2017-18 / 62nd Season
NOTE: This PLG season is more limited than usual because of the closure for refurbishment of Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, which in past seasons have housed a very substantial number of PLG events. The PLG is back on Southbank Centre on Tue 10 July (see below) and, of course, for performances during 2018/19, the PLG’s 63rd Season.
During 2017/18, the PLG presents events at Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Princess Alexandra Hall / Royal Over-Seas League, Kings Place, St James’s Piccadilly, St Martin-in-the-Fields Trafalgar Square and St Margaret’s Westminster, next to Westminster Abbey.
Upcoming Events
September 22, 2018 3:00 pm - Music@Malling Festival, Kent, St.Peter and St.Paul's Church, Trottiscliffe
PLG Young Artist GABRIELLA JONES - solo harp
Ravel/Jones: Prelude in A minor (3')
Britten: Suite Op. 83 (12')
Debussy/Jones: Lent (Images Oubliées (6')
Paul Patterson: Bugs (6')
Debussy/Jones: Rêverie (6')
Marcel Tournier: Images (Suite No 4, Op. 39) (13')
£10
September 26, 2018 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artist PHILLIP LESLIE - solo piano
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in F sharp major, Op. 124 (Marie Thérѐse)
Brahms: Klavierstücke Opus 76
Liszt: Paraphrase de Concert sur Rigoletto, S.434
PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
October 9, 2018 1:00 pm - St George The Martyr, Borough High Street, SE1 - Borough New Music
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - solo piano
Willem Jeths: Chiaroscuro (1995)
Thomas Brown: New work (World Premiere)
Frederic Rzewski: Which Side Are You On?
David Matthews: No. 2 from Four North American Ballads) (1979)
: Variations for Piano, Op. 72 (1992)
Admission Free
October 31, 2018 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
PLG Young Artists MĒLA GUITAR QUARTET -
J. S. Bach: Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578
Phillip Houghton: Opals
Stephen Dodgson: Intermezzo
Timothy Bowers: Fantasy on an Old English Melody
Egberto Gismonti: Agua y Vinho (arr. Leo Brouwer)
Stephen Goss: Carmen Fantasy: Seguedilla & Gypsy Song
Admission free
November 26, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields - PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
PLG Young Artist GABRIELLA JONES - solo harp
Scarlatti: Sonata in A major K.208
Caroline Lizotte: La Madone
Britten : Suite for Harp in C major, Op. 83
Debussy: Images Oubliée
Liszt/Renié: Liebesträume No. 3
Admission free
November 28, 2018 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly - PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
PLG Young Artists -
JONATHAN RADFORD - saxophone
ELEANOR KORNAS - piano
Tomaso Vital: Chaconne in G minor (soprano saxophone/piano)
Albeniz: Granada/Asturias/Sevilla (Suite Española, Op.47)
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (soprano, alto and tenor saxophones/piano
Admission free
December 7, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields - PLG FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
PLG YOUNG ARTISTS -
MATTHEW SCOTT - clarinet
CHRISTINE ZERAFA - piano
Debussy: Premiѐre Rhapsodie for clarinet and piano, L.116 (1909)
Paul Patterson: Conversations for clarinet and piano, Op.25 (1974)
John Ireland: Fantasy Sonata for clarinet and piano (1943)
Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and piano (1962)
Admission free
Past Events
September 27, 2017 1:10 pm - St James’s Piccadilly
MATTHEW SCOTT - clarinet
CHRISTINE ZERAFA - piano
Joseph Horowitz: Sonatina for clarinet and piano (1981)
Saint-Saëns: Clarinet Sonata inE flat major, Op. 167 (1921)
Paul Patterson: Conversations, Op. 25 (1974)
Admission free/No tickets required
October 3, 2017 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
MARIA MARCHANT - solo piano
Clara Schumann: Notturno;Polonaise (Soirées Musicales, Op. 6)
Bantock: Reverie;Lyric Poem
Ireland: Month's Mind
Ireland/Roderick Williams: Sea Fever
Roderick Williams: Goodwood by the Sea
Schubert/Liszt: Am Meer; Liebesbotschaft (Schwanengesang, D957)
Liszt: Ballade in B minor
Admission free/No tickets required
October 25, 2017 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
THE HERMES EXPERIMENT - soprano/clarinet/harp/double bass
Josephine Stephenson: tanka
Darren Bloom: Second Fig
Bach/Pashley: Prelude in D Major
Schofield: My Hands
Prokofiev : Visions Fugitives, Op. 22, Nos. 1,7,8 and 16
Freya Waley-Cohen: We Phoenician Sailors
Admission free/No tickets required
November 27, 2017 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
A4 BRASS QUARTET -
Jonathan Bates: Toccata 3
Bernstein/Thomas: Overture, Candide
Joseph Kosma/Bates: Autumn Leaves
Thomas Doss: Moskito
Kentaro Sato/Bates: Tsunangari
Christian Overhead: 5 Miniatures
Percy Grainger/Bates: Molly on the Shore
John Hartmann/Bates: La Belle Américaine
Bruckner;Robertson: Locus Iste
Jonathan Bates: A Tale of Two Peaks
Admission free/No tickets required
November 29, 2017 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
TRITIUM TRIO - clarinet/cello/piano
Scott L. Miller: Elegy
Giles Easterbrook: Clarinet Trio 'Auf dem ersten grun'
Leighton: Fantasy on an American Hymntune
Admission free/No tickets required
December 4, 2017 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
MAX WELFORD / KATHERINE TINKER - clarinet/piano
Gerald Finzi: Five Bagatelles
Arnold Bax: Clarinet Sonata
John Ireland: Fantasy-Sonata
Admission free / No tickets required
December 12, 2017 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
JOY LISNEY - solo cello
J.S.Bach: Chaconne, arr. For solo cello, BMW 1009
Joy Lisney: ScordaturA for solo cello (PLG Commission)
Britten: Suite for Cello, No. 3 Op. 87
Admission free / No tickets required
January 7, 2018 6:30 pm - Kings Place, York Way, N1 In association with the London Chamber Music Society
BENYOUNES QUARTET -
HARRY COMERON-PENNY - clarinet
Debussy: String Quartet, Op 10
Poul Ruders: Clarinet Quintet (2014) (UK Premiere) (in the presence of the Composer)
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581
Tickets: £14.50 / Box Office 020 7520 1490
January 9, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
LAURA SNOWDEN - solo guitar
J.C.Bach/Bream: Suite No. 3, BMW 1009
Laura Snowden: Anpao
Fernando Sor: Introduction and Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Op. 9
Admission free / Tickets not required
February 4, 2018 7:30 pm - Wigmore Hall
EUNSLEY PARK/MARIA TARASEWICZ - violin/piano
JOY LISNEY - solo cello
Schubert: Sonatina in D major for violin and piano, Op. 137, D.384 (1816)
Britten: Suite No. 3 for solo cello
Joy Lisney: ScordaturA (2016) (PLG Commission)
J.S.Bach: Chaconne in D minor, arr. for solo cello, BMW 1009
Franck: Sonata in A major for violin and piano (1886)
Tickets: £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 / Tel: 020 7935 2141 / online: wigmore-hall.org.uk
February 21, 2018 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
GILDAS QUARTET -
Schubert: Quartet in E flat major, D87
Ligeti: Quartet No. 1 ‘Metamorphoses Nocturnes’
Admission free / Tickets not required
March 4, 2018 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
DUO FANTASIA -
Imma Setiadi/Rusne Mikiskaite - piano / saxophone
Debussy: Rhapsodie for alto saxophone and piano
Françaix: Cinq Danses Exotiques
Debussy: Feux d'Artifice (from Preludes Book 2)
Ravel: Piece en forme de Habañera
John Carmichael: Aria et Finale
Admission free / No tickets required
March 26, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
ALKE STRING QUARTET -
Haydn: The Seven Last Words from The Cross
Admission free / Tickets not required
April 23, 2018 7:00 pm - Princess Alexandra Hall at the Royal Over-Seas League 5 Park Place, off St James’s Street, SW1 In association with ROSL Arts
BERNSTEIN AT THE PIANO : LEONARD BERNSTEIN 100th Anniversary A unique event in the Bernstein 100th Anniversary Celebrations -
HUMPHREY BURTON - speaker
DOMINIC DEGAVINO - solo piano & piano duo
JOSEPH HOUSTON - solo piano
GAMAL KHAMIS - solo piano & piano duo
NATHAN WILLIAMSON - solo piano
Bernstein: 29 Anniversary Pieces - UK Premiere
Bernstein: Piano Sonata
Bernstein: West Side excerpts
Copland/Bernstein: Piano Sonata
Bernstein: Candide excerpts
Tickets £15 / PLG & ROSL Friends £12 / Students £5 / Tel: 020 7408 0214
April 25, 2018 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
LAEFER SAXOPHONE QUARTET -
Richard Rodney Bennett: Saxophone Quartet
Giles Swayne: Leapfrog
Mendelssohn/Trillaud: Four Pieces, Op. 81
Admission free / Tickets not required
May 7, 2018 7:30 pm - Wigmore Hall
ELIZABETH KARANI - soprano
EDMUND WHITEHEAD - piano
LAEFER SAXOPHONE QUARTET -
Rachmaninov: Six Romances, Op.4
Rimsky-Korsakov: Two Songs
Richard Rodney Bennett: Saxophone Quartet
Giles Swayne: Leapfrog (PLG Commission)
Menotti: Five Songs
Berners: Three English Songs
Mendelssohn: Four Pieces, Op.81 (arr.Trillaud)(sax quartet)
Tickets: £20,£18,£14,£12,£10/ Tel:020 7935 2141/online: wigmore-hall.org.uk
May 8, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
MATTHEW SCOTT - clarinet
CHRISTINE ZERAFA - piano
Bernstein: Sonata for clarinet and piano
Debussy: Premiere Rhapsody
Joseph Horowitz: Sonatina for clarinet and piano
Bizet arr. Sarasate-Baldeyrou: Carmen Fantasy
Admission free/Tickets not required
May 14, 2018 12:45 am - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
MINERVA PIANO TRIO -
Andrzej Panufnik: Piano Trio,Op.1
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No.1 in C minor, Op.66
Admission free/Tickets not required
May 21, 2018 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
ALAUDA STRING QUARTET -
Webern: Langzamersatz
Beethoven: String Quartet, Op.18 No.1
Mendelssohn: Capriccio, Op.14
Admission free/Tickets not required
May 28, 2018 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
EUNSLEY PARK - Violin
MARIA TARASEWICZ - Piano
Schubert: Violin Sonatina in D. Op. 137, No.2, D.385
Schumann: Violin Sonatina No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105
Admission free/Tickets not required
May 30, 2018 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
LUBA TUNICLIFFE - viola
GAMAL KHAMIS - piano
Rebecca Clarke: Sonata for Viola & Piano
Thea Musgrave: In the Still of the Night for solo viola - Thea Musgrave 90th Birthday
Paul Hindemith: Sonata Op.25 No.4 for Viola & Piano
Admission free/Tickets not required
June 4, 2018 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
JULIAN VICKERS & DANIEL BOVEY - guitar duo
Falla arr. Vickers/Bovey: Danza Espanola No.1 (from 'La Vida Breve')
Rameau: Pièces de Clavecin
Nin-Culmell arr. Vickers/Bovey: Tonadas (excerpts)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Prelude and Fugue in B major
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor
Koshkin: Concertino in A Minor
Admission free/Tickets not required
June 11, 2018 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
LAEFER SAXOPHONE QUARTET -
Gabriel Piernè: Introduction et variations sur une ronde populaire
Charlotte Harding: Sub to street, to scraping the sky
Guillermo Lago: Ciudades: Montevideo, Tokyo, Sarajevo, Addis Ababa
Glazunov: Saxophone Quartet in Bb major Opus 109: III Finale
Admission free/Tickets not required
June 18, 2018 12:45 pm - St Margaret's Westminster by Westminster Abbey
SOLEM STRING QUARTET -
Bartók: String Quartet No. 4
Beethoven: Quartet in C major, Op.59 No.3 (Razumovsky)
Admission free/Tickets not required
June 22, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
ALBANY PIANO TRIO -
Judith Bingham: Chapman's Pool
Ravel: Trio in A minor
Admission free/Tickets not required
June 27, 2018 1:10 pm - St James's Piccadilly
MATILDA LLOYD - trumpet
CAMERON RICHARDSON-EAMES - piano
Enescu: Légende
Deborah Pritchard: Seven Halts to the Somme...
JS Bach/Allen Chen: Concerto in D, BWV 972
Jacques Castérède: Sonatine
Admission free/Tickets not required
July 10, 2018 7:45 pm - Southbank Centre's Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
WAKA HASEGAWA & JOSEPH TONG - piano duo
Mozart: Andante & Variations, K.501
David Matthews: Haydn Variations, Op.144 (2017)(London premiere) David Matthews 75th Birthday
Schubert: Fantasy in F minor, D.940
Daniel Kidane: Jungle (2017) (London Premiere)
Edwin Roxburgh: Homage to Debussy
Debussy, arr.Debussy: La Mer - Debussy died 100 years ago
Tickets: £20 £15 £10 / Tel: 03879 9555 / online: southbankcentre.co.uk
July 16, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
OLGA STEZHKO - solo piano
Debussy: Images, Book 1
John Adams: China Gates
Scriabin: Two Dances Op.73
Debussy: Six Épigraphes antiques
Scriabin: Vers la flame, Op.72
Admission on free/Tickets not required
July 16, 2018 7:30 pm - Wigmore Hall
SOLEM STRING QUARTET -
MATILDA LLOYD - trumpet
CAMERON RICHARDSON-EAMES - piano
JS Bach/Allen Chen: Concerto in D, BWV 972
Jacques Castérède: Sonatine
Bartók: String Quartet No.4
Enescu: Légende
Deborah Pritchard: Seven Halts to the Somme
Beethoven: Quartet in C major (Razumovsky). Op.59, No.3
Tickets: £20 £18 £14 £12 £10 / Tel:020 7935 2141 / online: wigmore-hall.org.uk
August 27, 2018 1:00 pm - St Martin-in-the-Fields
MATILDA LLOYD - trumpet
LEO NICHOLSON - piano
Programme to include::
Telemann: Trumpet Concerto in D major
Oskar Böhme: Trumpet Concerto in F minor, Op. 18
Charles Chaynes: Trumpet Concerto
Admission free/Tickets not required