LUNCHTIME RECITALS

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1.10pm (unless stated otherwise).
Recitals last approximately 50 minutes.
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Admission is free.

Donations on which we rely are really welcome. 

​We recommend a small donation of £5, but whatever you can afford is greatly appreciated and will go towards supporting our concerts as well as St James’s many other projects and activities.

No booking required. All welcome.

November 2019

Wednesday 13 November
1.10pm: Dominic Degavino, piano
​Chopin - Ballade No.3 in A flat major, Op.47
Schubert - 4 Impromptus, Op.90 (D.899)
Gershwin - Three Preludes
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
 
Friday 15 November
1.10pm: DI BARI-SEMERANO PIANO DUO
Filippo di Bari, piano
Giulia Semerano, piano
Mozart - Andante and Variations in G major, K501
Debussy - Six épigraphes antiques
Schubert - Fantasy in F minor, D940
 
Monday 18 November
1.10pm: Pedro Lopez Campos, flute
Irina Lyakhovskaya, piano
Poulenc - Vocalise Etude
Debussy - Prélude à l’après midi d’un faune
Tchaikovsky - Lenksy’s Aria
Barber - Canzone
Taffanel - Fantasy on themes from Weber's ‘Der Freischutz’
Concordia Foundation
 
Wednesday 20 November
1.10pm: Ning Hui See, piano
Bach-Liszt - Organ Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
Thomas Adès - Darknesse Visible
Clara Schumann - Soirées musicales, Op.6 ​
Trinity Laban series
 
Friday 22 November
1.10pm: WATERLOO WINDS
Taylor MacLennan, flute
Laura Campbell, oboe
Charlie Dale-Harris, clarinet
Izabela Musial, bassoon
Joel Roberts, French horn
Nielsen - Wind Quintet
Ravel - Le tombeau de Couperin
Mozart - Andante K.616
 
Monday 25 November
1.10pm: Chamber Music from Chethams
Today’s recital is given by some of the most talented young musicians in the country from Chetham’s, the UK’s largest specialist music school.
 
Wednesday 27 November
1.10pm: Giacomo Susani, guitar
Frescobaldi - Toccata per spinettina sola over liuto
Frescobaldi - Aria con Variazioni detta ‘La Frescobalda’
Giacomo Susani - The Blue Madeleine
Scarlatti - Sonata in A major, K208
Mangoré - Mazurka Appassionata
Marek Pasieczny - Tate Sonata (dedicated to G. Susani)
Park Lane Group Music Trust series
 
Friday 29 November
1.10pm: Bobby Chen, piano
Nadia Lasserson, piano
Robin Soldan, flute
Nathaniel Harrison, bassoon
Beethoven - Sonata in D major for piano duet, Op.6
Beethoven - Trio for flute, bassoon and piano, WoO 37
Beethoven - 8 Variations on a Theme by Count Waldstein, WoO 67
Beethoven Piano Society of Europe series​

December 2019

​Monday 2 December
1.10pm: Sun Haeng Cho, cello
Daniel King-Smith, piano
Brahms - Sonata for cello and piano No.2 in F major, Op.99
Beethoven - Sonata for cello and piano No.5 in D major, Op.102, No.2
Royal Academy of Music series
 
Wednesday 4 December
1.10pm: ALKYONA QUARTET
Emma Purslow, violin
Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, violin
Henrietta Hill, viola
Jobine Siekman, cello
Bach - The Art of Fugue (extracts)
Purcell - Chacony in G minor
Elizabeth Maconchy - Quartet No.13 'Quartetto Corto'
Weinberg - String Quartet No.17 Op.146
Royal College of Music series
 
Friday 6 December
1.10pm: DOMINIC ALLDIS TRIO
Dominic Alldis, piano
Andrew Cleyndert, double bass
Martin France, drums
The Dominic Alldis Trio returns to St James's for their 6th annual concert, featuring jazz arrangements of popular themes by Bach, Handel, Fauré, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Bizet, Satie, Chopin and Bartók.
 
Monday 9 December
1.10pm: Noelia Cotuna, harp
Bach - Partita in C minor, BWV826
Nino Rota - Sarabanda e Toccata
Fauré - Une chatelaine en sa tour
Liszt - Le Rossignol
Henriette Renié - Légende
Trinity Laban series
 
Wednesday 11 December
1.10pm: Mimi Doulton, soprano
Dominic Degavino, piano
Schubert - Trinklied; Ständchen; Was ist Sylvia?                     
Peter Dickinson - Let the florid music praise; Carry her over the water; What's in your mind, my dove, my coney                                            
Strauss - Drei Lieder der Ophelia                                                              
Copland - Nature, the Gentlest Mother; Dear March, Come In!; I Felt a Funeral In My Brain; Going to Heaven!                                         
Peter Dickinson - Schubert in Blue; Drinking Song; Who is Sylvia? Hark, hark the lark
Park Lane Group Music Trust series
 
Friday 13 December
1.10pm: Danilo Mascetti, piano
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.2 in A major, Op.2 No.2
Tchaikovsky - Marche Funèbre and Scherzo (from 6 Pieces, Op.21)
Dutilleux - Chorale et variations
The Carne Trust series
 
Monday 16 December
1.10pm: ECHEA QUARTET
Aliayta Foon-Dancoes, violin
Emily Earl, violin
Clara Loeb, viola
Eliza Millett, cello
Stravinsky - Three Pieces for String Quartet
Beethoven - String Quartet No.12 in E flat major, Op.127
Concordia Foundation series
 
Wednesday 18 December
1.10pm: Ana Dunne-Sequi, viola *
Tolga Atalay Ün, piano *
Callum McLachlan, violin †
Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata, D.821 *
Schumann - Symphonic Etudes Op.13 †
Talent Unlimited series
 
Friday 20 December
1.10pm: J5O BRASS
David Marley & Patrick Dodds, trumpets
Eddie Morgan, horn
Haydn Leech, trombone
Christopher Bearman, tuba
J5O Brass make a welcome return to St James’s with an uplifting programme of festive classics and film music.
Korngold - Prelude & Serenade from ‘Der Schneemann’ (‘The Snowman’)
John Williams - Suite from Home Alone
Bach - ‘Bist du bei Mir…’ (from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach)
Trad. - The Twelve Days of Christmas
Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez - 3 Pieces from ‘Frozen’
Craig Armstrong - Love Themes from ‘Love Actually’
Danny Elfman - Nightmare Before Christmas
John Williams - Parade of the Ewoks
 
Monday 23 December
1.10pm: Laure Chan, violin
Dimitris Daskalakis, piano
Beethoven - Violin Sonata No.4 in A minor, Op.23
Janáček - Sonata for violin and piano
Tartini - Devil's Trill Sonata in G minor for violin and piano

January 2020

​Friday 3 January
1.10pm: Hannah Laurens, violin
Tom McCoy, piano
Julius Röntgen - Sonata for violin and piano in F sharp minor, Op.20 (1879)
Ton de Leeuw - Sonatina for violin and piano (1955)
Willem Kes - Characteristic Dances, Op.3 (1883)
 
Monday 6 January
1.10pm: Silvestrs Kalnins, cello
Thomas Kelly, piano
Debussy - Cello Sonata in D minor
Mendelssohn - Cello Sonata No.2 in D major, Op.58
Cellissimo 20th anniversary series
 
Wednesday 8 January
1.10pm: Emma McPhilemy, saxophone
​Philip Sharp, piano
A recital by saxophonist Emma McPhilemy, a recent graduate from the Royal Northern College of Music who performs regularly throughout the UK, Europe and China, and is leader of the Abelia Saxophone Quartet.
Concordia Foundation series
 
Friday 10 January
1.10pm: Alberto Portugheis, piano
George Butterworth - The Banks of Green Willow (transcr. John Mitchell)
Schumann - Waldszenen Op.82
Chopin - Ballade in A flat Op.47
Opus Musica series
 
Monday 13 January
1.10pm: LIPATTI PIANO QUARTET
Gamal Khamis, piano
Amy Tress, violin
Jenny Lewisohn, viola
Auriol Evans, cello
Arnold Bax - Piano Quartet in one movement
Gabriel Fauré - Piano Quartet No.1 in C minor, Op.15
The Carne Trust series
 
Wednesday 15 January
1.10pm: Elena Toponogova, piano
Rachmaninov - Etudes-tableaux Op.39 Nos.2 and 5
Medtner - Sonata reminiscenza in A minor, Op.38 No.1
Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No.2 in D minor, Op.14
 
Friday 17 January
1.10pm: TRINITY QUINTET
​Rebecca Raimondi, violin
Ignazio Alayza, viola
Urska Horvat, cello
Valentina Ciardelli, double bass
Alessandro Viale, piano
David Winkler - Quintet for piano and strings (UK premiere)
Trinity Laban series
 
Monday 20 January
1.10pm: CONOVA TRIO
Constantin Riccardi, violin
Nora Braun, cello
Vasilis Alevizos, piano
Alevizos - Piano Trio
Ravel - Trio in A minor M.67
Royal Academy of Music series
 
Wednesday 22 January
1.10pm: MUSICAL ODYSSEY PRIZEWINNERS
Nina del Ser, piano *
Laura Balla, piano †
Rameau/Daquin - A selection of character pieces *
Lyapunov - Etude No.5 d’execution transcendante ‘Nuit d’été’  *
Rachmaninov - Two Romances: 'Do not sing for me'; 'Lilacs' †
Tchaikovsky - Romance 'Frenzied nights, reckless nights' Op.47 No.7 †
Messiaen - Preludes, Op.1 (a selection) *
Liszt - Jeux d’eau de la villa d’Este *
Strauss - Morgen, Op.27 No.4 †
Mendelssohn - Nachtlied, Op.71 No.6; Hexenlied, Op.8 No.8 †
Talent Unlimited series
 
Friday 24 January
1.10pm: 'FINEST TRANSCRIPTIONS'
Rustam Khanmurzin, piano
Russian pianist Rustam Khanmurzin presents a programme of piano transcriptions of famous orchestral works:
Wagner (transc. Liszt) - Liebestod
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite
Gluck (transc. Sgambati) - Melodie
Ravel - La valse
Royal College of Music series
 
Monday 27 January
1.10pm: Chamber Music from the Guildhall
A recital by the winners of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s St James’s Chamber Prize for Piano Ensembles. Artists and repertoire will be announced shortly after the competition final in late November.
Guildhall School of Music & Drama series
 
Wednesday 29 January
1.10pm: Meera Maharaj, flute
Dominic Degavino, piano
Tchaikovsky - Lenski’s Aria (from Eugene Onegin)
Gubaidulina - Sounds of the Forest
Prokofiev - Sonata for flute and piano
PLG Young Artist series
 
Friday 31 January
1.10pm: ENSEMBLE HESPERI
Mary-Jannet Leith, recorders
Magdalena Loth-Hill, baroque violin
Florence Petit, baroque cello
Thomas Allery, harpsichord
Ensemble Hesperi presents a sparkling programme of Scottish Baroque music, unique for its ‘fusion’ of Italian virtuosity with traditional dance rhythms and soaring melodies. Featuring works by leading Scottish composer James Oswald, and the members of his secret London society, “The Temple of Apollo”, including Giuseppe Sammartini and the eccentric Scottish aristocrat, the Earl of Kellie.

Concerts and programmes may be subject to change
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Above: Chineke! Chamber Players perform Schubert’s Trout Quintet (4th mvt); film: Carolyn Davies/Lime Twist Media

Imago Mundi (photo: Romanian Cultural Institute)

Musica Poetica London (photo: Chris Davies)

Rick Wakeman

Rebeca Omordia and Razvan Suma (Romanian Cultural Institute)

Oxford Spezzati Orchestra