12.30pm, Thursday 14th September 2017
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Sponsors:
Patricia Morgan Optician Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Sonata for Flute and Continuo in E major, BWV 1035 (1717-1723?) 1 Adagio, ma non tanto 2 Allegro Frédéric François Chopin (1810-1849) Nocturne in E flat major, Op 9 No 2 (1830-31) Georges Bizet (1838-1875) from the opera Carmen (1873-74) Act 3 Card aria En vain pour éviter les réponses amères Act 1 Habanera L'amour est un oiseau rebelle André Caplet (1878-1925) Rêverie et Petite valse (1897) Frédéric François Chopin from 24 Preludes, Op 28 (1835-1839) No 4 in E minor François Borne (1840-1920) Fantaisie Brillante pour Flûte et Piano sur des Airs de "Carmen" (1900) Concert Duration: 40-45 minutes |
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Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the concert.
Forming Duos:
Emily Andrews and Alice Rosset met at a music festival in Charentes, France in the summer of 2011 (where Emily also met her husband Francisco - it was a good week for meeting people!) Alice was the professional accompanist for the week, and Emily had gone to study with her flute hero of the time, Samuel Coles (now principal flute of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London).
They rehearsed and performed together during that first week, and since then have met and prepared pieces together each year at that same festival, where Emily is now flute professor, replacing Samuel Coles. This year they decided to take the duo relationship further and prepare a whole programme of music to take on tour. They have already performed in France, and in Faversham and West Hampstead before coming to Leatherhead for the final concert of their French music for flute and piano tour, perfectly timed to take place on Bastille Day !
However, this is not the end of the Andrews/Rosset duo - plans have already started for a Summer 2017 tour, including more festivals in France, so look out for us on your travels !
For more information about Emily or Alice please visit their websites:
www.emilyandrewsflute.com and www.alicerosset.com
They rehearsed and performed together during that first week, and since then have met and prepared pieces together each year at that same festival, where Emily is now flute professor, replacing Samuel Coles. This year they decided to take the duo relationship further and prepare a whole programme of music to take on tour. They have already performed in France, and in Faversham and West Hampstead before coming to Leatherhead for the final concert of their French music for flute and piano tour, perfectly timed to take place on Bastille Day !
However, this is not the end of the Andrews/Rosset duo - plans have already started for a Summer 2017 tour, including more festivals in France, so look out for us on your travels !
For more information about Emily or Alice please visit their websites:
www.emilyandrewsflute.com and www.alicerosset.com
Emily Andrews
In 2010 Emily Andrews graduated with Distinction from her Masters degree in flute performance at the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied with Clare Southworth and Kate Hill. An unusual career path: Emily’s first degree was in Mathematics at Cambridge University, and she worked as IT consultant for two years before becoming a full-time musician.
Emily is a passionate chamber musician as well as a soloist. She has performed second flute with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Concert Orchestra and Scottish Opera, among other orchestras, and she has performed recitals in many prestigious UK venues including the Wigmore Hall and St Martin in the Fields, as well as abroad.
Emily's "exquisite phrasing", beautiful singing tone and natural musicality have been noted by many prominent musicians, - Lorna McGhee, Ransom Wilson, Mark Van de Wiel, Neil Black OBE, and William Bennett OBE. The British Flute Society's review of her performance of the Liebermann flute concerto cited Emily as "definitely one of Britain's most promising young professionals".
Since leaving the RAM Emily has been studying classical singing with acclaimed vocal teacher Neil Baker. She increasingly includes songs in her flute recitals, adding contrast and colour to her already varied programming.
Her prize-winning flute and guitar duo, the Andrews Massey Duo, now has a third CD. For more information, please visit: www.emilyandrewsflute.com
Emily is a passionate chamber musician as well as a soloist. She has performed second flute with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Concert Orchestra and Scottish Opera, among other orchestras, and she has performed recitals in many prestigious UK venues including the Wigmore Hall and St Martin in the Fields, as well as abroad.
Emily's "exquisite phrasing", beautiful singing tone and natural musicality have been noted by many prominent musicians, - Lorna McGhee, Ransom Wilson, Mark Van de Wiel, Neil Black OBE, and William Bennett OBE. The British Flute Society's review of her performance of the Liebermann flute concerto cited Emily as "definitely one of Britain's most promising young professionals".
Since leaving the RAM Emily has been studying classical singing with acclaimed vocal teacher Neil Baker. She increasingly includes songs in her flute recitals, adding contrast and colour to her already varied programming.
Her prize-winning flute and guitar duo, the Andrews Massey Duo, now has a third CD. For more information, please visit: www.emilyandrewsflute.com
Alice Rosset
Artistic Pathway - (Studies - Diplomas - Concerts - Recordings)
1989 Started piano studies at Saint-Savinien, Surgères, Rochefort in French Charente-Maritime
1995 First solo orchestral concerts, under L Le Calvé at Saintes, Rochefort
1998 Entered the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Poitiers
2002 to 2005 Concerts of piano 4 hands and cello sonatas in Poitou-Charentes, Ile-de-France, Picardie (cultural centres, cafés-concerts, hospitals, private performances)
2003 Diplôme d'Etudes Musicales du CRR de Poitiers (86), Entered the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental de Montreuilin the Paris suburbs
2006 Diplôme d'Etudes Musicales du CRD de Montreuil, further training at the CRD de Montreuil
2007 Entered the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in Belgium, studying under Mikhail Faerman
2011 Recitals include Festival de piano de La Charité-sur-Loire, Conservatoire F. Chopin de Paris, Festival des Scènes de Jardins, Concerts with the Orchestre National de Lille, directed by J-C. Casadesus at Hardelot, Northern France, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw
2012 Founding the Festival 'Comme ça vous chante', and the Orchestre du Grand Village (performing (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Gershwin, Lam); Concert with the Student Orchestre in the Grande Salle of the Brussels Conservatoire; Cello Sonata Concert at the Festival des Scènes de jardins
2013 Gained the Specialist Masters Degree of the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles; Concerts with the Orchestre Symphonique des Vals de Saintonge, directed by J Gardré; 2nd Festival 'Comme ça vous chante'; Piano 4 Hands concert tour of Madagascar
2014 Recorded a solo CD of Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy and Lam; Début solo concerts in the series Réveiller les pianos qui dorment (Awaken Sleeping Pianos); Concerts in Normandy and Poitou-Charentes with Trio Nomade and piano 4 hands; Recital in the Festival Classique au Port de La Rochelle; 3rd Festival Comme ça vous chante
2015 Concerts in Paris region and Poitou-Charentes (violin and piano duos, Duos for 2 pianos); Elle va... piano (Have piano, will travel - performing piano works in unusual and unexpected places) - creation, inauguration and first concerts; 4th Festival 'Comme ça vous chante', Piano 4 hands concert tour of Madagascar
2016 British debut concert in Leatherhead, Surrey (flute and piano duo)
Alice has a French language website on this link.
1989 Started piano studies at Saint-Savinien, Surgères, Rochefort in French Charente-Maritime
1995 First solo orchestral concerts, under L Le Calvé at Saintes, Rochefort
1998 Entered the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional in Poitiers
2002 to 2005 Concerts of piano 4 hands and cello sonatas in Poitou-Charentes, Ile-de-France, Picardie (cultural centres, cafés-concerts, hospitals, private performances)
2003 Diplôme d'Etudes Musicales du CRR de Poitiers (86), Entered the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental de Montreuilin the Paris suburbs
2006 Diplôme d'Etudes Musicales du CRD de Montreuil, further training at the CRD de Montreuil
2007 Entered the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in Belgium, studying under Mikhail Faerman
2011 Recitals include Festival de piano de La Charité-sur-Loire, Conservatoire F. Chopin de Paris, Festival des Scènes de Jardins, Concerts with the Orchestre National de Lille, directed by J-C. Casadesus at Hardelot, Northern France, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw
2012 Founding the Festival 'Comme ça vous chante', and the Orchestre du Grand Village (performing (Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Gershwin, Lam); Concert with the Student Orchestre in the Grande Salle of the Brussels Conservatoire; Cello Sonata Concert at the Festival des Scènes de jardins
2013 Gained the Specialist Masters Degree of the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles; Concerts with the Orchestre Symphonique des Vals de Saintonge, directed by J Gardré; 2nd Festival 'Comme ça vous chante'; Piano 4 Hands concert tour of Madagascar
2014 Recorded a solo CD of Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy and Lam; Début solo concerts in the series Réveiller les pianos qui dorment (Awaken Sleeping Pianos); Concerts in Normandy and Poitou-Charentes with Trio Nomade and piano 4 hands; Recital in the Festival Classique au Port de La Rochelle; 3rd Festival Comme ça vous chante
2015 Concerts in Paris region and Poitou-Charentes (violin and piano duos, Duos for 2 pianos); Elle va... piano (Have piano, will travel - performing piano works in unusual and unexpected places) - creation, inauguration and first concerts; 4th Festival 'Comme ça vous chante', Piano 4 hands concert tour of Madagascar
2016 British debut concert in Leatherhead, Surrey (flute and piano duo)
Alice has a French language website on this link.
Concert at Home
If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the videos or recordings below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the videos or recordings below:
Our concert opens with the first two movements from
JS Bach's Flute & Continuo Sonata in E major, BWV 1035.
On the left we have a performance as Bach might have heard it. The alto recorder player is Romeo Ciuffa with harpsichordist Pietro della Chiaie. They play movements 1, 2, & 3.
On the right is a well balanced performance closer to the one we will hear at today's concert, with Kathrin Christians, flute, and Diego Mingolla, piano playing the 1st and 2nd movements:
JS Bach's Flute & Continuo Sonata in E major, BWV 1035.
On the left we have a performance as Bach might have heard it. The alto recorder player is Romeo Ciuffa with harpsichordist Pietro della Chiaie. They play movements 1, 2, & 3.
On the right is a well balanced performance closer to the one we will hear at today's concert, with Kathrin Christians, flute, and Diego Mingolla, piano playing the 1st and 2nd movements:
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The first of our two Chopin works in this concert is his Nocturne No in Eb major, Op 9 No 2. This recording was made at the Fryderyk Chopin Institute for Polish TV. The pianist here is Dmitry Shishkin.
Emily Andrews has been developing her vocal skills over the last few years and offers us today two items from Bizet's opera Carmen. First her is the card song from Act 3. The singer here is mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock in a production for Wichita Grand Opera:
Next follows the popular Habanera from Act 1.
Let's hear Welsh lyric mezzo-soprano and Royal Academy of Music graduate, Katherine Jenkins, who is given a comprehensive introduction here in the Royal Albert Hall.
On the right, from the live broadcast of the final of BBC One's The Voice UK 2015, we hear Lucy O'Byrne, and will.i.am (apparently I have to write it like that, wi de full stops n no caps, inni').
Let's hear Welsh lyric mezzo-soprano and Royal Academy of Music graduate, Katherine Jenkins, who is given a comprehensive introduction here in the Royal Albert Hall.
On the right, from the live broadcast of the final of BBC One's The Voice UK 2015, we hear Lucy O'Byrne, and will.i.am (apparently I have to write it like that, wi de full stops n no caps, inni').
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André Caplet was a French conductor and composer. We shall hear his delightful Reverie et Petite Valse performed here by flautist Li-Sheng, Liang with pianist Claire Chiu
From Chopin's 24 Preludes (one in each key), Alice Rosset will be playing No 4 in E minor.
There are many recordings online, I have chosen one from Polish TV again, another recording at the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, the pianist is Eric Lu.
The novelty item on the right is the same work, beautifully played on the glass harp:
There are many recordings online, I have chosen one from Polish TV again, another recording at the Fryderyk Chopin Institute, the pianist is Eric Lu.
The novelty item on the right is the same work, beautifully played on the glass harp:
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If you would like some further insight into this short piece here is a Robert Estrin tutorial video worth a look:
Afterwards, listen again to Eric Lu and see how much of the technique he uses to achieve such a delicate performance. |
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Today's concert closes with François Borne's Fantasy on themes from Bizet's Carmen.
Here's a recording of James Galway, with pianist Phillip Moll, at a Harewood House, Leeds, concert in 1989:
Here's a recording of James Galway, with pianist Phillip Moll, at a Harewood House, Leeds, concert in 1989:
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
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