West Meon Music Festival: Coffee Concert at St John the Evangelist Church, West Meon on Sunday 14th September 2025

West Meon Music Festival

Coffee Concert

Part of the 15th West Meon Music Festival

Add to my Calendar 14-09-2025 11:30 14-09-2025 13:30 36 West Meon Music Festival This programme will again celebrate both the Shostakovich and Ravel anniversaries. Shostakovich is featured in one of his most popular pieces, the Sonata for Cello and Piano (1934), written during the happy period of a brief love affair and brimming with melodies, colours and dramatic effects. Ravel's Tzigane (Gypsy) was inspired by the Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Arányi's 1924 performance of the composer's Sonata for Violin and Cello with cellist Hans Kindler. The piece is fearsomely difficult and demands such techniques from the violinist as artificial harmonics, left-hand pizzicatos, complex multiple-stops, and sustained octave passages. Brahms composed the three Intermezzi Op. 117 in the summer of 1892 while staying in Bad Ischl.He told a friend that they were "three lullabies of my grief". Coffee is included and will be served before the concert from 11am.  St John the Evangelist Church, West Meon DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St John the Evangelist Church
Church Lane
West Meon
Hampshire
GU32 1LF
England

Sunday 14th September 2025
11:30 AM

Tickets

Prices: £18 main aisles, £15 side aisles, students £5, under 16 (accompanied by adult ticket holder) £1
Season tickets: Festival pass main aisles £135, side aisles £115
Booking line: 01489 891055 (9am-5pm)
Book Tickets

Programme

Franz Schubert – Ständchen for Violin and Piano
Maurice Ravel – Tzigane for Violin and Piano
Johannes Brahms – 3 Intermezzi, Op.117
Dmitry Shostakovich – Cello Sonata in D minor, Op.40

Performers

John Thwaites – Piano
Andrew Fuller – Cello
Susanne Stanzeleit – violin

Primrose Piano Trio

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Programme Note

This programme will again celebrate both the Shostakovich and Ravel anniversaries.

Shostakovich is featured in one of his most popular pieces, the Sonata for Cello and Piano (1934), written during the happy period of a brief love affair and brimming with melodies, colours and dramatic effects.

Ravel's Tzigane (Gypsy) was inspired by the Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Arányi's 1924 performance of the composer's Sonata for Violin and Cello with cellist Hans Kindler. The piece is fearsomely difficult and demands such techniques from the violinist as artificial harmonics, left-hand pizzicatos, complex multiple-stops, and sustained octave passages.

Brahms composed the three Intermezzi Op. 117 in the summer of 1892 while staying in Bad Ischl.
He told a friend that they were "three lullabies of my grief".

Coffee is included and will be served before the concert from 11am.

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