concerto No. 13 in £50, £39, £24, £10 (Child £2.50) early days of the Italian HALELUYÁH! instrument thought to have the of words to the keyboard. C K415 Wed 4 May 1.00pm Free, ticketed event Baroque, when composers first London Festival of £26, £20, £15, £10 closest resemblance to the Kozeluch Symphony in C P1:6 looked to find new, urgent and Baroque Music 2016 £35, £20 human voice, demonstrates Haydn Overture to Il Ritorno di immediately responsive means EUCHARIST: THE how the cool sounds of the Profeti della Quinta Tobia Tue 10 May 7.30pm of expression by making music Renaissance were transformed Mozart Symphony No. 35 in D FEAST OF ST Fri 13 May 7.30pm (as Monteverdi put it) "the Profeti della Quinta, a Galilean Sun 22 May 3.00pm ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE SMITH JOHN’S ST into a rich new species of K385 ‘Haffner’ servant of the words". prize-winning young ensemble, Thu 19 May 1.05pm JOHN BEFORE LIGETI QUARTET instrumental eloquence, in presents madrigals, trio sonatas, £32, £26, £21, £15 Young Artists' Series DUNEDIN works by Gabrieli, Palestrina, This event takes place at JOO YEON SIR THE LATIN GATE and psalm settings in Hebrew Luzzaschi, Bassano and others. St Peter's Eaton Square. TABEA DEBUS Sunday at St John's Rev Graham Buckle celebrant © Mike Massaro CONSORT by an Italian-Jewish Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Young Artists' Series Cantandum London Festival of This event takes place at £20 contemporary of Monteverdi. Young Artists' Series Gilly French director Baroque Music 2016 St Peter's Eaton Square. Joo Yeon Sir violin Fri 27 May 7.30pm £30, £25, £20, £15 London Festival of Irina Andrievsky piano Mozart Missa brevis in C K259 © David Barbour £15 Baroque Music 2016 ‘Organ Solo’ Bach Chaconne from Partita WARREN Sun 15 May 7.00pm © Andreea Tufescu Marenzio Iste est Joannes No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 arr. MAILLEY-SMITH Tue 17 May 1.05pm Mendelssohn Free Admission Complete Chopin Cycle Sat 14 May 7.30pm IESTYN DAVIES Grieg Sonata No. 2 in G Op. 13 London Festival of FUTURE Poulenc Sonata Op. 119 © Ben Ealovega MONTEVERDI Baroque Music 2016 Sir Karl Jenkins Chatterbox! BAROQUE II (world premiere, commissioned Thu 5 May 1.05pm Iestyn Davies © Marco Borggreve STRING BAND London Festival of by St John's Smith Square) London Festival of Baroque Music 2016 Igor Frolov Concert Fantasie on God Spake the Word I JOO YEON SIR Mandhira de Saram violin Baroque Music 2016 Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Future Baroque II BOOKING INFORMATION Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Patrick Dawkins violin Dunedin Consort Future Baroque III: £14 (£10), YF —— Young Artists' Series Richard Jones viola Joanne Lunn soprano IGNIS ensemble Points of Contact Val Welbanks cello Meg Bragle alto i Rowan Pierce soprano © Diana Roberts Tabea Debus recorder PHONE YOUNG FRIENDS Esther Brazil alto ii The Four Scherzi Nancarrow String Quartet No. 3 Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Oliver Pooley percussion 020 7222 1061 If you’re aged 16-25, make sure you sign up Joshua Ellicott tenor Christian Mason Tuvan BWV1068 • Trio Sonata in G Mon 23 May 7.30pm Warren Mailley-Smith piano Monday to Saturday 10.00am–5.00pm for our free Young Friends scheme! Matthew Brook bass i Bassano Ricercata Quarta Songbook (world premiere BWV1038 £2 booking fee applies Robert Davies bass ii Taeggio Vestiva I colli • Chopin Waltz No. 1 in E flat Op. Members are entitled to purchase tickets to commissioned by Ligeti Quartet Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D minor John Butt harpsichord & Diminutions on a Madrigal by THE HALL 18 • Marche Funèbre in C minor selected events at a significantly reduced and St John's Smith Square) Op. 1 No. 12 Rv.63 ‘La Folia’ director Giovanni • Pierluigi da Op. 72 No. 2 • Scherzos No. 1–3 in ONLINE price of £5. These events are marked ‘YF’. Bartók String Quartet No. 3 Duphly Chaconne MUSIC SCHOOL Palestrina B flat minor • Nocturne No. 13 sjss.org.uk Sz.85 Handel Messiah (original Bach Cantata ‘Ich habe genug’ Gala Concert 2016 Our Young Friends also receive invitations to Words with Purcell I Monteverdi Zefiro torna, oh di in C minor Op. 48 No. 1 • Waltz £1.50 booking fee applies Xenakis Tetras version, Dublin 1742) BWV82a special events throughout the year, as well soavi accenti Willem Steyn conductor No. 13 in D flat Op. 70 No. 3 • Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 Iestyn Davies countertenor as other targeted discounts and offers. £45, £35, £25, £15 £10, YF Straesser Points of Contact I Polonaise in B flat Op. posth. • with £20, £15, £10 IN PERSON £12 (£8), YF Machaut Amours me fait desirer Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp There’s no catch and it’s entirely War of Words Jonathan Manson bass viol Monday to Saturday 10.00am–5.00pm Eckhard Kopetzki Kaskada minor Op. 63 No. 3 • Mazurkas FREE to join! To join today, please visit Alex McCartney lute (until 6.00pm on public concert days). Monteverdi String Band Philip Cashian The Language of No. 42–45 in A minor • Waltz No. sjss.org.uk/friends-st-johns or phone our Jonathan Cohen harpsichord The Box Office opens one hour before the Joo Yeon Sir violin Sat 14 May 11.00am Oliver Webber violin & music Tue 17 May 7.00pm Birds 18 in E flat Op. posth. • Feuille Box Office on020 7222 1061. Wed 25 May 7.30pm start of Sunday and Bank Holiday concerts. Irina Andrievsky piano Thu 12 May 1.05pm director No composer has ever Bull Fantasia d’album in E Op. posth. • responded to English words Ole Buck Gymel Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54 Schnittke Suite in Old Style TALK: WORDS Karolina Sofulak stage THE CHOIR OF director with more sensitivity, Anon. Lamento di Tristano • Tre SALOMON POST Franck Violin Sonata in A ARTEA QUARTET There will be a pre-concert ACCESSIBILITY ON THE PAGE Nicholas Mulroy testo expressive detail and beauty WESTMINSTER Fontane • Wilson’s Love Box Office, St John’s Smith Square, De Falla Spanish Folk Song Thursday Lunchtime Concerts ORCHESTRA event at 6.30pm. If you have access requirements, please London Festival of Faye Newton clorinda than Henry Purcell (the 'English London SW1P 3HA Suite for Violin and Piano ABBEY £10, YF Chantage choir let our Box Office staff know when booking Thomas Gould violin Baroque Music 2016 Simon Wall tancredi Orpheus'), and there can be few £20, £15 Please enclose a stamped addressed London Festival of Graham Ross conductor your tickets to help us provide you with the Rhys Watkins violin singers better qualified to prove envelope. Cheques should be made £10, YF John Butt The Monteverdi String Band Baroque Music 2016 Sir Timothy Ackroyd narrator best possible service and choice of seats.