Classical and Jazz - Latest News - July 28
Published: 28 July 2011
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
NOW that the summer dearth of classical music concerts is afflicting London, it’s worth remembering there are free lunchtime concerts at different venues.
St Martin-in-the-Fields continues to host three lunchtime concerts each week. Tomorrow (Friday) it has brilliant young American pianist playing mostly Scarlatti with Beethoven, Enescu and Chopin thrown in.
If you happen to be in Piccadilly tomorrow lunchtime, there’s a highly attractive harp recital at St James’s Church by Jenny Broome, playing Spohr and Saint-Saens.
On Monday, St Martin-in-the-Fields lunchtime concert involves an organ recital by Matthew Morrison; he’s playing Charles-Marie Widor’s Sixth Symphony where the Allegro is one of the composer’s most famous pieces.
On Thursday, the lunchtime concert at St Pancras Parish Church is a guitar recital by Peter Argon dizza.
Thankfully, the three venues are hosting lunchtime concerts through August. St Martin’s also hosts evening concerts, often baroque music.
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• There’s a wonderful opportunity to hear the great organ of St Paul’s Cathedral played at its best on Thursday in the cathedral’s series of monthly recitals by renowned organists. Ben Van Oosten, organist of the Grote Kerk in The Hague and professor of music at the Rotterdam Conservatory, will be playing works by composers in the French Romantic Organ school of the 19th century. He’s acknowledged as one of the world’s finest interpreters of organ works from that era.
The cathedral’s organ is regarded as one of the finest musical instruments in the world, making Thursday’s recital a must for organ aficionados.