12.30 lunchtime

Thursday 6th September



Joseph Tong

piano


Venue: LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church
please use the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or Church Street/Waitrose
car parks, about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC in Church Road


Season Sponsor:
Julie West Solicitor

Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert &
Arts Society
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Programme

Achille-Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Estampes L100 (1903) Sketches
    Pagodes   Pagodas
    La soiree dans Grenade   Evening in Grenada
    Jardins sous la pluie   Gardens in the rain

Jean (Johan Julius Christian) Sibelius (1865-1957)
Four Bagatelles Op 97
    Humoreske I
    Humoristischer Marsch
    Lied
    Humoreske II

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op 26 (1839) Carnival Scene from Vienna
    Allegro Sehr Lebhaft, Bb major - fast, very lively
    Romanze Ziemlich Langsam, G minor - Romance, quite slow
    Scherzino, Bb major
    Intermezzo Mit Größter Energie, Eb minor - with the greatest energy
    Finale Höchst Lebhaft, Bb major - extremely lively
Free Concert, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after this concert.
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Joseph Tong

Joseph Tong enjoys a busy and varied career as soloist, duo pianist, chamber musician, Festival Director and teacher. He made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1997 as winner of the Maisie Lewis Young Artists Award and now gives regular solo recitals throughout the UK and Europe, most recently in Germany, Spain and Finland where he performed at the Steinway Piano Gallery in Helsinki, Sibelius’s home Ainola and at the Sibelius Museum in Turku last summer.

Joseph also took part in the Sibelius150 celebrations in Finland in 2015, giving recitals at the Helsinki Music Centre, Hämeenlinna Town Hall and at the composer’s house Ainola. His first Sibelius CD recording on the Quartz label was released the same year, to critical acclaim in the UK and abroad, followed by Vol. 2 in 2017 which has received glowing reviews in the Sunday Times, International Piano, Classical Source and Fanfare Magazine (USA).

Joseph has broadcast for BBC Radio 3, appearing on In Tune ahead of his all-Sibelius recital at St John’s Smith Square in 2015. Other recent highlights have included recitals at the Sendesaal in Bremen, St David’s Hall Cardiff, The Jacqueline du Pré Music Building in Oxford, and Newport Cathedral. Joseph has recently made a Schumann recording in Germany, due for release next year.
 
A longstanding and highly successful piano duo with the Japanese pianist Waka Hasegawa
(Piano 4 Hands) has led to broadcasts for Radio 3, WFMT Radio in the USA and recitals at major venues such as Wigmore Hall, The Purcell Room, Bridgewater Hall Manchester, St David’s Hall Cardiff and festivals including Buxton, Cheltenham, Chichester, Oundle and Presteigne.

Piano 4 Hands has made a series of critically acclaimed CD recordings on the Quartz label of Debussy, Schubert and John McCabe. Joseph Tong and Waka Hasegawa recently commissioned a new work from David Matthews which they premiered at last year’s Cheltenham Music Festival and also performed at the newly reopened Purcell Room in London in July 2018.
 
Joseph was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM) in 2008 and appointed visiting teacher at Wells Cathedral School the same year. Future engagements include concerts at the Presteigne Festival, St George’s Bristol, Newport Cathedral and Luton Music Club.
 
www.josephtong.co.uk
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Concert at Home

If you cannot be with us at the lunchtime concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the buttons below:
Achille-Claude Debussy
Estampes L100 Sketches
    Pagodes   Pagodas
    La soiree dans Grenade   Evening in Grenada
    Jardins sous la pluie   Gardens in the rain

Nelson Freire performs Estampes in the Kongressaal, Munich:

Jean (Johan Julius Christian) Sibelius
Four Bagatelles Op 97
    1  Humoreske I
    2  Lied
    3  Kleiner Walzer
    4  Humoristischer Marsch
    5  Impromptu
    6  Humoreske II

We will not have time to hear all six bagatelles at the concert, but perhaps you will.
Here is the score to follow as Hårvard Grimse plays these delightful bagatelles:

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op 26 (1839) Carnival Scene from Vienna
    Allegro Sehr Lebhaft, Bb major - fast, very lively
    Romanze Ziemlich Langsam, G minor - Romance, quite slow
    Scherzino, Bb major
    Intermezzo Mit Größter Energie, Eb minor - with the greatest energy
    Finale Höchst Lebhaft, Bb major - extremely lively

Our concert ends with this lively performance by Sviatoslav Richter:

We hope you have enjoyed your  Concert at Home.
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