Music
Lunch Time Concert - Eleanor Penfold and Elena Topogonova
DATE
Thu 27 Nov 2025
VENUE
Woodville Auditorium
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Programme
- Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) “Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques” (Song of the lentisk Gatherers)
- Claude Debussy (1862-1918) “Beau soir” (Beautiful evening) , Romance “Ineffable silence”
- Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943) “To her” “Daises” op 38 for piano solo
- Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) “Rose”, “Muse”
- Roger Quilter (1877-1953) “Now sleeps the crimson petal”
- Thomas Dunhill (1877-1946) “The cloths of heaven”
- Michael Head (1900-1976) “The Estuary”
- Frank Bridge (1879-1941) “Rosemary” for piano solo and “Adoration”, “Golden hair”, “Love went a riding” for soprano and piano
Elena Toponogova (piano) is a concert pianist and chamber musician based in London. Her
repertoire is primarily comprised of Russian music, with a particular focus on the works of
Nikolai Medtner.
Eleanor Penfold (soprano) Praised in Opera Magazine for having ‘vocal equipment to dazzle’, Eleanor Penfold
graduated from the Royal College of Music as a Ruth West Scholar. Eleanor was awarded
the Schubert Song Prize at the London Song Festival by Dame Felicity Lott.
