Update !
We are delighted to report that our fund-raising was a great success. We raised £982.50 which meant that the piano could be properly installed and serviced at the beginning of February 2015. Following the AGM for Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society, Lynda Chang gave the piano its first public performance for the thirty or so people present. Lynda returns to LMC on April 23rd when she accompanies soprano Lesley Gladigau in that day's 12.30 lunchtime concert, appropriately titled: A Thoroughly English Concert for St George's Day. |
This Thursday, 11th September, our 12.30 lunchtime concert will be performed by Charles Tait, violin, and Jacqueline Phillips, cello. Their programme has works by three German composers and the Russian, Shostakovich. As well as playing two string duos Charles and Jacqueline will each act as piano accompanist for the other. Full details are on this concert webpage. |
Next week our concert is on Wednesday, 18th June when this month's Wednesdays at Christ Church features organist Graham Davies, accompanying the flute-playing of Emily Andrews. Both Graham and Emily have been frequent concert performers for Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts. On this occasion they come together to play 17th and 18th century music by Couperin, Frederick the Great, Rameau, Buxtehude. and Handel. You will find full details on this linked webpage.
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both Churches have level access throughout, including toilets. Parking for the Methodist Church is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall. At Christ Church there is ample parking on-site. |
In the occasional series, Sundays at Seven, Mickleham Parish Church have a concert by local soprano Alice Bishop, who also gives concerts for Music on Thursdays. On this occasion Alice will be accompanied by pianist Elenlucia Papplardo. A full list of the songs they will perform for this free concert (with retiring collection) can be seen on this linked webpage.
Looking a little further ahead, the next MAIASTRA concert weekend features octets by Schubert and Jean Françaix. The dates for your diary are Saturday 21st June at St Anne's Kew Green (close to Kew Bridge), and Sunday 22nd in the Old Chapel of St John's School, Leatherhead. More information on this link. |
Members of Leatherhead Art
Club sketch our performers during the concerts. Audience and musicians
alike enjoy seeing their work afterwards. Rialto Lounge sell sandwiches,
cake and drinks in the churches after our concerts, giving a pleasant
informal atmosphere in which audience members often have a chance to
talk to the musicians.
Thursday 8th May: Classical guitarist Francisco Correa will be playing for this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Francisco will be playing works by Albéniz, Stephen Dodgson, Ponce and Villa-Lobos. Full details are on this linked webpage. |
Wednesday 14th May:
John Sharples is the organist of St Nicholas Church, Charlwood. He has played organs in St Paul's and Southwark Cathedrals, in Lambeth Palace, and in New York, as well as many other major venues. Full details of his programme for our 12.30 lunchtime concert in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, next Wednesday will be found on this linked webpage. |
Thursday 22nd May:
We welcome back cellist Jacqueline Phillips who many will remember from several concerts in the 2012 season. For this 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church Jacqueline is accompanied by pianist Michael Round in works by Beethoven and Martinů. If Martinů is less familiar to you, you may feel reassured to know that one of his works was much enjoyed by our audience when it featured in a recent trio concert here. There is more about Jacqueline's concert on this linked webpage. |
Next Thursday, 8th May, we welcome back a friend of these lunchtime concerts - the Colombian classical guitar-player, Francisco Correa. Francisco's programme includes pieces by Albéniz, Dodgson, Ponce, and Villa-Lobos. LMC is an ideal room for a solo guitar concert. You will find more about Francisco and his programme on this linked webpage.
These Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout, and the nearest car park is behind the Parish Church Hall, further along Church Road. |
A selection of organ music by Handel and his English contemporaries, played by internationally-respected early keyboard artist, Robert Woolley, in his first recording on the Regent label. The disc includes both orginal organ music and contemporary eighteen-century transcriptions of works by Handel, together with orginal works for organ by the most renowed British composers of Handels time: William Boyce, Starling Goodwin, Maurice Greene, John James, James Nares, Thomas Roseingrave, John Stanley, and William Walond. Played on the 1766 Thomas Parker organ in the church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Leatherhead. This instrument was reconstructed from orginal casework and pipework by the organ builders, Goetze & Gwynn, in 2007, and is a very rare example of organs from this period in England. This is the first recording of this delightful eighteenth-century instrument. Robert Woolley is one of Europe's leading performers and teachers of the harpsichord, and other early keyboard instruments. He studied at the Royal College of Music ,where he is now Professor of Harpsichord and Clavichord, and was Director of the Early Music Department and Adviser for Early Music from 1985-2006. He is well known as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player on the harpsichord, organ and fortepiano; his solo recordings include discs of music by Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Frescobaldi, Weckmann, Bohm, Handel, J S Bach, Scarlatti, Seixas and J C Bach for EMI, Virgin, Archiv, Hyperion and Chandos. |
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