November Christmas Concert & Dinner
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2017/18 SEASON WELCOME TO ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE —— With our 2017/18 programme we continue fourth season. We continue to welcome our core mission to provide a home for a whole host of partners throughout Baroque music within the UK’s only the season, bringing the best chamber concert hall dating from the Baroque orchestras, choirs and ensembles to period whilst equally championing new St John’s Smith Square. Our partnership music. International artists sit with Southbank Centre continues for comfortably alongside emerging talent one more season, featuring concerts from whilst St John’s Smith Square continues the International Piano Series and to provide a vital and unique central International Chamber Music Series London home for the best in community alongside performances from the London music. Sinfonietta and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Festival programming remains a key feature at St John’s Smith Square this St John’s Smith Square is unique amongst season. Our 32nd Christmas Festival London’s concert halls; it is the oldest, yet promises to be as spectacular as ever, most flexible, concert hall in London and with many seasonal favourites alongside we are very proud that we are able to dynamic new partnerships. The music of offer a programme which is so diverse yet Bach is a recurring theme throughout filled with events and festivals of deep this Festival and this is underlined by the integrity. I hope you will find the incredible tour de force of David programme stimulating and interesting Titterington’s series of ‘Bach in Advent’ and I would be very interested to hear organ recitals, taking place almost every any thoughts and comments about your day throughout December. experiences at St John’s Smith Square. We are delighted to host our second Holy I look forward to welcoming you Week Festival, as a mirror to our to St John’s Smith Square. Christmas celebrations, which will feature a unique mix of liturgical and concert performances, supremely suited to the setting of St John’s Smith Square. Further festivals include the return of Rolf Hind’s iconoclastic celebration of the Richard Heason keyboard in the Occupy the Pianos Director festival; contemporary reflections with the Principal Sound festival; an immersive exploration of the music of Richard Heason © Amy Ryan Georg Muffat with The Brook Street Band; and, of course, the flagship London Festival of Baroque Music, which this year turns to France for its focus and, for the first time, welcomes a guest Artistic Director, Sébastien Daucé. Alongside our festivals are our regular Thursday Lunchtime Concerts, Sunday at St John’s series and our highly acclaimed Young Artists’ Scheme, returning for a Book online sjss.org.uk 1 Nova Guitar Duo Guitar Nova SEPTEMBER Leon Bosch © Guy Mayer Pettman Ensemble © Katya Kalyani BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA The School of Jealousy thursday lunchtime concerts CHROMA Nathalie Chalkley soprano Rhiannon Llewellyn soprano NOVA Kate Howden mezzo soprano GUITAR DUO Alessandro Fisher tenor Rediscovered: Piano Music Thomas Herford tenor on the Guitar Samuel Pantcheff baritone Matthew Sprange baritone Nelly von Alven 6-string guitar Jeremy Gray director Luiz Mantovani 8-string Anthony Kraus conductor ‘brahms guitar’ thursday lunchtime concerts Salieri The School of Jealousy ScarlattiSonata in B minor K87 (La scuola de' gelosi) ScarlattiSonata in E K380 ScarlattiSonata in F minor PETTMAN © Matthew Andrews Following revelatory sunday at st john’s K466 productions of Salieri’s OPEN HOUSE ENSEMBLE Mompou Canciónes y Danzas Trofonio’s Cave and Falstaff, I MUSICANTI Benedict Lim violin No. 5–6 2017 & MUSIC Bampton Classical Opera Bryony Gibson-Cornish viola Villa-Lobos Cirandinhas Alexandra & the Russians continues its exciting MARATHON Edith Salzmann cello de Falla Selections from El Amor rehabilitation of one of the A marathon of non-stop Arensky Piano Quintet Op. 51 Stephen De Pledge piano brujo: Romance del Pescador • most misunderstood of performance, open rehearsal, Alexandra Harwood New Work A Media Noche • Danza ritual with special guest: composers. workshops and more from (world premiere) del fuego Clio Gould violin 10.00am on Saturday 16 and Schnittke Hymnus II Count Bandiera is a skilful Nelly von Alven from Germany Sunday 17 September. Glinka Sextet Lilburn Sonata for violin philanderer, but takes a big and Luiz Mantovani from Brazil and piano risk when he invites Ernestina, St John’s Smith Square opens Two classics of Russian began to collaborate in 2016 Schumann Piano Quintet in Eb wife of a pathologically jealous its doors for Open House chamber music for piano and while they were both studying Op. 44 businessman, out on a shopping London 2017, inviting visitors strings, with their triumphal at the Royal College of Music. trip. A decidedly non-PC visit to experience the stunning introductory piano chords, The Pettman Ensemble is a Inspired by the possibilities to a madhouse, fortune-telling Baroque architecture while contrast with a mysterious flexible touring ensemble CHAMBER MUSIC allowed by the unusual gypsies and the lessons taught listening to and participating exploration of the lowest (and affiliated to the Pettman Open combination of the 6 and the AT ST JOHN’S by paintings are just some in musical activities. the not-so-low) string sounds. Chamber Music programme at 8-string guitar (also known as of the bizarre situations The programme also features the University of Auckland, SMITH SQUARE the ‘Brahms Guitar’), the Duo For further details about taking encountered in this scintillating the first of four works written New Zealand. Visiting tutors This season, our Thursday explores both the extensive part in the Music Marathon, and cynical comedy of marital for this series by award- perform alongside exceptional Lunchtime Concerts and repertoire for guitar duo, and please visit our website or disharmony. winning film composer past and present students of Sunday at St John’s series their own transcriptions and contact Sam Olivier by emailing Alexandra Harwood. the programme. includes over 60 chamber Pre-concert talk: 6.00pm arrangements. [email protected]. music recitals, featuring the imusicanti.co.uk stephendepledge.com bamptonopera.org novaguitarduo.com openhouselondon.org.uk best emerging young talent Co-promoted by I Musicanti Promoted by alongside established artists. Promoted by Promoted by Promoted by St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square Bampton Classical Opera St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square Become a supporter of Sun 3 September 3.00pm Thu 7 September 1.05pm St John’s Smith Square and Tue 12 September 7.00pm Thu 14 September 1.05pm Sat 16–Sun 17 September £16 (£10), YF £10, YF receive free tickets to both £38, £28, £18 £10, YF Free admission series. See page 70. I Musicanti continue their series Supporters of St John’s Smith Square For further details on both Bampton Classical Opera return on The Nova Guitar Duo are Yeomen of For the latest details on opportunities on 4 Nov enjoy free tickets to this series 7 March with Mozart and Salieri The Musicians’ Company to participate at St John’s Smith Square See page 16 See page 70 series, please see pages 56–57. See page 43 wcom.org.uk sjss.org.uk 2 Box Office020 7222 1061 Book online sjss.org.uk 3 Septura Brass Septet © Bethany Clarke © Bethany Septet Brass Septura Botbol Timothée SEPTEMBER Lucy Parham Lucy sunday at st john’s HORACIO 2017/18 LAVANDERA YOUNG ARTISTS’ Piano SHOWCASE Mozart Sonata No. 11 in A K311 Young Artists’ Series Beethoven Sonata No. 21 in C JOSEPH TONG Op. 53 ‘Waldstein’ Bukolika Piano Trio Dino Saluzzi Three Pieces for Piano sunday at st john’s Roma Tic violin piano Joanna Gutowska cello SEPTURA Grieg Stimmungen Op. 73 Schubert Impromptu No. 3 in BELOVED CLARA Anna Szałucka piano Schumann Fantasie in C Op. 17 thursday lunchtime concerts Gb Op. 90 D899 BRASS SEPTET Sibelius Valse Triste Op. 44 Schubert Impromptu No. 4 in Sheaffer Sundays Haydn Trio in C Hob.XV:27 Sibelius 5 Characteristic Ab Op. 90 D899 Hanna Kulenty The Cradle Song Kleptomania RUSSIAN GREATS Lucy Parham piano Impressions Op. 103 Strauss II/Schulz-Evler Timothée Botbol cello Harriet Walter narrator Stolen Strings Sibelius Sonata in F Op. 12 Arabesques on ‘An der schönen George Barton percussion Rachel Chen piano Tim McInnerny narrator blauen Donau’ (On the beautiful Siwan Rhys piano Arranged for brass septet: Joseph Tong returns with a Rachmaninoff Vocalise Op. 34 blue Danube) Lucy Parham’s original Elgar Serenade for Strings in Nordic inspired programme Francesca Le Lohé Father and No. 14 Composer Portrait: ‘Beloved E minor Op. 20 to mark the 60th anniversary Award-winning pianist Horacio Son, The Veil, and The Kiss Rachmaninoff Variations on a Clara’ is a compelling study of Walton Sonata for Strings of Sibelius’ death. Lavandera presents an eclectic (from Saida Portraits) Theme of Corelli Op. 42 the passionate relationship Shostakovich String Quartet programme including works Georges Aperghis Quatre pièces Grieg’s evocative Stimmungen Prokofiev Cello Sonata in C between Robert Schumann and No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 by Dino Saluzzi, and classic fébriles (Moods) highlights the Op. 119 his pianist wife Clara, who were masterpieces by Mozart, Howard Skempton Dance VI Strings are supreme in composer’s mastery of piano both close friends of Johannes Rising-star cellist Timothée Beethoven, Schubert and (from Gemini Dances) chamber music, with their sonorities whilst Sibelius’ Brahms. It amalgamates letters, Botbol has acquired increasing Strauss. Howard Skempton Duet for extensive repertoire expressing exuberant Sonata in F is diaries and piano works by all visibility with his natural stage piano and woodblocks the breadth and depth of the now recognised as an early Ted Gioia of The New York three protagonists.