"Come blazing through the January fog with me in this bright programme of enlivening works for solo violin. I will intersperse the musical programme with short excerpts from the writing I've been doing and I'll also tell you about Last Rose, my ongoing awareness project inspired by Ernst's work." - Ruth Palmer

Johann Sebastian Bach       Sonata No. 1 for violin solo (G minor)

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst         The Last Rose of Summer

Johann Sebastian Bach        Partita No. 3 for violin solo (E major)

Eugène Ysaÿe                        Sonata for solo violin Op.27, No. 2

The 840 year old jewel-like church is just inside the old hospital archway on Smithfield. It is heated. If you work at St Bart's Hospital, or are a current inpatient there (or an inpatient's close relative), some subsidised/sponsored tickets are available for you; please email me through the contact link in the footer at the bottom of this webpage.