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SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

Box Office 020 7222 1061 sjss.org.uk

Sat 1 October 7.30pm

Sun 2 October 3.00pm

Tue 4 October 7.30pm

TENEBRAE

THE BENJAMIN REVOLUTIONARY GROSVENOR DRAWING ROOM Southbank Centre’s

Patron HRH The Duchess of Cornwall

ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE Thu 8 September 1.05pm

Sat 17 September from 10.00am

Wed 21 September 1.05pm

Fri 23 September 1.00pm

Wed 28 September 7.30pm

Thu 29 September 7.30pm

PELLÉAS ENSEMBLE

LONDON MOZART PLAYERS

LUNCHTIME DIALOGUE

© Alessandro Tear

© Matthew Andrews

Mozart Explored

YOUNG MUSICIANS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

LA NUOVA MUSICA

Thursday Lunchtime Concerts

OPEN HOUSE & 24-HOUR MUSIC MARATHON

Howard Shelley © Eric Richmond

Luba Tunnicliffe viola Henry Roberts flute Oliver Wass harp Dubois Terzettino Bennett Sonata after Syrinx Joe Steele from different countries (world premiere) Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp

Open House London 2016 coincides with 24 hours of non-stop performances, open rehearsal, workshops and more, beginning at 10.00am on Sat 17 September. #SJSSMarathon For details on our 24-hour Music Marathon, please vist sjss.org.uk/participation Free admission

£10, YF

Sun 18 September 3.00pm

Tue 13 September 7.00pm

THE BROOK STREET BAND

SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 2016 ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE

BAMPTON CLASSICAL OPERA

Sunday at St John’s Halle, Hanover and Hamburg – what influenced and inspired young Handel?

London Mozart Players Howard Shelley piano & director

CONCESSIONS AND REDUCTIONS Available across 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.

Nigel Short conductor

£20, £15, £10 (conc. 20%)

The 2016/17 season will open with a performance of the audience’s choice from 3 Mozart piano concertos:

Thu 29 September 1.05pm

LEON BOSCH & SUNG-SUK KANG

No. 17 in G K453 No. 20 in D minor K466 No. 21 in C K467 To cast your vote, please visit londonmozartplayers.com/ choose-your-concerto £14

© Raph Hurwitz

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.

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Divine Comedies Barbara Cole Walton soprano Aoife O’Sullivan soprano Catherine Backhouse mezzo soprano Christopher Turner tenor Robert Anthony Gardiner tenor Robert Gildon baritone Paul Wingfield conductor Jeremy Gray director Triona Adams movement director CHROMA Gluck Philemon and Baucis Arne The Judgment of Paris

Thursday Lunchtime Concerts © Guy Mayer

Dame Ann Murray DBE dido George Humphreys aeneas Sophie Junker belinda Rupert Enticknap sorceress Nicholas Scott sailor Augusta Hebbert second lady Martha McLorinan second witch Zack Winokur dancer & choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith dancer David Peter Bates director Purcell Dido and Aeneas £45, £35, £25, £15

Holst The Evening-Watch Parry Songs of Farewell Elgar Oh! Wild West Wind Op. 53 No. 3 Murrill Two Shakespeare Songs Harvey Song of June Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs Bob Chilcott Marriage to my Lady Poverty • The Modern Man I Sing Judith Bingham The Drowned Lovers Stanford The Bluebird Tenebrae and Nigel Short will lead a workshop between 10.30am – 1.30pm. Please visit sjss.org.uk for more details.

Concert: £28, £22, £16, £10 (conc. 10%) Workshop & Concert: £40, £34, £28, £22 (conc. 10%)

Kimiko Ishizaka piano Bach Die Kunst der Fuge (The Art of Fugue) BWV1080

Adrian Butterfield violin Kathryn Parry violin Rachel Stott viola Ruth Alford cello Beethoven String Quartet in D Op. 18 No. 3 • String Quartet in F Op. 18 No. 1 Haydn String Quartet in G Op. 77 No. 1 £14 (£10), YF

Mon 3 October 7.30pm

KENSINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Handel Trio Sonata in F HWV392 • Trio Sonata in D Op. 5 No. 2 Telemann Trio Sonata in G TWV42:G11 Buxtehude Trio Sonata in C BuxWV266 Keiser Kuckruck Suite in G Pachelbel Partie V in C from Musicalische Ergötzung Bach Trio Sonata in D minor BWV527 Pre-concert talk: 2.15pm

£30, £22, £15

Latecomers are admitted only at a suitable pause in the concert, as advised by the concert promoter.

Wed 14 September 1.05pm

Please note that tickets may not be refunded but may be exchanged up to 48 hours before the performance.

The Grand Tour

LA SERENISSIMA

Tue 20 September 7.30pm

SHAKESPEARE IN MUSIC

Leon Bosch double bass Sung-Suk Kang piano Mozart arr. Carl Hinde Violin Sonata No. 21 in E minor K304 Paul Hanmer Scratch-Pad-andSix (world premiere) Schubert Arpeggione Sonata

Martino Tirimo piano Fitzwilliam Quartet

£10, YF

Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Organ Series

© Matt Belcher

© Eric Richmond

Debussy 12 Preludes Book 1 • Étude Pour les huit doigts • Étude Pour les Octaves Stravinsky Five easy pieces for piano duet Scarlatti Sonata in F K445 Ligeti Étude No. 4 and 7 Satie Gymnopédie No. 3 • Sports et Divertissements Bartók No. 2 and No. 4 from Bulgarian Dances for Piano

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Vivaldi Le Quattro Stagioni (Manchester version: 4 Concertos for Violin, Strings and Continuo from Il Cimento dell’Armonica e Inventione Op. 8 No. 1 – 4)

£26, £18, £14, £10

Thu 6 October 1.05pm

RUSSIAN SONGS

Christina McMaster piano Sarah Gabriel actor & singer with young pianists

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Adrian Chandler violin & director

Vaughan Williams Richard II Berkeley The Winter’s Tale Jonathan Dove A Midsummer Night’s Dream Wooldridge The Tempest Williamson The Merry Wives of Windsor

John Adams Slonimsky’s Earbox Colin Matthews Horn Concerto Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

Pre-concert talk: 6.30pm

Elemental Rhythm

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Vivaldi The Four Seasons

Richard Watkins horn Russell Keable conductor

Dani Howard Arches (world premiere) Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Prokofiev Suite No. 2 Op. 64ter from Romeo and Juliet

Isabella Gage © Daniel Swerdlow

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Southbank Sinfonia Simon Over conductor Special guest actors

Mendelssohn Sonata No. 4 in Bb Bach Fantasia and Fugue in C minor BWV537 Wesley Voluntary in D Jennifer Bate Variations on a Gregorian Theme Messiaen Méditation VI from Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité

© Michałé Obuchowski & Monika Weyer

Thursday Lunchtime Concerts

£14 (£10), YF

Administration charges may apply.

Season Opening Concert

£17.50 (£12.50), £12.50

Shostakovich String Quartet No. 4 in D Op. 83 • Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 57 Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor Op. 21

JENNIFER BATE

ORCHESTRA VITAE

Russell Keable © Sim Canetty-Clarke

Sun 25 September 3.00pm

© Carlos Lumiere

Thu 22 September 1.05pm

Wed 5 October 7.30pm

Michael Cobb conductor

Young Artists’ Series

£14 (£10), YF

£38, £28, £15, £10

£20, £15

Sunday at St John’s

£22, £17, £14, £10, YF

Mozart Sonata in Bb K333 Chopin Sonata No. 2 in Bb minor Op. 35 ‘Marche funèbre’ Scriabin Sonata No. 2 in G# minor Op. 19 ‘Sonata-fantasy’ Granados Goyescas No. 1 ‘Los Requiebros’ • Goyescas No. 3 ‘El Fandango de candil’ Liszt Rhapsodie espagnole S254

Pre-concert talk: 6.30pm

CHRISTINA MCMASTER

Rachel Harris violin Farran Scott violin Tatty Theo cello Carolyn Gibley harpsichord

Pre-concert talk: 6.00pm

Parties of 10 or more qualify for a 10% discount.

ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE

© Philippe Ramakers

© Mark McNulty

Music of the Spheres

Wagner Meistersinger Overture Dohnányi Variations on a Nursery Song Dvořák Symphony No. 7 in D minor Op. 70

BACH THE ART OF FUGUE

International Piano Series

© Susan Porter-Thomas

Great Piano Quintets

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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.

Haydn and Beethoven String Quartets for Prince Lobkowitz

Ke Ma piano James Blair conductor

Mozart Audience Choice

© Dan Bridge

BOOKING INFORMATION

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.

Sunday at St John’s

In this first Lunchtime Dialogue of the season, Reverand Graham Buckle interviews Commodore Barry Bryant CVO RN, the Director General of Seafarers UK.

Fri 23 September 7.30pm

MARTINO TIRIMO

ONLINE sjss.org.uk £1.50 booking fee applies

© Sian Trenberth

Free admission

Wed 21 September 7.30pm

PHONE 020 7222 1061 Monday to Saturday 10.00am – 5.00pm £2 booking fee applies

Rev Graham Buckle host Commodore Barry Bryant CVO RN guest

© Chris O’Donovan

Benjamin Lewis baritone Isabella Gage soprano Eda Seppar piano Rubinstein Cloud Op. 48 No. 8 • Carefree Bird Op. 48 No. 9 Medtner Winter Evening Op. 13 No. 1 • I have endured my desire Op. 3 No. 2 Rachmaninoff Do not sing, my beauty Op. 4 No. 4 Mussorgsky Night • Talkative Magpies Tchaikovsky The Nightingale • Zemfira’s Song Rimsky-Korsakov The Upas Tree Op. 49 No. 1 • The Prophet Op. 42 No. 2 • The flying chain of clouds is thinning Op. 42 No. 3 Taneyev 2 Duets £10, YF

OCTOBER

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.

CAR PARKING St John’s Smith Square is within the congestion charging zone. Parking meters are in operation during the day Monday–Friday until 6.30pm. 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.

RAIL Victoria, Waterloo, Vauxhall & Charing Cross

ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE Thu 6 October 7.30pm

Sat 8 October 4.00pm

Sun 9 October 11.30am

Wed 12 October 1.00pm

Sat 15 October 7.00pm

Thu 20 October 1.05pm

Mon 24 October

Thu 27 October 1.05pm

Sat 29 October 6.00pm

NICHOLAS WALKER

THE FOLK CONNECTION

THE SHADOW OF WAR – PART I

CHORAL EUCHARIST

ROGER SAYER

COMPOSERS’ WORKSHOP

DUCASSE TRIO

BRAHMS REQUIEM

©Rita Castle

Vaughan Williams and Friends

Vaughan Williams and Friends

St Edward the Confessor

COME & SING BRAHMS REQUIEM

James Gilchrist © Opera Omnia

© Nobby Clarke

Floreat Gilly French director Rev Graham Buckle celebrant Victoria O quam gloriosum (mass and motet) Free admission

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Mozart Sonata in Eb K282 Liszt Sonata in B minor Beethoven Sonata in F Op. 54 Balakirev Mazurka No. 5 in C# (1884 version, completed by Nicholas Walker) • Piece in F# minor (completed by Nicholas Walker) • Nocturne in G# minor • Waltz No. 5 in D# • Fantasiestücke • Humoreske

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James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano Tom Norris violin Ellie Fagg violin Philip Dukes viola Louisa Tuck cello Graham Mitchell double bass Quilter Three Pastoral Songs Op. 22 Grainger Molly on the Shore Vaughan Williams Along the Field • Six studies in English Folksong • Winter’s Willow • Linden Lea Rebecca Clarke I’ll bid my heart be still Grainger Handel in the Strand £16 (£12), YF Festival Pass £40 (£30), YF £20

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Three Choirs Festival Come and Sing Choir Members of the Philharmonia Orchestra Mary Pope soprano Alex Ashworth baritone Adrian Partington conductor

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano Tom Norris violin Ellie Fagg violin Philip Dukes viola Louisa Tuck cello Graham Mitchell double bass Bliss Elegiac Sonnet Ireland The Darkened Valley Butterworth Six Songs from ‘A Shropshire Lad’ Elgar Piano Quintet Op. 84

Thu 13 October 1.05pm

SIMON CALLAGHAN & FRIENDS Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Simon Callaghan © Benjamin Ealovega

£15, £12, £10

THE SHADOW OF WAR – PART II Sunday at St John’s Vaughan Williams and Friends

Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time £10, YF

Thu 20 October 7.30pm

Sunday at St John’s

Southbank Centre’s International Piano Series

SUPPORT ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE ——

Benjamin Nicholas conductor

For more details, please phone our Box Office on 020 7222 1061 or visit sjss.org.uk/support-us

Parry I was Glad Stanford Beati quorum via Op. 83 No. 3 W Lloyd Webber Gloria from Missa Santae Mariae Magdalenae Howells Requiem Holst Nunc Dimittis H127 Vaughan Williams Lord, thou hast been our refuge ‘Psalm 90’ • Mass in G minor

ALL OF OUR SUPPORTERS RECEIVE: • 1 0% off standard tickets booked in advance through our Box Office (two per event) • Season brochure • Exclusive invitation to the Annual Friends Reception on Thursday 15 June 2017 • Regular advance information • Other offers and promotions FRIEND OF ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE £45 / £40 annual DD / £3.75 monthly DD • 1 0 ticket vouchers for our Thursday Lunchtime Concerts • 1 0% off food and drink in our restaurant (not applicable for guests) • Priority booking 2 days ahead of the public • Reduced £1.50 booking fee

Original Design: Phillip Southgate; Editor: Beverley Vong

PATRON OF ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE £150/ £140 annual DD/ £12.50 monthly DD •2 tickets for each concert in our Thursday Lunchtime Concerts series • 1 0% off food and drink in our restaurant (for Patron and one guest) • Invitations to at least 4 exclusive post-concert ‘Meet the Artists’ receptions • Invitation to an exclusive post-concert dinner on Thursday 16 February 2017 with Palisander and the Director of St John’s • Invitations to regular Breakfast at St John’s exclusive events • 1 complimentary programme for each concert in the Sunday at St John’s series • Priority booking 7 days ahead of the public • No booking fee • Best seat in the house/priority waiting list • Credit on our website and in our brochure YOUNG FRIENDS SCHEME FREE to everyone aged 30 or under!

•£ 5 tickets for selected concerts, including our Thursday Lunchtime Concerts, Sunday at St John’s and Young Artists’ Series – these are marked ‘YF’ in our brochure • I nvitations to special events •Y oung Friends newsletter •T argeted discounts

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO: Anonymous, Mr J Aitken, Mrs Anglesey, Mrs K AP Simon, Dr MK Archer, Mr Alain Aubry, Dr J Baker, Mr D Baldry, Miss BA Ballard, Mr and Mrs Dickie Bannenberg, Mr RK Berger, Dr Desmon Bermingham, Mr P Bottomley, Mr Michael Bowen, Sir Alan and Lady Bowness, Miss J Brendon, Sir David and Lady Brewer, Mrs CK Brown, Mr TB Brunner, Ms J Camm, Lord Carrington, Lady Chelwood, The Countess of Chichester, Mr Robert Collingwood, Mr DW Cooper, Mr CA Cox, Miss M Croucher, Mrs M Croxford, Ms SB Crutchlow, Mr AM Cutbush, Mr JF Daniels, Mr P Dear, Dr T Digman, Mr Graham Dodwell, Mr P Duizend, Mrs Jill Dymock, Mr N Evans, Mrs PJL Francis, Rebecca Fraser, Mr D Fuller, Mr M Godbee, Mr Don Gorman, Mr GR Greenhous, Mr B Handel, Mr CB Henderson, Mr and Mrs Higginson, Dr S Hill, Prof. Peter Holgate, Mr Glenn Jessee, Mr SE Jones, Dr JM Josephson, Mr H Keswick, Mr D King, Mr Andrew Langley, Mrs G Laxton, Ms WM Legrand in memory of JP Legrand, Mr Peter Lloyd, Sophie Loewendahl, Mr P Loiselle, Lady Lothian, Ms V Love, Mrs Hyacinth V Lund, Mr P Marshall, Mr Patrick McKenna, Mrs N McLaren, Mr B Michel, Mr Philip Miles, Mr AB Milford, Mr W Monroe, Mr TM Morgan, Mr Adrian Mumford, Mr N Oppenheim, Mr SG Orlik, Dr S Paetke, Mrs CL Parker-Williams, Dr Heather Parry, Mr CJ Pearson, Mr Donald Peck, Miss PL Pickering, Ms J Plumbridge, Mr P Prescott, Mrs Sophie Prett, Mrs SP Price, Mr CN Ricketts, Mr J Rodewig, Mr MP Sallen, Mrs C Samuel, Mr Chris Saunders, Sir Konrad Schiemann, Mr E Siebert, Mrs Lynne Simmons, Ms J Skelton, Dr M Smith, Miss I St John-Brooks, Louise St John Howe, Miss M Stock, Miss ANQ Symons, John Taylor, Mr R Ter Haar, Lady S Thorne, Mr Anthony Thornton, Dr FP Tudor, Mr M Wade, Miss E Warren, Mr C Whitfield, Mr Henry Wickham, Mr R Wildash, Mr J Wilde, Mr T Willoughby, Mr John Wise, Mr John Wright, Mr F Wright, Mrs Jeanine Zirps, Mr RL Zirps, Mr Andrew Ward, and Daniel & Lillan Wyler

£16 (£12), YF Festival Pass £40 (£30), YF £20

Sat 8 October 1.00pm

SONGS OF TRAVEL Vaughan Williams and Friends Anna Tilbrook & James Gilchrist © Opera Omnia

Vaughan Williams and Friends Anna Tilbrook © Nobby Clarke

Vaughan Williams Songs of Travel Elgar Salut d’amour Op. 12 Bridge Oh that it were so Rebecca Clarke Passacaglia Quilter Go lovely Rose Op. 24 No. 3 Bantock Hebrew Melody Gurney Ludlow and Teme £16 (£12), YF Festival Pass £40 (£30), YF £20

Southbank Centre at St John’s Smith Square Staring into the black hole James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano Tom Norris violin Ellie Fagg violin Philip Dukes viola Louisa Tuck cello

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano Tom Norris violin Ellie Fagg violin Philip Dukes viola Louisa Tuck cello Graham Mitchell double bass Vaughan Williams Rhosymedre • Four Hymns • Orpheus with his Lute • Sky above the roof • Silent Noon • Piano Quintet Finzi Till Earth Outwears Op. 19 Elgar Chanson de matin Op. 15 No. 1 • Chanson de nuit Op. 15 No. 2 There will be a pre-concert talk with Richard Morrison at 6.30pm.

James Gilchrist tenor Anna Tilbrook piano Tom Norris violin Ellie Fagg violin Philip Dukes viola Louisa Tuck cello Graham Mitchell double bass

LONDON SINFONIETTA

£16 (£12), YF Festival Pass £40 (£30), YF £20

Ireland The Soldier • Blow out, you Bugles • Spring Sorrow Elgar Sospiri Op. 70 Gurney Severn Meadows • Lights Out • Sleep • In Flanders • By a Bierside Howells Elegy Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge

Richard Barrett the light gleams an instant • interference • fold • dying words I • lost • what remains £14 (£10), YF

There will be a pre-concert talk with James Gilchrist and Richard Morrison at 2.15pm. £14 (£10), YF Festival Pass £40 (£30), YF £20

Mon 17 October 7.30pm

GEOFFREY SABA Piano Beethoven Sonata in E Op. 109 • Sonata in Ab Op. 110 • Six Bagatelles Op. 126 • Sonata in C minor Op. 111

Anna Radziejewska mezzo soprano Marco Angius conductor

£25, £20, £15

Daniela Terranova Notturno in forma di rosa (UK premiere) Francesco Filidei Ballata No. 2 (UK premiere) Salvatore Sciarrino Immaginare il Deserto (UK premiere) • ….da un Divertimento Berio Folksong Suite

Wed 19 October 7.30pm

There will be a post-concert conversation.

SALOMON ORCHESTRA Philip Hesketh conductor Butterworth Rhapsody from A Shropshire Lad Bliss arr. Philip Lane Things to Come (music from the 1936 film) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 in B minor Op. 74 ‘Pathétique’ Pre-concert talk: 2.15pm £17 (£14)

Further details will be pubished online at sjss.org.uk on Monday 5 September 2016.

Free admission

FEDERICO COLLI

JORDI SAVALL & LE CONCERT DES NATIONS Southbank Centre’s International Chamber Music Series Jordi Savall © David Ignaszewski

£15 unreserved

Thursday Lunchtime Concerts © Anne Bloom

£25, £20, £10 William Duncombe clarinet Charlotte Maclet violin Fiachra Garvey piano Khachaturian Trio for clarinet, violin and piano Poulenc L’invitation au château Bartók Contrasts

Wed 26 October 1.05pm

LONDON MOZART PLAYERS Mozart Explored Howard Shelley piano & director

Thu 27 October 7.30pm

£38, £28, £15, £10

Bach: A Family Affair Sat 22 October 7.30pm

Ottavio Dantone harpsichord & director

Wed 26 October 7.30pm

LONDON SINFONIETTA

LONDON PHOENIX ORCHESTRA

Southbank Centre at St John’s Smith Square

Hiroaki Takenouchi piano Lev Parikian conductor

CONNECT – The Audience as Artist

Arturo Márquez Danzón No. 2 Catoire Piano Concerto Op. 21 (UK premiere) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2 in C minor Op. 17

Christian Mason In the Midst of the Sonorous Islands (UK premiere) Huang Ruo The Sonic Great Wall (UK premiere)

Timothy West guest Paul Blezard interviewer John Lubbock conductor Excerpts from the following:

MINERVA PIANO TRIO

Elgar Sospiri Op. 70 Shostakovich Jazz Suite No. 1 and No. 5 ‘Polka’ Haydn Finale: Allegro di molto from Symphony No. 94 in G Mendelssohn Nocturne from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mozart ‘Ruhe sanft mein holdes Leben’ from Zaide • Rondo from Bassoon Concerto K191 Walton When Sir Beelzebub from Façade Beethoven Andante con moto from Bagatelle Op. 126

Sunday at St John’s

£26, £20, £15, £10

£15, £12 (£9)

Sun 23 October 3.00pm

Young Artists’ Series

The Genesis of Minerva: Schumann and the Young Brahms

£32, £25, £18, £12

Pre-concert talk: 6.15pm £38, £28, £15, £10

Matthew Truscott of the OAE © Eric Richmond

£14

LA SERENISSIMA

Jordi Savall director & bass viol Manfredo Kraemer violin Philippe Pierlot bass viol Rolf Lislevand theorbo Michael Behringer harpsichord

Southbank Centre at St John’s Smith Square

Mozart Piano Concerto No. 13 in C K415

Pre-concert talk: 6.15pm

The Grand Tour

Music from Tous les matins du monde

ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT

My Music

Fri 14 October 7.30pm

Vivaldi Sonata for 2 violins and continuo in G minor Rv.74 • Sonata for 2 violins and continuo in C Rv.60 Albinoni Sonata No. 1 for 2 violins and continuo in D minor Op. 1 • Sonata No. 9 for 2 violins and continuo in D Op. 1 Caldara Chiacona for 2 violins and continuo in Bb Op. 2/12 • Sonata for violin and continuo in F minor

Sun 30 October 7.00pm

ORCHESTRA OF ST JOHN’S

© Anthony Dawton

Adrian Chandler violin & director

The Tony Lynes Memorial Orchestra Stroud Choral Society Kirsty Hopkins soprano Stuart Young bass Huw Williams conductor Brahms A German Requiem

£10, YF

£10 unreserved

Great Sonatas of Venice Tue 11 October 7.30pm

Following the enormous success of the Composition Competition run by The Gesualdo Six (2015/16 Young Artists), their Founder and Director Owain Park will lead a composition workshop for those with an interest in writing for vocal ensembles.

Mozart Variations in F on Paisiello’s ‘Salve tu, Domine’ K398 Beethoven Sonata in F Op. 54 Schumann Faschingsschwank aus Wien (Fantasiebilder) Op. 26 Mussorgsky Pictures At An Exhibition

Sat 8 October 7.30pm Thu 13 October 7.30pm

Rheinberger Sonata No. 4 Langlais Triptyque Brahms Choral prelude ‘Herzlich tut mich verlangen’ Op. 122 No. 10 • Choral prelude ‘O Welt ich muss dich lassen’ Op. 122 No. 3 Alain Litanies Duruflé Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain Op. 7

ENSEMBLE L’IMAGINAIRE

Philip Dukes © Pete Davies

THE SPIRITUAL REALM

The Gesualdo Six Owain Park director

Sun 16 October 3.00pm

© Jean-Etienne Moldo

David Campbell clarinet Jamie Campbell violin James Barralet cello Simon Callaghan piano

Organ Series

£10, YF

£16 (£12), YF Festival Pass £40 (£30), YF £20

Sun 9 October 3.00pm

Thursday Lunchtime Concerts

Michał Ćwiżewicz violin Richard Birchall cello Annie Yim piano Schumann Piano Trio in D minor Op. 63 Richard Birchall Contours Brahms Piano Trio in B Op. 8a (original version) Pre-concert talk: 2.15pm £14 (£10), YF

Vaughan Williams © Bettmann/Corbis

TUBE Westminster, St James’s Park & Victoria

Our Vaughan Williams & Friends festival takes place Fri 7–Sun 9 October

CPE Bach Symphony in C Wq182/3 • Symphony in B minor Wq182/5 JS Bach Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor BWV1052 JCF Bach Symphony in D minor WF Bach Harpsichord Concerto in F minor Pre-concert talk: 5.45pm £60, £40, £25, £10