Thursday 2nd November 2023
12.30 lunchtime

Elena Toponogova
piano


Programme


to be announced


Concert duration approx:  40 minutes


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Performer

biographic info awaited


Recordings of the works in today's concert
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​Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Flute Quartet in D major K285 (arr CarmenCo)
    1 Allegro    •    2 Adagio    •    3 Rondo

​Ensemble Connect are performing in the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall, Manhattan:

​Sir Edward William Elgar (1857-1934)
Sea Pictures Op 37 (1897-99) (arr CarmenCo)
    Sea-Slumber Song (text: Roden Noel)
    In Haven (Capri) (text: Caroline Alice Elgar, composer's wife)
    Where Corals Lie (text: Richard Garnett)

Sea-Slumber Song is performed​ here by Niamh O'Sullivan, mezzo-soprano, and Chia-Lun Hsu, piano, at Munich's Hochschule für Musik und Theater.

​In this instrumental version of In Haven (Capri) Julian Lloyd Webber plays cello, John Lenehan is at the piano.


We are going to make the potentially rash assumption that you are up to speed with popular Christmas music.

Here are some less frequently heard parts of the repertoire, beginning with Buxtehude's lovely In Dulci Jubilo, performed in St Peter's Lutheran Cathedral, Hamburg, by Catherina Witting, soprano, Tiina Zahn, alto, Dávid Csizmár, bass, with Katharina Wulf, violin, Verena Fischer-Zernin, violin 2, and Lukas Henke, directing from the organ.

Standing under the Great Octagon is the Choir of Ely Cathedral. They will help us to cover one of the ethnic minorities we so rarely consider. How will they do so? By singing While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night, to a great Yorkshire tune. Please enjoy this familiar melody and this wonderful choir and organ:

For the next item, let's stay IN a church, but not with churchy music. Here is Thomas Trotter's arrangement for organ of Leroy Anderson's Sleigh Ride. The organist in Waltham Abbey Church is Jonathan Lilley.

Here comes a lockdown special from our very own Jonathan Holmes, playing the Father Willis organ at St Mary's Ewell (on which he gives frequent recitals). It is Canadian composer Denis Bédard's Toccata on Il Est Né le Divin Enfant.

Georgi Muschel's Toccata from his Suite Ouzbèke builds to a proper bit of "chucking out music" - a less polite interpretation of the term "postlude". It does what is required quite nicely and fits well for Christmas.

The organist here is Marie-Agnès Grall-Menet, and the organ is in the church of St-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet Paris 5e. The instrument has had so many builders, rebuilders, and restorers that you are best watching the screen closely at the start if you want to know who has had a hand in it!

You are probably ready for a cup of tea by now. You should be able to get a table in this food court:
Previous concert
part of the Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival
with The Westminster Society (London & Oxford)
26 October 2023 - Phil Hopkins, classical harmonica, Lesley Bridgwater, piano - click here
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