Music on Thursdays

Thursday 9th July 2015
12.30 Lunchtime
Leatherhead Methodist Church

Buck Brass Trio
Daniel Walton, trumpet
Richard Buck, trombone
Timothy Ellis, horn & piano
courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

2015 Season Sponsor:
Patricia Morgan Optician

Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society

Programme

programme expected soon



Thomas Adams (1785-1858)
Fugue

Steven Verhelst (b1981, Belgium)
A Song for Japan

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
from Horn Concerto no 4 in E flat, K495 (1786)
    3. Rondo: Allegro vivace, 6/8

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Piano Trio No 21 in Bb Major H 15/8 (1784)
    1 Allegro moderato
    2 Tempo di Menuetto

Jacques Ibert (1890-1962)
Cinq Pieces en Trio (1935)
    Allegro vivo
    Andantino
    Allegro assai
    Andante
    Allegro quasi marziale

Brass players are suitable for both indoor and outdoor situations

Buck Brass Trio

Buck Brass is one of the leading young brass ensembles in the UK, and was formed in 2012 by students from London’s Royal Academy of Music. The members are Richard Buck - Trombone, Daniel Walton - Trumpet, and Timothy Ellis - Horn. They are one of the only Brass Trios in the UK.

The recent winners of the Worshipful Company of Musicians Brass Ensemble Prize in 2014, the Trio strives to make the world more aware of this unique medium through innovative and engaging programming.

Members of the ensemble have enjoyed considerable experience working with groups such as the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, the Britten-Pears Orchestra, and National Youth Jazz orchestra of Great Britain.

The Trio has pioneered a large amount of new repertoire for the medium, including arrangements from Bach, Brahms, Ibert, Beethoven, and Mozart, as well as commissions from student and established composers such as Timothy Bowers.

Buck Brass Trio has enjoyed a considerable amount of coaching from many illustrious musicians, including Robert Hughes, Michael Thompson, Mark David, Michael Dussek and Elgar Howarth.

Tripartite Brass

Sombre black attire belies
their musical performance;
gleaming metal, held aloft,
glints gold and silver; warming
tone so rich, not over-loud,
in brass that isn't brazen,
blends a harmony unique,
enfolds our ears – such haven
holds us spellbound this lunch-time,
as horn, trombone and trumpet
play in permutations bold,
with floating sound so limpid.
Piano, too, enters the mix;
these versatile musicians
bend their will to new arrangements,
music in transition.
Mozart, Haydn, light and shade,
familiar and less known
works from repertoire they take
in stride – pioneered and well-blown.
Dancing colours from the bell
of brass create a picture
perfect in its integration –
freedom flows with structure.


Peter Horsfield   10/07/2015
inspired by this concert by Buck Brass Trio

Concert at Home

If you are unable to come along to today's concert, here instead is a selection of links to recordings of the same or similar works for your listening enjoyment.

There were two English organists and composers named Thomas Adams.
This recording of the Fugue, on its original instrument - the organ, is by the earlier of the two who was born in 1785:

Belgian trombonist and composer Steven Verhelst was born in 1981. Here is a performance of his lovely Song for Japan,
by four members of the trombone section of the Sydney Symphony (the orchestra was about to embark on a Japanese tour):

On the left below you will find a lively student performance of the popular Rondo from
Mozart's 4th horn concerto with soloist Ali Nizamani and the CYMC Orchestra
(CYMC is probably the Comox Valley Youth Music Centre's Summer School, in British Columbia).

If you have more time, or you would prefer a more polished performance, on the right you will find a performance of all
three movements with Radek Baborak as soloist AND conductor, with the Mito Chamber Orchestra:

Is that the brighter tone of a fortepiano in this recording of Haydn's Piano Trio No 21 ?
There is more about the Van Swieten Trio's recordings of all of Haydn's Piano Trios, and their aim to match the instrument to the piano's developments during Haydn's lifetime, on the button on the right below:

van swieten trio - all haydn's piano trios

Jacques Ibert wrote his Cinque pièces en trio for oboe, clarinet and bassoon.
This recording was made during a performance in the Mingei International Museum, San Diego, California:

We hope you have enjoyed your "Concert at Home"

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Previous thursday

Jacqueline Phillips, cello
Richard Black, piano

following Wednesday

Gary Sieling, organ

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