SJSS Jan - Feb - Flyer by St John's Smith Square

JANUARY

Box Office 020 7222 1061 sjss.org.uk

Patron HRH The Duchess of Cornwall

ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE Wed 6 January 1.00pm

Tue 12 January 7.30pm

EUCHARIST

LUKAS GENIUŠAS LONDON Southbank Centre’s PIANO TRIO International Piano Series © Zeneka Levin

Beethoven Cycle © Elija Paul Villanueva

Thu 21 January 7.30pm

Sun 24 January 3.00pm

Wed 27 January 7.30pm

FRANCOISEGREEN PIANO DUO

FIDELIO TRIO

The Viennese Salon

YOUNG MUSICIANS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

French Piano Trios Series © Noirin O Sullivan-Moloney

Thu 14 January 1.05pm

JANUARY FEBRUARY 2016 ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE

BOOKING INFORMATION —— PHONE 020 7222 1061 Monday to Saturday 10.00am–5.00pm £2 booking fee applies ONLINE sjss.org.uk £1.50 booking fee applies IN PERSON Monday to Saturday 10.00am–5.00pm (until 6.00pm on public concert days). The Box Office opens one hour before the start of Sunday and Bank Holiday concerts. POST Box Office, St John’s Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA Please enclose a stamped addressed envelope. Cheques should be made payable to St John’s Smith Square. CONCESSIONS AND REDUCTIONS Available for many of our concerts to senior citizens, full-time students, registered unemployed, school children (under 16) and people who are registered disabled. Westminster CitySave card holders are entitled to a 10% discount on a pair of tickets for any public concert. Parties of ten or more qualify for a 10% discount.

YOUNG FRIENDS If you’re aged 16-25, make sure you sign up for our free Young Friends scheme! Members are entitled to purchase tickets to selected events at a significantly reduced price of £5. These events are marked ‘YF’. Our Young Friends also receive invitations to special events throughout the year, as well as other targeted discounts and offers. There’s no catch and it’s entirely FREE to join! To join today, please visit sjss.org.uk/friends-st-johns or phone Box Office on 0207 222 1061.

£10, YF

Please Note We may need to substitute artists and to vary our concert programmes from the published information without warning.

Please note that tickets may not be exchanged or refunded.

Vieuxtemps Sonata for Viola and Piano Op. 36 Edwin Roxburgh Ricercare for Viola and Piano Hindemith Sonata Op. 11 No. 4

Beethoven Explored © Eric Richmond

Fantasy Antoine Francoise piano Robin Green piano Mozart Sonata in C K421 Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No. 1 in E Op. 9 Vlad Maistorovici New work Schubert Fantasie in F minor D940 £14 (£10), YF

Fri 22 January 1.00pm

LUNCHTIME DIALOGUE

Southbank Centre’s International Piano Series © B Ealovega

WARREN MAILLEY-SMITH Complete Chopin Cycle © B Ealovega

Benjamin Baker violin Timothy Ridout viola James Blair conductor

Graham Ross conductor Laura van der Heijden cello Peter Francomb horn

Suppé Overture Pique Dame Bruch Concerto for Violin and Viola Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 ‘Pathétique’

M Haydn Symphony No. 25 in G J Haydn Cello Concerto in D Hob.VIIb:2 Mozart Horn Concerto in Eb K417 • Symphony No. 36 in C K425 ‘Linz’ £32, £26, £21, £15

Sat 30 January 7.30pm

OPERA DANUBE Orpheus Sinfonia Oliver Gooch conductor Simon Butteriss director Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld £25, £20, £15, £10

Sun 31 January 2.30pm

OPERA DANUBE Orpheus Sinfonia

£25, £20, £15, £10 Howard Shelley piano Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Op. 58

OPERA DANUBE

Part of Reverend Graham Buckle’s monthly series of conversations with important figures in the local area. In this dialogue, Reverend Buckle speaks to Reverend Rose Hudson-Wilkin, 79th Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons and the first black woman to be Chaplain to the Queen. Free admission

Piano

£20, £15

£25, £20, £15, £10

Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld

Thu 21 January 1.05pm

Chopin Introduction and Rondo in Eb Op. 16 • Nocturne No. 21 in C Minor, Op. posth. • Waltz in F minor Op. 70 No. 2 • Waltz in A minor • Polonaise in G# minor Op. posth. • Mazurka No. 16-20 Op. 24 No. 3-4, and Op. 30 No. 1-3 • Nocturne No. 19 in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1

Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld

£10, YF

Tue 26 January 7.30pm

JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET

Oliver Gooch conductor Simon Butteriss director

Mozart Sonata in C minor K457 Schoenberg 6 Little Pieces Op. 19 Beethoven Sonata in C minor Op. 111

£20 (£16), £15 (£12), £10 (£8)

Fri 15 January 7.30pm

£14 (£10), YF

Orpheus Sinfonia

Oliver Gooch conductor Simon Butteriss director

Ferrier Awards Winners’ Recital

Winner of last year’s Kathleen Ferrier Competition, soprano Gemma Lois Summerfield, performs a selection of songs through the ages with one of Britain’s most highly regarded accompanists, Simon Lepper.

Ravel Ma mère l’oye Satie Selected Music for Piano Trio arr. John White (premiere) Michael Zev Gordon In the Middle of Things (premiere) Ravel Piano Trio

£10, YF

GEMMA LOIS SUMMERFIELD & SIMON LEPPER

Soprano and Piano

Darragh Morgan violin Adi Tal cello Mary Dullea piano

Sun 10 January 3.00pm

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£14 (£10), YF

£12

ACCESSIBILITY If you have access requirements, please let our Box Office staff know when booking your tickets to help us provide you with the best possible service and choice of seats. We allocate an additional seat free of charge to disabled patrons who require a carer to accompany them.

Latecomers are admitted only at a suitable pause in the concert.

ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE

Merkel Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern from Sonata No. 6 in E minor Op. 137 Langlais La Nativité (Poèmes évangéliques, No. 2) Litaizen Variations sur un Noël Angevin Bach Canonic Variations: Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her BWV 769 Reger Chorale Fantasia on Wie schön leuchtet uns der Morgenstern Op. 40

Beethoven Variations on Wenzel Mueller’s ‘Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu’ Op. 12a • Trio in Eb Op. 1 No. 1 • Trio in Bb Op. 97 ‘Archduke’

LUBA Wed 20 January 1.05pm TUNNICLIFFE & HANNAH WATSON LONDON Park Lane Group Young Artists MOZART Luba Tunnicliffe viola PLAYERS Hannah Watson piano

Organ

Robert Atchison violin Olga Dudnik piano David Jones cello

Thu 7 January 1.05pm

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£35, £28, £15, £10

DANIEL COOK

Mozart Explored: 1783

Beethoven Sonata in C minor Op. 10 No. 1 Brahms Sonata No. 1 in C Op. 1 Bartók 3 Burlesques Prokofiev Sonata No. 7 in Bb Op. 83

OPERA DANUBE © Seb Charlesworth

Free admission

FLORIAN MITREA LONDON MOZART PLAYERS

Fri 29 January 7.30pm

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Victoria O magnum mysterium (Mass and Motet)

Thu 28 January 7.30pm

Synthesis and transcendence – Viennese piano music

Epiphany Rev Graham Buckle celebrant Cantandum choir Gilly French director

Thu 28 January 1.05pm

Sun 17 January 3.00pm

Sat 23 January 7.30pm

A Waltz along the Danube Opera Danube’s Young Artists 2015/16 A selection of operetta excerpts, including works by Strauss, Suppé, Lehar, Millöcker. As well as a preview of Opera Danube’s upcoming production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld. £10, YF

ISLINGTON CHORAL SOCIETY

Camden Symphony Orchestra Michael Bowden conductor Handel Four Coronation Anthems Schubert Mass in G £20, £18, £15, £10

Piano Beethoven Sonata in E Op. 109 • Sonata in Ab Op. 110 • Sonata in C minor Op. 111 £35, £28, £15, £10

FEBRUARY

YOUR VISIT ——

Box Office 020 7222 1061 sjss.org.uk

St John’s Smith Square is just off Millbank between Westminster and Lambeth Bridges, close to the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey, and a short walk from Westminster tube station. TUBE Westminster, St James’s Park & Victoria

CAR PARKING St John’s Smith Square is within the congestion charging zone. Parking meters are in operation during the day Monday–Friday until 6.00pm. In the evenings and at weekends there are usually ample spaces locally. There is Westminster City Council car parking on Great College Street and Arneway Street.

BUS 3 and 87 to Horseferry Road C10 and 507 (limited hours) to Millbank 88 to Horseferry Road 11, 211, 148 and 24 to Westminster Abbey SANTANDER CYCLES A docking station is located in Smith Square and there are also stations on Horseferry Road, Page Street and Great College Street.

ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE Mon 1 February 7.30pm

Wed 3 February 7.30pm

CORINTHIAN ORCHESTRA

STEVEN OSBORNE

Fri 5 February 7.30pm

Thu 11 February 7.30pm

ARCANGELO

BENEDETTI LIGETI QUARTET ELSCHENBROICH Young Artists’ Series GRYNYUK TRIO

Southbank Centre’s International Piano Series

RAIL Victoria, Waterloo, Vauxhall & Charing Cross

Sun 14 February 3.00pm

Thu 18 February 1.05pm

Fri 19 February 1.00pm

Wed 24 February 7.30pm

Fri 26 February 7.30pm

ROGER SAYER Organ Series

LUNCHTIME DIALOGUE

TAMARA STEFANOVICH

LONDON PHOENIX ORCHESTRA

Southbank Centre’s International Chamber Music Series

Southbank Centre’s International Piano Series © Timothy Cochrane

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Thu 2 February 1.05pm

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Piano Schubert Impromptus D935: No. 1 in F minor • No. 4 in F minor Debussy Masques • Images, Set 2 • L’isle joyeuse Rachmaninoff 3 Études-tableaux Op. 33 No. 2 in C • Op. 33 No. 3 in C minor • Op. 33 No. 5 in D minor • Op. 39: No. 2 in A minor • Op. 39 No. 5 in Eb minor • Op. 39 No. 8 in D minor • No. 9 in D

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Dvořák The Noonday Witch Brahms Double Concerto Op. 102 Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

As a Friend of St John’s Smith Square, you are at the heart of our audience. Every generous donation is put towards sustaining St John’s Smith Square, as ticket sales alone do not cover our costs. As recognition, our Friends receive ticket and restaurant discounts, priority booking, and are the first to find out about what we have on. To become a Friend of St John’s Smith Square, please phone our Box Office on 020 7222 1061 or visit sjss.org.uk/friends-st-johns THANK YOU St John’s Smith Square is deeply grateful for the support shown by our Gold Friends and 300 Club Members. Thank you to: Anonymous, Dennis Baldry, David Balance, P. Bowman, Sir Alan Bowness, Luca Caravaggio, J. Carden, The Countess of Chichester, Margaret Croucher, John Daniels, Paul Duizend, N. Evans, E.F. Field, Jeremy Gray & Gilly French, Angela & David Harvey, Abel Herrero-Ducloux, A.P. Jonas, Jacqueline & Robert Kilgour In Memory of J.P. Legrand, Alan Leibowitz and Barbara Weiss, Graham Lloyd-Brunt, Hyancinth Lund, Adrian Mumford, Margarita Nikolayeva, S. Paetke, Jill Prawer, K. Robbie, Judy Skelton, E.O. Siebert, Lynne Simmons, P.J. Spink, Marilyn Stock, Tony Thornton, F.P. Tudor, Lady Vanneck, Henry Wickham, and Danny & Lillan Wyler YOUNG FRIENDS If you’re aged 16-25, make sure you sign up for our free Young Friends scheme! Members are entitled to purchase tickets to selected events at a significantly reduced price of £5. These events are marked ‘YF’. Our Young Friends also receive invitations to special events throughout the year, as well as other targeted discounts and offers. There’s no catch and it’s entirely FREE to join! To join today, please visit sjss.org.uk/friends-st-johns or phone Box Office on 0207 222 1061.

Rheinberger Sonata No. 7 in F minor Op. 127 Saint-Saëns Fantasie No. 1 in Eb Duruflé Suite Op. 5

Fri 19 February 7.30pm

WARREN MAILLEY-SMITH

Thu 18 February 7.30pm

£35, £28, £15, £10 Wed 17 February 7.30pm

Free admission

£10, YF

MARTINO TIRIMO ORCHESTRA Fri 12 February 7.30pm The Great Piano Quintets VITAE CHOIRS OF ETON & WINCHESTER COLLEGE © SB Imagery

Verdi Force of Destiny Overture Berlioz Roméo et Juliette: Love Scene Falla El Amor Brujo: Ritual Fire Dance Liszt Hamlet Strauss Death and Transfiguration Elgar Salut d’Amour

Piano Copland Piano Variations Carter Matribute • Sistribute Intermittences • Caténaires Ives Sonata No. 1

£15, £12, £9

£35, £28, £15, £10

Thu 25 February 1.05pm

Sat 27 February 7.00pm

HOMAGE TO SCHUMANN

ROYAL ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY

Young Artists’ Series © Hannah King

Sonata No. 2 There is only one Bach? Tabea Debus recorder Lea Rahel Bader baroque cello Johnnes Lang harpsichord

Wed 3 February 1.05pm

Mozart Explored

£14 (£10), YF

Organ

Lev Parikian conductor

THE GESUALDO SIX

£17 (£14), £14

LONDON MOZART PLAYERS

Schubert Piano Trio in Bb D898 Tchaikovsky Piano Trio in A minor Op. 50

Thu 4 February 1.05pm

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Owain Park director Gesualdo Tenebrae Responsories Feria Quinta and plainsong propers for Maundy Thursday £10, YF

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 No. 2 in C minor CPE Bach Flute Sonata in E minor H551 • Harp Sonata in G Wq.139/H563 • Fantasia in C for Harpsichord H284 Telemann Sonata in C TWV41:C2 £12 (£8), YF

Thu 4 February 7.30pm

Howard Shelley piano Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414

James Gilchrist evangelist Clint Van der Linde countertenor Stephen Layton conductor Bach St John Passion £50, £44, £38, £19

Sat 13 February 7.30pm

PUBLIC PASSIONS: STEPHEN FRY

Thu 11 February 1.05pm

NARDUS WILLIAMS & PETER FOGGITT Park Lane Group Young Artists

£12

Academy of Ancient Music

Phillipe Graffin violin Maria Wloszczowska violin Vladimir Mendelssohn viola Amy Norrington cello Martino Tirimo piano Beethoven String Trio in C minor Op. 9 No. 3 Schnittke Piano Quintet Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 £22, £17, £14, £10, YF

Antoine Francoise piano Robin Green piano Michael Cobb conductor John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine Mozart Piano Concerto for two pianos No. 10 in Eb K365/316a Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor Op. 93 £24, £18, £16, £10

Chopin Waltz No. 10 in B Minor Op. 69 No. 2 • Nocturne No. 9-10 in B and Ab Op. 32 No. 1-2 • Waltz No. 3 in A Minor Op. 34 No. 2 • Waltz No. 15 in E Op. posth. • Nocturne Op. 27 No. 1 in C# minor • Mazurka No. 21 in C# Minor Op. 30 No. 4 • Mazurka No. 22-25 in G# Minor, D, C, and B minor Op. 33 No. 1-4• Waltz No. 11 in Gb Op. 70 No. 1 • Prelude in Ab Op. posth. • Waltz No. 16 in Ab Op. posth. • Nocturne Op.27 No. 2 in Db • Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 £20, £15

Sun 21 February 3.00pm

WERTHER ENSEMBLE

Vivaldi Gloria • Gelido in ogni vena from Il Farnace Handel Da Tempeste from Giulio Cesare • Gloria • Dixit Dominus Vivaldi Agitata da due venti from Griselda £45, £35, £25, £15

Brahms 8 Lieder Op. 57 Rihm Der Reigen dreht ohn Unterlass and Weltgeheimnes from Vier späte Gedichte von Friedrich Rückert Walton A Song for the Lord Mayor’s Table £10, YF

£10, YF

Thu 25 February 7.30pm

FRANCOISEGREEN PIANO DUO

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 ‘The Year 1905’ £18, £12, £8

Sun 28 February 3.00pm

Margherita Durastanti: Handel’s Italian Muse

Orchestra of St John’s

£26, £20, £15, £10

Soprano and Piano

Schumann Fairy Tales for clarinet, viola and piano György Kurtág Hommage to Robert Schumann Rory Boyle New Work

Ivana Gavric piano Orlando Jopling conductor

This is a series of concerts in which celebrities choose the programme and discuss their choices which are then played by the Orchestra of St John’s. This, the first in the series, features Stephen Fry. David Peter Bates director Sophie Bevan soprano

Fraser Langton clarinet Rosalind Ventris viola James Willshire piano

Nicki Kennedy soprano Rachel Harris baroque violin Farran Scott baroque violin Tatty Theo baroque cello Carolyn Gibley harpsichord For Nannette and Babette Piano Quartets from the British Isles

Antoine Francoise piano Robin Green piano

Jamie Campbell violin Hannah Strijbos viola James Barralet cello Simon Callaghan piano

Mozart Sonata for piano four-hands in Bb K358 Berg Wozzeck interludes arr. Francoise-Green piano duo Christian Elliott New Work Schubert Grand duo D812

Howells Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 21 Alwyn Rhapsody for Piano Quartet Bliss Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 5 Walton Piano Quartet in D minor £14 (£10), YF

Handel Armida Abandonata • O Qualis de Coelo Sonus • Cara Speme • Crudel Tiranno Amor HWV97 • Trio Sonata Op. 2 No. 2 in G minor • Trio Sonata Op. 5 No. 4 in G £14 (£10), YF

£14 (£10), YF

Design: Phillip Southgate

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Young Artists’ Series

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SILVER FRIENDS (£60/£55 direct debit) receive: • A ticket for every concert in our Thursday Lunchtime Concerts series • Priority booking 7 days ahead of the general public • Reduced £1.50 booking fee • Acknowledgement of your generosity on our website

TABEA DEBUS

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Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay leader Timothy Walden principal cello Robin O’Neill conductor

BRONZE FRIENDS (£35/£30 direct debit) receive: • 1 0 ticket vouchers for our Thursday Lunchtime Concerts series • Priority booking 2 days ahead of the general public • Reduced £1.50 booking fee

Tue 9 February 7.30pm

£35, £28, £15, £10

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ALL OF OUR FRIENDS RECEIVE: • 1 0% off standard tickets booked in advance through our Box Office (two per event) • 10% off food and drink in our restaurant • Season brochure • Regular advance information about our concerts and events • Other offers and promotions throughout the season

£25, £22, £18

Nicola Benedetti violin Leonard Elschenbroich cello Alexei Grynyuk piano

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Shostakovich Festive Overture Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op. 26 Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 in E minor Op. 27

John Zorn Cat O’Nine Tails Peter Maxwell Davies Quartet Movement Beethoven Grosse Fuge Op. 133 Schnittke String Quartet No. 3 Ligeti String Quartet No. 2 Elliot Galvin Valentine (Ligeti Quartet and St John’s Smith Square Commission 2016)

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Haydn Symphony No. 47 in G Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A K219 • Symphony No. 29 in A K201 • Violin Concerto No. 1 in Bb K207

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Night of Russian Masterpieces

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