
Piano Recital
Date and Time TBC
|Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall
Part of the Royal Albert Hall’s Classical Coffee Mornings series. At the heart of this programme is Chopin’s magnificent Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, alongside two shorter sonatas by English composers Madeleine Dring and Kenneth V Jones.


Time & Location
Date and Time TBC
Elgar Room, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London SW7 2AP, UK
About the event
Part of the Royal Albert Hall’s Classical Coffee Mornings series. Programme to include Chopin’s Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, Madeleine Dring’s Fantasy Sonata and Kenneth V Jones’ Piano Sonata.
Madeleine Dring (1923 - 1977) was a wonderfully creative composer and musician. She studied composition, piano, violin, singing, and ‘dramatic’ at the Royal College of Music from 1933-45. Her output includes many art songs, chamber works and solo instrumental works, as well as works written for the stage, TV and radio. Dring’s Fantasy Sonata is a youthful work with its heart on its sleeve, written while she was still a teenager studying at the RCM. It’s full of romantic melodies and gorgeous harmonies interspersed with more playful moments.
Kenneth V Jones (1924 - 2020) wrote the scores for dozens of films and became better known as a composer for screen during his lifetime. He also wrote a large number of…