44th Annual Series at St Mary le-Tower, Ipswich
As we continue to remember the centenary of the First World War, music written or influenced by war is a continuing thread throughout our recital series this year. Whilst, some works will have been written around the time of WWI, others will have been influenced by wars and revolutions centuries earlier.
Admission free, with a retiring collection
May 5th: Caroline Kennedy soprano, Ian Tindale piano - Poulenc: ‘La Courte Paille’ and British folk songs
May 12th: Christine Stevenson piano - Beethoven: Bagatelle Op. 126, No. 3 in E flat, Schubert: Sonata D784 in A minor and works by Brahms and Debussy
May 19th: John Keys organ, Director of Music, St Mary’s Church, Nottingham - Dupré: Evocation (last movement), C.P.E. Bach: La Battaille de Bergen
May 26th: Eine Kleine Sax Music saxophone quartet - Gershwin: Summertime, Cole Porter: Medley
June 2nd: Simon Davies guitar - Includes works by Baron and Bellinati
June 9th: Andrew Cantrill organ, Organist, Royal Hospital School - Franck: Pastorale, Elgar: Cantique, Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow
June 16th: Lindsay Gowers soprano Andrew Leach piano - Includes songs by Britten, Ravel, Gershwin and Sondheim
June 23rd : Roger Sayer organ, Organist and Director of Music, The Temple Church, London - Franck: Final in B flat, Jongen: Sonata Eroica, Stanford: Fantasia and Toccata and works by Ireland and Rheinberger
June 30th: Revolutionary Drawing Room string quartet - Haydn: Quartet in C major ‘The Bird’ Op. 33, No 3, Beethoven: Quartet in F minor Op. 95
July 7th: Richard Edgar-Wilson tenor Andrew Leach piano - ‘War and Peace’ – a programme of British and French songs by Britten, Haydn, Franck and Poulenc
July 14th: Kaleidoscope soprano, flute, cello and piano - ‘A programme of music to celebrate Bastille Day’including works by Ravel, Gaubert and Caplet
July 21st: Blandine Jacquet organ, Oundle Festival Recital Award Winner 2014 - Bruhns: Praeludium in G, Mendelssohn: Andante and Variations in D and works by Franck, Vierne and Widor
July 28th: Duke Dobing flute Caroline Finlay piano - Martinů: Sonata
August 4th: Jonathan Lilley organ, Director of Music, Waltham Abbey - Langlais: Suite Brève, Bossi: Scherzo in G minor, Gárdonyi: Mozart Changes and works by Bovet and Jongen
August 11th: Sponsored bySuffolk Organists’ Association Nicholas Freestone organ, Senior Organ Scholar, Wells Cathedral, Organ Scholar elect, St Albans Cathedral - Bach: Prelude in E flat BWV 552, 1, Mendelssohn: Sonata IV in B flat, Sibelius: Preludium and Postludium, Franck: Cantabile and Pièce Héroïque
August 18th: Steve Harman clarinet William Baldry piano - ‘Songs from the Wars’ including popular numbers by Vera Lynn and Frank Sinatra
August 25th: Deben Jazz - A collection of classic jazz standards including ‘Sweet Georgia Brown’, ‘Fly me to the moon’ and ‘As time goes by’
September 1st: Kathryn Parry violin Paul Turner piano - Franck: Sonata, Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending
September 8th: Emmanuel Vass piano - Works by Liszt, Chopin, Saint-Saëns and arrangements of British sea shanties
September 15th: Michael Nicholas organ - Bach: Prelude and Fugue in E minor ’Wedge’ BWV 548, Franck: Chorale No. 2 in B minor
September 22nd: Julian Trevelyan piano - BBC Young Musician of the Year – Piano Finalist 2014
September 29th: William Baldry organ. Organist, St Mary-Le-Tower - Sibelius: Intrada, Franck: Chorale No. 3 in A minor, Bridge: Adagio in E, Reger: Benedictus
October 6th: Sean Riley violin Maria Setiadi piano - Tartini; ‘Devil’s Trill’ Sonata, Prokofiev: Sonata No 1
October 13th: Eboracum Baroque
October 20th: Colin Walsh organ, Organist Laureate, Lincoln Cathedral - Franck: Chorale No. 1 in E major, Franck: Prélude, Fugue et Variation
