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2021 Concert Info Starts here

Music on Thursdays - Online

Thursdays throughout March, April, May & June 2020

This 'as live' recordings and our concert selections remain available online for your enjoyment.

Please click below to access your choices from these titles:

25 Feb - concert recorded 'as live - Thomas Ang, AGM Piano Concert

  4 March  - video selections - Vivaldi's birthday 4th March 1678
11 March  - video selections - Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
18 March  - video selections - Music for the Lute
25 March  - video selections - Musicals - 1960s onwards

  1 April  - concert recorded 'as Live' - Ibrahim Aziz, viols
  8 April  - video selections - Music for Royal Weddings
15 April  - video selections - Albinoni (1671-1751)
22 April  - video selections - Violin Works on Yehudi Menuhin's 105th Anniversary
 29 April  - video selections - Sexual Intrigue in Opera

  6 May  - concert recorded 'as Live' - Buck Brass Quartet
13 May  - video selections - String Quartets
20 May  - video selections - Stravinsky (1882-1971)
27 May  - video selections - Organs: Spectacular • Captivating • Unique

  3 June  - concert recorded 'as Live' - Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade, accordion
10 June  - video selections - Julian Bream - guitarist extraordinaire
17 June  - video selections - Lynda Chang's Instruments: Unusual, Rare . . . or just plain weird
24 June  - video selections - Summer Music Fest

22 July  -  this will be the date we return to LMC for regular LIVE! Music on Thursdays lunchtime concerts

We need your help to fund our concerts

recorded 'as live' by professional musicians

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 24th June 2021  ♦  anytime

Summer Music Fest

Summer-inspired choices from each of this year's selection hosts

Which piece of music gets you thinking of Summer ?
Available from: Thursday 24th June

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 17th June 2021  ♦  anytime

Unusual, Rare . . . or just plain Weird

See the results of Lynda Chang's latest trawl of youtube, where she has found us these instruments - Unusual, Rare . . . or just plain Weird
Available from: Thursday 17th June

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 10th June 2021  ♦  anytime

Julian Bream - guitarist extraordinaire

Guitar-fan Richard Miller delivers a selection of Bream recordings to illustrate a career spent performing in a broad variety of  styles, through the music of
Bach • Tarrega • Mompu • Malats • Debussy• Grappelli • Walton • Britten • Rodriguo • Ben Vedry • Andy Summers

Performers: principally Julian Bream
with John Williams, Stéphane Grappelli, and Peter Pears
also featuring Andy Summers & Ben Verdery
Available from: Thursday 10th June

Music on Thursdays - Online

Recorded 'as live' for Leatherhead

Thursday 3rd June 2021  ♦  anytime

Accordion / Bayan player

Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade

music by:  Bach  •  Albéniz  •  Ceasar Camarero
Rafael Marino Arcaro  •  Sáenz de Garmendia 'Pepe Andoain'
Larregla

pre-recorded to be broadcast 'as live' from 3rd June onwards

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 27th May 2021  ♦  anytime


Organist David Gibbs brings us his video selection
of music for the pipe organ by composers:

Bach • Boëllmann • Buxtehude • Daquin
Elgar • Kerll • Sibelius • Stanley 
 
Available from: Thursday 27th May

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 20th May 2021  ♦  anytime

Stravinsky & Disney
 - a match made in heaven ?

Lynda Chang's surprisingly easy introduction to the works of Stravinsky includes excerpts from: The Rite of Spring,  Dumbarton Oaks, Œdipus Rex, and a full performance of his Suite Italienne, based on music for the opera Pulchinella

Available from: Thursday 20th May

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 13th May 2021  ♦  anytime

String Quartets

Lynda Chang's youtube of quartet movements by Haydn, Ravel, Schubert, Smetana, and Tchaikovsky



Available from: Thursday 13th May

Music on Thursdays - Online

Recorded 'as live' for Leatherhead

Thursday 6th May 2021  ♦  anytime

Buck Brass Quartet
trumpet, 1 horn or 2, and trombone

music by Andrea Gabrieli • Johannes Brahms • Thomas Adams • Steven Verhelst • Wilhelm Petersen-Berger • Alexander Glazunov • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

pre-recorded to be broadcast 'as live' from 6th May onwards
Buck Brass Trio

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 29th April 2021  ♦  anytime

Sexual Intrigue in Opera

Liz Barnes' selection of youtube videos of opera moments by Bellini, Bizet, Britten, Phillip Glass, Mozart, Offenbach, Romberg, Rossini, Verdi, Wagner



Available from: Thursday 29th April

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 22nd April 2021  ♦  anytime

Yehudi Menuhin 105th Anniversary

Lynda Chang's selection of youtube videos to mark the
105th anniversary of the birth of Yehudi Menuhin on 22nd April 1916

with the music of: Elgar • Bach • Brahms • Vivaldi • Beethoven • Ravi Shankar

Available from: Thursday 22nd April

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 15th April 2021  ♦  anytime

Albinoni 350

A selection of youtube videos of music to mark the
350th anniversary year of Tomaso Albinoni's birth



Available from: Thursday 15th April

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 8th April 2021  ♦  anytime

Music for Royal Weddings

A selection of youtube videos of music written for or played at Royal Weddings

Composers: Wagner, Jeremiah Clarke, Mendelssohn, William McKie, Boyce, Parry, Walton, Karin Rehnqvist, Handel, Piazzolla, Roman,


Available from: Thursday 8th April

Music on Thursdays - Online

Recorded 'as live' for Leatherhead

Thursday 1st April 2021  ♦  anytime

Ibrahim Aziz
Rennaissance viol, treble viol, bass viol

Composers: Diego Ortiz • Rebecca Rowe • Tobias Hume
 Johann Sebastian Bach (transcription: I Aziz) • Le Sieur De Machy
Le Sieur De Sainte-Colombe • Georg Philipp Telemann • Carlos Martínez Gil

pre-recorded to be broadcast 'as live' from 1st April onwards
Ibrahim Aziz
viols player

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 25th March 2021  ♦  anytime

Musicals 1960 to 1990

A selection of youtube videos from musicals since 1960


Available from: Thursday 25th March

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 18th March 2021  ♦  anytime

Selection of Music for the Lute family
Lute • Archlute • Theorbo

Lynda Chang's selection of youtube videos of music for lutes


Available from: Thursday 18th March

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 11th March 2021  ♦  anytime

Camille Saint-Saëns Selection
The Centenary of his Death

A selection of youtube music videos of performances of works by Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns.


Available from: Thursday 11th March,  in the 100th year after the composer's death

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 4th March 2021  ♦  anytime

Vivaldi Selection for his 343rd Anniversary

A selection of youtube music videos of performances of works by Antonio Lucio Vivaldi. Including works for strings, oboe, organ, and voice, from both the secular and the sacred parts of Vivaldi's catalogue. Yes, the Four Seasons are also there.

Available from: Thursday 4th March, the343rd anniversary of the composer's birth

Music on Thursdays - Online

AGM Piano Concert

Thursday 25th February 2021  ♦  anytime

Thomas Ang
piano

pre-recorded to be broadcast 'as live'

Composers:  music by Hans von Bülow (arr Liszt) • Franz Liszt (arr Thomas Ang) • Amy Beach • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Access more about our AGM Piano Concert: by clicking on the dateline or the picture

20th May 2021 on Zoom only: Extraordinary General Meeting with 2 essential motions
      i)  to vote on the Society's accounts for 2020, in time to submit to the Charities Commission
     ii) to approve a motion extending the period before a physical Annual General Meeting must be held, so that offline members are able to fully participate
Thomas Ang performs our AGM piano concert on
25 Feb 2021

AGM - postponed to 20th May, online, at 2pm

Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts 2021

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Music on Thursdays - Online
weekly chamber concerts
UPDATE FEBRUARY 14th 2021:

On 14th February it was announced that Mole Valley’s Arts e-Live Festival had won ‘Best Arts Project’ in the National Campaign for the Arts Hearts for the Arts Awards 2021 . The awards are a celebration of those in local authorities who championthe arts against all odds.

Judges include high-profile figures in the arts and sciences: Le Gateau Chocolat, Helen Czerski, Mariella Frostrup, Paul Hartnoll, Adrian Lester CBE, Francesca Martinez, Petra Roberts and NCA Chair Samuel West.

Usually called Arts Alive, the festival was renamed Arts e-Live 2020 as, for the first time in its 24-year history, most events took place online. The theme was Arts for Wellbeing, and TV presenter & journalist Lorraine Kelly CBE was the festival’s patron. There were 57 events for all ages throughout October in the fields of music, theatre, poetry, creative writing, children’s events, street art, craft, filmmaking and dance. In total, the festival had an audience of 7,000 people.

Judges’ comments about Arts e-Live include:

“An amazing array of stuff on offer with this celebration of the arts. Covering pottery, sculpture, creative writing, poetry, talks, children’s theatre, opera screenings and more. Increased participation by shops forced to close. Those who were isolated due to age or illness able to tune in from home. Children’s activities. Really well done.” ~Adrian Lester, actor and director

“A massive communal effort and one that brought great pride. I’m struck by the diversity of content and the initiative to respond to the pandemic by making sure their festival still went ahead. From volunteering to going over and beyond what is expected from the salaried arts officer. What is very encouraging and apparent is the willingness to leave absolutely no one behind.” ~Le Gateau Chocolat, drag artiste and cabaret performer

“Sounds like a great time was had by all and what a diverse and exciting range of arts and creative ideas make up the festival.” ~Mariella Frostrup, journalist and broadcaster

“Wow, what a turnaround for what seems like a big project made of many small moving parts to develop into a massively successful online event. A well-needed event for all those artists to really get involved with something that is there for the whole community. There needs to be more of this sort of event country wide.” ~Paul Hartnoll, musician, composer, founder member of Orbital

You can read comments by the rest of the judging panel on this link.
Recorded
  'as live'
Our contribution to October 2020's Mole Valley Arts e-Live Festival was these 5 Festival concerts, recorded by our artistes in their own choice of venue - as if each was coming to you live. 
  
 - Please click on a date - these concerts are still available online:
October 1st - pianist Eddie Lee's Jazz on Thursday

October  8th - Diphonon Duo Michael Iskas, viola & Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade, accordion

October 15th - Organist Marion Bettsworth at the organ of St Michael's Highgate, London

October  22nd  ♥  CarmenCo - Carmen's story told in music by Emily Andrews, flute & voice, Francisco Correa & David Massey, guitars

October  29th - chromatic harmonica player Phil Hopkins with Stuart Whatton, piano accompanist

5 concert videos - recorded 'as live' - and still available online

Music on Thursdays  - Online

Thursday 29th October 2020  ♦ 

12.30 lunchtime


From JS Bach to the film music of John Barry

Phil Hopkins

chromatic harmonica

Stuart Whatton, piano


Music by: JS Bach • Fauré • Gershwin • John Barry • Scott Joplin • Debussy

access this concert: by clicking on the date or on the duo picture

click on the Arts e-Live logo to find out more about the festival

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 22nd October 2020  ♦  12.30 lunchtime
premiere of this 'recorded as live' performance


CarmenCo Trio
Emily Andrews, flute & voice
Francisco Correa & David Massey, guitars

this recording has been made specifically for the Music on Thursdays audience and this year's Mole Valley Arts e-Live Festival


Join Carmen in her boudoir, as she tells her own story in words and music. Dare you consult the cards with her? What does she think of the men in her story? Did she foresee her gruesome fate?

Immerse yourself in the sound of Spanish guitar, with tremendous music arranged from Bizet's Carmen, Boccherini, de Falla, Borne, Albeniz and Tarrega.

click on the date or on trio's photo to access their concert webpage

click on the Arts e-Live logo to find out more about the festival

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 15th October 2020  ♦  12.30 lunchtime

recorded 'as live' in St Michael's Highgate, London

Organist
Marion Bettsworth, ARCO

Marion Bettsworth, plays Bach, Böhm, Vierne, Cécile Chaminade, and Ireland on the 3-manual Nicholson organ in St Michael's, Highgate, where she is Assistant Director of Music.

Organ Scholar while reading Music at Lincoln College, Oxford, Marion has also held organ scholarships at St Marylebone Parish Church and Alexandra Palace. Member of the Society of Women Organists, Marion studies with Stephen Farr.
click on the date or on Marion's photo to access her concert webpage

click on the Arts e-Live logo to find out more about the festival

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 8th October 2020  ♦  12.30 lunchtime

From Baroque to Nowadays
recorded 'as live'

Diphonon Duo
Michael Iskas, viola  ♦  Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade accordion 

Diphonon Duo (pronounced dee-fo-non, it means two voices.)

Greek viola player Michael Iskas, and Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade, accordionist, from Navarra, Spain, met during their MA studies at London’s Royal Academy of Music. That is when we first met them here in Leatherhead.

Together, they produce an harmonious warmth. Today’s programme spans the centuries to include Handel, Britten, de Falla, Martin Lohse, Joaquin Taboada & Marin Marais.
click on the date or on the Duo's photo to access their concert webpage

click on the Arts e-Live logo to find out more about the festival

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 1st October 2020  ♦  12.30 lunchtime
recorded 'as live'
Pianist Eddie Lee's Jazz on Thursday

Eddie Lee - recent graduate of the prestigious Royal Academy of Music jazz programme - winner of the 2020 Dankworth Prize for big band composition.

In his solo piano recital Eddie performs an eclectic range of music, from his own interpretations of Jazz standards to renditions of classic Lennon-McCartney material, as well as his own original compositions.
click on the date or on Eddie's photo to access his Jazz on Thursday concert webpage

click on the Arts e-Live logo to find out more about the festival

Music on Thursdays - Online

from April 2020 onwards

Earlier concerts remain online for you to listen to (again)

Just click the bar and settle down for a feast of music from our broad range of (mostly) professional musicians


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Our Venue

Leatherhead Methodist Church

Music on Thursdays chamber concerts take place in Leatherhead Methodist Church. 

LMC has a pleasing acoustic for chamber music. The Church houses a fine 1970s Schiedmayer studio grand piano which was donated anonymously and is now maintained by Steinway-trained tuner and technician Tim Hendy.

LMC has level access throughout. It is easy to accommodate a wheelchair -
we just whip out a chair and you can sit with the friends you came with.
Location: LMC is close to Leatherhead town centre, in the one-way section of Church Road, but it has only limited disabled parking on-site.

The Church is a 5-7 minute walk from:
  • the main 465/478/479 bus stops in North Street
  • Swan Centre / Sainsburys' multi-storey car park KT22 8AH, and
  • 12-15 minutes from Leatherhead Rail Station
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The nearest car park is along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall KT22 8BD - a minute's stroll from LMC - unfortunately, it is often full !

The map below shows LMC's location on Church Road, and the nearby car parks. (click on the map to expand it)


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Concert at Home

Plus, at the foot of each lunchtime concert page you will find links to recordings of that day's music (where available).