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Concert Dates 2020
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JANUARY 2020
No Lunchtime Concerts this month
FEBRUARY 2020
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Free Concert with a Retiring Collection
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2pm: Annual General Meeting of the charity Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
in the Lower Hall - teas available from 1.40pm and after this meeting 3pm: AGM Piano Concert - Guest pianist: Marina Kan Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 14, Moonlight Rachmaninov: Piano Sonata No 1 in D minor Grieg: Lyric Pieces teas available BEFORE this concert from 2.45pm in the Lower Hall Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Road, KT22 8AY ♦ disabled parking only on site, please use Swan Centre multi-storey at KT22 8AH ♦ Everyone is invited to attend either the AGM, the concert, or both - although only current Members may vote at the AGM |
MARCH 2020
No Lunchtime Concerts this month
APRIL 2020
No Lunchtime Concerts this month just this one online compilation:
Music on Thursdays - Online
Concert for St George's Day and to commemorate the Birth of Shakespeare video recordings of folk and traditional works, music that Shakespeare almost certainly heard, a lovely setting by William Mathias, and some Vaughan Williams to access the concert webpage: please click on the Date, the flag, or Shakespeare's Birthplace Venue: this website and a place of your choosing |
MAY 2020
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Free Concerts with a Retiring Collection
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Music on May Day - Online
video recordings of May Day Morning in Oxford, folk & traditional tunes, Lei Day, The Beatles, Soloviov-Sedoï, Scarlatti, and Vaughan Williams to access the concert webpage: please click on the Date or the Maypole and Dancers Venue: this website and a place of your choosing |
Music for VE Day 75th Anniversary - Online
a military and nostalgic musical miscellany - including Marlene Dietrich, Vera Lynn, Glenn Miller, Eric Coates, and Handel to access the concert webpage: please click on the Date or the VE Day emblem Venue: this website and a place of your choosing |
Music on Thursdays - Online
Piano à Deux - piano four hands Linda Ang Stoodley ♥ Richard Stoodley music by Schubert, George Onslow, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Shostakovich, Rodgers & Hammerstein and including arrangements by Linda and Richard access this piano 4 hands concert: by clicking on the date or on the duo's picture Venue: this website and a place of your choosing |
JUNE 2020
Music on Thursdays - Online
String Quartet Concert Beethoven & Haydn artistes: Alban Berg Quartett • Jasper String Quartet plus a Haydn encore piece performed by the Tetra String Quartet access concert: by clicking on the date or the pictures |
Music on Thursdays - Online
Cello Tango with 52 cellists music by Piazzolla • Albéniz • Carter Brey • Carlos Gardel • Villa-Lobos access concert: by clicking on the date or the picture |
Music on Thursdays - Organs Online
Organs of Paris ♥ Les Orgues de Paris organs from the top three Parisian churches, from the concert hall, and from one other venue artistes: Olivier Latry, Daniel Roth, Thomas Ospital, Jean Guillou, Wayne Marshall, Aaron Shows music, including improvisations, by: Latry • Marcel Dupré • JS Bach • Debussy • Ron Goodwin • Michel-Maurice Lévy • Marshall • Katchaturian • Saint-Saëns access concert: by clicking on the date or the pictures |
Music on Thursdays - Organs Online
Flute Fest artistes: Sir James Galway ♦ Lady Jeanne Galway ♦ Paris Voxmusicorum Orchestra, conductor Ada Pelleg ♦ Icelandic Flute Ensemble David Antich, recorder ♦ Leonardo Luckert, cello ♦ Ignasi Jordà, harpsichord Gianluca Vanzelli, flute ♦ Kammerorchester Timisoara, conductor David Crescezi Shin-jung Oh, flute ♦ Heo Jung-hwa, piano ♦ Dave Valentin, jazz flute music by: Cimarosa • Boismortier • Händel • John Rutter • Pedro Flores access concert: by clicking on the date or the pictures |
JULY 2020
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Free Concerts with a Retiring Collection
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Music on Thursdays - Online
guest presenter Lynda Chang brings you a personal musical selection titled Virtual Viola featuring music by York Bowen • Telemann • Brahms • Rebecca Clarke performers Ting-Ru Lai ♦ Timothy Ridout ♦ Jeremy Berry Academia Bach de Buenos Aires access this concert: by clicking on the date or the picture |
Music on Thursdays - Online
Multi Piano music by: Rossini • Holst • Mozart • Rollins • Lavignac • Beethoven under the hands and fingers of 55 pianists playing on 31 pianos not all at once, of course with some fairly famous names among the pianists too access this concert: by clicking on the picture or the date |
Music on Thursdays - Online
from Sagbutts to Trombones from the sagbutt to the modern trombone, with introductions by top players, and the music of Gabrieli ♦ Priuli ♦ Beethoven ♦ Ropartz ♦ Stravinsky ♦ Rimsky-Korsakov ♦ Freddie Mercury plus extra listening by Purcell • Gounod • Albert E Brumley (New Orleans) to access our From Sagbutts to Trombones concert please click on the Date above or on the trombone player image - from 16th July onwards |
Music on Thursdays - Online
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Music on Thursdays - Online
Oboe Omnibus Artistes include oboists: Nicholas Stovall ♦ Lajos Lencses ♦ Bradley Shoemaker-Webster ♦ Bernice Lee ♦ Maurice Bourgue ♦ Isabel Maria Velasco Music by: Carl Nielsen • Christoph Förster • Edmund Rubbra • Ravel Telemann • Saint-Saëns • Grieg access concert: by clicking on the date or the picture |
AUGUST 2020
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Free Concerts with a Retiring Collection
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Music on Thursdays - Online
Gentle Guitar Artistes include: Francisco Correa ♦ David Massey ♦ Jon Gjyalci ♦ Roland Dyens ♦ Gary Ryan ♦ Adam del Monte ♦ Irene Gomez ♦ John Williams ♦ Julian Bream ♦ Andrés Segovia ♦ D&A Duo: Dimitris Kourzakis & Angelos Botsis ♦ Manuel Barrueco Music by: de Falla • Roland Dyens • Django Reinhardt • Gary Ryan • Piazzolla • Albéniz access concert: by clicking on the date or the picture |
Music on Thursdays - Online
Music for Unusual Instruments Artistes include: Tjurgen Kam, throat singing & Jew's harp • Stefan Dollak, mandora • Fritz Mayr, Jew's harp • Dieter Kirsch, mandora • Münchener Kammerorchester • Lewis Lipnick, contrabassoon & contraforte • Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra • Eric Poe, water percussion • Contemporary Youth Orchestra • Yuan Li, guzheng • hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra) Music by: O'Carolan • Albrechtsberger • Kalevi Aho • Glière • Tan Dun access concert: by clicking on the date or the pictures from August 13th onwards |
Ibrahim Aziz
viola da gamba a selection of Ibrahim's online videos Other artistes include: John Dornenburg, gamba • Hille Perl, gamba • Lee Santana, lute • Andrew Lawrence-King, harp • Katarzyna Kowalik, square piano • Chelys Consort • Wei En Chan, countertenor • Mariah Bizzi, keyboards • Il Festino Baroque Ensemble • Jakob David Rattinger, viola da gamba • Lina Tur Bonet, Baroque violin • Nadja Lesaulnier, harpsichord • Voices of Music Music by: Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe le Père ♦ Mozart ♦ Purcell ♦ Anthony Holborne ♦ Byrd ♦ Buxtehude ♦ Corelli ♦ Scarlatti ♦ Marin Marais ♦ Carlos Martínez Gil access concert: by clicking on date or picture from 20th August onwards |
Music on Thursdays - Online
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 |
SEPTEMBER 2020
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Thursday 3rd September 2020 anytime |
Music on Thursdays - Online
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 concert: by clicking on the date or the picture from 3rd Sep onwards |
Music on Thursdays - Online
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
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 concert: by clicking on the date or the picture from 17th Sep onwards |
Music on Thursdays - Online
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 |
OCTOBER 2020
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Free Concerts with a Retiring Collection
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Eddie Lee's Jazz on Thursday - Online
pianist Eddie Lee : Winner of the 2020 Dankworth Prize for Big Band Composition Eddie Lee's jazz piano concert will be one of the first events of this year's Mole Valley Arts e-Live Festival 2020 - which opens today. Eddie will perform a varied set list including plenty of his own original material, and work by Lennon-McCartney, Radiohead, and Hoagy Carmichael. ONLINE : Pre-Recorded as Live - available at 12.30 - click on date or photo - - - and then from 4pm onwards and for the rest of October - - - |
Music on Thursdays - Online
Diphonon Duo Michael Iskas, viola Iñigo Mikeeleiz Berrade, accordion From Baroque to Nowadays Händel: Sonata for Viola da Gamba Britten: Lachrymae de Falla: Popular Spanish Songs Martin Lohse: Koncert W10 Joaquin Taboada: Minimal Tango Marin Marais: couplets from Les Folies d'Espagne ONLINE : Pre-Recorded as Live - available from 12.30 |
Music on Thursdays - Online
Marion Bettsworth plays the 3-manual Nicholson organ in St Michael's Church, Highgate, London Marion Bettsworth: organist, accompanist, teacher & arts administrator, Assistant Director of Music, St Michael’s Church, Highgate, Accompanist, Enfield Choral Society JS Bach: Prelude & Fugue in A minor Georg Böhme: Chorale Partita, Ach wie nichtig, ach wie flüchtig Vierne: movements from Organ Symphony No 3 in F# minor Cécile Chaminade: Prélude pour orgue Op 78 John Ireland: Cavatina ONLINE : Pre-Recorded as Live - available from 12.30 |
Music on Thursdays - Online
CarmenCo - recounting Carmen's story CarmenCo Trio Emily Andrews, flute & voice David Massey, guitar ♦ Francisco Correa, guitar Bizet: Aragonaise • De Falla: La vie breve Bizet: Habanera (l’amour est un oiseau rebelle...) Turina: Ráfaga Boccherini: Passacalle from Procession of the Military Night Watch in Madrid Bizet: Seguidilla (pres des ramparts de Seville...) Ravel: Piece en forme de habanera Bizet: Toreador • De Falla: Fire dance • Bizet: Entr’acte Bizet: The card aria (en vain pour eviter les responses amers...) Tarrega: Recuerdos • Borne: Fantasie brillante sur Carmen ONLINE : Pre-Recorded as Live - available from 12.30 |
Music on Thursdays - Online
From JS Bach to John Barry's film music Phil Hopkins, harmonica (of London Sinfonietta) Stuart Whatton, piano (Director of Music, Esher Parish Church) JS Bach: Sonata No 2 in Eb for flute Fauré: Berceuse • Après un rêve Gershwin: Suite from Porgy & Bess Movie Medley: Midnight Cowboy (John Barry) • Dances With Wolves (Barry) • The Entertainer (Scott Joplin) JS Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Debussy: VI Golliwog's Cakewalk ONLINE : Pre-Recorded as Live - available from 12.30 |
NOVEMBER 2020
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Free Concerts with a Retiring Collection
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Music on Thursdays - Online
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 access concert: by clicking on the date or the picture from 5th Nov onwards |
Music on Thursdays - Online
Final Concert of the Year Music of the Musicals Composers: Irving Berlin ♦ Oscar Hammerstein II ♦ Sir Edward German ♦ Victor Herbert ♦ Jerome Kern ♦ Julian Slade 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 access concert: by clicking on the date or the picture from 12th Nov onwards |
Wednesdays at Christ Church Organ Concert
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) from the Orgelbüchlein Little Organ Book (1709-1717) Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland BWV 599 Come, Saviour of nations wild Fantasia & Fugue in C minor BWV 537 Louis Vierne (1870-1937) from Vingt-quatre pièces en style libre (1913-1914) No 15 Arabesque Jean Langlais (1907-1991) Incanatation pour un jour saint Incantation for Easter Recorded Live at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, KT22 8ST Your concert is ready on youtube - please click this link |
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. For details of giving please click onthe logo below. After this concert Christ Church closed definitively. We hope the Hill, Norman & Beard organ will find a new life in the North of England. |
No More Lunchtime Concerts this month. We return on April 1st 2021
DECEMBER 2020
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Free Concerts with a Retiring Collection
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No Lunchtime Concerts this month. We return on April 1st 2021
2021 CONCERTS
Thursday 25th February - 12.30 lunchtime - Music on Thursdays - AGM Piano Concert - recorded 'as live' - Thomas Ang, piano programme info awaited (the actual AGM is moved to Thursday 20th May, if allowed)
1st April: First weekly concert of the year, details awaited - we are not pulling your leg, there really will be a concert
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