Music on Thursdays
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Thursday
23rd February 2023
• 2pm LCAS Charity AGM
doors open from 1.30pm for tea/coffee
scroll to the foot of this page for Agenda and 2022 Year End Financials
meeting will be followed by refreshment break
• 3.30pm Piano Concert
Thomas Ang
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
arr Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Suite in E major from BWV 1006 (c1739, arr 1933)
Preludio
Gavotte
Gigue/Giga
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Six moments musicaux, Op 16 (1896)
No 3 Andante cantabile e leggiero in B minor
No 4 Presto in E minor
Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1879-1951)
Op 34 no 2, "a fairy tale told by a riverbank" (1916)
Op 14 no 2, March of the Paladin Allegro marciale (1905-7)
Op 10 no 3, Dithyramb Andantino innocente in E major (1898-06) [10:00]
Samuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg (1890-1962)
Piano Sonata No 2 in A minor Op 2 (1916) [8:25]
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
arr Rachmaninoff
from Six Songs op 16 (1872, arr 1941)
No 1 Lullaby/Cradle Song
Nikolai Medtner
from Sonaten-Triade Op 11 (1904-7)
No 1 Sonata in A flat major
Concert duration approx: 40-50 minutes
Tea & Coffee will be available BEFORE this afternoon concert, not afterwards.
Please donate to help fund these concerts at: cafdonate.cafonline.org/14455
Performer
Pianist Thomas Ang studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Hamish Milne and Diana Ketler, and at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Andrew West and Eugene Asti. He has won prizes for his performances of Beethoven, Frederick Delius, Arthur Bliss and the contemporary piano repertoire, and has been praised for his thoughtful and critical programming and excellent technique.
He has also earned recognition as a specialist in the music of Nikolai Kapustin, having played and conducted world premieres of his compositions in the UK, US, Singapore, Australia and Taiwan.
With a strong interest in contemporary music, Thomas has performed John Cage at the Purcell Room and Boulez at the Aldeburgh Music Festival. His piano duo (Duo Ex Libris) performed the complete non-sonata piano works of Boulez, including the two books of Structures in London; they have also played various recital programmes in Australia and around the UK and made multiple
appearances on Radio 3.
In other chamber groups he maintains a strong interest in unusual repertoire of the late Romantic, as well as mid-20th-century British music. He has worked with conductors such as Susanna Mälkki, Clement Power, Sian Edwards and Jonathan Berman as well as composers Oliver Knussen, John Adams and Nikolai Kapustin in playing their music. He has also played in classes by Stephen Hough, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Imogen Cooper, Kathryn Stott and Yevgeny Sudbin among others.
Off the concert stage, Thomas works as a répétiteur and ballet pianist. He sometimes accompanies and improvises for silent film, appearing at various festivals and events. Thomas also plays the violin, and writes poetry and piano transcriptions of songs and symphonies.
He has also earned recognition as a specialist in the music of Nikolai Kapustin, having played and conducted world premieres of his compositions in the UK, US, Singapore, Australia and Taiwan.
With a strong interest in contemporary music, Thomas has performed John Cage at the Purcell Room and Boulez at the Aldeburgh Music Festival. His piano duo (Duo Ex Libris) performed the complete non-sonata piano works of Boulez, including the two books of Structures in London; they have also played various recital programmes in Australia and around the UK and made multiple
appearances on Radio 3.
In other chamber groups he maintains a strong interest in unusual repertoire of the late Romantic, as well as mid-20th-century British music. He has worked with conductors such as Susanna Mälkki, Clement Power, Sian Edwards and Jonathan Berman as well as composers Oliver Knussen, John Adams and Nikolai Kapustin in playing their music. He has also played in classes by Stephen Hough, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Imogen Cooper, Kathryn Stott and Yevgeny Sudbin among others.
Off the concert stage, Thomas works as a répétiteur and ballet pianist. He sometimes accompanies and improvises for silent film, appearing at various festivals and events. Thomas also plays the violin, and writes poetry and piano transcriptions of songs and symphonies.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
arr Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Suite in E major from BWV 1006 (c1739, arr 1933)
Preludio • Gavotte • Gigue/Giga
This 2019 recording by Andrey Gugnin comes from
Moscow's Rachmaninov Concert Hall:
arr Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)
Suite in E major from BWV 1006 (c1739, arr 1933)
Preludio • Gavotte • Gigue/Giga
This 2019 recording by Andrey Gugnin comes from
Moscow's Rachmaninov Concert Hall:
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Six moments musicaux, Op 16 (1896)
No 3 Andante cantabile e leggiero in B minor
No 4 Presto in E minor
Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Moment Musical No 3 in a beautiful historic recording.
For No 4 we have chosen a performance by the Georgian pianist Khatia Buniatishvili, recorded on a perhaps disappointing Steinway in the Paris Studios of France 2 for their music programme Acoustic (repeated on the world service TV5 Monde.)
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Nikolai Karlovich Medtner (1879-1951)
Op 34 no 2, "a fairy tale told by a riverbank" (1916)
Op 14 no 2, March of the Paladin Allegro marciale (1905-7)
Op 10 no 3, Dithyramb Andantino innocente in E major (1898-06)
This collection of fairy tales, or "Skazki" comes together rather nicely.
Our first recording, of Op 34 no 2, inspired by a poem called "Peace", and described by Medtner to a friend as like "a fairy tale told by a riverbank", is performed by Thomas Ang, in St Olave's Church, Hart Street, near Fenchurch Street Station. Samuel and Elizabeth Pepys are buried here.
Playing on a Bösendorfer piano of the Konzerthaus Berlin, we hear Severin von Eckardstein's performance of Op 14 No 2, the March of the Paladin or Warrior Prince.
No 3 is going to be a surprise to us all as we could find no online recording !
Op 34 no 2, "a fairy tale told by a riverbank" (1916)
Op 14 no 2, March of the Paladin Allegro marciale (1905-7)
Op 10 no 3, Dithyramb Andantino innocente in E major (1898-06)
This collection of fairy tales, or "Skazki" comes together rather nicely.
Our first recording, of Op 34 no 2, inspired by a poem called "Peace", and described by Medtner to a friend as like "a fairy tale told by a riverbank", is performed by Thomas Ang, in St Olave's Church, Hart Street, near Fenchurch Street Station. Samuel and Elizabeth Pepys are buried here.
Playing on a Bösendorfer piano of the Konzerthaus Berlin, we hear Severin von Eckardstein's performance of Op 14 No 2, the March of the Paladin or Warrior Prince.
No 3 is going to be a surprise to us all as we could find no online recording !
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Samuil Yevgenyevich Feinberg (1890-1962)
Piano Sonata No 2 in A minor Op 2 (1916) [8:25]
It looks likely that Thomas Knight is playing this technically challenging work in a practice room. There is probably more than one conservatoire student who cold tell us exactly where! Let us enjoy this beautiful performance:
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
arr Rachmaninoff
from Six Songs op 16 (1872, arr 1941)
No 1 Lullaby/Cradle Song [4:20]
We are delighted to be able to include a recording by the young Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov. In 2009, at the age of a mere 18, and against other pianists in their 20s, Behzod won the London International Piano Competition. Peter S heard him play in St Mary's Church, Sunbury-on-Thames, the day after he became a star!
Here is another sensitive performance as Behzod Abduraimov performs in Tippet Rise, Fishtail, Montana.
Nikolai Medtner
from Sonaten-Triade Op 11 (1904-7)
No 1 Sonata in A flat major
Here comes a treat for those who like to follow the score. The rest of us will just listen contentedly to this superb performance of Sonata No 1 in Ab major, by the Australian pianist Geoffrey Tozer:
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
2023 AGM Documents
Doors open from 1.30pm for tea/coffee
Meeting at 2pm • Piano Concert at 3.30pm
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