JW3‘s world class monthly classical music concert season, The Classical Series, continues on Tuesday 12 December 2023 at 7.30pm with one of the world’s most distinguished Lieder tenors Mark Padmore and rising star of the classical piano world Mishka Rushdie Momen, performing for the first time together. Presenting a captivating evening of Lieder Songs, join them both for an evening of exquisite song. The programme includes: a very rare performance of the complete version of Schumann’s breath-taking masterpiece Dichterliebe song cycle, with the four songs which were later discarded. The programme also includes: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann’s Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tales.

The Classical Series opened last month to rave reviews, with a sellout concert from the internationally renowned Jerusalem Quartet. JW3’s extraordinary first season, continues in the New Year on Sunday 28 January 2024 – Sunday 14 April 2024.

JW3’s 220 seater Howard Hall is an intimate, inclusive and friendly Concert Hall, with excellent acoustics and state of the art facilities, and is making its mark as the home to an outstanding line-up of truly exceptional international artists playing masterpieces from Bach to Janáček.

The 2023-24 series includes: Mark Padmore and Mishka Rushdie Momen, Steven Isserlis with Dame Janet Suzman, Angela Hewitt, Alasdair Beatson, Sini Simonen, Castalian Quartet and cellist David Waterman.

The Classical Series’ first concert of 2024 is The Beatson, Simonen, Waterman Trio (28 January, 7.30pm). Superb pianist Alasdair Beaston, inspiring Finnish violinist Sini Simonen and cellist David Waterman (Endellion Quartet) celebrate the genius of Beethoven, Bloch and Brahms.

Steven Isserlis Masterclass (18 February, 4pm), sees a giant of the cello and music world, Steven Isserlis, giving a masterclass with two hugely gifted young cellists on the cusps of their own careers, Madelyn Kowalski and Tim Posner. Later that evening in a separate concert, join Steven Isserlis with Dame Janet Suzman for The Bach Cello Suites (18 February, 7:30pm.) Dame Janet will read glorious extracts from Steven’s passionate book about Bach’s Cello Suites, one of classical music’s greatest glories, as Steven demonstrates with his vibrant and highly individual interpretations.

Having already established themselves as one of the most exciting quartets on the world stage today, the Castalian Quartet (17 March, 7.30pm) will display their inventiveness, imagination and finesse in a programme that showcases their impeccable musicality. They will also be joined by cellist David Waterman, to perform Schubert’s monumental String Quintet in C major – a beautiful and heart-rending masterpiece, and favourite of both audiences and players alike.

In the final concert of JW3’s The Classical Series season, one of the world’s leading pianists, the much-loved Angela Hewitt performs Bach’s miraculous Goldberg Variations (14 April, 7.30pm.)

JW3’s The Classical Series, is curated by the music artist and cellist David Waterman, who says: “The Classical Series includes masterpieces at the very pinnacle of the classical music canon. There were so many great composers before Bach, but for me, he set the scene for the next 200 years of musical history and particularly influenced most of the wonderful composers in our series.”

Book your tickets now for JW3’s The Classical Series – a classical season not to be missed.