Music on Thursdays
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2021 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival
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ANDREWS MASSEY DUO
Emily Andrews
flute
David Massey
guitars
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
arr Andrews Massey Duo from piano
Fantasia No 3 in D minor K397/385g (1782)
Shafer Mahoney (b1968)
Shining River (2007)
Antonin Leopold Dvořák (1841-1904)
arr Massey from violin & piano
Sonatina in G Major Op 100 (1893)
1 Allegro risoluto
2 Larghetto
3 Scherzo
4 Allegro
Concert duration approx: 40 minutes
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Andrews Massey Duo
Emily Andrews (flutes, voice) and David Massey (guitars) met in 2009 at the Royal Academy of Music while playing in the orchestra for a musical. They have played together ever since, alongside their solo careers. Emily and David are expanding the boundaries of flute and guitar duo playing. They specialise in doing their own arrangements of music, from classical and folk repertoire, so their recitals are extremely varied and unique to their duo.
As a duo they have gone from strength to strength: winners of a prestigious Tunnell Trust Award; semi-finalists in the Royal Overseas League Competition in London three times; and regular recitalists in a variety of settings, including lunchtime and evening recitals around the country (including Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, Kings Place, St James’ Piccadilly, Colston Hall, Chipping Campden Music Festival) and abroad in Germany, Italy and Sweden.
As recording artists they have released three CDs: “…from the roots”, a collection of their own arrangements of British folk melodies; “make merry”, the duo’s own arrangements of traditional Christmas carols in world music styles; and “Stolen Serenades”, a CD of Schubert and Mozart arranged for flute and guitar. A new CD is on the cards for 2022!
With guitarist Francisco Correa they formed the trio CarmenCo, which performs concerts as well as providing music for the concert/play Creating Carmen written by Clare Norburn, touring 2019-21 with support from Arts Council England at festivals including Concerts in the West and Buxton Festival. The trio released a CD of Spanish and Spanish-inspired music in Autumn 2019.
Aside from their work together, they are both in demand as orchestral musicians – Emily has performed with Philharmonia Orchestra, Scottish Opera, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; David performs regularly with Southbank Sinfonia and with Chi-Chi Nwanoku's orchestra Chineke!
More info at www.andrewsmasseyduo.com or on Facebook: “Andrews Massey Duo”
As a duo they have gone from strength to strength: winners of a prestigious Tunnell Trust Award; semi-finalists in the Royal Overseas League Competition in London three times; and regular recitalists in a variety of settings, including lunchtime and evening recitals around the country (including Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, Kings Place, St James’ Piccadilly, Colston Hall, Chipping Campden Music Festival) and abroad in Germany, Italy and Sweden.
As recording artists they have released three CDs: “…from the roots”, a collection of their own arrangements of British folk melodies; “make merry”, the duo’s own arrangements of traditional Christmas carols in world music styles; and “Stolen Serenades”, a CD of Schubert and Mozart arranged for flute and guitar. A new CD is on the cards for 2022!
With guitarist Francisco Correa they formed the trio CarmenCo, which performs concerts as well as providing music for the concert/play Creating Carmen written by Clare Norburn, touring 2019-21 with support from Arts Council England at festivals including Concerts in the West and Buxton Festival. The trio released a CD of Spanish and Spanish-inspired music in Autumn 2019.
Aside from their work together, they are both in demand as orchestral musicians – Emily has performed with Philharmonia Orchestra, Scottish Opera, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; David performs regularly with Southbank Sinfonia and with Chi-Chi Nwanoku's orchestra Chineke!
More info at www.andrewsmasseyduo.com or on Facebook: “Andrews Massey Duo”
2021 Mole Valley
Arts Alive Festival
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
arr Andrews Massey Duo from piano
Fantasia No 3 in D minor K397/385g (1782) (5m20)
First, here is the Fantasia played on a clavichord. In this instrument the string is struck by a pin. The sound dies away while the pin remains in touch with the string. Once that contact is lost the sound stops very quickly. The intimate sound is perhaps somewhere between that of the mandolin and the harpsichord.
The player here is Benjamin-Joseph Steens, and the instrument is a modern clavichord built by Joris Potvlieghe. Steens studied at several conservatoires in Belgium and in France, finishing at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, where his organ tutors incuded Olivier Latry. He is organist of the Saint-Rémi Basilica in Reims and holds teaching posts in Reims, and in Paris.
This is how the Andrews Massey Duo treat the arrangement:
Shafer Mahoney (b1968)
Shining River (2007) (9m00)
performed here by Phoebe I-Hsuan Tsai, guitar, and Cyrus Wallis, flute, in the Sursa Hall of Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana:
Antonin Leopold Dvořák (1841-1904)
arr Massey from violin & piano
Sonatina in G Major Op 100 (1893) (19m20)
1 Allegro risoluto
2 Larghetto
3 Scherzo
4 Allegro
Here, again, we have a set of recordings by the Andrews Massey Duo, recorded in the Assembly Rooms, Faversham, Kent, in October 2017:
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1 Allegro risoluto
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2 Larghetto
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3 Scherzo |
4 Finale: Allegro |
CarmenCo Bonus
In case you missed it then, or if you would just like to watch and listen again, here is the CarmenCo video the trio (Emily, David and Francisco) recorded for us a year ago:
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Gwyn Owen, trumpet, and Rebecca Taylor, piano - click here
