Concerts

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Price: £15
Concession Price: £12 (Free admission for under 12s)
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Saturday, 16 March, 2024 - 19:30
Brahms, Khachaturian & Rachmaninov
St Cyprian's Church, Glentworth Street, London, NW1 6AX

Our Spring Concert includes three iconic works that we have never performed before. Written in 1880, Brahms' Tragic Overture has a turbulent, tormented character that stands in contrast to the relative jollity of his Academic Festival Overture written in the same year. Brahms himself quipped, "one laughs and the other weeps".

Aram Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite was extracted by the composer from incidental music he had written for a production of Mikhail Lermonotov's play Masquerade. The five movements include the famous Waltz, considered one of Khachaturian's finest works, and familiar from numerous appearances in film and television soundtracks.

Following the disastrous premiere of his first symphony, Sergei Rachmaninov suffered years of depression and self-doubt about his ability as a composer. Eventually he returned to compose his Piano Concerto No. 2, and then a second symphony. The composer conducted the premiere himself to great applause, and the symphony has become one of the best-loved works in the repertoire.

Advance tickets for this concert are available now via the link to the left, and remaining tickets will be available on the door on the night. Directions to St Cyprian's Church can be found on our Venues page.

We are now able to take card payments on the night (as well as payments in cash), but advance booking is recommended!

  • Levon Parikian
    Conductor
  • John Crawford
    Leader
  • Johannes Brahms
    Tragic Overture
  • Aram Khachaturian
    Masquerade Suite
  • Sergei Rachmaninov
    Symphony No. 2
Ticket Information
Price: £15
Concession Price: £12 (Free admission for under 12s)
Book
Saturday, 6 July, 2024 - 19:30
Szymanowski & Berlioz
St Cyprian's Church, Glentworth Street, London, NW1 6AX

The final concert of our 2023-2024 season includes some important unfinished business. We originally planned to perform Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 2 in June 2020, but of course we were forced to cancel that concert, and we've been trying to reschedule it ever since. We're delighted that we'll finally be able to perform this piece with Fenella Humphreys, one of the UK's best-known violinists, who we've had the pleasure of performing with several times in the past.

Berlioz's hugely popular Symphonie Fantastique portrays the hallucinations of a gifted artist who has poisoned himself with opium. The highly evocative movements include a ball, a rural scene in the fields, a march to the scaffold and dreams of a witches' sabbath. Join us to explore the extremities of the emotional spectrum in a dramatic musical finale to our season.

Find out more about Fenella Humphreys, our soloist, here.

Advance tickets for this concert are available now via the link to the left, and remaining tickets will be available on the door on the night. Directions to St Cyprian's Church can be found on our Venues page.

We are now able to take card payments on the night (as well as payments in cash), but advance booking is recommended!

  • Levon Parikian
    Conductor
  • John Crawford
    Leader
  • Fenella Humphreys
    Violin
  • Karol Szymanowski
    Violin Concerto No. 2
  • Hector Berlioz
    Symphonie Fantastique