There is more live music on my YouTube channel.
Still available to view!
‘A Century of Music by British Women’, directed by Madeleine Mitchell, with music by Rebecca Clarke, Judith Weir, Helen Grime, Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Thea Musgrave, Ruth Gipps, Errollyn Wallen, Grace Williams
Link on St John’s, Smith Square website: A Century of Music by British Women (1921-2021) directed by Madeleine Mitchell | St John’s Smith Square (sjss.org.uk)
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 1pm
Imperial College, London
Live-streamed lunchtime recital with David Owen Norris, featuring two major but less well-known sonatas and the first broadcast of a work recently commissioned from David Owen Norris. The concert will be preceded by pre-concert conversation with David and Joseph, and Dr Bruno Bower.
William Sterndale Bennett (1816–1875), Sonata Duo (op. 32, 1852)
David Owen Norris, It Takes Two (2019)
George Walker (1922–2018), Sonata (1957)
Still available to view on YouTube!
Lunchtime Concert Series | Joseph Spooner (cello) David Owen Norris (piano) – YouTube
Sunday 16 May, 4pm
Music at St Mary’s, Perivale
Franz Schubert (1797–1828), ‘Notturno’ (D897, 1827)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), Piano Trio no. 1 (op. 8, 1854, rev. 1889)
Sergei Rachmaninov (1873–1943), Vocalise (op. 34, 1915)
Still available to view on YouTube!
Madeleine Mitchell, Joseph Spooner and Margaret Fingerhut HD – YouTube
Monday, 24 May 2021
City University, Northampton Square, Clerkenwell
Chamber concert – live-streamed and with audience! – with Ian Pace, Madeleine Mitchell, and Gordon MacKay.
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), Piano Quintet no. 2 (op. 115, 1921)
Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), Piano Quartet no. 1 (op. 25, 1856–1861)
Information and details about livestream here:
City Pierrot Ensemble: Brahms and Fauré (Monday, 24th May 2021) • City, University of London
Saturday, 29 May 2021, 5pm
English Music Festival, The Drill Hall, Dene Road, Horsham
Talk: ‘Percy Sherwood, Musician: An Englishman in Dresden, a Foreigner in London’
You can book tickets on the English Music Festival website (https://www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/2021-may-festival/programme.php).
Monday, 14 June 2021
Performance Space, City University, Northampton Square, Clerkenwell
Chamber concert – live-streamed and with audience! – with the Pierrot Ensemble.
Soosan Lolovar, ‘Girl’
Peter Maxwell Davies, ‘Eight Songs for a Mad King’
Details to follow.
Thursday, 24 June, 7pm
Broadcast of recital recorded in lockdown with pianist Nicholas Bosworth. Programme includes everything from Mendelssohn and Schumann to Alwyn, Ireland, de Falla, Rachmaninov, and Arensky.
onjam.tv – Joseph Spooner – Cello and Nicholas Bosworth – Piano – Ongar Music Club
Saturday 27 June 2021, 6.30pm
Highgate Festival
String quartet concert with Madeleine Mitchell, Gordon MacKay, and Bridget Carey, featuring quartets by Schubert and Ravel.
Highgate School https://highgatefestival.org/music/ Tickets £20 including pre concert glass of wine: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/salonmusic/520567#
Saturday 10 July 2021, 2.30pm
Truro Cathedral
English Music Festival celebration for the 80th birthday of Judith Bailey, featuring chamber music by Judith Bailey and the Piano Quartet by Herbert Howells.
Details to follow.
Monday 16 August 2021, 1pm
St Michael at the North Gate, Oxford
Lunchtime recital with Duncan Honeybourne, including
Gordon Jacob, Sonata (1957)
Richard Pantcheff, Sonata (1985)
