Upcoming Events at The Schott Music Shop

For more about any of these events or for information about how to book the Schott Recital Room please contact us at 020 7534 0710 or londonshop@schott-music.com

Saturday May 4th 2013, 7.00pm

The Golden Age of the Piano - Ernest So, with Lorelei Piper

Ernest So plays piano music by some less familiar composers to enchant the ear, including Spaniards Joaquìm Malats (Serenata Andaluza and Serenata Española) and Xavier Montsalvatge (Quatre diàlegs amb el piano: Ritmes), some pictureque pieces by Abram Chasins, Sillages by Louis Aubert and Leonard Pennario's Emperor Waltz. In a slightly different earlier twentieth-century style, his special guest Lorelei Piper adds a couple of numbers by Gershwin and Cole Porter.
This concert inaugurates our Spring Piano Series of rare and unusual piano music, which continues on 25th May with a recital of new music by Simon Mawhinney - full details of the series in our May bulletin.
Tickets: £10 (£7 concessions) on the door or in advance from 020 7534 0710
More information: ernestso.com, www.facebook.com/inscrutablepianist

Friday Mat 10th 2013, 7.30pm

The Chopin Preludes - Ronan Magill

An opportunity to hear Chopin's entire output of Études, with some wine and refreshments between the two principal collections (Opus 10 published in 1833, and Opus 25 published in 1837). Ronan is well known to Recital Room regulars, and recognized on the international circuit for his subtle and luminous interpretations of many composers, with a particular affinity for the music of Chopin and Liszt. Wine and refreshments.
Tickets: £20, available on the door from 7.00pm

Saturday May 11th 2013, 7.00pm

Universal Listening Machines - Contakt Ensemble

A (belated) concert to mark the centenaries of Alan Turing and John Cage by Contakt, an experimental ensemble of composers and performers, featuring multiple pianos and some other instruments and sonorities as well. Works include Feldman's Intermission VI, two Satie pieces with responses by John Cage (Perpetual Tango) and Paul Burnell (Seul à la Maison), A Very Big Noise by Contakt composer Ann Wolff, Dream Machine by Kerry Andrews and two pieces by Deborah Broderick Edwards And Then and The Touring Machine.
Tickets: £10 (£7 concessions) on the door or in advance from 020 7534 0710

Friday May 17th 2013, 7.30pm

La Belle Musique - Voice and Piano

Nathalie Colas (soprano) and Eugenia Cheng (piano) arrive in London from the Brighton Fringe Festival with their programmme of French chanson from the "belle époque" and beyond, including four delicate songs by Fauré, Poulenc's whimsical Fiançailles pour rire (Engagements in jest) on poems by Louise de Vilmorin, Debussy's Ariettes Oubliées and Ravel's Cinque mélodies populaires Grecque.
Tickets: £10 (£8 concessions, full-time students free)
More information: cheng.staff.shef.ac.uk/piano/bellemusique/

Friday May 24th 2013, 7.00pm

Two Pianos and Narrator - Ravel and Saint-Saëns

As concert No.8 in her ongoing Marlborough Recital Series, Masachi Nishiyama (piano) with Yuki Negishi (second piano) and John Eastman (narrator) presents two narrative pieces - Ravel's Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose) and Saint-Saens' popular humoresque Le Carnaval des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals). A programme suitable for children and adults alike, with the usual drinks and nibbles after the concert.
Tickets: £12 (£7 for under 18s)
Reservations & Enquiries: 079 5747 2256 or email oyjltdmasachi@aol.com

Saturday May 25th 2013, 7.00pm

Spring Piano Series - Simon Mawhinney

In the second event in our Spring Piano Series, organised by Jonathan Powell, we welcome acclaimed Northern Irish composer and virtuoso Simon Mawhinney, who will play two of his own extended solo works for piano - Selimiye (2004) and Reflux (2007).
The next two concerts in the series are on 26th May.
Tickets: £10 (concessions £7) on the door or in advance from 0207 534 0710
More information: www.cmc.ie and www.facebook.com/schottspringpianoseries

Sunday May 26th 2013, 4.00pm

Spring Piano Series - Leandro Avalle

The third concert in our Spring Piano Series 2013, and the first of two today, features Leandro Avalle, a performer whose repertoire includes the music of earlier centuries as well as Spanish and South American composers of the last hundred years. Tonight he plays music by Scarlatti, Ginastera, contemporary Argentinian composers and the "genre-bending" American experimentalist, Eric Schwartz.
Tickets: £10 (concessions £7) on the door or in advance from 0207 534 0710
More information: www.youtube.com/user/leandroava and www.facebook.com/schottspringpianoseries

Sunday May 26th 2013, 6.30pm

Spring Piano Series - Florian Steininger

The fourth concert in our Spring Piano Series 2013, and the second of two today, features contemporary music specialist Florian Steininger performing Vier Elegienand Nachstudie by Wolfgang Rihm, James Clarke's Landschaft mit Glockenturm, Josef Matthias Hauer's Nachklangstudien, Charles Ives' Four Transcriptions from Emerson, Horatiu Radulescu's Fourth Sonata, and Transcendental Study 94: Ornaments (1944) by the enigmatic Kaikhosru Sorabji, some of whose works Steininger has edited.
Tickets: £10 (concessions £7) on the door or in advance from 0207 534 0710
More information: www.floriansteininger.de and www.facebook.com/schottspringpianoseries

Friday May 31st 2013, 6.00pm

Clarinet Recital - Alison Turriff and Justin Connolly

Works by Karg-Elert, Finzi and others showcase the vital and communicative playing of Scottish clarinettist Alison Turriff, a "rising star" of the clarinet world, who has ventured into experimental and fusion styles as well as exploring some of the neglected flowers of the older repertoire, with the accompaniment of composer and pianist Justin Connolly.
Tickets: £10 on the door or in advance from 0207 534 0710
More information: www.alisonturriff.com

Saturday June 1st 2013, 7.00pm

Spring Piano Series - Jonathan Powell

In the finale to our Spring Piano Series 2013, series organiser Jonathan Powell plays music by Aperghis, Messiaen, Busoni, Barrett, Radulescu and Sorabji. We are indebted to Jonathan for curating the series, now in its fourth year, which has been a showcase for many startling and intriguing works we would not otherwise have heard.
Tickets: £10 (concessions £7) on the door or in advance from 0207 534 0710
More information: jonathanpowell.wordpress.com and www.facebook.com/schottspringpianoseries