Music on Thursdays
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Live venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church, Church Road, KT22 8AY, parking at KT22 8AH multi-storey
Thursday
28th July 2022
12.30 lunchtime
Sam Russsell
electric guitar, composer
Jacqueline Phillips
violoncello, arranger
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
from Suite no 1 in G for solo cello BWV 1007
Prelude
Sam Russell
Duet no 7
Song for cello and guitar
Duet no 9
Duet no 8
Duet no 11
Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins (b1944, Wales)
arranged for solo cello by Jacqueline Phillips
Palladio (1995)
Klaus Badelt (b1967) & Hans Zimmer (b1957)
arranged and adapted by Jacqueline Phillips
from the film score of Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
Theme and Variations for solo cello
Sam Russell
Duet no 2
Duet no 4
Last Dance
Allegro
Duet no 3 Theme and Variations
Concert duration approx: 40 minutes
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Performer
Sam Russsell is the guitarist behind Study Guitar. He has been playing guitar for nearly 20 years and has released several albums across multiple genres. He has now taught 100s of students and taught workshops across Europe. Sam has studied with dozens of teachers, working through courses and text books. He continues to study, currently working on classical form, and is composing an album of instrumental rock songs. Sam has several releases including: Bach's 1st and 2nd Cello Suites on Electric Guitar, Impetuous Desire, Moons of Jupiter - Metis 1, String Quartets 1 and Duets for Guitar and Cello. Impetuous Desire received great reviews, heralding the virtuosic guitar playing. Sam has been teaching guitar in West London for several years, and has taught 100s of students, who have gone on to play in their own bands, write their own songs, compose instrumental songs and classical music for orchestra. He has taught workshops all over Europe, including London, Edinburgh and Glasgow; and in Norway and Slovenia. His study-guitar.com blog attracts nearly 3000 people a month, looking to learn about various aspects of guitar playing. studyguitaracademy.podia.com youtube channel |
Jacqueline Phillips is a much sought-after chamber musician, recitalist and recording artist. As well as her concerto appearances and solo recitals, she has been seen as guest Principal of Scottish Opera, London Concert Orchestra, and the Irish Chamber Orchestra, amongst others. Such is her versatility of talent, she has been offered tours with pop icons, like Soft Cell 's front man Marc Almond, as a solo cellist. Her first appearance for Music on Thursdays was in a promotional session in the Swan Centre the week before the very first concert, in 2012! Jacqueline has been performing for Leatherhead's lunchtime audiences each year since then. Since the pandemic, she has successfully given a solo cello concert to a full house (with covid restrictions) in her village church, alongside professional opera singers including the successful baritone Gwion Thomas. Future engagements so far include performances in the west end show The Phantom of the Opera. youtube channel |
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
from Suite no 1 in G for solo cello BWV 1007
Prelude
We begin in classical mode with a performance by Yo-Yo Ma:
from Suite no 1 in G for solo cello BWV 1007
Prelude
We begin in classical mode with a performance by Yo-Yo Ma:
Sam Russell's classical works
As we cannot exactly match recordings to this week's programme, let us instead listen to some of Sam Russell's classical compositions. Here is his almost hauntingly tuneful String Quartet 11:
As we cannot exactly match recordings to this week's programme, let us instead listen to some of Sam Russell's classical compositions. Here is his almost hauntingly tuneful String Quartet 11:
This is going to sound better live, nevertheless, we can hear a recording of electric guitar and cello, Sam's Autumn Sunset duet, with Jacqueline on cello:
Just one more for now. Again, this is Sam with Jacqueline, playing his If Only We Could Dance:
Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins (b1944, Wales)
arranged for solo cello by Jacqueline Phillips
Palladio (1995)
Not Jacqueline's arrangement, but the Asturia Quartet, playing electric versions of string quartet instruments. These ladies are all advanced graduate of the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. Each a prize-winner in their own right.
If the name Palladio has not struck a bell, you are sure to recognise this first movement. Motifs that became this Allegretto were used in a 1993 advert for De Beers diamonds. And yes, the complete 3-movement "concerto grosso" was inspired by the architectural works of the famous Palladio. Karl Jenkins notes the similar importance of mathematics in both music and architecture.
Klaus Badelt (b1967) & Hans Zimmer (b1957)
arranged and adapted by Jacqueline Phillips
from the film score of Pirates of the Caribbean (2003)
Theme and Variations for solo cello
Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser are 2CΞLLOS, and the pirates performing in this video. Both classically-trained Croatian cellists from the Academy of Music in Zagreb who first met in their teens. Luka Šulić also studied in Vienna and at London's Royal Academy of Music, while Stjepan Hauser continued his studies at the then Trinity College of Music (today's Trinity Laban) and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.
This is not the first time Jacqueline Phillips has brought interesting new performers to Music on Thursdays.
We remember fellow cellist Nicola Tait and her remarkable composer son Edward's The Night Mail for two cellos, in 2018. Then there was the brilliant accompanist Richard Black, violinists Eloise Prouse and Charles Tait, and another fellow cellist, Julian Metzger.
How lucky we are to have such a generous musician on our side, sharing her working relationships with us over the years. As we look forward to another excellent, adventurous concert, let us thank Jacqueline Phillips!
Previous concert
Sunbgbin Cho, classical guitar - click here
Next Thursday's concert
David Massey, classical guitar - click here
