Robert Bridge Sunday 12th November @ 3pm New Malden Methodist Church Chopin – Fantaisie in F minor, Op.49 Janacek – In the Mist Schumann – Fantasiestücke, Op.12 As well as welcoming the wonderful Robert Bridge to the MiNM stage next month for an exciting piano recital we will also be holding, just beforehand at 2.40pm, our …
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We would like to thank those of you who attended our final concert of the 9th Series earlier this month. John Irving’s programme of solo keyboard sonatas by three of the giants of the classical era: Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, played on fortepiano was a great way to end our season. 2016-17 has been a very …
Once again, we were treated to an exceptional programme of rarely-heard masterpieces from the Court of Louis XIV: LES OMBRES SACRÉES performed by talented students from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Cantata Ensemble, directed by James Johnstone (seen below at the harpsichord): making their fourth visit to MiNM. Proceeds from today’s concert to Blue Dragon …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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!) …
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