Music on Thursdays
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Thursday
27th April 2023
12.30 lunchtime
Tailleferre Ensemble
Nicola Hands & Penelope Smith, oboes
Helen Pierce, clarinet
Holly Redshaw, bassoon
Programme
Eugène Bozza (1905-1991)
Shepherds of Provence Op 43 (for oboe & cor anglais/English horn)
I Pastorale Provençale
II Chants des Bergers Provençaux (Call at Dawn)
III Sous les Étoiles (Beneath the Stars)
IV Fête Villageoise
Sally Wave (Savelina Kancheva, b1970s)
Song of Orpheus Op 24 C for cor anglais
Rudolf Maros (1917-1982)
Serenata for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon (1951)
I Allegro moderato
II Adagio
III Allegro molto
Bill Douglas (b1944)
3 Lyrical Pieces (2 oboes & bassoon)
Wings of the Wind
Hills of Glencar
Autumn Song
Cecilia McDowall (b1951)
Century Dances for oboe, clarinet & bassoon (2005)
I Allemande
II Menuet – ghost dance
III Mazurka
IV Tango
V Last Dance
Concert duration approx: 45-50 minutes
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Tailleferre Ensemble
The Tailleferre Ensemble is a UK-based chamber collective, founded in 2019 by Nicola Hands and Penelope Smith, whose aim is to promote women in music. The group is a chamber ensemble of flexible line-up and size, offering recitals of varied instrumentation and musical genre, including established, lesser-known and contemporary works.
They have a special interest in redressing the balance of works performed by male and female composers, and in promoting new works.
The group perform regularly around the UK, and have recently played for the Nottingham Chamber Music Festival and at St John's Smith Square. They have also played for Aylesbury Lunchtime Concerts, Music-at-Hill, Leatherhead's Music on Thursdays, at St James's Piccadilly, St Martin’s Epsom, Chapel Royal Brighton, and All Saints High Wycombe.
The group has also collaborated with Façade Ensemble and the South Florida Chamber Ensemble (SFCE) in London. In October 2019 they premiered work by Welsh composer Rhian Samuel, who has since dedicated new work to the ensemble.
In March 2020 they gave a special performance to mark International Women’s Day at Conway Hall, London, and in 2022 marked the day with a concert in Clerkenwell.
Their debut album "There Are Things to be Said" was released in February 2023. Reviewers have praised the group's "superb musicianship" and "effortless" performance on the recording, and Textura magazine said "The beauty and precision of the musicians' playing and their sensitivity to dynamics all help to distinguish this exceptional debut."
The Tailleferre Ensemble offers flexibility in programming and instrumentation, and their members are female musicians of very high calibre with impressive individual biographies. As a group, they have been praised for their fine performances and “extensive palette of timbres”.
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Eugène Bozza (1905-1991)
Shepherds of Provence Op 43 (for oboe & cor anglais/English horn) [9:00]
I Pastorale Provençale II Chants des Bergers Provençaux (Call at Dawn)
III Sous les Étoiles (Beneath the Stars) IV Fête Villageoise
As part of the 2011 Atlanta Symphony Patron Partnership weekend, Principal Oboe Elizabeth Koch and her student, Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra member Lauren Firestone performed Shepherds of Provence. Lauren is now an Associate in a New York law firm:
Shepherds of Provence Op 43 (for oboe & cor anglais/English horn) [9:00]
I Pastorale Provençale II Chants des Bergers Provençaux (Call at Dawn)
III Sous les Étoiles (Beneath the Stars) IV Fête Villageoise
As part of the 2011 Atlanta Symphony Patron Partnership weekend, Principal Oboe Elizabeth Koch and her student, Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra member Lauren Firestone performed Shepherds of Provence. Lauren is now an Associate in a New York law firm:
Sally Wave (Savelina Kancheva, b1970s)
Song of Orpheus Op 24 C for cor anglais [5:00]
Here is a performance, by Nicola Hands, which Sally Wave has praised saying "Nicola, you are really singing it!":
Rudolf Maros (1917-1982)
Serenata for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon (1951)
I Allegro moderato
II Adagio III Allegro molto
This is a suberb performance by the Cavell Trio, Shelly Myers, oboe, Osiris J Molina, clarinet, and Jenny Mann, bassoon:
Bill Douglas (b1944)
3 Lyrical Pieces (2 oboes & bassoon) [7:45]
Wings of the Wind • Hills of Glencar • Autumn Song
From a concert in St James's Piccadilly comes this performance by the Tailleferre Ensemble:
Cecilia McDowall (b1951)
Century Dances for oboe, clarinet & bassoon (2005)
I Allemande II Menuet – ghost dance
III Mazurka IV Tango V Last Dance
It is Tailleferre Ensemble who we hear again for the final item in today's concert, Century Dances:
Previous concert
20 Apr 2023 - Solis Brass (trumpet, horn, trombone) - click here
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4 May 2023 - Trio Aziz (baroque violin, bass viol, harpsichord) - click here
