The ever popular season of Sunday Afternoon Recitals at St. Anne’s, Kew, continues this summer. This season is the most ambitious yet, with a rich variety of first-class performers and performances.
All concerts begin at 3:30pm and last for 45 minutes. Teas will be served in the parish rooms before and after the recital. All recitals are given free of charge with a retiring collection.
Our programme for May to July is available to download here
Please see below listings for May. We look forward to seeing many of you there…
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May 7
SHADWELL OPERA
St. Anne’s welcomes back innovative opera company Shadwell Opera.
Conducted by Finnegan Downie Dear, and sung by internationally-renowned
tenor Samuel Furness, they present Janacek’s dark song cycle The Diary of
One Who Disappeared. (shadwellopera.co.uk)
May 14
O QUAM GLORIOSAM
Floreat, an a capella vocal consort based in Westminster directed by Gilly
French, take us on European renaissance tour through Spain, Italy and
England. (cantandum.westminster.org.uk/floreat)
May 21
OUT OF THE DEEP
Ars Eloquentiae, directed by Chad Kelly, performs one of Bach’s earliest
Cantatas “Aus der Tiefen” BWV 131
May 28
PIANO SERIES No. 1
Described in The Telegraph as “remarkable”, pianist Gamal Khamis returns
to St. Anne’s to give a recital centred around Brahms’ 6 Klavierstücke.
Also featured in this programme is Chopin’s great Ballade No. 4.
(www.gamalkhamis.com)
