A London Sketchbook
Online Access
The concert will be available at 7.30pm on Thursday 20 August, and for 30 days following.
We open our summer online festival with a journey through the heart of musical London, including pieces performed in and around the church in the 17th and 18th centuries. Featuring well-known movements from Purcell’s Abdelazer and Handel’s Water Music, alongside part of Mozart’s London Sketchbook composed during his childhood London residency together with music by Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, an extraordinary composer, violinist and conductor born in 1745 in Guadeloupe.
To help to get the most out of the performance, we are also delighted to offer a complimentary programme for the concert, with more details of the performers and works included. Download the full programme here.
Programme
Mozart, arr. Rondeau – Kontratanz (The London Sketchbook)
Purcell – Rondeau from Abdelazer
Purcell – Chaconne in G minor
Handel – Suite in F from Water Music
Overture – Air – Bourrée – Hornpipe
Joseph Boulogne Chevalier de Saint-Georges – Allegro assai from Quartet No 6 in D
Handel – Suite in G from Water Music
Minuet – Rigaudon & Trio – Minuet – Gigue
Mozart – Divertimento in D
Performers
Zeb Soanes Presenter
St Martin’s Strings
Our thanks to supporters of the St Martin-in-the-Fields Trust, who have funded the St Martin’s Summer Online Festival.
As the impact of COVID-19 takes hold, we need people like you to keep supporting us and helping the musicians we work with. Each concert in our festival costs around £2,000 to produce. To help us keep playing on, please consider making a donation today.
Please note that this concert is pre-recorded in the church with no audience present, and has been edited together before broadcast. The performers and technical crew carefully adhere to all current government regulation on social distancing.
Contact
Should you encouter any issues, please email box.office@smitf.org.