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This is a list of previous lunch time concerts, since September 2008. Please note that the web links are not regularly checked and some of them may now be out of date.

2008

Thursday 25 September: Vlad Bourceanu (violin) and Mina Miletic (piano)

Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano, C minor Op 30 No 2
Debussy: Sonata for violin and piano in G minor
Ravel: Tzigane (Rhapsody for violin and piano)

Thursday 9 October: Nigel Blomiley (cello) and Tatiana Sarkissova (piano)

Stravinsky: Suite Italienne
Beethoven: Sonata No. 3 in A major for cello and piano

Thursday 23 October: Sally Quantrill (flute) and Juliet Allen (piano)

Kenneth Leighton: Serenade in C for flute and piano (Op. 19a)
Philippe Gaubert: Ballade for flute and piano
Claude Arrau: Sonatine for flute and piano
George Gershwin: Prelude for piano (arr. for flute and piano by Peter Lynch)
Charles Koechlin: Five pieces for piccolo and piano (from 14 pieces, Op. 157 bis)
Philippe Gaubert: Sonata No. 3 for flute and piano

Thursday 6 November: Björn Kleiman (violin) and Johan Hugosson (piano)

Tor Aulin: Four Watercolours
Chopin: Scherzo No. 3 in C# minor
Pablo de Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20
Franck: Sonata in A major

Thursday 20 November: Masa Tayama (piano)

Mozart: Twelve variations on Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman, KV265
Tchaikovsky: The seasons (Op. 37b): October
Rachmaninov: Étude-tableaux in E flat minor (Op. 39, No. 5) (Appassionato) and in D major (Op. 39, No. 9) (Oriental March)
Chopin: Étude in F major (Op, 10, No. 8) and Nocturne in E flat major (Op. 9, No. 2)
Beethoven: Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata)

Thursday 4 December: The Nonesuch Orchestra

Hindemith: Trauermusik
Telemann: Concerto in G
(These two pieces featuring viola soloist Felix Tanner - pictured right)
Arensky: Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky
Per Norgard: Pastoral
John Rutter: Suite for Strings

Thursday 18 December: Christmas music with Carolus Rex

2009

Thursday 22 January: Jill Crossland (piano)

Bach: Fantasy in C minor, BWV906
Bach: Selections from the Well-tempered Clavier (Bk 1, Nos 4, 9, 10; Bk 2, No. 1)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor (Moonlight)
Chopin: Etudes: Op 25 Nos 1 and 2; Fantasie-Impromptu

Thursday 5 February: The Arlequin Trio (Jessica Chan, Dominika Rosiek, Charlotte Forsey)

Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 11 ("Gassenhauer")
Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15

Thursday 19 February: Clare Jones (piano)

Handel (arranged Geehl): Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Beethoven: Sonata in E flat, Op. 7
Chopin: Impromptu in F#, Op. 36; Three Mazurkas (F, Op. 68, No. 3; A flat, Op. 59, No. 2; C, Op. 24 No. 2)
Poulenc: Impromptu 15 (Hommage à Piaf)
Satie: Le Piccadilly
Ponce: Intermezzo No. 1; Estrellita
Teresa Carreño: Teresita Waltz
Ronald Stevenson: "There's news, lasses, news" from "Eight songs of Francis George Scott"

Thursday 5 March: Joas Cardoso (cello) and Christina McMaster (piano) (please note change)

Programme will include:
Schubert: Sonata in A major, D. 959 (1828)

Thursday 19 March: Neil Crossland (piano)

Beethoven: Sonata No. 8, Op. 13, Pathetique
Beethoven: Sonata No. 14, Op. 27, No. 2, Moonlight
Liszt: Chapelle de Guillaume Tell and Valée d'Obermann (both from Années de Pélérinage Bk 1)

Thursday 2 April: Carolus Rex

Thursday 23 April: Odinn Baldvinsson (flute) and Rhodri Clarke (piano)

Thursday 7 May: Phillip Dyson (piano)

Concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the death of Billy Mayerl, including works by Mayerl, Scott Joplin, Fats Wallter, George Garshwin and Felix Arndt

Thursday 21 May: Young-Kyung Yu (violin) and Emma Abbate (piano)

Beethoven: Romance in F, Op. 50
Mozart: Sonata in F for piano and violin, KV376
Bartók (arr. Székely): Romanian Folk Dances
Ravel: Tzigane

Thursday 4 June: The Plaegan Piano Quartet

Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat, Op. 47
Mahler: Quartet Movement (1876)
Josef Suk: Piano Quartet (1891)

Thursday 18 June: Niel du Preez (piano)

D Scarlatti: Sonata in D minor, K 491
Schubert: Sonata in G major, D 894
Mendelssohn: Variations sérieuses in D minor, Op 54

Thursday 2 July: Alexandra and Charlotte Reid (violins) and Elizabeth Burgess (piano)

Handel: Sonata in G minor, op. 2 no. 5
Rubbra: Phantasy for two violins and piano, op. 16
Martinu: Sonatine pour deux violons et piano
Sinding: Serenade No. 2 in A major for two violins and piano, op. 92

Thursday 24 September: Luisa Valmori-Sen and Heather Chamberlain (piano duet)

Thursday 8 October: John MacDomnic (trumpet) and Adrian Boynton (organ/piano)

Thursday 22 October: Sally Quantrill (flute) and Juliet Allen (piano)

Richard Rodney Bennett: Summer music for flute and piano
Vaughan Williams: Suite de Ballet for flute and piano
Richard Lane: Sonata for flute and piano
Handel: Sonata in F major for flute and piano
Ian Clarke: Hypnosis for flute and piano
Cecilia McDowall: Two impressions for piccolo and piano
Alan Richardson: Sonatina for flute and piano

Thursday 5 November: Valentin Schiedermair (piano)

Mozart: Sonata in A minor K.310
Debussy: Estampes
Chopin: Nocturne in E flat major Op. 55 No. 2
Waltz in A flat major op.42
Ballade in F minor op.52

Thursday 19 November: Evelyn Chadwick (violin) and Alan Reddish (piano)

Thursday 3 December: The Nonesuch Orchestra

Purcell: Abdelazer or the Moor's Revenge
John Middleton: Four Violin Duos
Vivaldi: Winter (Four Seasons)
Janacek: Suite for String Orchestra
Tchaikowsky arr Glazunov: Andante from String Quartet
Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6 No. 4 in A minor

Thursday 17 December: Christmas music

2010

Thursday 14 January: David Carhart (piano)

Haydn: Sonata in A (Hob XVI:30)
Schubert: Impromptus in B flat and F minor (Op. 142)
Schumann: Fantasy Pieces (Op. 12)
Liszt: Consolation in D flat
Chopin: Ballade No. 3 in A flat

Thursday 28 January: The Lawson Trio

Schubert: Sonatensatz in B flat major, D28
Hellawell: Etruscan Games
Rachmaninov: Trio elegiaque No. 1
Haydn: Trio in C major, Hob XV:27
Rubenstein: Romance: "The Night"

Thursday 11 February: Dimitar Burov (violin) and Mina Miletic (piano)

Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano in G, Op. 30 No. 3
Franck: Sonata for violin and piano in A

Thursday 25 February: Sally Rose (piano)

J S Bach: Fantasie in C minor, BWV 906
C P E Bach: Solfeggietto
Mozart: Sonata in C minor, K 457
Chopin: Polonaise, Op. 26 No. 1
Chopin: Nocturne in C sharp minor
Debussy: La Soirée dans Grenade
Liszt: Étude de Concert No. 3

Thursday 11 March: Sam Liu (piano)

Scarlatti: Sonata in F minor
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor, book 1
Granados: The Maiden and the Nightingale (Goyescas)
Liszt: Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude

Thursday 25 March: Carolus Rex

Thursday 15 April: Björn Kleiman (violin) and Nils Klöfver (guitar) (joint website)

Bach: Sonata No 6 in G-Major, BWV 1019 (Arrangement for violin and alto guitar by Nils Klöfver)
Schubert: Sonatina in D Major, Op. 137 No 1 (Arrangement for violin and guitar by Mats Bergström)
Manuel de Falla: Three pieces from Suite Populaire Espagnole (Arr. P. Kochanski) (El paño moruno, Nana, Jota)
Albert Schnelzer: Scene II
Astor Piazzolla: Café (1930) and Nightclub (1960) from Histoire du Tango

Thursday 29 April: Vlad Bourceanu (violin) and Catherine Dubois (piano) [please note change of pianist]

Massenet: Meditation (from Thaïs)
Ysaye: Sonata No. 3 for solo violin, Op. 27, "Ballade"
Saint-Saëns: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Bach: Andante from Sonata No. 2 for solo violin, BWV 1003
Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
Bach: Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for solo violin, MBV 1004

Thursday 13 May: Phillip Dyson (piano)

A Chopin concert to celebrate his bicentenary
Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49
Berceuse in D flat major, Op. 57
Grande Valse brillante in E flat major, Op. 18
Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47
Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4
Scherzo No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 31

Thursday 27 May: Unji Chung (flute) and Heejung Kim (piano)

Sigfrid Karg-Elert: Chaconne (Capriccio No. 30), Op. 107
Karl Aage Rasmussen: Pièce de Concours
Carl Nielsen: Flute Concerto
Cristóbal Halffter: "Debla"
Claude-Paul Taffanel: Fantaisie sur le Freyschutz

Thursday 10 June: Jan Daniël du Preez (piano)

J S Bach: Toccata in E minor, BWV 914
Haydn: Sonata in C major, Hob. XVI No. 50
Mendelssohn: Four Songs without Words (Op. 53, No. 3; Op. 85, No. 2; Op. 38, No. 6; Op 85, No. 3)
F Chopin: Barcarolle in F# minor, Op. 60
Debussy: L'Île Joyeuse

Thursday 24 June: Nigel Blomiley (cello) and Tatiana Sarkissova (piano)

Beethoven: Twelve variations on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" from "The Magic Flute", Op 66
Schumann: Five Pieces in Volkston (Folk style), Op 102
Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op 70
Beethoven: Seven variations on "Bei Männern welche liebe fühlen" from "The Magic Flute", Woo 66
Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op 73

Thursday 8 July: Sally Rose (piano) and Alison Eales (piano)

Fauré: Berceuse (Dolly Suite)
Brahms: Hungarian Dances Nos. 1 and 2
Debussy: Nos. 1 and 2 from 6 Epigraphes Antiques
Schubert: Fantasie in F minor
Poulenc: Sonata

Thursday 23 September: Valentin Schiedermair (piano)

J S Bach: Partita No. 2 in C minor (1727)
Beethoven: Sonata in E major, Op. 14, No. 1 (1798-99)
Chopin: Nocturne in E minor, Op. posth. 72, No. 1 (1827)
Chopin: Four Mazurkas, Op. 6 (1830)
Chopin: Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise brillante, Op. 22 (1830-34)

Thursday 7 October: Felicity Vincent (cello) and Anne Shasby (piano)

Schumann: Adagio and Allegro in A flat, Op. 70
Schumann: Five Pieces in Volkston (Folk style), Op. 102
Chopin: Sonata in G minor, Op 65

Thursday 21 October: Johan Hugosson (piano)

Bach/Busoni: Chaconne
Schumann: Scenes from Childhood
Schumann: Études Symphoniques

Thursday 4 November: Odinn Baldvinsson (flute) and Patricia Romero (piano)

Fauré: Fantaisie Op. 79
Carl Reinecke: Sonata "Undine", Op. 167
Rachmaninov: Vocalise
Saint-Saëns: Romance Op. 37
Otar Taktakishvili: Sonata for flute and piano

Thursday 18 November: Philip Gammon (piano)

Bach: Goldberg Variations (Variations 16-30 and Aria)
Chopin: Berceuse, Op. 57; Waltz, Op. posth; Ballade No. 3 Op. 47; Prelude Op. 28 No. 4; Barcarolle Op. 60

Thursday 2 December: The Nonesuch Orchestra

Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances
Dudley Cohen: "Nigun" and "Der Rebbe Hot Geheisen Freilich Sein" from Suite of Jewish Dances
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings Op. 48

Thursday 16 December: Christmas Music

2011

Thursday 20 January: Samantha Ward (piano)

Scarlatti: Sonatas K11 in C minor and K466 in F minor
Beethoven: Six Bagatelles, Op. 126
Chopin: Nocturne, Op. 48, No. 2, in F# minor
Schumann: Arabesque, Op. 18, and Papillons, Op. 2

Thursday 3 February: Mansoon Bow (violin) and Sam Liu (piano)

Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105
Schumann: Romance in F# major, Op. 28, No. 2 (piano solo)
Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor, WoO 2

Thursday 17 February: Neil Crossland (piano)

Brahms: Six Piano Pieces (Op. 118): Intermezzos, Ballade, Romanze
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57, 'Appassionata'

Thursday 3 March: Angela Crispe (clarinet) and Alexander Wells (piano)

Stanford: Sonata for clarinet and piano
Alan Ridout: Concertino
François Devienne: Sonata in C minor
Debussy: Première Rhapsody
Rita Defoort: A tribute to Benny Goodman

Thursday 17 March: Paula Martinez (violin) and Anne Lovett (piano)

Beethoven: Violin and Piano Sonata No 5 in F Major, Op. 24 "Spring"
Schumann: Violin and Piano Sonata in A minor, Op. 105
Brahms:Piano and Violin Sonata in D minor, Op. 108
Ravel: Tzigane

Thursday 31 March: Eliza Marshall (flute) and Camilla Pay (harp) (joint website)

Mozart: Andante in C
Saint-Saëns: Le Cygne
Ian Clarke (b. 1964): Hypnosis
Gabriel Pierne: Impromptu Caprice
William Alwyn: Naiades
Francois-Joseph Naderman: Sonatine No. 2
Jacques Ibert: Entr'acte
Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango (Café 1930)
Phil Coulter: Home away from Home
Bill Whelan (b. 1950): Countess Cathleen & Women of Sidhe
François Borne: Fantaisie Brillante on themes from Bizet’s Carmen

Thursday 14 April: Organ and singing group

Bach: Chorale preludes from the Orgelbuchlein
Bach: Chorales from the St Matthew Passion
Victoria: Extracts from the Tenebrae Responsories
Byrd: Ave verum corpus
John IV of Portugal (attrib.): Crux fidelis
Gordon Phillips: Prelude on the Passion Chorale
Tallis: Salvator mundi
O Vos omnes (plainchant)
Thalben-Ball: Elegy

Thursday 5 May: Sally Rose (piano), Alison Eales (clarinet) and Pippa Mason (cello)

Bach: Movements from 1st Cello Suite
Seiber: Collection of Dances from Leichte Tänze (piano duet)
Mozart: Andante and Variations (piano duet)
Persichetti: Serenade No.8 (piano duet)
Brahms: Clarinet Trio, Op. 114

Thursday 19 May: Phillip Dyson (piano)

"Ragtime to Broadway"
Billy Mayerl: Sweet William; Jazzaristrix
Jerome Kern/Billy Mayerl: All The Things You Are
Billy Mayerl: Marigold
George Gershwin: Oh, Lady Be Good
arr. Percy Grainger: The Man I Love; I’ll Build A Stairway To Paradise; Love Walked In; I Got Rhythm
Scott Joplin: The Entertainer; Pine Apple Rag; Solace; Elite Syncopations
Billy Mayerl: Autumn Crocus
Felix Arndt: Nola
Fats Waller: Ain't Misbehavin'
Jerome Kern/Mayerl: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Percy French/Mayerl: Phil The Fluter’s Ball

Thursday 2 June: Johan Hugosson (piano) (please note change of artist)

Mozart: Sonata in B flat major, K333
Liszt: Funerailles (from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)
Liszt: Sonnet 123 of Petrarch (from Années de pèlerinage)
Liszt: Un Sospiro (from Three Concert Études)
Liszt: Étude No. 6: Theme and Variations in A minor (arrangement of a Caprice for solo violin by Paganini)

Thursday 16 June: Dimitar Burov (violin) and Mina Miletic (piano)

Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano in E flat major, Op. 12, No. 3
Mozart: Sonata for violin and piano in B flat major, KV 378
Ravel: Sonata for violin and piano

Thursday 30 June: John MacDomnic (trumpet) and Adrian Boynton (piano/organ)

Jeremiah Clarke: Suite in D major
J S Bach: Wir glauben einen Gott, Schopfer (Fugue in D minor)
Alan Hovhaness: Prayer of St Gregory
Alexander Aratunian: Trumpet Concerto
Thorvald Hansen: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op 18
Carl Höhne: Slavische Fantasie
John Ireland: Alla Marcia
Gershwin: Three Preludes
Jean-Baptiste Arban: Fantasie Brilliante

Thursday 22 September: The Plaegan Piano Quartet (augmented by Christopher Field, double bass)

Schubert: "Trout" Quintet in A major, Op. 114
Joaquín Turina: Piano Quartet in A Minor, Op. 67

Thursday 6 October: Valentin Schiedermair (piano)

Beethoven: Sonata in G minor, Op. 49, No. 1
Beethoven: Sonata in E flat major, Op. 31, No. 3
Beethoven: Sonata in G major, Op. 49, No. 2
Schubert: "Wanderer" Fantasy in C major, Op. 15 (D 760)

Thursday 20 October: Odinn Baldvinsson (flute) and Patricia Romero (piano)

Mozart: Andante in C
Widor: Suite for Flute and Piano, Op. 34
Fauré Fantaisie for Flute and Piano, Op. 79
Dvorak: Humoresque, Op. 101, No. 7
Francoise Borne: Fantaisie Brillante on Carmen
Poulenc: Sonata for Flute and Piano

Thursday 3 November: Jan Daniël du Preez (piano)

Handel: Suite in E major, HWV 430
Beethoven: Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 (Appassionata)
Liszt: Vallée d'Obermann
Debussy: Two Preludes from Book 1: La sérénade interrompue; Ce qu'a vue le vent d'ouest

Thursday 17 November: Björn Kleiman (violin) and Sholto Kynoch (piano)

Brahms: Scherzo for Violin and Piano from F.A.E.-Sonata
Max Bruch: Swedish Dances, Op. 63
Hindemith: Sonata in E flat major, Op. 11 No. 1
Ylva Skog: Four Shadows for Violin and Piano (2011)
Lars-Erik Larsson: Sonatina in G minor, Op. 3

Thursday 1 December: The Nonesuch Orchestra

Dvorák: Serenade Op 22
Bruce Montgomery: Concertino for String Orchestra
Grieg: Two Elegiac Melodies, Op. 34
Charles Avison: Concerto Grosso No. 1 in G minor

Thursday 15 December: Christmas music with Flore Philis (soprano), Bethia Hourigan (mezzo) and Felicity Sim (piano) with Ian Shaw, organist of St John's


Web page prepared by Simon Patrick (simonATsjpa.freeserve.co.uk), 5 January 2012