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Thursday 15th June

St. John's, Smith Square, 6.00pm
Pre-Concert Talk 'Harpsichords, Gut Strings and Double Dots' Admission free, no ticket required		Professor Neal Zaslaw of Cornell University reflects on a half century of Early Music.
St. John's, Smith Square, 7.00pm
Phantasm Laurence Dreyfus treble viol/director Wendy Gillespie treble viol Jonathan Manson tenor & bass viols Markku Luolajan-Mikkola bass viol Tickets £14, £11, £9, £6 (stay on free of charge for the late-night BBC concert)		'Flights of Fantasy and Fugue' by Mico, Purcell, Lawes and Bach, including arrangements from The Art of Fugue and The Well-Tempered Clavier. '...their playing is about as perfect as I expect to hear in this life.' Continuo Magazine Review '...endlessly inventive, tonally ravishing, and just about enough to restore your faith in the human race.' Continuo '...quite electrifying.' Gramophone Phantasm
St. John's, Smith Square, 10.00pm
BBC Late-Night Concert Bach and Beyond (1) Richard Lester cello Susan Tomes piano Admission free, by ticket		In the first of three concerts specially recorded for BBC Radio 3 investigating Bach's influence on subsequent generations, two of Britain's most distinguished chamber musicians perform assorted Bachiana, including the third Cello Suite with Schumann's rarely heard piano accompaniment. Susan Tomes Richard Lester