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25 August 2024

Concert

Lionel will be performing piano music as part of An Evening of Poetry and Music at the Charlbury Festival on 25 August 2024. Readers: Steve Hay and Angela Vincent

Lionel will play his Prelude No.2, Esquisse and Tango No.3, and music by Scarlatti, Chopin and Rachmaninov.

This follows a private recital he gave in June 2024 as part of a fundraising evening for the Three Choirs Festival.

Few composers anchor what they do so completely in gorgeous melody. There is something unabashed about this music in its emotional directness, a generosity of spirit.

Robert R. Reilly, US music critic, author of ‘Surprised by Beauty’

When I first discovered Sainsbury’s music 6 or 7 years ago I was immediately struck… the more you got to know this music the richer and more important it seemed to get.

Jim Svejda, KUSC, LA

A warm and passionate voice – from the grand, powerful and serious to the simple and carefree, from jazz to flamenco, from Gershwin to the French impressionists…

Keith Bramich, Music & Vision,
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