Music on Thursdays
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Thursday
13th July 2023
12.30 lunchtime
Flutes and Frets Duo
Beth Stone
flutes, recorders
Daniel Murphy
lute, theorbo, guitar
Programme
Courts, Cathedrals & Concert Halls
King Henry VIII (1491-1547)
I Greensleeves
II Without Discord
III Helas Madame
IV Pastime with Good Company
William Byrd (c1539-1623)
I My Little Sweet Darling
II Fantasy à 4
Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674-1763)
Suite IV in E Minor
I Prelude
II Allemande: La Fountainebleau
III Sarabande: Le Depart
IV Air Gay: Le Fleuri
V Gavotte: La Mitilde
VI Branle de Village: l’Auteüil
John Blow (1649-1708)
from his collection Amphion Angelicus (pub 1700)
Rise Mighty Monarch, and Ascend the Throne
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
The Thieving Magpie Overture (1817)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Bachianas Brasileiras
No 5 Aria, Cantilena (1938-45)
Distribuição de Flores (1937)
from Suite popular brasileira (1928, revised 1947-48)
2 Schottish Choro
Nikolai Kapustin (1927-2020)
Sonatina Op 100 (2000)
Concert duration approx: 40 minutes
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Flutes & Frets Duo
The Flutes & Frets Duo are a unique ensemble passionate about showing the versatility of the flute and plucked instruments combination. Fundamentally, their aim is to play all types of music on the instruments that were in use at the time of composition. They achieve this by exploring a wide scope of repertoire ranging from medieval all the way through to contemporary.
The Flutes & Frets Duo have had the pleasure of performing recitals all over England and Europe. Notable concerts include the London International Early Music Festival, the Lichfield Festival and performing at the National Gallery. They were chosen as an “IYAP Selected Promising Ensemble 2022” for the International Young Artist Presentation, enabling them to perform in the Early Music Festival, “Laus Polyphoniae” at AMUZ, Antwerp, Belgium. They are looking forward to returning to Antwerp as well as performing in Krakow and York as a result of being selected for an award from the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA), arranged by the European Festivals Association in the autumn of 2023.
They have been awarded numerous prizes in international competitions including recently being one of the three main prize winners of the 2023 International H.I.F. Biber Competition awarded the Romanus Weichlein Prize for the advancement of Austrian Music. They were awarded the first prize for the 2021 La Follia Nuova International Chamber Music Competition, and were winners of the 2022 “22nd LAMS
Matera Award” chamber music category scoring 98/100, as well as finalists in the Royal Overseas League Competition Mixed Ensembles Category 2022.
They were a Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) Live! ensemble on the 2022/23 scheme, and are both members of the new BREMF Medieval Ensemble. Recently, they have been selected for the Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist (PDGYA) Award Scheme which celebrates top young musical talent and offers them performance and workshop prospects.
One of the main aims of the duo is to bring awareness to diverse audiences of the wide possibilities that this combination of instruments provides and also the variety of sounds that composers of every era would have intended their audiences to hear. Through this, they produce a special sound palette by exploring historically-informed practice and modern conventional performance.
The Flutes & Frets Duo have had the pleasure of performing recitals all over England and Europe. Notable concerts include the London International Early Music Festival, the Lichfield Festival and performing at the National Gallery. They were chosen as an “IYAP Selected Promising Ensemble 2022” for the International Young Artist Presentation, enabling them to perform in the Early Music Festival, “Laus Polyphoniae” at AMUZ, Antwerp, Belgium. They are looking forward to returning to Antwerp as well as performing in Krakow and York as a result of being selected for an award from the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA), arranged by the European Festivals Association in the autumn of 2023.
They have been awarded numerous prizes in international competitions including recently being one of the three main prize winners of the 2023 International H.I.F. Biber Competition awarded the Romanus Weichlein Prize for the advancement of Austrian Music. They were awarded the first prize for the 2021 La Follia Nuova International Chamber Music Competition, and were winners of the 2022 “22nd LAMS
Matera Award” chamber music category scoring 98/100, as well as finalists in the Royal Overseas League Competition Mixed Ensembles Category 2022.
They were a Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) Live! ensemble on the 2022/23 scheme, and are both members of the new BREMF Medieval Ensemble. Recently, they have been selected for the Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist (PDGYA) Award Scheme which celebrates top young musical talent and offers them performance and workshop prospects.
One of the main aims of the duo is to bring awareness to diverse audiences of the wide possibilities that this combination of instruments provides and also the variety of sounds that composers of every era would have intended their audiences to hear. Through this, they produce a special sound palette by exploring historically-informed practice and modern conventional performance.
Beth Stone
After starting to play flute at age six, Beth Stone spent seven years studying at Chetham’s School of Music from age eleven, taking an interest in historical flutes in her final two years there.
In 2022, she graduated from the Royal College of Music with a first class honours, where she studied historical flutes with Rachel Brown and modern flute with Gitte Marcusson and as part of the joint principal course.
As an orchestral player, Beth has had the pleasure of working with the Academy of Ancient Music; Ex-Cathedra; London Handel Orchestra; Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra; The Sixteen; National Youth Jazz Orchestra among many others.
She is an avid player of all types of flutes, both historical and modern. Pursuing a career in both fields, Beth aims to gain experience, knowledge and understanding of
the vast range of music she plays.
In 2022, she graduated from the Royal College of Music with a first class honours, where she studied historical flutes with Rachel Brown and modern flute with Gitte Marcusson and as part of the joint principal course.
As an orchestral player, Beth has had the pleasure of working with the Academy of Ancient Music; Ex-Cathedra; London Handel Orchestra; Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra; The Sixteen; National Youth Jazz Orchestra among many others.
She is an avid player of all types of flutes, both historical and modern. Pursuing a career in both fields, Beth aims to gain experience, knowledge and understanding of
the vast range of music she plays.
Daniel Murphy
Daniel Murphy studied Classical Guitar at the Royal College of Music with Carlos Bonell before transitioning to the historical performance department in his third year, becoming RCM’s first ever undergraduate principal-study theorbo player, studying with Jakob Lindberg.
Daniel’s freelance work includes collaborating with ensembles such as Ex-Cathedra, Fiori Musicali, London Baroque Orchestra and Dowland Works among others. As a lutenist, he regularly performs lute song with numerous singers including Emma Kirkby, Mary Bevan and Hugh Cutting.
Career highlights include performing with the Taverner Consort, conducted by Andrew Parrott in Frauenchiemsee, Germany, and featuring on Radio 3’s Early Music Show in Windsor Castle performing music from Charles II's era.
Daniel’s freelance work includes collaborating with ensembles such as Ex-Cathedra, Fiori Musicali, London Baroque Orchestra and Dowland Works among others. As a lutenist, he regularly performs lute song with numerous singers including Emma Kirkby, Mary Bevan and Hugh Cutting.
Career highlights include performing with the Taverner Consort, conducted by Andrew Parrott in Frauenchiemsee, Germany, and featuring on Radio 3’s Early Music Show in Windsor Castle performing music from Charles II's era.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
King Henry VIII (1491-1547)
I Greensleeves
II Without Discord
III Helas Madame
IV Pastime with Good Company
We had best not get too far into the "did Henry really write this" discussion. We could be here for hours! Let's move into music he may have written, and that definitely reflects his period. A tall, good-looking, athletic man, he was also a well-cultured person; certainly a linguist and a musician.
I Greensleeves
II Without Discord
III Helas Madame
IV Pastime with Good Company
We had best not get too far into the "did Henry really write this" discussion. We could be here for hours! Let's move into music he may have written, and that definitely reflects his period. A tall, good-looking, athletic man, he was also a well-cultured person; certainly a linguist and a musician.
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Greensleeves (almost certainly did not write this, the tune was already known from broadsheets): Münir Nurettin Bekir, Oud, & August Denhard, lute
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Without Discord: he did write this one!
Alamire choir, conductor David Skinner |
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Helas Madame (he probably wrote this): the singer is Jay, britton, with Baroque cello, Alison Holford, and Petra Hajduchova plays a Flemish harpsichord.
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Pastime with good Companye (definitely attributed to King Henry):
vocalist Sarah Pillow, with Ayreheart: Ronn McFarlane, lute Will Morris, colascione attias Rucht, percussion |
Our image of the overweight King Henry VIII dates from after 1536 when he had to cease his athletic pursuits as a result of a jousting accident.
William Byrd (c1539-1623)
I My Little Sweet Darling
II Fantasy à 4
Sea-Slumber Song is performed here by Niamh O'Sullivan, mezzo-soprano, and Chia-Lun Hsu, piano, at Munich's Hochschule für Musik und Theater.
I My Little Sweet Darling
II Fantasy à 4
Sea-Slumber Song is performed here by Niamh O'Sullivan, mezzo-soprano, and Chia-Lun Hsu, piano, at Munich's Hochschule für Musik und Theater.
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My little sweet darling: performed under permitted conditions in August 2020, by Burwood Sydney-based Consort 8. Tim Chung, countertenor.
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Fantasy a 4: performed by the celebrated ensemble Fretwork.
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Jacques-Martin Hotteterre (1674-1763)
Suite IV in E Minor
I Prelude
II Allemande: La Fountainebleau
III Sarabande: Le Depart
IV Air Gay: Le Fleuri
V Gavotte: La Mitilde
VI Branle de Village: l’Auteüil
Following his own improvised prelude, Haiyang Wang Wang launches into the Suite, with accompanist Kyle Collins. The flute is a copy of an early wood "transverse" flute. Earlier references to "flute" generally relate to the "recorder flute" we know today.
Suite IV in E Minor
I Prelude
II Allemande: La Fountainebleau
III Sarabande: Le Depart
IV Air Gay: Le Fleuri
V Gavotte: La Mitilde
VI Branle de Village: l’Auteüil
Following his own improvised prelude, Haiyang Wang Wang launches into the Suite, with accompanist Kyle Collins. The flute is a copy of an early wood "transverse" flute. Earlier references to "flute" generally relate to the "recorder flute" we know today.
John Blow (1649-1708)
from his collection Amphion Angelicus (pub 1700)
Rise Mighty Monarch, and Ascend the Throne
In this March 2022 release, Staffan Liljas sings with an extraordinary continuo group composed of Peter Lönnerberg, organ, Jonas Nordberg, theorbo, and Mime Brinkmann, cello:
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
The Thieving Magpie Overture (1817)
Let's not choose a full orchestral performance. Who can offer us a version on a single instrument or a small group? It turns out to be Jonathan Scott, playing the 1893 Father Henry Willis organ in Hereford Cathedral. Still, that's probably cheating. Watch how he performs the opening drum rolls.
Maybe we should look for a smaller sound that will be more akin to the scale of our concert. Let's try the Kupinski Guitar Duo of Ewa Jablczynska & Dariusz Kupinski. They are both playing guitars by Sussex luthier Philip Woodfield: https://woodfieldguitars.com
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Bachianas Brasileiras
No 5 Aria, Cantilena (1938-45)
Distribuição de Flores (1937)
from Suite popular brasileira (1928, revised 1947-48)
2 Schottish Choro
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Bachianas Brasileiras, No 5 Aria, Cantilena: the guitarist is Plinio Fernandes, with cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason
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Distribuição de Flores: written for flute and cello, here with the addition of the percussion of Amoy Ribas. Anette Maiburg, flute, and Arturo Castro Nogueras moves the cello part to his guitar
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Schottish Choro: Gaëlle Solal is the guitarist.
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Nikolai Kapustin (1927-2020)
Sonatina Op 100 (2000)
This rather tuneful, jazz-influenced piece will show the versatility of the duo's instruments. Here, though, we hear Sonatina in its original piano version, played by Howard Na, for the Minnesota International Piano Competition of 2009.
Previous concert
6 July 2023 - Ezo Sarici, violin & Ignas Maknickas, piano, play Brahms Sonatas - click here
Next concert
20 July 2023 - Lucent Quartet (RAM, Haydn string quartets) - click here
