Music on Thursdays
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Thursday 14th September 2023
12.30 lunchtime
Buck Brass Trio
Katie Lodge, trumpet
Timothy Ellis, horn
Richard Buck, trombone
Programme
Jeremiah Clarke (1674–1707)
Trumpet Tune
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone, FP33a (1922)
i Allegro moderato
ii Andante
iii Rondeau
Josef Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Aequale No 1 in C minor WAB114 (1847)
Aequale No 2 in C minor WAB149 (1847)
Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (1890–1962)
Cinq pièces en trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon (1935)
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
O taste and see
Traditional
arr Richard Buck (b1992)
Amazing Grace
Concert duration approx: 40 minutes
LCAS Outreach: As part of our work encouraging music education at Leatherhead Trinity Primary School, trumpet player Gwyn Owen will be giving two short concerts at the School on Tuesday, 26th September. This will be funded by the Society and we welcome contributions towards our ongoing work at the School.
Please donate to help fund these concerts at: cafdonate.cafonline.org/14455
for Leatherhead Parish Church Organfest please scroll to foot of this page
Performers
Buck Brass is one of the leading young brass ensembles in the UK, and was formed in 2013 by graduates from the Royal Academy of Music.
The ensemble has pioneered a large amount of new repertoire for Brass Trio and Quartet, including transcriptions of works by Bach, Piazolla, Ibert and Beethoven as well as collaborating with young and established composers.
The ensemble has a busy performance and recording schedule having performed in prestigious venues including HM Treasury, London Guildhall, St James's Piccadilly, Lambeth Palace, 1901 Arts Club, Carlton Club, St James's Palace, and St George’s Hanover Square.
Members of the ensemble have considerable experience performing with all of the major orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera House Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and alongside renowned conductors including Semyon Bychkov, Marin Alsop and Sir Mark Elder.
The ensemble has pioneered a large amount of new repertoire for Brass Trio and Quartet, including transcriptions of works by Bach, Piazolla, Ibert and Beethoven as well as collaborating with young and established composers.
The ensemble has a busy performance and recording schedule having performed in prestigious venues including HM Treasury, London Guildhall, St James's Piccadilly, Lambeth Palace, 1901 Arts Club, Carlton Club, St James's Palace, and St George’s Hanover Square.
Members of the ensemble have considerable experience performing with all of the major orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Opera House Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and alongside renowned conductors including Semyon Bychkov, Marin Alsop and Sir Mark Elder.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Jeremiah Clarke (1674–1707)
Trumpet Tune
Our first video recording brings a familiar tune on different instruments. This is the Serendipity Trio, playing in Fakenham Parish Church, an historic town in North Norfolk:
Trumpet Tune
Our first video recording brings a familiar tune on different instruments. This is the Serendipity Trio, playing in Fakenham Parish Church, an historic town in North Norfolk:
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone
i Allegro moderato ii Andante iii Rondeau
Poulenc's trio sonata is performed here by Přemysl Vojta, solo horn, Martin Griebl, solo trumpet, and Jeffrey Kant, solo trombone, as part of the chamber music series WDR Funkhausmusik.
The concert took place in Spring 2020 at the Wallrafplatz Funkhaus in Cologne.
The players are leading members of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk or WDR Orchestra.
WDR is one of Germany's regional public broadcast organisations.
Josef Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
Two Aequali
Aequale No 1 in C minor WAB114 (1847)
Aequale No 2 in C minor WAB149 (1847)
An Aequale is a piece written for "equal parts" in this case three trombones, the sombre sounding brass associated with death and funeral rites.
Bruckner wrote these for the funeral of his aunt Rosalie Mayrhofer, in 1847, when he was 23 years old. This recording, with the original Bruckner manuscript on screen, was made in the Prinzregententheater, Munich, under the direction of Peter Dijkstra.
Jacques François Antoine Marie Ibert (1890–1962)
Cinq pièces en trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon (1935)
Our choice of recording here is something of a halfway house. In place of the bassoon this trio has Gracie Potter on trombone. The other players are Spencer Rubin, oboe, and Alice McDonald, clarinet. They are winners of the Classical Music award at the New World Center in Miami, for National YoungArts Week 2020.
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
O taste and see
RVW's motet is based on text from Psalm 34.
O taste and see how gracious the Lord is
Blest is the man that trusteth in Him
You may heard it sung at our late Queen's funeral, as it was also sung at her Coronation. Indeed, Vaughan Williams wrote the SATB motet for the Coronation.
This is the recording from the recent funeral in Westminster Abbey, with the Gentlemen and Choristers of the Abbey Choir, and of the Choir of His Majesty's Chapel Royal, at St James's Palace. They are led by the Abbey's Organist and Master of the Choristers, James O'Donnell, with sub-organist Peter Holder playing the organ.
James O'Donnell became Professor of Organ at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Connecticut, in January 2023.
Traditional
arr Richard Buck (b1992)
Amazing Grace
In this beautiful arrangement of the familiar tune, the Chicago Staff Band are joined by their colleagues from the Canadian Staff Band. So that explains the two different reds of the jackets!
Whose staff bands? Combined defence forces? Navy? Air Forces? Army? Now that's closer. There are clues. The colours on the Canadian music stand banners, and that little "S" on everyone's labels. Yes, they are Salvation Army Staff Bands. If you like, Head Office Bands.
Previous concert
7 September 2023 - Yeo Yat-Soon, harpsichord, William Byrd & contemporaries - click here
Next concert
21 September 2023 - Asaka Quartet (RAM strings) - click here
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Leatherhead Parish Church
Organfest - Saturday 16 September
3pm - 5pm (doors open throughout)
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