Our next concert on 14 May (3pm) will see the welcome return of the GUILDHALL CANTATA GROUP directed by James Johnstone. THIs year they will be exploring a range of French Baroque masterpieces for singers and instruments. Don't miss it! PLEASE NOTE THAT THE CONCERT ON 11 JUNE WILL NOW BE A RECITAL BY JOHN …
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English Classics at MiNM
Jane Booth and Steven Devine provided us with a scintillating hour of English music from the late 19th/early 20th century yesterday afternoon. Two sizeable clarinet sonatas by Sir Donald Francis Tovey and Sir William Henry Hadow were the main items on the menu, joined by an exquisite 'Albumleaf' for solo piano by York Bowen. All …
General Meeting and Robert and Clara Schumann
We preceded today's Music in New Malden concert of music by Robert and Clara Schumann with our first-ever General Meeting, for which we had a good attendance of about three dozen. We have adopted our constitution, and the elected officers are Jane Booth (Chair) John Irving, (Deputy Chair) and Peter Bullett (Treasurer). Mia Bekvalac has …
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Series Nine begins!
Series NINE of Music in New Malden began in fine style yesterday with a concert featuring oboist Michal Rogalski, cellist Kate Conway and harpsichordist Katarzyna Kowalik. They treated us to a programme of 'Baroque Virtuosity', exploring music from Venice and Paris, ending with Marais' extraordinary variations on Les Folies d'Espagne. And, for the first time …
Grand FInale to Series Eight of MiNM!
Already Series Eight of Music in New Malden is drawing to a close. This season has ranged across a wider repertoire than previously, including a piano sonata by Michael Tippett, baroque violin duos, yet another Mozart piano concerto in an arrangement for fortepiano and classical winds, and a semi-staged seventeenth-century opera! Series 8 ends with …
GSMD Cantata Group 15 May
Yesterday we enjoyed a repeat visit from the talented musicians of the Historical Performance department of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, directed by James Johnston. Their performance of John Blow's 1683 masque, "Venus and Adonis" offered a glimpse into a rarely-heard work that was an obvious precursor of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, considered …
Giants of the Baroque
DeNOTE's programme of recorder sonatas by Handel and Bach at MiNM this afternoon went down really well with our large and appreciative audience. Performers: Jane Booth, James Brookmyre, John Irving. Today's Charity was Music in Hospitals, for which we raised £350. This was the first appearance in MiNM (and only the second in the UK!) …
Giants of the Baroque
13 March 2016 Today’s programme explores baroque repertoire for ‘recorder and basso continuo’. ‘Basso continuo’ was a distinctive feature of baroque music (music composed between roughly 1600 and 1760) and refers to the way in which the bass line in the music was organised as a chordal foundation, above which the melodic strands were composed. …
Schubert and Tippett sonatas
Very fine concert today by pianist, Robert Bridge, playing two contrasting sonatas: Tippett no.1 and Schubert G major. How nice, too, to hear the church's fine Bluthner grand being played so expertly. Our audiences are growing and we regularly hit around the 85-90 mark these days - even on Valentine's Day! It was well worth …
Mozart Concerto premiere
Yesterday's Music in New Malden concert (the first of 2016) featured arrangements of two much-loved Mozart pieces: his Clarinet Quintet (in an anonymous version for basset clarinet and piano of 1809), and his last Piano Concerto, no 27 (in a new arrangement for piano and wind sextet by Robert Percival). An action shot of the …
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