Music on Thursdays
at Leatherhead Methodist Church
12.30 lunchtime
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Sponsor:
Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
RISONANZE - Music Old and New for the Viola da Gamba
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) transcribed in E minor by Ibrahim Aziz Cello Suite No 2 in D minor BWV 1008 (1720) Prelude Allemande Courante Sarabande Minuet I & II Gigue Rebecca Rowe (b 1970) Commissioned by Ibrahim Aziz Journeying: Part Two (2018) Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787) Adagio for viola da gamba in D major WK 187 Allegro in G major Carlos Martínez Gil (b 1959) Suite Estiu Summer (2016) Mirada A look Adagio Resonancias Resonances Allegro con brio Roces Brushings Andante tranquilo Aromas Aromas Tempo di passacaglia Sazón Seasoning Presto Concert duration: 40-50 minutes |
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
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Ibrahim Aziz
Ibrahim Aziz was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and is now based in London. He has performed and collaborated with many distinguished personalities in the classical music world such as soprano Dame Emma Kirkby, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, composer Ilan Eshkeri and celebrities Sir David Attenborough and actor Geoffrey Palmer.
Ibrahim is recognised as a specialist in baroque and renaissance performance practice and leads the Baroque and Viol Consort courses at Morley College, London.
He has travelled widely with his viola da gamba performing in famous locations around the world. Some of the most memorable concerts of his career so far include a performance in the BBC Proms with The Rose Consort of Viols, a recital for HRH Prince Charles at Highgrove, various concerts with different groups and ensembles at the Wigmore Hall in London, and a recent appearance at the Dewan Filharmonik Petronas in Kuala Lumpur.
He is the co-founder of several period instrument groups and, as a member of the Chelys Consort of Viols, The Stanesby Players, The London Abel Quartet and the Rose Consort of Viols, has taken part in more than a dozen highly acclaimed recordings. Ibrahim Aziz's solo CD Risonanze was recently released on the FHR label and is now available worldwide (including after today's concert) and on all online digital platforms.
www.ibiaziz.com
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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 video buttons below:
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the video buttons below:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
transcribed by Ibrahim Aziz
Cello Suite No 2 in D minor BWV 1008 (1720)
Prelude • Allemande • Courante • Sarabande • Minuet I & II • Gigue
Our concert begins with a major Bach work, the Suite in D minor that we heard on cello in previous years. Now we hear the same work played on the viola da gamba, and in these recordings the performer is Ibrahim Aziz:
transcribed by Ibrahim Aziz
Cello Suite No 2 in D minor BWV 1008 (1720)
Prelude • Allemande • Courante • Sarabande • Minuet I & II • Gigue
Our concert begins with a major Bach work, the Suite in D minor that we heard on cello in previous years. Now we hear the same work played on the viola da gamba, and in these recordings the performer is Ibrahim Aziz:
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Rebecca Rowe (b 1970)
Commissioned by Ibrahim Aziz
Journeying: Part Two (2018)
It is good to find contemporary composers writing for the viola da gamba.
Here again it is Ibrahim Aziz who performs Rebecca Rowe's Journeying:
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Adagio for viola da gamba in D major WK 187
Ernst Stoltz is a multi-instrumentalist, playing viola, viola da gamba, piano, pinao accordion, and doodlesak (a form of bagpipe).
In this recording he performs in what looks to be a very small chapel,sadly he does not tell us where:
Carl Friedrich Abel (1723-1787)
Allgro for viola da gamba in G major
Abel's output was vast. So I cannot be certain to have found the same piece as we will hear at the concert.
However this is a worthy recording of Shirley Edith Hunt, perfoming a G major allegro by the composer, on a viola da gamba made in Leipzig, circa 1720, by Johann Christian Hoffmann:
Carlos Martínez Gil (b 1959)
Suite Estiu Summer (2016)
Mirada A look
Resonancias Resonances
Roces Brushings
Aromas Aromas
Sazón Seasoning
For this set of songs let us listen to Teresa Berganza, accompanied by Gerald Moore,
with the first three songs on the left and the other four on the right:
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We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
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