Music on Thursdays
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Thursday 5th September 2024
12.30 lunchtime
Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church KT22 8AY
Parking: Swan Centre multi storey KT22 7RH
Ibrahim Aziz
treble & bass viola da gamba
Toby Carr
lute/theorbo
Programme
Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Canzon Prima à basso solo F 8.06c/07c/09c (pub 1634)
Diego Ortiz (c1510- c1576)
from Trattado da Glosas (part 2) (pub 1553)
Recercada Tercera sobre La Spagna
Recercada Segunda sobre tenores Italianos (‘El passamezzo antiguo’)
Gottfried/Godfrey Finger (1660-1730)
Sonata in G major for treble viol and continuo
Adagio
Largo
Allemanda
Ciacona
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
from incidental music for Oedipus (1692)
Music for a while
Robert de Visée (1650-1725)
Suite in A minor for theorbo
Prelude
Allemande la Royale
Courante
Chaconne
Brooke Green (b1964)
The Spirit of Daphne, for solo viola da gamba (2020) [7:00]
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
from Suite d'un Goût Etranger, in Pièces de viole, Livre IV (pub 1717)
81 Allemande La Superbe
Chaconne
Concert duration approx: 45-50 minutes
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Ibrahim Aziz
Ibrahim Aziz specializes in the performance of renaissance, baroque and contemporary music for the viola da gamba, having studied with Alison Crum at Trinity College of Music, London.
He now works with consorts and ensembles such as Chelys and The Rose Consort of Viols, but also regularly performs as a soloist. He has recorded two solo CDs for First Hand Records and is also an artist on other classical labels such BIS, Delphian, Resonus Classics and others with various ensembles.
Ibrahim’s playing has been praised by Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, The Independent and the American Record Guide. He has worked for many distinguished musicians and concert venues worldwide.
www.ibiaziz.com
He now works with consorts and ensembles such as Chelys and The Rose Consort of Viols, but also regularly performs as a soloist. He has recorded two solo CDs for First Hand Records and is also an artist on other classical labels such BIS, Delphian, Resonus Classics and others with various ensembles.
Ibrahim’s playing has been praised by Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, The Independent and the American Record Guide. He has worked for many distinguished musicians and concert venues worldwide.
www.ibiaziz.com
Ibrahim Aziz
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Toby Carr
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Toby Carr
Lutenist and guitarist Toby Carr is known as a versatile and engaging artist, working with some of the finest musicians around. While studying the classical guitar at Trinity Laban he was introduced to historical plucked instruments, an interest he pursued during a postgraduate degree at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, graduating in 2016. He was welcomed back as a professor in 2021. Now in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and continuo player, his playing has been described as ‘sensuous and vivid’ (The Guardian), ‘Eloquent’ (BBC Music Magazine) and ‘Mesmerising’ (Opera Today).
Toby has performed with most of the principal period instrument ensembles in the UK and beyond, as well as with many symphony orchestras, opera companies and ballet companies. Highlights have included touring over a dozen shows around the country with English Touring Opera from 2016-2023, joining the orchestra of the Royal Opera House for Handel’s Jepthah in 2023, and performing at the BBC Proms 2022 with La Nuova Musica. He is a member of Ceruleo, Lux Musicae London and Ensemble Augelletti, works frequently with vocal groups Fieri Consort and Ensemble Pro Victoria, and has appeared on recordings with all of these groups.
Collaboration is at the heart of his work, from song recitals with singers such as Helen Charlston, Alexander Chance and Emma Kirkby, to unique projects such as De Pasión Mortal with tenor Nicholas Mulroy and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, pairing modern Latin American songs with those of the 17th Century European tradition. Performances have included the Ryedale, Lammermuir and Baroque at the Edge festivals, as well as Kings Place, London with Aurora Orchestra, and a recording was released on Linn in 2024, receiving a 5 star review in BBC Music Magazine. Other innovative partnerships have included with oud player Attab Haddad for a cross-cultural concert organised by NW Live, as well as with pianist Christina McMaster for her Lie down and listen series.
2022 saw the release of Battle Cry with Helen Charlston on Delphian Records, a recital featuring works by Monteverdi, Strozzi and Purcell alongside a newly commissioned song cycle for mezzo-soprano and theorbo by Owain Park, and works for theorbo by Kapsperger and de Visee. Received with universal acclaim, Battle Cry was won a Gramophone award for best concept album and a BBC music magazine award for best vocal album, the only recording to receive both awards that year. In 2023 Drop not, mine eyes, a recording of English lute songs with Alexander Chance, was released on Linn, described as a ‘thing of beauty’ (Gramophone) and was another editor’s choice in Gramophone magazine.
Toby is a professor at the Guildhall school of Music & Drama, specialising in guitar chamber music. His duties include organising concerts, coaching guitarists in a variety of ensembles, overseeing and encouraging creative collaborations, and working in the historical performance department teaching basso continuo practice. He is delighted to share his passion for chamber music and collaboration with the next generation of musicians. He has coached chamber music and assisted with the lute class at Dartington International Summer School. From 2014-2018 he worked for the charity Live Music Now as part of a Flute & Guitar duo, totalling over a hundred performances in care home and SEND school settings: a formative experience. Passionate about the arts being open to everyone, Toby is an Arts Emergency mentor.
Settled in Greenwich, south-east London with his wife and collaborator, harpist Aileen Henry, Toby’s interests outside of music include reading, cooking and travelling, though when not working he generally tries to do as little as possible.
http://www.tobycarr.co.uk/
Toby has performed with most of the principal period instrument ensembles in the UK and beyond, as well as with many symphony orchestras, opera companies and ballet companies. Highlights have included touring over a dozen shows around the country with English Touring Opera from 2016-2023, joining the orchestra of the Royal Opera House for Handel’s Jepthah in 2023, and performing at the BBC Proms 2022 with La Nuova Musica. He is a member of Ceruleo, Lux Musicae London and Ensemble Augelletti, works frequently with vocal groups Fieri Consort and Ensemble Pro Victoria, and has appeared on recordings with all of these groups.
Collaboration is at the heart of his work, from song recitals with singers such as Helen Charlston, Alexander Chance and Emma Kirkby, to unique projects such as De Pasión Mortal with tenor Nicholas Mulroy and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, pairing modern Latin American songs with those of the 17th Century European tradition. Performances have included the Ryedale, Lammermuir and Baroque at the Edge festivals, as well as Kings Place, London with Aurora Orchestra, and a recording was released on Linn in 2024, receiving a 5 star review in BBC Music Magazine. Other innovative partnerships have included with oud player Attab Haddad for a cross-cultural concert organised by NW Live, as well as with pianist Christina McMaster for her Lie down and listen series.
2022 saw the release of Battle Cry with Helen Charlston on Delphian Records, a recital featuring works by Monteverdi, Strozzi and Purcell alongside a newly commissioned song cycle for mezzo-soprano and theorbo by Owain Park, and works for theorbo by Kapsperger and de Visee. Received with universal acclaim, Battle Cry was won a Gramophone award for best concept album and a BBC music magazine award for best vocal album, the only recording to receive both awards that year. In 2023 Drop not, mine eyes, a recording of English lute songs with Alexander Chance, was released on Linn, described as a ‘thing of beauty’ (Gramophone) and was another editor’s choice in Gramophone magazine.
Toby is a professor at the Guildhall school of Music & Drama, specialising in guitar chamber music. His duties include organising concerts, coaching guitarists in a variety of ensembles, overseeing and encouraging creative collaborations, and working in the historical performance department teaching basso continuo practice. He is delighted to share his passion for chamber music and collaboration with the next generation of musicians. He has coached chamber music and assisted with the lute class at Dartington International Summer School. From 2014-2018 he worked for the charity Live Music Now as part of a Flute & Guitar duo, totalling over a hundred performances in care home and SEND school settings: a formative experience. Passionate about the arts being open to everyone, Toby is an Arts Emergency mentor.
Settled in Greenwich, south-east London with his wife and collaborator, harpist Aileen Henry, Toby’s interests outside of music include reading, cooking and travelling, though when not working he generally tries to do as little as possible.
http://www.tobycarr.co.uk/
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Multiple works by one composer may have the same name, and sometimes later generations have added "subtitles", or numbers, or perhaps they have not! So please accept that we may not have matched videos to the works to be heard at the live concert, exactly. As ever, we hope to bring you a flavour of the work of each composer.
Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Canzon Prima à basso solo F 8.06c/07c/09c (pub 1634)
We open with this "song" played by Maki Onishi, viola da gamba, and Diego Cantalupi, theorbo. They are performing in Brescia's "chiesa di San Giuseppe" St Joseph's Church:
Canzon Prima à basso solo F 8.06c/07c/09c (pub 1634)
We open with this "song" played by Maki Onishi, viola da gamba, and Diego Cantalupi, theorbo. They are performing in Brescia's "chiesa di San Giuseppe" St Joseph's Church:
Diego Ortiz (c1510- c1576)
from Trattado da Glosas (part 2) (pub 1553)
Recercada Tercera sobre La Spagna [2:35]
Recercada Segunda sobre tenores Italianos (‘El passamezzo antiguo’) [1:30]
Our player for La Spagna is Ernst Stolz who is playing both the viol and the organ parts.
For the second work the players are Alison Kinder, bass viol and Chris Goodwin, renaissance guitar. Here are two fairly short short pieces by Diego Ortiz:
Gottfried/Godfrey Finger (1655-1730)
Sonata in G major for treble viol and continuo
Adagio • Largo • Allemanda • Ciacona
We cannot always match the precise piece of music to be played in a concert, so we try instead to give you a feel for the style of the composer. Our replacement piece here is Finger's Sonata No 7 in G for Two Bass Viols. The performers are Jessica Horsley and David Hatcher.
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
from incidental music for Oedipus (1692)
Music for a while
Let's hand over to Peter S for this one. He tells us Purcell, and this song in particular, with its text by John Dryden (1631-1700), have been part of his musical life since his mid-teens. The words are a paean to music, set to music by the greatest English composer of his time. A perfect match.
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile.
Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd
And disdaining to be pleas'd
Till *Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands,
Till the snakes drop from her head,
And the whip from out her hands.
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile.
*Alecto is one of the Furies of Greek mythology - the implacable or unceasing anger. She and her two equally beguiling sisters had snakes for hair, blood dripping from their eyes, and bat wings. Alecto's job as a Fury is castigating the moral crimes (such as anger) of humans, especially if they are against others. Her punishment for mortals was Madness. Source - en.wikipedia.org
This celebrated song comes here is a new arrangement from The King's Singers, who were keen to keep singing during those lockdown days of 2020. We shall hear the
Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński,
with The King's Singers:
Patrick Dunachie & Edward Button, countertenors, Julian Gregory, tenor,
Christopher Bruerton & Nick Ashby, baritones, Jonathan Howard, bass.
If you prefer a more traditional performance, we also have top German countertenor Andreas Scholl, with Alexandra Helldorf at the cembalo or harpsichord.
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Robert de Visée (1650-1725)
Suite in A minor for theorbo
Prelude
Allemande la Royale
Courante
Chaconne
Here come two movements from this Suite. First, its Prelude is played by Walter Zwiekhorst, and in the other video here Héctor Alfonso Torres González the final movement, the Chaconne:
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The picture shows the Australian composer Brooke Green. Unfortunately, we did not find any recording of her The Spirit of Daphne. Let's move onto our final item. |
Marin Marais (1656-1728)
from Suite d'un Goût Etranger, in Pièces de viole, Livre IV (pub 1717)
81 Allemande La Superbe
Chaconne
La Superbe is performed here by István Csata, in the 16th century Franciscan monastery ceremonial hall in Kolozsvá, known to us as Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
The players for the closing Chaconne are Robert Smith, viola da gamba and Israel Golani, Theorbo (made by London-based Klaus Jacobsen):
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