Music on Thursdays
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Thursday 17th July 2025
12.30 lunchtime
Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church KT22 8AY
Parking: Swan Centre multi storey KT22 7RH
Yair Avidor
lute
Programme
Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)
from his London manuscript in the British Library
Fantasie in C minor WeissSW 9*
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Lute Suite in G minor BWV 995
Präludium - Très vite
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavotte I Gavotte II - En rondeaux
Gigue
S L Weiss
Suite for lute in G minor WeissSW 3
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Bourrée
Sarabande
S L Weiss
Ciaccona in G minor WeissSW 14.6
Concert duration approx: 45+ minutes
Please donate to help fund these concerts at: cafdonate.cafonline.org/14455
Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)
from his London manuscript in the British Library
Fantasie in C minor WeissSW 9*
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Lute Suite in G minor BWV 995
Präludium - Très vite
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavotte I Gavotte II - En rondeaux
Gigue
S L Weiss
Suite for lute in G minor WeissSW 3
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Bourrée
Sarabande
S L Weiss
Ciaccona in G minor WeissSW 14.6
Concert duration approx: 45+ minutes
Please donate to help fund these concerts at: cafdonate.cafonline.org/14455
Yair Avidor
Yair Avidor plays renaissance and baroque lute, historic guitars, and the theorbo (chitarrone). He enjoys giving solo recitals, playing chamber music and accompanying singers.
Yair studied at the Hochschule fur Kunste, Bremen, with Stephen Stubbs; was a Fodella Scholarship holder at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan studying with Paul Beier; and completed his Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, studying with Bill Carter and David Miller.
He has performed in many prestigious concert venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Konzerthaus, Vienna, and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
He has a special interest in 17th century English, French and German lute music, and in the solo repertoire of the theorbo, which he aims to grow by writing new transcriptions for
the instrument.
In recent years he has also been exploring playing gut-strung historic guitars of the early and late 19th century (Lacote and Torres schools).
Yair plays an 11-course lute after Frei by Paul Thomson, 1987.
https://www.lutenist.co.uk/
Yair studied at the Hochschule fur Kunste, Bremen, with Stephen Stubbs; was a Fodella Scholarship holder at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan studying with Paul Beier; and completed his Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, studying with Bill Carter and David Miller.
He has performed in many prestigious concert venues including the Royal Festival Hall, the Konzerthaus, Vienna, and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
He has a special interest in 17th century English, French and German lute music, and in the solo repertoire of the theorbo, which he aims to grow by writing new transcriptions for
the instrument.
In recent years he has also been exploring playing gut-strung historic guitars of the early and late 19th century (Lacote and Torres schools).
Yair plays an 11-course lute after Frei by Paul Thomson, 1987.
https://www.lutenist.co.uk/
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750)
from his London manuscript in the British Library
Fantasie in C minor WeissSW 9* [2:25]
Our short opening work is played by Yair Avidor himself:
from his London manuscript in the British Library
Fantasie in C minor WeissSW 9* [2:25]
Our short opening work is played by Yair Avidor himself:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Lute Suite in G minor BWV 995
Präludium - Très vite
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavotte I Gavotte II - En rondeaux
Gigue
Evangelina Mascardi was born in Argentina in 1977. In 1997 she moved to Europe to study with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland), where she obtained her “Solisten Diplom” in 2001. She has played in all the best places and with all the best orchestras and conductors, but these days confines her work mostly to Alfredo Bernardini's Ensemble Zefiro and Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir. Evangelina Mascardi is our soloist in this recording of Bach's Lute Suite in G minor, which he set for lute, based on his Cello Suite No 5 BWV 1011.
S L Weiss
Suite for lute in G minor WeissSW 3
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Bourrée
Sarabande
Our use of the term "Suite" could equally be rendered as "Sonata" (not the later sonata form) or "Partita". Any of these terms are used for recordings and for concert programmes. Online, nobody seems to have offered one single recording of the entire Suite, so let's see if we can piece together some of Nigel North's recordings. The risk is that the tuning will be different each time!
S L Weiss
Ciaccona in G minor WeissSW 14.6
The soloist in our final work is the Persian born Afshin Torabi, professor of guitar and musicology in Canada. He plays lute works on custom-built 11- and 13-string guitars by Heikki Rousu.
If you prefer to hear the piece on a true lute, then we also have Yair's recording of this work.
Previous concert
10 July 2025 - Eleftheria Kotzia, classical guitar - click here
Next concert
24 July 2025 - Trio Reinecke - clarinet, viola, piano - click here
