Music on Thursdays
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Thursday 19th September 2024
12.30 lunchtime
Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church KT22 8AY
Parking: Swan Centre multi storey KT22 7RH
Flutes & Frets Duo
Beth Stone, flutes
Daniel Murphy, lute, theorbo, guitar
Programme
John Dowland (1563-1626)
handwritten in Margaret Board's Lute Manuscript (c1620)
Praeludium
from The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (1603)
2 Time Stands Still
from The Firste Booke of Songes (pub 1597)
6 Now, oh now I needs must part
Jacob van Eyck (1590-1657)
from Der Fluyten Lust-Hof (tweede deel) (pub 1656)
The Flute's Garden of Delights (Volume II)
De France Courant
Henry Eccles (1670-1742)
Sonata Undecimo in G minor
Largo • Corente • Adagio • Presto
Tradition Scottish/Irish Folk
Untitled [a prelude]
Niel Gow (1727-1807)
Niel Gow’s Lament for the Death of His Second Wife (1805)
The Ballydesmond Polkas 1 & 2
Iain MacLachlan (1927-1995)
Dark Island, or Dr Mackay's Farewell to Creagorry (1958)
Trad Irish Jig
The Blackthorn Stick
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
from the opera/melodrama The Thieving Magpie (1817)
Overture
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Liebestraum No 3 (1843)
O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst Love as long as you can!
Dilermando dos Santos Reis (1916-1977)
Se Ela Perguntar (Valsa Lenta) If she asks (slow waltz)
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (1941-2021)
Spain (1971)
Concert duration approx: 55+ minutes
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Flutes & Frets
London-based duo, Flutes & Frets present intimate, magnetic performances that exploit the fragility and versatility of their ensemble. Their concerts feature a variety of instruments that enable them to express the colours, gesture and emotions of repertoire from the medieval era through to contemporary.
Flutes & Frets have had the pleasure of performing all over the UK and Europe. Their radio debut with WDR 3 took place in 2023 and they have been featured in world-class festivals including Misteria Paschalia, York Early Music Festival, Alpen Classica Festival, Flanders Festival Antwerp, and the International Early Music Festival of Sierra Espuña. They were chosen as an ECOS Ensemble 2023 and an “IYAP Selected Promising Ensemble 2022” for the International Young Artist Presentation, enabling
them to perform in the Early Music Festival, “Laus Polyphoniae” at AMUZ, Antwerp, Belgium. This led to being selected for an award from the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA) arranged by the European Festivals Association.
They have won numerous international competition awards including the 2023 International H I F Biber Competition; 2022 “22nd LAMS Matera Award”; 2021 La Follia Nuova International Chamber Music Competition; and the International Music Competition (IMC) of Association Les Musicales Du Centre. In 2022, they were finalists in the Royal Overseas League Competition Mixed Ensembles Category and won
the second prize of the Vršac International Chamber Music Festival “Music in the Vineyards”. Recently, they have been selected for the Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist (PDGYA) Award Scheme which celebrates top young musical talent and offers them performance and workshop prospects. In 2022/23, they were a Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) Live! Ensemble and DEBUT
Horizon Artists and can be found frequently performing at events, working with Hitched and the Alive Network agency.
Known for their onstage chemistry and interaction, they cultivate a special sound-world taking audiences on a journey through time.
Flutes & Frets have had the pleasure of performing all over the UK and Europe. Their radio debut with WDR 3 took place in 2023 and they have been featured in world-class festivals including Misteria Paschalia, York Early Music Festival, Alpen Classica Festival, Flanders Festival Antwerp, and the International Early Music Festival of Sierra Espuña. They were chosen as an ECOS Ensemble 2023 and an “IYAP Selected Promising Ensemble 2022” for the International Young Artist Presentation, enabling
them to perform in the Early Music Festival, “Laus Polyphoniae” at AMUZ, Antwerp, Belgium. This led to being selected for an award from the European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists (EFFEA) arranged by the European Festivals Association.
They have won numerous international competition awards including the 2023 International H I F Biber Competition; 2022 “22nd LAMS Matera Award”; 2021 La Follia Nuova International Chamber Music Competition; and the International Music Competition (IMC) of Association Les Musicales Du Centre. In 2022, they were finalists in the Royal Overseas League Competition Mixed Ensembles Category and won
the second prize of the Vršac International Chamber Music Festival “Music in the Vineyards”. Recently, they have been selected for the Making Music Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artist (PDGYA) Award Scheme which celebrates top young musical talent and offers them performance and workshop prospects. In 2022/23, they were a Brighton Early Music Festival (BREMF) Live! Ensemble and DEBUT
Horizon Artists and can be found frequently performing at events, working with Hitched and the Alive Network agency.
Known for their onstage chemistry and interaction, they cultivate a special sound-world taking audiences on a journey through time.
Beth Stone
As an avid player of all flutes from renaissance all the way through to modern flute, Beth Stone enjoys a colourful career performing in many different settings in the UK and Europe. She has had the pleasure of working with a variety of orchestras including the Academy of Ancient Music; Ex-Cathedra; Cambridge Handel Opera Company; Britten-Shostakovich Festival Orchestra; The Sixteen; National Youth Jazz
Orchestra among many others. Her playing can also be heard on recordings with the Taverner Consort and the Academy of Ancient Music. Beth’s radio debut took place in Germany for WDR3 and she has won several prizes in competitions including the 2023 International H.I.F. Biber Competition; the Telemann Fantasia Recording Competition 2021 and the 2020 Samnium University’s International Orchestra Auditions Awards.
Chamber music has always been a central part of Beth’s music making. She has performed with several chamber groups, and now primarily, the award-winning Flutes & Frets Duo and Lumas Winds which have enabled her to perform in many festivals, concerts, competitions and events. Supported by several schemes and trusts, she has had the opportunity to tour Scotland, perform in festivals in Krakow, York,
Spain, Italy, Antwerp and many other exciting recitals as a chamber musician.
Beth spent seven years studying at Chetham’s School of Music from age eleven, taking an interest in historical flutes in her final two years there. As an Ian Evans Lombe Scholar, she graduated from the Royal College of Music with a first class honours in 2022, where she studied modern flute with Gitte Marcusson and historical flutes with Rachel Brown as part of the joint principal course, winning the RCM McKenna Prize for the highest end-of-year recital mark in a baroque instrument.
Orchestra among many others. Her playing can also be heard on recordings with the Taverner Consort and the Academy of Ancient Music. Beth’s radio debut took place in Germany for WDR3 and she has won several prizes in competitions including the 2023 International H.I.F. Biber Competition; the Telemann Fantasia Recording Competition 2021 and the 2020 Samnium University’s International Orchestra Auditions Awards.
Chamber music has always been a central part of Beth’s music making. She has performed with several chamber groups, and now primarily, the award-winning Flutes & Frets Duo and Lumas Winds which have enabled her to perform in many festivals, concerts, competitions and events. Supported by several schemes and trusts, she has had the opportunity to tour Scotland, perform in festivals in Krakow, York,
Spain, Italy, Antwerp and many other exciting recitals as a chamber musician.
Beth spent seven years studying at Chetham’s School of Music from age eleven, taking an interest in historical flutes in her final two years there. As an Ian Evans Lombe Scholar, she graduated from the Royal College of Music with a first class honours in 2022, where she studied modern flute with Gitte Marcusson and historical flutes with Rachel Brown as part of the joint principal course, winning the RCM McKenna Prize for the highest end-of-year recital mark in a baroque instrument.
Daniel Murphy
Daniel Murphy specialises in performing a variety of plucked-stringed instruments and enjoys a solo career as well as collaborating with many different singers and instrumentalists. Inspired by the great lute players of the past, historical accuracy is at the heart of his music-making.
As a young guitarist, Daniel Murphy studied at the Junior Guildhall Music Department for 4 years with Mark Eden and Matthew Robinson. He then started his Undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music studying Classical Guitar with Carlos Bonell. During the first two years of his degree, he gradually transitioned to the historical performance department and in his third year, he became RCM’s first ever undergraduate principal-study theorbo player, studying with Jakob Lindberg. In 2023, he graduated from a Masters of Performance Degree with distinction.
Daniel’s freelance work includes collaborating with ensembles such as Ex-Cathedra, Armonico Consort, Fiori Musicali, London Baroque Orchestra and The Bellot Ensemble, with whom he recently performed at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. As a lutenist, he regularly performs lute song with numerous singers including Emma Kirkby, Mary Bevan and Hugh Cutting. Opera forms a large part of his continuo playing, performing works including Handel’s Rodelinda; Purcell’s Fairy Queen, and Monteverdi’s l’Orfeo.
Career highlights include performing with the Taverner Consort, conducted by Andrew Parrott in Frauenchiemsee, Germany and numerous features on Radio 3’s Early Music Show and German Radio, WDR 3 Alte Musik. As a soloist, Daniel was recently the only lute finalist in the New Elizabethan Award 2022.
As a young guitarist, Daniel Murphy studied at the Junior Guildhall Music Department for 4 years with Mark Eden and Matthew Robinson. He then started his Undergraduate studies at the Royal College of Music studying Classical Guitar with Carlos Bonell. During the first two years of his degree, he gradually transitioned to the historical performance department and in his third year, he became RCM’s first ever undergraduate principal-study theorbo player, studying with Jakob Lindberg. In 2023, he graduated from a Masters of Performance Degree with distinction.
Daniel’s freelance work includes collaborating with ensembles such as Ex-Cathedra, Armonico Consort, Fiori Musicali, London Baroque Orchestra and The Bellot Ensemble, with whom he recently performed at the Utrecht Early Music Festival. As a lutenist, he regularly performs lute song with numerous singers including Emma Kirkby, Mary Bevan and Hugh Cutting. Opera forms a large part of his continuo playing, performing works including Handel’s Rodelinda; Purcell’s Fairy Queen, and Monteverdi’s l’Orfeo.
Career highlights include performing with the Taverner Consort, conducted by Andrew Parrott in Frauenchiemsee, Germany and numerous features on Radio 3’s Early Music Show and German Radio, WDR 3 Alte Musik. As a soloist, Daniel was recently the only lute finalist in the New Elizabethan Award 2022.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
John Dowland (1563-1626) [6:00]
handwritten in Margaret Board's Lute Manuscript (c1620)
Praeludium
Norwegian Yan Kok is our opener, playing a 2020 John Redgate classical guitar, on the Siccas Guitars studio, for this short Praeludium:
handwritten in Margaret Board's Lute Manuscript (c1620)
Praeludium
Norwegian Yan Kok is our opener, playing a 2020 John Redgate classical guitar, on the Siccas Guitars studio, for this short Praeludium:
John Dowland
from The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (1603)
2 Time Stands Still
Time Stands Still is, after all, a period song, so let us hear it sung live at the Pieterskerk (St Peter's Church), during the 2016 Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, by Michal Bitan, soprano, with Earl Christy, lute:
John Dowland
from The Firste Booke of Songes (pub 1597)
6 Now, oh now I needs must part
This is a rather lovely video. "Les Canards Chantants" are trailed (or guided?) by a mysterious lutenist (Jacob Heringman) during a day out on a vintage steam train.
Les Canards Chantants are: Sarah Holland, soprano, Robin Bier, alto, Edd Ingham, tenor, and Graham Bier, bass.
Filmed on location at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Credits: George Reece, director, George O'Regan, director of photography, Jon Hughes, sound engineer.
See if you can spot the station used as 'Hogsmeade' in the Harry Potter movies!
All aboard the Hogwarts Express!
Jacob van Eyck (1590-1657) [2:00]
from Der Fluyten Lust-Hof (tweede deel) (pub 1656)
The Flute's Garden of Delights (Volume II)
De France Courant
Erik Bosgraaf is the flautist or recorder player in this recording:
Henry Eccles (1670-1742) [6:00]
Sonata Undecimo in G minor
Largo • Corente • Adagio • Presto
Here is an unusual setting of the sonata, for cello and piano. Some think they take the corente rather to fast here! See what you think. How does it compare with the final presto?
Tradition Scottish/Irish Folk [6:00]
Untitled [a prelude]
We decided not to guess which of many anonymous and/or untitled preludes the duo would play here, so let's move onto:
Niel Gow (1727-1807)
Niel Gow’s Lament for the Death of His Second Wife (1805)
You get a real sense of the longing of the soul in this wonderfully expressive piece of music from Perthshire man Niel Gow, after the tragedy of losing his Second Wife.
Performing on Braunschweig's Schlossplatz, the group is Concert des Amis, directed by their flautist Brian Berryman. Catherine Aglibut and Henriette Otto play violins, Bettine Ihrig, viola, Christoph Harer, cello and Avinoam Shalev, harpsichord.
Tradition Scottish/Irish Folk
The Ballydesmond Polkas 1 & 2
Here is Miread Nesbitt playing live in her workshop! The polkas are also on her CD Hibernia.
Tradition Scottish/Irish Folk
Iain MacLachlan (1927-1995)
Dark Island, or Dr Mackay's Farewell to Creagorry (1958)
Glasgow's Westerton Male Voice Choir perform "The Dark Island" at Falcon Square in Inverness in May 2024.
First known as Dr Mackay's Farewell to Creagorry, and also Dr Mcinnes's Farewell to South Uist composed by Benbecula man Iain Maclachlan in about 1958.
The instrumental was later known as Dark Island after the 1962 BBCTV series of the same name, starring Robert Hardy. This choir version of the song was written by David Silver and Iain Maclachlan, though other words exist.
Trad Irish Jig
The Blackthorn Stick
And finally for this Traditional section, we hear Shane Farrell:
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868) [10:00]
from the opera/melodrama The Thieving Magpie (1817)
Overture
How might we convey this work on light forces? YouTube soon offered a suggestion.
Is this cheating? Only one player, Jonathan Scott. He has chosen one of the most famous - and most substantial - instruments in the British Isles, the great Father Willis organ in Hereford Cathedral. Just how flexible is it? You are about to find out!
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) [5:00]
Liebestraum No 3 (1843)
O lieb, so lang du lieben kannst Love as long as you can!
Here is a 2019 recording of this beautiful song, performed by Cyrille Dubois, tenor, and Tristan Raës, piano:
Dilermando dos Santos Reis (1916-1977) [2:00]
Se Ela Perguntar (Valsa Lenta) If she asks (slow waltz)
Greek guitarist George Sakellariou performs the famous slow waltz "Se Ela Perguntar (Valsa Lenta)" on a 1965 Hernandez y Aguado classical guitar made with spruce top and Indian rosewood back and sides. Recorded at the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa Monica, California:
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (1941-2021) [4:00]
Spain (1971)
German Gypsy jazz guitarist Joscho Stephan, rhythm guitarist Sven Jungbeck, and bass player Volker Kamp, (the Joscho Stpehan Trio) with violinist Sandro Roy, offer this tribute to the great Jazz pianist Chick Corea:
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