Aylesbury Lunchtime Music presents

Antal Zalai & Adam Heron

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12 June 2025

Starts: 12:45pm, Doors: 12:15pm

Duration: 1 hour (approx.)

St Mary the Virgin, Aylesbury

£7 adults on the door (<18s & carers free)

  • Antal Zalai violin
  • Adam Heron piano

Programme

The performance will include Piano and Violin Sonatas No 2 and 3 by Chevalier de Saint-Georges.

  • 1745-1799

    Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 1a, No 2 (Saint-Georges)
    i Allegro moderato, ii Andantino – Allegro – Andantino

    Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) is one of the first composers of African heritage in the European classical tradition. An astonishingly accomplished man, he was music director to Marie Antoinette, an influential composer, an acclaimed violinist, a champion fencer, the first colonel of color in the French army, and an abolitionist activist. The three sonatas of Op. 1a are presumed to be written around 1770 and published without date by LeDuc in 1781.

  • 1745-1799

    Violin Sonata in G minor, Op. 1a No 3 (Saint Georges)
    i Allegro, ii Rondeau: Gracioso

    Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745-1799) is one of the first composers of African heritage in the European classical tradition. An astonishingly accomplished man, he was music director to Marie Antoinette, an influential composer, an acclaimed violinist, a champion fencer, the first colonel of color in the French army, and an abolitionist activist. The three sonatas of Op. 1a are presumed to be written around 1770 and published without date by LeDuc in 1781.

  • 1844-1908

    Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 (Sarasate)
    i Moderato, ii Lento, iii Un poco più lento, iv Allegro molto vivace

    Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs), Op. 20, is a musical composition for violin and orchestra written in 1878 by the Spanish composer Pablo de Sarasate. It was premiered the same year in Leipzig, Germany. Like his contemporaries, Sarasate misidentified Hungarian folk music with the “gypsy music” of the Romani people, and the themes in the piece are not of Romani origin, but were all actually adapted from Hungarian music pieces. For instance, the third section borrows a melody by Hungarian composer Elemér Szentirmay de; hu, and the last section uses a theme from Franz Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13, in the rhythm of the csárdás.

  • 1875-1912

    Two Gipsy Movements, Op. 20 (Coleridge-Taylor)
    i D major, ii A minor

  • 1969-

    Variations on a Gypsy Melody (Skoumal)

    Adam Skoumal is known to the audiences in Europe, USA, and Japan as one of the foremost Czech pianists and composers.

    The composition Variations on a Gypsy Melody was created in 2002. It was selected as a compulsory contemporary piece for the 2009 Concours International de Violon violin competition in Sion, Switzerland, and for the 2010 International Violin Competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Performers

  • Antal Zalai

    Violin

    Antal Zalai is ‘an exceptional violinist, who has perfect technique, beautiful large tone, real musical finesse and maturity as well as noble personality’.

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  • Adam Heron

    Piano

    Adam commands a demanding schedule of international recital engagements, having already performed at distinguished venues including Wigmore Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and Southbank Centre.

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Key information for concert goers

When

Every Thursday at 12:45pm (except August & over Christmas). Performances last around 60 minutes. Please enter quietly as there is a noon service in the Lady Chapel.

How much?

Entry is £7 per adult (card or cash), under 18s and carers are free. The price includes a programme. Donations are welcomed to subsidise the larger ensembles.

Where?

Performances are at St Mary’s Church in the heart of Aylesbury Old Town. See directions for further details.

Do I need to book?

No, just turn up. Doors open at 12:15 pm. Make sure you arrive in good time to get a seat.

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