Music on Thursdays
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2021 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival
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Gwyn Owen
trumpet
Rebecca Taylor
piano
Programme
Eugène Joseph Bozza (1905-1991)
Rustiques (1955)
Henri Tomasi (1901-1971)
from Trumpet Concerto (1948)
2 Nocturne
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936)
Albumblatt (1899)
A Solo Piano Item
Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)
from Suite Gothique Op 25 (1895)
3 Prière a Notre Dame
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Intrada H193 (1947)
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
*Volcalise-étude en forme de Habanera M51 (1907)
Harry Haag James (1916-1983)
Concerto for Trumpet (1939)
Concert duration approx: 40 minutes
*Please note: The Ravel piece may not be played at this concert. A video performance is included below.
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Gwyn Owen
Originally from Bangor, North Wales, Gwyn grew up playing the cornet in the local brass band tradition, later joining and becoming a principal member of both the National Youth Brass Band and Orchestra of Wales.
Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music, he has played and trialled for positions with several UK orchestras including the Southbank Sinfonia, Scottish Opera, Ulster Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He regularly competed as a soloist at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, and in 2016 he was awarded the Eisteddfod’s Blue Riband Instrumental Scholarship Prize.
Gwyn is a member of Band Pres Llareggub (read backwards!) – a hip-hop inspired brass group which has enjoyed national Welsh media coverage, an unforgettable televised trip to New Orleans in 2019, and featured (for about 30 seconds!) in the recent film Dreamhorse.
Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music, he has played and trialled for positions with several UK orchestras including the Southbank Sinfonia, Scottish Opera, Ulster Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He regularly competed as a soloist at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, and in 2016 he was awarded the Eisteddfod’s Blue Riband Instrumental Scholarship Prize.
Gwyn is a member of Band Pres Llareggub (read backwards!) – a hip-hop inspired brass group which has enjoyed national Welsh media coverage, an unforgettable televised trip to New Orleans in 2019, and featured (for about 30 seconds!) in the recent film Dreamhorse.
Rebecca Taylor
Rebecca read music as an Organ Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford, studying with David Sanger. As both an organist and choral conductor she has broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 & 4, made CD recordings and performed in the UK and abroad in venues such as Westminster Abbey, St George's Chapel Windsor, York Minster, Christ Church Dublin, St Mark's Venice.
Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music on the MA Piano Accompaniment course under Michael Dussek and Carole Presland, Rebecca has been increasingly in demand both as an accompanist and répétiteur. While at the Academy, Rebecca was a prizewinner in the Rex Stephens Lieder Prize, a finalist in the Richard Lewis Song Competition and was highly commended in both the Major van Someren-Godfrey English Song Prize and the Scott Huxley Piano Accompaniment Competition. Rebecca was awarded a distinction in her LRAM diploma and was a member of the prestigious Academy Song Circle.
After graduating, Rebecca continued her training as a Junior Fellow Trainee Répétiteur and was also successful in gaining a place on the Solti Peretti Repetiteurs' Masterclass Course. As an accompanist, Rebecca’s reputation is growing following her success in winning the Maureen Lehane Accompanist Prize at Wigmore Hall. In June 2015, Rebecca accompanied the Welsh candidate in the Song Prize Competition of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and she also performed a song recital at the Three Choirs Festival.
As a répétiteur, Rebecca has worked on a wide range of operas, which include Tom Randle's Love me to Death; Ariodante, Handel; Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky. She regularly works with composers on new music, most recently a project with Laura Bowler and the playwright Edward Bond at the Royal Opera House.
Rebecca’s work also has an international dimension. She has performed across Europe and the Middle East at venues which include St Martin in the Fields, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Réal Academia de Bellas Artes, Madrid, St Mark’s Basilica, Venice, Macedonia Opera House, Skopje and Al Bustan in Muscat. Rebecca is Assistant to the Artistic Director and Accompanist of Leeds Festival Chorus, Associate Conductor of the English Chamber Choir, Assistant Conductor and Accompanist of Twickenham Choral Society. She is also Conductor of The Marble Hill Singers and Director of Music at St Philip’s, Earls Court Road.
Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music on the MA Piano Accompaniment course under Michael Dussek and Carole Presland, Rebecca has been increasingly in demand both as an accompanist and répétiteur. While at the Academy, Rebecca was a prizewinner in the Rex Stephens Lieder Prize, a finalist in the Richard Lewis Song Competition and was highly commended in both the Major van Someren-Godfrey English Song Prize and the Scott Huxley Piano Accompaniment Competition. Rebecca was awarded a distinction in her LRAM diploma and was a member of the prestigious Academy Song Circle.
After graduating, Rebecca continued her training as a Junior Fellow Trainee Répétiteur and was also successful in gaining a place on the Solti Peretti Repetiteurs' Masterclass Course. As an accompanist, Rebecca’s reputation is growing following her success in winning the Maureen Lehane Accompanist Prize at Wigmore Hall. In June 2015, Rebecca accompanied the Welsh candidate in the Song Prize Competition of BBC Cardiff Singer of the World which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and she also performed a song recital at the Three Choirs Festival.
As a répétiteur, Rebecca has worked on a wide range of operas, which include Tom Randle's Love me to Death; Ariodante, Handel; Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky. She regularly works with composers on new music, most recently a project with Laura Bowler and the playwright Edward Bond at the Royal Opera House.
Rebecca’s work also has an international dimension. She has performed across Europe and the Middle East at venues which include St Martin in the Fields, the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Réal Academia de Bellas Artes, Madrid, St Mark’s Basilica, Venice, Macedonia Opera House, Skopje and Al Bustan in Muscat. Rebecca is Assistant to the Artistic Director and Accompanist of Leeds Festival Chorus, Associate Conductor of the English Chamber Choir, Assistant Conductor and Accompanist of Twickenham Choral Society. She is also Conductor of The Marble Hill Singers and Director of Music at St Philip’s, Earls Court Road.
2021 Mole Valley
Arts Alive Festival
Recordings of the works in today's concert
Eugène Joseph Bozza (1905-1991)
Rustiques (1955) (7m36)
performed by Immanuel Richter, trumpet and Patricia Ulrich, piano, in the Old Library of the Musikinsel Rheinau, Switzerland (a former Benedictine Monastery on an island in the Rhine, near Zurich, now a national music centre.)
Henri Tomasi (1901-1971)
from Trumpet Concerto (1948)
2 Nocturne (4m35)
performed by Alison Balsom, with the Göteborg Symfoniker, conducted by Edward Gardner
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936)
Albumblatt (1899) (5m14)
performed by Randolph Lee, accompanied by Kurt Hansen, at the First Presbyterian Church of Salt Lake City:
Solo Piano
Léon Boëllmann (1862-1897)
from Suite Gothique Op 25 (1895)
2 Menuet Gothique (3m00)
Let us listen to two versions of this piece.
First we have a piano roll titled: Octave Piano Rolls 109. It includes the introduction to the suite, and when we get to the Menuet there seems to be an unseemly rush about it. I suspect that is down to the operator of the piano used for this recording. A little research reveals that the piano roll here was made in 2009 by the late Dr Lee Teply, who was then Director of Music at the First Lutheran Church of Norfolk Virginia.
General feeling is that this does not work well on the piano, so we have dropped it from the concert, leaving Rebecca to make a personal choice of piano solo.
The second recording is plenty fast enough, yet more majestic in style, coming from the hands and feet of Olivier Latry, organist of Notre Dame de Paris. We have yet to hear how his instrument has survived the fire of 2019.
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Léon Boellmann
from the Suite Gothique
3 Prière a Notre Dame (5m40)
This more sedate movement, with its lovely melody reaching for the heavens, is played once again by Olivier Latry.
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955)
Intrada H193 (1947) (4m22)
We return to Immanuel Richter and Patricia Ulrich for this performance of the Honegger Intrada:
Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Volcalise-étude en forme de Habanera M51 (1907)
also titled: Pièce en forme de Habanera (3m20)
Here is a piece of music we have herd on several occasions, and on different instruments. This item may not survive the final cut for the concert so please enjoy it here, while you can!
The performers in this recording are Joshua McCluer, with accompanist Illie Ng Ling Ling:
Harry Haag James (1916-1983)
Concerto for Trumpet (1939) (3m00)
This recording of Harry James playing his own Concerto with remarkable dexterity comes from the 1942 musical comedy film Private Buckeroo. Asked who he rated the best trumpet player of all, Dizzy Gillespie named Harry James!
Trumpetty Bonus
Sometimes we slip in a bonus item, noticed while searching for the recordings above. This week we present the young trumpeter Sergei Nakariakov. If you enjoy this sample of his playing, you will find lots more on YouTube, playing trumpet, or flugelhorn:
Next Thursday's concert
Last Tuesday's Video Selection concert
recordings of piano music by Chopin and Schubert, featuring recordings by Alfred Brendel - click here
Last week's JAZZ on Thursday concert
Jazz standards and improvisations by pianist Gareth Giles - click here
