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Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts 2020

Music on Thursdays at LMC
weekly chamber concerts
Wednesdays at Christ Church
monthly organ concerts
The Trustees have decided to suspend live concerts until April 2021 at the earliest.
Please check this page for information closer to the potential opening date.
Here's what we are planning, including our popular Online concerts:

Recorded 'as live'

Music on Thursdays

In October we heard
5 Festival concerts
recorded by our artistes
in their own choice of venue

as if each was coming to you live
Here is the line-up, click on a date - they remain 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, with the guitars of Francisco Correa & David Massey

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

You are also welcome to explore our

Unique Musical Video Selections

from the organisers of

Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts

THE FINAL
Wednesdays at Christ Church Organ Concert

Wednesday 18th November 2020
12.30 lunchtime

Farewell to the Organ - recorded 'as live'

A concert in support of Christian Aid

Guest organist:

Mark Brafield, FTCL, FRCO,
Trustee of Royal College of Organists, and District Judge

Programme


Philip Moore (b1943)
Organ Sonata (1982)
    Allegro Agitato
    Andante Tranquillo
    Allegro con Brio


Dobrinka Tabakova (b1980)
Diptych for Organ (2009)
    Pastoral
    Choral


Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Fantasia & Fugue in C minor BWV 537


Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
from Vingt-quatre pièces en style libre (1913-1914)
No 15 Arabesque

from Deuxième symphonie pour grande orgue   Organ Symphony No 2 in E minor Op 20 (1902-03)
    Allegro

Recorded Live at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, KT22 8ST

At the end of this concert we planned to collect for Christian Aid whose door-to-door collections could not take place earlier this year. Details of giving are on the concert webpage and on youtube

More details - see this webpage
Please dontate to Christian Aid: https://www.christianaid.org.uk/give/ways-to-donate
click to donate • please mention Christ Church Leatherhead

Music on Thursdays - Online

Final Lockdown Concert of 2020

  ☼  ☼  Music of the Musicals  ☼  ☼

Thursday 12th November 2020  ♦  anytime

Artistes:  Betty Hutton ♦ Howard Keel ♦ Frank Sinatra ♦ Ethel Merman ♦ William McAlpine ♦ June Bronhill ♦ Peter Glossop ♦ Monica Sinclair ♦ Patricia Kern ♦ Howell Glynne ♦ The Williams Singers ♦ Michael Collins & His Orchestra ♦ Peter Dawson ♦ Michael Parr ♦ Helen Westley ♦ Irene Dunne ♦ Hattie McDaniel ♦ Paul Robeson ♦ Gordon MacRae ♦ Gloria Grahame ♦ Gene Nelson ♦ Charlotte Greenwood ♦ James Whitmore ♦ Jay C Flippen ♦ Original 1955 Oklahoma! Chorus ♦ Hugh Jackman ♦ Maureen Lipman ♦ Josefina Gabrielle ♦ Jason Danieley ♦ Jessie Mueller ♦ Donald O'Connor ♦ John Warner ♦ Eleanor Drew ♦ Julie Andrews

Composers:  Irving Berlin ♦ Oscar Hammerstein II ♦ Sir Edward German ♦ Victor Herbert ♦ Jerome Kern ♦ Julian Slade
access this Musicals concert: by clicking on the dateline on or after 12th November 2020

After this concert we will take a break until the New Year.

We expect to continue with online concerts, at least for the first few months. Let's hope we will feel safe enough to meet for live music by Easter 2021... Summer... Autumn... It'll be our 10th year, so we hope we will have some live concerts, some time!

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 5th November 2020


Musical Fireworks

Artistes: Christine Schmid, soprano • Jean-Michel Jarre • Katy Perry • Catherine Puyravaud • Calogero • Wincent Weiss • Marc-André Hamelin, piano • hr-Sinfonieorchester • Paavo Järvi, conductor • Stadtkapelle Tuylln • Hans-Peter Manser, conductor • Le Concert Spirituel • Hervé Nicquet, conductor
Composers:
Paul Burkhard • Jean-Michel Jarre • Katy Perry • Mikkel Storleer Eriksen • Tor Erik Hermansen • Sandee Vee • "Ester" Dean • Catherine Puyravaud • Calogero •  Gioacchino Maurici • Martin Fliegenschmidt • David Jürgens • Wincent Weiss • Sascha Wernicke
Debussy • Stravinsky • GF Handel

to access our Musical Fireworks concert please click on the Dateline above or on the image

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 ending?

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 is a recent graduate of the prestigious Royal Academy of Music jazz programme, and winner of the 2020 Dankworth Prize for big band composition.

In this 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.

Eddie Lee played live for last September's Jazz on Thursday at LMC, and we are delighted he is able to join us again this year.
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

Thursday 24th September 2020

Beethoven 250

Guest Host: Peter Horsfield, LCAS Chair
Ensemble Symphonique Neuchâtel, Alexander Mayer, conductor
Nashville Symphony  ♦  Daniel Barenboim, piano  ♦  Valentina Lisitsa, piano
Fritz Wunderlich, tenor • Hubert Giesen, piano ♦ kpunkt klaviermusik of Germany
Anna Samuil, soprano • Waltraud Meier, mezzo-soprano • Michael König, tenor • René Pape, bass
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra • Michael Barenboim, leader • Daniel Barenboim, conductor
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor

to access our concert please click on the Date above or on the Beethoven picture

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 17th September 2020

The Voice

Guest Host: Lynda Chang

Artistes:
Barbara Hannigan, cellists of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Aleksander Ort, oktavist
Christine Rice, mezzo, Academy of Ancient Music, Steven Devine, director
Simon Clark, Chapel Choir, University of Exeter, director, Michael Graham
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone, and Gerald Moore, piano
David Cordier, countertenor, Wiener Sängerknaben, director Helmut Froschauer
Wanda Brister, mezzo-soprano, Timothy Broekman, piano
Felicity Lott, mezzo, Graham Johnson, piano
Dr Evadne Hinge & Dame Hilda Bracket
music by: Villa-Lobos  •  Russian Orthodox Church  •  Traditional  •  Vaughan Williams  •  Schubert  •  Madeleine Dring  •  Rossini et al

ACCESS: click on the picture or the date to access the video link page for this concert on Thursday 17th September or later
Dr Wanda Brister, mezzo-soprano,
Wanda Brister, mezzo-soprano,
David Cordier, countertenor,
David Cordier, countertenor

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 10th September 2020

Clarinet Compilation

Guest Host: Lynda Chang
Artistes:
• Jack Brymer (pictured), & London Symphony Orchestra
• Michael Collins, & Mikhail Pletnev, piano
• Sharon Kam, & Jersulaem String Quartet
• Karl Leister, & James Levine, piano
• Sabine Mayer, & Oleg Maisenberg piano

Music by: Mozart • Weber • Brahms • Poulenc • Milhaud

to access your concert please click on the Date or picture from 10th September onwards

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 3rd September 2020  ♦  anytime

Choral music

Artistes include: Gondwana Choir • Chœur de Radio France • Plano Texas Kodály Teacher Training Program Choir • Only Boys Aloud • Katherine Jenkins • Marazion Apollo Male Voice Choir • Royal Philharmonic Chorus • Royal Choral Society • World Youth Choir • Shammel Xioamiao Luo, soprano • Harvard Glee Club • Harvard Chamber Choir • Radcliffe Choral Society • Wimbledon Choral Society • Cardiff Polyphonic Choir • Orchestra Vitæ • Resonans con Tutti • MDR Rundfunkchor • Yuri Vishnayakov, oktavist

Music by: Byrd • Tippett • Seiber • Harry Glasson • Hyo-Won Woo • Vaughan Williams • Pavel Chesnokov • Rachmaninoff

access this choral concert: by clicking on the dateline or the picture

Music on Thursdays - Online
Thursday 27th August 2020  ♦  anytime

Music & the Military

Artistes include: Phil O'Neill, bugle • Drum Corps AKPOL, Tiruna, Indonesia • several UK Military Bands • Danish Royal Life Guard Band • Fanfare et Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine, Paris • Chœur de l'Armée de France • Musique de la Légion Étrangère • Chilean Army Band • The New Zealand Army Band (Puoro Puoro Ngāti Tūmatauenga) • Massed bands of the Indian Defence Forces • Bersaglieri

Music by: Hans Hass • Hubert Giraud • Vincent Scotto • Georges van Parÿs • François-Nicolas Wilhem • Charles Trenet


access concert: by clicking on the date or the picture from August 27th onwards

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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Leatherhead Venues

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

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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Christ Church (United Reformed)

Christ Church houses a well-maintained, Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ on which we present the Wednesdays at Christ Church monthly recital series.

Guest organists come to us from around London and the South East of England.

Christ Church (UR) has its own website where you will find details of the Church's services, concerts, and other activities.

Epsom Road links Leatherhead bypass with the town centre. The entrance to Christ Church is beside Downsend School's Leatherhead Lodge.

Christ Church has on-site parking, and level access throughout.

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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).