Friday lunchtime concerts
Music in the heart of London's West End
Concert guide
April 1 1pm Free
Royal College of Music presents
Janvier Piano Quartet
J.S. Bach - Viola Sonata BWV1029
C.P.E Bach - Viola Sonata wq88
Schumann - Piano Quartet Op.47
April 8 1pm Free
Niklas Oldemeier piano
Haydn - Sonata in E Flat Hob.XVI:52
Debussy - Estampes
Albeniz - El Albaicin
Chopin - Ballade no. 4 Op. 52
Messiaen - Regard de l'Esprit de Joie
April 15 1pm Free
Good Friday
Royal Academy of Music presents
Emilia Bertolini soprano
Chloe Harris mezzo-soprano
Andre Bertoncini piano
Programme to include German Lieder, Italian and French operatic arias and duets
April 22 1pm Free
Royal Academy of Music presents
Yu Zhou piano
Chopin - 12 Etudes, Op. 25
Chopin - 3 Mazurkas, Op. 63
Chopin – 2 Nocturnes Op.62
April 29 1pm Free
Royal Academy of Music presents
Pearl Trio
Briona Mannion violin
Leo Kerr clarinet
Tim Rumsey piano
Aram Khachaturian - Trio in G minor
Igor Stravinsky - The Soldier's Tale
Alexander Arutiunian - Suite
May 6 1pm Free
Asteri Piano Duet
Daniella Nassar & Leonardo Timpano piano 4 hands
Rimsky-Korsakov arr. NR-K - Scheherazade Op. 35
Tchaikovsky arr. Rachmaninov - Sleeping Beauty Waltz
May 13 1pm Free
Royal Greenwich Brass Band
“Overtures & Variations”
Stephen Maw conductor
Edmund Habershon cornet
Owain Davies euphonium
Shostakovich - Festive Overture
Hartmann – Variations on Rule Britannia
Berlioz - Carnaval Romain Overture
Bellstedt - Variations on Napoli
Suppé - Overture, Morning, Noon & Night in Vienna
May 20 1pm Free
Royal Academy of Music presents
The Asaka Octet
Schubert - Octet in F major, D.803
May 27 1pm Free
Royal Academy of Music presents
Asaka String Quartet
Iona McDonald & Guo Yu violins
Inis Oírr Asano viola
Ho Man Fong cello
Beethoven – Quartet Op.18 No.2.
Brahms – Quartet Op.61 No.1
June 3 1pm Free
Ana Bursac piano
Programme to include works by
Bach/Busoni, Beethoven & Chopin
June 10 1pm Free
RAF Central Band
Tom Rodda conductor
The Central Band of the RAF presents
A rare opportunity to hear
Johan de Meij’s iconic Symphony No.1 The Lord of the Rings, in its entirety
June 17 1pm Free
Ning Hui See piano
Amy Beach - ‘Dreaming’ from 4 Sketches Op.15
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel - ‘July’ from Das Jahr, H.385
Clara Wieck-Schumann - Sonata in G minor
Unsuk Chin - Etude No.6, ‘Grains’
Florence Price - Fantasie Nègre No.2 in G Minor
Emily Koh - reitario’
June 24 1pm Free
Fountain Brass Ensemble
Programme to include
Britten – Russian Funeral
Barber – Mutations from Bach
& the premier of a new work