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  • Contours: Ryuichi Sakamoto × Tchaikovsky - Two Ways of Hearing the World
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Contours: Ryuichi Sakamoto × Tchaikovsky - Two Ways of Hearing the World

Thu 26 Nov 2026 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, W2 3UD

Contours: Ryuichi Sakamoto × Tchaikovsky - Two Ways of Hearing the World

Thu 26 Nov 2026 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, W2 3UD

Contours: Ryuichi Sakamoto × Tchaikovsky - Two Ways of Hearing the World

Thu 26 Nov 2026 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, W2 3UD

CONTOURS: Ryuichi Sakamoto × Tchaikovsky
—  Experience the music of Sakamoto as trace, and the music of Tchaikovsky as memory

Contours concert brings together two composers who hear the world in completely different ways: Ryuichi Sakamoto, who treats sound as a living trace shaped by time and space, and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who reveals human emotion through powerful narrative and musical drama.

Listen for how Sakamoto’s tones emerge and dissolve within the church’s resonance, and how silence becomes part of the music rather than its absence. The evening invites you to hear two answers to the same question:

"What traces does life leave, and how does time remember or erase them?"


Programme
Ryuichi Sakamoto (30 minutes)

Aqua
Rain
Bibo no Aozora
The Revenant Main Theme (Atmospheric)
Lack of Love
1919
Andata

Tchaikovsky (50 minutes)
Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50.


Artists
Nurry Lee - Piano

June Lee - Violin

Joseph Barker - Cello


Need to Know
Running time

Approximately 1 hour 30 minutes, including an intermission

Recommended age

From 7+

Programme notes

Free printed programmes will be available at the venue.
Digital programme notes is available from here

Location

St James's Church, Sussex Gardens, W2 3UD