Harrow Summer Music Festival 2023

St. John’s Church, Greenhill, Harrow, HA1 2JE

Free admission with retiring collection

Thursday 13th July 12.30pm

Music by Eric Whiteacre, Phillip Glass and Homage to John McLaughlin by Gerard Cousins

Gerard Cousins guitar


Thursday 20th July 12.30pm

Debussy:  Estampes

Brahms:   Intermezzo in E major Op.116 No.6  

Mozart:   Second movement – Adagiofrom Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K.488

Chopin:  Mazurkas in: E minor Op.41 No.2, C major Op.24 No.2, Mazurka in B minor Op.30 No.2, Mazurka in A flat major Op.41 No.3, Mazurka in G major Op.50 No.1, Mazurka in A minor (1841) 

Kenneth Leighton: 5 Studies Op.22:

No.1 Allegro ma non troppo

No.5 Presto con bravura   

Steve Law:  Theme from Piano Concerto  (2021)                            

Samba (2009)

Steve Law piano


Thursday 27th July 12.30pm

Kuhlau: Sonatina in A minor Op 88 No 3

Rachmaninoff Songs arranged by Crossland

Amy Beach: 4 Sketches Op 15

Chopin: 3 Polonaises Op 71

Mussorgski: Night on a Bare Mountain – arranged & embellished by Crossland

Neil Crossland piano


Thursday 3rd August 12.30pm

LCF Composers’ concert:

https://www.forumcomposers.org.uk/

Martin Jones: Interregnum

Jon Cross: For Anushka

Liz Sharma: Songs of the Night

Patrick Miles: Procession

Sarah Wood: Sky (from Creation)

David Arditti: Trio in E Minor

Peter Openshaw: Fantasia sopra AE-AB-CB-AB

David Loxley-Blount Thaxted Dances on Jupiter

Philip Danesfield Fond Remembrance

Alex Weidmann Yearning

Michael Regan Trio (Toccata, Elegy and Ragtime)

Kirsten Jensen cello, Mark Wilson violin, Neil Crossland piano


Thursday 10th August 12.30pm

Neil Crossland: Violin Concerto No 2 in D major Op 62

Franck: Violin Sonata in A major

Mark Wilson violin, Neil Crossland piano


Thursday 17th August 12.30pm

Music by Piazzolla – tbc

Beethoven: Violin Sonata in F major No 5 Op 24 ‘Spring’

Brahms: Clarinet Sonata in E flat major Op 120 No 2

Anjalika Bardalai clarinet, Roger Mo violin, Sergio Giro piano


Thursday 24th August 12.30pm

Chopin Cello Sonata Op.65

Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata Op.19

Kirsten Jensen cello, Neil Crossland piano


Thursday 31st August 12.30pm

Lili Boulanger: Trois Morceaux pour Piano (selection)

1)     D’un Vieux Jardin

2)     D’un Jardin Clair

Philip Lancaster: Encroaching Shadows 17 haiku for solo piano after Tomas Tranströmer (selection)

Stuart Lane: ‘Night Letters’, ‘Chasing the Sun’  – world premiere

Gillian Whitehead: Four Short Pieces

Lucy Hackett: Nocturne ‘The Moth’ – world premiere

Agnieszka Lasko: Nocturne ‘Autumn’

Pranav Ranjit: “To the Friends”, “Valley of Fading Memories” – world premiere

Jelena Markaroka piano


Thursday 7th September 12.30pm

Nature’s Delights

Argento: Spring

Argento: When faces called flowers

Bridge: So early in the morning, O

Crossland: From a Railway Carriage

Finzi: Oh fair to see

Handel: Verdi piante

Richard Strauss: Die Nacht Op. 10 No. 3

Sibelius: Diamanten pa marssnon Op. 36 No. 6

Sibelius: Varen flyktar hastigt Op. 13 No. 4

Sibelius: Till kvallen Op. 17 No.6

Stenhammar: I skogen Op. 20 no.4

Stenhammar: Mansken

Rossini: Di vaghi raggi adorno

Nina Kopparhed soprano and Neil Crossland piano


Thursday 14th September 12.30pm

Beethoven: Sonata in C minor Op 13 ” Pathetique”

Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River

Debussy: Images Book I

                    Reflets dans l’eau

                    Hommage a Rameau

                    Mouvement

Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia (arranged by Philip Le Bas)

Chopin: Scherzo in Bb minor Op 31

Haruko Seki piano