2026 programme

Saturday 18 April, 4.00 p.m.

Bridget Yee, piano

A programme of romantic and American music: Wagner's Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde in Liszt's transcription; two of Barber's Excursions (Op. 20, Nos. 1 & 3); Gershwin's Embraceable You in Earl Wild's celebrated arrangement; the Haydn Fantasia in C major (Hob. XVII:4); and the great Liszt Piano Sonata in B minor.

Saturday 2 May, 4.00 p.m 

Jasmin Allpress, piano

A programme spanning C.P.E. Bach, Janáček, Debussy and Brahms

Friday 15 May, 7.00 p.m.

Adolfo Barabino, piano (timing tbc - please check our Facebook page closer to the date.)

Saturday 6 June, 4.00 p.m.

Samuel Beddard, saxophone & Jo Foote, piano

This acclaimed touring recital traces spirituality in music from American gospel and soul through to its roots in African folk tradition. The programme features Steven Banks's Come As You Are, gospel and Sam Cooke songs, spirituals by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, New Orleans jazz, and Beddard's own Suite after Abel Selaocoe, a finale drawing on Selaocoe's distinctive fusion of African traditional music and Western classical forms. Samuel Beddard is a Guildhall-trained saxophonist specialising in classical, folk and jazz fusions; Jo Foote studied music at the University of Manchester, specialising in piano performance and accompaniment.

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Tuning

Keyboard instruments at Hammerwood are classically tuned, to permit a greater degree of musical expression. For more information, click here to listen to a recording of Ralitska Penkova performing two of Chopin's Nocturnes and his Piano Sonata No. 2, at Hammerwood in August 2016, on an 1802 fortepiano tuned in a variation of Werkmeister III temperament.    Click here and here for YouTube videos of more general explanations of the effect of unequal temperament on mood and emotion in music. To see a list of all classical temperament recordings made at Hammerwood on YouTube, click here.