Free Lunchtime Recital

Forty-five minutes of chamber music in the mirrored salon, in daylight for once. Free, no booking, and streamed live for anyone stuck at a desk.

Each week a young player from one of the city’s conservatoires takes the piano or brings a duo partner. This week: a violin and piano programme of Mozart’s E minor sonata, three Kreisler miniatures and a short new piece by a student composer, who will introduce it from the floor.

The candles stay unlit, the shutters stay half closed and the room still glows. Doors at 12:15 pm. Seats are first come, first served, and nobody minds if you leave quietly at one to get back to work. There is a retiring collection for the players.