Music on Thursdays
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Thursday 21st November 2024
12.30 lunchtime
Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church KT22 8AY
Parking: Swan Centre multi storey KT22 7RH
Sandra Porter, mezzo-soprano
John Rogers, violin & viola
Emilie Capulet, concert pianist
Programme
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845-1924)
Text: Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885)
Le Papillon et la Fleur, Op 1 No 1 (1861)
Text: Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Les Roses d'Ispahan, Op 39, No 4 (1884)
Text: Paul-Marie Verlaine (1844-1896)
from Cinq mélodies 'de Venise', Op 58, No 1 (1891)
1 Mandoline
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Text: René Morax (1873-1963)
Trois Chansons (1892-1955)
1 Chanson des Sirènes Song of the Sirens
2 Berceuse de la Sirène The Siren's Lullaby
3 Chanson de la Poire Song of the Pear
Achille Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Sonata No 3 for Violin and Piano L140 (148) (1916-17)
1 Allegro vivo
2 Intermède. Fantasque et léger
3 Finale. Très animé
Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (b Martin Karl Löffler, 1861-1935)
from Quatre Poëmes pour Voix, Alto, et Piano (1861-1935)
Text: Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867)
1 La Cloche Fêlée
Text: Paul Verlaine
2 «Dansons la gigue!»
Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (1842-1912)
Text: Louis Gallet (1835-1898)
Élégie (1872)
Concert duration approx: 45+ minutes
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Sandra Porter has been immersed in chamber music throughout her career. From St John’s Smith Square to Perth Concert Hall and Auditorium di Milano to the Concert Hall Beijing, she has enjoyed performing an extensive range of chamber music repertoire both old and new.
Her formative experiences were at Edinburgh Napier University and at the Royal College of Music. Subsequently she completed her studies with Dame Felicity Palmer.
Continually exploring new and varied repertoire, as demonstrated in her 2021 album “Clara” - a recording of the work she commissioned from Sally Beamish and broadcast in 1995, and of lieder by both Schumanns, Sandra has broadcast for BBC Radio 3 premieres by James MacMillan, songs by Barber, Thomas Wilson, Satie, Liszt, Bartok and French song. Recitals went alongside her collaborations with The Chamber Group of Scotland, Sentieri selvaggi, BBCSSO, Telemann Ensemble and International Baroque Players. Solo engagements took her also to Japan, Thailand, China and several European countries, at festivals, music clubs and a host of choral societies.
In opera Sandra has performed roles at the Aldeburgh Festival, Buxton Festival, English National Opera, Opera Holland Park, Iford Opera, English Touring Opera, and in Ireland at the Everyman Theatre and Cork Opera House.
While based in Glasgow, Sandra gave lectures on vocal style and performance at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire of Music and Drama. Now, in addition to performing, she teaches singing privately, adjudicates at competitive festivals and is a vocal teacher at the London College of Music.
http://www.sandraportermezzo.co.uk
The son of two of New Zealand's leading chamber musicians, John Rogers (violin and viola) has been immersed in chamber music throughout his career. Through scholarships to the Royal College of Music and the University of Michigan he received coaching and masterclasses with members of the Chilingirian, Juilliard, Allegri, Aeolian, Camerata, Orion, Rasumovsky and Endellion quartets and the Bach Aria Group, New York, plus classes with Martin Katz, Manoug Parikian, Kim Kashkashian, Steven Isserlis, Yo Yo Ma, and Yuri Bashmet.
He has performed, coached and recorded chamber music in NZ, the US and Hong Kong, where he was Principal Viola in the HK Philharmonic, as well as in the UK. After working with the Philharmonia, BBC orchestras, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Simon Rattle and others he has performed for over 20 years with English Touring Opera and now directs the LCM String Ensemble. As a physics graduate he lectured at the University of Hawaii and continues to find application of the study of musical acoustics.
Emilie Capulet is an award-winning international concert pianist, lecturer and musicologist. Described by Anne Grafteaux Geli in Utmisol magazine as having a “heightened musical sensitivity, total emotion, a magical touch at once sensual, vigorous and varied”, she is invited to perform in international music festivals and concert halls in Europe, the USA, Canada, Latin America and Asia, and regularly gives concerts and lecture-recitals on luxury cruise liners and musical cruises on the Seine, the Danube, the Rhône and the Rhine. Emilie has a Master of Music in piano performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, an MA on Shakespeare and a PhD on music in the works of Virginia Woolf.
Emilie has recorded works by Beethoven and Chopin with BMP, the chamber music and solo piano works by contemporary composer Richard Lambert on the Quartz label and a double album featuring the first recording of the complete solo piano music of Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) on the Calliope label which has received great critical acclaim. She has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Radio Canada, France Musique, Radio Télévision Suisse, Bayern Klassik, and Nicaraguan television and radio and has appeared live on Sky News as their classical music expert. While touring Latin America, she received the ExpressArte award for her contribution to Nicaraguan culture, art and education.
Emilie is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is the BMus (Hons) Programme Leader at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, located in the Old Royal Naval College, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Greenwich. She has previously been Head of Classical Performance Studies, BMus (Hons) Performance and MMus Performance Course Leader at the London College of Music, University of West London and lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Surrey. She is currently the recipient of a prestigious Leverhulme Research Fellowship to write the first critical study and biography of Henri Tomasi and has been appointed Visiting Fellow at Keble College, University of Oxford, for 2025.
www.emiliecapulet.com
Her formative experiences were at Edinburgh Napier University and at the Royal College of Music. Subsequently she completed her studies with Dame Felicity Palmer.
Continually exploring new and varied repertoire, as demonstrated in her 2021 album “Clara” - a recording of the work she commissioned from Sally Beamish and broadcast in 1995, and of lieder by both Schumanns, Sandra has broadcast for BBC Radio 3 premieres by James MacMillan, songs by Barber, Thomas Wilson, Satie, Liszt, Bartok and French song. Recitals went alongside her collaborations with The Chamber Group of Scotland, Sentieri selvaggi, BBCSSO, Telemann Ensemble and International Baroque Players. Solo engagements took her also to Japan, Thailand, China and several European countries, at festivals, music clubs and a host of choral societies.
In opera Sandra has performed roles at the Aldeburgh Festival, Buxton Festival, English National Opera, Opera Holland Park, Iford Opera, English Touring Opera, and in Ireland at the Everyman Theatre and Cork Opera House.
While based in Glasgow, Sandra gave lectures on vocal style and performance at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire of Music and Drama. Now, in addition to performing, she teaches singing privately, adjudicates at competitive festivals and is a vocal teacher at the London College of Music.
http://www.sandraportermezzo.co.uk
The son of two of New Zealand's leading chamber musicians, John Rogers (violin and viola) has been immersed in chamber music throughout his career. Through scholarships to the Royal College of Music and the University of Michigan he received coaching and masterclasses with members of the Chilingirian, Juilliard, Allegri, Aeolian, Camerata, Orion, Rasumovsky and Endellion quartets and the Bach Aria Group, New York, plus classes with Martin Katz, Manoug Parikian, Kim Kashkashian, Steven Isserlis, Yo Yo Ma, and Yuri Bashmet.
He has performed, coached and recorded chamber music in NZ, the US and Hong Kong, where he was Principal Viola in the HK Philharmonic, as well as in the UK. After working with the Philharmonia, BBC orchestras, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Simon Rattle and others he has performed for over 20 years with English Touring Opera and now directs the LCM String Ensemble. As a physics graduate he lectured at the University of Hawaii and continues to find application of the study of musical acoustics.
Emilie Capulet is an award-winning international concert pianist, lecturer and musicologist. Described by Anne Grafteaux Geli in Utmisol magazine as having a “heightened musical sensitivity, total emotion, a magical touch at once sensual, vigorous and varied”, she is invited to perform in international music festivals and concert halls in Europe, the USA, Canada, Latin America and Asia, and regularly gives concerts and lecture-recitals on luxury cruise liners and musical cruises on the Seine, the Danube, the Rhône and the Rhine. Emilie has a Master of Music in piano performance from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, an MA on Shakespeare and a PhD on music in the works of Virginia Woolf.
Emilie has recorded works by Beethoven and Chopin with BMP, the chamber music and solo piano works by contemporary composer Richard Lambert on the Quartz label and a double album featuring the first recording of the complete solo piano music of Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) on the Calliope label which has received great critical acclaim. She has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Radio Canada, France Musique, Radio Télévision Suisse, Bayern Klassik, and Nicaraguan television and radio and has appeared live on Sky News as their classical music expert. While touring Latin America, she received the ExpressArte award for her contribution to Nicaraguan culture, art and education.
Emilie is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is the BMus (Hons) Programme Leader at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, located in the Old Royal Naval College, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Greenwich. She has previously been Head of Classical Performance Studies, BMus (Hons) Performance and MMus Performance Course Leader at the London College of Music, University of West London and lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Surrey. She is currently the recipient of a prestigious Leverhulme Research Fellowship to write the first critical study and biography of Henri Tomasi and has been appointed Visiting Fellow at Keble College, University of Oxford, for 2025.
www.emiliecapulet.com
Recordings of the works in today's concert - not adjusted
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845-1924)
Text: Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885)
Le Papillon et la Fleur, Op 1 No 1 (1861)
Our first song of this Fauré group is sing by baritone Nikolas Karagiaouris who is accompanied by Panos Loumakis. They are performing in the French Embassy in Athens:
Text: Victor-Marie Hugo (1802-1885)
Le Papillon et la Fleur, Op 1 No 1 (1861)
Our first song of this Fauré group is sing by baritone Nikolas Karagiaouris who is accompanied by Panos Loumakis. They are performing in the French Embassy in Athens:
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845-1924)
Text: Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Les Roses d'Ispahan, Op 39, No 4 (1884)
Here is an orchestral arrangement of this well-known song. The arranger is Moran Magen. This is the Israel Camerata Jerusalem, under conductor Daniel Raiskin, with soprano Jennifer France, performing in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art:
Text: Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894)
Les Roses d'Ispahan, Op 39, No 4 (1884)
Here is an orchestral arrangement of this well-known song. The arranger is Moran Magen. This is the Israel Camerata Jerusalem, under conductor Daniel Raiskin, with soprano Jennifer France, performing in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art:
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845-1924)
Text: Paul-Marie Verlaine (1844-1896)
from Cinq mélodies 'de Venise', Op 58, No 1 (1891)
1 Mandoline
Madison Fitzpatrick sings Mandoline, describing characters in a painting dancing and singing underneath a tree at night with a mandolin playing in the background of the scenery. Her accompanist is Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek:
Text: Paul-Marie Verlaine (1844-1896)
from Cinq mélodies 'de Venise', Op 58, No 1 (1891)
1 Mandoline
Madison Fitzpatrick sings Mandoline, describing characters in a painting dancing and singing underneath a tree at night with a mandolin playing in the background of the scenery. Her accompanist is Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek:
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Text: René Morax (1873-1963)
Trois Chansons (1892-1955)
1 Chanson des Sirènes Song of the Sirens
2 Berceuse de la Sirène The Siren's Lullaby
3 Chanson de la Poire Song of the Pear
Recorded in the Hatch Recital Hall at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester NY, we har Marisa Miller, mezzo-soprano, with Orlando Diaz, piano:
Achille Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Sonata No 3 for Violin and Piano L140 (148) (1916-17)
1 Allegro vivo
2 Intermède. Fantasque et léger
3 Finale. Très animé
Our performance of the core violin piece of today's concert comes from the Wigmore Hall, London. The violinist is the American Randall Goosby, with Sophia Rahman at the piano:
Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (1861-1935)
from Quatre Poëmes pour Voix, Alto, et Piano (1861-1935)
Text: Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867)
1 La Cloche Fêlée
Here all three musicians perform together as our violinist now takes up the viola. In the recording we hear Phyllis Pancella, mezzo soprano, Ulrich Eichenauer, viola, and Ashley Clasen, piano. The venue is the Watson Hall, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, in Winston-Salem NC:
Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (1861-1935)
from Quatre Poëmes pour Voix, Alto, et Piano (1861-1935)
Text: Paul Verlaine
2 «Dansons la gigue!»
Despite dubious acoustics and recording quality, we had to choose this recording otherwise we could never face mezzo Sophie Patterson or pianist Siyuan Xu again! They were with us as recently as July 2024. The violist is Diana Mahmood:
Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (1842-1912)
Text: Louis Gallet (1835-1898)
Élégie (1872)
Here comes that viola once again! In this recording we hear Meridian Prall, mezzo-soprano, Yizhak Schotten, viola, and Katherine Collier, piano:
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