Music on Thursdays
Anna Hashimoto, clarinet
Daniel King Smith, piano |
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society |
Programme
Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) Devil's Trill Sonata (Violin Sonata in G minor) arranged for C clarinet by Anna Hashimoto 1. Largo affetuoso 2. Allegro moderato 3. Andante 4. Allegro assai - Andante - Allegro assai Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) 'Casta Diva' from the opera Norma (1831) arranged for Eb clarinet by Anna Hashimoto Alexander Rosenblatt (b1956) Fantasia on Themes from Carmen |
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Anna Hashimoto
Anna Hashimoto won the International Clarinet Competitions in Kortrijk (Belgium), Carlino (Italy), and the Young Clarinettists Competition in Tokyo in 2003. In 2004, aged 15, she made her Barbican debut with the English Chamber Orchestra, with whom she appears regularly as a soloist, most recently at London’s Cadogan Hall. She has performed concertos with orchestras such as Brussels Philharmonic, Japan Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, and Asia Philharmonic Orchestras.
She has performed in major venues in the UK, Europe, USA, Mexico and Japan, including South Bank Centre, Wigmore Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London, Dvorak Hall in Prague, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, with sold-out recitals at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and Kioi Hall. She has been broadcast on NHK TV and FM, FM Tokyo, ABC Radio and BBC Radio 3, including BBC Radio3’s ‘In Tune’, NHK-FM’s ‘Best of Classic’ and NHK TV’s ‘Classic Club’.
Anna’s debut solo album ‘A Touch of France’ has had very favourable reviews in UK, USA and Japan. Artists she has collaborated with include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Paul Watkins, Myung-whun Chung, Michael Collins, Leon McCawley and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and string quartets such as Panocha, Ciurlonis, Kodaly, Endellion and Prazak Quartets.
Anna graduated with the Regency Award from The Royal Academy of Music, and was Meaker Fellow the following year, and is now an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. She has been guest principal with BBC Symphony, English Chamber, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, City of London Sinfonia and Philharmonia, and is a clarinet tutor at Birmingham Conservatoire.
www.annahashimoto.com
She has performed in major venues in the UK, Europe, USA, Mexico and Japan, including South Bank Centre, Wigmore Hall and Royal Albert Hall in London, Dvorak Hall in Prague, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, with sold-out recitals at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan and Kioi Hall. She has been broadcast on NHK TV and FM, FM Tokyo, ABC Radio and BBC Radio 3, including BBC Radio3’s ‘In Tune’, NHK-FM’s ‘Best of Classic’ and NHK TV’s ‘Classic Club’.
Anna’s debut solo album ‘A Touch of France’ has had very favourable reviews in UK, USA and Japan. Artists she has collaborated with include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Paul Watkins, Myung-whun Chung, Michael Collins, Leon McCawley and Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, and string quartets such as Panocha, Ciurlonis, Kodaly, Endellion and Prazak Quartets.
Anna graduated with the Regency Award from The Royal Academy of Music, and was Meaker Fellow the following year, and is now an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music. She has been guest principal with BBC Symphony, English Chamber, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, City of London Sinfonia and Philharmonia, and is a clarinet tutor at Birmingham Conservatoire.
www.annahashimoto.com
Daniel King Smith
Daniel King Smith has given concerts all over the world as both soloist and accompanist. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music under Piers Lane, Ruth Nye and Vanessa Latarche, where he won the Harold Craxton and Max Pirani prizes for Chamber Music and others for his all-round musical ability. His extensive concerto repertoire has lead to many concerto performances in the UK and around Europe, including the Royal Festival Hall, London, various theatres in Cataluña, Spain, and San Stefano al Ponte, Florence.
Daniel has frequently been a featured Solo Classical Artist on many Cruise lines including Crystal, Cunard, Seabourn, Holland America and Fred. Olsen.
Accompaniment and chamber music are a major part of Daniel’s life and regularly accompanies at the Royal College of Music for Wind Faculty classes, masterclasses and end of year recitals. Daniel is often official accompanist on summer music courses including the British Isles Music Festival and Simon Rowland-Jones' viola course. He has given recitals worldwide with Michael Collins, Carmel Kaine, Susan Milan, Robert Max, Stefano Canuti, among many others.
Daniel has performed on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Ulster, and appeared in the televised finals of BBC Young Musician of the Year 1996 as soloist and regularly since then as accompanist. He was also a prize- winner in the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist competition in 1996 and has subsequently won the Best Accompanist Prize in the same competition. In September 2003 he played as orchestral pianist with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Daniel has frequently been a featured Solo Classical Artist on many Cruise lines including Crystal, Cunard, Seabourn, Holland America and Fred. Olsen.
Accompaniment and chamber music are a major part of Daniel’s life and regularly accompanies at the Royal College of Music for Wind Faculty classes, masterclasses and end of year recitals. Daniel is often official accompanist on summer music courses including the British Isles Music Festival and Simon Rowland-Jones' viola course. He has given recitals worldwide with Michael Collins, Carmel Kaine, Susan Milan, Robert Max, Stefano Canuti, among many others.
Daniel has performed on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Ulster, and appeared in the televised finals of BBC Young Musician of the Year 1996 as soloist and regularly since then as accompanist. He was also a prize- winner in the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist competition in 1996 and has subsequently won the Best Accompanist Prize in the same competition. In September 2003 he played as orchestral pianist with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Concert at Home
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Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata was written for violin and piano and it is that combination
we have found in recordings by Wolfgang Schroeder and pianist Nicolas Constantinou.
A rarity of this recording is that it is listed as being made in Lefkoşa - the Turkish Cypriot
name of Nicosia, Cyprus - suggesting it was recorded in the northern part of the city.
we have found in recordings by Wolfgang Schroeder and pianist Nicolas Constantinou.
A rarity of this recording is that it is listed as being made in Lefkoşa - the Turkish Cypriot
name of Nicosia, Cyprus - suggesting it was recorded in the northern part of the city.
It is going to be interesting hearing, at the concert, how clarinettist Anna Hashimoto handles the aria Casta Diva, from Bellini's opera Norma. The link here will take you to a recording of soprano Angela Gheorghiu and the London Symphony Orchestra. This version shows the lyrics in both Italian and English.
If you thought the piano accompanist came along for a bit of support to the clarinet, well this work shows that pianist Agnese Eglina and clarinettist Mārtiņš Circenis are equal partners in the performance.
Listen out too for those familiar Bizet melodies:
Listen out too for those familiar Bizet melodies:
Natural Virtuoso
As Peter says here, in preforming this concert Anna and Daniel used just about every note that exists on both instruments. He had decided to sketch the players but nonetheless found a moment to jot down this haiku:
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manic trills piano takes a bashing agile clarinet |
Later Peter expanded these ideas into this poem:
Natural Virtuoso
Manic trills
(the Devil of Tartini)
adapted from the violin
cascade her instrumental range,
fluid as her long black hair,
effortlessly, ever-moving –
surely the most notes in any concert!
At times the disembodied sound
seems to come from separate source;
melody and trill sustained together
defy all rational explanation.
Lyrical and operatic tone
(from short-lived Bellini),
spectrum of dynamic mood and colour,
gives way to fast and furious jazzy swing
(Themes from Carmen – Rosenblatt),
and now the piano takes a serious bashing;
no note is left untouched
by clarinet or keyboard –
each tossed in aphoristic repartee
towards exuberant, breathtaking climax.
Trills are stilled,
as we suspend our disbelief.
Peter Horsfield 23/10/2014
