St Lawrence Jewry August Music Festival

St Lawrence Jewry August Music Festival St Lawrence Jewry, Guildhall Yard - near St Paul's Tube.
20 Lunchtime concerts (FREE) starting at 1.

31/01/2019
31/07/2017
The Leading Ladies

The Leading Ladies

The St Lawrence Jewry Summer Music Festival starts today and we are delighted to be doing a lunchtime concert this Wednesday which will include music by Bach, Mozart, Faure and Gershwin.
Do come along if you are in London, and check out the other wonderful concerts in the festival too:
http://www.stlawrencejewry.org.uk/music/summer-festival/

18/08/2016
Libby Burgess: pianist

Libby Burgess: pianist

If you're in London, come along to St Lawrence Jewry (EC2V 5AA) tomorrow at 1pm!

Helen Bailey soprano | John Slack clarinet | Libby Burgess piano

Spohr: Zwiegesang
Haydn: Berenice, che fai?
Weber: Grand Duo Concertante
Schubert: Shepherd on the Rock

http://www.libbyburgess.com/event/konstellation/

05/08/2016

The first week got us off to a flying start and I'm looking forward to next one, especially to Wednesday and the first of four visits by the Marylebone String Quartet - Iain and Mark Gibbs, David Larkin and Hannah Lewis - who will be playing Haydn's 'Seven Last Words'!

25/12/2015
J.S. Bach - Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 / Chorus: "Jauchzet, frohlocket" (Ton Koopman)

- HAPPY CHRISTMAS everyone!
Been lovely having you all with us and we look forward to seeing you at the Festival in August!
Let's raise a glass of Baroque Bubbly with Bach - Cheers!
PS If you haven't already done it GET ADBLOCK - it's brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3HLVzNO5mM

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685~1750) Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248 (written in 1733-1734) Chor: "Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage" (Kantate Nr. 1 / T...

21/12/2015
Elsie Suddaby, There were shepherds abiding in the fields... - Messiah

- Dec 21st.
Time for some shepherds I think and here's a Blast from the Past with one of my father's favourites, Elsie Suddaby!
I think she was just warming up in the first recit but the Angel of the Lord really gets her going and then we're off for a fascinating trip to the 1930s with the Philharmonia Choir.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMU6gMxbPJ8

From Handel's Messiah. Elsie Suddaby singing with the Philharmonic Choir. Charles Kennedy Scott conducting an unidentified orchestra. Recorded in 1930.

17/12/2015
Richard van Allan - L'Enfance du Christ - O misere des rois

- Dec 17th:
Not so Christmassy perhaps but this follows on so well from yesterday that I decided to go with it.
Berlioz certainly shows us another side of Herod's character and this performance by the late, very much missed Richard Van Allan almost makes you feel sorry for him!.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDcs7PXKSHE

The beautiful music of Berlioz. Here is Herod's dream from L'Enfance du Christ sung by British bass-baritone Richard van Allan. TV Film, 1985.

13/12/2015
Eileen Farrell sings Debussy's " Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons."

- Dec 13th:
American soprano, Eileen Farrell, was one of the first cross-over artists with rep ranging from Handel and Wagner to Bernstein and the Blues. Sadly this performance of Debussy's WW1 protest song seems all too appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjHJBUYCXrk

Debussy's last song, 1915, in which he lashes out at the countries who brought the horror of WWI to Europe. The homeless children of France cry out: Nous n'a...

12/12/2015

- Dec 12th:
A gentle American song from the Berio collection of eleven Folksongs which he arranged for a small chamber ensemble and the legendary Cathy Berberian - a 'quick-change' artist in every sense!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eEyhnOBgA8

05/09/2015

Fantastic news - Ashley Fripp has got through to the semi finals in the 2015 Leeds International Piano Competition! Let's all keep our fingers and toes crossed for him on Tuesday evening!
Here he is with Ben Schoeman and Tessa Uys - all three of them gave marvellous performances at this year's festival!

15/08/2015

AUGUST 28th ~ FINALE TIME!!!
As with our opening concert of Sharwenka's four handed Beethoven 9th, still resounding in the memories of those lucky enough to have been there, our final concert for the 2015 Festival is also devoted to this year's 'featured' composer with a wonderful mix dreamed up by Oxford Lieder Festival's director Sholto Kynoch.
1.00pm FREE Cancel everything and be there!
Party after too….!!

15/08/2015

AUGUST 27th
David Merseguer Royo, percussion and Ausias Garrigos, bass clarinet - NAS Duo - present an intriguingly clever programme which will include an arrangement of Beethoven’s Duo for clarinet and bassoon, WoO 27 AND a third World Premier!! 'Main Street' by David Sebastián Godos, a young Spanish composer, was commissioned by NAS Duo and takes us on a easy-going tour of life in the suburbs - come with us!
1.00pm FREE

15/08/2015

AUGUST 26th
Alexandra Lomeiko, who led a stunning group of musicians for Mozart K581 at the final concert last August, returns with Edward Liddall at the piano for Beethoven's extraordinary Violin Sonata Op 96. They will also present the Festival's second World Premier – 'Cherubikon', a work written at the artists’ request by the exciting young composer, Edwin Hillier.
1.00pm FREE Byzantium & Beethoven - BE there!

15/08/2015

AUGUST 25th
The Somewhat Classical Quartet - Sara-Lian Owen, Elly Hunter Smith, Hannah Beynon and Claire Barnett Jones - presents and intriguing programme entitled 'Vivaldi & Vaudeville'! Songs from our favourite shows rub shoulders with Vivaldi's pristine Gloria written for young Venetian ladies of the 18th Century.
1.00pm FREE BOOK EARLY to avoid disappointment!

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