
Timotheos Petrin (cello) and George Fu (piano)
Bach’s famous First Cello Suite with its beautiful and profound musical simplicity is a wonderful opener to today’s lunchtime recital, dramatically contrasted with Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata – a deeply expressive, late-Romantic work in which cello and piano share equal, symphonic weight and…

Foyle-Štšura Duo (violin and piano)
Opening the concert is the only full work Mozart ever wrote in E minor. Written upon hearing the news of his mother’s death, the tragic nature is transformed in a section in the second movement that Albert Einstein described as ‘a vision…

Ensemble Renard (wind ensemble)
Escape from the clamour of the city and join Ensemble Renard for a recital of music that captures the symbiotic nature of humanity’s relationship to the natural world. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, famed for writing the most touching and human of music, frequently…

Hilary Cronin (soprano) and Richard Saxel (piano)
Hilary Cronin and Richard Saxl offer a deeply reflective and lyrical journey with songs that meditate on nature, solitude, and transcendence. Opening with Copland’s Nature, the gentlest Mother, a tender setting of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, followed by Debussy’s luminous Beau Soir, evoking…

Aleksandra Myslek (piano)
Polish pianist Aleksandra Myslek traces her rich and varied musical career with a recital that evokes her influences and experiences. From the much-loved Chopin’s Heroic Polonaise to honoring her late teacher, Hamish Milne, with glimmering works by Medtner, she also nods to…

Felix Gygli (baritone) and Jong Sun Woo (piano)
Join us for a recital of German Lieder, tracing the fragile thread of the human experience of love, loss, and longing. Schumann’s Tragödie and Five Lieder Op. 40 songs reveal intimate dramas—fleeting tenderness, dreamlike innocence, and the stark shadows of betrayal and…

Violetta Suvini (violin) and Sofia Sacco (piano)
Violinist Violetta Suvini and pianist Sofia Sacco showcase three contrasting works: Ravel’s youthful Sonate Posthume, Beethoven’s maverick Sonata No. 4 in A minor, and the folkloric idiom of Janáček’s Violin Sonata. Unpublished until 1975, decades after Ravel’s death, this charming early work…

Will Harmer and Friends: Golden Hour
Will Harmer and friends present “Golden Hour”, an exploration of British landscape in chamber music and song. Featuring favourite folksong arrangements of Britten, Vaughan Williams and Imogen Holst alongside a number of Will’s compositions, this concert will transport you around the British…

Antoine Préat (piano): Fortune’s Fool
Celebrating the release of his new Album “Fortune’s Fool” , pianist Antoine Préat shares a programme of Haydn, Chopin, and Prokofiev, marrying wit, lyricism and tragedy. This lunchtime concert will include Haydn’s scintillating Fantasia, Chopin’s Three waltzes op. 34 and Prokofiev’s Romeo…