Classical and Jazz: Latest News>July 15
Published: 15 July 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
CREAM tea concerts will be back at St Martin-in-the-Fields early next month in a series of four one-hour Monday afternoon concerts.
The popular programme of concerts gets underway on Monday August 2 when the Sirocco Saxophone Quartet perform a jazzy programme of Gershwin song transcriptions together with works by Piazzolla, the Argentinian tango composer.
This will be followed on August 9 by the Piatti Quartet, winners of this year’s St Martin’s Chamber Music Competition, playing Mozart’s Dissonance Quartet and Haydn’s String Quartet op 76 No 1.
The Piatti are regarded as one of the country’s leading young string quartets and have been chosen by the Park Lane Group’s young artists series.
Next, on August 16, a programme of “little suites” is to be performed by the Lilium Trio made up of Israeli flautist Uri Nahir, viola player Alison Jones and harpist Holly Lowe, three Royal College of Music post-graduates.
They’ll be playing Mathias’s Zodiac Trio along with works by Jolivet and Debussy.
Finally, on August 23, engaging and charismatic cellist Rowena Calvert and invigorating pianist Warren Mailley-Smith are to play Beethoven and Franck sonatas and De Falla’s Suite Populaire.
Tickets priced at £10 qualify for a traditional afternoon feast of scone, jam and clotted cream with tea or filter coffee from the Café in the Crypt before or after the concert.
As concert-only tickets are priced at £7, the afternoon feast is priced at only £3.
• St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, 3.30pm, 020 7766 1100, www.smitf.org