Lasham Classical Music Festival’s fourth annual festival begins on Wednesday 5th June 2019 and concludes on Sunday 9th June 2019 with St Mary’s Church Lasham the venue for all concerts. This year’s programme explores a great wealth of 20th century composers influenced by the conflicts that they lived through and witnessed first hand.
Wednesday 5th June - 7.30pm The opening concert at St Mary’s Church Lasham includes Britten’s Temporal Variations and Edward Elgar’s Piano Quintet.
Friday 7th June - we have introduced a midday concert featuring
Stravinsky’s L’histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale), and an arrangement for chambler ensemble of Schubert's String Quartet No 13 in A minor, 'Rosamunde'
On Saturday 8th June our supper concert explores the theme of conflict with John Williams’s “Theme from Schindler’s List” from the 1994 Best Picture, two movements of Copland’s ballet ‘Billy the Kid’ and Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes. A supper interval of 80 minutes lets you dine either at The Royal Oak or yin the marquees with a picnic hamper for the marquee from Grassi and Jones, making this a wonderful social occasion as well as a musical outing.
Our festival programme also contains a great deal of popular classics not confined to the parameters of war. Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Chopin’s Piano Sonata No 3 to Saint Saens’s Septet, provide music for all tastes and we hope that you’ll join us for some unforgettable concerts in St Mary’s Church, Lasham this June 2019.