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Published: 25 March 2010
THERE'S some cracking music coming up over the next few days. At Hampstead Parish Church on Saturday, the Hamsptead Chamber Choir is singing Tomás Luis de Victoria’s beautiful Requiem in six parts written in 1603 and Giovanni Battista’s Stabat Mater written almost in the idiom of contemporary Italian opera in 1736.
At Highgate United Reform Church on Sunday, string music by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Holst will be played at a concert to raise money for the National Chamber Music Course’s bursary scheme. The course was launched 35 years ago by Highgate’s indefatigable pianist Elisabeth Waterhouse, who is still actively involved in running the annual course for young string players.
Also on Sunday evening at Burgh House, Hampstead, violinist Coirmac Browne accompanied by pianist Anne Harie Hastings will give a recital of music by Beethoven, Schubert and Debussy. On Thursday at St Mary Magdalene’s, Muster Square, is a Bach and Brahms recital by Charles Owen, one of the most gifted pianists of his generation.
There’s some lively jazz coming up. Tenor saxophone player Benn Clatworthy, an ex-pat living in Los Angeles, is playing with Pete Chapman’s trio for the Sunday afternoon crowd at the Princess of Wales, Primrose Hill. Also on Sunday afternoon classical jazz singer Anita Ward is at the Forge, Camden Town and Lesley Grant and BB Bennett are at the Bar Elixir in Eversholt Street.
Not be missed on Tuesday evening at The Oxford, Kentish Town Road, is the Tom Stone Nonet, a new grouping with a versatile line-up of five horns and a four-piece rhythm section playing Tom’s compositions.
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