Music on Thursdays

Thursday 5th June 2014
12.30 Lunchtime

Leatherhead Methodist Church

  Atéa Wind Trio
  Alena Lugovkina, flute
  Anna Hashimoto, clarinet
  Jonathan Davies, bassoon

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Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society

Programme


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Divertimento No.1 KV439b
  1 Allegro
  2 Menuetto Allegretto
  3 Adagio
  4 Menuetto
  5 Rondo Allegro

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Sonata for clarinet and bassoon
  1 Allegro
  2 Romance
  3 Final

Olivier Truan
The Chase, for flute and clarinet

François-Joseph Gossec (1734-1829)
Gavotte (arr. Uritung)


Rialto Lounge will be selling sandwiches and drinks in the church after the concert.

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Concert at Home

If you will miss the concert, or would like to hear more performances of these works, we have found these links.

Firstly here is the Mozart Divertimento played on three clarinets:

divertimento no 1 kv439b

In the next three clips Nagy Zsófia, bassoon and Nagy Sándor, clarinet perform the Poulenc Sonata:

poulenc sonata 1 allegro

poulenc sonata 2 romance

poulenc sonata 3 final

Truan's The Chase is performed here on clarinet and accordion - it really is a chase:

olivier truan - the chase

This first performance of the very familiar Gossec Gavotte might make your hair stand on end, so below it you will find a link to a more professional rendition by Luna Strings:

ithaca suzuki institute

gossec - luna strings

We hope you enjoy your "Concert at Home"

Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, leader of Atéa Wind Trio

The Atéa Trio comprises members of the Atéa Wind Quintet, one of the leading London-based ensembles of their generation.

They are students and graduates of the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama who have performed throughout the UK in various wind combinations. They have played in venues including St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. They have also been part of the Cambridge Summer Music Festival, as well as festivals further afield such as the 'Young Prague' festival around the Czech Republic. 

Individually the trio members have performed as part of the UK's leading orchestras including the Philharmonia, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, English National Opera and English Chamber Orchestra, and with orchestras abroad such as the Japan Chamber Orchestra and Verbier Festival Orchestra.

Jonathan Davies, bassoon

Alena Lugovkina, flute

Wind of Atéa, by Peter Horsfield

Atéa, Polynesian god of light,
embodied as an icon by this group,
blows rippling breezes, and transmitted through
the mouthpiece of a flowing vocal line
ignites Divertimento by Mozart;
dancing dynamic by the Trio voiced,
synchronised breathing spreads infectious joy,
warmly embraces audience from the heart.

Their instruments describe such graceful curves;
spontaneous in geometric form
the visual figures out of air are born
that with these floating melodies emerge.

“Docking” maneouvres with the music stands
precariously balance sheets of score,
as duet permutations render more
variety, while freeing pair of hands.

Poulenc: eccentric, syncopated notes
reveal a humour angular, abrupt,
mirrored by posture of bassoonist gaunt;
all arms and legs, as if by Hoffnung stroked.

The Chase, duet for flute and clarinet,
exchanges themes at speed;cross-rhythms fly
between, Peter-Pan-like across the sky,
and aerially helter-skelter set.

Gossec Gavotte (who's he?) the concert ends
in trio form; each lively instrument
now tosses music to the firmament.
Alas! no artists; but Atéa sends.

Peter Horsfield 10/6/2014

Inspired by the lunch-time concert on 5th June 2014 in Leatherhead Methodist Church, by Alena Lugovkina, flute;
Anna Hashimoto, clarinet; and Jonathan Davies, bassoon.

You will find more of Peter Horsfield's music-inspired poetry on our Poetry Page:

poetry page

LMC - map

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