Pianist Gunel Mirzayeva performs a selection of works by Bach, Mozart, Debussy and Beethoven, including the famous ‘Moonlight’ sonata.
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Concerts
Violinist Helen Davies performs Vivaldi’s much-loved Four Seasons with the Belmont Ensemble of London, alongside other works by Bach, Handel and Pachelbel.
Join us each Sunday at 3.15pm for Choral Classics, 30 minutes of beautiful words and music, led by St Martin’s Voices. The music is introduced each week by a different member of the choir.
Celebrate the season with a beautiful lunchtime performance by the Choir of King’s College London, one of England’s leading university ensembles, presenting a festive programme featuring Poulenc’s Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël. This programme takes four ‘scenes’ from the Nativity story, perhaps as a painter might view them, and explores the different ways that composers have brought them to life over the ages.
A programme of Bach’s Preludes and Fugues on the instrument for which they were originally written and alongside the added gems of Handel and Mozart. Nathaniel Mander’s own arrangement of Handel’s famous Arrival of the Queen of Sheba is the refreshing opener!
An exploration of French Romantic music for the violin with Eugène Ysaÿe at its heart. As well as a composer, Ysaÿe was a gifted virtuoso violinist. Chausson wrote Poème was for his violinist friend in 1896, revealing Chausson as a wonderful lyricist. Ysaÿe’s marriage went on to inspire César Franck to write his only violin sonata, a development of cyclical themes and a true marriage of violin and piano.
Still Life: Early Baroque Fantasy explores the vivid and unpredictable sound world of the early seventeenth century. Centred on the stylus phantasticus, the programme unfolds as a sequence of contrasting musical scenes, moving between virtuosity and introspection. Works by Castello, Farina, Stradella, Kapsberger and others highlight a repertoire shaped by freedom, colour, and expressive immediacy, performed on period instruments with a rich continuo palette.
Experience a lunchtime escape with a captivating live performance by the acclaimed Kyan Quartet, featuring a compelling programme that highlights depth and variety of string repertoire. The concert spans centuries of musical tradition, moving from the baroque counterpoint of Purcell’s Fantasias in 4 Parts and the Romantic expression of Schumann’s Quartet Op. 41 No. 3, to the modern character of Schulhoff’s 5 Pieces.
A high-energy programme of theatre songs by Kurt Weill, from his riotous early work in 1920s Berlin to his Broadway collaborations with Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein and Ogden Nash in the 1940s.
Programme to include classics such as “My Ship” and “September Song”, plus hits from “The Threepenny Opera” in George’s own award-winning translations.
Winner of the Kurt Weill Foundation’s prestigious Lotte Lenya Prize in New York, George Robarts has been described as a “phenomenal actor” (KWF), “laugh-out-loud funny” (Dame Felicity Lott), and “side-splitting” (The Guardian).
Viktor Erik Emanuel performs piano favourites this New Year’s Eve including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, alongside pieces by Mozart and Ravel.