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ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE

2015/16 Season

Discover a musical landmark

Patron HRH The Duchess of Cornwall 2015/16 Season contents Welcome to St John’s Smith Square —— —— 01 Welcome 102 School concerts Whether you’re already a friend, or As renovation begins at Southbank 02 Season Overview 105 Discover more discovering us for the first time, I trust Centre, we welcome residencies from the 02 Orchestral Performance 106 St John’s history you’ll enjoy a rewarding and stimulating of the Age of Enlightenment 03 Choral & Vocal Music 108 Join us experience combining inspirational and Sinfonietta, world-class 03 109 Subscription packages music, delicious food and good company performers from their International 04 Period Instruments 110 Booking information in the fabulous grandeur of this historic Series and International 05 Regular Series 111 How to find us building – the UK’s only baroque Series, and a mid-summer performance 06 New Music 112 Footstool Restaurant concert venue. from the Philharmonia Orchestra. 07 Young Artists’ Scheme This is our first annual season brochure We’re proud of our reputation for quality 08 Festivals – a season that features more than 250 and friendly service, and welcome the 09 Southbank Centre concerts, numerous world premieres and thoughts of our visitors. So, if you have 10 Listings countless talented musicians. We’re also any comments, please let me know and discussing further exciting projects, so I’ll gladly discuss them with you. please keep an eye on our What’s On I look forward to welcoming you to guides or sign up to our e-newsletter. our unique musical landmark – In this brochure you’ll discover some of St John’s Smith Square. the wonderful music on offer this season, as we welcome renowned musicians to Richard Heason perform in our superb acoustic setting. Director

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Discover a musical landmark Welcome to St John’s Smith Square —— —— In the exceptional setting of St John’s, Whether you’re already a friend, or As renovation begins at Southbank discovering us for the first time, I trust Centre, we welcome residencies from the acoustics, atmosphere, fine dining and you’ll enjoy a rewarding and stimulating Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment architecture come together to create a rich experience combining inspirational and , world-class music, delicious food and good company performers from their International Piano and welcoming experience. in the fabulous grandeur of this historic Series and International Chamber Music building – the UK’s only baroque Series, and a mid-summer performance St John’s Smith Square is a significant concert venue. from the Philharmonia Orchestra. This is our first annual season brochure We’re proud of our reputation for quality musical landmark, playing host to today’s – a season that features more than 250 and friendly service, and welcome the leading international artists, who perform concerts, numerous world premieres and thoughts of our visitors. So, if you have countless talented musicians. We’re also any comments, please let me know and inspiring and exciting programmes. discussing further exciting projects, so I’ll gladly discuss them with you. please keep an eye on our What’s On I look forward to welcoming you to guides or sign up to our e-newsletter. So, too, is it an architectural landmark, our unique musical landmark – and part of a baroque landscape In this brochure you’ll discover some of St John’s Smith Square. the wonderful music on offer this season, that’s quintessentially London. as we welcome renowned musicians to Richard Heason Every visit is a discovery, where perform in our superb acoustic setting. Director the senses truly come alive. Inside cover & page 1 images © Matthew Andrews

Explore 300 years of history Designed by Thomas Archer in the early eighteenth century, St John’s was completed in 1728 at a cost of £40,875. Extensive damage from the Blitz was fully restored by Marshall Sissons, with the church re-opening as a concert hall in 1969. With its superb acoustic restored, St John’s quickly became a favourite of luminaries and Daniel Barenboim. Discover more on Page 106.

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Orchestral performance —— © Clive Barda © avfotos.com Orchestral performance is a cornerstone of the programme at St John’s Smith Square. Over the coming season we are delighted to be welcoming the London Mozart © Sussie Ahlburg Players, Orchestra of St John’s, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London Sinfonietta and Philharmonia amongst others. The LMP will be giving three distinct series: Mozart Explored, continuing their Esa-Pekka Salonen & Philharmonia Orchestra Peter Phillips & The Tallis Scholars th exploration of Mozart Piano Concertos Stravinsky Series: Myths and Rituals. Page 92 Performing in their 2000 concert. Page 17 © Keith Saunders with Howard Shelley; Beethoven Explored, © Matthew Andrews sharing the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos, again with Howard Shelley; and Mozart Explored: 1783, an exploration of the year 1783 in Mozart’s life. The OSJ bring a range of programmes including opera and oratorio, a traditional New Year Strauss celebration, a collaboration with Jonny Greenwood of and a series of celebrity appearances titled Howard Shelley & Stephen Layton & Polyphony Sophie Bevan & Early Opera Company Public Passions. Mozart Explored starts on 7 October. Page 22 Good Friday’s annual St John Passion. Page 75 Hear Handel’s ravishing motet in March. Page 73 The Philharmonia bring Stravinsky under Esa-Pekka Salonen, the London Sinfonietta a programme of premieres including a new work by , and the OAE have a regular season in addition to their traditional Christmas and Easter Choral and Vocal music Opera St John’s outings. —— —— Alongside the orchestral programme As well as sacred choral music, Opera is is a vibrant season of choral and vocal a significant aspect of the programme. music. The Tallis Scholars appear twice, Seldom heard Salieri and Linley from including their 2000th concert that Bampton Classical Opera, Purcell’s Dido launches the London International and Aeneas with the OSJ, Zelenka with A Cappella Choir Competition. Bury Court Opera, Handel’s Acis and © Eric Richmond and Harrison Agency Amongst the highlights of the St John’s with La Nuova Musica, Early programme are the annual visits of Opera Company with Rameau’s Castor Polyphony under Stephen Layton and we et Pollux and operetta high drama with are delighted to welcome them back again Offenbach’s in the Underworld at both Christmas and Easter. Stephen and Opera Danube are all featured along also continues his Handel oratorio cycle with Stephen Oliver’s realisation of with The Holst Singers, this time featuring Mozart’s ‘Goose of Cairo’ as part of the Handel’s Solomon and we have much more LMP’s Mozart Explored: 1783 series. Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Handel including his rarely heard Athalia Their 30th season opens on 14 October. Page 25 with the Whitehall Choir.

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Regular series —— © SB imagery St John’s hosts regular Thursday Lunchtime Concerts, this season featuring Yeomen from The Musician’s Company, artists from

© Kate Mount the Dartington International Summer School and other established professionals. There is a monthly Organ Series – including performances by Thomas Trotter, Jane Watts and Roger Sayer amongst others – programmed by our organ curator David David Bates & La Nuova Musica Titterington, the Artistic Director of the Françoise-Green Piano Duo Bring Handel’s Acis and Galetea to life. Page 31 St Alban’s International Organ Festival. Play piano four-hands from 21 January. Page 54

Our other regular series is the Sunday © Ben Ealovega at St John’s chamber music programme, which includes mini-series such as the London Piano Trio’s Beethoven Cycle or the Fidelio Trio’s focus on French repertoire and new works. There is further great chamber music from the Françoise-Green Piano Duo, who have devised a fabulous series of The Brook Street Band Paul McCreesh & Gabrieli first meets in Explore French Connections this autumn. Page 11 With Haydn’s great oratorio The Seasons. Page 96 The Viennese Salon series. The Henschel Quartet return in October, following their magnificent debut last year, and Martino Tirimo plays his way through The Great Piano Quintets with friends, including Paul Silverthorne and Philippe Graffin. The eleven-concert Complete Chopin Cycle provides a tour de force performance of Period Instruments Chopin’s complete piano repertoire by —— Warren Mailley-Smith. Historically informed performance with The Brook Street Band, The Revolutionary St John’s plays host to many period instruments is one of the key Drawing Room, Solomon’s Knot, Arcangelo, and choirs who make us their regular features of the programme of St John’s. the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, home. We are delighted to work with La Nuova Musica, the Steinitz Bach them all throughout the year and for As the UK’s only baroque concert hall it Festival, the , the rich, musical diversity they bring to is natural that we should choose to reflect Bampton Classical Players, Early Opera our programme. Amongst the ensembles this side of music making. The visceral Company, the International Baroque continuing their regular appearances experience of hearing music performed in Players, the Amadé Players, Gabrieli and this season are the Young Musicians a stylistically informed way, on instruments the European Union Baroque Orchestra Symphony Orchestra, Kensington representative of the time it was written, all contribute to this rich vein running Symphony Orchestra, Salomon Orchestra in a building from the same period, is through the programme. and London Phoenix Orchestra. second to none.

Warren Mailley-Smith His Chopin cycle begins on 4 September. Page 10

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New Music and emerging talent —— © Manu Theobald © © Maximilian Motel © Pascal Ancel We celebrate new music and emerging talent this year, with a programme that features over 30 premieres and commissions including new works from , , Errollyn Wallen, Harrison Birtwistle, Tansy Davies, Christian Mason and Laurence Crane. We are delighted to welcome the Park Lane Group for both a lunchtime series and their intensive festival, featuring emerging artists Tabea Debus recorder Ligeti Quartet string quartet and new music, and tomorrow’s opera stars Exploring connections in the Bach family. Page 60 Premiering Christian Mason in February. Page 63

get a chance to shine through Opera © Benjamin Harte © Hannah King Danube’s training programme. London Sinfonietta feature new works across all of their concerts here at St John’s, averaging an impressive output of two world premieres per concert!

Christian Mason Joo Yeon Sir violin The Gesualdo Six vocal ensemble Françoise-Green play his new piano duet. Page 88 Schnittke and Shostakovich this summer. Page 86 Ligeti follows Monteverdi this April. Page 80

Our 2015/16 Young Artists —— Ever since its reinvention as a concert Each of the Young Artists are awarded three hall, St John’s Smith Square has played performance dates over the course of the a pivotal role in supporting the most concert season. The artists are invited to promising young musicians. , select their repertoire and produce their Steven Isserlis, Nigel Kennedy and Daniel own programme notes, as well as sharing Barenboim are just a few of the musicians concerts to their own following, fostering who performed at St John’s Smith Square an independence which will be vital in the before going on to begin internationally progression of their professional careers. renowned careers. A fund is provided to each group or soloist The Young Artists’ Scheme at St John’s to either commission a composer to write a Smith Square commenced last year, with new work, or to work on a new edition of

© Rikard Österlund four artists or groups selected to participate. a piece of early music. The resulting work The intention for the scheme is to provide will be performed at one of their three a performance platform, marketing and engagements over the course of the season. development assistance and career support Tansy Davies for exceptional young artists at the start Falling Angel receives its London premiere. Page 92 of their professional careers.

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Southbank Centre —— © Ben Ealovega © TimothyCochrane Finally, there is one other incredibly exciting collaboration taking place at St John’s this season. During the period

© Škel Nicolau of refurbishment at Southbank Centre we are delighted to be working with our colleagues from across the river to provide a temporary home for concerts from the International Piano Series, the International Chamber Music Series and a number of 30th Christmas Festival Southbank Centre’s resident groups. Tamara Stefanovich The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge. Page 51 Artists appearing at St John’s as a Playing Ives’ monumental First Sonata. Page 67 © IONE result of this partnership include Nikolai Hildegard Titus © Demidenko, Steven Osborne, Tamara Stefanovich, Imogen Cooper, the Jerusalem Quartet, Viktoria Mullova, Katia and Marielle Labèque, Benedetti Elschenbroich Grynyuk Trio, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Steven Devine, Ian Bostridge, John Butt, the Philharmonia Orchestra with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the London Sinfonietta under Martyn Brabbins. DEEP∞MINIMALISM London Sinfonietta Join the occupation this September! Pages 11–15 Hear Pauline Oliveros’ music in June. Page 99 Feldman’s little heard For Samuel Beckett. Page 22 © Sim Canetty-Clarke

Festivals

—— © Simon Fowler Festival programming is also central to In May we also welcome back the London this season. In September we welcome Festival of , which this year back Rolf Hind who leads the second has The Word as its theme. Occupy the festival – a fascinating 2016 also sees the appearance of two new exploration of twentieth and twenty-first festivals at St John’s: Principal Sound in century classics and new music. April, which focuses on the music of Morton A fortnight later Peter Phillips and Feldman and those he influenced and The Tallis Scholars launch the second Southbank Centre’s DEEP∞MINIMALISM London International A Cappella Choir in June, programmed by Artist in Residence Competition with choirs battling out Oliver Coates. the prize over five days. Christmas sees our 30th Christmas Festival, bigger than ever before and including familiar faces such as Ex Cathedra, the National Youth Music Theatre and Ensemble Plus Ultra, as well as newcomers such as Siglo de Oro and the Choir of Ian Bostridge & OAE Nicola Benedetti Merton College Oxford. Bostridge sings Handel on 14 October. Page 25 Witness her ICMS debut this Spring. Page 62

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sunday at st john’s WARREN THE BROOK MAILLEY-SMITH STREET BAND Complete Chopin Cycle ERROLLYN —— —— WALLEN The French Connection —— Stephen de Pledge © Jack Liebeck Polonaise-Fantaisie and Lisete da Silva baroque flute Andante Spianato and Grande Hawks and Horses premiere Farran Scott baroque violin Polonaise Brilliante Tatty Theo baroque Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Chopin Rondo in C minor Op. 1 Anthony Pleeth baroque cello Peterborough Male Voice Choir • Polonaise Op. 40 No. 1 in A • Carolyn Gibley harpsichord Peterborough Voices Polonaise Op. 40 No. 2 in C minor Peterborough Youth Choir Telemann Paris Quartet • Mazurkas Nos. 1–4 Op. 6 No. 6 in E minor TWV 43:e4 William Prideaux conductor Nos. 1–4 • Mazurka No. 5 in Bb Rameau Pièces de Clavecin Op. 7 No. 1 • Polonaise‑Fantaisie Vaughan Williams Five en Concerts No. 1 thursday lunchtime concerts in Ab Op. 61 • Waltz Op. 64 No. 1 variants of Dives and Lazarus Handel Trio Sonata HWV393 in Db ‘Minute’ • Waltz Op. 64 Berkeley Serenade Op. 12 in G minor No. 2 in C# minor • Waltz Op. 64 Debussy Danse sacrée STEPHEN Telemann Paris Quartet DRILL No. 3 in Ab • Nocturne Op. 9 et danse profane No. 1 in D TWV 43:D3 DE PLEDGE No. 1 in Bb minor • Nocturne Occupy the Pianos Errollyn Wallen Hawks Handel Trio Sonata Op. 2 —— Op. 9 No. 2 in Eb • Andante and Horses (premiere) No. 1 in B minor —— Spianato and Grande Polonaise Piano Leclair Sonata Op. 2 No. 8 in D The premiere of Hawks Brilliante Op. 22 Rolf Hind piano and Horses, a new work Schumann Kinderszenen Op. 15 Musical splendour and Zubin Kanga piano The first of an impressive thursday lunchtime concerts by internationally acclaimed Wagner/Liszt Liebestod sophistication abound Siwan Rhys piano eleven-concert series of composer Errollyn Wallen, Prokofiev Four pieces from with this French-inspired Eliza McCarthy piano Chopin’s complete solo works the “renaissance woman Romeo and Juliet programme, exploring Paris’ OCCUPY for piano, this programme Per Nørgård Unendlicher of contemporary British Anthony Ritchie Touched musical riches from the 1720s, features the sparkling, youthful THE PIANOS Empfang music” (The Observer). (UK premiere) 1730s and 1740s. Handel’s Trio virtuosity of the Grande Karl Aage Rasmussen Genklang This imaginative setting Debussy L’isle joyeuse Sonata Op. 2 No. 1 shows clear PREVIEW Polonaise Brilliante, alongside Steve Martland Drill of William Shakespeare’s French influences in its scoring, —— New Zealand pianist the mature sophistication celebrated Sonnet 91, inspired and the popularity of French The haunting Mahler/Mozart Stephen De Pledge returns of one of the composer’s Rolf Hind piano by the ancient cathedral music in London at the time collage that is Rasmussen’s to St John’s with a programme last great masterpieces, the and guest artists city of Peterborough and was reflected by Leclair’s Genklang (), is preceded based on the theme of love, Polonaise-Fantaisie. The epic its surrounding landscape, connections with Handel A mouthwatering and by a work for two pianos featuring evocative works journey commences with was commissioned by and his music. finger-tingling preview of the and four metronomes by Per by composers from Schumann the composer’s Op. 1, taking Peterborough Sings! upcoming weekend occupation Nørgård. The monumental to Prokofiev, and a new work up a chronological thread of Pre-concert talk given by of the pianos. Join Rolf Hind masterpiece ending this There will be a pre-concert by New Zealand composer Mazurkas along with some of Tatty Theo at 14.15, Handel and guests as they set the scene concert is a tour de force talk at 17.40 Anthony Ritchie. his most well-loved miniatures. and the French Connection. for an exhilarating marathon of rhythmic vitality by peterboroughmvchoir.org.uk stephendepledge.com warrenmailley-smith.com brookstreetband.co.uk of keyboard virtuosity. the late Steve Martland.

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Sun 30 August 18.00 Thu 3 September 13.05 Fri 4 September 19.30 Sun 6 September 15.00 Thu 10 September 13.05 Fri 11 September 19.00 £14 (£10), £10 £10, U26 £20, £15 £14 (£10), U26 £10, U26 £10, U26

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ROLF HIND —— “Just how many hands does Rolf Hind have?” The Telegraph

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TRANSTROEMER TRIBUTE Occupy the Pianos NEW MUSIC —— FROM EUROPE Transtroemeriana FOR 2 PIANOS Rolf Hind piano Occupy the Pianos and pianists from the Guildhall SONATAS AND —— School of Music and Drama INTERLUDES Antoine Françoise piano A sequence of pieces Robin Green piano and poems paying tribute Occupy the Pianos to Tomas Transtroemer György Kurtág Játékok —— (1931–2015), the Nobel prize- (selection) winning Swedish poet, a keen Rolf Hind piano Ligeti Three pieces amateur pianist who lost the Rebecca Saunders Choler Cage Sonatas and Interludes use of his right hand. Hence, for prepared piano A concert bringing the a large body of Swedish music two greatest Hungarian has been written for him in John Cage’s seminal early composers of the last half- tribute, for piano left hand. work for prepared piano. century, together with the Some Swedish pieces will Groundbreaking in form British-born, but German- be interspersed with poems and structure, as well as based, Rebecca Saunders. and new pieces created means of performance, this by pianists and composers work – his first inspired by Colour, expression and of the Guildhall School Hindu philosophy – is a true playful wit come to Postgraduate Programme. twentieth-century masterpiece. the fore in this recital.

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Fri 11 September 22.00 Sat 12 September 13.00 Sat 12 September 16.00 £10, U26 £10, U26 £10, U26

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Loré Lixenberg

Adam Tendler © Justin Schier

Morton Feldman 1976 © Rob Bogaerts/Anefo

PIERROT QUEER PITCH LUNAIRE Occupy the Pianos OCCUPY Occupy the Pianos —— THE FLOOR —— Rolf Hind piano Occupy the Pianos Loré Lixenberg voice Eliza McCarthy piano PHRYGIAN David Alberman violin/viola Siwan Rhys piano DISSONANT PALAIS COMPOSER —— Zoë Martlew cello Robin Green piano Nancy Ruffer flute Loré Lixenberg mezzo Antoine Françoise piano STATES Occupy the Pianos WORKSHOP Stuart King clarinet Jonathan Goddard dancer Zubin Kanga piano Rolf Hind piano Occupy the Pianos —— Occupy the Pianos Rolf Hind piano Adam Tendler piano Rolf Hind Die unenthuellte —— Adam Tendler piano —— Rolf Hind and Jonathan A celebration of queer music for piano and violin Eliza McCarthy piano Goddard present new work preceded by a panel discussion Adam Tendler piano Composer workshop on scores Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire for pianist and dancer, devised Feldman Palais de Mari received by the Call for Scores To include readings and music NY-based pianist Adam Tendler by themselves and also The occupation comes to Phrygian Gates (for two pianos or one piano by Michael Finnissy, Meredith is a guest and plays late Cage by Claudia Molitor and a caberet climax, as Hind’s four hands). Monk, Pauline Oliveiros, David for prepared piano, plus Late Feldman and early Adams Max Boon. Loré Lixenberg darkly cartoonish Die Del Tredici, Claude Vivier and Cowell and Copland and reads are combined in this fascinating Where appropriate, other intersperses this with some unenthuellte precedes Julius Eastman’s monumental from his own autobiography, insight into two of pieces will be played in concerts of Aperghis’ theatrical the classical nightmare Gay Guerrilla for four pianists. Dissonant States. modern American music. throughout the weekend. and enigmatic Récitations. that is Pierrot Lunaire.

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Sat 12 September 19.00 Sat 12 September 22.00 Sun 13 September 13.00 Sun 13 September 16.00 Sun 13 September 19.00 Sun 13 September 21.00 £10, U26 £10, U26 £10, U26 £10, U26 £10, U26 £10, U26

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THE TALLIS SCHOLARS BAMPTON OPERETTA CLASSICAL London International GALA! A Cappella Choir OPERA —— Competition ORCHESTRA —— Opera Danube —— OF ST JOHN’S CHROMA Orpheus Sinfonia 2000th Concert —— Aoife O’Sullivan dori Opera Danube’s Young Anna Starushkevych ofelia Artists 2015/16 Taverner Leroy Kyrie OSJ Voices sunday at st john’s Christopher Turner Sheppard Missa Cantate Joan Rodgers soprano Francesca Saracino dido artemidoro Gabriel Jackson Simon Butteriss baritone AUREA QUARTET Hannah Davey soprano Nicholas Merryweather Ave dei patris filia Anna Shackleton soprano plistene Oliver Gooch conductor Young Artists’ Series Byrd Infelix ego • Ye sacred Charlotte Teley mezzo James Harrison aristone • Tribue Domine Programme to include —— Ellie Edmunds mezzo Matthew Stiff trofonio excerpts from Die Fledermaus, We look forward to welcoming other roles to be announced The Glasgow Connection Paul Wingfield conductor The Merry Widow and Opera The Tallis Scholars to St John’s John Lubbock conductor Jeremy Gray director Danube’s forthcoming Shostakovich String Quartet once more, to mark their production Orpheus in the No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 2000th concert. Purcell Arias and duets • Salieri Trofonio’s Cave Underworld, as well as lesser Beethoven Double Viola Chanconne • Dido and Aeneas () Director Peter Phillips writes: known operetta gems by Lehár, Quintet in C Op. 29 ‘The Storm’ “I decided to go for one of the Dido and Aeneas is Purcell’s Bampton Classical Opera, Romberg and Kalman Peter Longworth New work most exciting – and least single most famous work. renowned for innovative Opera Danube returns to In the last of their series performed – of all the big Tudor Familiar to audiences long repertory and superb standards, HEATS 1 & 2 St John’s Smith Square with as Young Artists at St John’s Mass settings. The very title – before the rediscovery in returns to St John’s to present a Viennese themed Gala to open the Aurea Quartet perform Cantate: Sing! – gives the clue. recent decades of Monteverdi a staged performance of what London International their 2015 season. Expect more Shostakovich’s austere In the second half we reprise and Handel, it is also the will be one of the operatic A Cappella Choir than a few waltzes and plenty and much loved 8th quartet, a work which the featured best-known opera to have highlights of the year. The Competition of memorable melodies as explore their Glasgow roots composer in this year’s choral been composed before Mozart. unjustly maligned Salieri stunning soprano Joan Rodgers with a new commission by competition, Gabriel Jackson, —— rises to creative heights in Based on the love story from is joined by emerging artists composer Peter Longworth wrote for us in our 40th a wonderfully lyrical comedy, The first two heats of Virgil’s Aeneid, this English as well as Danube alumni from and are joined by violist anniversary. This again with rich orchestration the London International baroque tragic masterpiece previous productions. Simon Kay Stephen of the Gildas is a shout of praise. We end and glorious ensembles. A Cappella Choir Competition features magnificent Butteriss comperes through Quartet for a performance with Tribue Domine, the piece see choirs battling it out music, potent drama, There will be a pre-concert this musical journey across of Beethoven’s Double Viola by Byrd we have performed in a range of varied and remarkable intensity. talk at 18.00 Europe and beyond. Quintet in C. most often over the years.” programmes, to win their osj.org.uk bamptonopera.org operadanube.co.uk aureaquartet.co.uk thetallisscholars.co.uk way to Saturday’s final.

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Mon 14 September 19.30 Tue 15 September 19.00 Sat 19 September 19.30 Sun 20 September 15.00 Mon 21 September 19.30 Tue 22/Wed 23 September 19.30 £26, £20, £15, £10 £30, £22, £15 £25, £20, £15, £10 £14 (£10), U26 £28, £22, £16, £10, U26 £8 (£5)

You might also enjoy OSJ performing Bampton return on 12 June for the Catch Opera Danube in January for Discover more about the scheme The Tallis Scholars return for our See our website for further details Handel’s Messiah this Christmas Shakespeare Quatercentenary Orpheus in the Underworld sjss.org.uk/youngartists 30th Christmas Festival sjss.org.uk/LIACC See page 45 See page 95 See page 57 See page 50

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thursday lunchtime concerts JANE WATTS Organ Series —— Macmillan Cortège Academique Lloyd Webber CBE Arietta Buck Concert Variations on The Star Spangled Banner THE FINAL Lloyd Webber CBE Pastorale HEATS 3 & 4 Guilmant Sonata No. 5 London International in C minor Op. 80 London International A Cappella Choir A Cappella Choir Competition Jane Watts opens the 2015/16 Competition organ recital series and makes —— a welcome return to St John’s. —— Featured composer, Gabriel Recent performances have Peter Phillips, Lionel Meunier Jackson, joins Peter Phillips, taken her to many parts of and colleagues on the jury Mark Williams and Lionel the world and she has recorded continue their deliberations Meunier to decide who will be a wide range of recordings to select the remaining choirs crowned first-prize winner of for Priory Records. THE TALLIS SCHOLARS for the final of this year’s the 2015 London International —— janewatts.co.uk competition. A Cappella Choir Competition. Concert promoted by Concert promoted by Concert promoted by “The sound coming from the St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square Tallis Scholars almost surpassed Thu 24 September 13.05 Thu 24/Fri 25 September 19.30 Sat 26 September 19.30 the humanly possible.” £10, U26 £8 (£5) £15 (£10) The Telegraph Become a Friend of St John’s and See our website for further details LIACC is proud to be a member of enjoy free admission to this series sjss.org.uk/LIACC Europe for Festivals: See page 108 for details Festivals for Europe

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The Revolutionary Drawing Room © Susan Porter-Thomas

sunday at st john’s HENSCHEL QUARTET LONDON BRIDGE sunday at st john’s —— thursday lunchtime concerts ARCANGELO TRIO THE Christoph Henschel violin SARAH GABRIEL —— Brahms and his World Daniel Bell violin Monika Henschel viola REVOLUTIONARY Three Bach Magnificats —— & VIV MCLEAN Mathias Beyer-Karlshøj cello DRAWING ROOM —— Joélle Harvey soprano By Lake Thun Haydn Quartet No. 49 —— Olivia Vermeulen soprano Autumn in Paris Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 in B minor Op. 64 No. 2 Iestyn Davies countertenor A Viennese Quartet Party in F Op. 99 • Violin Sonata Schulhoff Quartet No. 1 Sarah Gabriel soprano Thomas Walker tenor No. 2 in A Op. 100 • Piano Trio Schubert Quartet No. 15 Adrian Butterfield violin YOUNG Viv McLean piano Thomas Bauer bass in C minor Op. 101 in G D887 Kathryn Parry violin Jonathan Cohen conductor MUSICIANS Poulenc Rachel Stott viola In one remarkable summer The Henschel Quartet liken Hahn Chansons Grises JC Bach Magnificat a 4 in C E22 Ruth Alford cello SYMPHONY in 1886, on holiday in Hofstetten their forthcoming return Fauré Notre amour • JS Bach Magnificat in D BWV243 by Lake Thun in , to St John’s Smith Square Vanhal String Quartet in Eb ORCHESTRA En sourdine CPE Bach Magnificat in D H.772 Brahms wrote three of his to ‘visiting an old friend’. Haydn String Quartet in C —— Gershwin An American in Paris Arcangelo performs greatest chamber works, Following their inaugural Op. 33 No. 3 Debussy Apparition Claire Seaton soprano a fascinating stylistic at the absolute peak of his concert last year (which was Dittersdorf String Quartet Poulenc Les chemins de l’amour James Blair conductor juxtaposition of three powers. Each is telling, broadcast live by BBC Radio 3) in A No. 6 Following their debut recital Magnificats by members vibrant, intensely moving, to mark their 20th Anniversary Mozart String Quartet in G K387 Strauss Four Last Songs • and CD of Gershwin songs of the Bach dynasty, with and masterfully and concisely in this wonderful venue, the Alpine Symphony The Revolutionary Drawing and piano solos in 2014, and star soloists Iestyn Davies, structured. Nevertheless, the acclaimed quartet return to Room presents A Viennese YMSO opens its 2015/16 season inspired by Gershwin’s brief Joélle Harvey, Olivia Vermeulen, music – a sonata each for cello present three of their favourite Quartet Party, featuring works with a pairing of two of Richard visit to Paris, Sarah Gabriel Thomas Walker and Thomas and violin as well as a piano trio string quartets. Each work by Haydn, Mozart, Dittersdorf Strauss’ most iconic works. and Viv McLean explore Bauer, with some of the – contains enormous contrast, demonstrates the great effect and Vanhal, four composers The mighty Alpine Symphony the music of other composers world’s finest musicians from the unfettered passion achieved by each composer’s who are known to have played will be preceded by his last who were influenced and a handpicked choir, under of Op. 99 through the spiritual particular and personal together at a party in Vienna completed work – the Four by the City of Light. the direction of artistic director content of Op. 100 to the fiery mastery of the use of rhythm in the 1780s. Last Songs. & conductor Jonathan Cohen. and uncompromising Op. 101. in their writing. sarahgabriel.eu revolutionarydrawingroom.com ymso.org.uk vivmclean.com arcangelo.org.uk londonbridgetrio.com henschel-quartett.de

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Sun 27 September 15.00 Wed 30 September 19.30 Thu 1 October 13.05 Thu 1 October 19.30 Sun 4 October 15.00 Tue 6 October 19.30 £14 (£10), U26 £20 (£16), £15 (£12), £10 (£8) £10, U26 £45, £35, £25, £15 £14 (£10), U26 £20, £15, £10, U26

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LONDON SINFONIETTA —— “Laurence Crane’s slow succession of sweet and piquant chords took on their own suspended beauty; imagine an empty hall that has seen 1,000 Beach Boys concerts, yielding up all its ghostly echoes at once.” The Guardian

LONDON SINFONIETTA Howard Shelley © Eric Richmond —— Garry Walker conductor Laurence Crane Chamber Symphony No. 2 (world premiere of a London Sinfonietta commission) LONDON Marisol Jimenez (world MOZART premiere) GEOFFREY SABA Feldman For Samuel Beckett PLAYERS —— The London Sinfonietta start Mozart Explored Piano their season at the evocative setting and acoustic of St John’s —— Schubert Sonata in B D575 • Smith Square with their first Four Impromptus D935 • Howard Shelley piano commission from British Sonata in A D959 composer Laurence Crane. Mozart Piano Concerto Following his adventurous His music brings a fresh No. 19 in F K459 and exciting ‘Lure of the East’ beauty to the common The Concerto in F is full of programme last January, elements of music. Marisol sunshine, elegance, and charm. Geoffrey Saba returns Jimenez is an emerging It synthesizes many aspects to St John’s with another Mexican composer whose of Mozart’s genius – the ability in his series of all-Schubert piece the London Sinfonietta to bring together the various programmes, beginning with will tour to Mexico and the instruments in harmony the warmly effervescent early Huddersfield Contemporary and contrast, a brilliant and B major Sonata and ending Music Festival in late October. ingenious solo part, variation with the late A major Sonata The concert also offers a rare of the conventional classical whose moods range from chance to hear one of Morton concerto form, and always warmth and sunlight to Feldman’s masterpieces, drama and wit. deepest despair and rage. For Samuel Beckett. londonmozartplayers.com geoffreysaba.com londonsinfonietta.org.uk

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John Harle © Nobby Clark

Denis Kozhukhin © Felix Broede

DENIS KOZHUKHIN International Piano Series ORCHESTRA —— ORCHESTRA VITAE —— Piano OF THE AGE OF John Harle saxophone KENSINGTON Haydn Sonata in D Hob.XVI/24 ENLIGHTENMENT Michael Cobb conductor sunday at st john’s SYMPHONY Brahms Theme and Variations —— in D minor arr. from String Copland Four Dance Bostridge sings Handel LONDON ORCHESTRA Sextet No. 1 in Bb Episodes from Rodeo thursday lunchtime concerts PIANO TRIO —— Bartók Out of Doors suite Ian Bostridge tenor Martin Butler Concerto Haydn Sonata in B minor Steven Devine director for soprano saxophone Season Opening Concert Beethoven Cycle Hob.XVI/32 LOUISE KEMÉNY (London premiere) Telemann Selection from Suite Russell Keable conductor Liszt Bénédiction de Dieu Brahms Symphony No. 4 —— in F • Ich weiss, dass mein & PETER FOGGITT dans la Solitude No. 3 in E minor Op. 98 Strauss Don Juan Erlöser lebt • So stehet ein —— Robert Atchison violin from Harmonies poétiques McCabe Concerto for Orchestra Berg Gottes from Der Tod Jesu Fresh from a triumphant Olga Dudnik piano et religieuses S. 173 Soprano and Piano Mussorgsky Pictures at an Handel Concerto grosso debut at the , David Jones cello Wagner Tannhäuser Overture Exhibition in D minor Op. 3 No. 5 • Scherza Nacht und Träume Orchestra Vitae and conductor transc. Liszt Beethoven Trio in Bb Op. 11 • infida from Ariodante• Love A programme of song including Michael Cobb return in Strauss’s swashbuckling Trio in C minor Op. 1 No. 3 • The young prize-winning sounds th’ alarm from Acis and works by Rameau, Schubert, characteristically adventurous tone poem Don Juan raises Trio in Eb Op. 70 No. 2 Russian pianist Denis Galatea • Silete venti – motet • Debussy, Strauss, Berg, Marx form. Award winning composer, the curtain on KSO’s 2015–16 Kozhukhin has quickly Excerpts from Water Music and Britten producer and performer The London Piano Trio season, the orchestra’s 60th. established a formidable Suite No. 1 John Harle joins voracious celebrate their third season The first concert of the series Night, and its incumbent reputation. He performs a Orchestra Vitae to perform at St John’s with a three concert puts orchestral colour and Star tenor Ian Bostridge joins dreams, has long captivated programme of musical riches the London premiere of Martin Beethoven cycle. Beethoven’s virtuosity firmly at the centre the Orchestra to kick-start poets and composers. From ranging from Haydn’s witty, Butler’s Concerto for soprano works are considered one of proceedings. Ravel’s their 30th birthday celebrations the soporific to the fantastical, thoughtful and inventive saxophone. Preceded by the of classical music’s greatest scintillating orchestration in a programme featuring we explore in these songs all piano sonatas to the lavish Dance Episodes from Copland’s legacies and complete cycles of Mussorgsky’s Pictures well-loved arias by Handel that takes place at night: from Romanticism of Brahms and ballet Rodeo, it is Brahms of his works are often presented at an Exhibition is a deservedly and one of his most elaborate the beguiling beauty of dreams Liszt. He ends with the latter’s who concludes the evening as a mark of achievement by popular showpiece and surely motets, Silete Venti. Almost to the terror of nightmares; magnificent transcription of and the orchestra’s symphony the performers. They are also the ultimate. KSO also operatic in scale and ambition, from lovemaking to sleepless Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture. cycle, with a performance very popular with audiences, celebrates the life and work of the motet is a deeply expressive reminiscence; from the of Symphony No. 4. who relish the opportunity John McCabe with a chance to Denis Kozhukhin discusses piece with rich operatic nightingale’s song to the moon to experience an important hear his dramatic and colourful the evening’s programme textures and a fitting and starry firmament. There will be a pre-concert contribution to musical history. Concerto for Orchestra. in a pre-concert talk at 18.15 conclusion to the concert. talk at 18.30 louisekemeny.co.uk londonpianotrio.com kso.org.uk deniskozhukhin.com oae.co.uk peterfoggitt.com orchestravitae.co.uk

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Sun 11 October 15.00 Mon 12 October 19.30 Tue 13 October 19.30 Wed 14 October 19.00 Thu 15 October 13.05 Thu 15 October 19.30 £14 (£10), U26 £17.50 (£12.50), £12.50 £35, £28, £15, £10 £60, £39, £24, £10 (Child £2.50) £10, U26 £24, £18, £16, £10

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Steven Devine European Union Baroque Orchestra

sunday at st john’s LAURA EUROPEAN SNOWDEN UNION Young Artists’ Series BURY COURT BAROQUE —— OPERA ORCHESTRA —— The Guitar in Collaboration —— Zelenka: The Bohemian Bach Laura Snowden guitar Inspired by Joo Yeon Sir violin Spiritato! Lars Ulrik Mortensen director THE 1885 Bart’s Chamber Choir SINGERS & Tir Eolas Handel Ouverture to Alessandro Philippa Mercer Eliana Pretorian soprano LONDON HWV21 • Sonata in G HWV399 • ORCHESTRA vocals, flute, whistle Magid El Bushra countertenor MOZART Concerto Grosso in F Op. 3 No. 4 Georgie Harris viola, vocals thursday lunchtime concerts —— Julian Perkins conductor Vivaldi String Sinfonia Ruairi Glasheen PLAYERS in D RV124 Puccini and Poulenc Glorias percussion, vocals Zelenka Trumpet fanfare Beethoven Explored ENSEMBLEF2 Albinoni Concerto for 2 oboes Hedi Pinkerfeld bass, vocals Zelenka Opening and closing Rowan Fenner soprano —— in F Op. 9 No. 3 coro from Il Serpente di Bronzo —— Mark LeBrocq tenor Laura Snowden presents Vivaldi String Sinfonia Zelenka Trio Sonata No. 3 in Bb Discover Danzi Andrew Rupp baritone a varied programme of Howard Shelley piano in G minor RV157 Bach Cantata BWV 50 Alison Hunka conductor collaborative guitar music, Jane Booth basset horn Corelli Concerto Grosso in D Zelenka Sinfonia and Terra’s Beethoven Piano Concerto drawing on both folk and Anneke Scott natural horn Op. 6 No. 4 Puccini Messa di Gloria recitativo and aria No. 2 & 3 No. 2 in Bb Op. 19 classical traditions. The concert Steven Devine fortepiano Poulenc Gloria from Il Diamante • Trumpet EUBO showcases music features eclectic folk ensemble Beethoven’s second piano fanfare • Missa dei Filii Danzi Grand Sonata for associated with the baroque For nearly 20 years, South- Tir Eolas, who have performed concerto was probably begun pianoforte and basset horn in F heartland of Italy. In the West London’s 1885 Singers together at Bestival, Royal This exciting new partnership in Bonn and was re-written Op. 62 • Sonata for fortepiano baroque era, as now, musicians and Orchestra have been Albert Hall and live on BBC sees one of London’s leading to emerge in published form and horn in E minor Op. 44 travelled far and wide, and the delighting audiences with their Radio 3, and violinist Joo Yeon Chamber Choirs team up with in 1801. It clearly shows cosmopolitan Handel’s sojourn wide-ranging choral repertoire. Sir, winner of The Arts Club Bury Court Opera in repertoire a certain influence from ensembleF2 celebrate their in Italy between 1706 and 1710, Tonight they are joined by Karl Jenkins Classical Music rarely heard on the London Mozart, but there are distinct recently released second album when he studied with Corelli in world-class soloists to perform Award 2014 in association concert platform. Zelenka’s indications of the more of music for piano and winds Rome and met Vivaldi in Venice, inspirational, romantic, exciting with Classic FM, and a 2015/16 music delights in combining dramatic style that would by the German composer Franz influenced his composing style and uplifting works by Puccini St John’s Smith Square contrapuntal brilliance with become Beethoven’s Danzi with a performance for the remainder of his career. and Poulenc. Young Artist. exotic instrumental writing. own trademark. of two of his lyrical sonatas. eubo.eu 1885singers.com laurasnowden.co.uk burycourtopera.org londonmozartplayers.com ensembleF2.com Concert co-promoted by Concert promoted by Concert promoted by Concert promoted by Concert co-promoted by London Mozart Concert promoted by European Union Baroque Orchestra 1885 Singers and Orchestra St John’s Smith Square Bury Court Opera Players & St John’s Smith Square St John’s Smith Square & St John’s Smith Square

Sat 17 October 19.30 Sun 18 October 15.00 Tue 20 October 19.30 Wed 21 October 13.05 Thu 22 October 13.05 Thu 22 October 19.30 £25 (£22.50), £20 (£18), £15 (£13.50) £14 (£10), U26 £28, £18, £10 £12 £10, U26 £28, £22, £16, £10, U26

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Anna Hashimoto Zelkova Quartet © Jon Dennis

sunday at st john’s Amatis Piano Trio © Ibowski ANNA WARREN HASHIMOTO MAILLEY-SMITH Young Artists’ Series HERTFORDSHIRE —— Complete Chopin Cycle thursday lunchtime concerts In Friendship —— CHORUS —— Anna Hashimoto clarinet DAVID Études Op. 10 Aurea Quartet Bach Magnificat and PONSFORD Chopin Fantasy in F minor Haydn Nelson Mass Guillaume Connesson Disco- Op. 49 • Waltz in Ab Op. 69 Organ Series sunday at st john’s Toccata for clarinet and cello No. 1 L’Adieu • Nocturne Op. 15 London Orchestra da Camera Stockhausen In Freundschaft —— No. 1 in F • Waltz in F Op. 34 AMATIS PIANO ZELKOVA Zoë Brown soprano for clarinet solo No. 3 • Nocturne Op. 15 No. 3 Organ Diana Moore alto Baermann Adagio for clarinet TRIO QUARTET in G minor • Mazurka No. 6 James Oxley tenor and string quartet from clarinet —— Buxtehude Praeludium in A minor Op. 7 No. 2 • Young Artists’ Series Ashley Riches bass quintet No. 3 Op. 33 in G minor BuxWV 149 Mazurka No. 7 in F minor Op. 7 Mengjie Han piano Françaix Quintet for clarinet Böhm Vater unser —— No. 3 • Mazurka No. 8 in Ab David Temple conductor Lea Hausmann violin and string quartet im Himmelreich Op. 7 No. 4 • Mazurka No. 9 in C Samuel Shepherd cello Voices of Vienna Pergolesi Magnificat Clérambault Suite Op. 7 No. 5 • Mazurka No. 10 St John’s 2014/15 Young Artist, Bach Magnificat in D Beethoven Piano Trio in D du deuxieme ton Haydn String Quartet in Bb Op. 17 No. 1 • Rondo à la Anna Hashimoto describes her Haydn Missa in Angustiis Op. 70 No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Grigny Pange lingua Op. 20 No. 3 in G minor Mazur in F Op. 5 • Three programme as “an exploration ‘Nelson Mass’ Shostakovich Piano Trio from Premier livre d’orgue Beethoven String Quartet Ecossaises Op. post • Galop of friendship: past, present No. 1 in C minor Op. 8 Bach Prelude and Fugue Op. 18 No. 2 in G Marquis • Twelve Études Op. 10 The twelve movements of and future! Stockhausen’s In Mendelssohn Piano Trio in B minor BWV544 Schubert String Quintet Bach’s Magnificat are tiny Freundschaft was a birthday Tonight’s programme contrasts No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 in C D956 musical gems. The work gift for clarinettist Suzanne Distinguished scholar and the early, brilliant Rondo No. 2 is truly a masterpiece in Stephens, and Baermann was The Amatis Piano Trio won performer, David Ponsford For their final concert as Young and majestic Fantasy in F minor, miniature. Elegant, playful, the clarinettist who inspired the 2015 Parkhouse Award brings the French Baroque Artists, the Zelkova Quartet culminating in one of the most witty and ornate, Pergolesi’s Weber’s masterpieces. in April with a unanimous to St John’s. His most recent perform a programme of music important and challenging polyphonic Magnificat is Collaborating with the Aurea decision from the jury. This book French Organ Music by some of the greatest voices collections of music for solo a delight. Notable for the Quartet on my favourite prestigious Award celebrates in the reign of Louis XIV to emerge from Vienna, piano, the ground-breaking fireworks demanded of the composer Françaix’s Quintet its 25th anniversary in 2015 has been widely acclaimed including Schubert’s much 12 Études Op. 10. soprano soloist, the Nelson is a wonderful friendship and is renowned for selecting and has led to a series loved Cello Quintet alongside There will be a pre-concert Mass is one of Haydn’s most which I hope will continue excellent ensembles at the of recordings on important fellow Young Artist Abby event at 18.30 well-loved choral works. after the scheme!” start of their careers. French organs for Nimbus. Hayward of the Aurea Quartet. warrenmailley-smith.com hertfordshirechorus.org.uk annahashimoto.com parkhouseaward.com davidponsford.org zelkovaquartet.co.uk

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Fri 23 October 19.30 Sat 24 October 19.30 Sun 25 October 15.00 Wed 28 October 19.30 Thu 29 October 13.05 Sun 1 November 15.00 £20, £15 £28, £22, £16, £12 £14 (£10), U26 £19, £15, £12, £8, Free (students) £10, U26 £14 (£10), U26

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Nikolai Demidenko © Kirill Bachkirov

NIKOLAI DEMIDENKO International Piano Series —— LONDON LA NUOVA Brahms Capriccio in MOZART B minor Op. 76 No. 2 MUSICA Brahms 16 Variations on a PLAYERS —— Theme by Schumann Op. 9 Mozart Explored Brahms Sonata No. 2 in Ed Lyon acis F# minor Op. 2 —— Mary Bevan galatea Prokofiev Visions Fugitives Christopher Purves polyphemus Howard Shelley piano Op. 22 Rupert Charlesworth damon Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 Mozart Piano Concerto Nick Scott coridon in D minor Op. 14 No. 25 in C K503 David Bates director Nikolai Demidenko performs The first movement of this Handel Acis and Galetea Brahms’ Capriccio from the concerto is one of Mozart’s Dedicated to ardent and vivid Op. 76 late piano pieces and grandest, opening with a rugged performances of music from the tender Variations on a strength worthy of Beethoven. the Renaissance and Baroque Theme by Robert Schumann. The festive finale is a gavotte, periods, La Nuova Musica The second half is dedicated recalling the Concerto for return to St John’s Smith to Prokofiev: first his quirky Flute and Harp (1778) and the Square for a performance and original Visions Fugitives wonderful moment of repose of Handel’s much-loved and then elegant but glittering as the A minor turbulence gives LA NUOVA MUSICA . Sonata No. 2. way to a gentle F major melody. —— lanuovamusica.co.uk demidenko.net londonmozartplayers.com Concert co-promoted by Concert co-promoted by Concert co-promoted by London Mozart “Bates and his musicians were La Nuova Musica & St John’s Smith Square Southbank Centre & HarrisonParrott Players & St John’s Smith Square constantly alive to the dramatic details Mon 2 November 19.30 Tue 3 November 19.30 Wed 4 November 13.05 of Handel’s setting … If only all Handel £45, £35, £25, £15 £35, £28, £15, £10 £12 performances were this engaging.” La Nuova Musica return with The IPS continues with Concert 2 of 6 Classical Source Handel’s Dixit Dominus on 4 February Lukas Geniušas on 12 January Subscribe and save on this series See page 59 See page 52 See page 109 for further details

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Victoria Mullova & Katia Labèque ENGLISH CONCERT ORCHESTRA —— Remembrance Day Concert: JAILAL ACADEMY The Bards of Wales OF MUSIC AGBU LONDON English Concert Singers —— CHAMBER & Chorus Jorgensen Trio © Ian Dingle North Indian ORCHESTRA Miranda Keys soprano Classical Ensemble Janet Shell alto —— Students of Chandrima Misra Rhys Meirion tenor & Rajkumar Misra VIKTORIA Together for Armenia Pauls Putnins baritone COLLABORATIVE John Asquith narrator Hindustani Vocal A journey MULLOVA & Anais Heghoyan mezzo ORCHESTRA through evening Raagas, Roy Wales conductor KATIA LABÈQUE Ani Batikian violin —— exploring the moods they Nairi Azezian flute Britten Cantata Academica thursday lunchtime concerts evoke in various compositions International Chamber Czech Republic Night Sylvie Zakarian marimba Elgar For the Fallen set to different beat cycles Music Series Sarkis Zakarian piano Karl Jenkins The Bards of Wales Mehrdad Farid conductor Tabla A presentation of THE JORGENSEN —— (English premiere) intricate rhythms that move Gustavo Ubeda conductor Smetana Bartered Bride • TRIO between various Taals of Viktoria Mullova violin This Remembrance Day Wallenstein’s Camp Komitas Vartabed Songs —— North Indian classical music Katia Labèque piano Concert features two rarely Dvořák Noon Witch Parsegh Ganatchian Songs Dibachandya A reflection performed choral works by Smetana Vltava From the Romantic to Radical Mozart Violin Sonata in A K526 Alan Hovhaness Elibris on daily life Elgar and Britten and also Janáček Lachian Dances Schumann Violin Sonata No. 1 Pasquale Tassone Dzon Olga Jørgensen piano the English premiere of The Suk Fantastic Scherzo The Jailal Academy of Music in A minor Op. 105 Roland Roberts Piece Antonia Kesel violin Bards of Wales, written by Karl presents their Indian Classical Arvo Pärt Fratres Beethoven Piano Concerto The Collaborative Orchestra, Cecilia Bignall cello Jenkins in 2011 and based on Ensemble who will perform Takemitsu Distance de fée No. 5 ‘Emperor’ led by Mehrdad Farid, closes a poem by the Hungarian poet Mendelssohn Trio No. 1 a varied repertoire including Ravel Violin Sonata in G its International Concert Series A concert to commemorate János Arany. The poet describes in D minor some traditional and 2015 with an exploration of the Acclaimed regular playing the centenary of the Armenian the poem as a “celebration Gunther Schuller Piano Trio contemporary compositions. musical traditions of the Czech partners Viktoria Mullova Genocide and to celebrate the of civil courage”. Elgar’s Directed by Chandrima Misra Republic. Interpreting pieces A concert exploring different and Katia Labèque perform 24th anniversary of Armenia’s For the Fallen is a beautiful and Rajkumar Misra, the by Czech masters Dvořák, approaches to the piano trio a programme which includes independence. The AGBU setting of Laurence Binyon’s ensemble actively performs Smetana, and Janáček, the repertoire with two works Ravel’s sparkling Violin Sonata London Chamber Orchestra poem where England in the around the UK and their Collaborative Orchestra will from opposite ends of the in G, inspired by the jazz and presents five Armenian First World War “mourns music has been well received take a tour through dark Slavic spectrum – the high-Romantic blues of America in the early International soloists in for her dead across the sea”. by audiences. This production legends and jaunty Bohemian spirit of Mendelssohn’s Trio 1920s, and Arvo Pärt’s Fratres, a programme of Armenian Britten’s Cantata Academica features voices, tabla and folk dances. The evening will in D minor contrasted with which combines profound calm and non-Armenian composers was written in 1960 to celebrate Kathak to present the moods be topped off by Suk’s brilliant Gunther Schuller’s colourful with intense hyperactivity. in honour of these two the quincentenary of Basel and rhythms experienced by Scherzo Fantastique. and exciting Piano Trio. significant events. University. everyone right through the viktoriamullova.com collaborativeorchestra.com jorgensentrio.co.uk day, from dawn to dusk. labeque.com agbu.org.uk englishconcertchorus.co.uk

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BACHFEST FINAL London Bach Society’s thursday lunchtime concerts 25th Anniversary Bachfest JOSEPH SHINER —— & FREDERICK 5th Bach Singers Prize Final sunday at st john’s Anthony Robson director Fulham Symphony Orchestra BROWN Ian Partridge CBE chairman FIDELIO TRIO —— STEINITZ BACH of the jury —— Clarinet and Piano PLAYERS The four Finalists are each Darragh Morgan violin asked to present a mixed Adi Tal cello Benjamin Le Tombeau London Bach Society’s programme of Bach arias Mary Dullea piano de Ravel ‘Valse-Caprices’ 25th Anniversary Bachfest plus one substantial recitative. Ian Morgan-Williams Saint-Saëns Piano Trio They will be asked to devise Party Pieces —— No. 2 in E minor Op. 92 their programme around the WHITEHALL Brahms Sonata in F minor Richard Baker Kerdantata Bach and the theme of the London Bach Op. 120 No. 1 (London premiere) CHOIR Inheritance Society’s Bachfest ‘Bach FULHAM Bassi Concert Fantasy on Debussy La Mer —— and the Leipzig Inheritance’. motives from Verdi’s Rigoletto Music by Bach from SYMPHONY arr. Sally Beamish London Baroque Sinfonia his Leipzig years The LBS Bach Singers Prize This prize-winning duo ORCHESTRA Saint-Saëns’ expansive second Paul Spicer conductor was founded in 2006 and presents a broad selection Bach’s music speaks to all —— Piano Trio is an exhilirating is held biennially. Handel Athalia of works spanning over 150 humanity. It expresses what tour de force of nineteenth- Marc Dooley conductor years; ranging from Italian we ordinary mortals find This year’s competition century French chamber music. Athalia, the “first great English opera to one of the pinnacles difficult to say in words. forms part of the Society’s One of London’s finest RPS nominee Richard Baker oratorio”, set Handel on the of the Romantic sonata At Leipzig he wrote some 25th anniversary Bachfest non-professional orchestras, is featured in the London path which he was to make repertoire. The programme of the greatest works in all around the theme ‘Bach FSO performs a large-scale premiere of this recent Fidelio his own so successfully. Rather also features a work written music, running the gamut and the Leipzig Inheritance’, symphonic repertoire to Trio commission and Debussy’s unfairly overlooked in recent for, and premiered by the of human emotion. This is a Festival series to reflect an extremely high standard, ever-evocative La Mer in years, this performance will duo in March 2015 – a suite the Leipzig inheritance and Bach’s years there and the working with soloists of Sally Beamish’s arrangement demonstrate just why it caused of enigmatic Party Pieces. what LBS Bachfest is all about. city’s 1000th anniversary. international standing. concludes this programme. such a sensation in 1733. josephshiner.co.uk bachlive.co.uk bachlive.co.uk fso.org.uk fideliotrio.com whitehallchoir.org.uk

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Thu 12 November 13.05 Thu 12 November 19.30 Fri 13 November 19.00 Sat 14 November 19.30 Sun 15 November 15.00 Tue 17 November 19.00 £10, U26 £30, £25, £18, £12 £20, £15, £12 £10 (£8) £14 (£10), U26 £25, £22.50, £18, £10

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Ben Palmer © Andy Staples Photography EARLY OPERA COMPANY Early Opera Company © Matthew Andrews —— Fournier Trio © Kaupo Kikkas Ashley Riches pollux Samuel Boden castor Katherine Watson telaire YOUNG Sophie Junker JERUSALEM CHARLIE WALLER Callum Thorpe jupiter MUSICIANS Zachary Wilder mercury QUARTET MEMORIAL conductor LONDON SYMPHONY TRUST International Chamber MOZART Rameau Castor et Pollux Music Series ORCHESTRA —— thursday lunchtime concerts Following their performance —— PLAYERS —— Orchestra of St Paul’s of Rameau’s Platée last year, Haydn String Quartet Beethoven Explored Charlie Lovell-Jones violin Vox Cordis Olivier Award-nominated FOURNIER TRIO in G Op. 77 No. 1 James Blair conductor Early Opera Company and —— —— Ruby Hughes soprano Bartók String Quartet No. 6 Christian Curnyn bring another Mendelssohn A Midsummer Ciara Hendrick mezzo Dvořák String Quartet in F Howard Shelley piano Sulki Yu violin passionate and bold French Night’s Dream Overture Richard Edgar-Wilson tenor Op. 96 ‘American’ Pei-Jee Ng cello baroque opera to St John’s Beethoven Piano Concerto Mendelssohn Andrew Ashwin bass Chiao-Ying Chang piano Smith Square. Rameau’s The Jerusalem Quartet No. 1 in C Op. 15 Concerto for Violin Ben Palmer conductor Castor et Pollux is an intense is renowned for a thrilling Sibelius Symphony No. 2 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major tale of brotherly love and combination of vitality and in A minor Op. 50 ‘In Memory Bach Mass in B minor was written in 1795, revised The Young Musicians sacrifice as the immortal Pollux glowing technical precision. of a Great Artist’ in 1800, published in 1801, and Symphony Orchestra Acclaimed chamber choir descends to the Underworld They perform Dvořák’s dedicated to Princess Barbara continue their season The Fournier Trio have been Vox Cordis joins forces with to rescue his mortal twin radiantly tuneful American Odescalchi (née Countess von with a performance of the captivating audiences since the Orchestra of St Paul’s and Castor. Musically, Rameau Quartet along with Bartók’s Keglevics), a former pupil of glorious second symphony their inception in 2009. They a team of outstanding soloists was a revolutionary, and the Sixth, a nerve-jangling Beethoven. Although conceived of Jean Sibelius, the virtuosic make a welcome return to for Bach’s monumental Mass harmonic effects and sonorous exploration of intense sadness after the B flat Concerto No. 2, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto St John’s Smith Square with in B minor, under the direction string sounds will bring a rich composed shortly before he it was published slightly before, and his charming overture a programme featuring the of OSP’s Artistic Director, intensity to this remarkable escaped the horrors of war, hence the numbering. to A Midsummer Night’s Dream. epic Tchaikovsky Piano Trio. Ben Palmer. concert performance. bound for New York. londonmozartplayers.com ymso.org.uk fourniertrio.com cwmt.org.uk earlyopera.com jerusalem-quartet.com

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Wed 18 November 13.05 Wed 18 November 19.30 Thu 19 November 13.05 Thu 19 November 19.30 Fri 20 November 19.30 Sun 22 November 15.00 £12 £25 (£20), £15 (£12), £10 (£8) £10, U26 £25, £15, U26 £45, £35, £25, £15 £35, £28, £15, £10

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LONDON Russell Keable © Sim Canetty-Clarke MOZART PLAYERS WARREN Mozart Explored: 1783 MAILLEY-SMITH ORCHESTRA —— Complete Chopin Cycle OF THE AGE OF Mozart and the Sisters —— ENLIGHTENMENT City of London Choir Études Op. 25 —— Hilary Davan Wetton conductor Chopin Sonata No. 1 in Bach’s Double, Bach’s Single C minor Op. 4 • Mazurka Mozart Serenade No. 6 in D violin/director No. 11 in E minor Op. 17 No. 2 K239 ‘Serenata Notturna’ • Kati Debretzeni violin • Mazurka No. 12 in Ab Op. 17 Vorrei spiegarvi • No, no, non Margaret Faultless violin No. 3 • Mazurka No. 13 in A THE KENSINGTON sei capace • Mia speranza Matthew Truscott violin minor Op. 17 No. 4 • Mazurka thursday lunchtime concerts adorata – Ah, non sai K416 • DREAM SYMPHONY No. 14 in G minor Op. 24 No. 1 • Bach Violin Concerto Mass in C minor K427 —— Mazurka No. 15 in C Op. 24 No. 2 ORCHESTRA in E BWV1042 DANIEL MOULT Aloysia and Constanze • Waltz No. 14 in E minor B. 56 • The London Chorus —— Vivaldi Concerto in G minor Organ Series Weber were both highly Polonaise Op. 71 No. 2 in Bb • Royal Orchestral Society for 2 violins Op. 3 No. 2 Rv.578 Russell Keable conductor talented singers, and both Twelve Études Op. 25 Pisendel Violin Concerto —— Jean Rigby mezzo in turn became the objects Williamson Santiago de Espada in G minor The last concert in the series John Upperton tenor Organ of Mozart’s affections Bliss Miracle in the Gorbals Bach Chaconne from Partita before Christmas includes Oliver Gibbs baritone (to the dismay of his father). Copland Appalachian Spring No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 Bruhns Praeludium in E minor the second set of Chopin’s The opening concert in the Adrian Brown conductor Vivaldi Violin Concerto in Bach Nun komm der Heiden seminal piano études which KSO’s 60th Season continues LMP’s Mozart Explored: 1783 E minor Op. 4 No. 2 Rv.279 Heiland BWV659 catapulted his reputation Elgar The Dream of Gerontius with Malcolm Williamson’s series pays tribute to these Telemann Concerto in G Mendelssohn Theme and both as artistic genius and overture based on the legend remarkable women, featuring Elgar described Gerontius for 4 violins Variations in D leading exponent of virtuoso of St James and the Spanish concert arias originally as “the best of me”. The Royal Bach Concerto in D minor Brahms Praeludium and Fuga piano technique. The rarely Reconquista, Santiago composed for Aloysia Orchestral Society and for 2 violins BWV1043 in G minor played, youthful sonata No. 1 de Espada, and two classic (by then his sister-in-law), The London Chorus, under Reger Benedictus is a highly experimental 1940s ballet scores: Bliss’s Violinist Rachel Podger and the emotional C minor Sir Adrian Boult’s illustrious Schmidt Toccata in C work which exhibits drama Miracle in the Gorbals joins the Orchestra for Bach’s Mass, with a solo soprano part pupil Adrian Brown, and three many of the characteristics is a dark tale of murder and Double Violin Concerto. This Following studies at Oxford written for Constanze (by then world-class soloists will bring of Chopin’s mature style: magic in the slums of Glasgow. programme also features Bach’s and in Amsterdam, Daniel his wife). The LMP are delighted Elgar’s dream to reality. poetry, virtuosity, passion In contrast, Copland’s sublime upbeat Violin Concerto in E Moult has established himself to be joined by their Associate Thought by many to be and breathtaking originality. Appalachian Spring is the and the dramatic G minor as one of the leading organists Conductor Hilary Davan outrageously modern quintessential evocation Concerto from the now little- and teachers of his generation Wetton and the outstanding There will be a pre-concert at the time of its completion of the American landscape. known composer, Pisendel. performing internationally. City of London Choir. event at 18.30 in 1900 and premiere. kso.org.uk oae.co.uk danielmoult.com londonmozartplayers.com warrenmailley-smith.com royalorchestralsociety.org.uk

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Mon 23 November 19.30 Tue 24 November 19.00 Thu 26 November 13.05 Thu 26 November 19.30 Fri 27 November 19.30 Sat 28 November 19.00 £17.50 (£12.50), £12.50 £50, £39, £24, £10 (Child £2.50) £10, U26 £32, £26, £21, £15 £20, £15 £22, £16, £12

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thursday lunchtime concerts Cameron Burns ÆÐELFRÌTH sunday at st john’s BRASS QUINTET LONDON PIANO —— TRIO Nick Walkley trumpet Beethoven Cycle Darren Moore trumpet Alex Hamilton horn —— Matthew Lewis trombone Ross Knight tuba Robert Atchison violin Olga Dudnik piano Amy Turk harp David Jones cello Anne Denholme harp Beethoven Trio in D Op. 70 Nick Walkley Jórvíkekkoer • No. 1 ‘Ghost’ Variations on OAE © Eric Richmond and Harrison Agency SALOMON Byrd Earl of Oxford’s March an Original Theme Op. 44 • Mogens Andresen Three Trio in G Op. 1 No. 2 ORCHESTRA Norwegian Dances —— Britten Interlude from The London Piano Trio LONDON Ceremony of Carols continue their journey through Emma Bell soprano Simon Dobson Joan of Arc: the piano trios of Beethoven MOZART Cameron Burns conductor THE NIGHT SHIFT A vision of St Michael with a concert which features —— PLAYERS Sibelius En Saga Michael Berkeley Music the wonderfully enigmatic Strauss Four Last Songs from Chaucer ‘Ghost’ Trio. Beethoven is said Orchestra of the Mozart Explored Nielsen Symphony No. 4 Dowland Lachrimae to have been working on an Age of Enlightenment —— Antiquae Novae opera on the theme of Macbeth Two 150th anniversaries of Say hello to classical music, Elbow Mirrorball arr. Walkley when writing this Trio and the Howard Shelley piano composers’ births. Nielsen’s minus the rules: you can cheer, darkly ominous mood of the THE WORKS symphony – “the life force, Led by Nick Walkley, you can chat, you can film it Mozart Piano Concerto music which forms the second —— the unquenchable will to live” æðelfrìth present an Anglo- on your phone. Drinks are No. 18 in Bb K456 ‘Paradis’ movement of this work could – was composed 100 years ago Nordic programme featuring Orchestra of the allowed in and the bar is open certainly evoke feelings of the The piano concerto in Bb during WW1. En Saga might the unusual combination Age of Enlightenment throughout. Plus, there’s supernatural. Continuing the K456 was completed towards be translated as ‘A Fairy-Tale’, of brass quintet and harps. pre-show music from 20.00, ‘other-wordly’ Shakespearean The Orchestra of the Age the end of September 1784. but Sibelius said “it is [only] Both original and arranged a DJ set afterwards until late theme, Beethoven’s pupil Carl of Enlightenment’s informal At the premiere performance, an expression of a state of music is on offer from and the whole thing is Czerny wrote some years after series gives you a guided Mozart’s father was moved to mind”. Written in the year sixteenth-century Dowland presented from stage and Beethoven’s death that he tour of the classics, all tears by the ingenious interplay before his death, Strauss’ Four and Byrd, to contemporary peppered with chat from was reminded of the ghost introduced from stage. of the orchestral parts – notably Last Songs are suffused with music by Michael Berkeley the musicians. of Hamlet’s father when This time they look at Bach’s the woodwind – and by the a sense of calm, acceptance and a newly commissioned hearing this music. Double Violin Concerto. On sale from late August 2015. sheer beauty of the work. and completeness. work from Simon Dobson. londonpianotrio.com oae.co.uk oae.co.uk londonmozartplayers.com salomonorchestra.org aedelfrith.com

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Sun 29 November 15.00 Mon 30 November 19.00 Mon 30 November 21.00 Wed 2 December 13.05 Wed 2 December 19.30 Thu 3 December 13.05 £14 (£10), U26 £25, £15 (Child £2.50) £12 (Advance £9) (Students £4) £12 £17 (£14), £14 £10, U26

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EUROPEAN UNION BAROQUE ORCHESTRA —— “Lars Ulrik Mortensen, a director of great imagination and musicality with a special ability to find details in the music you maybe hadn’t registered before, draw them out and thrill you with them.” Gramophone

City of London Choir © filskifoto EUROPEAN UNION BAROQUE ORCHESTRA —— Lars Ulrik Mortensen director CHRISTMAS Muffat Sonata No. 5 in G from Armonico Tributo WITH THE CITY Biber Sonata No. 10 in G minor OF LONDON and Sonata No. 4 in C from Sonatae tam aris quam JEAN MULLER CHOIR aulis servientes —— Marcello Concerto for oboe —— City of London Choir in D minor End of the Luxembourg Telemann Overture, Suite Presidency of the Council Stephen Farr organ and Conclusion in D from of the European Union Tafelmusik II Hilary Davan Wetton Jean Muller conductor This programme of EUBO’s 5 Miniatures (premiere) The City of London Choir’s baroque favourites highlights Ligeti Arc-en-Ciel much-loved annual celebration music for feasts and banquets Bach Goldberg Variations featuring the natural trumpet of Christmas, with classic carols (Biber, Telemann), offers an After the tremendous success and new favourites, and plenty insight to the musical culture of his all Chopin and all Liszt of audience participation. of late-seventeenth century programmes, Jean Muller A highlight of the year for (Muffat, Biber) and gives returns to London with a mixed adults and children alike, prominence to Venetian programme reaching from and an unmissable start to the fashion in an oboe concerto. Ligeti to Bach, including the festive season. Recommended famous Goldberg Variations. minimum age 6. eubo.eu pianistjm.com cityoflondonchoir.org Concert co-promoted by European Union Baroque Orchestra Concert promoted by Concert promoted by & St John’s Smith Square Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg City of London Choir

Thu 3 December 19.30 Fri 4 December 20.00 Sat 5 December 18.30 £28, £22, £16, £10, U26 £20, £15, £10 (£5) £30, £24, £18, £14

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On Angel Wings © Quentin Blake thursday lunchtime concerts THE GLORY JOSEPH OF CHRISTMAS HOUSTON —— —— Choir of Christ’s Out of Doors CHOIR College, Cambridge Bartók Out of Doors Suite No. 1 Thames Chamber Orchestra OF KING’S Colin Matthews Eleven Studies Keith Marshall conductor in Velocity No. 9, 10 & 11 COLLEGE David Rowland director MICHAEL Debussy Les sons et les parfums LONDON tournent dans l’air du soir Bach Christians Be Joyful MORPURGO: Messiaen Île de feu I from 30th Christmas Festival Corelli Christmas Concerto Quatre études de rythme Handel Christmas Music ON ANGEL —— Feldman Intermission 6 from Messiah WINGS Debussy Ce qu’a vu le Voices of Enchantment Leighton Lully, Lulla, —— vent d’ouest and Voilles Thou little Tiny Child Joseph Fort conductor Simon Holt New Work Rutter Angel’s Carol Voices at the Door Debussy Les collines Leighton Mass for And carols including Michael Morpurgo narrator d’Anacapri • Images II Double Choir Op. 44 Candlelight Carol • Ding Dong Liszt Les Cloches de Genève Leighton A Hymn Merrily on High • O Little Town Morpurgo On Angel Wings ORCHESTRA of the Nativity of Bethlehem • God Rest You And carols including While Built around a new solo piano Carver O bone Jesu Merry, Gentlemen • Silent Shepherds Watched • Chime On work by British composer OF ST JOHN’S Carver Gaude Flore Virginali Night • Masters in this Hall • • Sparks • As I Sat On A Sunny Simon Holt, ‘Out of Doors’ —— Tallis Spem in alium Hark The Herald Angels Sing • Bank • The Angel Gabriel • is designed to run without OSJ Voices We Wish You A Merry Christmas Simply Spellbound • Curly pause: each individual work The Choir of King’s College Hark • The Eastern Star • Hark, will segue into the next, Ellie Edmonds mezzo London return to St John’s A joyful evening of Christmas PARLIAMENT Hark What News • Bethlehem • resulting in an extended Peter Kirk tenor Smith Square with a rich music and poems in support While Shepherds Were Watching CHOIR single ‘piece’ that explores Bozidar Smiljanic bass programme featuring one of Oracle Cancer Trust • The Stable • In Bethlehem —— ideas of stillness and frantic of the masterpieces of the to start the festive season. John Lubbock conductor City • The Baby • Hush My motion in the artful way in Renaissance, Tallis’ 40-part Join us to enjoy celebrated A Westminster Christmas Babe • The Shepherd’s Crook which it juxtaposes a large Handel Messiah motet Spem in Alium. The Christmas music performed • Devonshire Carol – Carmen • Southbank Sinfonia variety of music. Choir of King’s College London by one of the UK’s finest mixed The OSJ return for a seasonal Peace And Goodwill • Shepherds Simon Over conductor is one of the finest mixed-voice voice ensembles, the Choir There will be an informal performance of Handel’s Rejoice • Anything Happen choirs in England. In addition of Christ’s College, Cambridge Join the Parliament Choir pre-concert discussion beloved oratorio, Messiah. While • Nowell And Nowell to singing weekly services with the Thames Chamber for its annual, fun evening of at 12.30: Simon Holt and Colin Moving from the prophecy in the College Chapel, the Orchestra, conducted by Michael Morpurgo narrates festive choral works, seasonal Matthews will discuss their of Christ’s birth to the story Choir has made a number the internationally acclaimed his book On Angel Wings, readings and audience carols. own work and influences and of the nativity and Christ’s of recordings of sixteenth- Keith Marshall. Now in its tenth a magical retelling of the The programme will include Joseph Houston will discuss passion, to his resurrection century Spanish, English year, The Glory of Christmas Christmas story, accompanied traditional carols, instrumental the dynamics of the composer- and mans’ salvation, Messiah and Italian music to critical concert captures the love by Voices at the Door singing pieces and readings, involving performer relationship in is arguably the greatest acclaim and has recently and joy of Christmas. traditional Christmas carols. choir, orchestra and audience. today’s musical landscape. choral work of all. given concerts in Russia, oraclecancertrust.org onangelwings.co.uk parliamentchoir.org.uk josephhouston.co.uk osj.org.uk France, and Italy.

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Mon 7 December 19.30 Tue 8 December 19.00 Wed 9 December 19.30 Thu 10 December 13.05 Thu 10 December 20.00 Fri 11 December 19.30 £45, £30, £10 £17.50, £15, £10 (U12s half price) £25, £17, £10 £10, U26 £26, £20, £15, £10 £20, £16, £14, £10

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CHOIR OF Chapelle du Roi CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL, OXFORD THE CHOIR 30th Christmas Festival Ex Cathedra Candlelight Naomi & Suzzie © Neigh Pugh OF MERTON —— COLLEGE, SIGLO DE ORO The Gift of Christmas introduced by Howard Goodall OXFORD 30th Christmas Festival Clive Driskill-Smith 30th Christmas Festival —— piano/organ —— William Wallace piano/organ A Christmas Passion Stephen Darlington director Benjamin Nicholas director CHAPELLE Patrick Allies conductor EX CATHEDRA Holst Masters in this Hall Byrd Fantasia in D minor • DU ROI Roderick Williams Cornelius The Three Kings 30th Christmas Festival Rorate caeli desuper • Tollite O Adonai, et dux domus Ives Little Star of Bethlehem portas • Ave Maria • Ecce 30th Christmas Festival —— Sheppard Salvator mundi Walton King Herod LONDON virgo concipiet —— Howells Sing lullaby Howard Goodall Stella Christmas Music MOZART Bach Wachet Auf BWV645 Byrd Lullaby my quam viderant Magi by Candlelight Rihards Dubra O Radix Jesse Christmas Music from sweet little babe Holst In the Bleak Midwinter PLAYERS Ēriks Ešenvalds O Emmanuel the Chapel Royal Choirs of Alexander Mason organ Leighton A Hymn John Tavener The Lamb Matthew Martin O Oriens • England and Philip of Spain Jeffrey Skidmore conductor Beethoven Explored of the Nativity Britten Hymn to the Virgin Noel sing we A programme of music Warlock Bethlehem down Poulenc O Magnum Mysterium Nicolai Wachet auf! —— Britten A Ceremony of Carols celebrating English and Trad. Coventry Carol Trad. Silent Night Bach Cantata 140 Movement 4 Jonathan Dove Te Deum Howard Shelley piano Spanish music from arr. Richard Allain Mathias Sir Christémas Sandström Es ist ein Bob Chilcott The Bird of the sixteenth century David Lang The Little Prokofiev Troika from Ros’ entsprungen Beethoven Piano Concerto Dawning • The Shepherd’s Carol Match Girl Passion Lieutenant Kijé Darke In the Bleak Midwinter No. 3 in C Minor Op. 37 Mary Tudor and Philip of Spain “One of the UK’s finest choral Leroy Anderson Sleigh Ride Kirkpatrick Away in a Manger were married in 1554. The union The first part of this concert The Third Piano Concerto ensembles”, writes Gramophone Britten A Shepherd’s Carol James MacMillan And lo, was short lived but the music is a collection of lullabies retains a classical structure, of The Choir of Merton College, the angel of the Lord written as a result of the joining and nativity hymns that What better way to get into although it shows the stylistic Oxford who we welcome to Ēriks Ešenvalds Long Road of the two countries was rich celebrate Christ’s birth the festive spirit than with developments that Beethoven St John’s for their Christmas and varied. Some of the whilst also reflecting themes this programme of some of This atmospheric concert is was to pursue in his later work. Festival debut. They bring repertoire was written with the of vulnerability and sacrifice. the most-loved and beautiful aimed at the heart of Christmas The first movement opens with a programme featuring many joint choirs of the Chapel Royal The second half is devoted to Christmas music ever written, and has become a very popular a march rhythm in the strings, pieces specially written for and the Capella Flamenca in David Lang’s The Little Match performed by one of the St John’s tradition. A sequence the central Largo is in the the choir as part of The Merton mind and the result is music Girl Passion, with its text based greatest cathedral choirs of music flows seamlessly from surprisingly remote key Choirbook project, a series architected on a grand scale on Hans Christian Andersen’s in the world. Presented by seasonal favourites to old and of E major and the final Rondo of commissions written for with sumptuous textures and short story but also draws on Howard Goodall in informative new, interspersed with readings returns abruptly to C minor the College’s 750th anniversary up to seven or eight vocal parts. Matthew’s Passion narrative. and entertaining festive form. to make you smile and reflect. with a muscular main theme. in 2014. chapelleduroi.com siglodeoro.co.uk chchchoir.org excathedra.co.uk londonmozartplayers.com merton.ox.ac.uk

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Sat 12 December 19.30 Sun 13 December 19.30 Mon 14 December 19.30 Tue 15 December 19.30 Wed 16 December 13.05 Wed 16 December 19.30 £25, £20, £15, £10 £25, £20, £15, £10 £25, £20, £15, £10 £35, £28, £22, £14 £12 £25, £20, £15, £10

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CHOIR OF Ensemble Plus Ultra © Cameron Slator CLARE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 30th Christmas Festival thursday lunchtime concerts —— THOMAS Anthony Daly organ CLARE COLLEGE TROTTER Graham Ross conductor —— 30th Christmas Festival Sheppard Verum Caro Organ Series ENSEMBLE PLUS Ravenscroft Remember “Exemplary choral O thou man —— ULTRA Rubbra The Virgin’s Cradle Song clarity … starred Warlock Bethlehem Down Bach Concerto in A minor 30th Christmas Festival Mathias Ave Rex Angelorum firsts all round.” after Vivaldi BWV593 —— • Sir Christèmas The Times Mozart Adagio & Allegro K594 Howells A Spotless Rose Schumann Two Fugues O Come, Emmanuel! John Rutter What on Bach Op. 60 Byrd Propers for Lady sweeter music? Prokofiev Kijé’s Wedding Mass in Advent Tavener Ex Maria Virgine: and Troika from Lieutenant Victoria Missa Ave Regina A Christmas Sequence • Kijé Suite Op. 60 arr. Trotter caelorum • Ave Maria God is with us: A Christmas Liszt Fantasia & Fugue Praetorius Magnificat Proclamation on Bach S260 quinti toni with And carols including Ding! Thomas Trotter is one of Christmas interpolations Dong! Merrily on High • Britain’s most widely admired And various motets and Rocking • Unto us is born musicians and since 1983, carols for Christmastide a son • Nowell! Nowell! Out City Organist. of your sleep • There is no Award-winning Ensemble He is a recipient of the Royal rose of swych virtu Plus Ultra return to the Philharmonic Society’s Christmas Festival with a The Choir of Clare College, prestigious Instrumentalist programme leading us from Cambridge and their director Award in recognition of his Advent to Christmas, including Graham Ross present particular achievements William Byrd’s spectacular a programme featuring as “one of the foremost Advent Propers, Tomas Luis the late John Tavener’s Ex exponents of the organist’s de Victoria’s Missa Ave Regina Maria Virgine: A Christmas art” and International caelorum, and a selection Sequence, ten years on from Performer of the Year Award of motets and carols for its completion on Christmas for 2012 by the New York City the Christmas season. Day 2005. Chapter of the American Guild of Organists. ensembleplusultra.com clarecollegechoir.com

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National Youth Music Theatre © Konrad Bartelski POLYPHONY & ORCHESTRA SOLOMON’S CHOIR OF OF THE AGE OF KNOT TRINITY COLLEGE ENLIGHTENMENT THE TALLIS 30th Christmas Festival CAMBRIDGE 30th Christmas Festival SCHOLARS —— & ORCHESTRA —— 30th Christmas Festival Christmas in Leipzig OF THE AGE OF Katherine Watson soprano ORCHESTRA Iestyn Davies countertenor —— Schelle Machet die Tore weit ENLIGHTENMENT Gwilym Bowen tenor OF ST JOHN’S Kuhnau Magnificat Peter Phillips conductor 30th Christmas Festival Neal Davies bass —— Bach Magnificat BWV243a Stephen Layton conductor Arvo Pärt Sieben Magnificat NATIONAL —— New Year’s Eve Strauss Gala On Christmas Day in Leipzig Antiphonen • Magnificat Handel Messiah YOUTH MUSIC in 1723, the ambitious new Katherine Watson soprano John Lubbock conductor Sheppard Sacris solemniis Thomaskantor, Johann Iestyn Davies countertenor For more than a decade Tallis Gloria and Sanctus from THEATRE Strauss Emperor waltz • Sebastian Bach, premiered Gwilym Bowen tenor Polyphony has given annual Missa Puer natus est nobis Fata morgana polka • Albion 30th Christmas Festival his new Latin Magnificat, Neal Davies bass sell-out performances of Bach’s Sheppard Gaude, gaude, gaude polkafuriosa polka • Weiner based in part on that of his Stephen Layton conductor St John Passion and Handel’s Arvo Pärt I am the true vine —— blut • Champagne polka • predecessor, Johann Kuhnau. Messiah at St John’s Smith Tallis Agnus dei from Bach Mass in B Minor Unter donner und blitz • Presenting a concert Bach was joining a rich musical Square. These have become Missa Puer natus est nobis Blue Danube of seasonal readings, music tradition, from which he The Choir of Trinity College notable events in London’s Lehar Song of vilja • Mein This programme is based on and staged extracts, the took much inspiration for his Cambridge has established music calendar and have herr marquis • Meine lippen one of the most famous masses award-winning National Youth compositions over the next itself as one of the leading been broadcast by BBC Radio 3 sie kussen so heiss ever written for Christmas Music Theatre represents the 25 years. Following their mixed-voice choirs in the world. and the EBU. According to the Day – Tallis’ seven-voice very best in work with young celebrated ‘chamber Messiah’ Following the sell-out success Evening Standard, “no one Heralding the New Year Missa Puer natus est nobis. people through musical last year, Solomon’s Knot will of recent Christmas Festival performs Handel’s Messiah in traditional Viennese style, Interspersed between theatre. Its trailblazing work be returning to St John’s for performances the Choir again better every year than the choir the Orchestra of St John’s its movements are further led Andrew Lloyd Webber their fifth consecutive year, joins forces with the Orchestra Polyphony” and the Times bring a programme featuring works by Tallis alongside to call it “the finest youth with this festive and joyous of the Age of Enlightenment rate it “amongst the finest all of the favourites from Arvo Pärt and John Sheppard. music theatre in the world”. programme. for Bach’s B Minor Mass. John Passions … ever heard”. the ‘Waltz King’ and others. thetallisscholars.co.uk nymt.org.uk solomonsknotcollective.com trinitycollegechoir.com polyphony.co.uk osj.org.uk

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Sat 19 December 19.30 Sun 20 December 19.30 Mon 21 December 19.30 Tue 22 December 19.30 Wed 23 December 19.30 Thu 31 December 14.00 £35, £28, £22, £14 £25, £20, £15, £10 £30, £25, £20, £15, U26 £30, £25, £20, £10 £55, £48, £39, £19 £26, £20, £15, £10

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WARREN MAILLEY-SMITH Complete Chopin Cycle —— sunday at st john’s The Twenty-four Préludes LONDON PIANO Chopin Introduction and Rondo TRIO in Eb Op. 16 • Nocturne No. 21 in C minor Op. posth. • Waltz Beethoven Cycle Warren Mailley-Smith © Ben Ealovega in F minor Op. 70 No. 2 • —— thursday lunchtime concerts Waltz in A minor • Polonaise in G# minor Op. posth. • Robert Atchison violin DANIEL COOK LUKAS GENIUŠAS Mazurka No. 16 in Ab Op. 24 Olga Dudnik piano • Organ Series No. 3 Mazurka No. 17 in Bb David Jones cello International minor Op. 24 No. 4 • Mazurka Beethoven Variations on —— Piano Series No. 18 in C minor Op. 30 No. 1 Wenzel Mueller’s ‘Ich bin der sunday at st john’s • Mazurka No. 19 in B minor Merkel Wie schön leuchtet —— Schneider Kakadu’ Op. 12a • Op. 30 No. 2 • Mazurka No. 20 der Morgenstern from Sonata Trio in Eb Op. 1 No. 1 • Trio Beethoven Sonata in in Db Op. 30 No. 3 • Nocturne No. 6 in E minor Op. 137 GEMMA LOIS in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’ C minor Op. 10 No. 1 No. 19 in E minor Op. 72 No. 1 • Langlais La Nativité SUMMERFIELD Brahms Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1 Twenty-four Préludes Op. 28 For the final concert in (Poèmes évangéliques, No. 2) Bartók 3 Burlesques their series of Beethoven’s Litaizen Variations sur & SIMON LEPPER Chopin’s 24 Préludes represent Prokofiev Sonata No. 7 thursday lunchtime concerts complete works for piano un Noël Angevin one of the most important Ferrier Awards in Bb Op. 83 trio, the London Piano Trio Bach Canonic Variations: collections of pieces by any Winners’ Recital LUBA play a programme featuring Vom Himmel hoch da komm Lukas Geniušas, silver medallist composer in the romantic the towering Archduke Trio. ich her BWV 769 —— in the 2010 International Chopin TUNNICLIFFE period. A kaleidoscope This particular Archduke was Reger Chorale Fantasia Competition in Warsaw, makes of colour, textures, emotions Soprano and Piano & HANNAH Rudolf, brother of the Emperor on Wie schön leuchtet uns his debut in the International and virtuosity, the music Franz. Rudolf was a musician der Morgenstern Op. 40 This afternoon’s concert is part Piano Series. He opens with WATSON transports both pianist and himself and both a friend and of a series of song recitals being thrilling sonatas by the young listener on a unique journey. Daniel Cook is Sub-Organist PLG Young Artists occasional pupil of Beethoven. given by prizewinners of the Beethoven and Brahms, The first half of the concert of Westminster Abbey, where Many works, including the last Kathleen Ferrier Competition. and then performs the folksy, —— precedes with a beautiful he is the principal organist piano concertos and the great The final rounds of this annual dynamic Burlesques by Bartók selection of miniatures and to the Abbey Choir. He is also Viola and Piano Missa Solemnis were dedicated competition attract capacity and the great Sonata No. 7 the sparkling, but much Artistic Director of the Mousai to him. This Trio is one of audiences and this concert will by Prokofiev. The first in a series of monthly neglected Rondo No. 3. Singers and maintains a busy Beethoven’s great chamber be an opportunity to hear again lunchtime recitals featuring schedule of recitals, concerts There will be a pre-concert There will be a pre-concert music masterpieces, full of a young performer who has outstanding young musicians and recordings and teaching. talk at 18.15 event at 18.30 extreme emotion and contrast. been successful in last year’s selected through the Park danielcookorganist.com competition. geniusas.com Lane Group. warrenmailley-smith.com londonpianotrio.com

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FRANÇOISE- GREEN PIANO thursday lunchtime concerts DUO OPERA DANUBE The Viennese Salon sunday at st john’s LONDON —— —— MOZART A Waltz along the Danube Fantasy FIDELIO TRIO PLAYERS Opera Danube’s Young Antoine Françoise piano ISLINGTON —— JEAN-EFFLAM Artists 2015/16 Robin Green piano Beethoven Explored CHORAL Ravel mère l’oye BAVOUZET A selection of well known and Mozart Sonata in C K421 Satie Selected Music for Piano —— lesser known operetta works, Schoenberg Chamber SOCIETY Trio arr. John White (premiere) International from a range of composers Symphony No. 1 in E —— Michael Zev Gordon Piano Series Howard Shelley piano including Strauss, Suppé, Op. 9 arr. Schoenberg In the Middle of Things Camden Symphony Orchestra —— Beethoven Piano Concerto Lehar and Millöcke as well Vlad Maistorovici New work (world premiere) Michael Bowden conductor No. 4 in G Op. 58 as a few glimpses of Opera Schubert Fantasie in Ravel Piano Trio Beethoven Sonata in E Op. 109 Danube’s forthcoming F minor D940 Handel Four • Sonata in Ab Op. 110 • Sonata The most striking movement Framed by Ravel’s delectable production of Offenbach’s Coronation Anthems in C minor Op. 111 in this Concerto is the second. In the opening concert of this suite Ma mere l’oye (Mother Orpheus in the Underworld Schubert Mass in G It is a dialogue between residency, the Françoise-Green Goose) and his monumental A firm favourite with the strings playing a stern Opera Danube provides duo presents one of the most Celebrating more than Piano Trio, this programme international audiences. unison passage and the pianist a showcase for emerging important works for piano forty years of music-making features arrangements for Jean-Efflam Bavouzet devotes giving a pleading answer. artists as well as encouraging four hands: Schubert’s Fantasie, in London, the now 150-strong Piano Trio by Satie enthusiast, his recital to the mighty trilogy As he becomes increasingly the growth of operetta in alongside Schoenberg’s Islington Choral Society has John White, and the world of Beethoven’s last three piano more eloquent, the strings the UK, presenting a recital romantic chamber symphony also toured in France, Belgium, premiere of Michael Zev sonatas, full of contrasts and begin to yield, are eventually of popular operetta arias Op. 9 arranged for 4 hands by Portugal, Hungary, the Czech Gordon’s new commission, extraordinary beauty and often pacified, and the soloist has and ensembles, as well as the composer himself for his Republic and Italy. This will be reflecting on the living considered one of the ultimate the last word. some rare Viennese gems. own private society concerts. their first concert at St John’s. tradition of the piano trio. challenges for a performer. londonmozartplayers.com operadanube.co.uk francoise-green.com islingtonchoralsociety.co.uk fideliotrio.com bavouzet.com

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Wed 20 January 13.05 Thu 21 January 13.05 Thu 21 January 19.30 Sat 23 January 19.30 Sun 24 January 15.00 Tue 26 January 19.30 £12 £10, U26 £14 (£10), U26 £20, £18, £15, £10 £14 (£10), U26 £35, £28, £15, £10

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LONDON MOZART PLAYERS Mozart Explored: 1783 —— Mozart and the Brothers Graham Ross conductor Laura van der Heijden cello Peter Francomb horn YOUNG Oliver Gooch MUSICIANS M Haydn Symphony No. 25 in G J Haydn Cello Concerto in D OPERA DANUBE CORINTHIAN SYMPHONY Hob.VIIb:2 Mozart Horn Concerto in Eb —— ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA K417 • Symphony No. 36 in C Orpheus Sinfonia —— —— K425 ‘Linz’ Oliver Gooch conductor Night of Russian Masterpieces Benjamin Baker violin The second concert in the Simon Butteriss director Timothy Ridout viola LMP’s Mozart Explored: 1783 Michael Seal conductor James Blair conductor thursday lunchtime concerts series throws a spotlight onto Offenbach Orpheus Shostakovich Festive Overture Mozart’s dealings with the in the Underworld Suppé Overture Pique Dame Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Haydn brothers. Highlights Bruch Concerto for Violin FLORIAN MITREA Opera Danube return in G minor Op. 26 include a performance of and Viola —— to St John’s Smith Square Rachmaninoff Symphony ’s Cello Concerto Tchaikovsky Symphony for their third production, No. 2 in E minor Op. 27 Synthesis and transcendence in D major played by Laura OPERA DANUBE No. 6 ‘Pathétique’ following rave reviews – Viennese piano music van der Heijden (BBC Young —— Corinthian Orchestra makes of Die Fledermaus in 2014, YMSO returns to St John’s Musician of the Year 2012). The its debut at St John’s Smith Mozart Sonata in C minor KV457 to present another operetta Orpheus Sinfonia in the New Year with a LMP’s distinguished principal Square with a spectacular Schoenberg 6 Little Pieces Op. 19 classic, Offenbach’s Orpheus performance of Max Bruch’s horn player, Peter Francomb Oliver Gooch conductor programme under conductor Beethoven Sonata in C minor in the Underworld. rarely performed Concerto also takes centre-stage for Simon Butteriss director Mike Seal. Bruch’s ever popular Op. 111 for Violin and Viola. The Mozart’s Horn Concerto in Eb, Featuring Simon Butterriss’ first concerto for violin is Offenbach Orpheus in the concert begins with the jovial Two of Mozart’s and Beethoven’s and the evening is wrapped up new translation of the Planchée the centrepiece of a concert Underworld overture by Suppé – Pique finest piano works exploring with Mozart’s ‘Linz’ symphony, translation, this production featuring two great Russian Dame – and Tchaikovsky’s the iconic tonality of C minor, written in the space of a few is fully staged and brimming The third and final chance orchestral works, Shostakovich’s romantic Symphony No. 6 a key associated with heroic days on a stop-off on the with laughter and sparkle, to hear Opera Danube’s brilliant Festive Overture brings the evening to a struggle. A taste of Schoenberg return journey to Vienna as well as some of the UK’s production of Offenbach’s and Rachmaninoff’s luscious poignant conclusion. in the middle. from Salzburg. finest emerging operatic talent. Orpheus in the Underworld. Second Symphony. ymso.org.uk florianmitrea.uk londonmozartplayers.com operadanube.co.uk operadanube.co.uk corinthianorchestra.org.uk

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Wed 27 January 19.30 Thu 28 January 13.05 Thu 28 January 19.30 Fri 29/Sat 30 January 19.30 Sun 31 January 14.30 Mon 1 February 19.30 £20 (£16), £15 (£12), £10 (£8) £10, U26 £32, £26, £21, £15 £25, £20, £15, £10 £25, £20, £15, £10 £20, £15, £10

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LA NUOVA MUSICA —— David Bates director STEVEN Vivaldi Gloria • Gelido OSBORNE in ogni vena from Il Farnace Handel Da Tempeste International from Giulio Cesare Piano Series Vivaldi Agitata da due venti from Griselda —— Robin O’Neill Handel Gloria • Dixit Dominus Piano “Handel wrote Dixit Dominus Schubert Impromptus D935: thursday lunchtime concerts to ingratiate himself with the LONDON No. 1 in F minor • No. 4 in F minor powerful religious cognoscenti Debussy Masques • Images, THE GESUALDO in Rome with whom he stayed MOZART Set 2 • L’isle joyeuse SIX during his first trip to that city PLAYERS Rachmaninoff Études-tableaux aged twenty-one”, writes Op. 33: No. 2 in C • No. 3 Young Artists’ Series director David Bates. Mozart Explored in C minor • No. 5 in D minor • —— “We don’t know for sure who Op. 39: No. 2 in A minor • No. 5 —— would have sung and played SALOMON in Eb minor • No. 8 in D minor • Gesualdo Tenebrae this fiendishly difficult score, Howard Shelley piano No. 9 in D Responsories Feria Quinta ORCHESTRA but this would have been the And plainsong propers —— Mozart Piano Concerto Steven Osborne has risen first time that Handel was for Maundy Thursday No. 12 in A K414 rapidly to become one of writing for the well-schooled Robin O’Neill conductor Britain’s best-loved pianists. “The six voices blended Roman singers, and he certainly Following his move to The Salomon Orchestra His recital is typically beautifully in the stunning sets them a wicked challenge. Vienna, Mozart found himself is “one of London’s best diverse, opening with some setting of King’s College Chapel The result is a breathtaking in demand as a performer and non-professional orchestras of Schubert’s song-like to create a truly outstanding display of vocal virtuosity, in the winter of 1782, composed and they can often go where impromptus and Debussy concert. What Owain Park perfectly designed to stretch three piano concertos. K414 others fear to tread”, writes pieces that find the composer and the singers have managed his singers’ expertise to the was the first of the three Robert Hugill of their 2014 conjuring up magical images, to achieve is an ensemble full, effortless flattery of his concertos to be completed. performance of Panufnik’s and finishing with a selection with extraordinary potential, Religious patrons (securing Sinfonia Sacra. “The orchestra Originally the work had of Rachmaninoff’s Études- who stand head and shoulders future commissions), and responded magnificently and a different finale – K386 tableaux, where the most above any other vocal group a sign to let everyone in Rome really brought the work to life, – but Mozart rejected demanding technical tasks in Cambridge, and who surely know that this young man filling its symbolic structures it in favour of the present, are presented in the form have a promising future from Saxony was to be taken with heart and emotion.” more ambitious allegretto. of expressive character pieces. ahead.” – Varsity very seriously.” salomonorchestra.org londonmozartplayers.com stevenosborne.co.uk thegesualdosix.co.uk lanuovamusica.co.uk

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Tue 2 February 19.30 Wed 3 February 13.05 Wed 3 February 19.30 Thu 4 February 13.05 Thu 4 February 19.30 £17 (£14), £14 £12 £35, £28, £15, £10 £10, U26 £45, £35, £25, £15

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Vilde Frang © Marco Borggreve Young Artists’ Series —— There is only one Bach? Tabea Debus recorder Lea Rahel Bader baroque cello Johannes Lang harpsichord JS Bach Organ Partita ‘Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig’ BWV768 • Inventio No. 7 in E minor • Cello Suite No. 4 in Eb BWV1010 • Recorder Sonata No. 1 in Eb BWV525 • French Suite thursday lunchtime concerts No. 2 in C minor ARCANGELO CPE Bach Flute Sonata in NARDUS E minor H551 • Harp Sonata —— in G Wq.139/H563 • Fantasia WILLIAMS & Vilde Frang violin in C for Harpsichord H284 PETER FOGGITT Jonathan Cohen conductor Telemann Sonata in C TWV41:C2 PLG Young Artists Haydn Symphony No. 47 in G This programme is dedicated Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 to one of the most renowned, —— in A K219 • Symphony No. 29 inspiring and productive Soprano and Piano in A K201 • Violin Concerto composers of all times – Johann No. 1 in Bb K207 Sebastian Bach. Alongside a The monthly series of selection of his chamber and lunchtime recitals by artists Arcangelo conducted by solo compositions, music by from the Park Lane Group artistic director Jonathan Bach’s son Carl Philipp Emanuel continues with a song recital Cohen present a fresh and – who, in his lifetime, was even by Nardus Williams and Peter invigorating programme more famous than his father Foggitt. Williams won the of Mozart violin concertos – as well as the family friend Trinity Laban Gold Medal in with young Norwegian January 2015. Of her success, virtuoso Vilde Frang, released will come to life. The focus adjudicator, Professor John as a recording on Warner lies on arrangements of the Wallace commented, “A singer Classics in early 2015, when great masters’ works, therefore on this sort of form is well-nigh it was No. 1 in the UK approaching the music from unbeatable – superb control, specialist classical chart. a different perspective and with beautifully focused tone, There will be a pre-concert showing them in a creative runs, and good enunciation ARCANGELO talk at 18.30 and fresh light. of words.” —— arcangelo.org.uk tabeadebus.de peterfoggitt.com “Some of the Concert promoted by Concert promoted by Concert co-promoted by Arcangelo St John’s Smith Square Park Lane Group & St John’s Smith Square very best versions of Mozart’s timeless Fri 5 February 19.30 Tue 9 February 19.30 Thu 11 February 13.05 £25, £22, £18 £12 (£8), U26 £10, U26 masterpieces.” Classic FM Arcangelo begin their season with Discover more about the scheme Become a Friend of St John’s and Three Bach Magnificats on 1 October sjss.org.uk/youngartists enjoy free admission to this series See page 21 See page 108 for details

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sunday at st john’s LIGETI QUARTET Young Artists’ Series —— Nancarrow String Quartet No. 3 Christian Mason Tuvan Jonny Greenwood © Jason Evans Songbook (world premiere, commissioned by Ligeti Quartet and SJSS) MARTINO TIRIMO Bartók String Quartet The Great Piano Quintets No. 3 Sz.85 BENEDETTI Xenakis Tetras —— Ligeti String Quartet No. 1 ELSCHENBROICH Phillipe Graffin violin GRYNYUK TRIO CHOIRS OF ETON Two quartets by great Maria Wloszczowska violin & WINCHESTER Hungarian composers – Ligeti Vladimir Mendelssohn viola thursday lunchtime concerts International Chamber was inspired to write his first Amy Norrington cello ROGER SAYER Music Series COLLEGE quartet by Bartók’s third and Martino Tirimo piano fourth quartets, which he knew —— Beethoven String Trio Organ Series —— only through their scores – in C minor Op. 9 No. 3 Academy of Ancient Music are just one of the tantalising —— Nicola Benedetti violin Schnittke Piano Quintet A PROFILE draws of this concert. Leonard Elschenbroich cello James Gilchrist evangelist Brahms Piano Quintet Rheinberger Sonata No. 7 Alexei Grynyuk piano Clint Van Der Linde OF JONNY The third quartet of maverick in F minor Op. 34 in F minor Op. 127 countertenor American composer, Conlon Saint-Saëns Fantasie No. 1 in Eb Schubert Piano Trio in Bb D898 GREENWOOD Beethoven rated his 3 String Nancarrow, is one of the Duruflé Suite Op. 5 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in Stephen Layton conductor —— Trios, composed when 28, few works he wrote for live A minor Op. 50 as his best compositions and Roger Sayer is Organist Bach St John Passion Orchestra of St John’s instrumentalists rather this last Trio is particularly and Director of Music An exciting opportunity than player piano and both The celebrated chapel choirs A concert featuring the innovative and passionate. at The Temple Church to hear violin star Nicola Nancarrow’s work and Xenakis’ of Eton College and Winchester compositions of Jonny Schnittke’s Piano Quintet, one and Deputy Chorus Director Benedetti making her Tetras are classics of late College join forces for the Greenwood of Radiohead. of his greatest works, is an apt to the London Symphony International Chamber twentieth century form first time under the baton OSJ and John Lubbock memorial to his mother. After Chorus. Roger is organ soloist Music Series debut. She and structure in music. of Stephen Layton, in a performed on the Radiohead several attempts, Brahms finally on the soundtrack of the plays two glorious piano trio performance featuring CDs Kid A and Amnesiac and The concert is topped off created, in his Piano Quintet, blockbuster film ‘Interstellar’ masterworks, by Schubert renowned alumni of these are delighted to renew their by a new work from by the one of the supreme chamber which was released and Tchaikovsky, with cellist world famous schools. collaboration with Jonny. outstanding Christian Mason. music masterpieces. in November 2014. Leonard Elschenbroich and pianist Alexei Grynyuk. etoncollege.com osj.org.uk ligetiquartet.com martinotirimo.com rogersayer.org

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WARREN MAILLEY-SMITH —— WARREN “His fingers flew over the keys, MAILLEY-SMITH with not a note missing Complete Chopin Cycle and not a nuance forsaken.” Werther Ensemble © Oliver Markham —— Cambridge Times Sonata No. 2 Chopin Waltz No. 10 in B minor Op. 69 No. 2 • Nocturne No. 9 in B Op. 32 No. 1 • Waltz No. 3 in A minor Op. 34 No. 2 • Waltz No. 15 in E Op. posth. • Nocturne No. 1 in C# minor Op. 27 • Mazurka No. 21 in C# minor Op. 30 No. 4 • Mazurka No. 22 in G# minor ORCHESTRA Op. 33 No. 1 • Mazurka No. 23 VITAE in D Op. 33 No. 2 • Mazurka sunday at st john’s No. 24 in C Op. 33 No. 3 • —— Mazurka No. 25 in B minor WERTHER Antoine Françoise piano Op. 33 No. 4 • Waltz No. 11 Robin Green piano in G# Op. 70 No. 1 • Prelude ENSEMBLE Michael Cobb conductor in Ab Op. posth. • Nocturne —— No. 10 in Ab Op. 32 No. 2 • John Adams Short Ride Piano Quartets from Waltz No. 16 in Ab Op. posth. in a Fast Machine the British Isles • Nocturne No. 2 in Db Op. 27 Mozart Piano Concerto for two Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op.35 Jamie Campbell violin pianos No. 10 in Eb K365/316a Hannah Strijbos viola Shostakovich Symphony The fifth programme makes James Barralet cello No. 10 in E minor Op. 93 a feature of stark contrast Simon Callaghan piano between the tranquility and Orchestra Vitae say ‘hello’ beauty of the Nocturne form Alwyn Rhapsody to 2016 with John Adams’ with the drama and intensity for Piano Quartet Short Ride in a Fast Machine. of Chopin’s impassioned Bliss Piano Quartet Mozart’s Piano Concerto Sonata No. 2. This programme in A minor Op. 5 No. 10 for two pianos follows, continues the chronological Walton Piano Quartet for which the ensemble is thread of his mazurkas and in D minor joined by the Françoise-Green includes a variety of other piano duo. Shostakovich’s The Werther Ensemble explore notable works. Symphony No. 10 provides the works from the UK, including orchestra with its first Russian There will be a pre-concert the masterpiece William Walton outing: not to be missed. event at 18.30 wrote at the age of just 19. orchestravitae.co.uk warrenmailley-smith.com wertherensemble.com

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thursday lunchtime concerts HOMAGE TO FRANÇOISE- SCHUMANN GREEN PIANO —— DUO Fraser Langton clarinet The Viennese Salon Rosalind Ventris viola James Willshire piano —— TAMARA Schumann Fairy Tales For Nannette and Babette STEFANOVICH for clarinet, viola and piano Antoine Françoise piano International György Kurtág Hommage Robin Green piano Piano Series to Robert Schumann Rory Boyle New work Mozart Sonata for piano —— (world premiere) four-hands in Bb K358 Piano Berg Wozzeck interludes arr. A performance of trios Françoise-Green piano duo Copland Piano Variations for clarinet, viola and piano Christian Elliott New work Carter Matribute • Sistribute with a particular connection (premiere) • Intermittences • Caténaires to composer Robert Schumann. Schubert Grand duo D812 Ives Sonata No. 1 This will be an exciting celebration of the timeline Mozart’s sonatas were Tamara Stefanovich’s of works for this line up intended for his sisters, which programme sets the seriousness of instruments culminating demonstrate their wit and lively of Copland against the utter in a newly commissioned character. In this programme, mischief in Carter, pairing work by award winning the duo also presents Schubert’s them with one of the most British composer Rory Boyle. Grand duo for four hands, mysterious works in the often considered as the draft repertoire – the monumental fraserlangton.co.uk of the lost ‘Gastein’ symphony. Sonata No. 1 by Charles Ives. FRANÇOISE-GREEN PIANO DUO jameswillshire.com —— rosalindventris.com francoise-green.com tamara-stefanovich.com Concert promoted by Concert co-promoted by Françoise-Green Concert co-promoted by “Green and Françoise have learned to St John’s Smith Square Piano Duo & St John’s Smith Square Southbank Centre & HarrisonParrott make their instruments chime seamlessly Thu 25 February 13.05 Thu 25 February 19.30 Fri 26 February 19.30 with one another, with matching timbres £10, U26 £14 (£10), U26 £35, £28, £15, £10 and effortless technical command.” Become a Friend of St John’s and Concert 2 of 5 The IPS continues on 11 March Bachtrack enjoy free admission to this series Book three concerts and save 20% Subscribe to the series and save 20% See page 108 for details See page 109 See page 109 for details

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WARREN MAILLEY-SMITH Complete Chopin Cycle sunday at st john’s —— THE BROOK The Four Impromptus Chopin Prélude Op. 45 • STREET BAND Fugue in A minor • Fantaisie- —— Impromptu in C# minor Op. 66 JOO YEON SIR • Variations in E • Mazurkas Margherita Durastanti: Nos. 26—29 Op. 41 Nos. 1–4 • Handel’s Italian Muse & IRINA Joanna Lumley © Rankin Mazurka No. 30 in G Op. 50 No. 1 Nicki Kennedy soprano ANDRIEVSKY • Nocturne No. 15 in F minor Joo Yeon Sir © Benjamin Harte thursday lunchtime concerts • Rachel Harris baroque violin Young Artists’ Series Op. 55 No. 1 Impromptu No. 1 Farran Scott baroque violin in Ab Op. 29 • Waltz No. 2 in Ab Tatty Theo baroque cello —— ASHLEY FRIPP Op. 34 No. 1 • Nocturne No. 20 Carolyn Gibley harpsichord —— in C# minor • Impromptu No. 2 Violin and Piano in F# Op. 36 • Polonaise No. 10 Handel Armida Abandonata • Piano Beethoven Sonata No. 1 LONDON in F minor Op. 71 No. 3 • O Qualis de Coelo Sonus • Cara in D Op. 12 Liszt Tre sonetti di Petrarca Nocturne No. 16 in Eb Op. 55 Speme • Crudel Tiranno Amor MOZART Brahms Sonata No. 2 • Années de pèlerinage S161 No. 2 • Impromptu No. 3 in Gb HWV97 • Trio Sonata Op. 2 No. 2 in A Op. 100 • Sonatensatz PLAYERS Wagner Isolde’s Liebestod Op. 51 • Waltz in Ab Op. 42 • in G minor • Trio Sonata Op. 5 ‘Scherzo’ from F.A.E. Sonata arr. Liszt S447 Tarantelle in Ab Op. 43 No. 4 in G Mozart Explored Elgar Sonata in E minor Thomas Adès Concert A novel pairing of a separately Durastanti’s connection with for Violin and Piano Op. 82 —— Paraphrase on Powder conceived Prélude and Fugue Handel extended for thirty Milhaud Cinema Fantasie Her Face ORCHESTRA Howard Shelley piano begins a varied programme years, in Italy and London. d’apres ‘Le beouf sur le toit’ Ashley Fripp’s programme which also continues the OF ST JOHN’S This concert explores Handel’s Op. 58b Mozart Piano Concerto displays the piano as an chronological thread of music, first sung by Durastanti No. 27 in Bb K595 Public Passions Described as “exuberant instrument of tremendous Mazurkas and concludes in Rome and later London, [with] oodles of personality” Mozart’s last piano concerto vocal and orchestral colour with the uplifting, unrelenting —— alongside instrumental works at Wigmore Hall by the Strad was completed on 5 January with repertoire which began Tarantelle. Chopin was a master from the same period. The Joanna Lumley guest Magazine, Korean-born British 1791, exactly eleven months in other forms. Liszt’s poetic improviser and the central programme spans Handel’s John Lubbock conductor violinist Joo Yeon Sir presents before he died at the age Petrarch Sonnets and his focus of this programme is his informative early years in an evening programme of violin of 35. When the clarinettist passionate transcription four impromptus, including This is a series of concerts in Rome to the height of his sonatas by Beethoven, Brahms Joseph Bär gave his Academy of Wagner’s Isolde’s Liebestod the celebrated Fantaisie- which celebrities choose the fame in 1730s London. and Elgar with her duo partner on 4 March 1791, Mozart took contrast magnificently Impromptu, which certainly programme and discuss their There will be a pre-concert Irina Andrievsky alongside part and played the new Piano with Adès’ wildly intoxicating, hint at his gift of spontaneity, choices which are then played talk on Handel and Margherita rarely heard Cinema Fantasie Concerto K595. It was his last hyper-virtuosic transcription each work with beautifully by the Orchestra of St John’s. Durastanti: A Musical Marriage – ‘Le boeuf sur le toit’ – appearance at a public concert from his opera about the juxtaposed themes and moods. This, the first in the series, at 14.15 by Darius Milhaud. in Vienna. salacious Duchess of Argyll. features actress Joanna Lumley. There will be a pre-concert brookstreetband.co.uk jooyeonsir.com londonmozartplayers.com ashleyfripp.co.uk event at 18.30 osj.org.uk

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thursday lunchtime concerts CHARLOTTE ASHTON & JOSEPH HAVLAT PLG Young Artists —— Cantandum © Peter Sharp Flute and Piano Our monthly visit from artists THE AMADÈ from the Park Lane Group. ORCHESTRA Charlotte Ashton is a prize- OF THE AGE OF PLAYERS winning flautist who has played —— with the City of Birmingham ENLIGHTENMENT Symphony Orchestra and —— International Women’s Day Welsh National Opera Secular and Sacred sunday at st john’s Olwen Foulkes recorder YOUNG as well as holding the position Katie Stevens violin MUSICIANS of Principal Flute with the John Butt director CANTANDUM Dominika Fehér violin Britten-Pears Academy. She David Blackadder trumpet CHOPIN PIANO Nicholas Newland conductor SYMPHONY is the recipient of numerous Rachel Beckett recorder —— awards, including Making COMPETITION Vivaldi • Stabat Mater Rv.621 • ORCHESTRA Bach Sinfonia from Cantata Joe Morgan tenor Music’s Philip & Dorothy Concerto for Two Violins in A —— No. 42 • Mass in G minor WINNER Rupert Derham baritone Green Award for Young Concert minor Rv.522 • Recorder BWV235 • Brandenburg Jonathan Dods organ Aleksandar Djermanovic piano Artists, the Royal Academy’s International Concerto in C minor Rv.441 • Concerto No. 2 in F • Mass Gilly French conductor James Blair conductor Chris Taylor Flute Award and Piano Series Gloria Rv.589 in G BWV236 the Harold Craxton Memorial Tallis Salvator mundi Scarlatti 2 Arias for Soprano Elgar Cockaigne Op. 40 —— Trust Award, as well as winning Period performance expert Bruckner Christus factus est and Trumpet Prokofiev Piano Concerto the 2015 Royal Overseas League John Butt joins the Orchestra The International Chopin Sanders The Reproaches No. 3 in C Op. 26 The Associated Country Wind, Brass & Percussion finals. of the Age of Enlightenment Competition, held in Warsaw Stainer The Crucifixion Elgar Variations on an original Women of the World celebrate for an all-Bach programme every five years, is one of the theme Op. 36 ‘Enigma’ Charlotte is joined for this The Westminster chamber choir International Women’s Day that includes a selection world’s most highly respected recital by Australian born Cantandum makes its concert with period instrument The concert opens with Elgar’s of sacred and secular music. contests. It remains a vital pianist and composer Joseph debut at St John’s with a varied ensemble The Amadè Players lively overture Cockaigne Join the Orchestra in the launching pad for the finest Havlat. Since moving to programme of contemplative performing works from (In London Town). Prokofiev’s perfect baroque setting young pianists across the globe. London Joseph has already music for Good Friday. Stainer’s Vivaldi’s time at the Pietà. third Piano Concerto is played of St John’s Smith Square performed in solo, chamber This is a very special chance ever-popular Crucifixion is The all-female choir bring by the young soloist Aleksandar to hear one of Bach’s well- and orchestral concerts at to hear the winner of the 2015 modelled on the great Passions Vivaldi’s much-loved Gloria Djermanovic. The evening loved Brandenburg Concertos venues such as Royal Festival competition in action, fresh of Bach and vividly portrays the and Stabat Mater to life as concludes with Elgar’s performed alongside two of Hall, Sage Gateshead, Royal from their triumph, with a events of the Passion of Christ. he would have heard them. Enigma Variations. the glorious Lutheran Masses. Liverpool Philharmonic specially chosen programme cantandum.westminster.org.uk amadeplayers.com ymso.org.uk Hall and Wigmore Hall. oae.co.uk of Chopin works.

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ORCHESTRA thursday lunchtime concerts —— ASHLEY GROTE “Quite frankly, the members of the KSO were remarkable, LONDON Organ Series absolutely unfazed by music EARLY OPERA —— that requires a freedom of MOZART COMPANY expression while appreciating Michael Berkeley Wild Bells PLAYERS —— that the composer is fully Bach O Mensch, bewein dein working the controls, and Beethoven Explored Sünde groß BWV622 Sophie Bevan soprano playing with a confidence Mozart Fantasia in F minor K608 Christian Curnyn director —— that projected the music Bach O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig ENGLISH FINAL OF THE Handel Concerto Grosso without inhibition yet within Howard Shelley piano BWV656 in D minor Op. 6 No. 10 • BAROQUE CHOIR a defined structure, one that Dupré Cortège et Litanie OFFICE CHOIR Beethoven Piano Concerto Motet ‘Silete Venti’ HWV242 —— becomes more customary Op. 19 No. 2 No. 5 in Eb Op. 73 ‘Emperor’ OF THE YEAR Wassenaer Concerto in F minor the longer the music lasts. Widor Moderato cantabile and Brandenburg Sinfonia from Concerti Armonici Russell Keable was masterly, The concerto opens with Finale from Organ Symphony COMPETITION Jeremy Jackman conductor Biber Battalia a 10 too, text-book conducting an impressively triumphant No. 8 in B Op. 42 No. 4 —— Muffat Concerto No. 5 in G Bach St Matthew Passion when needed, a left-hand that piano cadenza, an indication Since 2012, Ashley Grote Music in Offices presents from Armonico Tributo aided a certain extemporisation, of the scale of what is to come. JS Bach’s monumental account has been Master of Music the Final of the Office Choir and sometimes nothing at all, All of Beethoven’s earlier piano Early Opera Company and of the trial and crucifixion at Norwich Cathedral. of the Year Competition 2016. allowing the performers concertos were composed Christian Curnyn explore of Jesus Christ is an astonishing As organ scholar of King’s their own input. A knockout for his own use, and all were The culmination of 6 months rich and varied orchestral achievement – not just for College, Cambridge, he performance of which each duly introduced by him; of performances, workshops, music from the 17th and his time, but for all time. performed worldwide and and every member of the however, he had no intention heats and the semi-final sees 18th centuries, and are joined The greatest story ever told? was subsequently Assistant orchestra can be boastfully of performing the fifth himself, the final four office choirs by star soprano Sophie Bevan Perhaps; but this is certainly Director of Music of Gloucester proud, as can Russell Keable.” because his deafness was compete for the prestigious title in Handel’s ravishing motet the greatest telling this story Cathedral and director of the – Classical Source too far advanced by then. of Office Choir of the Year 2016. ‘Silete Venti’. has ever had. Edington Festival of Music kso.org.uk londonmozartplayers.com within the liturgy. musicinoffices.com earlyopera.com ebc.org.uk

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POLYPHONY —— “Layton harnesses the dramatic thrust of the Passion while also conveying its sacred, spiritual substance.”

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ETCETERA CHOIR —— Stephen Hall conductor Beethoven Mass in C Op. 86 A lunchtime concert on the POLYPHONY Tuesday of Holy Week given & ORCHESTRA by ETCetera – a Civil Service COME AND SING choir – has quickly become OF THE AGE OF a highly popular St John’s MESSIAH tradition, with this their fourth —— ENLIGHTENMENT year. Don’t delay in getting your —— Smith Square Voices free tickets as the 2015 concert Chartwell Sinfonia Stuart Jackson evangelist ‘sold out’ and we were turning Neal Davies christus people away! Richard Heason conductor Julia Doyle soprano This time it is Beethoven’s Handel Messiah HMV56 Iestyn Davies countertenor Mass in C. Regarded by many St John’s continues its annual Gwilym Bowen tenor as an underrated masterpiece, tradition, offering a seasonal Roderick Williams bass this delightful mass was not opportunity to take part appreciated by its commissioner Stephen Layton director in a scratch performance Prince Nikolaus Esterházy II of Handel’s Messiah. Choral Bach St John Passion in 1807 – causing Beethoven singers are invited to sign up to storm out in a rage – and Stephen Layton, one to take part in this performance. perhaps even now it is not of Britain’s greatest choral There will be a rehearsal in heard as often as it deserves. conductors, gathers together the afternoon, starting at 13.30, some of London’s greatest A charity collection will be and the performance will be singers to perform Bach’s taken in aid of the Cardinal accompanied by the Chartwell St John Passion, considered Hume Centre – turning lives Sinfonia. Please register in by many to be more emotional around to overcome poverty advance by voice type by calling and dramatic than the Matthew. and homelessness – and the Box Office on 020 7222 1061 other charities. or emailing [email protected] polyphony.co.uk

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thursday lunchtime concerts PRINCIPAL LIGETI QUARTET SOUND Young Artists’ Series —— PRINCIPAL SOUND —— —— Taking its name from an organ work by Morton Feldman, Stravinsky Three Pieces “He was extremely nearsighted and wrote his music Principal Sound at St John’s for String Quartet Smith Square will showcase an as if he was touching the notes with his eyes. Lutosławski String Quartet eclectic range of contemporary Webern Six Bagatelles Op. 9 Whenever I hear his music I think of its tactile music, united in its fascination György Kurtág Six Moments with, and interrogation of, quality, of his eyes ‘hearing’ the sounds.” Musicaux Op. 44 the stuff of sound itself. Toru Takemitsu reflecting on Feldman in 1995 Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for Two of Feldman’s finest String Quartet of 1918, whilst late works book-end this only lasting about seven FRANÇOISE- four-day festival, which minutes in total, are classics GREEN PIANO explores Feldman’s own of the twentieth-century position between the Modernist repertoire; rhythmic, folksy, DUO and Experimental streams strident and expansive, The Viennese Salon of composition. In a programme all within a tightly bound of music where the twentieth- structure. —— century masters that inspired Webern’s Bagatelles, from seven Innocence and Lust him rub shoulders with the years before the Stravinsky, music of his contemporaries, Antoine Françoise piano are even shorter – an incredibly Principal Sound also explores Robin Green piano tightly bound structure which the music of the composers marks Webern’s full transition Mozart Sonata in F K497 writing in his wake. into . The longest Colin Alexander New Work Featuring some of the country’s work in this concert, at about (world premiere) leading exponents of new music 25 minutes, is Lutosławski’s Mozart Sonata in C K19d alongside a number of exciting string quartet – in complete Berg Lulu suite young ensembles, the festival contrast to the other three arr. Kenneth Hesketh will open with a performance works, composed using Schubert Allegro in A minor of Piano and String Quartet elements of chance procedures. Lebensstürme D947 by the renowned Feldman Kurtág’s Moments Musicaux This concert provides a huge interpreters John Tilbury (deliberately referencing contrast from the innocence and the Smith Quartet. Schubert) draws influences of young Wolfgang writing in Other highlights include the from across the musical canon Salzburg to the dark language Octandre Ensemble giving but filters these through his of Berg’s Lulu suite arranged the UK premiere of Layers of quixotic and idiosyncratic by Kenneth Hesketh for Love, a new work by Christian musical mind. the occasion. Mason, and a performance of ligetiquartet.com francoise-green.com Feldman’s For Philip Guston.

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WARREN- MAILLEY SMITH sunday at st john’s Complete Chopin Cycle TABEA DEBUS —— Young Artists’ Series The Four Ballades —— Chopin Bolero in C Op. 19 • Tabea Debus recorder LONDON Mazurka No. 31 in Ab Op. 50 Anna Curzon baroque violin FRANÇOISE- No. 2 • Mazurka No. 32 in C# Claudia Norz baroque violin MOZART thursday lunchtime concerts GREEN PIANO minor Op. 50 No. 3 • Mazurka Jordan Bowron baroque viola PLAYERS No. 33 in B Op. 56 No. 1 • Lea Rahel Bader baroque cello MATTHEW DUO Mazurka No. 34 in C Op. 56 No. 2 Johannes Lang harpsichord Mozart Explored • Mazurka No. 35 in C minor MARTIN The Viennese Salon Telemann Concerto in F INGRID FLITER Op. 56 No. 3 • Rondeau in C —— TWV51:F1 Organ Series —— Op. 73 • Ballade No. 1 in G minor International Tsoupaki Charavgi Howard Shelley piano Op. 23 • Ballade No. 2 in F Op. 38 Piano Series —— Hammer Blow Purcell A New Ground • Largo in Eb Op. posth. • Mozart Piano Concerto Hasse Cantata per Flauto in Bb —— Patrick Gowers An Occasional Antoine Françoise piano Ballade No.3 in Ab Op. 47 • No. 22 in Eb K482 Moritz Eggert Außer Atem Trumpet Voluntary Robin Green piano Ballade No.4 in F minor Op. 52 Chopin Nocturne in B Op. 9 Handel A selection of aria Mozart loved performing Bach Allein Gott in der No. 3 • Scherzo No.4 in E Op. 54 Mozart Sonata for Piano Any one of Chopin’s Four transcriptions in concert with his friends, höh’ sei Ehr BWV662 • Nocturne in Db Op. 27 No. 2 four-hands in D K381 Ballades stand easily alone Berio Gesti and the piano concertos Bach Prelude & Fugue • Mazurkas: Op. 50 No. 3 in Alissa Firsova New Work as conceptions of pianistic Telemann Cello Sonata show how he changed the in C BWV547 C# minor • Op. 63 No. 2 in (world premiere) perfection, each one suggesting in D TWV41:D6 orchestra from the traditional Guilain Suite du deuxième ton F minor • Op. 63 No. 3 in C# Mahler Symphony No. 6 a compelling narrative and Sammartini Concerto in F accompanying ensemble Widor Andante Sostenuto minor • Ballade No. 4 in F minor in A minor ‘Tragic’ eliciting a sweep of emotions. to an equal partner of the from Symphonie Gothique This programme features Op. 52 • 24 Preludes Op. 28 arr. Zemlinsky In tonight’s programme, we soloist. The scoring of this Vierne Carillon de Westminster jewels of the baroque repertoire hear all four of these towering Concerto includes trumpets Ingrid Fliter is recognised The duo’s residency continues as well as contemporary Matthew Martin’s varied career edifices, alongside some lesser and timpani and clarinets as one of the pre-eminent with a rare opportunity to music. Its aim is to explore as a composer and performer known works including instead of oboes. The resulting interpreters of Chopin’s hear Mahler’s epic Symphony the significance of rhetoric has earned him a noteworthy the spanish-influenced Bolero texture is particularly mellow music. This recital features No. 6 arranged by Zemlinsky, as well as the implications place in the UK’s musical life and a selection of miniatures. and enhances the romantic a programme entirely dedicated alongside a new work by and challenges that come with and internationally. Organist character of the frequent to the Polish composer’s Russian composer, pianist, There will be a pre-concert imitating the voice in its various of the London Oratory, he wind solos. masterpieces for piano. and conductor Alissa Firsova. event at 18.30 nuances of colour timbre. also teaches at Oxford and londonmozartplayers.com ingridfliter.com performs internationally. francoise-green.com warrenmailley-smith.com tabeadebus.de

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MARTINO TIRIMO The Gesualdo Six © Hannah King The Great Piano Quintets LONDON —— MOZART Minguet Quartet PLAYERS Martino Tirimo piano thursday lunchtime concerts Mozart Explored: 1783 Suk Meditation on the Czech —— chorale ‘St Wenzel’ Op. 35a BATERA DUO Webern Six Bagatelles Op. 9 PLG Young Artists Mozart Rediscovered Mahler Ich bin der Welt David Parry conductor THE GESUALDO abhanden gekommen arr. —— Annette Reisinger Mozart L’oca del Cairo SIX Philip Attard saxophone Dvořák Piano Quintet in A Op. 5 Christine Zerafa piano The Goose of Cairo, an opera Young Artists’ Series Schumann Piano Quintet started by Mozart in July but in Eb Op. 44 In the final lunchtime recital —— abandoned in October 1783, before their Festival, the Park St Wenceslas is the patron was completed by Stephen Gesualdo Felice primavera Lane Group are represented saint of Bohemia and Suk’s Oliver in 1990. With exceptional • Moro, lasso by the Batera Duo. Hailing Meditation was intended to skill and wit, Oliver expanded Monteverdi Sfogava con from two sister islands in the ignite the Czech nationalist the existing libretto and wove le stelle • Io mi son giovinetta • Maltese archipelago, Gozitan movement. Webern’s Bagatelles his own modern composition Rimante in Pace • Zefiro torna saxophonist Philip Attard are only four minutes long, style into Mozart’s original Ligeti Nonsense Madrigals and Maltese pianist Christine ORCHESTRA but remain a notable, strange music to present a complete Schütz O primavera • Zerafa are the Batera Duo. and compelling work in the 90 minute work. This concert OF ST JOHN’S O dolcezze amarissimi d’amore string quartet repertoire. Philip and Christine gave production as part of the LMP’s • Ride la prima vera • Fuggi Public Passions The Mahler song, one of their debut as a duo in April Mozart Explored: 1783 series o mio core • Feritevi, ferite, his most famous and joyful, 2012, and since then they have tells the story of a Spanish —— virerete mordaci • Io moro, is arranged for string quartet been invited to perform in Marquis, an avid collector ecco ch’io moro John Lubbock conductor by the Minguet’s second major festivals and venues, of rarities, who keeps his only Folksongs from the British Isles violinist. Dvořák’s youthful including the Embassy Series daughter locked up in a tower, The continuation of a series For their second concert Quintet radiates with the in Washington DC, the and the attempts by her true of concerts in which celebrities as Young Artists we welcome composer’s inimitable style, Arts Festival, the Royal Albert love to stop her being given choose the programme back the vocal ensemble, whilst Schumann’s exuberant Hall (Elgar Room) and the away to the man who can offer and discuss their choices The Gesualdo Six, under work expresses romanticism Victoria & Albert Museum her father the fabled golden which are then played by the direction of Owain Park. at its best. in London. goose of Cleopatra…of course. the Orchestra of St John’s. thegesualdosix.co.uk martinotirimo.com bateraduo.com londonmozartplayers.com osj.org.uk

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Brett Dean PLG Young James PLG Young Artists Artists MacMillan Spring Series Sally Beamish —— Spring PLG Young Artists Robin PLG Young Artists Series Spring Series Brett Dean Holloway Spring Series frontline composer Helen Grime —— —— György Kurtág PLG Young Artists —— linked composer The Future Starts Here! James MacMillan PLG Young Artists Spring Series Sally Beamish To be announced frontline composer Spring Series frontline composer A week of events and concerts composer’s choice —— John Casken Peter Maxwell Davies in which the Park Lane Group —— linked composer Robin Holloway linked composer presents 18 sets of highly Jay Capperaulde 18.00 Helen Grime frontline composer Vasiliki Legaki talented Young Artists. The composer’s choice Amy Green saxophone frontline composer Othmar Schoeck composer’s choice wide-ranging programmes Abigail Sin piano John Harbison linked composer are based on five distinguished linked composer Joel Rust Frontline Composers, five older 18.00 Brett Dean Demons for solo 18.00 Matthew Kaner composer’s choice Linked Composers and five James MacMillan saxophone • Etude, Hommage Sally Beamish composer’s choice younger Composer Choices. in Conversation à Brahms • Hommage à in Conversation Janáček • Etude: Hommage 18.00 The result is an explosive Abigail Sin piano Iosif Purits accordion à Kurtág 18.00 Robin Holloway mixture of ideas, connections Imogen Hancock trumpet Cecilia Bignall cello Helen Grime in Conversation and influences with a sweeping Jennifer Hughes piano Imogen Hancock trumpet in Conversation breadth of language, style 19.30 Amy Green saxophone Jennifer Hughes piano James MacMillan Piano and personality. A week of Alke String Quartet Albany Piano Trio Abigail Sin piano Sonata • Seraph Sally Beamish colourful music, sometimes The Experiment Helen Grime Three Whistler Robin Holloway Fanfare • Takes two • Juno new, often little-known, soprano, clarinet, Miniatures • The Brook Suite • Partita performed by dazzling 19.30 double bass, harp Sings Loud debut-artists. PLG, confident Barbican String Quartet 19.30 Giles Swayne Chansons from all its many previous Tritium Trio 19.30 Lipatti Piano Quartet dévotes and poissonneuses seasons, is equally confident 19.30 Nardus Williams soprano Belle Chen piano James MacMillan String for ensemble that these Young Artists also Ferio Saxophone Quartet Peter Foggitt piano Quartet No. 2 György Kurtág 12 Microludes Sally Beamish Voices in will make their mark on the Imma Setiadi piano Eblana String Trio John McCabe Sonata for for string quartet • New Silence for solo piano musical world. clarinet, cello and piano work for string quartet John Harbison Gatsby Robin Holloway Killing Time Vasiliki Legaki New work Daily tickets include entry Jay Capperaulde New work (world première) Matthew Kaner New work Joel Rust New work Peter Maxwell Davies to both events. (world première) Josephine Stephenson, Tamsin Laura Bowler New work Robin Holloway String Trio Piano Quartet Giles Easterbrook Trio Waley-Cohen, Kate Honey Helen Grime Harp of the Othmar Schoeck Lieder Sally Beamish Piano Sonata parklanegroup.co.uk (world première) Three ensemble works North • The Flash of Fireflies Morgan Hayes Dictionary Ligeti Etude No. 13 ‘Devil’s Concerts promoted by Benjamin Graves New work Stevie Wishart Work in Folds of Darkness • of London Staircase’ Park Lane Group (world première) for ensemble 10 Miniatures Lord Berners Three Francisco Coll Cuando el John Casken String Brett Dean String Quartet Gavin Bryars Alaric I or II English Songs nino era nino Quartet No. 2 No. 1 ‘Eclipse’ Xenakis XAS Schoenberg String Trio Bax Piano Quartet

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Katia & Marielle Labèque © UmbertoWARREN Nicoletti MAILLEY-SMITH Complete Chopin Cycle Samson Tsoy & Pavel Kolesnikov —— The Heroic Polonaise Chopin Polonaise No. 8 in D minor Op. 71 No. 1 • Mazurka No. 36 in A minor Op. 59 No. 1 • Mazurka No. 37 in Ab Op. 59 No. 2 • Mazurka No. 38 in F# minor Op. 59 No. 3 • Mazurka thursday lunchtime concerts KATIA & No. 39 in B Op. 63 No. 1 • Mazurka No. 40 in F minor SAMSON TSOY MARIELLE Op. 63 No. 2 • Nocturne No. 18 LABÈQUE in E Op. 62 No. 2 • Allegro de & PAVEL concert in A Op. 46 • Souvenir International Chamber • KOLESNIKOV de Paganini Nocturne No. 17 OAE © Eric Richmond and Harrison Agency Music Series in B Op. 62 No. 1 • Nocturne sunday at st john’s —— No. 3 in B Op. 9 No. 3 • Polonaise —— Piano Duo in Gb Op. posth. • Waltz No. 17 FIDELIO TRIO Piano Duo in Eb Op. posth. • Polonaise Messiaen Visions de l’Amen —— No. 6 in Ab Op. 53 ‘Heroic’ for two pianos Mozart Sonata in D K448 Fauré Piano Trio in Schubert Fantasia in The focus of this evening’s Samson Tsoy and Pavel D minor Op. 120 F minor D940 programme is on the Polonaise, Kolesnikov live in London Peter Wiegold Piano Trio Stravinsky The Rite of Spring concluding with one of Chopin’s and in 2014 were chosen (premiere of revised version) most celebrated works, the by the City Music Foundation Katia and Marielle Labèque Chausson Piano Trio ‘Heroic’ Polonaise, in which and BBC New Generation unleash the untameable in G minor Op. 3 BIRMINGHAM he takes the dance form to new Artists respectively to join musical force of Stravinsky’s heights of bravura. This is also Fauré’s eloquent late CONSERVATOIRE their schemes for young The Rite of Spring. The first a chance to hear the rarely masterwork was composed performing artists. They travel half of their programme OF MUSIC performed Allegro de concert at the age of 78 whereas the world treating audiences features two classics that THE WORKS —— in A, a work requiring Chausson’s Piano Trio to extraordinary, critically find Mozart on sparkling —— enormous technical prowess, reveals the vitality and love An evening of diverse chamber acclaimed performances, form, captivating the ear and one which is understood Orchestra of the of sonority of the 26-year-old. and solo music showcasing thrilling fans all over the with a nonstop flow of inspired to have been conceived Age of Enlightenment The Fidelio Trio are delighted the work of Birmingham globe. They have been called melody, and Schubert, in the as the first movement to be presenting a futher Conservatoire. Works will striking pianists, virtuosic year of his death, expressing Get a guided tour to Mozart’s of a third Piano Concerto. world premiere in Peter include solo piano, voice, and brilliant, refined, spirited, himself with a raw emotional famous Clarinet Concerto in Wiegold’s Piano Trio – revised chamber music, new music thrilling and poetic. power that suggests he already There will be a pre-concert this informal 80 minute concert, especially for this series. and organ. knew his days were numbered. event at 18.30 introduced from the stage. samsontsoy.com fideliotrio.com bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire pavelkolesnikov.com labeque.com warrenmailley-smith.com oae.co.uk

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Sun 24 April 15.00 Wed 27 April 19.30 Thu 28 April 13.05 Thu 28 April 19.30 Fri 29 April 19.30 Tue 3 May 19.00 £14 (£10), U26 £10 £10, U26 £35, £28, £15, £10 £20, £15 £25, £15 (Child £2.50)

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Johannes Pramsohler ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT —— “The performance was a demonstration of superb musicianship and communication, seeing instrumentalists lead from even the back of the string section.” The Guardian INTERNATIONAL BAROQUE PLAYERS thursday lunchtime concerts —— JOO YEON SIR Mozart in London Johannes Pramsohler ORCHESTRA & IRINA director/solo violin OF THE AGE OF ANDRIEVSKY Abel Symphony in Eb ENLIGHTENMENT Op. 7 No. 6 KV18 Young Artists’ Series —— Giardini Violin concerto —— in C Op. 4 No. 1 • Violin Winds of Change concerto in D Op. 4 No. 3 Violin and Piano Matthew Truscott Cirri Cello Concerto in F director/violin Schnittke Suite in Old Style Mozart Symphony No. 5 Peter Whelan bassoon Franck Violin Sonata in A in G minor K183 Antony Pay clarinet Shostakovich Preludes Op. 34, JC Bach Violin Concerto selections (arr. D Tsyganov) in C WC76 Mozart Symphony No. 33 in Bb K319 Korean-born British violinist Mozart’s experiences staying Michael Gordon New work Joo Yeon Sir and Russian in London as a child had for bassoon and orchestra pianist Irina Andrievsky a profound impact on his (world premiere) present the popular Violin development as a composer. Mozart Symphony No. 1 in Sonata by Cesar Franck, His Symphony No. 5 in G minor Eb K16 • Clarinet Concerto together with Alfred Schnittke’s is placed alongside works in A K622 Suite in Old Style, a work which he would have heard which was composed in one in London, such as JC Bach’s Hear Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto night and a selection from Overture to Adriano in Siria, alongside a brand new piece by Shostakovich’s Preludes Op. 24 Abel’s Symphony in E flat Michael Gordon for the bassoon, arranged for Violin and Piano Op. 7 No. 6 and violin concerti showcasing this instrument’s by violinist Dimitri Tsyganov. by JC Bach and Giardini. distinctive timbres. jooyeonsir.com ibplayers.com oae.co.uk

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Thu 5 May 13.05 Fri 6 May 19.30 Sat 7 May 19.00 £10, U26 £25, £20, £15, £10 £50, £39, £24, £10 (Child £2.50)

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—— thursday lunchtime concerts Thomas Gould © Aga Tomaszek John Zorn Cat O’Nine Tails Peter Maxwell Davies TABEA DEBUS Quartet Movement Young Artists’ Series Beethoven Grosse Fuge Op. 133 KENSINGTON Schnittke String Quartet No. 3 LONDON —— Ligeti String Quartet No. 2 SYMPHONY FESTIVAL Points of Contact The Ligeti Quartet bring a ORCHESTRA FRANÇOISE- Tabea Debus recorder deeply engaging programme OF BAROQUE —— Oliver Pooley percussion which shows a range of wit, GREEN MUSIC 2016 Donna Lennard soprano emotion and humour. John Bassano Ricercata Quarta PIANO DUO —— Russell Keable conductor Zorn is one of the most prolific, Monteverdi Zefiro torna, and controversial, American The Viennese Salon The Word Janáček Suite from oh di soavi accenti composers working today. The The House of the Dead Straesser Points of Contact I —— May wouldn’t be May at Wire observed that “the degree Judith Weir Natural History Machaut Amours me fait desirer St John’s without the annual to which John Zorn – composer, 176 keys Martinů Symphony No. 5 H310 Eckhard Kopetzki Kaskada return of Britain’s foremost saxophonist, jazz musician, Bull Fantasia thursday lunchtime concerts Antoine Françoise piano Baroque music festival, The penultimate concert label organiser, conceptualiser Anon. Wilson’s Love Robin Green piano renowned for its imaginative of KSO’s 60th season features – has polarised opinion Ole Buck Gymel programming and its roster works by two Eastern European is remarkable even in a field ARTEA QUARTET Schubert Fugue in E minor D952 Anon. Lamento di Tristano of the very best international masters. Janáček’s final opera where polarised opinions —— • Andante varié in B minor D823 • Tre Fontane performing talent. This year’s From the House of the Dead are hardly rare.” His Cat O’Nine Schoenberg Chamber Symphony Thomas Gould violin theme of ‘The Word’ explores is a magnificent, brooding Contact and communication Tails, originally composed for No. 2 Op. 38 Rhys Watkins violin the relationship between words meditation on mortality are vital elements of all the Kronos Quartet, was one Christian Mason New Work Benjamin Roskams viola and music in grandiloquent and life. Martinů’s Fifth music making – both with of his first forays into the (world premiere) Ashok Klouda cello choral works to biblical Symphony was composed other musicians as well classical music world. Mozart Fugue for Two Pianos and literary texts, intense in America at the end of the as the audience. Throughout Schubert String Quartet in C minor K426 • Sonata Ligeti’s second quartet from and dramatic Italian madrigals, Second World War, but its this programme, which puts No. 15 in G D887 for Two Pianos in D K448 1969 is a work of huge contrasts; and intimate song recitals. heart is fixed on the composer’s music from the 14th and 16th sometimes mechanical, at other Join the award winning Artea The final concert of this series But the eloquence doesn’t stop Czech homeland. In between, centuries next to contemporary times expansive, sometimes Quartet for a performance brings the duo to the 2 piano there – even the instrumental a Western European take compositions, the performers frenetic and at other times of one of the greatest works repertoire, including Mozart’s music speaks. Come and hear on Far Eastern philosophy will tread their own paths, spatial – it is a classic of the in the string quartet repertoire: lively D major Sonata and how! Composers include in the form of Judith Weir’s meeting and exchanging ideas twentieth-century quartet Schubert’s last quartet, a new work by award winning Handel, Monteverdi, Bach Taoist Carnival of the Animals, on the way before going into repertoire. the great G Major D887. composer Christian Mason. and Purcell. Natural History. separate directions again. ligetiquartet.com thomasgould.com francoise-green.com www.lfbm.org.uk kso.org.uk tabeadebus.de

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LONDON MOZART WARREN PLAYERS MAILLEY-SMITH sunday at st john’s Mozart Explored: 1783 Complete Chopin Cycle JOO YEON SIR —— —— & IRINA An Academy in Vienna The Four Scherzi ANDRIEVSKY Janina Fialkowska piano Chopin Waltz No. 1 in Eb Op. 18 Gérard Korsten conductor • Marche funèbre in C minor Young Artists’ Series Op. 72 No. 2 • Scherzo No. 1 Salieri Overture to La Orchestra of St John’s thursday lunchtime concerts in Bb minor • Nocturne No. 13 —— Scuola de’ gelosi in C minor Op. 48 No. 1 • Waltz Mozart Piano Concerto Violin and Piano DAVID GRAHAM No. 13 in Db Op. 70 No. 3 • No. 13 in C K415 Polonaise in Bb • Scherzo No. 2 Bach Chaconne from Partita Organ series Kozeluch Symphony in C P1:6 in Bb minor Op. 31 • Scherzo No. 2 in D minor BWV 1004 —— Haydn Overture to Il No. 3 in C# minor Op. 39 • arr. Mendelssohn Ritorno di Tobia Bruhns Præludium in E minor Mazurka No. 41 in C# minor Grieg Sonata No. 2 in G for Mozart Symphony No. 35 Bach Partita: Sei gegrüsset, Op. 63 No. 3 • Mazurka No. 42 Violin and Piano Op. 13 in D K385 ‘Haffner’ Jesu gütig in A minor • Mazurka No. 43 Poulenc Sonata for Violin Guy Weitz Sicilienne • Prière The final concert in the LMP’s in A minor • Mazurka No. 44 and Piano Op. 119 on Salve Regina in the 5th mode Mozart Explored: 1783 series, in G Op. 67 No. 1 • Mazurka Shostakovich Preludes Op. 34 • Paraphrase on Regina Coeli An Academy in Vienna, offers No. 45 in G minor Op. 67 No. 2 selections arr. D Tsyganov SALOMON laetare an insight into the kind of • Waltz No. 18 in Eb • Feuille Igor Frolov Concert Fantasie ORCHESTRA Honegger Choral concert performed in Vienna d’album in E • Scherzo No. 4 on Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess ORCHESTRA —— Karh-Elert Harmonies during 1783, in which Mozart in E Op. 54 Winner of The Arts Club Karl du soir Op. 72 No. 1 himself would have taken part. Graham Ross conductor A selection of charming Waltzes, OF ST JOHN’S Jenkins Classical Music Award Reger Dankpsalm It includes the Piano Concerto Mazurkas and Polonaises serve in association with Classic FM, “To say he’s impressive would No. 13, which was written Public Passions David Graham is recognised to compliment four of Chopin’s BBC Young Composer of the be an understatement … This for his own performance internationally as one of the greatest virtuosic powerhouses —— Year and The President’s Award was a collective enterprise in subscription concerts, UK’s leading organ teachers. – the Four Scherzi. Written over presented by HRH The Prince in which everyone played and Symphony No. 35, John Lubbock conductor As Professor in-charge-of the course of a decade, Chopin of Wales, Korean-born British their part – according to their commissioned by the Organ at the Royal College produced four works of great The OSJ conclude their Public violinist presents a programme gifts but with an elevating prominent Haffner family of Music he has taught some pathos and brilliance, each Passions series of concerts, in of unknown works and fervour. That’s what made it of Salzburg. Mozart’s music of the most talented young complete with his unparalleled which celebrities choose the arrangements by Bach, special”, writes The Telegraph is complemented by that organists. He is also Organist lyricism and harmonic daring. programme and discuss their Grieg, Poulenc, Shostakovich of conductor Graham Ross, of his somewhat over-shadowed and Director of Music at the choices which are then played and Frolov with her pianist who returns to the Salomon contemporaries, There will be a pre-concert Church of the Immaculate by the Orchestra of St John’s. Irina Andrievsky. Orchestra for this concert. and Leopold Kozeluch. event at 18.30 Conception, Farm Street, osj.org.uk jooyeonsir.com salomonorchestra.org in London’s Mayfair district. londonmozartplayers.com warrenmailley-smith.com

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LONDON SINFONIETTA PHILHARMONIA —— ORCHESTRA Martyn Brabbins conductor —— Francisco Coll Liquid Stravinsky Series: Symmetries (UK premiere) Myths and Rituals Tom Coult New Work (world premiere of a London Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor Sinfonietta commission) Stravinsky In memoriam Dylan Tansy Davies Falling Angel Thomas • Requiem Canticles • (London premiere) Introitus: TS Eliot in memoriam Harrison Birtwistle Duets in • Mass • Elegy for J.F.K. • a Frame (world premiere of a Cantata for soprano, tenor, London Sinfonietta commission) female chorus & ensemble The London Sinfonietta Stravinsky reconverted to presents a series of premieres the Orthodox faith in 1926. by established and emerging The Church and its rites composers, each with a brilliant became a symbol of the and distinctive voice. Russian motherland he had Harrison Birtwistle’s Duets in a lost. A gentle sense of lament Frame is the culmination of an colours all his late ecclesiastical eight year project during which works, especially the moving he has created duets for the Requiem Canticles, his last London Sinfonietta’s Principal major composition. Lament, too, Players and now connects them is at the heart of his tributes to with a new ensemble chorale. three great writers and friends. londonsinfonietta.org.uk philharmonia.co.uk

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ROYAL sunday at st john’s IMOGEN ORCHESTRAL BAMPTON COOPER SOCIETY CLASSICAL —— OPERA International Piano Series English Classics —— sunday at st john’s Benjamin Nabarro violin For who can wield like —— Orlando Jopling conductor Shakespeare’s skilful hand? Schumann Theme and TAFELMUSIK Elgar Violin Concerto Op. 61 Cantandum variations in Eb WoO.24 thursday lunchtime concerts OF LONDON Holst The Planets Op. 32 Bampton Classical Players ‘Ghost Variations’ • GOLDSMITHS —— Davidsbündlertänze Op.6 SCHUMANN Elgar’s Violin Concerto is a work Rosalind Coad soprano Wagner Elegy in Ab of great lyricism and power Caroline Kennedy soprano Lana Trotovšek violin CHORAL UNION Liszt Spozalizio, Il Penseroso, & FRANCK with a violin part brimming James Harrison baritone Peter Cigleris director —— Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa, —— with virtuosity and emotional Gilly French conductor Beethoven Egmont Overture and Sonetto 104 del Petrarca depth. Under celebrated Robin Kimber organ Jens Lynen violin Op. 84 (arr. P Cigleris) from Deuxième Année de conductor Orlando Jopling, Benda Romeo and Juliet Kaija Lukas violin Brian Wright conductor Weill Violin Concerto Op. 12 Pèlerinage: Italie S.161 the Royal Orchestral Society (selections) Michael Trauer viola Mendelssohn Nocturne Op. 24 Wagner Prelude from Tristan and leading violinist of his Linley Shakespeare Ode Liszt Missa Choralis S.10/R.486 Yuki Ito cello Beethoven Symphony und Isolde (transc. Kocsis) generation Benjamin Nabarro Dvořák Mass in D Op. 86 Kumi Matsuo piano The quatercentenary of No. 1 in C Op. 21 Liszt La lugubre gondola S.200 embark on themes of pastoral Shakespeare’s death in 1616 Goldsmiths Choral Union (arr. W Hutschenruijter) Wagner Liebestod from Tristan Schumann Piano Quartet elegance that take wing in is marked by rarely-heard performs beautifully contrasted und Isolde (transc. Liszt) in Eb Op. 47 flights of ecstatic elaboration Tafelmusik of London is a new music celebrating the enduring settings of the Mass from two Franck Piano Quintet in F minor and a veritable compendium flexible chamber ensemble This much-loved British artist impact of the greatest 19th century master composers, of bravura techniques. drawn from the finest brings together a fascinating These five young musicians English playwright. Settings Liszt and Dvořák, both in their musicians in the UK. The aim mix of works, including met through the Yeomen From its premiere to the by two of the most expressive original versions with organ of the ensemble is to explore contrasting pieces by programme of the Worshipful present day, The Planets Op. 32 composers of the age accompaniment. Liszt harked all types of chamber music Schumann. She also matches Company of Musicians. This has been enduringly popular, of Mozart are performed back to plainsong and the music in varying combinations with works by Wagner and the afternoon they will explore influential and frequently by Bampton Classical Opera, of Palestrina for his inspiration, a fresh and informed approach composer who was both his some of the most expressive performed. Holst’s planetary renowned specialists in rare whereas Dvořák turned to his to performance. greatest influence and his chamber music works masterwork hit the British operatic repertory of the late love of nature and folksong. father-in-law, Franz Liszt. of the romantic repertoire. music scene like a thunderbolt. 18th century. Both produced winners. petercigleris.weebly.com lanatrotovsek.info imogen-cooper.com wcom.org.uk royalorchestralsociety.org.uk bamptonopera.org goldsmithschoral.org.uk

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GABRIELI GABRIELI YOUNG —— —— MUSICIANS Paul McCreesh conductor “One of the SYMPHONY Haydn The Seasons ORCHESTRA world’s leading thursday lunchtime concerts Gabrieli, under Paul McCreesh, —— return to St John’s for renaissance a performance of Haydn’s ‘other’ Oscar Alabau cello DAVID ensembles.” great oratorio, The Seasons. James Blair conductor TITTERINGTON The Guardian Written shortly after Verdi Joan of Arc Overture Organ Series The Creation – and also set Schumann Cello Concerto to a libretto by Gottfried van Op. 129 —— Swieten – this is a work that Saint-Saëns Symphony Buxtehude Chorale fantasia has always attracted great No. 3 in C minor Op. 78 Nun freut euch, lieben critical acclaim. Charles Rosen ‘Organ Symphony’ Christen g’mein BuxWV210 preferred The Seasons over The The final concert of the Franck Prière Creation and the writer Michael Young Musicians Symphony August Ritter Sonata No. 3 Steinberg comments that the Orchestra season includes in A minor work ensures “Haydn’s premiere the overture ‘Joan of Arc’ place with Titian, Michelangelo David Titterington is Organ by Verdi, and the virtuosic and Turner, Mann and Goethe, Curator at St John’s Smith Cello Concerto by Schumann. Verdi and Stravinsky, as one Square, Head of Organ Studies The concert ends with the of the rare artists to whom at the mighty ‘Organ Symphony’ old age brings the gift of and Artistic Director of the of Saint-Saëns. ever bolder invention.” world-renowned St Albans ymso.org.uk International Organ Festival. gabrieli.com

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WARREN Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Marina Saanisvili MAILLEY-SMITH Complete Chopin Cycle —— The Barcarolle Chopin Polonaise Op. 44 No. 5 The Gesualdo Six © Hannah King in F# minor • Nocturne Op. 15 sunday at st john’s No. 2 in F# • Mazurka in C DEEP∞ Op. 67 No. 3 • Mazurka No. 47 THE GESUALDO MINIMALISM in A minor Op. 67 No. 4 • —— PATRICIA Mazurka No. 48 in C Op. 68 No. 1 SIX • Mazurka No. 49 in A minor MARTINO TIRIMO DEEP∞MINIMALISM is a new KOPATCHINSKAJA KENSINGTON • Young Artists’ Series Op. 68 No. 2 Mazurka No. 50 The Great Piano Quintets festival which looks at music of & MARKUS in F Op. 68 No. 3 • Trois —— long duration, profound sounds SYMPHONY Nouvelles Études from ‘Méthode —— and meditative listening. HINTERHÄUSER Dunstable Veni Sancte Spiritus ORCHESTRA des méthodes’ • Variations Cornysh Ave maria Rosamunde Trio Southbank Centre Artist in —— Brillantes on Je vends des DEEP∞MINIMALISM Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah Residence Oliver Coates draws Scapulaires Op. 12 • Berceuse Lucy Russell violin International Chamber Fenella Humphreys violin Sheppard Libera nos I & II together aspects of drone, in Db Op. 57 • Polonaise No. 1 Paul Silverthorne viola Music Series Russell Keable conductor Byrd Vigilate glowing ambient music and in C# minor Op. 26 No. 1 Peter Buckoke double bass Ockeghem Kyrie Eleison perceptive awareness in rarely —— Walton Scapino Overture • Polonaise No. 2 in Eb minor • Intermerata dei mater Franck Piano Quintet heard works of instrumental Britten Violin Concerto Op. 15 Op. 26 No. 2 • Bourrees B. 160b: Violin and Piano Desprez Gloria from Missa da in F minor Op. 45 and electronic beauty. Elgar Symphonic Study Nos. 1 and 2 • Nocturne No. 14 pacem • O Virgo prudentissima/ Schubert Piano Quintet Programme includes in C minor Op. 68 ‘Falstaff’ in F# minor Op. 48 No. 2 • The festival features legendary Beata mater in A D667 ‘Trout’ Ustvolskaya Sonata Barcarolle in F# Op. 60 composers and sound artists KSO’s 60th Season concludes Clemens non Papa Sanctus for violin & piano The Franck Quintet is one Éliane Radigue, Pauline with three classic British Chopin’s lilting Barcarolle & Benedictus from Missa Bach Chaconne from Partita of the composer’s most Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel and works. Walton’s homage has served as the inspiration Pastores Quidnam Vidistis No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 significant achievements Galina Ustvolskaya alongside to the commedia dell’arte to many subsequent composers, • O Maria vernans rosa Ustvolskaya Duet for violin and helped to establish him works by Bach and those and the engravings of Callot, standing out as one of his de Monte Agnus Dei from & piano as a major composer. It is of a new generation including Scapino, makes for a firecracker greatest mature masterpieces Missa Emitte Domine• Miserere an original work with plenty Mica Levi, Edmund Finnis Galina Ustvolskaya’s music opening before we welcome and provides the fitting mei, Deus from Motets Book V of impassioned romantic and Catherine Lamb. is uniquely direct, powerful Fenella Humphreys as the conclusion to a varied Drawing both this year’s eruptions. By contrast, and sometimes extreme, soloist in Britten’s much-loved programme of miniatures Oliver Coates says “I think of Young Artists’ Series and Schubert’s great and ever- “like a laser beam capable Violin Concerto. Completing – including the well-loved this festival as an opportunity our Sunday at St John’s Series popular ‘Trout’ Quintet is sunny, of cutting through metal”, the programme is one of the Bercuese and the Trois for contemplative listening, to a conclusion, acclaimed relaxed and full of enchanting said one enthusiastic critic. greatest of English tone Nouvelles Études. music as medicine composed ensemble The Gesualdo Six and memorable melodies, Kopatchinskaja pairs poems: Elgar’s masterful by iconoclastic artists who have There will be a pre-concert return for a concert of a including the one from Ustvolskaya’s music with portrait of Shakespeare’s created new attitudes towards event at 18.30 cappella vocal perfection. the famous ‘Trout’ song. the great Chaconne by Bach. roguish knight, Falstaff. time, slow evolving forms and warrenmailley-smith.com thegesualdosix.co.uk martinotirimo.com ecstatic beauty.” patriciakopatchinskaja.com kso.org.uk

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Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra —— thursday lunchtime concerts Sonata No. 3 Young People’s Symphony Orchestra © Son Lu Chopin Introduction & CANCIONES: Variations on a German Air SPANISH & LATIN Der Schweizerbub in E • Mazurka No. 51 in F minor Warren Mailley-Smith © Ben Ealovega AMERICAN Op. 68 No. 4 (revised version) • SONGS Mazurka No. 52 in Bb • Mazurka No. 53 in G • Mazurka in Bb • —— Mazurka in D B.71 • Mazurka Laura Mitchell soprano in D • Cantabile in Bb • Morgan Szymanski guitar Nocturne No. 11 in G minor Op. 37 No. 1 • Nocturne No. 12 Ponce Estrellita TWICKENHAM in G Op. 37 No. 2 • Polonaise Rodrigo Three Spanish Songs STONELEIGH CHORAL in G minor Op. posth. • Tarrega Recuerdos de Polonaise in Bb minor la Alhambra YOUTH SOCIETY Op. posth. • Polonaise in Ab YOUNG PEOPLE’S Albéniz Suite Espaňola: Asturias —— ORCHESTRA Op. posth. • Mazurka No. 57 in C BRITISH FLUTE De Falla Seven Popular SYMPHONY —— Brandenburg Sinfonia • Mazurka No. 58 in Ab • Sonata Spanish Songs SOCIETY No. 3 in B minor Op. 58 ORCHESTRA Lauro Four Waltzes Summer Concert Miranda Westcott mezzo —— —— Leo Brouwer Cancion De Cuna Peter Auty tenor It is fitting that the series Joo Yeon Sir violin BFS London Flute Festival 2016 (Berceuse) from Dos Temas David Soar bass should finish with Chopin’s A London Celebration Robert Hodge conductor populares cubanos Piano Sonata No. 3. Not only The British Flute Society Christopher Herrick conductor David Ramadanoff conductor Villa-Lobos Two Brazilian Songs Tchaikovsky Waltz from was it one of his last published presents an international Eugene Onegin • Violin Elgar Dream of Gerontius masterpieces, but it contains summer festival featuring This concert by the Young Laura Mitchell and Morgan Concerto in D Op. 35 some of his most inspired some of the world’s best People’s Symphony Orchestra, Szymanski have been working Follow Gerontius leaving Sibelius Symphony No. 5 and powerful piano writing, loved performers. The varied from California, will showcase together since they first met the world, going forth to his suggesting that his ideas and programme includes recitals, the extraordinary talent of when studying at the Royal Stoneleigh’s Summer Concert judgement and beyond, guided inventiveness were potentially masterclasses, workshops, trade these young musicians. Under College of Music in London. features the exciting young by angels (bass and mezzo). limitless, if only he had more stands, flute choirs for all, and the direction of Maestro They have both embarked violinist and St John’s 2015/16 The 100-strong choir become time! A selection of early a special gala event on Saturday Ramadanoff, the orchestra on extensive soloist careers Young Artist, Joo Yeon Sir, his comforters; then nasty works and the remaining 20 August in celebration of BFS has received critical acclaim since then and collaborated performing Tchaikovsky’s devils; and finally angels Mazurkas round off a unique President William Bennett’s 80th both at home and abroad. with many artists and Violin Concerto. Joo Yeon praising God in heaven. presentation of Chopin’s birthday. A real treat for anyone The performance will be ensembles taking them to is kindly supported by Making Elgar’s dramatic, atmospheric complete piano music. who loves the flute! shared with a local ensemble. festivals, concert and opera Music’s Philip and Dorothy orchestration goes from All proceeds will support houses around the world. Green Award for Young solemnity through fear There will be a pre-concert Full programme and ticket local charities. Concert Artists. to ecstasy. event at 18.30 details will be available online. laura-mitchell.com ypsomusic.org morganszymanski.co.uk stoneleighyouthorchestra.org.uk twickenhamchoral.org.uk warrenmailley-smith.com bfs.org.uk

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St Paul’s Girls’ School JAGS © Andy Newbold Alleyn’s —— School Westminster School © Chris Christodoulou Spring Concert Latymer —— Orchestra and Choirs Upper School Orchestral, Choral —— and Jazz Concert St Paul’s Girls’ School returns to St John’s with a choral and Spring Concert Symphony Orchestra orchestral concert featuring Chamber Orchestra Orchestra and Choir some of its senior ensembles Chamber Choir including the Symphony Tony Henwood Jazz Band Orchestra, Paulina Voices Jonathan Geoghegan Chris Dearmer, Jo Doley, Dulwich and Senior Choir. conductors Ned Bennett, Barry Graham College spgs.org A concert of instrumental and conductors choral music by the musicians —— Concert promoted by James Allen’s Alleyn’s School is one of St Paul’s Girls’ School of Latymer Upper School. Winter Concert Girls’ School the leading co-educational latymer-upper.org schools in London, with a huge Symphony Orchestra Sun 13 March 18.00 —— programme of musical activity Chamber Orchestra £10 (£8) Concert promoted by Latymer Upper School Choral and Orchestral Concert throughout the year. This Symphonic Wind Band annual concert has become a Madrigal Choir Symphony Orchestra Wed 16 March 19.30 highlight of the school’s year. Concert Choir Chamber Orchestra £12 (£10) Westminster Holst Choir alleyns.org.uk Christopher Law piano South East Choral Society School Richard Mayo, Lesley Larkum, Concert promoted by Alleyn’s School —— Robin Smith, David Eno, Schools’ Helen Cook french horn Christopher Stark conductors Chamber Music Peter Gritton conductor Symphony Orchestra St Dunstan’s Mon 2 May 18.00 Lower Orchestra Grieg Piano Concerto Competition Verdi Pater Noster £9, £7 (£5.50) Op. 16 in A minor mvt 1 College Glière Slow movement from Tim Garrard conductor —— Allegro molto moderato —— Horn Concerto Op. 91 Dvořàk Selection from Britten Young Person’s Finalists’ Concert Plus further choral and Choral and Orchestral Concert Slavonic Dances Op. 72 Guide to the Orchestra orchestral works The Competition was founded Concerto to be announced Kate Whitley New Choral Society The Hall in 2011 by Harrow, Wycombe JAGS presents an evening’s Tchaikovsky Symphony commissioned work Symphony Orchestra Abbey and North London musical entertainment Music School No. 5 in E minor Op. 64 Dulwich College gives its Collegiate Schools with the aim Matthew Wood conductor featuring Verdi’s Pater Noster —— The young musicians of annual Winter Concert at to provide schools in London for unaccompanied chorus and Dvořák Slavonic Dances Gala Concert 2016 Westminster School return St John’s Smith Square when and the South East region a movement from Glière’s Horn Op. 46 No. 6 and 8 to St John’s Smith Square up to 350 boys aged 8 to 18 with quality chamber music Concerto, both of which bedeck Soloists, ensembles Haydn Nelson Mass Hob.XXII/11 for their annual orchestral will take part. The programme coaching within the framework a rich and varied programme and orchestras concert, with repertoire from includes a newly commissioned of a competition. This concert St Dunstan’s College are of choral and orchestral music Willem Steyn conductor Dvořàk’s Slavonic Dances and work by Dulwich College from features the best ensembles delighted to be returning to that could be described as both Tchaikovsky’s Symphony the up-and-coming composer from the highly competitive St John’s for their annual beautiful, magnificent and, A concert celebrating No. 5 in E minor. Kate Whitley. qualifying rounds. showcase of young talent. at times, thrilling. music at The Hall School. westminster.org.uk dulwich.org.uk chambermusicforschools.co.uk stdunstans.org.uk jags.org.uk hallschool.co.uk

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Choral Eucharists & lunchtime dialogues —— Although primarily a concert hall, the Alongside our regular lunchtime concerts Church of St John the Evangelist in Smith we have recently launched a partner series Harrow Square is still a consecrated church and to of lunchtime dialogues, on Fridays at 13.00, Young Harrow Young Musicians © Ryan Marshall celebrate this we hold three special services where the Reverend Graham Buckle talks of Choral Eucharist each year. These are with notable people of interest from Musicians led by the Reverend Graham Buckle as the community. Please see our website at —— celebrant (from our sister church of sjss.org.uk for further details of who will Academy Strings St Stephen’s, Rochester Row) and he is be talking at each dialogue. joined by the wonderful Westminster Junior Band Guests to include: Steel New Zealand Youth Choir choir Cantandum, directed by Gilly French. • The Rt Revd & Rt Hon Richard Chartres Camerata These services are, of course, free to attend KCVO DD FSA, Bishop of London Senior Band and take place at 13.00. Choral Eucharist • Bruce Kent, British political activist Junior Soul in 2015/16 will be celebrated as follows: and former Roman Catholic priest The ten groups of Harrow • Siân Maddrell, Headteacher of the St Edward the Confessor Young Musicians present Grey Coat Hospital School highlights of their 2015/16 St Albans Palestrina Missa Iste confessor • Cathy Corcoran OBE, Chief Executive repertoire. Victoria O quam gloriosum High School of the Cardinal Hume Centre Mon 12 October 13.00 hym.org.uk for Girls • Rt Hon Peter Lilley, MP for Hitchin Concert promoted by —— and Harpenden Harrow Young Musicians Epiphany Our Lunchtime Dialogues will take Music for a Summer’s Evening Victoria O magnum mysterium Sun 10 July 15.00 place on the following Fridays: Chamber Orchestra (Mass and Motet) £20, £15 (£5 discount for Senior Chamber Choir 18 September booking both performances) New Zealand Wed 6 January 13.00 Senior Choir 16 October Youth Choir 27 November Nigel Springthorpe conductor —— The Feast of St John 22 January Cathy Heller-Jone conductor before the Latin Gate 19 February David Squire music director Harrow Vivaldi Magnificat Rv610 Mozart Missa brevis in C K259 ‘Organ Solo’ 29 April Mendelssohn Octet in Eb Op. 20 Fauré Requiem Marenzio Iste est Joannes 17 June Young Vaughan Williams Rhosymedre The award-winning New Wed 4 May 13.00 15 July Musicians St Albans High School returns Zealand Youth Choir has —— to Smith Square to present an achieved considerable success evening of music suitable for since its formation in 1979. Concert Band a balmy summer evening. Concerts in New Zealand and Symphonic Winds The programme includes an abroad have firmly established Soul eclectic mix of music for choir its reputation for excellence, Philharmonic Orchestra and orchestra, including a energy and consistency. Music

The ten groups of Harrow performance of the Vivaldi of the South Pacific, including Cantandum © Jonathan Dods Young Musicians present Magnificat in G minor arranged exotic Maori kapa haka highlights of their 2015/16 for upper voices as it might waiata, complements familiar repertoire. have been heard originally in choral repertoire such as the Pietà. Faure's Requiem. hym.org.uk

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104 Box office020 7222 1061 Book online sjss.org.uk 105 St John’s History St John’s History explore over 300 years of history —— The magnificent church of St John the Perhaps heralding the future musical life Our grand opening concert was given by We’ve also hosted the Menuhin School Evangelist was designed by architect Sir of St John’s, in September 1901 Edith Hockey Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Concert, featuring students Nigel Kennedy Thomas Archer as part of the ‘Commission and Robert Britten were married here. (who returned in 1989 for our 20th birthday and Melvin Tan; a 21-year-old Simon Rattle for Building Fifty New Churches’ of 1710. Twelve years later, they had a son, Benjamin, gala). There have been many other with the Salomon Orchestra; Plácido St John’s was the most elaborate of all, who as an adult would record here with the highlights over the years – the UK premiere Domingo, Teresa Berganza and Ileana with construction lasting 14 years, from Wandsworth School’s Boys Choir. of ’s Stimmung Cotrubaş recording Bizet’s Carmen with 1714 to 1728, and costing the princely sum (with Stockhausen himself on sound Claudio Abbado and the London Symphony Perhaps the most dramatic night in of £40,875 (approximately £5.2m today). projection); world premieres of works by Orchestra; Philip Glass giving a chamber St John’s history was 10 May 1941, the final Boulez, Birtwistle, Copland and Tippett organ recital, and Lutosławski conducting For over 200 years, St John’s served as a night of the Blitz, when a direct hit from by the London Sinfonietta; William Walton the Philharmonia in the London premiere parish church, though not without incident. an incendiary bomb gutted the church. conducting his own 70th birthday concert; of his second Symphony. In 1742 a major fire led to extensive After the war it lay as a ruin and there Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim restoration and modification to Archer’s was talk of turning the site into a car park. Now in our 301st year, St John’s continues to conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra; design. In 1815 the church was struck by This galvanised local people, under the grow and thrive as a busy concert hall – a an 84-year-old Sir Adrian Boult conducting lightning, causing subsidence to the towers, leadership of Lady Parker of Waddington, majestic building resounding to beautiful the English National Orchestra; and Morton and in the early twentieth century it was to raise the funds to buy the site and music in a serene city setting. Feldman performing alongside Harrison the target of a Suffragette bomb plot. commission Sir Marshall Sissons to lead Birtwistle and John Tilbury for BBC Radio. Ironically, in 1928, the church held Emmeline the restoration to Archer’s original designs. Pankhurst’s funeral. When the work was completed in 1969, St John’s Smith Square was re-born as one of the finest concert halls in London.

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Piano Trio, Fidelio Trio or Françoise- concerts to receive a Please note that patrons wishing Green Piano Duo multi-buy offers 20% discount to apply this discount across concerts • Reduced £1.50 booking fee at St John’s and Southbank Centre • Members are entitled to purchase £5 Students and under-16s must book via Southbank Centre’s tickets to selected events throughout the Young Artists’ Series receive a 50% discount on Box office directly: 0844 847 9915 Silver Friends season – you’ll find these marked alongside • Book for two or more concerts all tickets at the same time and receive a (£60/£55 direct debit) receive: the ticket information in the brochure Orchestra of the • A ticket for every concert in our with the code ‘U26’. 20% discount Beethoven Cycle Age of Enlightenment Thursday Lunchtime Concerts series with London Piano Trio • Book two to three events Alongside £5 ticket offers, members of • Priority booking 7 days ahead of Occupy the PIanos • Book for all three concerts at and save 10% the U26 Scheme also receive invitations to the general public • Buy a £50 Festival Pass to gain the same time and receive a • Book four to nine events special events throughout the year, as well 25% discount • Reduced £1.50 booking fee entry to all concerts in the and save 20% as other targeted discounts. • Book ten events and save 25% • Acknowledgement of your generosity Occupy the Pianos festival on our website There’s no catch and it’s entirely Fidelio Trio Please note that patrons wishing FREE to join! Please call our Box office Complete Chopin Cycle • Book for all three concerts at to apply this discount across concerts the same time and receive a at St John’s and Southbank Centre on 020 7222 1061 for further details. with Warren Mailley-Smith must book via Southbank Centre’s • Book for any five concerts in 25% discount Box office directly: 0844 847 9915 the series in one transaction and save £35 The Great Piano Quintets • Book tickets for the entire, with Martino Tirimo eleven-concert series in one • Book for three or more

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The series concludes with performances on 21 September & 16 November 2016

108 Box office020 7222 1061 Book online sjss.org.uk 109 Booking information how to find us buying tickets Your visit —— —— Phone Concessions and reductions St John’s is just off Millbank between Westminster and Lambeth Bridges, 020 7222 1061 Available for many of our concerts to close to the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, and a short Monday to Saturday 10.00–17.00 senior citizens, full-time students, walk from Westminster tube station. £2 booking fee applies registered unemployed, school children (under 16) and people who are registered Tube car Parking disabled. Westminster CitySave card Westminster, St James’s Park & Victoria St John’s is within the congestion charging Online holders are entitled to a 10% discount on zone. Parking meters are in operation sjss.org.uk a pair of tickets for any public concert. during the day Monday–Friday until 18.00. £1.50 booking fee applies Bus In the evenings and at weekends there are Parties of ten or more qualify for a 3 and 87 to Horseferry Road usually ample spaces locally. There is 10% discount. C10 and 507 (limited hours) to Millbank In person Westminster City Council car parking on 88 to Horseferry Road Monday to Saturday 10.00–17.00 Great College Street and Arneway Street. 11, 211, 14B and 24 to Westminster Abbey (until 18.00 on public concert days). Accessibility The Box office opens one hour before the If you have access requirements, please let Rail start of Sunday and Bank Holiday concerts. our Box office staff know when booking Santander Cycles Victoria, Waterloo, Vauxhall your tickets to help us provide you with the A docking station is located in Smith Square & Charing Cross best possible service and choice of seats. and there are also stations on Horseferry Post We allocate an additional seat free of charge Road, Page Street and Great College Street. Box office, St John’s Smith Square, to disabled patrons who require a carer to London SW1P 3HA accompany them. Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope. Cheques should be made St James’s Park Westminster payable to St John’s Smith Square. Please stay in touch with us online lk Gr Birdcage Wa eat George St Join the conversation! Westminster Brid ge @ StJohnsSmithSq Parliament Sq. Toward © Matthew Andrews Westminster Abbey Waterloo /StJohnsSmithSquare , Houses of /StJohnsSmithSquare Parliament /StJohnsSmithSquare Tothill St Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey /StJohnsSmithSquare , St James’s Park St oria

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110 Box office020 7222 1061 Book online sjss.org.uk 111 Footstool Restaurant

Experience fine dining —— Nestled beneath the Hall under the Legend has it the church was dubbed St John’s Smith Square vaulted ceiling of the crypt, the Footstool ‘Queen Anne’s Footstool’ after architect Charitable Trust Restaurant is an elegant and cosy place to Thomas Archer asked Queen Anne for Registered Office: enjoy everything from a delicious snack her view on how it should look. Kicking St John’s Smith Square London SW1P 3HA or light meal, to a sumptuous lunch or over her footstool she replied ‘like that!’ dinner. All our food is freshly prepared by The four towers are said to mimic the Registered in England our talented chefs using locally-sourced, upturned footstool. The restaurant Company No. 3028678 seasonal ingredients. keeps this charming nickname alive. Registered Charity No. 1045390 Indulge in fine tea and homemade cake, The Footstool takes à la carte reservations choose from our enticing daily buffet for lunchtime and evening service, buffet menu, dine à la carte before a concert, or bookings for groups of ten or more, and enjoy a glass of wine from our extensive caters for private events. list during the interval. Our friendly staff To book, or to find out more, are on hand, whatever you choose. call us on 020 7222 2779 or email [email protected]

Explore 300 years of history Unlike most churches of the time, the crypt at St John’s was never used for burials. Its main use over the years was actually as a cellar for storing wine and beer. Untouched by the bombing that destroyed much of the building, the crypt was excavated and survives complete with its original brickwork. Discover more on Page 106.

112 Box office020 7222 1061 Footstool Restaurant

Experience fine dining Discover a musical landmark —— —— Nestled beneath the Hall under the Legend has it the church was dubbed vaulted ceiling of the crypt, the Footstool ‘Queen Anne’s Footstool’ after architect “Just to come across it in Restaurant is an elegant and cosy place to Thomas Archer asked Queen Anne for enjoy everything from a delicious snack her view on how it should look. Kicking that quiet square is an event. or light meal, to a sumptuous lunch or over her footstool she replied ‘like that!’ To enter it, to enjoy its spaces, dinner. All our food is freshly prepared by The four towers are said to mimic the our talented chefs using locally-sourced, upturned footstool. The restaurant to listen to fine music within its seasonal ingredients. keeps this charming nickname alive. Indulge in fine tea and homemade cake, The Footstool takes à la carte reservations walls is an experience not to be choose from our enticing daily buffet for lunchtime and evening service, buffet matched in conventional concert menu, dine à la carte before a concert, or bookings for groups of ten or more, and enjoy a glass of wine from our extensive caters for private events. halls and is a lasting tribute to list during the interval. Our friendly staff To book, or to find out more, are on hand, whatever you choose. the man who designed it.” call us on 020 7222 2779 or email [email protected] Sir Hugh Casson Inside cover & page 112 images © Matthew Andrews

Explore 300 years of history Unlike most churches of the time, the crypt at St John’s was never used for burials. Its main use over the years was actually as a cellar for storing wine and beer. Untouched by the bombing that destroyed much of the building, the crypt was excavated and survives complete with its original brickwork. Discover more on Page 106.

Editorial team: Kieran Morris, Beverley Vong Art director: Phillip Southgate 2 Box office020 7222 1061 Art editor: Caroline Jones Box office 020 7222 1061 sjss.org.uk