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.

May 2019

Friday 24 May
1.10pm: Mirian Conti, piano
Chopin - 3 Mazurkas
Mompou - Scenes d’ enfants
Schumann - Novelette Op.21, No.8
plus a selection of Argentinian tangos from the early 20th century
Opus Musica series
 
Monday 27 May
BANK HOLIDAY – NO RECITAL
 
Wednesday 29 May
1.10pm: Dominic Degavino, piano
Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No. 1 
John McCabe - Evening Harmonies: Hommage à Dukas (Study No.7)
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.30 in E major, Op.109
Park Lane Group Music Trust series
 
Friday 31 May
1.10pm: Michael Poll, guitar
JS Bach - Prelude from Cello Suite No.1, BWV1007 (arranged for guitar)
JS Bach - Prelude, BWV999
JS Bach - Prelude from Lute Suite in E minor, BWV996
JS Bach - Suite in G minor, BWV995
Michael Poll - Variations on the Theme Vltava/Hatikva
Guildhall School of Music and Drama series

June 2019

Monday 3 June
1.10pm: TAILLEFERRE ENSEMBLE
Penelope Smith, oboe
Nicola Hands, oboe
Emma Halnan, flute
Christina Marroni, bassoon
Yokoyama - Souvenir de Caen
Haydn - London Trio No.1, Hob.IV/1
Hoffman - Sonata for 2 oboes and bassoon
Röntgen - Trio for flute, oboe and bassoon 
Bill Douglas - Trio
 
Wednesday 5 June
1.10pm: Hao Zi Yoh, piano
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.32, Op.111
Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No.7 in B flat major, Op 83
 
Friday 7 June
1.10pm: ANNEXUS QUARTET
Charlotte Spruit, violin
Annie-May Page, violin
Sally Belcher, viola
Carlos Vesperinas García, cello
Britten - Three Divertimenti
Mendelssohn - String Quartet Op.13 No.2 in A minor
Guildhall School of Music and Drama series
 
Monday 10 June
1.10pm: HOME BRASS
Dan Taylor and Jamie Wall, trumpets
Peter Moutoussis, horn
Alistair Welsh, trombone
Stuart Beard, tuba
Dan Taylor - Triptyque for brass
Victor Ewald - Brass Quintet No. 3 in D flat major
Bernstein (arr. Jack Gale) - West Side Story Suite
Harold Arlen (arr. Ryan Linham) - Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Trinity Laban series
 
Wednesday 12 June
1.10pm: Maxim Calver, cello
Gorka Plada Giron, piano
Beethoven - Cello Sonata No.2 in G minor
Stravinsky - Suite Italienne 
Cellissimo series
 
Friday 14 June
1.10pm: Marina Kan Selvik, piano
Brahms - Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op.24
Bach-Brahms - Chaconne in D minor for left hand
Concordia Foundation series
 
Monday 17 June
1.10pm: Victor Maslov, piano
Rachmaninov - Etudes-Tableaux Op.39
Royal College of Music series
 
Wednesday 19 June
1.10pm: Dilyan Todorov, piano †
Charlie Westhoff, violin *
Kumi Matsuo, piano *
Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonata in E major K380 †
Beethoven - In tempo di un menuetto (from Piano Sonata No.22, Op.54) †
Tchaikovsky- Dumka Op.59 †
Prokofiev - Allegro ma non troppo (from Piano Sonata No.2) †
Kreisler - Alt-Wiener Tanzweisen Suite (Suite of Old Viennese Melodies) *
Gershwin/Frolov - Porgy & Bess Fantasy *
Talent Unlimited series
 
Friday 21 June
1.10pm: Chamber Music from The Purcell School
‘…it gives me great hope for the future of the music profession when I hear what these young people are capable of’ - SIR SIMON RATTLE CBE
In today’s lunchtime recital, the brilliant young musicians of The Purcell School perform chamber works by Beethoven, Schumann, Bartók, Kodály and Dvořák.
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Monday 24 June
1.10pm: Manuel De Almeida-Ferrer, violin
Wouter Valvekens, piano
Mendelssohn - Sonata for violin and piano in F major
Prokofiev - Sonata No.2 for violin and piano in D major, Op.94a
Royal Academy of Music series
 
Wednesday 26 June
1.10pm: Timothée Botbol, cello
Bloch - Suite No.1 for solo cello
Dutilleux - 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher
Cassado - Suite for solo cello
Park Lane Group Music Trust series
 
Friday 28 June
1.10pm: MITHRAS TRIO
Ionel Manciu, violin
Leo Popplewell, cello
Dominic Degavino, piano
Mozart - Piano Trio in C major, K548
Brahms - Piano Trio No.3 in C minor, Op.101
Royal Over-Seas League series

July 2019

Monday 1 July
1.10pm: Trinity Laban Wind Ensemble
Chris O’Neal, conductor
Ruth Gipps - Seascape, Op.53
Samantha Carr - The London Below (world premiere)
Mozart - Serenade in C minor, K.388/384a
Trinity Laban series
 
Wednesday 3 July
1.10pm: Danbi Heo, piano
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.21 in C major, Op.53
Chopin - Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58
Royal College of Music series
 
Friday 5 July
1.10pm: Nadia Wilson, clarinet
Martin Butler, piano
Françaix - Tema con Variazioni
Joseph Horovitz - Sonatina in B flat for clarinet and piano
Debussy - Première Rhapsodie
Martin Butler - Barlow Dale: Four Characteristic Pieces
Messager - Solo de Concours
 
Monday 8 July
1.10pm: Matthew Kendall, viola
Emilia de Geer, piano
Reinecke - Drei Fantasiestücke
Kodály - Adagio
Schubert - Arpeggione Sonata
 
Wednesday 10 July
1.10pm: Nadine Benjamin, soprano
Chris Hopkins, piano
British soprano Nadine Benjamin, who sang the title role in Tosca at St James’s in January, makes a welcome return with a programme of arias by Verdi.  Winner of the inaugural Fulham Opera Verdi Prize, Nadine will be singing the role of Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in maschera with Opera Holland Park in June.
 
Friday 12 July
1.10pm: Shiry Rashkovsky, viola
Jennifer Hughes, piano
Schumann - Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Penderecki - Cadenza
Brahms - Sonata for clarinet and piano, Op.20 No. 1 (arranged for viola)
 
Monday 15 July
1.10pm: Michael Matthews, guitar
John Dowland - Lachrimae Pavan; Fantasia No.7
Silvius Leopold Weiss - Sonata XXIII
Leo Brouwer - El Decameron negro
Rautavaara - Serenades of the Unicorn
Concordia Foundation series
 
Wednesday 17 July
1.10pm: Maxim Kinasov, piano
Slonimsky - Intermezzo in Memory of J.Brahms
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Paganini in A minor, Op.35 (Book 1)
Rachmaninov - Etude-tableau No.2 in C major, Op.33
Rachmaninov - Etude-tableau No.9 in C sharp minor, Op.33
Beethoven Piano Society of Europe series
 
Friday 19 July
1.10pm: MunJeong Kim, violin
Kumi Matsuo, piano
Beethoven - Violin Sonata No.6, Op.30, No.1
Ysaÿe - Sonata for solo violin No.2, Op.27
Fauré - Violin Sonata No.1 in A major, Op.13
 
Monday 22 July
1.10pm: BLAZE ENSEMBLE
Chris Hopkins, conductor/piano
Sibelius - Valse Triste 
Mozart - Piano Concerto No.22 in E flat major, K482
 
Wednesday 24 July
1.10pm: Nafis Umerkulova, piano
Schumann - Piano Sonata No.1 in F sharp minor Op.11
Scriabin - 4 Preludes, Op.22
Scriabin - Piano Sonata No.4 in F sharp major, Op.30
 
Friday 26 July
1.10pm: VIENNESE BRASS
J5O Brass Ensemble
David Marley & Patrick Dodds, trumpets
Eddie Morgan, horn
Haydn Leech, trombone
Christopher Bearman, tuba
J5O Brass return to St James’s to present a popular programme of Viennese music
Johann Strauss - Overture to Die Fledermaus; Morgenblätter; Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
arr. Elgar Howarth - The Old Chalet; Basel March; Zurich March; The Cuckoo
Gottfried Huppertz - Metropolis: Freder und Maria
Thomas Gansch - Mnoschil: Polka
 
Monday 29 July
1.10pm: Kathy Chow, piano
Bach - Prelude and Fugue No 3 in C sharp major, BWV 872 (from WTC Book 2)
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.30, Op.109
Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No.7
Royal Over-Seas League series
 
Wednesday 31 July
1.10pm: MORTON HORN TRIO
Alex Morton, horn
Arna Morton, violin
Liam Wooding, piano
Kenneth Young - Horn Trio
Brahms - Horn Trio in E flat major, Op.40
Royal Over-Seas League series
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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