Music on Thursdays
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Thursday 15th May 2025
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Ellen Baumring-Gledhill, cello
Dafydd Chapman, piano
Programme
François Couperin (1668-1733)
from Pièces de Clavecin Livre 4 (pub 1730)
arr Joseph Salmon (1864-1943)
Les Chérubins, ou L'Aimable Lazure
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Three Pieces from Jewish Life, B54 (1924, Cleveland)
1 Prayer
2 Supplication
3 Jewish Song
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op19 (1901)
1 Lento - Allegro moderato
2 Allegro scherzando
3 Andante
4 Allegro mosso
Concert duration approx: 45+ minutes
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Ellen Baumring-Gledhil
The only cellist to reach the Strings Category Final of BBC Young Musician 2020, Ellen Baumring-Gledhill won Junior Guildhall’s Lutine Prize the same year.
Recent concerto performances include the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Deeside Orchestra, Aberdeen, opening the 2024 Aboyne & Deeside Festival, the Lalo Cello Concerto with the Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Welwyn Garden City Orchestra, and the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra (now Glyndebourne Sinfonia) conducted by Ben Glassberg in 2023 as well as with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra and North London Sinfonia the previous year.
In summer 2023, Ellen was selected to participate in a residency at the Lake District Summer Music Festival, working with Guy Johnston and Melvyn Tan. She has recently given recitals at St Mary’s Perivale, Holy Sepulchre Church, London, Regent Hall, St Peter’s, Notting Hill and St Michael’s, Sittingbourne.
In 2022, she premièred and recorded Tendril for solo cello by John Cooney, composed for the Royal Academy of Music’s Bicentenary. Ellen is cellist of the Regency String Quartet, under the auspices of the RAM’s Frost Trust Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training (ASSET) Scheme as well as cellist of the Solarek Piano Trio.
She completed her undergraduate studies at the RAM in summer 2024 with a 1st Class Honours Degree and is continuing her studies there with Felix Schmidt as well as Christoph Richter on the Masters Programme. During her time at the RAM she has been awarded several prizes for performance including the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize, the RAM’s Historical Women’s Composer Prize, the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize, as well as the Katie Thomas Memorial Prize and Rhoda Butt Award for achievement and contribution to the Royal Academy of Music.
She previously studied with her uncle Dr Oliver Gledhill at Junior Guildhall as D’Addario Strings Cello Scholar and was awarded the Principal’s Prize in her final year.
Ellen has participated in masterclasses with Marc Coppey, Gary Hoffman, Maria Kliegel, Mischa Maisky, Phillipe Muller, Miklós Perenyi, Alisa Weilerstein and in the Curtis Institute’s Young Artists Summer Program.
Recent concerto performances include the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Deeside Orchestra, Aberdeen, opening the 2024 Aboyne & Deeside Festival, the Lalo Cello Concerto with the Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra and Welwyn Garden City Orchestra, and the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra (now Glyndebourne Sinfonia) conducted by Ben Glassberg in 2023 as well as with the Ernest Read Symphony Orchestra and North London Sinfonia the previous year.
In summer 2023, Ellen was selected to participate in a residency at the Lake District Summer Music Festival, working with Guy Johnston and Melvyn Tan. She has recently given recitals at St Mary’s Perivale, Holy Sepulchre Church, London, Regent Hall, St Peter’s, Notting Hill and St Michael’s, Sittingbourne.
In 2022, she premièred and recorded Tendril for solo cello by John Cooney, composed for the Royal Academy of Music’s Bicentenary. Ellen is cellist of the Regency String Quartet, under the auspices of the RAM’s Frost Trust Advanced Specialist Strings Ensemble Training (ASSET) Scheme as well as cellist of the Solarek Piano Trio.
She completed her undergraduate studies at the RAM in summer 2024 with a 1st Class Honours Degree and is continuing her studies there with Felix Schmidt as well as Christoph Richter on the Masters Programme. During her time at the RAM she has been awarded several prizes for performance including the Sir John Barbirolli Memorial Prize, the RAM’s Historical Women’s Composer Prize, the Wolfe Wolfinsohn String Quartet Prize, as well as the Katie Thomas Memorial Prize and Rhoda Butt Award for achievement and contribution to the Royal Academy of Music.
She previously studied with her uncle Dr Oliver Gledhill at Junior Guildhall as D’Addario Strings Cello Scholar and was awarded the Principal’s Prize in her final year.
Ellen has participated in masterclasses with Marc Coppey, Gary Hoffman, Maria Kliegel, Mischa Maisky, Phillipe Muller, Miklós Perenyi, Alisa Weilerstein and in the Curtis Institute’s Young Artists Summer Program.
Dafydd Chapman
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Dafydd Chapman is in his first year of Masters study at the Royal Academy of Music studying
Ensemble Piano under Mei-Ting Sun and James Baillieu. Originally from Cardiff, he spent most of his childhood studying at the Junior Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, where he studied with Nicola Meecham for 9 years. During his time there, he became the first recipient of the Junior Conservatoire ABRSM Scholarship, won several prizes such as the Junior Conservatoire Prize for Solo Piano and won the Junior Conservatoire Chamber Prize. Most notably during his time there, he won the 2015 Junior Conservatoire Concerto Competition, in which he was given the opportunity to perform Chopin's Concerto No 1 with an orchestra at the conservatoire. Dafydd has also competed in several competitions including becoming a semi-finalist at the Gregynog Young Musician Competition and winning the national Urdd Eisteddfod 3 times. In 2012 and 2017, he also won the Piano Solo and the Repertoire classes at the Mid-Somerset Competitive Festival and also went on to win the Piano Concerto competition there in 2019. During his time at the RAM, Dafydd has gone on to perform a wide range of chamber and ensemble repertoire and taken part in internal competitions, notably, the Harold Craxton prize and performing with Trio Arisonto. |
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Recordings of the works in today's concert
François Couperin (1668-1733)
from Pièces de Clavecin Livre 4 (pub 1730)
arr Joseph Salmon (1864-1943)
Les Chérubins, ou L'Aimable Lazure [1:40]
We have not found out who 'Lazure' was, but Couperin clearly thought him likeable (or is the title ironic?) One can never be quite sure with Couperin's titling.
First we have a piano performance of what was originally a harpsichord work. The pianist here is Alexandre Tharoud.
Then we bring you the challenge of mixing the music in your head as we have also found a solo version. It is arranged for cello and played by Luca Paccagnella. He seems to switch rapidly from Versailles, the likely venue of the work's first performance, to his local medieval Castello Estense, in Arque Polesine, Northern Italy - click for more about the castle built in 1149.
from Pièces de Clavecin Livre 4 (pub 1730)
arr Joseph Salmon (1864-1943)
Les Chérubins, ou L'Aimable Lazure [1:40]
We have not found out who 'Lazure' was, but Couperin clearly thought him likeable (or is the title ironic?) One can never be quite sure with Couperin's titling.
First we have a piano performance of what was originally a harpsichord work. The pianist here is Alexandre Tharoud.
Then we bring you the challenge of mixing the music in your head as we have also found a solo version. It is arranged for cello and played by Luca Paccagnella. He seems to switch rapidly from Versailles, the likely venue of the work's first performance, to his local medieval Castello Estense, in Arque Polesine, Northern Italy - click for more about the castle built in 1149.
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Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Three Pieces from Jewish Life, B54 (1924, Cleveland) [12:10]
1 Prayer • 2 Supplication • 3 Jewish Song
In a rather different combination of musicians, here is a recording with cellist Mikhail Radunski, at a 2017 concert in Minsk, Belarus. The other musicians are likely to be from the Belarusian State Philharmony.
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19 (1901) [32:10]
1 Lento - Allegro moderato • 2 Allegro scherzando
3 Andante • 4 Allegro mosso
The performers in this recording from the 2013 Verbier Festival are Gautier Capuçon and at the piano Yuja Wang. Rachmaninoff said that the two players had equal parts and that the piano was not just an accompanist's part. Indeed, the piano introduces most the themes of the work which are then elaborated by the cello.
Previous concert
8 May 2025 - Basil Alter, violin, Dafydd Chapman, piano - click here
Next concert
22 May 2025 - Duo Fabulae, viola & piano - click here
