Early & ßaroque Music Month
Early & ßaroque Music Month
12.30 lunchtime
Venue: St John's School, Old Chapel please use the School's car park in Garlands Road, KT22 7EZ DO NOT enter by the Main Gates on Epsom Road as today is GCSE results day! Blue Badge parking only - can be reached via the entrance closest to Leatherhead town centre |
click logo for more details
We are grateful to the Head of St John's School and to her colleagues in the Music and Events Departments for their help arranging this special concert 2018 Season Sponsors: Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
|
♫ ________________________________________________________________________________
Programme
Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699-1782)
Pièces à trois violes par Monsieur Forcroy Untitled movement (Allemande) Courante Sarabande François Couperin (1668-1733) from Les Goûts-Réunis ou Nouxeaux Concerts à l'usage de toutes les sortes d'instruments de Musique (The Collected Tastes, or New Concertos for the use of all sorts of musical instruments) (published Paris, 1724) Treizième Concert (13th Concerto) Vivement Air (Agréablement) Sarabande (Tendrement) Chaconne Légere Theorbo solo Robert De Visée (c1655-1732/1733) Prelude in D major Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) arr De Visée Chaconne des Harlequins Marin Marais (1656-1728) from Pièces de viole, Livre I (1686) No 83 Tombeau de Mr Meliton Tombstone, or memorial piece, for Mr Meliton; he and Marais were pupils of Mr de Sainte-Colombe Deuxième Suite à Trois Violes (1717) I Caprice V Sarabande VIII Rondeau |
Directions • Parking
click plan to expand, save, & print
click to enlarge / cliquer pour élargir
|
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
♫ ________________________________________________________________________________
Ibrahim Aziz
|
A founder member of Chelys, Ibrahim Aziz is also a member of the Rose Consort of Viols and regularly plays with various other period instrument ensembles.
Often collaborating with artists from different genres, including classical, contemporary, experimental, dance, the visual arts as well as with actors and poets, Ibrahim’s main interest however lies in the baroque and renaissance periods. He has performed in prestigious venues and festivals around the world and recorded with many ensembles and labels. www.twitter.com/ibiaziz |
♫ ________________________________________________________________________________
Kate Conway
|
Kate Conway studied the viol and baroque cello with Jonathan Manson at the Royal Academy of Music, after reading Classics at Jesus College, Cambridge.
A recipient of the Nancy Nuttall Prize and D Day Fund Award, she has played with Solomon’s Knot, English Touring Opera and the Feinstein Ensemble, and was selected for the Handel House Talent Scheme 2016-17. Kate is also a founder member of Ensemble Molière, who were Future Baroque artists at the 2017 London Festival of Baroque Music, and Ceruleo, who were Ensemble Fellows at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for 2016-17. Other recent projects have included concerts at the Cadogan Hall, Southbank Centre and King’s Place, and live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ with Ceruleo and Ensemble Molière. |
|
♫ ________________________________________________________________________________
Sam Stadlen
|
A viol player, cellist, lecturer and musicologist, Sam Stadlen has been a member of Fretwork since 2015, appearing with the group regularly live and on the radio both in the UK and internationally.
He plays in the viol consort Chelys, with whom he has recently released an album of music by Dowland with Dame Emma Kirkby (A Pleasing Melancholy – available on BIS Records). He has a keen interest in the performance of contemporary music on early instruments; with Fretwork in particular, he has performed music by George Benjamin, Michael Nyman, John Taverner, Nico Muhly and has recently recorded The World Encompassed – a new work by Orlando Gough describing Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe (available on Signum Records). Sam is also Professor of Viol Consorts at the Royal College of Music and has been an associate lecturer at the University of York and a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music. He holds a PhD in the influences of poetry and declamation on the composition and performance of the pièces de viole in late 17th- and early 18th-century France. |
♫ ________________________________________________________________________________
Toby Carr
|
A versatile musician whose repertoire ranges from the early renaissance to new collaborative compositions, Toby Carr is a lutenist and guitarist based in London.
Having studied at Trinity Laban followed by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Toby has developed a specialism in the performance of renaissance and baroque music, particularly that of seventeenth century England and Italy. Performing in this context regularly as a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist and continuo player has led to work with groups and organisations such as English Touring Opera, Dunedin Consort, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Florilegium, Glyndebourne Youth Opera and Emma Kirkby's Dowland Works, as well as being a founding member of young period ensembles Ceruleo and Lux Musicae London. Toby has associations with many festivals at home and abroad, highlights including the UK premiere of Francesca Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero with Brighton Early Music Festival and appearing at festivals in Italy, Holland and Belgium with Ceruleo and Lux Musicae London. Now settled in Greenwich, south-east London with his wife and frequent collaborator, the baroque harpist Aileen Henry, Toby is gaining a reputation as an innovative and exciting performer, working with some of the finest musicians in the business. |
♫ ________________________________________________________________________________
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 buttons below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the buttons below:
Jean-Baptiste Forqueray (1699 - 1782)
Pièces à trois violes par Monsieur Forcroy
Untitled movement (Allemande)
Courante
Sarabande
The performers here are the Custos Viol Consort, comprising Szászvárosi Sándor, viola da gamba, Ölveti Mátyás, viola da gamba, Regős Júlia, viola da gamba and Győri István, lute
François Couperin (1668 - 1733)
from Les Goûts-Réunis ou Nouxeaux Concert à l'usage de toutes les sortes d'instruments de Musique (The Collected Tastes, or New Concertos for the use of all sorts of musical instruments) (published Paris, 1724)
Treizième Concert
Vivement
Air (Agréablement)
Sarabande (Tendrement)
Chaconne Légere
On the left we hear Giovanna Baviera und Lina Manrique, viola da vamba, performing in the Elizabeth Church, Basle, Switzerland.
And on the right, because Couperin says 'à l'usage de toutes les sortes d'instruments de Musique'
we hear recorder players Aik Shin Tan and Martin Bernstein, recorders:
|
|
|
Theorbo Solos:
Robert De Visée (c1655-1732/1733)
Prelude in D
After a little declaiming by Pauline Belle, in the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Paris, Abraham Gomez performs the Prelude in D minor (ré mineur) followed by the Allemande:
Robert De Visée (c1655-1732/1733)
Prelude in D
After a little declaiming by Pauline Belle, in the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Paris, Abraham Gomez performs the Prelude in D minor (ré mineur) followed by the Allemande:
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) arr De Visée
Chaconne des Harlequins
Another theorbo player who has appeared in Leatherhead's lunchtime concert a couple of time is Yair Avidor. Here he plays the Chaconne des Harlequins:
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
from Pièces de viole, Livre I (1686)
No 83 Tombeau de Mr Meliton
Tombstone, or memorial piece, for Mr Meliton; he and Marais were pupils of Mr de Sainte-Colombe
IPFW Early Music Consort performs in Rhinehart Recital Hall.
The players are: Russell Bookout, Phillip Serna, Melanie Bookout gambas; and Wayne Peterson, harpsichord:
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
Deuxième Suite à Trois Violes (1717)
Caprice - Sarabande - Rondeau
Here is something a little different. Jordi Savall leads a masterclass at the Juilliard School on Marais' 2nd Suite for Three Viols.
Taking part are: Olivier Weston, Stephen Goist, Matt Zucker, violas de gamba, Eunji Lee, harpischord, and Adam Cockerham and Arash Noori, theorbos.
Unfortunately we have only a 3-minute extract:
I hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home !
♫ ________________________________________________________________________________
Directions & Parking
click plan to expand, save, & print
a concert each week
to the end of November |
Music on Thursdays
at St John's School OLD Chapel Daniel Collins, countertenor Marion Bettsworth, piano 12.30 lunchtime 9 August 2018 |
Wednesday at St John's
Chapel on Main Quad Guest organist: Anthony Gritten Head of Undergraduate Performance, Royal Academy of Music 12.30 lunchtime 15 August 2018 |
|
♫ ________________________________________________________________________________
|
Julie West Solicitor pleased to support Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts |
|
|
