Raphael Wallfisch (cello) and Simon Callaghan (piano)
Sun 24 May
|St John’s Church
Beethoven – Sonata for Piano and Cello in C Op.102 No.1 Brahms – Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Op.99 Ethel Smyth – Sonata for Cello and Piano in A minor Op.5 Franck – Sonata for Violin and Piano in A (arr. Delsart)
Time & Location
24 May 2026, 18:00 BST
St John’s Church, Waterloo Rd, London SE1 8TY, UK
About the event
Ethel Smyth first met Brahms in Leipzig in the late 1870s. She greatly admired his music and got to know him well, her cello sonata being published in 1887, the same year as Brahms’s F major cello sonata. This concert presents both works, opening with Beethoven’s late ‘free’ cello sonata from the 1820s, and ending with Cesar Franck’s famous violin sonata, arranged for cello by Jules Delsart with Franck’s permission in the late 1880s. Curiously, there is evidence the work started life as a cello sonata, before Franck reworked it into a violin sonata as a wedding gift for his friend Ysaÿe.
Tickets are £22 online or £25 at the door.
LCMS Friends tickets are £16.50 online or £18.75 at the door.
A small number of tickets in the last two rows are available for £17 online or £20 at the door (£12.75/£15 for LCMS Friends)
Tickets
Ticket
£22.00
Ticket (last two rows)
£17.00
Student/Young Adult
£7.00
Total
£0.00