Music on Thursdays at LMC
12.30 lunchtime
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Season Sponsor:
Julie West Solicitor Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society 
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Programme
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Flute Sonata in G major H 564, Wq 133 Hamburger Sonate Allegretto Rondo: Presto Sir Karl William Pamp Jenkins (b 1944) Ryers Down (2016) Composed for Emma Halnan, winner of The Arts Club – Sir Karl Jenkins Music Award 2016. Jenkins comments "for the first ten years of this century, I lived and composed on the Gower Peninsula, an area of sandy beaches and dramatic cliff scenery with coastal caves; the first area in the UK to be officially designated as one of outstanding natural beauty. Living in an old mill alongside the Bury Pill stream, I wrote from a stable block, enjoying a vista across Cheriton Valley and the river to Ryers Down. This work is a musical reflection of time spent there." Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (1860-1909) from Suite Española No 1 for Piano Op 47 (pre 1900) 1 Granada (harp solo) William Alwyn (1905-1985) Naiades, Fantasy Sonata for Flute and Harp (1971) |
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Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
Aurora Duo
Emma Halnan
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Heather Wrighton
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Emma Halnan first came to prominence as the woodwind category winner of BBC Young Musician 2010. Since then, she has gone on to perform at many of the major UK venues, and has appeared as concerto soloist with orchestras such as the BBC Concert Orchestra, London Mozart Players, and the Welsh Sinfonia.
She recently won the Sir Karl Jenkins/Arts Club Classical Music Award 2016, in association with Classic FM. As a result, she recorded and broadcast on Classic FM a piece specially composed for her by Sir Karl Jenkins. Emma was principal flute of the European Union Youth Orchestra 2014-16. She has appeared as guest principal flute in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and guest principal piccolo in the English National Opera orchestra. She was selected as a City Music Foundation Artist for 2015-17. Emma studied at the Royal Academy of Music with William Bennett and Kate Hill, and continues to study privately with Robert Winn. www.emmahalnan.co.uk |
Heather Wrighton was inspired to play the harp at the age of six. As a junior student at Trinity College of Music she studied harp with Gabriella Dall’Olio and Frances Kelly and continued her studies at The Royal Academy of Music, London with Karen Vaughan, graduating with an MA (Distinction), BMus(Hons) and an LRAM.
From a young age Heather has been interested in different types of harps and in addition to the Classical Harp she plays Celtic, Baroque triple and Paraguayan Harps. Heather currently freelances as a soloist, orchestral and chamber musician which has led her to perform at prestigious concert venues including The Royal Festival Hall, Cardiff Millennium Centre, Royal Opera House, Cadogan Hall, St John’s, Smith Square, Kings College Chapel, Cambridge, Glyndebourne Opera House, Kensington and St James’ Palaces. www.heatherwrighton.co.uk |
Concert at Home
If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
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We open today's concert with CPE Bach's Flute Sonata in G major, H564, the Hamburger Sonata.
Soloist in these recordings (the two movements are separate) is Luis Martínez Pueyo, with Joan Boronat Sanz playing the fortepiano - a lighter sound than a modern concert grand.
1 Allegretto ♦ 2 Rondo Presto
Soloist in these recordings (the two movements are separate) is Luis Martínez Pueyo, with Joan Boronat Sanz playing the fortepiano - a lighter sound than a modern concert grand.
1 Allegretto ♦ 2 Rondo Presto
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There is as yet no recording of Ryers Down, which Karl Jenkins wrote for Emma Halnan when she won the Sir Karl Jenkins/Arts Club Classical Music Award 2016. Here instead is a recording of his Palladio, with Angela Uvarova, flute soloist, in the organ hall of Belgorod State Philharmonic, Russia:
Our recording of Heather Wrighton's solo piece, Granada by Albéniz, features Isabelle Moretti at the French Institut National de l'Audiovisuel:
The final work in today's lunchtime concert is William Alwyn's Naiades, Fantasy Sonata for Flute and Harp.
In Greek myth Naiads are water nymphs - more precisely, fresh water nymphs guarding springs, streams, brooks, small lakes. The performers here are the Lyrebird Ensemble - Ellen Huntington, flute, and Lillian Lau, harp - in a Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert at the Chicago Cultural Center:
In Greek myth Naiads are water nymphs - more precisely, fresh water nymphs guarding springs, streams, brooks, small lakes. The performers here are the Lyrebird Ensemble - Ellen Huntington, flute, and Lillian Lau, harp - in a Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert at the Chicago Cultural Center:
We hope you have enjoyed your Concert at Home.
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