Music on Thursdays
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2015 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society |
Programme
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) Grande Ouverture op. 61 (1809) Manuel Ponce (1882-1948) from Sonata Romántica (1929) 2 Andante espressivo Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Prelude & Fugue in E-flat major, BWV 998 Peter Sculthorpe (1929-2014) Into the Dreaming (1994) Agustín Barrios (1885-1944) Un sueño en la floresta (Souvenir d'un rêve / A Forest Dream) George Gershwin (1898-1937) from Porgy and Bess, (1935) Summertime - arr Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) Emilio Pujol (1886-1980) from Trois Morceaux Espagnols 3 Guajira Pujol No 1024, ME 2588 |
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David Massey
David studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed at the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, Sage Gateshead, King's Place, St Martin in the Fields, amongst others, and premièred several new works. He was a finalist in the 2006 BBC Young Musician competition.
David's wide ranging musical interests allow him to span genres and styles from classical to rock in roles ranging from soloist and member of small chamber ensembles to orchestras. His solo performances have been described as “intense and intimate”, marked by a “remarkable energy and range of tone and dynamics”. Julian Bream has praised his sound and communication of musical structure.
He has a particular interest in transcriptions and collaboration, and has an ongoing duo partnership with flautist Emily Andrews www.andrewsmasseyduo.com, with whom he has released three acclaimed CDs. Their video of David's arrangement of Schubert's Standchen reached over 80,000 views on YouTube, making it one of the most watched flute and guitar videos, and the sheet music has been downloaded all around the world.
David teaches privately and in schools across North London.
David's wide ranging musical interests allow him to span genres and styles from classical to rock in roles ranging from soloist and member of small chamber ensembles to orchestras. His solo performances have been described as “intense and intimate”, marked by a “remarkable energy and range of tone and dynamics”. Julian Bream has praised his sound and communication of musical structure.
He has a particular interest in transcriptions and collaboration, and has an ongoing duo partnership with flautist Emily Andrews www.andrewsmasseyduo.com, with whom he has released three acclaimed CDs. Their video of David's arrangement of Schubert's Standchen reached over 80,000 views on YouTube, making it one of the most watched flute and guitar videos, and the sheet music has been downloaded all around the world.
David teaches privately and in schools across North London.
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society - living up to our name!
Each week one or two artists from Leatherhead Art Club come along to sketch during the concerts. They are pretty unobtrusive sorts, so nobody minds. In fact audience and artistes alike enjoy looking over their work at the end of the concert.
The poetic muse generally takes a little longer to strike, or at least to reach its fruition. This week, the muse struck Peter Steadman rather than Resident Poet, Peter Horsfield:
Each week one or two artists from Leatherhead Art Club come along to sketch during the concerts. They are pretty unobtrusive sorts, so nobody minds. In fact audience and artistes alike enjoy looking over their work at the end of the concert.
The poetic muse generally takes a little longer to strike, or at least to reach its fruition. This week, the muse struck Peter Steadman rather than Resident Poet, Peter Horsfield:
perilously perching
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precarious placement
podium’s peak professional presence painstaking pedagogue pindrop peace purposeful playing programmed perfection poignant pensive peerless polyphony prowess prodigious percussive palms purveying power plentiful plaudits poignant postscript polished performance plaudits paradise pleasant parting peter steadman, 4th august 2015 |
Inspired by David Massey’s guitar concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church, in the Music on Thursdays lunchtime series on Thursday 30th July. David was seated on a small platform so that more of the audience would be able to see him perform. There was almost enough room for him to sit and play with comfort, but as he said himself – David has played on smaller platforms.
The word bank for this piece of free verse, selected from Roget’s Thesaurus, included: pace, pacemaker, packed, pad, page, painstaking, pale, palm, palpable, pang, paper, parachute, paradigm, paradise, paradox, paramount, paraphrastic, parlour, part, partake, particular, parting, passage, passing, pastime, path, patient, peace, pedagogue, pedal, pedestal, pedigree, peerless, pen, penchant, pensées, pensive, people, peppery, perceive, perception, perch, perching, percolate, percussive, perfect, perfection, perforce, perform, performer, perhaps, peril, perilously, perimeter, period, peripatetic, permanent, permeate, permit, persevere, persist, person, persona, personable, personal, personality, perspective, phase, phenomenon, phrasing, physical, physiognomy, piano, piano-stool, pick, picture, piece, piercing, pindrop, pinnacle, pitch, place, plainly, plaintive, plangent, planted, plateau, platform, plaudits, play, plea, pleasant, please, pleasure, plectrum, plentiful, pluck, plummet, pocket, podium, poetic, poignant, point, poise, polish, polite, polyphony, ponderous, popular, portrait, pose, position, positively, possess, possible, post, postgraduate, postscript, posture, potent, power, practice, praiseworthy, precarious, precise, precision, prefer, preference, premier, presence, present, presentation, pressing, presto, pride, prime, princely, private, proceed, process, proclaim, prodigal, prodigious, professional, profile, profound, progression, prolong, proud, proven, provident, prowess, proximate, public, pulse, pupil, pure, purity, purposeful, puzzle. 160 words
The word bank for this piece of free verse, selected from Roget’s Thesaurus, included: pace, pacemaker, packed, pad, page, painstaking, pale, palm, palpable, pang, paper, parachute, paradigm, paradise, paradox, paramount, paraphrastic, parlour, part, partake, particular, parting, passage, passing, pastime, path, patient, peace, pedagogue, pedal, pedestal, pedigree, peerless, pen, penchant, pensées, pensive, people, peppery, perceive, perception, perch, perching, percolate, percussive, perfect, perfection, perforce, perform, performer, perhaps, peril, perilously, perimeter, period, peripatetic, permanent, permeate, permit, persevere, persist, person, persona, personable, personal, personality, perspective, phase, phenomenon, phrasing, physical, physiognomy, piano, piano-stool, pick, picture, piece, piercing, pindrop, pinnacle, pitch, place, plainly, plaintive, plangent, planted, plateau, platform, plaudits, play, plea, pleasant, please, pleasure, plectrum, plentiful, pluck, plummet, pocket, podium, poetic, poignant, point, poise, polish, polite, polyphony, ponderous, popular, portrait, pose, position, positively, possess, possible, post, postgraduate, postscript, posture, potent, power, practice, praiseworthy, precarious, precise, precision, prefer, preference, premier, presence, present, presentation, pressing, presto, pride, prime, princely, private, proceed, process, proclaim, prodigal, prodigious, professional, profile, profound, progression, prolong, proud, proven, provident, prowess, proximate, public, pulse, pupil, pure, purity, purposeful, puzzle. 160 words
Concert at Home
If you are unable to come along to today's concert, here instead is a selection of links to recordings of the same or similar works for your listening enjoyment.
David Massey opens this week's concert with Giuliani's Grande Ouverture.
Here is a performance by prize-winning Russian guitarist Dimitri Illarionovi:
David Massey opens this week's concert with Giuliani's Grande Ouverture.
Here is a performance by prize-winning Russian guitarist Dimitri Illarionovi:
Next we hear the Andante espressivo from Manuel Ponce's Sonata Romántica. If you have time to listen to
the full 21-minute Sonata then the recording on the right by Polish guitarist Marcin Dylla will be a delight.
At the concert we will hear just the one movement, played on this sound recording by another
Polish guitarist, the 20-yearold Piotr Przedbora.
the full 21-minute Sonata then the recording on the right by Polish guitarist Marcin Dylla will be a delight.
At the concert we will hear just the one movement, played on this sound recording by another
Polish guitarist, the 20-yearold Piotr Przedbora.
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The recording below is David Massey, live at today's concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church: |
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For the Bach Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, BWV 998, here are a homely looking French recording on the left and,
on the right, David Massey's live performance at today's concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church:
on the right, David Massey's live performance at today's concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church:
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For Peter Sculthorpe's Into the Dreaming here is a quite unusual recording, the cellist is Richard Narroway and the location, Dripstone Cliffs near Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory:
Rosa Franziska Meier is the guitar player in the next recording, Agustín Barrios' Un sueño en la floresta - A Forest Dream.
The link on the right will take you to a downloadable guitar score - or you might like to follow it on screen while you listen to Roas's beautiful playing:
The link on the right will take you to a downloadable guitar score - or you might like to follow it on screen while you listen to Roas's beautiful playing:
Crespi Bonsai Museum, near Milan, is the unlikely setting for our performance of Gershwin's Summertime
in the guitar arrangement by Takemitsu. The guitarist is Claudio Tumeo:
in the guitar arrangement by Takemitsu. The guitarist is Claudio Tumeo:
At the concert we only have time to hear one of Pujol's Tres Piezas Españoles.
The soloist in the recording of Guajira on the left is Maud Laforest.
But if you are listening at home, in the office or on the move perhaps you would like to hear
all three of the Tres Piezas Españoles. Here on the right is a fine recording by Máximo Pérez Risco
The soloist in the recording of Guajira on the left is Maud Laforest.
But if you are listening at home, in the office or on the move perhaps you would like to hear
all three of the Tres Piezas Españoles. Here on the right is a fine recording by Máximo Pérez Risco
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David often comes to Leatherhead with his duo partner, the flautist Emily Andrews. If you would like to listen to some of their work together, the button on the right will take you to the video page on their website. Emily joins us next Thursday with pianist Eva þyri Hilmarsdóttir for a concert of English and Icelandic music. |
We hope you have enjoyed your "Concert at Home"
