Concert Archive
Season 2023-24
Autumn-Winter 2023-24
Saturday 28th October 2023 7.30pm St. John’s
The Alkyona String Quartet
Emma Purslo and Marike Kruup violins
Claire Newton viola Ben Michaels cello
Purcell: Fantasia No.6 in F major Z737
Haydn: String Quartet in G major Op.76 No.1
Jessie Montgomery: Strum
Dobrinka Tabakova: The Smile of the Flamboyant Wings
Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No.1 in D Op.25
Saturday 25th November 2023 7.30pm St. John’s
Lara Melda piano
Beethoven: Sonata No.17 in D minor ‘The Tempest’ Op.31 No.2
Liszt: Etude in D flat major S.144 No.3 ‘Un Sospiro’
Brahms: Intermezzo in A minor Capriccio in D minor
Chopin: Nocturne in B flat minor Op.9 No.1 Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op.58
Saturday 13th January 2024 7.30pm St. John’s
Dame Imogen Cooper piano
Schubert Four Impromptus D899
Bach Chorale Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein
(arr. Wilhelm Kempff)
Bach Chorale Nun komm der heiden Heiland
(arr Federico Busoni)
Adès Darknesse Visible
Beethoven Sonata in A flat major op 110
Spring-Summer 2024
Saturday 24th February 2024 7.30pm St. John’s
Charlotte Spruitt violin and Angus Webster piano
Debussy: Violin Sonata in G minor L.140
Mozart: Violin Sonata in E flat major K.380
Janacek: Violin Sonata JW Vll/7
César Franck: Violin Sonata in A major
Saturday 13th April 2024 7.30pm St. John’s
The Pirasti Piano Trio
Nicholas Miller violin, Alison Wells cello, Jeffrey Sharkey piano
Rebecca Clarke (1886 – 1979):Trio
Paul Schoenfield (b 1947): Café Music
Brahms: Piano Trio no 1 in B major Op 8
Wednesday 12th June 2024 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
A Wild Arts Opera Evening
Music selected and arranged by Orlando Jopling
Songs of Summer Love
Opera highlights with story and arias/songs by Verdi, Handel, Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, Lehar, Rossini, Lehrer, Lortzing and Rodgers
Season 2022-23
Saturday 12th November 2022 St. John’s
The Oysseus Piano Trio
Sara Trickey violin, Seb van Kuijk cello, Robin Green piano
Haydn: Piano Trio No. 42 in E flat major Hob. X/V30
Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor Op. 120
Schumann: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op.63
Saturday 3rd December 2022 7.30pm St. John’s
The Scott Brothers Duo
Jonathan Scott Organ and Tom Scott piano
Rossini: Overture to the Barber of Seville
Debussy: Claire de Lune
Pietro Yon: Finale from Concerto Gregoriano
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No 1.
Mozart: Overture to the Magic Flute
Schubert: Ave Maria
Tom Scott: Unknown Destination
Gershwin arr. Scott: Rhapsody in Blue
Spring 2023 February - June
Saturday 28th January 2023 7.30 St. John’s
The Primrose Piano Trio
Susanne Stanzelheit violin, Andrew Fuller cello
John Thwaites piano
John Halvorsen: Passacaglia on a theme by Handel
Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat D.898
Schubert: Impromptu for piano
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A minor Op.50
Tuesday 14th February 2023 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
Harriet Mackenzie violin and James Boyd guitar
Bach: Sonata in G major BWV1021
Paganini: Cantabile
Barrios: Le Catedral
De Falla: Canciones populares
Bach: Andante from violin Sonata in A minor BWV 1003
Piazzolla: Histoire de Tango
De Falla: Spanish Dance
Tuesday 14th March 2023 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
Bella Tromba trumpet quartet
Sound the Trumpet!
Music for all-female trumpet quartet, including music by:
Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Peter Longworth, Imogen Holst, Erci Satie,Henri Tomasi, Bizet, and Clara Schumann
Tuesday 9th May 2023 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
The Brompton String Quartet
Maja Horvat and Esther Park violins
Edward Keenan viola Wallis Power cello
Haydn: String Quartet in G major Op.76 No.1
Shostakovich: String Quartet No.7
Kurtag: Officium breve in memoriam Andreae Szervánsky for string quartet Op.28
Brahms: String Quartet in A minor Op 51. No.2
Tuesday 6th June 2023 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
PIVA The Renaissance collective
Early music group of 6 musicians playing over 40 historically accurate reproductions of instruments from the late 16th century
Measure for Measure
Popular dance and ballad music from Shakespeare’s time ….Theatre , Tavern and Court
Season 2021-22
Saturday 13th November 2021
The Elmore String Quartet
Xander Croft and Pijus Jonušas violins
Ben Kearsley viola Felix Hughes cello
Anton Webern: Langsamer Satz
Benjamin Britten: String Quartet No.3
Beethoven: String Quartet Op.132 No.15
Saturday 5th March 2022 7.30pm St. John’s
Sophie Rosa violin and Ian Buckle piano
Robert Schumann: Sonata no 3 in A minor, WoO27
‘Dream Valley’ an assortment of English miniatures:
by Richard Rodney Bennett, Rebecca Clarke,
Frank Bridge, Cyril Scott, Roger Quilter, Angela Morley:
Valentin Silvestrov: Post scriptum
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’
Saturday 5th March 2022 7.30pm St. John’s
Sophie Rosa violin and Ian Buckle piano
Robert Schumann: Sonata no 3 in A minor, WoO27
‘Dream Valley’ an assortment of English miniatures:
by Richard Rodney Bennett, Rebecca Clarke,
Frank Bridge, Cyril Scott, Roger Quilter, Angela Morley:
Valentin Silvestrov: Post scriptum
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 5 in F Op. 24 ‘Spring’
Saturday 23rd April 2022 7.30pm St. John’s
Festivo Winds
D. Milhaud: La Cheminée du Roi Rene
P. Hindemith: Kleine Kammermusik
D. Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot
G. Fauré: Pavane
C. Nielsen: Wind Quintet
A. Piazolla: Libertango
Saturday 14th May 2022 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
Wild Arts Opera evening
Directed by Ben Morris
Opera highlights with story
Tchaikovsky Polonaise from Eugene Onegin
Purcell So when the glittering Queen of the night
Mozart Dove sono (Le nozze di Figaro)
Donizetti Bella siccome un angelo (Don Pasquale)
Verdi Nanetta / Fenton Act I duet (Falstaff)
Rossini Una Voce poco fa (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Donizetti Esulti pur la barbara & Tran Tran (l’Elisir d’Amore)
Cole Porter I Hate Men (Kiss me Kate)
Puccini Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (La Rondine)
Bernstein A boy like that (West Side Story)
Britten Look! Through the port comes the moonshine astray (Billy Budd)
Rodgers & Hammerstein If I loved you (Carousel)Lehár Von Apfelblüten einen Kranz (Land das Lächelns)
Bernstein Somewhere (West Side Story)
Sondheim The little things you do together
Season 2020-21 Season cancelled because of Covid
Season 2019-2020
Sunday 29th September 2019 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
pre-concert talk at 6.45
European Union Chamber Orchestra
with George Todica piano
Britten Simple Symphony
Fauré Nocturne
Mozart Piano Concerto No.12 in A K.414
Grieg Two Elegiac Melodies Op.34
Bartok Romanian Dances
Sunday 20th October 2019 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
pre-concert talk at 7.45
Lara Melda piano (Cancelled because of injury)
Music by Chopin, Rachmaninov, Lyadov and Prokofiev
Sunday 20th October 2019 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
Katya Apekisheva piano
Mozart: Sonata in F K 280
Grieg: The Brook
Lonely Wanderer
Carnival Scene
Janacek: Piano Sonata 1905
Schubert: Six Moments Musicales
Rachmaninov: Two Etudes Tableaux op. 39 no. 6 and no. 9
Sunday 10th November 2019 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
pre-concert talk at 7.45
Pelleas Ensemble
Henry Roberts flute Luba Tunnicliffe viola Oliver Wass harp
Gershwin: A foggy Day
Bax: Elegiac Trio
Ravel: Pavane pour un infante defunte
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Sunday 8th December 2019 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
pre-concert talk at 7.45
Guitarissima of Vienna
5 guitars of various sizes
A Christmas Celebration Programme
including music by Bizet, Copland, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky
Sunday 5th January 2020 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
pre-concert talk at 7.45
Jonathan Radford saxophone and Ashley Fripp piano
Debussy: Prelude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Schumann: Violin Sonata No.1 Op.105
Bernstein: West Side Story suite
Yoshimatsu: Fuzzy Bird sonata for alto saxophone & piano
Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango
Gershwin: Three Preludes
Wednesday 12th February 2020 7.00pm Theatre by the Lake
Local Young Musicians’ concert
Sunday 16th February 2020 3.00pm Theatre by the Lake
Tim Kliphuis Trio
Tim Kliphuis violin, Nigel Clark guitar, Roy Percy double bass
Family Concert
Music for Half term
Sunday 16th February 2020 3.00pm Theatre by the Lake
pre-concert talk at 7.45
Tim Kliphuis Sextet
Tim Kliphuis and Seinid Aitken Violins, Su-a Lee cello
Nigel Clark guitar, Roy Percy double bass
The Brandenburg Seasons
Music from their recent works ‘Reflecting the Seasons’ and ‘Brandenburg’
Sunday 22nd March 2020 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
pre-concert talk at 7.45
The Brodsky String Quartet with Martin Roscoe
(cancelled because of Covid)
Elgar String Quartet in E minor Op. 83
Elgar Sonata for violin and piano in E minor Op. 82
Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op.84
Sunday 19th April 2020 7.30pm Theatre by the Lake
pre-concert talk at 7.45
Alyosha Jurinic piano
(cancelled because of Covid)
Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.3 in B minor
Schumann Kreisleriana Op.16
Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit
Liszt Spanish Rhapsody