Dear all
If you can snatch an hour or two away from your feverish study of the Creation on either or both of the next two Sunday evenings, there are a couple of concerts in Putney that I would commend to your attention – not least because I have a starring role in both…
This coming Sunday, June 11th, I’m giving a piano recital at 6pm at All Saints’ Church, Putney Common. Music by Schumann, Janacek and Liszt. Free admission and free wine with a retiring collection to try and recoup some of the bar bill. This is a “knitting concert” so feel free to bring something (preferably silent) to do whilst you listen, if you want to.
And a week later on Sunday 18th at 7.30, also at All Saints’ Church, I’ll be joining the 1885 Singers under the baton of Alison Hunka for one of their final concerts before Alison retires at the end of this year. They will be singing Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, which SGC performed a couple of years ago, along with a piece that Howard Goodall wrote for the choir back in 2005. I will be joining them for Constant Lambert’s riotous Rio Grande, a mini-concerto for piano, percussion and choir, to a wonderful text by Sacheverell Sitwell – think a fusion of Walton’s Facade and Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and you’re in the zone. Also in the programme is Mendelssohn’s Richte mich, Gott and Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto. Quite a bonanza evening.
Robert Bridge