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10 THE BACH CHOIR: ST MATTHEW PASSION On Sunday 7 April, The Bach Choir and conductor David Hill will perform Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Royal Festival Hall – an event that is a muchanticipated fixture in London’s musical calendar. The Choir’s conductor David Hill was recently made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours for his services to music. The performance comes 125 years after the Choir first performed the St Matthew Passion. James Gilchrist returns to the role of the Evangelist and Matthew Rose sings Christ alongside Sophie Bevan, Hilary Summers, Ed Lyon, and Neal Davies. The annual performance now begins at 11.00, breaking for a long lunch at the moment where the congregants in Bach’s own Thomaskirche would have heard their Good Friday sermon, between the two parts. The Choir sings in English, conveying the directness and the drama as found in the German-texted original. Members of the Bach Choir now return to the work year on year with a sense of devotion and unbroken tradition that recalls the zeal of the amateur societies that first unearthed and began to perform Bach’s works nearly 200 years ago. Tickets tel: 020 3879 9555. TALLULAH RENDALL COMES TO THE TABERNACLE Spirited rock singer turned sound therapist, Tallulah Rendall, will be playing at The Tabernacle in Notting Hill on Saturday 6 April, as part of a tour celebrating the launch of her landmark new album The Liminal. Launching on Thursday 4 April, The Liminal is Tallulah’s fourth album. Drawing on her life experience, the album’s collection of uplifting lyrical anthems were created to inspire and heal, abetted by the sonic reverberations of her gongs and singing bowls. Tallulah is now eager to initiate others into this this tranquil, creative dimension. To achieve this, she has cooked up an immersive, sensory experience for her concerts where she will transport her audience from deep stillness via an opening sound bath, into an enlivening live performance. AMATIS PIANO TRIO IN CONCERT The Amatis Trio won The Parkhouse Award in 2015, were then chosen for the BBC New Generation Artists scheme 2016-18 and are now ECHO Rising Stars giving performances worldwide. They have always championed new music in addition to the well-loved repertoire and continue with a concert on 15 April at Southbank Centre. ‘Moorlands’ by the young Swedish composer, Andrea Tarrodi, was commissioned by ECHO and adds the piano trio to the extensive range of ensembles she writes for. In 2010, Tarrodi’s piece Zephyros for orchestra received 1st prize in the Uppsala Composition Competition, which led to several performances of the piece by different orchestras around the world. During 2011-2013, she was Radio Sweden P2’s composer-in-residence and in Spring 2012 she was appointed ‘Composer of the Spring Season’ in the Berwald Concert Hall. Performances of piano trios by Brahms and Mendelssohn follow, both second trios for these composers, the former in C major and the latter in C minor. Brahms’s was written in the 1880s which was considered a most fruitful period for his chamber music and Mendelssohn, writing about his trio to sister Fanny, commented that it was ‘a trifle nasty to play, but not really difficult’. He dedicated it to one of the great musicians of the age, the composer and violinist Louis Spohr, who is known to have taken part in at least one performance with Mendelssohn himself at the piano. For tickets, telephone 020 3879 9555. P T The Amatis Trio. t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e
CELEBRATING MOZART’S WOMEN! This year the London Mozart Players and their former Artistic Director, Jane Glover, celebrate their 70th birthdays. To mark these milestones, they are reuniting for a concert at London’s fabulous St John’s Smith Square concert hall on 11 April at 19.30, with a very special programme that celebrates the women who touched Mozart’s life and inspired him to compose some of his greatest works. ‘Mozart’s Women’ included piano virtuoso Victoire Jenamy, who would have performed his Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat K.271; his first love, soprano Aloysia Weber – inspiration for the ravishing aria ‘Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio’ (which reaches top E); Aloysia’s sister Constanze – later Mozart’s wife, for whom he composed the soprano part of his Mass in C Minor; and English soprano Nancy Storace, the muse behind the aria ‘Ch’io mi scordi di te?’ (which includes a solo piano). Not forgetting the composer’s sister Maria Anna – ‘Nannerl’, and his mother, Maria, who accompanied Mozart through Europe in 1778, dying shortly after the performance of his ‘Paris’ Symphony No. 31, K.297. It’s a line-up of top musicians, all Mozart experts. Alongside the London Mozart Players under the baton of conductor Jane Glover, coloratura Soprano Jennifer France will hold audiences spellbound with a couple of Mozart’s most beautiful arias, while hugely acclaimed 17-year-old pianist and current BBC Young Musician Lauren Zhang will breathe fresh life into Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat. This will be a glorious evening of music that no Mozart aficionado should miss. St John’s Smith Square is a short walk from Westminster station, which is on the Jubilee Line. There is a restaurant which serves dinner as well as cakes and hot beverages. For more information visit www.sjss.org.uk/events/mozarts-women London Mozart Players. Photo: Kevin Day. 11 t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e
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