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HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY 1991-92 SEASON ARTUR PIZARRO, WINNER OF LEEDS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION MONDAYS AT ST. PAUL'S HUDDERSFIELD POLYTECHNIC MUSIC LIVE AT ST. PAUL'S

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Y ou will agree, I am sure, that the seven concerts which comprise the 1991/92 season of the Society can only be described as outstanding both in terms of the artists we have engaged and the music we are to hear. The first concert honours the bicentenary of Mozart's death in a recital of string quintets by the Lindsay Quartet with Patrick Ireland; the centenary of Prokofiev's birth is remembered in the third concert which will be given by the winner of the 1990 Harveys Leeds International Piano Competition, Artur Pizarro, who includes the sixth Sonata in a splendid and varied programme. Thank you for your continued support. I shall be delighted to welcome present and new subscribers on 7th October to the first concert of what I have confidence will be a superb series. every J. C Stephen Smith 1. Monday 7th October 1991 LINDSAY STRING QUARTET & Patrick Ireland, viola Chacomy in G minor Quintet in C major K515 Quintet in G minor K516 Purcell Mozart Mozart The Lindsay String Quartet, who need no introduction to our audience, pay hommage to Mozart in this commemorative year by performing his two best known string quintets. Patrick Ireland, father of Robin Ireland, joins them as second violinist. Piano Quartet in E flat K 493 Passione Amorosa for Double bass, This concert is arranged with the support of Yorkshire Arts. 2. Monday 28th October 1991 SCHUBERT ENSEMBLE OF LONDON cello and piano Piano Quintet in A (Trout) President Mozart Bottesini Schubert The Schubert Ensemble, formed in 1982, is in a unique position to offer a wide variety of works for various combinations of its five instruments - piano and strings including double bass - as we can see from their delightful programme for us, which culminates in the joyous 'Trout' Quintet. Sponsored by PETER HAWKE LTD. MAZDA T E C M F S T Se 23

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certs ing the zart's ert rveys arro, ried be on ry dent our e nd rts. N tion Sof pass ch TICKETS SINGLE SEASON 1 ticket for all 7 concerts (i.e. £3.37 per concert) DOUBLE SEASON 2 tickets for all 7 concerts (i.e. £3 per concert) SINGLE TICKETS STUDENTS or Hudds. 422612 Name Address concerts 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 concerts 1 & 3 Tickets may be obtained by using the booking form or from Huddersfield Information Centre, Albion Street, Tel. 422133 (Saturday 430808) or at the door. Enquiries: Hon. Subscription Secretary Mrs. L. Walker Hudds. 654620 Hon. Secretary Mrs. M. Glendinning Double season ticket Single season ticket £26 Single concert ticket I enclose cheque £42 BOOKING FORM Post this form with payment to the Hon. Treasurer Mr. P. Michael Lord, 14 Garsdale Road, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6QZ. Tel: Hudds. 429214 £6 £8 Quantity £1.50 Postcode Telephone *I have received my season ticket(s) for 1991/92 *Please send me: (Delete words not applicable) £ P Date & Quantity £ Total Cheques payable to "The Huddersfield Music Society" Season tickets to be paid for or returned by 23rd September 1991. P

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ncerts he ding the Lozart's ay cert Marveys zarro, varied 1 be S on wery sident our ve ond Arts. ON sition s of bass ich 3. Monday 11th November 1991 ARTUR PIZARRO piano Variations in F minor Sonata in D major, op 28 (Pastoral) Pour le Piano Sonata no 6 in A minor op 82 Of this outstanding pianist Jane Glover has said "Artur Pizarro is surely one of the most promising pianists of his generation. He has a remarkable technique and brings to it great interpretative sensitivity: delicacy or power, pathos or humour, as required." The Society is privileged to be able to offer its subscribers a recital by the artist who was unanimously voted the winner of the 1990 Leeds International Piano Competition. 4. Monday 9th December 1991 GUADAGNINI PIANO TRIO Trio in E flat major op 1 no 1 Trio in G minor Haydn Beethoven Debussy Prokofiev Trio 'Paramita' (new commission) Trio in C major op 87 Beethoven Smetana John Cooper Brahms The members of this Trio, who have been playing together since 1987, are all soloists in their own right. They have received glowing reviews from the critics as individuals and as an ensemble and one can well understand why they have been selected for an award by the prestigious Countess of Munster Musical Trust, under whose auspices this concert is promoted. 5. Monday 13th January 1992 LISA BEZNOSIUK flute & MAGGIE COLE harpsichord J. S. Bach and his contemporaries Lisa Beznosiuk, one of the world's leading Baroque flautists and professor of early flutes at both the Royal College and Royal Academy of Music, joins with Maggie Cole, the virtuoso keyboard player, described in the "Gramophone" as 'a harpsichordist and musician of the highest quality', to delight us with music by J. S. Bach, Boismortier, Telemann and Couperin.

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ro ur, S 1 on. S 1 er d. S 50 d 6. Monday 10th February 1992 PRAZAK STRING QUARTET Quartet in A major K464 Quartet no 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) Quartet in G major op 106 Mozart Janacek Dvorak We warmly welcome the return of this famous Czech quartet whom we look upon as old and valued friends. Once again, we are fortunate to hear them play works by their fellow- countrymen, Janacek and Dvorak. 7. Monday 9th March 1992 PETERSEN STRING QUARTET Quartet in D major K499 Quartet in B flat major op 130 Quartet in C minor op 110 Mozart Beethoven Shostakovich This young German quartet has already won the highest honours: winners in 1986 of the Florence International Chamber Music Competition, scoring an unprecedented 10 out of 10 in every round, they went on to win the top prize at Munich in 1987. Those fortunate enough to hear them recently in Bradford Cathedral will anticipate this concert with great pleasure. This concert is sponsored by the Goethe Institut of Manchester. *K The Huddersfield Music Society is affiliated to the Polytechnic and our concerts form part of the important series "Mondays at St. Paul's". The other concerts in the series are provided by the students and past students and staff of the Music Department and cover a wide range of musical performance. Full details of the series in the Department's brochure "Mondays at St. Paul's", obtainable at the Information Centre or from the Polytechnic School of Music.

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President: Hon. Secretary: Hon. Treasurer: Hon. Subscription Secretary: HUDDERSFIELD MANCHESTER MANCHESTER ROAD A62 A616 CHAPEL HILL Car- park HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY - QUEENST STA QUEENSGATE ST. PAUL'S HALL QUEENSGATE POLYTECHNIC BUS STATION E. Glendinning P. Michael Lord CASTLEGATE 7 779 H A629 WAKEFIELD ROAD WAKEFIELD AND SHEFFIELD - P. L. Michelson S. Rothery J. C. S. Smith Peter Hawke Ltd. Mazda SOUTHGATE Stephen Smith Mrs. M. S. Glendinning P. Michael Lord Mrs. L. Walker M62 WEST TRINITY STREET NEW RAILWAY STATION NORTH->> 00200 The Society is grateful for financial help from: K. Beaumont Mrs. E. Crossland Mrs. A. Crowther D. Dugdale Miss M. A. Freeman NORTH ROAD HALIFAX & M62 A629 S. L. Henderson Smith Mrs. C. Stephenson J. G. Sykes Mrs. E.R. Taylor ST JOHN S RO LEEDS ROAD A62 TOWN CENTRE LEEDS W. E. Thompson H. Marshall Williams The Polytechnic of Huddersfield Yorkshire Arts Association Arts Council of Great Britain Goethe Institut of Manchester

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The Huddersfield Lover Music Society 31 W WT. Seventy-Fourth Season 1991-1992

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106 WESTBOURNE ROAD MARSH, HUDDERSFIELD WEST YORKSHIRE HD1 4LF 29 JOHN WILLIAM STREET HUDDERSFIELD WEST YORKSHIRE HD1 1BL TEL: 0484 435436 TELEX 51458 COMHUD G FOR TOTRAV FAX. 0484 420203 TEL: 0484 519777 TELEX 51458 COMHUD G FOR TOTRAV FAX 0484 430440 For Live Music World Wide Use Our Wide Experience in World Travel Tony Iredale Travel Five Gene For Good Jewellery and Good Advice Fillans ESTABLISHED 1852 Generations as Independent) Jewellers 19 Market Place, Huddersfield Tel: [0484] 420889

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THE LINDSAY STRING QUARTET with PATRICK IRELAND Peter Cropper violin Robin Ireland Viola Ronald Birks atr violin Bernard Gregor Smith cello Patrick Ireland viola (hard but Monday 7th October 1991 Programme and Chacony in G minor String Quartet in C major, K515 String Quartet in G minor, K516 Purcell arr. Britten Mozart Mozart We extend a warm welcome to all for the 1991/92 season and especially to our many new subscribers, and hope this new series of concerts will give a great deal of pleasure. We are very happy to welcome back the Lindsay Quartet to open our present season. They have just returned from the Tuscany Festival. In May next year they will give the first ecially Correction Page 1 should read String Quintet in G minor K516 (not quartet) Hilary Norcliffe Archivist Chacony in G minor arr. Britten ›r this String e first e from to the nudder Stield Tield to whom this society is affiliated, for valuable assistance in promoting our concerts. Purcell (1659-1695) (Last performed in 1974 by the Fitzwilliam Quartet) Purcell lived in Restoration England, through the 'Glorious Revolution and into the reign of William and Mary. When he died, at the age of 36, Bach, Handel and Scarlatti were 10 years old. Lacking worthy successors in this country, Purcell ended the

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106 WESTBOURNE ROAD MARSH, HUDDERSFIELD WEST YORKSHIRE HD1 4LF 29 JOHN WILLIAM STREET HUDDERSFIELD WEST YORKSHIRE HD1 1BL TEL: 0484 435436 TELEX 51458 COMHUD G FOR TOTRAV FAX. 0484 420203 Five Gene TEL: 0484 519777 TELEX 51458 COMHUD G FOR TOTRAV FAX 0484 430440 For Live Music World Wide Use Our Wide Experience in World Travel Tony Iredale Travel Fillans ESTABLISHED 1852 Generations as Independent Jewellers 19 Market Place, Huddersfield Tel: [0484] 420889

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1 THE LINDSAY STRING QUARTET with PATRICK IRELAND Peter Cropper violin Robin Ireland Viola Ronald Birks violin Bernard Gregor Smith cello Patrick Ireland viola (band bat Monday 7th October 1991 Programme en Chacony in G minor String Quartet in C major, K515 String Quartet in G minor, K516 Purcell arr. Britten Mozart Mozart We extend a warm welcome to all for the 1991/92 season and especially to our many new subscribers, and hope this new series of concerts will give a great deal of pleasure. Crew We are very happy to welcome back the Lindsay Quartet to open our present season. They have just returned from the Tuscany Festival. In May next year they will give the first performance of Michael Tippett's fifth quartet, written especially for them. We also welcome Patrick Ireland, who first played for this Society in February 1952 as violist in the Peter Gibbs String Quartet. He plays often with the Lindsays, but this is the first time we have had father and son playing together. This concert is presented with financial assistance from Yorkshire Arts, to whom we express our thanks and also to the Polytechnic of Huddersfield to whom this society is affiliated, for valuable assistance in promoting our concerts. Chacony in G minor arr. Britten Purcell (1659-1695) (Last performed in 1974 by the Fitzwilliam Quartet) Purcell lived in Restoration England, through the 'Glorious Revolution' and into the reign of William and Mary. When he died, at the age of 36, Bach, Handel and Scarlatti were 10 years old. Lacking worthy successors in this country, Purcell ended the

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golden period of English music and England became known as 'a land without music'. It was, however, and has continued to be, a land of poetry, and Purcell's fame rests largely on the setting of words to music like his 20th century admirer and champion, Benjamin Britten. Perhaps best known for his chamber opera, Dido and Aeneas, Purcell was also a consummate master of the art of writing instrumental music, as evidenced by the remarkable Fantasias for from three to seven stringed instruments. The Chacony (music on a ground bass) was written in 1680 along with the first Fantasias in three and four parts. The original manuscript is in the British Museum; Britten's arrangement consists mainly of the application of imaginative dynamics. Quintet in C major, K515 Mozart (1756-1791) Allegro Allegro; Menuetto & Trio; Andante; (Last played in 1985 by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields) It is said that the practical Haydn, when asked why he had never written a string quintet, replied: "Because nobody has commissioned one". We cannot be sure that anyone commissioned any from Mozart either as far as the available evidence goes; nevertheless he wrote six of them and there is no doubt that he 'discovered the string quintets a perfect medium for his thoughts. In his hands the quintet, with its extraordinary enlargement of scale, gave as good a balance as the quartet, with the extra resource of warm, dark colouring in the viola, which led him to cast some of his most wonderful chamber music for this particular combination. The C major and G minor quintets are complementary in a way rather resembling that of Mozart's last two symphonies in the ļ same keys. G minor always called up from him dark, tragic music and never more so, until the finale, than in the G minor quintet. But the C major, like the Jupiter symphony, knows no tragedy; instead there is majesty and spaciousness. The cello opens the work with a rising arpeggio, answered

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gently by the first violin. The roles are then reversed. There is much modulation - the whole work is of great harmonic interest - before the second subject, an undulating passage on the violin, appears. The minuet and trio are followed by an andante which must be one of the most famous in chamber music. Of course, Mozart played and loved the viola and here he weaves a dialogue between violin and viola to which no words can do justice. A rondo of unquenchable cheerfulness makes a happy ending to this monumental work. INTERVAL FOR COFFEE Mozart (1756-1791) Quintet in G minor, K516 Allegro; Menuetto & Trio; Andante; Allegro (Last played in 1975 by the Lindsay Quartet with Cecil Aronowitz) This quintet is the high water-mark in Mozart's chamber music. Written, as was the C major, in 1787, shortly after the death of his father, it is inspired by a dark melancholy which persists until the serene finale in the major key. The first movement opens with the first violin's melancholy song over ostinato in the second violin and viola. This is repeated by the first viola, similarly accompanied by the second. viola and cello. This ostinato is present in one or more instruments for most of the movement. a The minuet and trio continue the mood of sadness - even the trio, in G major, suggests a feeling of resignation. The slow movement is muted throughout. A series of marvellous arias for violin, sometimes closely followed by the viola, travels through a world of sadness. As if unable to rise from such depths, Mozart follows this wonderful movement with an adagio of ethereal beauty, gradually lifting us into brighter realms with a serenely happy final rondo. There were to be four more years until Mozart's death which we are remembering in this 200th anniversary year, but there could be no more fitting swansong.

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beeney THE SOCIETY IS GRATEFUL for FINANCIAL HELP FROM: K Beaumont s Mrs. E Crossland Mrs. A Crowther gnibus D Dugdaleem aa Mr. & Mrs. M R Ellis C England. Miss M A Freeman crest-ae Pete S Rothery CJ C S Smith E Glendinning O R03 P Michael Lord P L Michelson Peter Hawke Ltd. Mazda Goethe Institut of Manchester S L Henderson Smith Mrs. C Stephenson JG Sykeshow les Mrs. E R Taylor. WE Thompson H Marshall Williams Polytechnic of Huddersfield Yorkshire Arts Association Arts Council of Gt. Britain HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Next concert: Monday 28th October 1991 at 7.30pm SCHUBERT ENSEMBLE OF LONDON Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat, K493 Bottesini: Passione Amorosa for Double bass, cello and piano Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major (Trout) al abdT MONDAYS AT St. PAUL'S 14th October at 7.30pm THE AEOLIAN ENSEMBLE piano & wind quintet Damase, Poulenc, Arnold and Thuille Friday 25th October at 7.30pm SARAH BRIGGS piano HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB Harrison House, Harrison Road, Halifax Friday 11th October at 7.30pm SYRINX Five centuries of recorder music ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY Parochial Hall, Westgate, Elland Beethoven Andante Favori, Brahms Op.5, and Debussy Preludes Bk 1 2

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Vlorong THE SOCIETY IS GRATEFUL for MON @ 14th T FINANCIAL HELP FROM: S Rothery JC S Smith S L Henderson Smith Mrs. C Stephenson JG Sykes now Mrs. E R Taylor WE Thompson H Marshall Williams Polytechnic of Huddersfield Yorkshire Arts Association Arts Council of Gt. Britain K Beaumont dan Mrs. E Crossland Mrs. A Crowther D Dugdale. Mr. & Mrs. M R Ellis C England. Miss M A Freeman E Glendinning 300 R0A P Michael Lord P HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Next concert: Monday 28th October 1991 at 7.30pm SCHUBERT ENSEMBLE OF LONDON Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat, K493 L Michelson Peter Hawke Ltd. Mazda Goethe Institut of Manchester HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB Harrison House, Harrison Road, Halifax Friday 11th October at 7.30pm SYRINX Five centuries of recorder music ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY Parochial Hall, Westgate, Elland Friday 25th October at 7.30pm SARAH BRIGGS piano Beethoven Andante Favori, Brahms Op. 5, and Debussy Preludes Bk1

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The Huddersfield Music Society U BYDRAE WT. Seventy-Fourth Season 1991-1992 St. Paul's Concert Hall, Queensgate Monday 7.30 pm.

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106 WESTBOURNE ROAD MARSH, HUDDERSFIELD WEST YORKSHIRE HD1 4LF 29 JOHN WILLIAM STREET HUDDERSFIELD WEST YORKSHIRE HD1 1BL TEL: 0484 435436 TELEX 51458 COMHUD G FOR TOTRAV FAX. 0484 420203 TEL: 0484 519777 TELEX 51458 COMHUD G FOR TOTRAV FAX 0484 430440 For Live Music World Wide Use Our Wide Experience in World Travel Tony Iredale Travel For Good Jewellery and Good Advice Fillans ESTABLISHED 1852 Five Generations as s Independent Jewellers 19 Market Place, Huddersfield Tel: [0484] 420889

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THE SCHUBERT ENSEMBLE OF LONDON Jane Salmon cello Helen Paterson violin Judith Busbridge viola Peter Buckoke double bass William Howard piano Monday 28th October 1991 Programme Piano Quartet in E flat, K493 Passione Amorosa Piano Quintet in A major (The Trout) Mozart Bottesini Schubert Formed in 1982, the Schubert Ensemble plays a wide range of works for various combinations of its five instruments and has commissioned works for piano quartet plus double bass from Colin Matthews, Michael Berkeley, Anthony Powers and, next year, will premiere new quintets by Judith Weir and Pavel Novak. Future plans include the Malta, Cardiff, Swansea and Brno Festivals as well as tours of England and Scotland, South America and Australia. They have made a much admired recording for Hyperion Records of the Hummel and Schubert Quintets. We are very grateful to PETER HAWKE Ltd. MAZDA for financial help with this concert. We also express thanks to Yorkshire Arts and the Polytechnic of Huddersfield for their support.

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Piano Quartet No. 2 in E flat, K493 Allegro; Larghetto; Mozart (1756-1791) Allegretto In September 1785, Mozart published his six string quartets dedicated to Haydn. Six weeks later, while engaged in the composition of his opera, Figaro, he found time to write two piano quartets. This was a form unknown in Vienna - Mozart intended to write three but the first two were not well received and Mozart had some difficulty in finding a publisher. The E flat quartet was completed a month after Figaro. As in the G minor, Mozart shows great skill in balancing the string trio with the piano, a procedure which differentiates the piano quartet from the piano trio. It is evident throughout the work and very noticeable in the last movement, where the piano's brilliance suggests a chamber concerto. Passione Amorosa for double bass, cello and piano Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889) Bottesini came accidentally to the double bass of which he became a virtuoso. As a child he showed such musical promise that his clarinet-playing father entered him for the Milan Conservatory. There was only one vacancy - for double bass - so Giovanni took up the instrument and was soon exciting the admiration of the whole European musical world. He played a three-stringed bass by Testore, somewhat smaller than the usual orchestral instrument. Bottesini composed many pieces for his instrument and also several operas. He performed frequently in England; his oratorio, The Garden of Olivet, was performed at the Norwich Festival in 1887. A much travelled musician, he was for a time principal bass in the Havana orchestra, Director of Music at the theatre in Barcelona and subsequently of the Italian Opera in Cairo. INTERVAL FOR COFFEE

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Piano Quintet in A major, D667 (Trout) Schubert (1797-1828) Allegro vivace; 107 Andante; Scherzo presto; Theme and variations - andantino; Finale - allegro giusto (Last played in 1982 by Capricorn Ensemble) Schubert was a composer of enormous range; although he wrote no concerti and little of importance by way of opera, in all other fields he a was master and never more so than in his songs and chamber music. In the Piano Quintet the two fields are brought together, for the fourth movement uses the song Die Forelle as the theme on which Schubert builds a series of variations. The combination of instruments is unusual and came about because Hummel had used the same and Schubert had performed Hummel's work with friends when on holiday in Upper Austria. The velvety sonority of the double bass gives a very distinctive quality to the sound of the quintet and its presence releases the pianist to play a great deal of the time in the higher reaches of his instrument. The first movement is dominated by an uprushing arpeggio which declares the key - for a time the movement is full of modulations. The andante is a masterpiece of melodic writing where Schubert's own instrument, the viola, comes into its own with a marvellous passage in thirds with the cello. The high- spirited Scherzo and Trio are followed by the famous Theme and Variations which give the work its nickname. The theme is stated by the strings alone; in Var.1 the piano decorates the tune, playing both hands in octaves throughout. Var.2: viola and cello play the theme; the violin provides a soft descant. Var.3: the double bass has his moment along with the cello while the piano rushes about in high octaves. Var.4: cello and double bass play triplets followed by piano and violin in dialogue. Var.5: the cello is soloist. Finally a sprightly trout, alias the violin, followed by the cello leads to a quiet codetta. This variation uses the figure which characterises the piano accompaniment of the song. H The finale is in two parts, alike except for the key. Like the thrushes in Upper Austria, Schubert sings his song twice over a generous composer!

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THE SOCIETY IS GRATEFUL for FINANCIAL HELP FROM: o S Rothery K Beaumont Mrs. E Crossland Mrs. A Crowther HD Dugdale Dr. & Mrs. M R Ellis guon c England C Miss M A Freeman E Glendinning P Michael Lord J C S Smith S L Henderson Smith Mrs. C Stephenson JG Sykes Mrs. E R Taylor WE Thompson H Marshall Williams Polytechnic of Huddersfield Yorkshire Arts Association PL Michelson Peter Hawke Ltd. Mazda Arts Council of Gt. Britain Goethe Institut of Manchester HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Next concert: Monday 11th November 1991 at 7.30pm ARTUR PIZARRO piano Winner of the LEEDS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION ob Variations in F minor Haydn Sonata in D Op. 28 (Pastoral) Pour le piano Sonata No.6 in A minor Op.82 MONDAYS AT St. PAUL'S 4th November at 7.30pm BESSES O' TH' BARN BAND Musical Director, Paul Hindmarsh (BBC) Beethoven Debussy Prokofiev Midsummer Music (World Premiere) Michael Ball Paganini Variations Philip Wilby Overture King Henry V Vaughan Williams HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB Harrison House, Harrison Road, Halifax Friday 8th November at 7.30pm LINDSAY QUARTET Haydn Op. 20 No. 2: Berg Op. 3: Dvorak in A flat Op. 105 I

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TRATTORIA, ALLA SCALA TRATTORIA ALLA SCALA PAY US A VISIT BEFORE OR AFTER A PERFORMANCE pizzeria mario 12 ZETLAND STREET HUDDERSFIELD WEST YORKSHIRE Telephone: (0484) 515161 and nino 수 & TRATTORIA Home made Pastas Genuine Italian Pizza Special of the day Take away for one or for the family Party take away catered for TRY SOMETHING NEW? HAVE A PIZZA, GLASS OF WINE HAVE FUN! HOURS OF OPENING Monday to Saturday 12.30 - 2.30 pm 6.00 - 11.00 pm Sunday 5.00 - 10.00 pm SOLE MIO HOURS OF OPENING Monday Thursday 2.30 pm 12.00 5.30 11.00 pm Friday 2.30 pm 12.00 5.30 11.30 pm Saturday 12.00 11.30 pm Sunday Pizzeria Sole Mio 5:30 11.00 pm Imperial Arcade, Market Street Huddersfield Tel: Huddersfield 542828 Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day OPEN all other Bank Holidays Printed by The Claydon Press [0484] 652006

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The Huddersfield Music Society W ni sonoiqxa sbiWNO 11 TOMS TE SPAER SPLETNE EASTER OF PRIVERS RANGA WT. Seventy-Fourth Season 1991-1992 St. Paul's Concert Hall, Queensgate Monday 7.30 pm.

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ARTUR PIZARRO Piano Monday 11th November 1991 Programme Variations in F minor Sonata in D major Op. 28 (Pastorale) Pour le Piano Sonata NO.6 in A minor Op.82 Haydn Beethoven Debussy Prokofiev ainabna H Artur Pizarro was born in Portugal and began his piano studies at the age of five with Sequeira Costa, first in Lisbon and later at the University of Kansas. He made his London début in 1989 with a highly acclaimed recital at Wigmore Hall. The Huddersfield Music Society was among the concert promoters who offered an engagement to a prize-winner in the 1990 Harveys Leeds International Piano Competition, and we were very happy to fulfil this promise when Pizarro was unanimously voted first prize-winner. His success led to the performances with the CBSO under Simon Rattle and the BBC SO under Andrew Davis. Pizarro's career has already taken him all over Europe and to major centres in USA. His future plans include also Japan and Australia. The Society's concerts are promoted with support from Yorkshire Arts and the Polytechnic of Huddersfield to whom the society is affiliated. og

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Andante & Variations in F minor Haydn (1732-1809) (Last performed at these concerts by Pouishnoff in 1946) Haydn, as one might expect in a composer with so strong a feeling for melody of all kinds, was much attracted by the variation form. Though he did not write as many sets as Mozart did, and though some of the sets are slight and elementary, when Haydn applied himself seriously to the task, he produced work of great variety and interest. Particularly noticeable are the freedom with which he treats his theme (a freedom comparable with that of the variations of Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms) and the original means by which he combines the separate parts into an organic whole. The Andante in F minor is one of his finest examples. It consists of a theme (or rather two themes) with six variations, alternately in major and minor keys. The principal theme (minor) is followed by a contrasting theme in the major. The variations on these two themes alternate throughout, ending with a repetition of the main theme, followed by an elaborate coda. Sonata in D major Op. 28 Allegro: (Pastorale) Beethoven (1770-1827) Andante: Andante: Scherzo & Trio Rondo - allegro ma non troppo (Last performed at these recitals by Denis Mathews in 1948) The sonata Op.28 was written in 1801 when Beethoven had reached the full development of his powers as virtuoso and composer; when he was "yet of and for this world", self-confident and happy, his life, as yet, unclouded. Of the great piano sonatas only four, of which the Pastorale is one, are in four movements. The Pastorale follows the group of Fantasia-sonatas, works in which Beethoven had perceived that the development of piano composition required freedom from the strictly symphonic style and a return to a controlled improvisation if the expressive powers of the piano were to be realised to the full. The title Pastorale', given by the publisher, Cranz, partially portrays this sonata - this rich and subtle composition, as Tovey describes it. It is reflective and thoughtful, full of dreams; its humour is not the "racy of the soil" type. The first movement is 1 i C U P S h C r r+ U-L i P a E 9 1 S G H F

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✓ S in a mood of restful content which the andante, in the minor key, does nothing to disturb; the scherzo gives the first indication of cheerfulness. The finale is a display of virtuosity. Pour le piano INTERVAL FOR COFFEE Debussy (1862-1918) Prelude: Sarabande: Toccata (Last performed at these recitals by Allan Schiller in 1967) Until almost the age of 40 Debussy produced few works for the piano, none of them showing his later and most characteristic style of piano writing. This is all the more strange in that he had written songs which show his full development and had completed Pelléas et Mélisande. It was not until 1904 that the that the very individual, even revolutionary, piano works appeared. The suite, Pour le Piano (1901) stands upon the threshold of his finest piano works. The title is a long way from the exotic names he gave to later pieces. such as the Préludes and Images. In fact the names suggest the influence of Bach whose music Debussy played frequently. The Prelude has a baroque richness and brilliance; the Sarabande allies an old world charm with daring harmonies and the Toccata is an example of pianistic virtuosity. 21 Sonata No. 6 in A minor Op.82 Prokofiev (1891-1953) Allegro moderato: Allegretto: Tempo di valzer lentissimo: Vivace 1 This year marks the centenary of the birth of a Russian composer who wrote in every genre and produced works of value in each of them. Prokofiev was a fine pianist and his compositions for the instrument include five concerti and nine sonatas (no. 10 is unfinished) besides numerous pieces, suites and piano reductions of ballet scores. The first concert performance of this sonata (Prokofiev had given a broadcast performance) was given by Sviatoslav Richter in 1940 and was a great success, although one Soviet

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critic found that the first movement evoked "prehistoric monsters or dreadful present wars". This was the time of the uneasy pact between Germany and the USSR, so soon and so brutally to be broken. The second movement evinces a certain humour, while the third has a waltz element recalling some of Prokofiev's ballet music; the ballet, Romeo and Juliet, was staged in Leningrad the same year. The final movement is a brilliant, highly pianistic tour de force, containing a slower section with a reference to the three-note figure that begins the sonata. The seventh and eighth sonatas were begun at about the same time, in 1939, and finished in 1942 and 1944. The three are called the 'Sonates de Guerre'. The fifth symphony was also completed in 1944 and performed the following year. Prokofiev's music is full of an irresistible force, a powerful drive of vital energy and will. His art abounds in youthful spirit. A strange man, he had no interest in any art but music but was a skilled bridge and chess player. HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Next concert: Monday 9th December 1991 at 7.30pm GUADAGNINI PIANO TRIO Beethoven Op. 1 No. 1: Smetana in G minor: Brahms Op.87 MONDAYS AT St. PAUL'S 18th November at 7.30pm THE POLYTECHNIC BRASS BAND and soloists Directed by Phillip McCann Strauss: Fest Music; Boëllman: Suite Gothique; Holst: Uranus; Gregson: Variations on Laudate Dominum ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY Parochial Hall, Westgate, Elland Friday 29th November at 7.30pm FIONA CROSS clarinet & KATHRYN LENEHAN piano Messager, Finzi, Weber, Lutoslawski, Ravel, Pierné, vero Templeton and Françaix dsivo. quo Que

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GUADAGNINI PIANO TRIO Robert Whysall Gibbs violin Stephen Gutman pianoa, Anup Kumar Biswas cello sbib. Monday 9th December 1991 Programme Trio in E flat Op. 1 No. 1 Trio in G minor Trio in C major, Op. 87 AKAKIT Trust ns alg Beethoven Smetana Brahms Staum to eonetbus nt After some years as much praised soloists, these three players came together to form the Guadagnini Trio which now has an extensive repertoire and has performed widely in Britain and 1820 Asia. Stephen Gutman was born in London and studied at the Royal College of Music. He has a great deal of experience both as soloist and as chamber music player and his repertoire stretches from Couperin to contemporary music. Robert Gibbs, also a Londoner, was a pupil at the Menuhin School and then the RCM. He is pursuing a solo and chamber music career, having won many prizes and awards both here and in the USA and has given concerts in Europe, South America, India and Hong Kong. Anup Biswas comes from W. Bengal and was a pupil at the Oxford Mission to Calcutta, where his talent was noticed and fostered by Rev. Theodore Mathieson. Father Mathieson was at one time at All Saints, Elland, but went to the Mission in Calcutta in 1947 where he built up a school of music. He is now in charge of the Mission. He brought Anup to England in 1974 and and was instrumental in enrolling him at the Royal Academy of Music with Thomas Igloi, who died suddenly shortly afterwards and Anup then went to Amaryllis Fleming at the College. Anup is also a composer and the director of the Dante Alighieri Orchestra. He now lives in London. This concert is sponsored by the Countess of Munster Musical The Society acknowledges with thanks support from Yorkshire and Humberside Arts and the Polytechnic of Huddersfield to whom the Society is affiliated. new age 300 derane

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Trio in E flat Op. 1 No. 1 Beethoven (1770-1827) Allegro; Adagio cantabile; Scherzo; Presto This work and Nos.2 and 3 were dedicated to Count Lichnowsky and probably composed about 1793. The composer is said to have played them to Haydn (his teacher at the time) before the latter's journey to London in 1794. However, research shows that No.1 was composed in Bonn and revised in 1793, whilst Nos.2 and 3 had only been sketched out at that time. 1795 saw the first performance of all three trios at the home of the Count where there was an audience of music lovers, including Haydn whose opinion was eagerly awaited. The trios made a great impression and were praised by Haydn, but he advised Beethoven not to publish No.3 in C minor, which Beethoven considered the best. The resultant ill- feeling between master and pupil meant that Beethoven never forgave his teacher. At this time Beethoven was determined to master the high classical style in all instrumental forms aiming to reach the peak of the Viennese tradition. These three Trios, the Op.18 Quartets, Piano Sonatas Opp.22 and 28 and the second Symphony encompass this mastery. The first movement already shows in the third bar the differences of thematic treatment compared to Haydn and Mozart. The wealth of ideas in the slow movement is particularly noticeable. The Scherzo, beginning in C minor and moving to B flat, then develops into a real dance form. The enthusiasm of the Finale with its thematic ideas and imaginative development goes far beyond a simple form of entertainment. Thirteen years were to pass before the next trios were composed: Op.70 Nos.1 and 2. P.L.M. Trio in G minor, Op. 15 Moderato assai; Allegro ma non agitato; Smetana (1824-1884) Finale-presto Bedrich Smetana's life began in comfort and contented family harmony but changed to one to one of extreme poverty and unhappy struggle when he moved to Prague to devote his life to music against his father's wishes. Happiness came to him when he married in 1849 and four daughters were born in quick succession. Jen

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) J Tragedy after tragedy followed: one child died at eight months, another at two years and when his first born, Bedriska, an unusually talented girl to whom Smetana was particularly devoted, got scarlet fever and died at the age of four, his grief and despair were so profound that only in composition was he able to find some consolation. He worked feverishly and in two months produced the piano trio, his first mature composition. The first performance, with Smetana playing the piano, was harshly condemned. by the critics, but a year later Smetana is able to write "we performed the trio in our home for Liszt, who embraced me and expressed his congratulations to my wife". Smetana's grief for his daughter colours most of the score and is epitomised in the chromatic descent of a fifth used extensively in the first two movements. The work opens with this theme played by the violin unaccompanied; this must must surely represent the composer's intense grief. The second movement depicts the child at play Polka with two trios (or alternativos). The principal theme is derived from the tragic theme of the opening; the first trio is pastoral and the second characterised by a march rhythm which seems to herald death. a - The Finale, however, is full of restless energy and defiance. Contrasting episodes are warmly lyrical and full of sad memories. The work ends triumphantly in the major key as if the composer had finally reached some kind of reconciliation. INTERVAL FOR COFFEE AND MINCE PIES Trio in C major, Op. 87 Allegro; Andante con moto; Scherzo; Allegro giocoso (Last performed in 1981 by the Schneider Piano Trio ) Brahms (1833-1897) Brahms was working at this composition from 1880 to 1883, the two string quartets Op.51 having been completed in 1873. Now he succeeds in combining rich fantasy with the skills of a master, endeavouring all the time to reach a form of simplicity. The opening movement reveals a sort of manly energy, characterised by the octave unison of the two stringed instruments interesting contrast being provided by the tuneful second subject. an 8

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the warm The Andante starts with a song-like idea which is then developed in five variations. The C minor key of the Scherzo suggests something rather mysterious in contrast to tunefulness of the C major trio section. Following the dark and haunting impressions of the Scherzo, the last movement returns to daylight, a picture of cheerfulness and well-being. am Happy exchanges between piano and strings into the minor and back to the major conclude the romantic finale. The first performance took place on December 29th 1882 with the string Quintet Op88. Clara Schumann, who was present, (not playing the piano) was reported to comment that Brahms's piano playing was worse than ever! P.L.M. 18 Ig HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Next concert: Monday 13th January 1992 at 7.30pm LISA BEZNOSIUK flute and MAGGIE COLE harpsichord JS Bach and his contemporaries (Bach, Boismortier, Telemann & Couperin) el MONDAYS AT St. PAUL'S Thursday 19th December at 7.30pm THE POLYTECHNIC ORCHESTRA & SYMPHONIC BAND conductors - Barrie Webb & George Pratt Ian Heavisides solo marimba Concerto for marimba & wind band Paul Creston Divertimento for Band Persichetti Four Sea Interludes (Peter Grimes) Britten Symphony No. 104 (The London)sente Haydn EBU) HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB Harrison House, Harrison Road, Halifax Friday 13th December at 7.30pm The GUADAGNINI PIANO TRIO Beethoven Op. 1 No. 1; Mendelssohn D minor; Schubert B flat Ba brobee Eutanut edd yd bsb iq gated ab

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LISA BEZNOSIUK & MAGGIE COLE Flute and Harpsichord Monday 13th January 1992 Programme Sonata for solo flute & harpsichord in G minor Sonata for solo flute & harpsichord French Suite for harpsichord No. 1 in D minor Interval Fantasie No. 8 in E minor for solo flute Fantasie No. 9 in E major for solo flute Three Pieces from Ordre No. 26 for harpsichord. Sonata for flute & harpsichord in B minor Bach - 1 Boismortier Bach Telemann Telemann Couperin Bach We acknowledge with thanks, support for our concerts from Yorkshire Arts and The Polytechnic of Huddersfield, to which this society is affiliated.

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Born in LISA BEZNOSIUK is internationally recognised as a leading performer on early flutes and has recorded a wide range of Eighteenth and Nineteenth century repertoire. Her reputation as a teacher brings students from all over the world. England of Ukranian/Irish parents, she has performed and recorded extensively with the Academy of Ancient Music, English Concert, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, English Baroque Soloists and the London Classical Players. She is now exploring romantic virtuoso flute repertoire and national styles of playing. Lisa has a regular duo partnership with Maggie Cole and they recently gave their New York debut recital to enthusiastic press response. She is Professor of Early Flutes at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music where she also coaches a class in chamber music. Her private collection of different eighteenth and nineteenth century flutes now numbers well over a dozen, and mounting....! MAGGIE COLE was born in the USA, but a particular interest in the harpsichord took her to London in 1974. She has performed and broadcast widely throughout Europe and North America, with frequent recitals on BBC Radio 3. In 1985 she played the six Partitas by Bach at the Wigmore Hall and has appeared at the Bath, Cheltenham, King's Lynn, Bruges, Moscow and Talinn Festivals. Among the more notable concerts in 1990 were performances of the Goldberg Variations during an all-night concert in Köln and performances of Bach's Concerto in D minor with the Budapest Strings in England and with the Orchestra of the Brooklyn Chamber Society in New York. 2

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Sonata for flute and harpsichord in G minor BWV1020 que done14 JS Bach (1685-1750) Allegro; Adagio; Allegro During the Baroque Era the flute gradually became a popular instrument as it was able to convey dynamic contrasts and an expressivity that its cousin the recorder could not match. This sonata, written during the 1720's highlights the virtues of the flute; agility is needed for the Allegro, in which the flute enters with an angular melodic line following a twelve-bar harpsichord introduction. Throughout this movement the two instruments pursue their own subjects, each characterised by semi-quavers, although there is some similar movement in thirds, noticeable at the conclusion. To contrast with this lively opening mood, the Adagio carries a Cantabile atmosphere, stylised by long-breathed flute phrases supported by pulsating continuo accompaniment. The energetic nature of the final Allegro is contained in in two repeated sections; a restless quality is provided by the imitation of snappy melodic fragments, and by the periodic appearance of repeated high notes. Sonata for flute & harpsichord in D Op. 91 No.4 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755) Sicilienne; Gayement; Gracieusement; Gayement Boismortier's large output of music for the flute helped to popularise the genre of concerto and sonata. Significantly, he was the first composer to write for the flute with a fully realised harpsichord part. His music is noted for its elegance, simplicity and tunefulness. 1 3

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French Suite No. 1 for harpsichord in D minor BWV812 JS Bach Allemande; Courante; Sarabande; Menuets I & II; Gigue is Written during the Weimar period of Bach's life, (1708-1717), the six French Suites, unlike their English counterparts, start with the Allemande, not the Prelude. The stately Allemande, a dance-form of 16th Century origin, is characterised here by semi-quaver movement in the treble line, although cross-rhythms and ornaments also provide interest. The dignity created in this movement is carried into the Courante, where an elegance is conveyed by skilful counterpoint creating pleasing suspensions. The majesty of the following Sarabande is stylised by emphasising the second beat in triple time; touches of chromaticism and diminished seventh chords colour the harmonic movement. The influence of Couperin can be detected in this movement, and similarly, the influence of the Royal Court of Louis XIV is reflected in the two Menuets, together representing an embryonic menuet and trio form. Momentum here, and in the following Gigue, is provided by incessant quaver movement, although the latter - a dance-form introduced to France during Louis XIV's reign - is hallmarked by a series of fugal entries and the French dotted rhythm. This suite is testimony to Schweitzer's comment, that Bach "raises the suite-form to the plane of the highest art, while at the same time he preserves its primitive character as a collection of dance-pieces." notes by Suzanne Brown INTERVAL Į 4 2

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0 0 1 0 Fantasie No. 8 in E minor for solo flute and Fantasie No.9 in E major for solo flute Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) Fantasies No.8 in E minor and No.9 in E major for solo flute, are two of a group of twelve solo flute fantasies Telemann wrote during 1732-1733 while in Hamburg. Telemann was the most prolific German composer of his day, and his output even surpassed that of J S Bach. His melodic command and uncomplicated textures show him to be an important figure in the transition from the late Baroque to the early Classical style. Three Pieces from the Ordre No. 26 for harpsichord -- François Couperin (1668-1733) La Convalescente; L'Épineuse; La Pantomime A composer, harpsichordist and organist, Couperin has been referred to as the most important figure in France between Lully and Rameau. His style fuses French and Italian elements, and his four books of Pièces de Claveçin, containing over 200 pieces, represent his clowning glory. The 26th Ordre The 26th Ordre - or Suite from which tonight's pieces are drawn, appeared in the final book, published in 1730. Written entirely in the sombre key of F sharp minor, these pieces represent the culmination of Couperin's expressive technique. - 5 I

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Sonata for flute & harpsichord in B minor BWV1030 JS Bach Andante; Largo e dolce; Presto - allegro (Tart Bach's flute sonatas date from his period of employment at Anhalt-Cöthen (1717-1723) and are ambitious and technically demanding. BWV1030 was originally written in G minor and was probably intended for the oboe. The sonata for the transverse flute and harpsichord in tonight's programme is a reworked version of this piece, and dates from Bach's time at Leipzig. The first movement is on an exceptionally grand scale, and the harpsichord part is strikingly independent and provides contrast. In the second movement the harpsichord provides the accompaniment to an expressive flute melody in the relative major. The final movement, in two sections: a fugal passage, theoretically related to the opening movement, is followed be a spirited Gigue which makes the fullest use of the versatile qualities of the flute. notes by Sacha Higgs - 6 supindibed avia 1 ㅏ N P d 9 y P M H На Fa 0 E Pa Fr

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HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Next concert: Monday 10th February 1992 at 7.30pm PRAZAK STRING QUARTET Quartet in A major, K464 Quartet No. 1 (Kreutzer Sonata) Quartet in G major Op. 106 Plans for next season, 1992-1993, are now well advanced and details will be listed in the programme for the concert on 9th March 1992 to be given by the Petersen Quartet. As last year, tickets will be on sale at that concert at a discount. The Petersen Quartet regret that a slight change of programme has had to be made; it is now as follows: Mozart Quartet in D major, K590 Quartet in C minor Op. 110 Quartet in E minor Op.59 No.2 MONDAYS AT St. PAUL'S 20th January at 7.30pm THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ENSEMBLE conducted by Barrie Webb (Milhaud, Globokar, Ibert) Op.8 Mozart Janáček Dvořák HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB Harrison House, Harrison Road, Halifax Friday 17th January 1992 at 7.30pm TIM HUGH cello Britten Cello Suite No. 1; Bach Suite No. 5; Kodaly Sonata Shostakovich Beethoven ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY Parochial Hall, Westgate, Elland - 7 Friday 24th January 1992 at 7.30pm ROBIN HILL & PETER WILTSCHINSKY Guitar Duo 1

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(5881-588 Monday 10th February 1992 JANACEK STRING QUARTET Bohumil Smejkal violin - Ladislav Kyselak viola Adolf Sykora violin - Bretislav Vybiral cello Programme Quartet No. 2 in D minor Smetana Quartet No. 2 (Intimate Letters) Janáček Quartet in G major Op 106 Dvořák The original Janáček Quartet was formed in 1947 at the Brno Janáček Academy of Arts. The Ensemble started its concert tours abroad in 1955, since which time it has appeared regularly in most of the world's important cultural centres. There have, of course, been a few changes of personnel in all that time, and only Adolf Sykora is still a member of the quartet. Their first appearance at our concerts was in 1961 and the third in 1968. We are very pleased to welcome the quartet again, especially Mr. Sykora, and thank them for stepping in at short notice in place of the Prazak who have had to cancel. We acknowledge with thanks support for our concerts from Yorkshire and Humberside Arts and the Polytechnic of Huddersfield, to which this Society is affiliated. - 1-

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Quartet No. 2 in D minor Smetana (1824-1884) Allegro Allegro moderato - Andante cantabile Allegro non piu moderato, ma agitato e con fuoco Finale: Presto Whilst the Dvořák quartet Opus 96 may be in part programmatic, both of Smetana's two string quartets are autobiographical. The first was written two years after the composer had gone deaf, and the second, dating some six years later (1882-83) carries on where the first left off. Although Smetana found it increasingly hard to concentrate on creative work (indeed, the next year he stopped altogether, and died in an asylum) it is not an obsessively obscure or morbid work. The first movement alternating 3/4 and 9/8 rhythms, and passages of energy and despair, is based on one germ-cell which is transformed into two other ideas. In place of the usual development there is a central episode which leads to a restatement of the three ideas, but now in reverse order. The coda breaks away from the predominantly minor mood, and closes the movement in F major. The appeal of the polka-like second movement (E minor and major) is immediate. The idea had been with Smetana for some time, as it is derived from a twenty-bar fragment written over thirty years before. A graceful triple-time lullaby provides a gentle contrasting section. Complexity and frustration return with the third movement (Agitato e con fuoco), made up of a series of fugal and march-like episodes. The tension relaxes in a Molto moderato, quasi marcia section somewhat precariously in C major, with ascending imitative entries. From here on the quartet medium seems fully stretched as Smetana, in his deafness, strives for more and more sonority. With barely a break, the music carries on to the Finale. This again alternates rhythms, 6/8 and 2/4, and fluctuations in tempo, and is brief - almost terse and buoyant. The movement, and the quartet, ends triumphantly, perhaps, in D major. Less popular than the first quartet, this is the technically more demanding of the two and was considered by some - notably Schoenberg - to have been written years ahead of its time. Quartet No. 2 (Intimate Letters) Janáček (1854-1928) Andante con moto Adagio - vivace Moderato - adagio - allegro Allegro - andante - adagio (Last performed in 1974 by the Melos Quartet of Stuttgart) - 2- 1

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7 ) ) Leoš Janáček was born in Moravia, the seventh child of a poor family. His father and grandfather were both village schoolmasters of the class from which so much of the musical culture of Czechoslavakia has sprung. The oldest of the great musical innovators of the 20th century, Janáček grew up in a milieu of Slav folk-culture. Like Bartok and Kodaly, he was a student of folk music and made a habit of studying the rhythms of human speech and of listening to bird song. This led him to a method of operatic composition which resulted in the magnificent Katya Kabanova, Cunning Little Vixen, House of the Dead and Jenufa, operas in which certain musical shapes occur repeatedly - shapes based on the pentatonic and modal scales, avoiding the leading note cadence. The title of this quartet was written on the manuscript and refers to the 74 year old composer's love for Kamila Stosslova. Janáček died a few months later. No key can be established although the work is not atonal - D flat is the most prominent - a key used in his other works to suggest tenderness. In construction, the general principle is the use of a theme which is repeated with different harmonic colourings and values. The first movement describes the meeting with the loved one; the second pictures an idyllic summer spent in the country. The third movement is in general gay and is in fact difficult to understand in the light of the programme, and the finale, a kind of rondo, gives the impression of the fulfilment of their love. ✩ INTERVAL * Quartet in G major Op 106 Allegro moderato Adagio ma non troppo Molto vivace Andante sostenuto - allegro con fuoco (Last performed in 1986 by the Delmé String Quartet) Dvořák's last two quartets were written on his return from the USA in 1895 and reflect his joy at being home again. The G major opens with a carefree theme - a rising sixth which is one of the pillars of the movement. The second subject, in triplets over 2/4, is a serene and beautiful melody suggesting that Dvořák was again at peace with his surroundings a great movement which is followed by a superb Adagio in the form of free variations on two closely related themes, one minor, one major, outstanding for its depth of feeling. The emotional fervour and dramatic tension grow through the variations and the opening theme is treated with infinite variety and richness of detail. ● Dvořák (1841-1904) As Alec Robertson writes: "to follow so sublime a movement cannot have been easy, but the rough gestures of the Scherzo are surely exactly right". The Finale opens dreamily but after six bars becomes allegro con fuoco. Surprisingly, the triplet second subject of the first movement is introduced, followed by an allusion to the opening rising sixth. It has been said that in this work "Dvořák aimed at the stars, and there are not many who do that with so impressive a measure of success". - 3-

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K. Beaumont Mrs. E. Crossland Mrs. A. Crowther D. Dugdale Miss M. A. Freeman E. Glendinning P. Michael Lord P. L. Michelson Peter Hawke Ltd. Mazda The Society is Grateful for Financial Help From: doid S. Rothery J. C. S. Smith Goethe Institut of Manchester Yorkshire & Humberside Arts Association S. L. Henderson Smith Mrs. C. Stephenson J. G. Sykes Mrs. E. R. Taylor W. E. Thompson H. Marshall Williams Polytechnic of Huddersfield Arts Council of Great Britain Huddersfield Music Society Next concert: Monday 9th March at 7.30pm THE PETERSON QUARTET Quartet in F, k590 Mozart Quartet in E minor Op. 59 No. 2 Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110 Beethoven Shostakovich Please note the change of programme from the published brochure at the request. of the Quartet. Mondays At St. Paul's 17th February at 7.30pm BRASS & SYMPHONIC WIND BANDS MacCunn, G Lloyd, Holst Halifax Philharmonic Club Harrison House, Harrison Road, Halifax Friday 21st February at 7.30pm - 4 - THE VOGLER QUARTET Quartet Op. 18 No. 1 Beethoven Quartet No. 2 Bartok Quartet in G Op. 161 Schubert B

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Monday 9th 9th March 1992 THE PETERSEN STRING QUARTET Conrad Muck violin Friedmann Weigle viola Gernot Süssmuth violin Hans-Jakob Eschenburg cello Programme bas Quartet in F major K590 Quartet in E minor Op.59 No.2 vbQuartet No.8 in C minor Op.110 800 Mozart Beethoven Shostakovich The Petersen Quartet was founded in 1979 and in 1985 took the European musical world by storm by winning the Florence International Competition with 10 out of 10 in every round and moving the jury to tears by the beauty of their playing. In 1988 they became quartet-in-residence of the GDR Radio and, since then, have toured the UK at least once a year. This year they embark on tours of the USA and Australia. Since January of this year, the Quartet have a new leader, Conrad Muck, who was first prize-winner of the International Ludwig Spohr Competition in Freiburg. (The previous leader, Ulrike Petersen, retired for the birth of her baby). It is this which has necessitated the change of the first two items change of works but not of composers from the published brochure. ● Institut of This concert is sponsored by the the Goethe Institut Manchester to whom we are very grateful for their generous contribution. We also acknowledge with thanks, support for our concerts from Yorkshire and Humberside Arts and The Polytechnic of Huddersfield, to which this society is affiliated.

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Mozart (1756-1791) Allegretto; Minuet and Trio; Allegro (Last performed in 1957 by the Amadeus Quartet) Quartet in F major K590 Allegro moderato; Monarchs might well ponder the cellist-king, Friedrich- Wilhelm of Prussia's claim to fame. It comes like a shaft of light down the centuries to illumine the programme notes for Mozart's last three great string quartets. The King had asked in 1790 for six quartets and Mozart completed three of them. One hopes that the King had as much enjoyment from playing the cello part in them as we have in listening to them today. The three quartets are as different in character as the last three symphonies. K590 begins with a bold octave unison theme and the second, related, subject is introduced by the cello. Much contrapuntal use is made of this material and the movement ends with a coda. The slow movement, in graceful 6/8 rhythm, is followed by an unusual minuet and trio, unusual in that the minuet's melody runs to seven bars and the trio's to five, giving a most distinctive quality to the movement. The finale is full of swirling semi-quavers with sudden pauses from which the music often goes off at a tangent. In its syncopation and accented leaps the movement generates great excitement. Quartet in E minor Op.59 No. 2 Beethoven (1770-1827) Presto Allegro; Molto adagio; Allegretto; (Last performed in 1988 by the the Eder Quartet) Beethoven's three quartets dedicated to Count Rasoumovsky, Russian Ambassador in Vienna, were written between 1806 and 1808, with war all around and his own deafness increasing. The opus 18 works already show a tremendous range of feeling and a remarkable mastery of dialogue between the four instruments. Here in Op.59, six or so years later, we so years later, we seem to be in a different sphere. There is every kind of emotion and, as in the Mozart, the three are marvellously different in character. After the first, towering Rasoumovsky quartet, the second is more elusive. It opens with two declamatory chords followed by a bar's silence; then a rising and falling arpeggio and another

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silence. The same motif is played a semitone higher and the nervously energetic movement is launched, with moments of high drama in its development. Beethoven requests that the second movement be played "with great feeling" (con molto di sentimento). It is followed by a syncopated scherzo and trio incorporating the Russian theme which is a compliment to the dedicatee. Here a patriotic hymn is transmuted into a delicate allegretto fugato. The presto is an energetic rondo. What fun Beethoven has in tossing the little snippets of three notes between the instruments, so that one is almost frightened of their being dropped somewhere. The fast tempo is increased for a brilliant ending. INTERVAL The Society thanks the ladies of St. John's Church, Newsome, for the provision of coffee in the intervals. Quartet No.8 in C minor Op. 110 Largo; Shostakovich (1906-1975) Largo; Largo; Largo Allegro molto; Allegretto; (Last performed in 1968 by the Wissema Quartet) Of Shostakovich's fifteen string quartets, written between 1938 and 1974, the first four were never performed during the lifetime of Stalin, who died in 1953. The seventh and eighth quartets were both written in 1960 and are among the most personal of the fifteen, the latter because of its clearly defined subject matter and repeated use of the composer's initials as its main theme. It is an expression of the composer's horror at the sight of the "frightful and senseless destruction of Dresden" and was completed in three days. In its tragic intensity, the C minor quartet epitomises Shostakovich's own sufferings and those of his many friends and victims of oppression and war. The first of the quartet's five linked movements opens with successive entries of the D.S.C.H. (D.Eflat.C.B.) theme. The frenetic and menacing allegro has at its climax the Jewish theme from the piano trio trio Op.67 of 1944, representing the composer's hatred of anti-Semitism. It is followed by a

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diabolical waltz, where an ostinato accompaniment combines with a chromatic melody, mostly in the first violin part. The first few notes of the Dies Irae lead into a largo where strong accented chords punctuate a long held pp note, intended to suggest the drone of bombers. The finale brings us back to the opening theme. The whole continuous work gives a powerful and moving expression to Shostakovich's deep feelings regarding the suffering which mankind so often inflicts upon itself. "Art destroys silence.... I always wanted music to be an active force. This is the Russian tradition". Shostakovich - Testimony. HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY This is the last concert of the season and we thank all our subscribers and helpers for their support. Plans for next season are available (the blue leaflet) and tickets are on sale tonight during the interval and after the concert. 'S MONDAYS AT St. PAUL'S 16th & 18th March at 7.30pm THE POLYTECHNIC OPERA GROUP TWO MUSICAL DOCTORS... "Doctor Miracle" Bizet and Inselo "Doctor Musikus" Anthony Hopkins a szoqmo Directed by Stephen Harper and David Lennox HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB Harrison House, Harrison Road, Halifax Friday 13th March at 7.30pm Students from the Royal Northern College of Music ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY Parochial Hall, Westgate, Elland Friday 27 March at 7.30pm SORREL STRING QUARTET Mozart K464; Beethoven Op. 95; Schubert Op.29