Early & ßaroque Music Month
Music on Thursdays at Leatherhead Methodist Church
12.30 lunchtime
The Pheasant's Eye
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Programme
James Oswald (1710-1769)
Airs for the Seasons: Winter The Phillyrea The Hawthorn John Reid (1721 – 1807) Solo II (A Second Sett of Six Solos) Andante Allegro Moderato Giga Francesco Barsanti (1690-1775) A Collection of Scots Tunes The Lass of Peaty’s Mill Pinkie House Clout the Cauldron Walter Claggett (c 1741 - c 1798) Solo V Largo Allegro Moderato Minuet Grazioso Giga Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) from A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick Sleepy Body Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) Sonata, Op 5, No 7 in D minor arr in G minor by John Walsh, (1702) Preludio Giga James Oswald Airs for the Seasons: Summer The Thistle The Poppy |
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Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
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Mary-Jannet Leith & Thomas Allery
Ensemble Hesperi is a young, innovative, Early Music duo based in London. Its core members, Thomas Allery and Mary-Jannet Leith, are dedicated to showcasing the infinite colours and possibilities of their instruments, harpsichord and recorder. Mary-Jannet and Thomas bring lesser-known Early Music to a wider audience, presenting programmes through the lens of colourful characters from the musical past, including composers, publishers, and amateur musicians.
They have a particular interest in promoting unpublished and previously undiscovered Scottish Baroque repertoire, and in exploring the fascinating links between Scotland, London, and the continent through Baroque music during the eighteenth century. The ensemble enjoys presenting music alongside readings, poetry, and to immerse audiences in different music worlds, bringing characters and styles to life.
Thomas and Mary-Jannet formed Ensemble Hesperi (‘Evening Stars’) in 2012 while studying on the Masters programme at the Royal College of Music, where they performed regularly as part of the Historical Performance Department. Ensemble Hesperi won the Audience Prize at the Fenton House Early Keyboard Ensemble Competition in 2012, and the Century Fund Prize at the RCM Early Music Competition in 2013.
More recently, they have appeared in the London Handel Festival, the inaugural St Marylebone Festival and the 'Future Baroque' series at the London Festival of Baroque Music 2017. Mary-Jannet and Thomas were delighted to have been selected for the Brighton Early Music Festival Live scheme for 2016-2017, and also to have been chosen to perform twice on the continent during 2017, at the Brugge and Utrecht Early Music Fringe Festivals. Their performance of their Scottish Baroque duo programme, 'The Pheasant's Eye', won the Audience Prize from over 70 performances from European young ensembles.
Mary-Jannet plays both a 415 alto and voiceflute in D by the French maker Philippe Laché and a soprano recorder by the Japanese recorder maker Takeyama.
Thomas plays a copy by Alan Gotto (2016) of an anonymous French 1667 harpsichord, the original of which is currently displayed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
They have a particular interest in promoting unpublished and previously undiscovered Scottish Baroque repertoire, and in exploring the fascinating links between Scotland, London, and the continent through Baroque music during the eighteenth century. The ensemble enjoys presenting music alongside readings, poetry, and to immerse audiences in different music worlds, bringing characters and styles to life.
Thomas and Mary-Jannet formed Ensemble Hesperi (‘Evening Stars’) in 2012 while studying on the Masters programme at the Royal College of Music, where they performed regularly as part of the Historical Performance Department. Ensemble Hesperi won the Audience Prize at the Fenton House Early Keyboard Ensemble Competition in 2012, and the Century Fund Prize at the RCM Early Music Competition in 2013.
More recently, they have appeared in the London Handel Festival, the inaugural St Marylebone Festival and the 'Future Baroque' series at the London Festival of Baroque Music 2017. Mary-Jannet and Thomas were delighted to have been selected for the Brighton Early Music Festival Live scheme for 2016-2017, and also to have been chosen to perform twice on the continent during 2017, at the Brugge and Utrecht Early Music Fringe Festivals. Their performance of their Scottish Baroque duo programme, 'The Pheasant's Eye', won the Audience Prize from over 70 performances from European young ensembles.
Mary-Jannet plays both a 415 alto and voiceflute in D by the French maker Philippe Laché and a soprano recorder by the Japanese recorder maker Takeyama.
Thomas plays a copy by Alan Gotto (2016) of an anonymous French 1667 harpsichord, the original of which is currently displayed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Concert at Home
If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the buttons below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the buttons below:
Here is part of today's opening piece, The Phillyrea, from Oswald's Airs for all the Seasons, which Mary-Jannet and Thomas played during a visit to the Wighton Collection in Dundee:
That is followed by The Hawthorn from the same collection, played here by The Broadside Band:
John Reid (1721 – 1807)
Solo II (A Second Sett of Six Solos)
Andante
Allegro
Moderato
Giga
performed at the Crown Court Church of Scotland, Covent Garden, London:
Francesco Barsanti (1690-1775)
A Collection of Scots Tunes
The Lass of Peaty’s Mill
Pinkie House
Clout the Cauldron
Here are two of the three tunes:
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Barsanti's The lass of Peatie's mill, with Giovanni Sollima, Repubblica & Midiware Studio Session
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Donovan Klotzbeacher, harpsichord: Pinkie House refers to a 16th-century tower house in East Lothian, Scotland. Pinkie was formerly the country seat of the abbots of Dunfermline, and the tower house was built on the site of the Battle of Pinkie.
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Let's hear three more of Barsanti's arangements,
Lord Cumberland • Logan Water • The Birks of Evermay
The performers are Ensemble Flautino. Kristine West, recorder, Stina Petersson, baroque cello, and Marcus Mohlin, baroque violin:
Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762)
from A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick
Sleepy Body
The performers here are Bruno Cocset, with Les Basses Réunies (Guido Balestracci, Emmanuel Jacques, Richard Myron)
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Sonata, Op 5, No 7 in D minor
arr in G minor by John Walsh, (1702)
Preludio
Giga
At the concert we shall hear John Walsh's transposed version in G minor.
Here is Corelli's original for violin and harpsichord.
The performers are Antonio Almela, violin, and AnabelSáez, harpsichord.
Preludio ♦ Giga
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It is difficult to match today's programme to youtube content, so here instead is the original sample concert a small group of us heard Mary-Jannet and Thomas perform at the Brighton Early Music Festival in November 2016. Here is their programme for that afternoon concert in St Paul's Church, Brighton:
James Oswald (1710-1769)
Airs for the Seasons
0:10 The Pheasant’s Eye
2:08 The Crocus
4:02 The Tulip
Georg Philipp Telemann 1681–1767
Essercizii Musici Solo Sonata X in C major:
7:24 Adagio
8:49 Allegro
9:59 Larghetto
11:46 Vivace
François Couperin 1668–1733
Pièces de Clavecin
15:14 Le Gazoüillement (The Warbling)
17:45 Le Réveille matin (The Alarm Clock)
Giovanni Antonio Pandolfi Mealli c.1630–c.1669
20:59 La Cesta
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
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