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Moonlighting - Viv McLean's Piano Showcase

Music inspired by night and the moon - Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, Schumann

Part of the Summer Music in City Churches 2025

Add to my Calendar 25-06-2025 19:30 25-06-2025 21:30 36 Moonlighting - Viv McLean's Piano Showcase Music for a midsummer's night: solo piano works inspired by night and the moon, by Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, Schumann and more. Kestrel Music presents its seventh annual festival, ‘Summer Music in City Churches’, 18 - 27 June 2025 – an eight-day celebration of music in the City of London. Choral requiem settings form the cornerstones, inspiring this year’s theme ‘Eternal Light’. Guest artists are drawn from the finest musicians performing internationally today, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and City of London Choir, conductors Sir John Rutter and Daniel Hyde, and soloists including guitarists Jack Hancher and Gus McQuade, pianists Iain Farrington, Lucy Parham, Mark Bebbington and Viv McLean, and singers Eleanor Grant, Edward Grint and Rachel Nicholls. Embracing the theme of ‘Eternal Light’ – sunrise, moonlight and reflected light in nature, as well as the everlasting light of remembrance – live music takes place in four of the historic churches in the City of London. Full details can be found on the website. St Giles Cripplegate, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Giles Cripplegate
Fore Street
City of London
London
EC2Y 8DA
England

Programme

Robert Schumann – Mondnacht, Op.39 no.5
Frédéric Chopin – Scherzo no.3 in C sharp minor, Op.39
Frédéric Chopin – Polonaise-fantaisie in A flat major, Op.61
Frédéric Chopin – Ballade no.3 in A flat major, Op.47
Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne in E flat major, Op.9 no.2
Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne in C sharp minor, B.49
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata no.14 'Moonlight', Op.27 no.2

Performers

Viv McLean – piano

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Programme Note

Music for a midsummer's night: solo piano works inspired by night and the moon, by Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin, Schumann and more.

Kestrel Music presents its seventh annual festival, ‘Summer Music in City Churches’, 18 - 27 June 2025 – an eight-day celebration of music in the City of London. Choral requiem settings form the cornerstones, inspiring this year’s theme ‘Eternal Light’. Guest artists are drawn from the finest musicians performing internationally today, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and City of London Choir, conductors Sir John Rutter and Daniel Hyde, and soloists including guitarists Jack Hancher and Gus McQuade, pianists Iain Farrington, Lucy Parham, Mark Bebbington and Viv McLean, and singers Eleanor Grant, Edward Grint and Rachel Nicholls. Embracing the theme of ‘Eternal Light’ – sunrise, moonlight and reflected light in nature, as well as the everlasting light of remembrance – live music takes place in four of the historic churches in the City of London.

Full details can be found on the website.

Summer Music in City Churches

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