Music on Thursdays
at Leatherhead Methodist Church
12.30 lunchtime
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Sponsor:
Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
arr Julian Bream (b 1933) Sonatas in A major and B minor Luys de Narváez (flourished 1526-1549) Baxa de contrapunto Counterpoint bass Villancico: Arde, coraçon, arde Ah, my heart burns, it burns Quatro diferencias de guarda me las vacas Four variations on Tend my Cows Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea (1852-1909) Recuerdos de la Alhambra (1896) Gran Vals (1902) Maria Luisa Anido (1907-1996) Barcarola Catharina Josepha Pratten (1824-1895) aka Madame Sidney Pratten Sehnsucht Yearning Weary Müde Carlo Domeniconi (b1947) Schnee in Istanbul Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (1860-1909) from Suite Española (1882-1889) Asturias (1892) Concert duration: 35-45 minutes |
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Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
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David Massey
David Massey began his studies with David Burden at his local music centre in Hertfordshire. In 2006 he was the strings finalist in the BBC Young Musician competition, performing Rodrigo’s Fantasia para un gentilhombre live on BBC Two from the Sage Gateshead.
He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Lewin, where he graduated with distinction in 2010 and furthered his studies with an MMus in 2012. During this time he continued to perform guitar recitals at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Sage Gateshead, King’s Place, St Martin in the Fields, and expanded his musical experience in chamber music and orchestral playing, taking up instruments such as mandolin and banjo in orchestral, music theatre and operatic music from Mozart and Respighi to John Adams and Peter Maxwell Davies.
His solo performances have been described as “intense and intimate”, marked by a “remarkable energy and range of tone and dynamics”. On hearing his playing, Julian Bream praised his sound and communication of musical structure. He has received tuition and masterclasses from David Russell, Fabio Zanon, John Mills and Timothy Walker, combining a love for both the traditional guitar repertoire as well as contemporary and new works, of which he has premiered several. From performances in multi-storey car parks to art galleries, he is a musician willing to take risks and try new approaches.
In 2009 he met flautist Emily Andrews and founded the Andrews Massey Duo (www.andrewsmasseyduo.com), with which he has released three acclaimed CDs and toured extensively. Their video of David’s arrangement of Schubert’s Standchen has over 230,000 views on YouTube (making it one of the most watched flute and guitar videos), and the sheet music has been downloaded and played by other guitar and flute duos all around the world.
Together with Emily Andrews and Francisco Correa, David formed the trio CarmenCo, who in 2019 began touring Creating Carmen, a concert/play written by Clare Norburn, supported by a grant from Arts Council England to take the show around the country over the next two years.
Since graduating David has also developed a strong teaching portfolio, ranging from private one-on-one tuition to small group guitar lessons in comprehensive primary schools, passionately advocating classical guitar to a new generation.
He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Lewin, where he graduated with distinction in 2010 and furthered his studies with an MMus in 2012. During this time he continued to perform guitar recitals at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Sage Gateshead, King’s Place, St Martin in the Fields, and expanded his musical experience in chamber music and orchestral playing, taking up instruments such as mandolin and banjo in orchestral, music theatre and operatic music from Mozart and Respighi to John Adams and Peter Maxwell Davies.
His solo performances have been described as “intense and intimate”, marked by a “remarkable energy and range of tone and dynamics”. On hearing his playing, Julian Bream praised his sound and communication of musical structure. He has received tuition and masterclasses from David Russell, Fabio Zanon, John Mills and Timothy Walker, combining a love for both the traditional guitar repertoire as well as contemporary and new works, of which he has premiered several. From performances in multi-storey car parks to art galleries, he is a musician willing to take risks and try new approaches.
In 2009 he met flautist Emily Andrews and founded the Andrews Massey Duo (www.andrewsmasseyduo.com), with which he has released three acclaimed CDs and toured extensively. Their video of David’s arrangement of Schubert’s Standchen has over 230,000 views on YouTube (making it one of the most watched flute and guitar videos), and the sheet music has been downloaded and played by other guitar and flute duos all around the world.
Together with Emily Andrews and Francisco Correa, David formed the trio CarmenCo, who in 2019 began touring Creating Carmen, a concert/play written by Clare Norburn, supported by a grant from Arts Council England to take the show around the country over the next two years.
Since graduating David has also developed a strong teaching portfolio, ranging from private one-on-one tuition to small group guitar lessons in comprehensive primary schools, passionately advocating classical guitar to a new generation.
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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 video buttons below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the video buttons below:
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)
arr Julian Bream (b 1933)
Sonatas in A major and B minor
ON the left is a recording by Julian Bream himself, of Cimarosa's A major Sonata, while on the right the guitarist is Drew Henderson, with the B minor Sonata:
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Luys de Narváez (flourished 1526-1549)
Baxa de contrapunto
Ay, arde, coraçon, arde (a Villancico)
Quatro diferencias de guarda me las vacas Four variations on Tend my Cows
The performer in the Baxa de contrapunto (counterpoint bass) is Jorge Espinoza.
For the Villancico we hear Lex Eisenhardt.
And for the variations we hear Andrés Segovia, aged 86, in a 1979 concert at the White House, Washington:
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Guárdame las vacas, carillejo, y besarte he; si no, bésame tú a mí que yo te las guardaré. |
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Tend my cows for me, darling boy, and I will kiss you; or else, you may kiss me and I will tend the cows for you |
Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea (1852-1909)
Recuerdos de la Alhambra (1896)
Gran Vals (1902)
John WIlliams is the soloist in our recording of Recuerdos de la Alhambra, taken from am early 1990s Les Dawson Show (so you'll have to forgive a bit of funny business at the start) - or you could play it straight and listen to Narciso Yepes, at Barcelona's Palau de Musica Catalana (better still, why not both ?)
And then there is the familiar Gran Vals (Great Waltz) with Andrea González Caballero playing at a concert in Eibar Gipuzkoa, Spain
(please make sure your phone is switched off):
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Maria Luisa Anido (1907-1996)
Barcarola
An Argentinian player for the work of an Argentinian composer. Maria Luisa Anido started to play guitar at the age of 7. She spent much of her life around Barcelona, and a short period teaching in Russia. Our performer in this recording is Juan Pablo Bettinotti:
Catharina Josepha Pratten (1824-1895) aka Madame Sidney Pratten
Sehnsucht Yearning
Weary Müde
On the left, David Jacques plays Sehnsucht on a 1829 Jean-Joseph Coffe guitar.
Our recording of Weary comes from Eric J Roth, and the Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff, Ney York State:
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Carlo Domeniconi (b1947)
Schnee in Istanbul Snow in Istanbul
Austin Wahl performs Schnee in Istanbul by Carlo Domeniconi, possibly as an encore to his recital in the Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY:
Schnee in Istanbul Snow in Istanbul
Austin Wahl performs Schnee in Istanbul by Carlo Domeniconi, possibly as an encore to his recital in the Hatch Recital Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY:
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (1860-1909)
from Suite Española (1882-1889)
Asturias (1892
Albéniz never intended this piece to be part of the Suite Española. His publisher dropped it in after the composer's death. So it seems appropriate to listen to it on its own. We finish our Concert at Home with this recording by the wonderful John Williams
David Massey returns on Thursday 3rd October for a classical guitar duo concert with fellow
Royal Academy of Music alumnus Francisco Correa.
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
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Directions to LMC
Leatherhead Methodist Church a concert each week to the end of November
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