Music on Thursdays
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Thursday 18 June 2026
12.30 lunchtime
Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church KT22 8AY
Parking: Swan Centre multi storey KT22 7RH
18 June 2026 - RAVEL 150 : Jean-Samuel Baz • violin , Gina Kruger • piano click link not ready here
RAVEL 150
Jean-Samuel Bez
violin
Gina Kruger
piano
Programme
Maurice Ravel & His French Contemporaries
Georges Enescu (1881-1955)
from Impressions d'enfance Impressions from Childhood (1940)
Ménétrier Country Fiddler Op 28 no 1
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Deux mélodies hébraïques Two Hebrew Songs (1914) 1 Kaddisch
2 L'énigme éternelle The Eternal Riddle
Mel Bonis (née Mélanie Hélène, 1858-1937)
from Violin Sonata in A major Op 112
1 Moderato
2 Lento, on a Greek theme
Maurice Ravel
Violin Sonata no 1 M.12 (1897, published posthumously)
1 Allegro
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (1857-1944)
Sérénade Espagnole Op 150 (1895)
Concert duration approx: 45+ minutes
Please donate to help fund these concerts at: cafdonate.cafonline.org/14455
Maurice Ravel & His French Contemporaries
Georges Enescu (1881-1955)
from Impressions d'enfance Impressions from Childhood (1940)
Ménétrier Country Fiddler Op 28 no 1
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Deux mélodies hébraïques Two Hebrew Songs (1914) 1 Kaddisch
2 L'énigme éternelle The Eternal Riddle
Mel Bonis (née Mélanie Hélène, 1858-1937)
from Violin Sonata in A major Op 112
1 Moderato
2 Lento, on a Greek theme
Maurice Ravel
Violin Sonata no 1 M.12 (1897, published posthumously)
1 Allegro
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (1857-1944)
Sérénade Espagnole Op 150 (1895)
Concert duration approx: 45+ minutes
Please donate to help fund these concerts at: cafdonate.cafonline.org/14455
Jean-Samuel Bez
Devoting himself primarily to chamber music, violinist Jean-Samuel Bez gives more than 100 concerts a year around the world. He is particularly committed to contemporary music creation and enjoys venturing off the beaten path.
His discography includes Fantaisies (2022, Klarthe) with Jean-Luc Therrien, Étincelles (2025, Passavant) with Louise Akili, and Secrets (2025, Klarthe) as part of the Paganini in Paris project with Raphaël Béreau. A member of Trio Spilliaert since 2016, he has recorded monographs dedicated to Désiré Pâque (2021, Cyprès) and Jacqueline Fontyn (2022, Cybele), as well as Augusta (2023) with the Sonic Gate collective. He also collaborates both in the recording studio and on stage with the Icelandic group Árstíðir.
Artistic director of the SineMuro Festival and coordinator of the Sotiropoulos Camerata, he has won numerous awards and international competitions, including First Prize at the Luigi Zanuccoli International Competition (Italy, 2017). He studied under Igor Volochine, Pavel Vernikov, and Véronique Bogaerts before completing his studies at the MDW (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien - Vienna University of Music & Performing Arts) with Michael Frischenschlager.
His discography includes Fantaisies (2022, Klarthe) with Jean-Luc Therrien, Étincelles (2025, Passavant) with Louise Akili, and Secrets (2025, Klarthe) as part of the Paganini in Paris project with Raphaël Béreau. A member of Trio Spilliaert since 2016, he has recorded monographs dedicated to Désiré Pâque (2021, Cyprès) and Jacqueline Fontyn (2022, Cybele), as well as Augusta (2023) with the Sonic Gate collective. He also collaborates both in the recording studio and on stage with the Icelandic group Árstíðir.
Artistic director of the SineMuro Festival and coordinator of the Sotiropoulos Camerata, he has won numerous awards and international competitions, including First Prize at the Luigi Zanuccoli International Competition (Italy, 2017). He studied under Igor Volochine, Pavel Vernikov, and Véronique Bogaerts before completing his studies at the MDW (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien - Vienna University of Music & Performing Arts) with Michael Frischenschlager.
Gina Kruger
Gina Kruger holds degrees in piano from the United States and a post-graduate diploma from the Royal College of Music, London. During her studies at the RCM, she won the Fossat Award for Chamber Music which resulted in performances for the Queen of Denmark and a residency in France. She continues to appear as a recitalist locally and internationally. Other international venues have included solo performances in Altdorf, Switzerland and in the Vienna Conservatory. She has performed extensively in Croatia, as a soloist, and with guitarist Igor Paro.
Her solo concerts specialise in works of Debussy, Fauré and Messiaen (including broadcasts in the USA); a concert of Spanish music in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, was deemed a ‘finely turned performance’ by the Irish Times in 2010.
Gina also has a career as organist (St John the Divine, Richmond) and soprano. Concert venues have included the Holywell Rooms and Wigmore Hall; she has played with members of BBC Phil and LPO, and with French violinist Jean-Samuel Bez and Irish Mezzo-soprano Una Macmahon. Previously, she was a vocal accompanist at Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music and performed regularly in Croatia.
Her solo concerts specialise in works of Debussy, Fauré and Messiaen (including broadcasts in the USA); a concert of Spanish music in the National Concert Hall, Dublin, was deemed a ‘finely turned performance’ by the Irish Times in 2010.
Gina also has a career as organist (St John the Divine, Richmond) and soprano. Concert venues have included the Holywell Rooms and Wigmore Hall; she has played with members of BBC Phil and LPO, and with French violinist Jean-Samuel Bez and Irish Mezzo-soprano Una Macmahon. Previously, she was a vocal accompanist at Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music and performed regularly in Croatia.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Georges Enescu (1881-1955)
from Impressions d'enfance Impressions from Childhood (1940)
Ménétrier Country Fiddler Op 28 no 1 [4:15]
This is a 1-take recording by Jonian Ilias Kadesha, for Moon Sessions Berlin, recorded at The Clinker Lounge in Berlin Mitte (Central Berlin):
from Impressions d'enfance Impressions from Childhood (1940)
Ménétrier Country Fiddler Op 28 no 1 [4:15]
This is a 1-take recording by Jonian Ilias Kadesha, for Moon Sessions Berlin, recorded at The Clinker Lounge in Berlin Mitte (Central Berlin):
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) [6:00]
Deux mélodies hébraïques Two Hebrew Songs (1914)
1 Kaddisch
2 L'énigme éternelle The Eternal Riddle
In this recording from Universitetets Aula, in Oslo, the soloist is Steven Isserlis, with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra.
Mel Bonis (née Mélanie Hélène, 1858-1937)
from Violin Sonata in A major Op 112 (1914) [12:00]
1 Moderato
2 Presto
3 Lento, on a Greek theme
4 Finale con moto
Online here we have the opportunity to hear the complete work whereas the concert will only include the 1st and 3rd ,movements. The musicians, in a church in Sidmouth, Devon, are Joel Munday, violin, and Julian Trevelyan, piano:
Maurice Ravel
Violin Sonata no 1 in A minor M.12
(1897, published posthumously) [15:00]
1 Allegro
There exists only one movement for this sonata. The performers in this New York 2014 recording are Leonidas Kavakos, violin, and Yuja Wang, piano:
Cécile Louise Stéphanie Chaminade (1857-1944)
Sérénade Espagnole Op 150 (1895)
Th performers in ourfinal recording this week are violinist Raphaëlle Moreau and pianist Célia Oneto Bensaid:
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