Music on Thursdays
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Live venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church, Church Road, KT22 8AY, parking at KT22 8AH multi-storey
Thursday
4th August 2022
12.30 lunchtime
David Massey, guitar
Programme
Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
from 12 Songs for Guitar (1974-77)
3 Summertime (George Gershwin) [4:02]
2 Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen) [3:25]
ANOHNI (b Antony Hegarty 1971)
Hope There's Someone* [3:35]
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828)
arr Joseph Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856)
from Schwanengesang Swan Song D957 (1828) [4:04]
5 Aufenthalt Stay
Lob Der Tränen In praise of Tears D711 (1818-21?) [3:37]
David Massey
Mr Walker*
Cherry Blossom*
Tree* [3:03] x 3
Leo Brouwer - Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida (b Cuba 1939) [2:04]
from Estudios Sencillos Simple Studies (3rd set) (1981)
No 11 Para los ligados y las posiciones fijas For slurs and fixed positions
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Fantasia No 7 in E major [3:55]
Lachrimae Pavan (c1690) [5:06]
Don McLean (b Donald McLean III 1935) [3:57]
Vincent (Starry Starry Night)* (1971)
*David Massey will be both guitarist and singer for these starred items
Concert duration approx: 40 minutes
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David Massey
biographic information awaited
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
from 12 Songs for Guitar (1974-77) • 3 Summertime (George Gershwin)
Our recording is of David Massey himself, performing in Southwold United Reformed Church, Suffolk:
from 12 Songs for Guitar (1974-77) • 3 Summertime (George Gershwin)
Our recording is of David Massey himself, performing in Southwold United Reformed Church, Suffolk:
Tōru Takemitsu
from 12 Songs for Guitar (1974-77) • 2 Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen)
We hear the adaptation of this popular song played by Ana Vidović:
from 12 Songs for Guitar (1974-77) • 2 Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen)
We hear the adaptation of this popular song played by Ana Vidović:
ANOHNI (b Antony Hegarty 1971)
Hope There's Someone*
As Antony Hegarty she led the band Antony & The Johnsons.
Here is a BBC recording from Later... with Jools Holland
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) arr Joseph Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856)
from Schwanengesang Swan Song D957 (1828)
5 Aufenthalt Stay
Cassie Martin plays Aufenthalt at the Galerie des Luthiers, a guitar shop in Lyon, France, in 2019, on her new Jasper Sender:
Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) arr Joseph Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856)
from Schwanengesang Swan Song D957 (1828)
5 Aufenthalt Stay
Cassie Martin plays Aufenthalt at the Galerie des Luthiers, a guitar shop in Lyon, France, in 2019, on her new Jasper Sender:
Franz Peter Schubert arr Joseph Kaspar Mertz
Lob Der Tränen In praise of Tears D711 (1818-21?)
Next Drew Henderson play a beautiful Lacôte guitar from 1868.
Lacôte built guitars for many of the major guitar composers of the 19th centruy, including Sor, Aguado, and Napoléon Coste. This is believed to be one of Lacôte's last two instruments. Used with kind permission from owner, Matteo Mela. Filmed at the Chiesa di San Bernadino, in Ivrea, Torino, Italy.
David Massey
Mr Walker*
Cherry Blossom*
Tree*
Often when we look for recordings of original recent work they just do not exist on youtube. The only recording for these three songs is Tree which David recorded at home in North London in May 2021:
Mr Walker*
Cherry Blossom*
Tree*
Often when we look for recordings of original recent work they just do not exist on youtube. The only recording for these three songs is Tree which David recorded at home in North London in May 2021:
Leo Brouwer - Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida (b Cuba 1939)
from Estudios Sencillos Simple Studies (3rd set) (1981)
No 11 Para los ligados y las posiciones fijas For slurs and fixed positions
The superb music plus some amazing video techniques will have you glued to your device as Thibault Cauvin achieves something we never have - getting dance into a performance! Enjoy what Leo Brouwer only intended as a piece to develop technique, Simple Study No 11:
from Estudios Sencillos Simple Studies (3rd set) (1981)
No 11 Para los ligados y las posiciones fijas For slurs and fixed positions
The superb music plus some amazing video techniques will have you glued to your device as Thibault Cauvin achieves something we never have - getting dance into a performance! Enjoy what Leo Brouwer only intended as a piece to develop technique, Simple Study No 11:
John Dowland (1563-1626)
Fantasia No 7 in E major
This is a recording from the Adelaide Hills home or performer Andrey Lebedev's sister!
Fantasia No 7 in E major
This is a recording from the Adelaide Hills home or performer Andrey Lebedev's sister!
John Dowland
Lachrimae Pavan (c1690)
As Dowland wrote for the lute rather than the guitar let us hear one of these pieces on that original instrument. Here is Brandon Acker giving us terrific close-ups of the lute too:
Don McLean (b Donald McLean III 1935)
Vincent (Starry Starry Night)* (1971)
This is one of those songs that is most often called by it's first line, rather than the title the songwriter gave it. The Vincent of the title is the painter Vincent van Gogh (pronounced whichever way you wish), and the lyrics were inspired by his painting The Starry Night
Vincent (Starry Starry Night)* (1971)
This is one of those songs that is most often called by it's first line, rather than the title the songwriter gave it. The Vincent of the title is the painter Vincent van Gogh (pronounced whichever way you wish), and the lyrics were inspired by his painting The Starry Night
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The last in our sequence of three guitar concerts, we hope you have enjoyed this new look at the musical talents of David Massey. Putting his name into the search box on youtube will let you find more of David's song-writing as well as his classical playing.
Previous concert
Sam Russell, electric guitar & Jacqueline Phillips, violincello - click here
Next Thursday's concert
Victoria Bernath, viola & Thomas Ang, piano - click here
