Thursday lunch-time concerts at 12.30 pm

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music We have held fortnightly lunch-time concerts on Thursdays at St John's since 1975.

We also have a Facebook page for our concerts.

Arrangements

There are concerts on alternate Thursdays from September to early July, so there are about 20 each year. Sometimes there is a three or four week gap at Christmas or Easter.
Tea, coffee and sandwiches etc. are available from 11.45 am and the concert begins at 12.30 pm.
There is usually an interval and the concert finishes about 1.45 or 2 pm.
Admission is free, but there is a collection on the way out to cover expenses.

Calendar

We publish dates and artists on this page as soon as they are available. Nearer the time of each concert we also list the proposed programme. Links to the artists' web sites are given if available. Details of previous concerts are available here.

Thursday 11 April: David Hughes (baritone) with Clare Jones (piano)

Handel: Revenge Timotheus Cries (from "Alexander's Feast") and Silent Worship (from "Ptolemy")
D. Scarlatti: Sonata in C, Kp 159 (piano)
Beethoven: Sonata, Op. 14 no. 1 (piano)
Jean-Baptiste Lully: Bois Épais
Reynaldo Hahn: A Chloris
Robert Schumann: Ich Grolle Nicht (from "Dichterliebe")
Franz Schubert: Ständchen
Helen Caskie: Summer (from "Four Seasonal Nocturnes", 1994) (piano)
Clare Jones: Tango-Milonga (2011) (piano)
Villa-Lobos: The Wheel (piano)
Stephen Foster: My Wife Is A Most Knowing Woman
arr Aaron Copland: Simple Gifts and I Bought Me A Cat (both from "Old American Songs")

Thursday 25 April: Paula Martinez (violin) and Marco Fatichenti (piano)

Violin favourites:
Fauré: Après un rêve
Massenet: Meditation (from Thaïs)
Bruch: Violin Concerto II - Adagio
Wieniawski: Legende, Op. 17
Elgar: Salut d'Amour
Franck: Violin Sonata: III - Ben Moderato: Recitative - Fantasia
Elgar: Chanson de Matin
Rachmaninov: Vocalise
John Williams: Theme from Schindler's List
Elgar: Nimrod (from Enigma Variations)
Brahms: Scherzo from the FAE Sonata

Thursday 9 May: Maciej Raginia (piano)

D. Scarlatti: Sonata in G minor, K. 8
Beethoven: Sonata in A flat major, Op. 110
Tchaikovsky: Grand Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 37

Thursday 23 May: Phillip Dyson (piano)

Scott Joplin: The Entertainer; Elite Syncopations; Solace
Felix Arndt: Nola
George Gershwin: Rialto Ripples
James Scott: Broadway Rag
Joseph Lamb: Ragtime Nightingale; Sensation
Scott Joplin: Pine Apple Rag; Binks' Waltz; Maple Leaf Rag
Billy Mayerl: Shallow Waters; Sweet William
George Gershwin: Three Preludes

Thursday 6 June: Joanne Rozario (clarinet and saxophone)

Clarinet:
Paul Reade: Prelude, Spring and Summer from "The Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite"
Richard Guinness: "Don't Ask Me Why"
Gerald Finzi: Five Bagatelles
Saxophone:
Pedro Itturalde: Hellenic Suite
Gabriel Grovlez: Sarabande and Allegro
Richard Guinness: Drowning your Sorrows and Bar Stool Tango from "Six Pint-Sized Pieces"
Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion; Libertango

Thursday 20 June: Clarinet ensemble

Thursday 4 July: Althea Howard (oboe) and Katherine May (harpsichord)

Web page prepared by Simon Patrick (simon

sjpa.freeserve.co.uk), 19 July 2008. Latest update: 11 May 2013