Mass in C Minor with Wimbledon Choral

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Panufnik Letters from Burma
Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
Mozart Great Mass in C Minor K.427

London Mozart Players
Wimbledon Choral
Neil Ferris conductor
Jeni Bern soprano
Llio Evans soprano
Thomas Elwin tenor
Jamie W Hall bass
Gareth Hulse oboe
Richard Watkins horn

This will be the first public performance by Wimbledon Choral, together with the London Mozart players, since Christmas 2019, and what greater way to celebrate than with Mozarts’s glorious Mass in C Minor, widely regarded as his masterpiece in the field of religious composition. With dramatic choral writing and wonderful solo scoring, this formidable work is studded with gems from operatic skill to baroque counterpoint.

Roxana Panufnik’s Letters from Burma, composed in 2004, was inspired by Aung San Suu Kyi’s vivid description of life in Myanmar while under house arrest.

Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and String offers a contemplation of night and sleep through the poetry of Keats, Jonson, Blake and Tennyson.

Mozart Requiem with the Crouch End Festival Chorus

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Mozart Requiem
Jessica Curry Echo (World Premiere)
Brahms Schicksalslied

London Mozart Players
Crouch End Festival Chorus
David Temple conductor
Francesca Chiejina soprano
Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano
Ronald Samm tenor
Benjamin Bevan baritone

Crouch End Festival Chorus, under its conductor David Temple, joins with the London Mozart Players to perform Mozart’s Requiem, one of the greatest works in the choral repertoire. Commissioned in 1791 when the composer’s health was failing, Mozart created a work which was completed after his death by Süssmayr and contains some of his most sublime and evocative music.

 

CEFC also presents the World Premiere of a work by Jessica Curry, renowned for her award-winning scores for video games. Echo is based on an evocative Christina Rossetti poem combining passion and mystery.

 

Completing the programme is one of Brahms’s greatest choral pieces, the Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny).

Spotlight On… 2-concert package

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Please choose your ticket price in the dropdown menu above before you click the ‘Buy & Watch’ button.

 

This 2-concert package gives you access to both the Jess Gillam concert and the Leia Zhu concert. Please note our ‘Spotlight On…’ videos are only available for 30 days from date of initial broadcast. Once you have purchased your package, click the link below to watch the film.

Spotlight On … Jess: No longer available
WATCH – Spotlight On … Leia: available from Tuesday 19 October at 10am

A note on ticket prices:

The 2-concert package is only available while the Jess concert is online (ie until 11:59 BST Wednesday 13 October). You only need 1 ticket per concert per household and can pay the Standard £15 package price to access each concert. If you would like to pay a higher amount that equates to your usual ‘live concert hall’ price, and by doing so kindly support the LMP, then choose the £30 ‘Supporter’ or £45 ‘Premium Supporter’ packages. You can also add a donation (which will attract gift aid) during the payment process. Please choose your ticket price in the dropdown menu above before you click the ‘Buy & Watch’ button.

Christmas Classics at St Mary’s

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Programme includes:
Traditional Once in Royal David’s City
Traditional Silent Night
Traditional Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Barnes Let the Carols Ring (new commission)
Traditional 12 Days of Christmas
Strauss Pizzicato Polka
Strauss Blue Danube
Anderson Sleigh Ride
Anderson Waltzing Cat
Elgar Salut d’Amour
Tchaikovsky excerpt from The Nutcracker
Handel Pifa from Messiah

London Mozart Players
Ruth Rogers director
and our Musical Star Competition Winner

We continue our series at St Mary’s Putney with a Christmas concert that has something in it for everyone, whether you love traditional carols, yuletide songs, or just mulled wine and mince pies! Full of the music we all turn to at this time of year, this fun and informal concert will be a wonderful opportunity for families and friends to gather at St Mary’s to share the joy and memories that these melodies evoke. Festive favourites Sleigh Ride, The 12 Days of Christmas and The Nutcracker will get us in the Christmas groove, alongside perennial favourites Silent Night, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, and many more. We also have an exciting première of a newly commissioned seasonal piece by young local composer Georgia Barnes

For more information about our Musical Star competition, and how to audition to sing with LMP at the concert, click here.

Mostly Mozart at Crystal Palace

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London Mozart Players
Leia Zhu violin
Ruth Rogers director
Croydon Music & Arts

Bartok Romanian Dances
Mozart Violin Concerto No.3 in G major, K.216
Massenet Meditation from Thaïs
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Four Novelletten

Since 2017, London Mozart Players’ annual community concert at St John’s has welcomed top classical stars to SE19 including Sheku Kanneh-Mason and Nicola Benedetti. In January 2022, it hosts another virtuoso soloist, 15-year-old Leia Zhu, performing Mozart’s enchanting third violin concerto.

Since her solo debut at the age of four, Leia Zhu has performed with orchestras around the world, including a performance of Tchaikovsky’s concerto with LMP at Fairfield Halls in October 2021. Her awe-inspiring talent will shine through Mozart’s graceful and witty writing in this sublime concerto. Also on the programme, alongside Bartok’s Romanian Dances and Massanet’s Mediation from Thaïs, is Coleridge-Taylor’s Four Novelletten, a brilliantly-crafted series of four dance-like pieces that recall Elgar and Dvorak.

At the heart of LMP’s residency at St John’s is the desire to inspire young people and widen the reach of classical music. This vision is the foundation for this community concert, which enables students, or those who do not normally go to concerts due to financial or health reasons, get the chance to experience the transformative power of classical music. A limited number (100) of tickets are also available to purchase. Buying your ticket ensures that someone less fortunate can attend.

This is an amazing opportunity to experience live classical music from this internationally celebrated chamber orchestra and its very special young guest, who is surely an inspiration for every fledgling and aspiring musician.

Tickets – £25 (includes reserved seating, programme and interval drink) – only 100 available.

Create Yarmouth

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Joao Domingos Bomtempo 3rd Movement from Symphony No.2
Bartok Romanian Dances (arrangement)
Bacewicz 1st Movement from Concerto for String Orchestra
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Britten Simple Symphony
Sarah Freestone New Commission

London Mozart Players
Young Musicians from Great Yarmouth

A special performance by the London Mozart Players and 100 young musicians from Great Yarmouth, featuring a brand new piece they have created with composer Sarah Freestone, as well as orchestral music from around Europe.

Come and be inspired by a world class professional orchestra and emerging young talent from the local area.

London Mozart Players at Fidelio Café

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Rossini Sonata no 1 in G major for Two Violins, Cello and Double Bass
Borodin Trio for Two Violins and Cello
Rossini Duet for Cello and Double Bass
Rossini Sonata no 3 in C major for Two Violins, Cello and Double Bass

London Mozart Players String Ensemble
Simon Blendis violin
Jennifer Godson violin
Sebastian Comberti cello
Ben Russell bass

LMP’s chamber group will be performing at the unconventional and captivating Fidelio Orchestra Café in Clerkenwell, London, in September – do join us for food, wine and music! The café’s opening weeks hosted sell-out performances by Steven Isserlis and Alina Ibragimova, described by The Times as ‘life-enhancing’. We are proud to be following such esteemed soloists, and look forward to performing a selection of works by Rossini and a trio by Borodin.

There are two ticket options:
£100 which includes a 3-course dinner as well as the concert.
£50 for dinner and concert for under 30s

 

Tchaikovsky in Grayshott

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Mozart The Magic Flute Overture
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D
Haydn Symphony No.104

London Mozart Players
Leia Zhu violin
Jonathan Bloxham conductor
Simon Blendis leader

14-year-old Leia Zhu prodigy will perform Grayshott’s first-ever performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D. Also on the programme are Mozart’s Overture Marriage of Figaro and Haydn’s Symphony No.104.

Mill Hill Music Club proudly presents London Mozart Players

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Mendelssohn  String symphony No. 10 in B minor
Bartok  Romanian Dances
Max Jaffa Arrangements of popular tunes for solo violin and strings
Barber Adagio
Mozart Sinfonia Concertante

London Mozart Players
Simon Blendis director/violin
Judith Busbridge viola

Mill Hill Music Club opens its 66th Season of Concerts with the the London Mozart Players under the direction of Simon Blendis.

Peace and Harmony

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London Mozart Players String Quartet
Sijie Chen violin
Jenny Godson violin
Sophie Renshaw viola
Ben Chappell cello
Fiona Brice Collaborative Composer in association with the LMP

Sanjay Guha artistic director
Saleel Tambe tabla
Dr Vijay Rajput vocals
Robin Christian flute
Sunil Jadhav keyboard
Subrang Arts Dancers

Peace and Harmony is an exciting cross-cultural collaboration between a quartet from Fairfield Halls’ resident orchestra, the London Mozart Players and a collective of Indian musicians and dancers. Collaborative Composer in association with the LMP, Fiona Brice, will arrange and orchestrate both the new compositions and music from the classical repertoire, bringing together musicians from both cultures in this exciting project.

Exploring the different musical worlds of the ancient but continuous tradition of Indian classical music and dance alongside traditional Western classical music, the musicians and dancers will perform together to present a unique and fascinating East/West fusion of musical art forms. Improvisations on traditional instruments from both sides of the cultural divide will create a musical ‘dialogue’ with the music expressed in dance form, particularly influenced by Kathak style dances from North India.

A Crowne of sharpest Thorns

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Howard Goodall Invictus: A Passion

London Mozart Players
Ralph Woodward conductor
Kirsty Hopkins soprano
Mark Dobell tenor
Ruth Rogers leader

Howard Goodall’s Invictus: A Passion is a modern masterpiece, setting 17th-century narrative verse alongside heart-rending poetry that explores the Passion story’s great themes: compassion, courage, love. We are proud to collaborate with the London Mozart Players and two illustrious soloists (Kirsty Hopkins and Mark Dobell) in what promises to be an unforgettable performance. Because we are all still finding our feet after COVID, the audience will be socially distanced, and the performance will last only an hour. We request that audience wear masks if possible; all performers will be double-vaccinated and tested.

London Mozart Players at Chipping Campden Festival

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Mendelssohn String Symphonie No.10 in B minor
Mozart Horn concerto No.4 in E Flat K.495
Cecilia Mcdowell New commission for strings
Haydn Symphony No.44 in E minor Hob.1:44

London Mozart Players
Richard Watkins horn
Ruth Rogers leader/director

Originally this concert would have taken place on May 14th of this year, just three days before the 100th anniversary of the birth of Denis Brain. Denis came from an extraordinary dynasty of horn players, regarded by many as perhaps the greatest horn player of all time, and is particularly remembered for his 1953 recordings of the Mozart Horn concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Herbert Von Karajan. His tragic death on September 1st 1957 at the age of just 36 remains one of the greatest ever losses to music. We are delighted to welcome Richard Watkins to perform the 4th concerto with the LMP, directed by our much loved CCFAO leader Ruth Rogers. This concert is also a celebration of the 70th birthday of distinguished composer Cecilia Mcdowall.

Not now, Bernard and Other Stories

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London Mozart Players
Ruth Rogers director
Polly Ives narrator
Rosie Brooks artist

Words, music, pictures and lots of laughs for children and grown-ups! London Mozart Players’ family concerts are always popular, and this will be no exception.

What would you do if you found a monster in the garden? Bernard tries to tell his parents but keeps getting the brush off – with dire consequences! David McKee’s classic story Not Now, Bernard is beloved by youngsters and has a powerful message for parents too!

Also on the programme is the thoroughly engaging Isabel’s Noisy Tummy, David McKee’s delightful laugh-out-loud story of a little girl’s gurgling tummy and how it takes her from zero to hero. While in James Mayhew’s The Knight Who Took all Day, a vain and foolish knight manages to loses both the girl and the dragon because he’s such a big show-off!

Narrator Polly Ives tells these hilarious tales with sparkling verve and energy, while Bernard Hughes’ lightly-scored and child-friendly music, performed by LMP, effortlessly builds an enchanting musical framework that anchors the stories, conveying all the necessary drama and colour. To add the pictures to the words and music, artist Rosie Brooks will sketch along to the stories live, with her illustrations projected behind the orchestra, bringing the characters to life. What an irresistible combination!

PLUS: all ticket holders can buy a copy of Not Now Bernard at Bookseller Crow in Crystal Palace after the concert – £1.50 off each copy.

Ticket prices:
Standard £15
Concessions (65+) £13
Child (under 18) £5

Carnival at Crystal Palace

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London Mozart Players
Simon Blendis leader
Alex Ashworth Noye
Kate Symonds-Joy Mrs Noye
Father John Pritchard as ‘God’
Crystal Palace Recorders
Will Vann conductor

The SE19 community comes together for an animal extravaganza at St John’s Upper Norwood.

Britten Scenes from Noye’s Fludde
Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals

An incredible tempest, a massive boat and an angry God take centre stage in this imaginative, community opera re-telling of the biblical story of Noah, his family, and their unlikely cargo of animals as they fight for survival for 40 long days and nights on the ark.

After the animals have alighted the ark, they’ll make their way to the centre stage to showcase their mischievous personalities in Carnival of the Animals, accompanied with poems written by Martin Smith.

Ticket prices:
Priority £25 (includes reserved seating, interval drink)
Standard £18
Concessions (65+) £16
Young Person (16-25) £10
Child (under 16) £5

Christmas Classics at Crystal Palace

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Programme includes:
Traditional Once in Royal David’s City
Traditional Silent Night
Traditional Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Barnes Let the Carols Ring (new commission)
Traditional 12 Days of Christmas
Traditional De Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
Strauss Pizzicato Polka
Strauss Blue Danube
Anderson Sleigh Ride
Anderson Waltzing Cat
Elgar Salut d’Amour
Tchaikovsky excerpt from The Nutcracker
Handel Pifa from Messiah

London Mozart Players
Ruth Rogers director
with
Cypress School
The Hive & Welcome Choirs
Skylight Singers

Whether you love traditional carols, yuletide songs, or just mulled wine and mince pies – this Christmas concert has something for everyone! Full of the music we all turn to at this time of year, this fun and informal concert will be a wonderful opportunity for families and friends to gather at St John’s in SE19 to share the joy and memories that these melodies evoke. Festive favourites Sleigh Ride, The 12 Days of Christmas and The Nutcracker will get us in the Christmas groove, alongside perennial favourites Silent Night, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, and many more. We also have an exciting première of a newly commissioned seasonal piece by young local composer Georgia Barnes.

We love to involve as many musicians as possible in our Christmas concert at St John’s, and after a reduced gathering in 2020 due to Covid, we are pulling out all the stops to bring you a packed programme for 2021 that reflects the extraordinary talent of this wonderful community. The concert includes side-by-side performances with pupils from local schools, while the Welcome and Hive choirs will dial the choral Christmas cheer up to eleven in a cornucopia of festive fun.

It’s never too early to make plans for the festive season, and the London Mozart Players’ annual Christmas concert in SE19 is always a sell-out, so do book early! Dig out your Santa hats and Christmas jumpers and we’ll see you under the church’s magnificent Christmas Tree!

Ticket prices:
Priority £25 (includes reserved seating, programme, interval drink)
Standard £18
Concessions (65+) £16
Young Person (16-25) £10
Child (under 16) £5

LMP at the Crystal Palace Tango Café

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London Mozart Players
Ruth Rogers director & violin
Sebastian Comberti cello
Leroy Tango Cat & Emma Lucia Reyes tango dancers

Programme includes:
Piazzolla Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Piazzolla Libertango
Piazzolla Oblivion
Piazzolla Grand Tango
Sting El Tango de Roxanne
Albeniz Tango
Villoldo El Choclo
Rodrigo La Cumparsita
Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5
Copland Hoedown

Tango! It’s sultry, it’s seductive and it’s coming to SE19! Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla reinvented the genre of his homeland into ‘tango neuvo’, and in his centenary year, London Mozart Players and tango dancers Leroy Tango Cat and Emma Lucia Reyes, bring Piazzolla’s Latin infused rhythms and melodies to their ‘Tango Café’ at St John’s, Upper Norwood – for one night only!

Dim the lights, pour the wine, sit back and relax in the intimate atmosphere of our very own cabaret style ‘milonga’. The heat and passion of Buenos Aires will be channelled through the spinetingling sensual sound of this tense, passionate music, which cleverly combines electrifying jazz improvisation with intimate chamber music. Highly respected professional tango dancers Leroy Tango Cat and Emma Lucia Reyes will bring this slinky, sensuous music to life, demonstrating the passion of the dance with elegance and expertise in a showcase of authentic tango moves.

Tango classics such as Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, Libertango and Oblivion are on the menu, with other tango inspired works by composers such as Rodrigo and Villoldo, and a special performance of Sting’s El Tango de Roxanne from the iconic film Moulin Rouge.

Join the London Mozart Players at SE19’s cosy and atmospheric pop up Tango Café for a night of hot and cool music that will have you reaching for your dance shoes, and a dancing partner!

Ticket prices:
Standard: £25
Concessions (65+): £20
Young People (16 – 25): £10

South Facing Festival: LMP presents… Strictly Strings!

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London Mozart Players
Simon Blendis (director)

LMP is delighted to be performing in the Sundown Sessions at Crystal Palace Park as part of the South Facing Festival. Relax in the sunshine in the Crystal Palace Bowl as LMP string players serenade you with Strauss, perk you up with Piazzolla and get you moving with Mozart! Dance melodies abound in this cornucopia of Classical delights from the London Mozart Players – Crystal Palace’s very own orchestra. Bring your dancing shoes!

FREE fun entertainment for all the family. No tickets required, just turn up!

Programme includes:
Mozart Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Brahms Hungarian Dance
Strauss Pizzicato Polka
Strauss Blue Danube
Bartok Romanian Dances
Piazzolla Libertango
Jaffa – Fascination + Jura Jura
Copland Hoedown

…and much more!

For more info about the South Facing Festival Sundown Session, click here.

A Prom at Crystal Palace!

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London Mozart Players
Ruth Rogers (leader)
Christina Johnston (soprano)
The Central Band of the Royal British Legion
David Cole (conductor)

The bunting is up! After 18 months of performing under Covid restrictions, Crystal Palace’s resident orchestra, the London Mozart Players, is back with a bang! The orchestra kicks off its exciting six-concert SE19 season with a concert packed with the best-loved works in the classical repertoire. In the cherished tradition of the ‘Last Night of the Proms’, St John’s, Upper Norwood, will resound with all your orchestral favourites: Elgar’s ‘Nimrod’ and ‘Pomp and Circumstance March’, Holst’s ‘Jupiter’, Walton’s ‘Crown Imperial’, Vaughan Williams’ ‘Greensleeves’ and much, much more.

Stunning coloratura soprano Christina Johnston will entertain with beloved songs from her opera and theatre repertoire, including Mozart’s incredible ‘Queen of the Night’ aria and musical theatre classic ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’. This magical musical extravaganza has something for everyone.

We have all missed the sheer joy of live music so much. Bring your flags, your voices and your friends! SE19’s very own classical ‘Prom’ is perfect for all the family!

Programme includes:

Walton Crown Imperial
Vaughan Williams Greensleeves
Mozart Queen of the Night
Elgar Enigma Variations ‘Nimrod’ & Pomp and Circumstance
Holst The Planets ‘Jupiter’
Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Arlen Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Rodgers & Hammerstein You’ll Never Walk Alone
Wood – Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Parry Jerusalem

Ticket prices:
Priority £25 (includes reserved seating, programme, interval drink)
Standard £18
Concessions (65+) £16
Young Person (16-25) £10
Child (under 16) £5