CITY MUSIC SOCIETY
Lunchtime Concerts
Thursdays at 1.05 pm at St Bartholomew the
Great,
West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE
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20th January 2022 | |
Maurizio Arroyo Reyes piano |
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Brahms | Capriccios Op.76, Nos.1 & 2 |
Albéniz | El Albaicín |
Mussorgsky | Pictures at an Exhibition |
Born in Bogota, Colombia, Maurizio Arroyo Reyes was the winner of The Musicians’ Company’s Carnwath Piano Scholarship in 2020. Following studies at the Real Conservatorio Superio de Musica in Madrid, Maurizio has developed his skills and experience at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He demonstrates his virtuosity and musicality in Mussorgsky’s majestic suite of vivid descriptions of paintings by Viktor Hartmann, providing a striking contrast with one of Albéniz’s gorgeous pieces from his suite Iberia. |
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27th January 2022 | |
Ben Tarlton cello |
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Beethoven |
Cello Sonata No.4 in C Op.102, No.1 |
Schumann |
Three Romances Op.94 |
Messiaen |
Louange à l'Éternité de Jésus (from Quartet for the End of Time) |
Bartók |
Rhapsody No.1 |
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3rd February 2022 | |
Ensemble Hesperi |
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Echoes of London: Baroque Music from Europe’s musical capital | |
Blow |
Trio Sonata in A |
Bannister |
Divisions on a Ground |
Purcell | Sonatas of Three Parts No. 1 in G minor |
Handel |
Trio Sonata in F HWV 389 |
Oswald |
Airs for Autumn; Airs for Spring |
Matteis |
Ground after the Scotch Humour |
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10th February 2022 | |
Alkyona Quartet |
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The 2,000th City Music Society lunchtime concert |
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Adam Kornas |
Paradise Lost (first performance – commissioned by City Music Society) |
Shostakovich
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Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor Op.108 |
Mendelssohn |
Quartet in F minor Op.80 |
Formed in London in 2018, the Alkyona Quartet took the Greek name of the kingfisher to link the flash of the bird’s flight to the fleeting musical moment. Winners of the Tunnell Trust Award and selected artists on the Making Music scheme as winners of the Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists Award in 2020, the quartet undertakes the world premiere of Adam Kornas’s commission, funded by a legacy from former Honorary Secretary of the Society, Ursula Overbury. |
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The audience is invited to a post-concert wine reception in the Cloisters to celebrate City Music Society’s 2,000th lunchtime concert. |
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17th February 2022 |
RCM Wind Ensemble |
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Joseph Horovitz |
Fantasia on a theme of Couperin |
Richard Strauss |
Symphony for Wind Instruments 'Fröhliche Werkstatt' for 16 wind instruments |
After a year’s absence the Royal College of Music’s Wind Ensemble makes a very welcome return with one of Richard Strauss’s most significant late works his ‘Happy Workshop’ echoing the great wind serenades and partita of Mozart. Alongside it the ensemble plays one of the most popular compositions by RCM Emeritus Professor Joseph Horovitz, composer of the famous Rumpole of the Bailey TV theme. |
24th February 2022 |
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Dramma per Musica Rory Carver tenor Harry Buckoke viola da gamba Jonatan Bougt theorbo and chitarrone |
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Metamorphoses |
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Marco da Gagliano |
Ovidio’s prologue (from La Dafne) |
Marco da Gagliano |
Un guardo (from La Dafne) |
Lully |
Le sacrifice de Mars (from Cadmus et Hermione) |
Lully |
Belle Hermione (from Cadmus et Hermione) |
Lully |
Ah! si la liberté (from Armide) |
Henry Lawes |
A tale out of Anacreon |
Lawes |
Slide soft, you silver floods |
Lawes |
A storm |
Monteverdi |
Rosa del ciel (from L’Orfeo) |
Kapsberger |
Toccata |
Caccini |
Non piango e non sospiro (from L’Euridice) |
Purcell |
O! fair Cedaria |
Lawes |
Orpheus’ Hymn to God |
van Eyck |
Doen Daphne d'over schoone Maeght |
Cavalli |
Delizie contenti (from Il Giasone) |
Dramma per Musica’s formal debut was part of the Brighton Early Music Festival’s young artist scheme in 2018 since when they have performed extensively throughout the UK and Europe. Seeking ‘drama through music’ the ensemble explores the wide influence of the poet Ovid and of the characters in his masterpiece as 17th-century composers and librettists sought classical models of musical expression. |
3rd March 2022 | |
Turadh Quartet |
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Beethoven |
Quartet in C minor Op.18 No.4 |
Debussy |
Quartet Op.10 |
Formed by four close friends who met whilst studying at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Turadh Quartet was awarded a Maisie Lewis Young Artist concert in the Purcell Room by the Musicians’ Company in 2019. A truly international group, consisting of musicians from Scotland, The Netherlands, Singapore and Hungary, the quartet plays Debussy’s 1893 Quartet, described by Pierre Boulez as freeing chamber music ‘from rigid structure, frozen rhetoric and rigid aesthetics.’ |
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Concert dedicated to the memory of Geoffrey Lewis, former Vice-President of City Music Society |
10th March 2022 | |
Yuko Sano piano |
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Haydn |
Fantasia in C HobXVII:4 |
J.S. Bach |
French Suite No.5 in G BWV816 |
Schubert | Fantasie in C Op.15 D760 (Wanderer Fantasy) |
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17th March 2022 |
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Trinity Laban String Ensemble |
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Vivaldi |
The Four Seasons |
From the bird song of Spring to the cracking of ice in Winter, Vivaldi captures the extraordinary sounds of the changing seasons in his iconic work. In this fresh interpretation, which combines music, naturalistic sounds and movement, the score is brought to life in new ways by the senior string ensemble of Trinity Laban Conservatoire. |
24th March 2022 | |
Thomas Kelly piano |
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Beethoven |
Sonata in E Major Op.14 No.1 |
Brahms |
4 Klavierstücke Op.119 |
Medtner |
Skazki (Fairytales) Op.20, No.2 |
Glazunov/Blumenfeld |
Concert Waltz Op.47, No.1 |
The 22-year-old pianist Thomas Kelly achieved a remarkable success in reaching the final of the 2021 Leeds International Piano Competition as one of the youngest competitors and his performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto was greeted with praise for his original approach to such a familiar work. A student at the Royal College of Music, he has already garnered success in many other competitions and in 2020 won The Musicians’ Company Beethoven Medal. |
For further information
about these concerts please contact
Leslie.East1@btopenworld.com
Latest
update: 29 December 2021
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