Annual LMP Friends Christmas event, with a three-course meal and live music from LMP players.
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10.15am – Coffee and Mince Pies
11am- Concert
12pm – 3 course lunch and raffle
2.15pm – Finish (approx.)
Charlotte Bowden soprano
Alex Ashworth baritone
Jack Apperley conductor
This concert brings together two great romantic German composers, Mendelssohn and Brahms. The works are both rousing and comforting in nature, and the very well-loved German Requiem, which Brahms referred to as a ‘human requiem’ is written to console the living and grief in its many forms, rather than to accompany the dead.
Mozart Mass in C minor
Haydn Te Deum
Mozart Symphony No. 36 in C major, K.426 ‘Linz’
Lucy Cox soprano
Daisy Bevan soprano
Sebastian Hill tenor
Thomas Butler bass
Benjamin Nicholas conductor
Sijie Chen leader
Paul Rissmann Stan & Mabel and the Race for Space
Polly Ives narrator
Age: 3-12
Join Stan and Mabel on a musical adventure for the whole family! This fun-filled concert, perfect for children aged 3+, features music by Paul Rissmann, live storytelling by Polly Ives, and animated illustrations by Jason Chapman. Escaping from the School for Wild and Dangerous Animals, Stan, Mabel and their friends go in search of a new home – learning about the orchestra along the way. Interactive and educational, players introduce their instruments and lead singalongs, making this an ideal, affordable introduction to classical music.
Verdi Requiem
Richard Cooke conductor
Simon Blendis leader
Canterbury Choral Society
Caroline Shaw To The Hands
James Macmillan Seven Last Words from the Cross
James Potter conductor
Sijie Chen leader
Poignant, heartfelt, and searingly powerful, Seven Last Words from the Cross is one of James MacMillan’s most gripping and effective works. For this special concert, New Cambridge Singers are joined by the London Mozart Players (‘unfailing professionalism, artistry, and commitment to music’) in one of Cambridge’s finest venues. Alongside the MacMillan, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands echoes the Passiontide theme and reflects on tolerance and migration in the modern world.
There will be a pre-concert talk at 6.30pm (ending by 7.15pm) and seating will be reserved for those attending – more details to follow.
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Interval
Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 ‘Eroica’
Jonathan Bloxham conductor
Fenella Humphreys violin
Ruth Rogers leader
Experience an evening devoted to the genius of Ludwig van Beethoven, featuring two of his most beloved compositions performed by the esteemed London Mozart Players under the direction of Jonathan Bloxham. Joining them is the exceptional violinist Fenella Humphreys, a celebrated artist known for her expressive and nuanced performances. Winner of two BBC Music Magazine Awards (2018 and 2023), Fenella has been widely acclaimed for her compelling interpretations, particularly of Beethoven’s works.
Richard Cooke conductor
Canterbury Choral Society
Taverner The Lamb
Taverner Svyati
Fauré (ed. Rutter) Requiem
Sophie Bevan soprano
Gareth Brynmor John baritone
George Inscoe conductor
Simon Blendis leader
The Academy Choir of Wimbledon
Wimbledon’s beloved Academy Choir returns with Fauré’s serene and radiant Requiem, joined by the London Mozart Players. Also featured are two works by Sir John Tavener: The Lamb, a poignant setting of William Blake’s poetry, and Svyati, a spiritual choral piece for cello and choir in Church Slavonic drawing on Orthodox funeral rites. This marks the Choir’s first performance under their new Music Director, following a distinguished partnership with the late Matthew Best.
Retiring collection in aid of Medical Life Lines Ukraine
Mozart Serenade No. 10 in B flat major, K. 361 ‘Gran Partita’
Gounod Petite Symphonie in B flat major, CG 560
Beethoven Octet in E flat major, Op. 103
Schubert Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703
Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge
Interval
R Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44
Simon Blendis leader
Mark Le Brocq tenor
Anna Tilbrook piano
Mozart Overture from The Magic Flute, K. 620
Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K. 191
Interval
Mozart Symphony No. 39 in E Flat major, K. 543
Exclusive coffee meeting for LMP Friends at Croham Hurst Golf Club, with musicians.
This coffee meeting will feature LMP musicians Katie Clemmow and Gareth Hulse (oboes), plus piano.
Coffee, tea and biscuits served from 10.15am
Introductions and Notices: 10.45am
Concert: 11am
Trad (arr. Tunde Jegede) I feel like a Motherless Child/Steal Away
Ryan Morgan Tongue Stew
Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto in G minor, Op.80
Trad (arr. Tunde Jegede) Swing Low, Sweet Chariot/Down by the Riverside
Tunde Jegede Song of Ourselves
Braimah Kanneh-Mason violin
Tunde Jegede kora
Croydon SDA Gospel Choir
Matthew Lynch conductor
Linton Stephens presenter
Immerse yourself in a powerful musical tribute to Croydon composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 150 years after his birth.
A pioneer who increasingly drew on his Sierra Leonean heritage in his music, Coleridge-Taylor’s legacy as a trailblazing musician who navigated the complexities of living as a Black artist within a White-dominated society lives on.
This vibrant event features new music and performances from Tunde Jegede, whose unique approach draws on contemporary musical styles from both Europe and Africa, much like Coleridge-Taylor did. Violinist Braimah Kanneh-Mason brings fresh energy to Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto – one of the last pieces of music Coleridge-Taylor wrote before he died in 1912 – alongside soul-stirring performances of African-American Spirituals from the electrifying Croydon SDA Gospel Choir.
With tickets from just £5, this accessible performance proudly celebrates Black identity and music in Croydon, through the lens of a composer who helped shape Croydon’s cultural personality and remains part of the borough’s DNA today.
Pre-concert entertainment: International Man of Artistry Jon Hicks will be performing feats of artistic wizardry, alongside a joyous melange of music and comedy from French street theatre brass band act, Les Grooms. No need to book.
Presented by LMP and Croydon Council.
JS Bach St John Passion, BWV 245
Thomas Allery harpsichord/director
Ruairi Bowen evangelist (tenor)
Hugo Herman-Wilson christus/pilate (baritone)
Trinity Boys and Girls Choir chorus
Ruth Rogers leader
Ah, my soul, where will you go; where will you find comfort?
Bach’s St John Passion is a powerful exploration of what it means to be human – an emotional retelling of Christ’s final hours that speaks as deeply today as it did 300 years ago.
Originally written for Good Friday, and filled with hymns familiar to Bach’s congregation, St John Passion connects with our sense of universal humanity through music which is full of heartbreak, beauty and reflection. Listeners can turn to Bach to make sense of suffering and find solace in a world that can be cruel.
Though the Passion might not have a traditional happy ending, Bach teaches us find peace and understanding through the promise of resurrection, rather than dwelling on the pain Christ endured.
Martines Sinfonia in C Major
Mozart Piano Concerto No.23 in A Major K.488
Interval
Boulogne Symphony No.2 in D Major, Op.11 No.2
Haydn Symphony No.83, ‘La Poule’
Cédric Tiberghein piano
Jonathan Bloxham conductor
Simon Blendis leader
By the time they had mastered their craft, both Mozart and Haydn were ready to have a bit of fun.
Take Haydn’s Symphony No.83, affectionately nicknamed ‘The Hen’. Though the title wasn’t his own, it’s easy to hear why it stuck. The clucking violins and oboes evoke a whole farmyard of strutting and bobbing poultry. It’s a light-hearted moment from the man often called ‘The Father of the Symphony’.
Mozart, too, had a mischievous streak. Credited with shaping the piano concerto as we know it today, Mozart had the confidence to defy expectations in his music, like in his Piano Concerto No.23 where the final movement playfully pits piano and orchestra in a cheeky musical chase.
Also in this concert is music from Haydn and Mozart’s contemporaries; Marianna Martines – the first woman to write a symphony – and Boulogne.