Irena Radić (piano) at the London Sketch Club: At the heart of this programme is Chopin’s magnificent Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, alongside two shorter sonatas by English composers Madeleine Dring and Kenneth V Jones. at London Sketch Club, London on Sunday 30th March 2025

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Irena Radić (piano) at the London Sketch Club

At the heart of this programme is Chopin’s magnificent Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, alongside two shorter sonatas by English composers Madeleine Dring and Kenneth V Jones.

Add to my Calendar 30-03-2025 15:00 30-03-2025 17:00 36 Irena Radić (piano) at the London Sketch Club At the heart of this programme is Chopin’s magnificent Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, alongside two shorter sonatas by English composers Madeleine Dring and Kenneth V Jones. Programme to include Chopin’s Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, Madeleine Dring’s Fantasy Sonata and Kenneth V Jones’ Piano Sonata. Two preludes, by Rachmaninoff and Debussy, will also feature. Madeleine Dring (1923 - 1977) was a wonderfully creative composer and musician. She studied composition, piano, violin, singing, and ‘dramatic’ at the Royal College of Music from 1933-45. Her output includes many art songs, chamber works and solo instrumental works, as well as works written for the stage, TV and radio. Dring’s Fantasy Sonata is a youthful work with its heart on its sleeve, written while she was still a teenager studying at the RCM. It’s full of romantic melodies and gorgeous harmonies interspersed with more playful moments. Kenneth V Jones (1924 - 2020) wrote the scores for dozens of films and became better known as a composer for screen during his lifetime. He also wrote a large number of concert works, and that is where his true artistic voice lies. These pieces are now beginning to be rediscovered and are returning to the stage. In 2024, the London Mozart Players released an album of his chamber works, and in November the Royal College of Music hosted a Centenary Celebration Concert curated by Irena Radić, showcasing a variety of KVJ’s piano and chamber works. Jones enrolled as a student of the Royal College of Music in 1947 and in 1958 he was appointed there as a professor of composition. His Piano Sonata is in three movements: 1/ Allegro moderato; 2/ Andante molto sostenuto; 3/Rondo Burlesca: Allegro vivo. It is bursting with energy and exciting rhythmic drive, with a hauntingly beautiful middle movement that’s almost hypnotic in nature.   Chopin’s monumental third piano sonata was his last, written during the final years of his life when his health was failing him. Majestic and mature, it is one of his most demanding works, its strength and depth belying his fragile physical state at the time. It follows the traditional four movement structure, with a grand opening movement, a sparkling scherzo, a stunningly lyrical slow movement and a dazzling finale that brings the sonata to a close with true bravura. Irenna's website >>     London Sketch Club, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

London Sketch Club
7 Dilke Street
Chelsea
London
SW3 4JE
England

Sunday 30th March 2025
3:00 PM

Programme

Sergei Rachmaninov – Prelude in G major, Op.32 no.5
Madeleine Dring – Fantasy Sonata
Claude Debussy – Preludes, Book I: La Cathédral Engloutie
Kenneth V. Jones – Piano Sonata
~ Interval ~
Madeleine Dring – Prelude and Toccata (1948)
Frédéric Chopin – Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, Op.58

Performers

Irena Radić – piano

Programme Note

At the heart of this programme is Chopin’s magnificent Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, alongside two shorter sonatas by English composers Madeleine Dring and Kenneth V Jones.

Programme to include Chopin’s Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, Madeleine Dring’s Fantasy Sonata and Kenneth V Jones’ Piano Sonata. Two preludes, by Rachmaninoff and Debussy, will also feature.

Madeleine Dring (1923 - 1977) was a wonderfully creative composer and musician. She studied composition, piano, violin, singing, and ‘dramatic’ at the Royal College of Music from 1933-45. Her output includes many art songs, chamber works and solo instrumental works, as well as works written for the stage, TV and radio. Dring’s Fantasy Sonata is a youthful work with its heart on its sleeve, written while she was still a teenager studying at the RCM. It’s full of romantic melodies and gorgeous harmonies interspersed with more playful moments.

Kenneth V Jones (1924 - 2020) wrote the scores for dozens of films and became better known as a composer for screen during his lifetime. He also wrote a large number of concert works, and that is where his true artistic voice lies. These pieces are now beginning to be rediscovered and are returning to the stage. In 2024, the London Mozart Players released an album of his chamber works, and in November the Royal College of Music hosted a Centenary Celebration Concert curated by Irena Radić, showcasing a variety of KVJ’s piano and chamber works. Jones enrolled as a student of the Royal College of Music in 1947 and in 1958 he was appointed there as a professor of composition. His Piano Sonata is in three movements: 1/ Allegro moderato; 2/ Andante molto sostenuto; 3/Rondo Burlesca: Allegro vivo. It is bursting with energy and exciting rhythmic drive, with a hauntingly beautiful middle movement that’s almost hypnotic in nature.

Chopin’s monumental third piano sonata was his last, written during the final years of his life when his health was failing him. Majestic and mature, it is one of his most demanding works, its strength and depth belying his fragile physical state at the time. It follows the traditional four movement structure, with a grand opening movement, a sparkling scherzo, a stunningly lyrical slow movement and a dazzling finale that brings the sonata to a close with true bravura.

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