Past Events
International China Concern Concert
Saturday 28 April 2012
“Music For China’s Abandoned Children” featuring Ning Kam and Jannene Wall – a concert benefiting International China Concern.
International China Concern is a Christian development organisation bringing love, hope and opportunity to China’s abandoned and disabled. Founded in 1993 by David Gotts, International China Concern exists to help the disadvantaged live life to the full and to their God-given potential.
On 28th April 2012, world-renowned Singaporean classical violinist, Ning Kam, will be performing a benefit concert for ICC in The Emmanuel Centre, Westminster, London in the United Kingdom. Ning has performed in concerts all over the world (www.ningkam.com) and she will be accompanied by pianist Anthony Hewitt, winner of the William Kapell International Piano Competition. She performed a similar concert for ICC in 2011 in what was a memorable and inspirational evening.
Jannene Wall, ICC’s Deputy Executive Director, will share during the concert about the needs that exist in China for children who are abandoned because they are disabled.
“We are tremendously blessed to have as fine a musical artist as Ning Kam choose to give her talent to a benefit concert for International China Concern,” said Jannene. “I’m very much looking forward to another wonderful night of music and getting a chance to talk about the great work being done today for some of China’s abandoned and disabled.”
Buy your tickets today and join ICC for a wonderful night of music and inspiration. Tickets can be purchased by going to www.chinaconcern.org/concert.
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Showroom Sessions
On April 24th, Hanna & Sons took part in the Mayor's Rhythm of London Showroom Sessions organised by Sing London. For one day, the Wimbledon showroom was transformed into a buzzing rehearsal studio. Hanna and Sons threw open their doors, providing free piano lessons for piano players of every level, novice to advanced. The half hour lessons were led by accomplished Conservatory students and the outcome was fantastic. " I've always wanted to play but never had a piano on which to play' said one student. " I've gone and caught the piano bug haven't I?", said another " Nw I just want to keep on playing'".
www.london.gov.uk/rhythmoflondon/
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WMF - 8.00pm Wednesday 23 November 2011
BEETHOVEN: THE THREE LAST PIANO SONATAS
SUNWOOK KIM piano
BEETHOVEN Sonata in E major, op. 109
BEETHOVEN Sonata in A flat major, op. 110
BEETHOVEN Sonata in C minor, op. 111
Description:
22-year old Korean pianist Sunwook Kim came to international recognition when he won the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006: the competition’s youngest winner for 40 years, as well as its first Asian winner.
“The major discovery of this concert was the extraordinary young Korean pianist Sunwook Kim. His technique and the extensive range of his tone colours allowed him to grasp every single nuance in the score with poise and natural ease.” ResMusica, Brussels
“Quite a superb display and as well as a dazzling technique, he showed an interpretation of maturity and conviction.” Dundee Courier
“Kim’s lightness of touch and finesse never less than compelling.”
Classicalsource
Location:
St John’s, Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ
Price: £28, £23, £15 WMF - 8.00pm Wednesday 16 November 2011
HARPSICHORD RECITAL
TREVOR PINNOCK harpsichord
Programme: "Journeys through music"
A. CABEZON - Differencias sobre el canto del Caballero (Oras de música para tecla, arpa e vihuela 1578)
W.BYRD - The Bells (ms Fitzwilliam virginal book c. 1615 but composed c. 1570 - 1590)
T.TALLIS - O Ye Tender Babes ( ms Mulliner book c.1550 - 1570)
J. BULL - The King's Hunt ( ms Fitzwilliam virginal book, composed c. 1600)
G. FRESCOBALDI - Balletti 1 and 2 ( Toccate e Partite d'involatura di cembalo et organo 1627)
J.S.BACH - ' French; Suite' no 5 in G ms. ( c. 1725) Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gavotte, Bourée, Louré, Gigue
-- Interval --
G.F. HANDEL - Suite in D minor (unauthorised publication Suites des pièces pour le clavecin 1733) Allemande, Allegro, Air, Gigue, Menuetto
A.SOLER - Sonata in F sharp (ms.c.1770)
D.SCARLATTI - Three Sonatas (ms. c. 1740 - 1750).
Description:
This recital programme was inspired by the travels of Antonio Cabezon, the great organist and composer, who in the 1540's and 1550's visited Italy, the Netherlands, Germany and England in the service of his employer, Prince Felipe, Regent of Spain.
While in England Cabezon would have met Thomas Tallis and perhaps even the very young but precocious William Byrd. Byrd's fellow composer John Bull spent much of his life in the Netherlands where he became a close friend of Sweelinck, the father of the North German organ school of which J.S. Bach would become the pinnacle.Bach himself copied music of the old masters and owned a score of Frescobaldi's Fiori Musicali. Both Handel and Domenico Scarlatti eventually adopted new countries. Handel's music became fundamental to the English spirit while Scarlatti soaked up the irresistible sounds indigenous to the Iberian peninsular, as we hear in some of his unique sonatas which were to have a strong influence on the keyboard compositions of Soler and others.
These composers retain their individuality while showing the benefit and enrichment of cross culture in music which remains unfettered by boundaries of nation.
Location:
The Chapel, Wimbledon College,
Edge Hill SW19 4NZ
Price: £28, £23, £15 WMF - 8.00pm Tuesday 22 November 2011
‘NOYE’S FLUDDE’
A medieval Chester Miracle Play
Set to music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON Noye
CATHERINE WYN-ROGERS Mrs Noye
TOM EMLYN WILLIAMS Voice of God
PIERS ADAMS recorder soloist
The BRODSKY QUARTET
ENSEMBLEBASH
DAVID GAMMIE organ
NEIL FERRIS conductor
Description:
Come and join in! This setting of the story of Noah and the Ark is one of the great community operas, with the audience participating in this dramatic and very visual production.
World-class opera singers, David Wilson-Johnson and Catherine Wyn-Rogers as Mr and Mrs Noah lead a brilliant cast of children soloists as Sem, Ham, Jeffett, their wives, and Mrs Noah’s circle of gossips.
See the Ark take shape before your eyes, the nearly 100-strong chorus of animals in costumes and masks, lead by great puppets specially created by the students of the celebrated Wimbledon College of Art. Solo ballet dancers, and a troupe of dancers forming the waves… the great storm… and finally the Dove that returns with an olive branch that symbolizes safe haven.
Neil Ferris, of Wimbledon Choral Society and Birmingham Bach Choir, conducts the orchestra of massed strings, recorders, percussion, bugles, handbells, organ, and piano 4 hands: student musicians and amateurs from the community playing alongside distinguished professionals such as the Brodsky Quartet, the astonishing recorder virtuoso Piers Adams, and with Ensemblebash leading a battery of percussion, in which children ‘basheurs’ play tuned coffee mugs and cups sounding the first rain drops heralding the storm…
Location:
Sacred Heart, Edge Hill SW19 4LU
Price: £28, £23, £15
WMF - 8.00pm Tuesday 15 November 2011
A DOUBLE RECITAL - FLUTE: AND VOICE
Part One:
WISSAM BOUSTANY flute
ALEKSANDER SZRAM piano
• DEBUSSY - ‘Syrinx’
• EDWARD GREGSON - 'Aztec Dances'
• BOUSTANY - '...And The Wind Whispered...'
• CÉSAR FRANCK - Sonata
Part Two:
NANCY ARGENTA soprano
MAGGIE COLE harpsichord & piano
• PHILLIPE GAUBERT - Soir Paien (with flute)
• CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS - Flüte invisible (with flute)
• CLAUDE DEBUSSY - Trois Chansons de Bilitis: La flute de Pan, La chevelure, Le tombeau des Naiade
• NED RORAM - Early in the morning
• SAMUEL BARBER - Sure on this shining night
• CHARLES IVES - The greatest man
• HOWARD SKEMPTON - Three Little Piano Pieces
• WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART – Abendempfindung, An Chloe, Als Luise die Briefe Warnung
• JEAN PHILIPPE RAMEAU - Pieces de Clavecin from Suite in A minor
• PURCELL - Ah, how sweet, If music be the food of love, Bess of Bedlam, Evening Hymn
Description:
Wissam Boustany is one of only a few flutists to have launched a successful career as an international soloist. He is a performer who inspires audiences, drawing them in to his infectious and communicative music-making. His flute has taken him on numerous tours to Europe, the Middle-East, Far East, USA and Latin America, where he continues to present many concerts, master-classes and workshops.
He performs from memory as does his duo partner Aleksander Szram, winner of the 2004 Vlado Perlemuter Award.
"It was clear from the outset that Boustany and Szram had exceptional stage presence, filling the hall with their personalities as well as with their music... One had the sense in this concert that the performers were sharing a deeply personal experience. The response of the audience was genuinely enthusiastic, and one has the sense that this is what music is all about - performers reaching out to the public to enable a shared emotional response." musicweb
Nancy Argenta: Since making her professional debut in 1983 she has established a reputation as one of the foremost sopranos of her generation. She is generally regarded as "the supreme Handel soprano of our age". However, this fails to show her wide range of repertoire, which stretches from the 17th century to the present and comprises songs as well as oratorio and opera. She is also a renowned interpreter of J.S. Bach, Purcell, Mozart, Schubert.
She has enjoyed a long standing duo with Maggie Cole, a Festival favourite returning for the third time.
Location:
St John’s, Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ
Price: £28, £23, £15 WMF - 8.00pm Thursday 24 November 2011
An exciting evening of
KLEZMER, GYPSY AND BALKAN MUSIC
And a JUICY VOCAL ENSEMBLE
Description:
Featuring a work specially commissioned by WMF:
Kosmos:
“In the music world, it is a rare treat to have something new and refreshing burst onto the scene. But Kosmos, the talented and vibrant string trio, is just such a treat. The bold fusion of different folk music styles and genre combined with the superlative musicianship of each player makes each performance an exciting uplifting journey. Everyone should make the effort to hear them; amongst the brightest of the rising stars in Britain, Kosmos are truly exceptional.”
Juice:
‘amazing razor-sharp tuning and purity of tone… they held us spellbound’ Telegraph
‘fluid, fruity and refreshing…vocal techniques that make Stockhausen and Berio sound prehistoric … the 21st century’s answer to the Swingles or the King’s Singers’ The Times
Location:
Wimbledon Synagogue
Price:
£18 WMF - 8.00pm Saturday 26 November 2011
BRODSKY and FRIENDS
THE BRODSKY QUARTET
Daniel Rowland, Ian Belton violins
Paul Cassidy viola, Jacqueline Thomas cello
With Bob Smissen viola, and Caroline Dearnley cello
Description:
In a ravishing programme containing three of the greatest masterpieces in the chamber music repertoire: Mozart’s sublime quintet in G minor -- Schoenberg’s great early romantic work ‘Transfigured Night’, in which he paints a description in sound of a man and a woman walking through a dark forest on a moonlit night, wherein the woman shares a dark secret with her new lover: she bears the child of another man – and Brahms’ thrilling second String Sextet.
Mozart String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K. 516
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
Interval
Brahms String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36
"The Brodskys' achingly beautiful performance reached deep into the heart..." Guardian
Location:
Sacred Heart, Edge Hill SW19 4LU
Price: £28, £23, £15 WMF - 8.00pm Monday 21 November 2011
‘NOYE’S FLUDDE’
A medieval Chester Miracle Play
Set to music by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON Noye
CATHERINE WYN-ROGERS Mrs Noye
TOM EMLYN WILLIAMS Voice of God
PIERS ADAMS recorder soloist
The BRODSKY QUARTET
ENSEMBLEBASH
DAVID GAMMIE organ
NEIL FERRIS conductor
Description:
Come and join in! This setting of the story of Noah and the Ark is one of the great community operas, with the audience participating in this dramatic and very visual production.
World-class opera singers, David Wilson-Johnson and Catherine Wyn-Rogers as Mr and Mrs Noah lead a brilliant cast of children soloists as Sem, Ham, Jeffett, their wives, and Mrs Noah’s circle of gossips.
See the Ark take shape before your eyes, the nearly 100-strong chorus of animals in costumes and masks, lead by great puppets specially created by the students of the celebrated Wimbledon College of Art. Solo ballet dancers, and a troupe of dancers forming the waves… the great storm… and finally the Dove that returns with an olive branch that symbolizes safe haven.
Neil Ferris, of Wimbledon Choral Society and Birmingham Bach Choir, conducts the orchestra of massed strings, recorders, percussion, bugles, handbells, organ, and piano 4 hands: student musicians and amateurs from the community playing alongside distinguished professionals such as the Brodsky Quartet, the astonishing recorder virtuoso Piers Adams, and with Ensemblebash leading a battery of percussion, in which children ‘basheurs’ play tuned coffee mugs and cups sounding the first rain drops heralding the storm…
Location:
Sacred Heart, Edge Hill SW19 4LU
Price: £28, £23, £15 WMF - 8.00pm Monday 14 November 2011
CLAUDE BOLLING JAZZ TRIO
Claude Bolling piano
Pierre Maingourd bass
Vincent Cordelette drums
with
WISSAM BOUSTANY guest flute
Description:
Our jazz concert this year promises to be a real treat, bringing to London one of France’s most legendary jazz pianists and composers CLAUDE BOLLING is one of the most renowned French musicians of his generation who has played with many of the great names in Jazz, has written more than 100 film scores, and won numerous international awards and honours.
As a result of his experience in various musical branches and of his work with the greatest classical musicians, Claude Bolling was the pioneer creator of a new genre which mixed for the first time two different languages, "classic" and "jazz", strictly separated up to then.
The "Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio", written for the great flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal, played for us tonight by the celebrated Lebanese flautist WISSAM BOUSTANY, is one of his most famous "Suites" which was No.1 on the US Billboard chart for an incredible, and record, 258 weeks!
WISSAM BOUSTANY who will be giving a solo recital later in the Festival, is one of very few flautists to sustain an international career as a solo concert artist.
We thank Maggie Black for her sponsorship of this event.
Location:
Wimbledon Synagogue SW19 5QD
Price:
£28 (to include welcome drink and canapés) WMF - 8.00pm Friday November 25 2011
LONDON SCHUBERT PLAYERS
Anda Anastasecu - piano
Natalia Lomeiko - violin
Yuri Zhislin - viola
David Cohen – cello
Ha-Young Jung - double bass
Description:
This concert is the culmination of an extraordinary two-year project ‘Invitation to Composers’ [funded by the European Commission and the London Schubert Players] to enrich the European classical music patrimony with instrumental combinations that do not exist or are very rare in the chamber music repertoire. Five works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Messiaen and Enescu were chosen as inspirational ‘models’ and have been performed across Europe side-by-side with the new works.
Tonight’s concert features two outstanding new works resulting from this project, and the wondrous Schubert ‘Trout’ Quintet which inspired Swedish composer Eberhard Eysers ‘The Nightingale Sung all Night Long’
• Ana-Maria AVRAM (Romania): 10 Romanian Folk Songs
for solo viola, piano, string quartet and double bass [EU]
• Bohuslav MARTINU: Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola
• Eberhard EYSER (Sweden): The Nightingale sung all night long
for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass [EU]
-Interval -
• Franz SCHUBERT: Trout Quintet
Location:
Christchurch, Copse Hill, SW20 0HG
Price: £28, £23, £15 WMF - 8.00pm Friday 18 November 2011
VIOLA RECITAL
LAWRENCE POWER viola
SIMON CRAWFORD-PHILLIPS piano
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Suite from the Gadfly
YORK BOWEN Romance
YORK BOWEN Viola Sonata in C Minor
INTERVAL
YORK BOWEN Moonlight Sonata fragment
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Sonata
Description:
“Power is a latter-day Orpheus, an expression of music’s power to disarm, encourage, soothe and serenade” Financial Times
"...world-class combination of searingly intense tone, fabulous technique and consummate musicianship” The Guardian
Lawrence Power is one of the foremost violists in the world today. After winning prizes at many international competitions, including the Maurice Vieux Viola Competition in Paris and becoming the first British winner of The Primrose International Viola Competition, he was selected for the BBC 'New Generation Artists’ scheme, which led to numerous broadcasts in recital and appearances as a soloist with orchestras around the world.
Location:
St John’s, Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ
Price: £28, £23, £15 WMF - 7.30pm Sunday 27 November 2011
Masterworks for Wind Quintet
LONDON WINDS
Philippa Davies flute, Gareth Hulse oboe
Michael Collins clarinet, Richard Watkins horn
Robin O'Neill, bassoon
• Farkas Antique Hungarian Dances
• Mozart Fantasia in F minor, K594
• Barber Summer Music
• Damase 17 Variations Op 22
• Nielsen Quintet
• Ligeti Six Bagatelles
• Walton Façade Suite
Description:
A stunning combination of virtuoso players who also enjoy active solo careers, London Winds are one of the world’s most prominent chamber ensembles are renowned for their technical brilliance, interpretffve vision and joie de vivre.
Location:
St John’s, Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ
Price: £28, £23, £15 WMF - 7.30pm Sunday 20 November 2011
RACHEL PODGER and BRECON BAROQUE
RACHEL PODGER violin
ALEXANDRA BELLAMY oboe, oboe d’amore
Description:
An Evening of Baroque Concertos
• J S Bach Violin Concert in A minor BWV 1041
• J S Bach Oboe D'Amore Concert BWV 1055
• J S Bach Violin Concerto in E major BWV 1042
- Interval -
• Vivaldi ‘Winter' from the Four Seasons
• J S Bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe BWV 1060
“Both the A minor and E major concertos (BWV 1041 and 1042) have long been cherished mainstays of the violin repertoire. Rachel Podger describes them as "old friends" – which is not to say that there is anything remotely routine about her new recording of the concertos with her six-member Brecon Baroque ensemble. This crack squad of first-rate period-instrument musicians gives lithe, polished and devoted performances that make a convincing case for a one-to-a-part "orchestra". Indeed, so full-bodied is the sound that you could be forgiven for not noticing the paucity of numbers – except the precision and freedom for manoeuvre is far greater than any chamber orchestra could achieve.”
Graham Rogers (www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/gqj9)
They are joined by the renowned baroque oboist Alexandra Bellamy in Bach’s hauntingly beautiful concerto for oboe d’amore, and joins Rachel Podger in Bach’s ravishing concerto for violin and oboe.
Sometime or other a November festival must embrace Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’, from his brilliant set of four violin concerto ‘Le quattro stagioni’, peppered with silvery pizzicato notes from the high strings calling to mind icy rain – but lets hope the weather on this occasion is more autumnal than wintery!
Location:
Trinity Church, Mansel Road SW19 4AA
Price: £28, £23, £15 WMF - 7.30pm Sunday 13 November 2011
JOANNA MACGREGOR – piano
ENSEMBLEBASH – Percussion Ensemble
Chris Brannick - Joby Burgess
Stephen Hiscock - Genevieve Wilkins
JOANNA MACGREGOR:
Bach Prelude and Fugue no 1 in C major BWV 846
Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue in C major
Bach Prelude and Fugue no 2 in C minor BWV 847
Shostakovich Prelude and Fugue no 15 in D flat major
ENSEMBLEBASH
Peter Garland Apple Blossom
Howard Skempton Shiftwork
Nick Hayes Dance Play
JOANNA MACGREGOR & ENSEMBLEBASH
Frederic Rzewski Winnsboro' Cottonmill Blues
Interval
JOANNA MACGREGOR & ENSEMBLEBASH
John Cage Credo in US 15'
ENSEMBLEBASH
Keith Tippett Dance of the Dragonfly
JOANNA MACGREGOR
Egberto Gismonti Frevo
JOANNA MACGREGOR & ENSEMBLEBASH
Two Afro Sambas,
Piazzolla Tangos
Description:
Ensemblebash is a percussion group whose name does scant justice to their subtlety, virtuosity and global outlook, though it does hint at the mad humour and looselimbed jiving that enlivens their shows. Here they join forces with that most adventurous of pianists, Joanna MacGregor.
Formed in 1992, the British percussion quartet ensemblebash has forged a reputation as one of the world’s most innovative and groundbreaking chamber ensembles. They have toured the UK and Europe extensively, including regular appearances at the BBC Proms and the Southbank Centre, and in recent years four major tours of Italy, including a performance for the Primo Maggio concert in Rome to an audience of more than 500,000. Further afield ensemblebash has performed throughout Ghana, at the Melbourne and Sydney International Festivals, and in Hong Kong, to mark the handover of the colony to the Chinese.
Joanna MacGregor is thought of as one of the world’s most wide-ranging and innovative musicians and has pursued a life connecting many genres of music defying categorizations. She has performed in over sixty countries often appearing as a solo artist with many of the world's leading orchestras.
Location:
Trinity Church, Mansel Road SW19 4AA
Price:£28, £23, £15 WMF - 3.00pm Sunday 13 November 2011
ENSEMBLEBASH – Percussion Ensemble
Chris Brannick - Joby Burgess
Stephen Hiscock - Genevieve Wilkins
Description:
One of the great percussion ensembles in the world, Ensemblebash are renowned for their workshops and concerts for the young, and for making.
"It was educational, if you wanted it to be, but also richly entertaining. And the fact that the performers actually spoke wittily to the audience (the arena was packed, even at 11.30 pm) was a huge plus. It should happen more often." - The Times
Location:
Trinity Church, Mansel Road, SW19 4AA
Price:
Adults: £8, Children (ages 5-18): £5
WMF - 2.30pm Sunday 27 November 2011
Description:
WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT, dramatist, librettist, poet and wit died a hundred years ago from a heart attack while saving a young lady from drowning The inscription on Gilbert's memorial on the south wall of the Thames Embankment in London reads: "His Foe was Folly, and his Weapon Wit"
Gilbert aware that he was known for being prickly celebrated it in the misanthrope’s song in Princess Ida –“I thought it my duty to live up to my reputation. Gruff and disagreeable he might appear to many, but those that knew him refer to his generosity and good humour. “Like many other clever people he had precious little use of fools of either sex, but was at heart a kindly and lovable a man as you could wish to meet.”
The perfect subject for a one man show, specially created for the International Wimbledon Music Festival, by JOHN SESSION who is renowned for his brilliant skills in improvisation, comedy and impersonation.
Location:
The Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond
Price:
£15 from Orange Tree Box Office WMF - 12.30pm Thursday 17 November 2011
Lunchtime event
Two of the most distinguished music critics of their generation
DAVID CAIRNS and TULLY POTTER debate:
'WHAT MAKES A GREAT QUARTET?’
Description:
With the musical participation of the long established
Festival Quartet in residence - The BRODSKY QUARTET
and a young String Quartet on the threshold of a life in music
Pupils from the YEHUDI MENUHIN SCHOOL
Members of the audience are welcome to participate in the debate.
DAVID CAIRNS' work in journalism has spanned a number of high profile newspapers and magazines. He was chief music critic of the Sunday Times from 1983 to 1992, having earlier been music critic and arts editor of The Spectator. Other publications for which he has been a music critic include the Evening Standard, Financial Times and New Statesman. As author of two books on Belioz he is the winner of many important literary awards.
TULLY POTTER recently completed, after thirty years, the first-ever full-length biography of the German violinist and composer Adolf Busch (1891-1952), 'he Life of an Honest Musician' Leader of the legendary Busch Quartet, Adolf Busch was for many the finest violinist of his day. This monumental publication chronicles his life in detail, and has been reviewed as "a magisterial account ... it is impossible to imagine anything surpassing it."
Location:
Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park
Price:
£10 Pre-booked or on the door WMF - 1.00pm Tuesday 22 November 2011
PIERS ADAMS recorders
DAVID WRIGHT harpsichordist
Description:
Piers Adams is widely regarded as the foremost recorder virtuoso in the world.
"Staggering..." "Breathtaking..." "Dazzling..." "Legendary..." "The reigning recorder virtuoso in the world today!"
In this lunchtime recital he reveals the astonishing world of the recorder from medieval, through renaissance, baroque to modern instruments, and in all its shapes and sizes from the shrill sopranino and the even shriller garklein to the Boris Christoff of recorders, the sub-subcontrabass or octocontrabass...
But it is not only the fascination of instruments themselves, but what really takes the breath away is what Piers Adams can do with them!
In recital, Piers Adams performs in programmes of astonishing breadth. With his unique collection of recorders he leads his audience from Arcadian gardens to wild gypsy carnivals, from the salons of Vienna to the cloistered walkways of English academia, from Zen theatre to sleazy Manhattan bars.
His playing has recently been described as "almost legendary - it simply has to be heard to be believed" (Musical Opinion) and as " beyond virtuosity into the realms of improbability" (Classic CD).
Location:
St John’s, Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ
Price:
Pre-booked or on the door £12 WMF - 1.00pm Friday 25 November 2011
Come and hear the stars of the future
Description:
Yehudi Menuhin founded the famous school in 1963 and created the ideal conditions in which musically gifted children might develop their potential to the full. The School now educates more than seventy talented boys and girls between 8 and 19. The range of instruments is limited to violin, viola, cello, double bass, guitar and piano.
In 1973 the School was accorded special status as a Centre of Excellence for the Performing Arts.
Programme: 1.00pm Friday 25 November 2011
Location:
St John’s, Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ
Tickets:
By Donation at the Church WMF - 8.00pm Thursday 17 November 2011
BEETHOVEN MASTERWORKS FOR STRING QUARTET THE BRODSKY QUARTET
Daniel Rowland, Ian Belton violins
Paul Cassidy viola, Jacqueline Thomas cello
‘Early – Middle – Late Beethoven’
• Beethoven String Quartet in F major Op 18 No1
• Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op 95
-Interval –
• Beethoven String Quartet in A minor Op 132
Description:
These three great quartets spanning his composing life epitomize the genius of Beethoven in this demanding form.
The Brodsky Quartet are at the forefront of the international chamber music scene. Their love and mastery of the traditional string quartet repertoire is evident from their highly acclaimed performances of composers ranging from Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert and Tchaikovsky to Shostakovich, Bartok, and Britten, as well as from their extensive, award-winning discography. They have received many accolades and prizes including the coveted Royal Philharmonic Society Prize.
"They are one of a handful of string quartets that have come to represent an elite in redefining the nature and function of a string quartet ensemble." The Scottish Herald
Location:
St Mary’s, Merton Park SW19 3HJ
Price: £28, £23, £15 WMF - 8.00pm Saturday 19 November 2011
MIKHAIL RUDY
FRANZ LISZT Sonetto del Petrarca 104
WAGNER-LISZT Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Interval
MUSSORGSKI - KINDINSKY ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’
with simultaneous projection of animated montage of Kandinsky’s theatrical version
Description:
“I made it to Paris and back, despite snow, to see a mesmerising world premiere. [My] favourite Russian pianist Mikhail Rudy, one of the more inquisitive and creative types on the piano circuit, discovered that in 1928 the ever-musical artist Wassily Kandinsky had been commissioned to design a theatrical version of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Some watercolours, drawings and detailed instructions survived (above, The Great Gate of Kiev, complete with Kandinsky's annotations) and Micha decided to rework them with the help of an expert animation company into a new vision for a new century. They screened the results for the first time on Tuesday night and he performed the music live together with it. Kandinsky's paintings came to life and danced... If Kandinsky had designed Fantasia it might have looked something like this: a 1920s fairytale, cool, ironic, fun and satisfying. I hope it'll run and run."
Jessica Duchen (Standpoint / International Piano Magazine)
“This is playing of the highest order of imagination.” THE GRAMOPHONE
“The superhuman virtuosity (Rudy) exhibited made it far and away
the musical highlight of the night POST GAZETTE (Pittsburgh)
Location:
St John’s, Spencer Hill SW19 4NZ
Price: £28, £23, £15 7.30pm Sunday 18th December 2011
THE COLOUR HOUSE ENSEMBLE WITH SIMON BALLARD (PIANO)
HANDEL: Concerto Grosso, Opus 6 No.5 in D
HUMMEL: Piano Quintet in E flat
WARLOCK: Capriol Suite, Bethelehem Down
GRAINGER: Handel in the Strand
KIRBY: The Colour House, Christmas Box
Description:
Christmas cheer with one of Handel’s finest string concertos; a brilliant and racy Quintet by Beethoven’s younger contemporary; Peter Warlock’s most celebrated work, together with one of his most haunting songs in a chamber arrangement; this year’s seasonal medley by our cellist John Kirby; and (by popular request!) a repeat of the rollicking “Handel in the Strand” to end the Grainger anniversary year in style.
Location:
Colour House Theatre at Merton Abbey Mills, Wimbledon
Price:
12, Concession £9.
More Information:
www.mertonabbeymusic.com
7.30pm Sunday 18th December 2011
7.30pm Sunday 27th November 2011
THE BROMLEY SYMPHONY WIND SOLOISTS
MOZART: Serenade no.10 in B flat for thirteen wind instruments K361
Description:
This outstanding group has given us superb performances of the major repertoire pieces over the last four years, and now we are thrilled to present the greatest of all wind band pieces, Mozart’s sublime “Gran Partita” for thirteen wind instruments - fifty minutes long and in six movements, this promises to be a real connoisseurs’ event, and certainly the largest group of players we have ever featured in the series!
Location:
Colour House Theatre at Merton Abbey Mills, Wimbledon
Price: £12, Concession £9.
More Information:
www.mertonabbeymusic.com
Marryat Players Summer Concert
Forthcoming Concerts
Wednesday 20th July 2011
at 7.30pm
Max Baillie First Performance of a New Composition for Electric Violin and String Orchestra
Frederic Chopin Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor
Benjamin Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Alexander Baillie conductor
Omri Epstein piano
The Great Hall
King's College School
Southside
Wimbledon Common
SW19 4TT
Free admission
FRIDAY 24TH JUNE 2011
St. Gabriel's Church
Warwick Square, Pimlico
London, SW1V 2AD
Debussy: Pour le Piano
Liszt: Funerailles
Mompou: Canciones y Danzas
and a collection of pieces by English composers selected for a forthcoming recording by
The Delius Society, including Delius, Quilter, Moeran and Bax
Tickets:
Including programme and refreshments: £15
Concessions/Friends: £10
Buy five tickets get one free
For more information visit: www.st-gabriels.com/friends Music for China's Abandoned Children
On December 10th 2010 Ning Kam, Singaporean classical violinist and David Gotts, ICC’s founder and Chief Executive will be hosting a benefit concert in The Emmanuel Centre, Westminster, London.
Ning has performed in concerts all over the world (www.ningkam.com) and she will be accompanied by pianist Carole Presland of The Royal Northern College of Music.
A. Hanna & Sons Pianos are delighted to be able to collaborate in this event by providing a grand piano for the event.
For more information on what will be a great night, please click here. Wednesday 13th April 2011
at 7.30pm
Percy Grainger Mock Morris
Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in D op.6 no.1
Gustav Mahler Adagietto from Symphony no.5
Giovanni Sollima Violoncelles, vibrez!
Jean Sibelius Rakastava (The Lover)
Béla Bartók Rumanian Folk Dances
Conducted by Robert Max
The Great Hall
King's College School
Southside
Wimbledon Common
SW19 4TT
Free admission
http://www.marryatplayers.com/
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Wednesday 20th July 2011
at 7.30pm
Conducted by Alexander Baillie
The Great Hall
King's College School
Southside
Wimbledon Common
SW19 4TT
Free admission
http://www.marryatplayers.com/
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Conducted by Tim Boulton
The Great Hall
King's College School
Southside
Wimbledon Common
SW19 4TT
Free admission
http://www.marryatplayers.com/
Thursday 15th July 2010
at 7.30pm
Conducted by Alexander Baillie
The Great Hall
King's College School
Southside
Wimbledon Common
Free admission
http://www.marryatplayers.com/
150 FREE PIANO LESSONS!
On April 24th 2010, Rhythm of London invites 150 young Londoners to take a free keyboard lesson on some of the world's most magnificent pianos.
Absolute beginners to advanced players – all are welcome!
Saturday 10th April 2010
at 7.30pm
Conducted by Tim Boulton
The Great Hall
King's College School
Southside
Wimbledon Common
Free admission
http://www.marryatplayers.com/
Sunday 28th March 2010 7.30pm at The Colour House Theatre, Merton Abbey Mills
THE JOHANNES PIANO QUARTET:
KHAC-UYEN NGUYEN (violin), GILL TARLTON (viola), JOHN KIRBY (cello), CATHY RILEY (piano)
BEETHOVEN:
Piano Quartet in E flat Opus 16
CHOPIN:
Introduction and Polonaise in C
BRAHMS:
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor
Brahms's three piano quartets are among his greatest chamber works, the G minor being especially red-blooded and passionate, reminding one that he spent his late teens touring Hungary playing gypsy music! Before it we hear Beethoven's captivating Opus 16, originally written as a quintet for piano and wind instruments, but arranged by the composer himself in a string version and every bit as good. Between them John and Cathy mark the Chopin bicentenary with one of the composer's great showpieces, and one of the very few works he wrote that wasn't for piano alone, the glorious "Introduction and Polonaise Brillante".
See Website for booking details
Sunday, 14th March 2010: 7.30pm
Woking Concert Society, The Kemp Room, H. G. Wells Centre, Church Street East, Woking, Surrey GU21 6HJ
J. Haydn - Piano Trio in C major, Hob. XV:27
A. Schnittke - Piano Trio
F. Schubert - Piano Trio in E Flat Major, D929
with the Erato Piano Trio
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See John Paul Ekins website for further details
Saturday, 20th March 2010: 7.30pm
St. Andrew's United Reformed Church, Northey Avenue, Cheam SM2 7HF
C. Franck - Symphonic Variations
with Sutton Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, 13th March 2010: 7pm
Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, Mayfair, London W1
J-M. Leclair - Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 3 in D Major
W. A. Mozart - Rondo from Serenade No. 7, K. 250 "Haffner"
B. Bartok - Romanian Dances for Violin & Piano
J. Brahms - Sonata for Piano & Violin in A Major, Op.100
M. Ravel - Tzigane
With Tudor Andrei (Violin)
Sunday, 21st February 2010: 3pm
Saint Paul's Church, Herne Hill, London SE24
G. Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
with St Bartholomew’s Orchestra
See John Paul Ekins website for further details
Saturday, 30th January 2010: 7.30pm
Wathen Hall, St. Paul's School, Lonsdale Road, Barnes, London SW13
G. Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue
with Ealing Youth Orchestra
See John Paul Ekins website for further details
Sunday 24th January 2010 7.30pm at The Colour House Theatre, Merton Abbey Mills
NEIL BLACK (Oboe), CAROLINE MARWOOD (Oboe), JANICE KNIGHT (Cor Anglais), THOMAS FAULKNER (Bass), THE COLOUR HOUSE ENSEMBLE
ALBINONI:
Oboe Concerto in D minor
JOHN IRELAND:
Minuet from A Downland Suite BACH:
Cantata No.82 "Ich habe genug" HINDEMITH:
Five Pieces for Strings
BACH:
Cantata No. 56 "Ich will den Kreutzstab gerne tragen"
As Musical Director of St Thomas's Leipzig the astonishing Bach produced a new cantata, week in week out for many years, to mark each stage of the liturgical year. Over 200 of them have survived, though it's likely there were many more, and each one is consistently of the highest quality, making the series one of music's true miracles. We hear the two great examples for bass voice, both with exquisite obbligato parts for oboe. Caroline also gives us the dazzling concerto by the Italian master Albinoni, and to leaven the Baroque bread we also hear five delightful pieces by the now unjustly neglected twentieth century German composer Hindemith, as well as Ireland's meltingly nostalgic Minuet.
See Website for booking details RACHEL NICHOLLS (SOPRANO)
SIMON BALLARD (PIANO)
FAURE:
A selection including "Apres un Reve" and "Automne"
SCHUMANN:
Frauenliebe und Leben"
BRITTEN:
Cabaret Songs
NOEL COWARD:
A selection including "Mad about the Boy", "Some Day I'll Find You" and "Nina from Argentina"
We welcome back an outstandingly versatile young soprano and Sunday Evening Friend, whose international career has ranged from recordings with Masaaki Suzuki’s celebrated Bach Collegium Japan to Wagner’s Parsifal atCovent Garden. Rachel has performed a wide variety of works in this series too, including, unforgettably, chamber operas by Telemann and Bach, some of Beethoven’s charming folk song arrangements, Villa Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras No.5 and, most recently, Strauss’s Four Last Songs. In this recital she shows her range with a lieder classic, Schumann’s touching cycle “A Woman’s Life and Love”, some of the finest French songs ever written, and some delightful English jeux d’esprit.
CAROLINE MARWOOD (OBOE)
SARAH THURLOW (CLARINET)
LYNN COOK (VIOLIN)
THE COLOUR HOUSE ENSEMBLE
ALBINONI: Concerto a Cinque
Opus 5 No.1 in B flat
MARTINU: Serenade for Oboe,
Clarinet, Four Violins and Cello
BACH: Violin and Oboe Concerto
BRAHMS: Clarinet Quintet
Brahms was near the end of his life and had more or less retired from composition, when he was inspired by the clarinettist Mühlfeld to write this wonderfully autumnal quintet, one of the great chamber classics. The concerto by Bach is one of his most sublime, and we precede it with one by Albinoni, the epitome of Italian Baroque elegance, followed by one of the many enchanting pieces written for unusual combinations by the C20th Czech master.
A FRIDAY EVENING
CONCERT
AMONGST FRIENDS
AT
ALL SAINTS CHURCH CARSHALTON
High Street
“The Church by the Ponds”
One of a series of our usual
CARSHALTON ARTS
FREE ADMISSION CONCERTS
Friday 10th September 2010
At 7:30 pm
A SELECTION OF CONCERT PIECES FOR THE
PIANOFORTE
Performed by
LEANNE SINGH-LEVETT
Please come and help us in our quest to acquire a piano which will be worthy of our magnificent church surroundings and would enhance our reputation as a provider of worshipful services and quality presentations.
Refreshments will be available
With our compliments
Pianos supplied with thanks by HANNA PIANOS.
At the end of the concert we would be grateful if you would take the opportunity to help us defra the evening’s expenses.
THE JOHANNES QUARTET
MOZART: Piano Trio in C K548
Divertimento K563 - movements IV, II, VI
BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor Opus 60
This remarkable ensemble has given us the first two of Brahms’s three piano quartets to great acclaim. They complete the set now with perhaps the finest of them, a mature and richly sonorous work with an especially lovely slow movement. In the first half we hear one of Mozart’s most sparkling piano trios, followed by three movements from his extraordinary Divertimento for String Trio in E flat. Its name and original six-movement form suggest typical C18th light music, but in fact this glorious piece is universally regarded as the greatest of all works for the medium.
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