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HUDDERSFIELD
MUSIC SOCIETY
President: Mrs Linda Walker
79th Season
1996-97
Mondays at St. Paul's
University of Huddersfield
Vertavo String Quartet
Yorkshire & Humberside
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Huddersfield Music Society Reg. Charity 529340
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5. Monday 3rd February 1997, 7.30 pm
ARTUR PIZARRO &
STEPHEN COOMBS
two pianos
Sonata in D K448
Variations on a theme of Beethoven
La Valse
Symphonic Dances
Mozart
Saint-Saëns
Ravel
Rachmaninov
By popular request, widely acclaimed Artur Pizarro
returns, bringing this time a colleague to play some
gems from the two-piano repertoire.
Sponsored by WOODS MUSIC SHOP
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Henninge Batnes
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Woods
THE MUSIC SHOP
6. Monday 10th March 1997, 7.30
pm
VERTAVO STRING QUARTET
Quartet in B flat major K589
Quartet in F minor Op. 95
Quartet in D minor Op. 56 (Voces Intimae)
violins
viola
cello
Mozart
Beethoven
Sibelius
Something special from Norway: youthful brilliance
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order with a maturity which belies their years.
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1. Monday 14th October 1996, 7.30 pm
PRAZAK STRING QUARTET
Vaclav Remes
Vlastimil Holek
Josef Kluson
Michal Kanka
Five pieces
Quartet No. 2
Quartet No. 1 in E minor
BX
Martin Dehning
Sonja-Maria Marks
Friederike Koch
Sabine Pfeiffer
Quartet in B flat Op. 18 No. 6
Quartet No. 8 in C minor Op. 110
Quartet in C minor Op. 51 No. 1
violin
violin
viola
cello
2. Monday 4th November 1996, 7.30 pm
NOMOS STRING QUARTET
The NOMOS is a young
German quartet from
Hanover where they
gained high praise in
the Allgemeine Zeitung
for their "sovereign
technique and most
sensitive interpretation”.
Schulhoff
Janacek
Smetana
A Czech quartet of
exceptional musical
quality, the Prazak
makes a welcome
return visit with an
all-Czech
programme.
violin
violin
viola
cello
Beethoven
Shostakovich
Brahms
In partnership with the GOETHE-INSTITUT Manchester
3. Monday 2nd December 1996, 7.30 pm
DUNCAN MCTIER double-bass
KATHRON STURROCK piano
Variations "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen" Beethoven
Sonata in A minor D821 (Arpeggione)
Schubert
Capriccio di Bravura
Bottesini
Elégie
Fauré
Berkeley
Rossini
Cassado
Introduction and Allegro
Une Larme pour Basse
Requiebros
"The Paganini of
the double-bass"
in partnership
with an ensemble
pianist of wide
experience.
Sponsored by PETER HAWKE GARAGES
4. Monday 20th January 1997, 7.30 pm
Royal Northern
College of Music
WIND ENSEMBLE
Conductor - Timothy Reynish
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Serenade for Wind Instruments Op. 44
Serenade
Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments K361
NatWest
Handel
Dvorak
Howard Blake
Mozart
Ensemble music from one of the leading centres for
the development of wind, brass and percussion music
in Europe.
"Their precision of ensemble was breathtaking".
(Guardian)
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7. Monday 14th April 1997, 7.30 pm
SORREL STRING QUARTET
with
ROWLAND-JONES viola
& BEN FRITH piano
SIMON
Gina McCormack
Catherine Yates
Vicci Wardman
Helen Thatcher
Quartet in D major Op. 71 No. 2
String Quintet in F major Op. 88
Piano Quintet in A major Op. 81
A group of fine musicians from
the North of England in an
unusual
sumptuous
and
programme.
W&S
violin
violin
viola
cello
Haydn
Brahms
Dvorak
Wheawill & Sudworth
Sponsored by WHEAWILL & SUDWORTH
The Huddersfield Music Society is affiliated to the
University of Huddersfield and our concerts form part
of the series "Mondays at St. Paul's".
The other
concerts in the series are provided by the students and
staff of the School of Music and Humanities and cover
a wide range of musical performance. Full details are
published in the Department's brochure, "Mondays at
St. Paul's", obtainable at the information Centre or from
the University School of Music and Humanities.
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HUDDERSFIELD
MUSIC SOCIETY
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Seventy-Ninth Season
1996-1997
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MONDAYS AT ST. PAUL'S
University of Huddersfield
Seventy-ninth Season
1996 - 1997
14th October 1996
PRAZAK STRING QUARTET from PRAGUE
all Bohemian programme
4th November 1996
NOMOS STRING QUARTET from GERMANY
(Beethoven, Shostakovich & Brahms)
in partnership with the Goethe Institut of Manchester
2nd December 1996
DUNCAN MCTIER, doublebass & KATHRON STURROCK, piano
(Beethoven, Schubert, Bottesini, Faure, Berkeley, Rossini)
20th January, 1997
Royal Northern College of Music Wind Ensemble
conductor - Timothy Reynish
(Mozart Serenade for Thirteen Wind Instruments)
3rd February 1997
ARTUR PIZARRO and STEPHEN COOMBS - two pianos
(Mozart and Rachmaninov)
10th March 1997
VERTAVO STRING QUARTET from NORWAY
(Mozart, Sibelius and Beethoven)
14th April 1997
SORREL STRING QUARTET
with Simon Rowland-Jones, viola & Ben Frith, piano
(Haydn Quartet, Brahms Quintet and Dvorak Piano Quintet)
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HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY
Our 79th season includes three return visits: the Prazak Quartet in October,
Artur Pizarro in February and the Sorrel Quartet with extra viola and piano
in April - an unusually late date for us to finish the season, but we hope for
a light and fine evening. We look forward to welcoming all these old
friends.
In November we are privileged to have the support of the Goethe Institut of
Manchester in promoting a sparkling young German quartet, the Nomos
and in March we are (certain this time) to have a Norwegian quartet, the
Vertavo, who took all the best prizes at the prestigious Melbourne Festival
last year. Norway will have to be on its best behaviour this time as we
already have the Sorrel, who stepped in last time, in our programme.
Scandinavia is getting a big name for chamber music so we are expecting a
brilliant concert.
The one instrumental recital this season is by Duncan McTier, and if you
think the double bass is not a solo instrument come and hear this fine
musician!
In January we will have the Royal Northern College of Music Wind
Ensemble, conductor Timothy Reynish, to play Mozart's great Serenade for
Thirteen Wind Instruments, a work we have never had before at our
concerts. These young players are a delight to hear; it will certainly be a fine
concert.
We thank all our subscribers and sponsors for supporting the Society with
such enthusiasm and hope that next season appeals to you. If you have
picked up this leaflet, you are probably one of these good people, but we also
give very sympathetic consideration to applications from new subscribers!
Prices below:
Double season ticket £57 (£60 after 30th April)
Single season ticket
£30 (£32 after 30th April)
(available on 25th March)
If you are not on the mailing list, please give your name and address to the
Hon. Treasurer, Mr. P. M. Lord, 14 Garsdale Road, Newsome, Huddersfield
HD4 6QZ Tel 429214.
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HUDDERSFIELD
MUSIC SOCIETY
Registered Charity 529340
President: Mrs Linda Walker
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Seventy-Ninth Season
1996-1997
St. Paul's Concert Hall, Queensgate
Monday 7.30 pm.
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Monday 14th OCTOBER 1996
PRAZAK STRING QUARTET
Vaclav Remes violin
Vlastimil Holek violin
Programme
Five Pieces
Quartet No.2 Intimate Letters
Quartet No.1 in E minor
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Josef Kluson viola
Michal Kanka cello
Erwin Schulhoff
Leos Janácek
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From my Life Bedrich Smetana
One of the Czech Republic's foremost string quartets, the
PRAZAK was formed at the Prague Conservatoire in 1972;
they are now one of the leading international ensembles
performing throughout the world. The summers of 1994 and
1995 saw their participation in many important festivals
including the Bregenzer Festspiele, Lockenhaus, Tivoli in
Copenhagen, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland and in
December last year they made their debut at the Queen's Hall in
Edinburgh to great acclaim. Next January they will take part in
the International Chamber Music Series at the South Bank
Centre in London. They have just returned from New Zealand
after a rapturous reception in Auckland.
We are grateful for a generous donation towards this concert
from one of our members who wishes to remain anonymous.
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Five Pieces
Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
(First performance at these concerts)
Erwin Schulhoff, Czech pianist and composer, was born in Prague.
After serving in the first world war, he spent some years in Germany,
returning in 1923 to his native city where he gave many piano recitals with
an emphasis on new music including jazz.
This dance suite of five pieces reflects some of his early influences,
notably Stravinsky and Bartók. Schulhoff's music has only recently
become known - much of it was composed and performed in Terezin
concentration camp where he spent a year, in company with many other
Jewish artists and scholars, before his tragic end in Auschwitz in 1942.
Quartet No.2 Intimate Letters
Janácek (1854-1928)
Andante - allegro; Adagio; Moderato; Allegro
(Last performed in 1992 by the Janácek Quartet)
Undoubtedly the most outstanding Czech composer since Smetana and
Dvorák, Leos Janácek formed an original and highly personal musical
style which culminated in his late works, including his only two string
quartets. Like Bartók and Kodály in Hungary, Janácek used the folk
music of his country and evolved a theory of 'speech melody' - building
phrases on the inflections of the human voice. He also placed great
emphasis on drama and these two aspects of his work are clearly shown in
both his string quartets.
The second quartet was Janácek's last work, written six months before
his sudden death and is the expression of his passionate love for the young
Mrs. Kamila Stösslova. In his letters Janácek reveals the thought behind
each movement: the first describes their first meeting, the second refers to
an earlier summer holiday in Moravia which the Janáceks and the Stössels
spent together; the third, bright and carefree to begin with, conjures up a
vision of Kamila's image; at the heart of the movement there is a searingly
intense passage played by the first violin; the last movement is "the sound
of my fear for you not exactly fear but a longing which is fulfilled by
you".
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The quartet is a work of contrasts with juxtapositions of extremes of
tempo, dynamics and moods, combined with a wealth of instrumental
effects. The short phrases are frequently followed by rhythmically varied
repetitions and accompanying figures are often simple ostinatos at varying
speeds. The effects are startling. The work is a passionate expression of
the deepest feelings of the 74-year old composer; it is full of fire and took
Janácek just twenty-two days to compose.
INTERVAL
Quartet No. 1 in E minor From my Life Smetana (1824-1884)
Allegro vivo appassionato; Allegro molto alla polka;
Largo sostenuto; Vivace
(Last performed in 1988 by the Prazak Quartet)
This work was written in 1876 when Smetana was 52 and the sub-title
is the composer's own. He wrote "I did not intend to write a quartet
according to recipe and custom, in the usual forms... I wanted to give a
tone picture of my life". The first movement he characterised as "My
leaning towards art in my youth, the romantic atmosphere, the
inexpressible longing for something I could neither express nor define".
The figure of a falling fifth, prominent in the striking viola solo at the
beginning and throughout the movement, he called "a presage of my
future misfortune". Of the second movement he said "It takes me back to
the happy times of youth when, as a composer of dance tunes, I lavished
these upon the young world and was myself known everywhere as a
passionate dancer".
Of the slow movement Smetana said that it recalled the happiness of
his first love for the girl whom he later married. The headlong progress of
the dance-finale a celebration of folk music - is halted by a fortissimo
interrupted cadence. Over tremolando chords we hear the high insistent
note which, perpetually sounding in his ear, had dogged the composer in
the year 1874 and had preceded his total deafness. The tragic mood is
never shaken off in the reminiscences of previous movements which
appear at the end of the work.
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY
Monday 4th November 1996 at 7.30pm
THE NOMOS STRING QUARTET from Hanover
Beethoven Quartet Op.18 No.6; Shostakovich Quartet No.8; Mendelssohn
Quartet Op.80 (At the request of the Nomos Quartet, the Mendelssohn is
being played in place of the Brahms C minor. We apologise for the
change of programme).
4th November 1996 NOMOS STRING QUARTET
2nd December 1996 DUNCAN MCTIER double-bass
20th January 1997 RNCM WIND ENSEMBLE
3rd February 1997 PIZARRO & COOMBS two pianos
10th March 1997 VERTAVO STRING QUARTET
14th April 1997 SORREL STRING QUINTET & BEN FRITH piano
UNIVERSITY MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Monday 28th October at 7.30pm
STUDENTS ON STAGE
The first concert in the 'University Mondays at St. Pauls' features
undergraduates and post-graduates from the Department of Music who are
specialising in performance.
Works by Martinu, Mendelssohn, Dohnanyi, Weber, Bach, Walton, Bizet
and Rodrigo.
ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY
Friday 25th October at 7.30pm
BENJAMIN FRITH piano
Mendelssohn, Schubert, Granados and Rachmaninov
HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB
Friday 8th November at 7.30pm
LINDSAY QUARTET
An all-Schubert programme - Quartet Op.29; Quartetsatz and Quartet
Op.161 in G.
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HUDDERSFIELD
MUSIC SOCIETY
Registered Charity 529340
President: Mrs Linda Walker
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WT.
Seventy-Ninth Season
1996 - 1997
St. Paul's Concert Hall, Queensgate
Monday 7.30 pm.
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YORKSHIRE'S LEADING SPECIALISTS IN
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YAMAHA TECHNICS CASIO ROLAND
KNIGHT KEMBLE BROADWOOD
OFFICERS
President
Mrs. Linda Walker
Hon. Secretary
Mrs. M.S. Glendinning Tel. 01484 422612 Fax 01484 432443
Assistant Secretary
J. Gordon Sykes Tel. 01484 663474
Hon. Treasurer
P. Michael Lord
14 Garsdale Road, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6QZ
COMMITTEE
Dr. Peter Clare, Dr. Mark Ellis, Edward Glendinning,
Paul Michelson, Mrs. J. de Nikitin Solsky, Simon Rothery
Stephen Smith, Mrs. E. Stephenson, Mrs. L. Sykes
Brian Walker, Mr. Hugh Marshall Williams
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Monday 4th November 1996
THE NOMOS STRING QUARTET
Martin Dehning violin
Sonja-Maria Marks violin
Friederike Koch viola
Sabine Pfeiffer cello
Programme
Quartet in B flat Op.18 No.6
Quartet No.8 in C minor Op.110
Quartet in F minor Op.80
Beethoven
Shostakovich
Mendelssohn
The musicians of the Nomos Quartet studied in Germany
and in London, Paris and the Juilliard School in New York.
Inspired by their teacher, Ramy Shevelov, they founded the
Nomos Quartet in 1984 and soon won prizes at string quartet
competitions in Evian, Munich and Finland.
They continued their studies with the Amadeus Quartet
and with Franz Beyer, Gyorgy Kurtag and Nikolaus
Harnoncourt.
Nomos is a Greek word signifying the principles of law
and melody.
Tonight's concert is given in partnership with the Goethe-
Institut Manchester and supported by Lufthansa.
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Quartet in B flat Op.18 No.6
Beethoven (1770-1827)
Allegro con brio; Adagio ma non troppo;
Scherzo and trio; Adagio - allegretto quasi allegro
(Last performed in 1977 by the New Budapest Quartet)
This is a work which combines many diverse moods and contrasting
styles. The earlier movements are traditional, the first being an
exhilarating allegro in which the repeating of both halves enhances the
dance-like character of the music. The end comes abruptly, without a
coda. The second movement is sober with touches of mystery here and
there. The themes are much decorated.
There follows an extraordinary scherzo, almost unbelievably in 3/4
time, but as the first violin hardly ever plays the first beat of the bar the
syncopated rhythm is even more difficult to identify than to play. The trio
starts with a tripping cascade of notes a little virtuoso piece for the
violin.
A slow introduction: La Malinconia - begins the finale. Here
Beethoven anticipates his late quartets. These 44 bars are remarkable for
their daring modulations and are 'to be played with great delicacy'; the last
movement proper is a gay rondo. Half way through, the melancholy
opening interrupts the gaiety but always the rondo theme returns and the
work ends with an exuberant prestissimo.
Quartet No.8 in C minor Op.110
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Shostakovich's eighth quartet was written in 1960 and is a personal
affirmation of the very strong views which had got him into so much
trouble with Stalin's regime. Now seven years after Stalin's death,
Shostakovich is able to express his views and yet appear to work to an
'officially acceptable' programme. He himself says that the work is
autobiographical and he identifies himself by the all-pervading motto
theme of his initials DSCH (for us, the notes D,E flat,C,B).
The first of the five movements, played without a break, opens with
these melancholy notes and the whole movement is desolate. The frenetic
allegro which follows is menacing; it leads into a diabolical waltz where a
chromatic melody combines with an ostinato accompaniment. The
programmatic Largo, with its vicious chords against a sustained
pianissimo note, evokes explosions and the drone of bombers. (The
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composer had just returned from visiting the devastated city of Dresden).
The finale brings us back to the opening theme and the desolation which
Shostakovich felt at the suffering which mankind so often inflicts upon
itself: "I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no
less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders; I think constantly of those
people and in almost every major work I try to remind others of them".
Many among them were his friends.
INTERVAL
Quartet No.6 in F minor Op.80
Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Allegro vivace assai; Scherzo - allegro assai; Adagio; Allegro molto
(First performance at these concerts)
In May 1847, following his tenth and final visit to England (which
included the triumphant performance of Elijah in Birmingham on
27th April), Mendelssohn returned to Frankfurt to be told of the sudden
death of Fanny, one of his two beloved sisters, upon which he apparently
collapsed, stricken by the news. To assist his recovery from this shock,
those close to the composer encouraged him to take a holiday. While at
Interlaken, in Switzerland, he set to work on this, his final completed
quartet, in which he seems to express his intense feelings of grief. A
writer in the New Grove summed up the thematic material as being
dominated by "grim despair, wild yearnings, dramatic urgency and
spectral unrest".
The opening movement soon dispels an initial resemblance to
Beethoven's Opus 95 (in the same key) and contains some quite forward-
looking harmonies. It ends with an intense and extended presto coda. The
Scherzo is unlike any other movement Mendelssohn composed under this
title, being more akin to a minuet, turned into a "bizarre, almost savage
dance in triple time". Its trio section is, literally, written throughout in
three parts. The Adagio, though in the major, is subdued and dark,
beginning gently but becoming increasingly more agitated. Th Finale,
energetic and passionate, continues the quartet's mood of despair to the
very end of the work.
The notes for the Mendelssohn quartet were supplied through the
Programme Note Bank of the National Federation of Music Societies.
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY
Monday 2nd December 1996 at 7.30pm
DUNCAN MCTIER double bass & KATHRON STURROCK piano
Variations Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen
Sonata in A minor (Arpeggione)
and works by Bottesini, Fauré, Berkeley, Rossini and Cassado
Beethoven
Schubert
20th January 1997 RNCM WIND ENSEMBLE
3rd February 1997 PIZARRO & COOMBS two pianos
10th March 1997 VERTAVO STRING QUARTET
14th April 1997 SORREL STRING QUINTET & BEN FRITH piano
MONDAYS AT ST. PAULS
11th November at 7.30pm
STUDENTS ON STAGE II
Kathryn Wray and Sarah Cartwright clarinets
Charlotte McLean and Julia Mann voices
Amanda Young organ
Louise Ross French Horn
ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY
Friday 29th November at 7.30pm
JOANNE FREELAND clarinet & JUDITH KEANEY piano
Ireland, Schumann, Poulenc, Brahms, Tartini and Messager
HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB
Friday 8th November at 7.30pm
LINDSAY QUARTET
An all-Schubert programme - Quartet Op.29 in A minor; Quartetsatz and
Quartet Op.161 in G.
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HUDDERSFIELD
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President: Mrs Linda Walker
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Seventy-Ninth Season
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RECITAL
Monday 2nd December 1996
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DUNCAN McTIER- Double Bass
YUKO INOUE - Viola
KATHRON STURROCK - Piano
Programme
Capriccio di Bravura
Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen'
Sonata for viola and piano
Urizen for viola and piano
Epigrams for double bass and piano
Lied ohne Wörte Op.109
Elégie Op.44
Requiebros
Bottesini
Beethoven
Rebecca Clarke
John Hawkins
Kodály
Mendelssohn
Glazunov
Cassadó
DUNCAN MCTIER, one of the world's leading double bass
soloists has appeared in major festivals and concert halls throughout
Europe and Japan where he has captivated audiences and gained much
critical acclaim. He has appeared as soloist with many orchestras in Great
Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark and with the Lausanne Chamber
Orchestra. He has recorded Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Strathclyde
concerto No.7 for Collins Classics. His virtuoso recording, Moments
Musicaux (CD) with Kathron Sturrock, was described in the Strad as
containing 'the most refined bass playing you are ever likely to hear'.
Born in Stourbridge, Worcs., he obtained a degree in mathematics at
Bristol University before joining the BBC SO. After seven years as
principal bass of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra he returned to
England to concentrate on a career as soloist and chamber musician. He is
Principal Professor of Double Bass at the Royal Academy of Music, gives
master classes throughout Europe and Japan and holds a summer course at
the Academie de Musique in Sion, Switzerland.
YUKO INOUE, winner of the 17th Budapest International Viola
Competition, has performed with many orchestras and distinguished
soloists in Europe and Japan. She was born in Hamamatsu in Japan and
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studied the violin in Tokyo, later continuing on the viola with Nobuko
Imai at the RNCM Manchester, where she is now senior tutor and also
teaches at the Yehudi Menuhin School.
Yuko Inoue was for three years principal viola with the Netherlands
Chamber Orchestra before returning to London where she is in great
demand as soloist and chamber musician. She is married to Duncan
McTier.
KATHRON STURROCK studied at the Royal College of music
and then won an Austrian Government scholarship to study with Alfred
Brendel. Further awards enabled her to study with Rostropovich the
repertoire for cello and piano. Her concerts, recordings and TV
appearances have taken her to most countries of Europe and to the USA,
India and Australia. She performs regularly in London and records
frequently for the BBC.
She is the only pianist to have twice won the prize for the best
accompanist at the Sofia International Opera Competition. Since 1990 she
has been working closely with 'Opera in Arabic', the inspiration of an
Egyptian doctor, Dr. Aly Sadek. The organisation is dedicated to making
the operas of Mozart accessible to Arabic speakers throughout the world.
Due to a temporary disability of Mr McTier's wrist and the
consequent necessity to 'take it easy', we have the unexpected addition of
a viola to tonight's concert. We wish Mr McTier a speedy recovery and
we warmly welcome his wife, Yuko Inoue. We therefore apologise for
the unavoidable change of programme.
We are very grateful to PETER HAWKE GARAGES for financial help
with this concert.
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Capriccio di Bravura Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889)
Bottesini was the greatest double bass player of his time, a
veritable Paganini of the instrument in an age which accorded
its virtuosi the same sort of cult status that might be accorded
the film or pop stars of today. But for a quirk of fate, he might
have become a bassoonist. Scholarships for bassoon and
double bass only were available when he entered the Milan
Conservatoire in 1835, and he opted for the latter. Bottesini's
music for his own instrument has eclipsed the rest of his output.
None of it has much pretension to profundity, but it is
nevertheless hugely enjoyable and allows us to appreciate how
skilled a player he must have been. Capriccio di Bravura
consists of a single ternary movement, marked Allegro con
fuoco, prefaced by a florid Andante introduction.
Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen' Op.66
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
These variations are the first of two sets that Beethoven
wrote for cello and piano on themes from Mozart's The Magic
Flute. In spite of the late opus number, they were composed in
1798 at around the same time as the sonatas for cello and piano
opus 5, and possibly received their first performance in the
presence of the sonatas' dedicatee, König Friedrich Wilhelm.
Of the two sets, the character of the theme Ein Mädchen oder
Weibchen is the more suitable for transcription for double bass.
In comparison with a slightly earlier set of variations for cello
and piano that Beethoven wrote on a theme from Handel's Judas
Maccabaeus, where the piano is given most of the opportunities
for display, these variations are far more sophisticated in
content and divide the honours of performance evenly between
the two players.
Sonata for viola & piano (1919)
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979)
Vivace; Adagio
Impetuoso;
Rebecca Clarke, a composition student of (Sir Charles)
Stanford and herself an extremely accomplished violist, has left
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behind only a handful of compositions, but these all bear the
stamp of a passionate nature allied to an original and cultured
mind. Many of her wonderful songs are set to texts of great
complexity and symbolism, poems by Blake, Yeats and
A E Housman among them. Her Viola Sonata is headed by a
quote from Alfred de Musset's poem A May Night - 'Poet, take
up thy lute: tonight the wine of youth is fermenting in the veins
of God'. This highly sensuous, disturbing introduction captures
dramatically the flavour of the sonata, apparent in the
rhapsodical, wide-ranging melodies of the outer movements, in
the ghostly, surreal folk music of the fleet Scherzo, and in the
quicksilver changes throughout from melancholy to elation.
Both instruments have equal, weighty and brilliant roles to play,
and the strength of the writing, the profusion of ideas and the
grandness of the concept, make this sonata one of the
masterpieces of the viola repertoire.
INTERVAL
Urizen for viola and piano
John Hawkins (b. 1949)
William Blake personified what he saw as anti-spiritual
rationalism in the figure of Urizen. In his prophetic 'Book of
Urizen' he is described, in apocalyptic language, struggling
from his eternal state to be born as a mortal.
'What Demon
Hath form'd this abominable void.
This soul-shudd'ring vacuum? Some said
'It is Urizen'. But unknown abstracted,
brooding secret, the dark power hid.
Urizen was written for Paul Silverthorne. It is published by
Boosey & Hawkes, together with a version with string orchestra
(which is performed in America by the Orpheus Chamber
Ensemble). John Hawkins studied with Malcolm Williamson
and Elisabeth Lutyens. His Sea Symphony has been broadcast
by the BBC three times and This World - a cantata for choir
and trumpets, also based on Blake's words will be recorded by
the BBC Singers this autumn.
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Epigrams for double bass and piano
Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
Kodály composed nine short pieces in October and
November 1954, originally modestly called 'Reading Exercises'.
Evidently he intended that the little songs be used for study
purposes, eg. ear training. However the cycle is much more
valuable than just an exercise. The pieces are worthy to be
performed at concerts. There are several transcriptions and
arrangements. It was the composer himself who wrote 'The
voice part may be performed on any string or wind instrument
as well - eventually in the upper or lower octave. It is most
advantageous if the performer is using the work as a reading
exercise, accompanying their own singing'. Later on, words
were written to the songs by Melinda Kistetenyi.
transcription, for double bass and piano, was made using only
seven of the nine movements by Lajos Montag.
This
Lied ohne Wörte Op.109
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
Mendelssohn began using the title 'Lied ohne Wörte' in 1830
and published eight volumes of these songs for solo piano.
There is no date on the manuscript of the Lied for cello and
piano but it is certainly one of the last pieces he wrote, possibly
in 1845. It is a beautiful work with a simple, contemplative
melody and a stormy middle section. When one considers that
this is the only Lied ohne Wörte he wrote for instruments other
than solo piano, one treasures this little gem all the more.
Elégie Op.44
Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936)
Glazunov was not only a highly respected composer but a
dedicated teacher, being appointed in 1905 Director of the St.
Petersburg Conservatoire where he worked tirelessly to
improve the standards of the curriculum and of pedagogic
achievement. Political unrest forced him, in 1928, to leave
Russia for Europe. His health and morale suffered greatly from
the effects of World War 1, and the ensuing Civil War, and he
never recovered the inspired creative form he showed in the
early years of the century. The small but quietly moving Elégie
for viola and piano dates from these years and shows, even in
this miniature form, the hand of a master craftsman.
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Requiebros
Gaspar Cassadó (1897-1966)
Cassadó came from a musical family and initially studied
with his father, himself a composer. He trained as a cellist and
in 1910 went to Paris to study with Casals. This mixture of
Spanish and French cultures is reflected in his compositions:
his two greatest influences being Ravel and Falla. Cassadó was
a cellist of international stature, working with artists of the
calibre of Rubinstein, Iturbi and Szigeti, so it is not surprising
that many of his compositions put the cello in the starring role.
His wife, the pianist Chieko Hara, often accompanied him;
rumour has it that Cassadó had quite an eye for the girls and
therefore wrote taxing parts for the piano in order to engage his
wife's attention, if his was elsewhere! However, Requiebros is
a brilliant and virtuoso display piece for both instruments, full
of colour and drama, and would have given him very little
opportunity for flirtation!
Programme notes © Kathron Sturrock 1996
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY
Monday 20th January 1997 at 7.30pm
RNCM WIND ENSEMBLE conductor Edward Warren
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Serenade for Wind Instruments Op.44
Serenade
Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments
3rd February 1997 PIZARRO & COOMBS two pianos
10th March 1997 VERTAVO STRING QUARTET
Handel
Dvorák
Howard Blake
Mozart
14th April 1997 SORREL STRING QUARTET with
BEN FRITH piano and SIMON ROWLAND-JONES viola
MONDAYS AT ST. PAULS
9th December at 7.30pm
UNIVERSITY BRASS BAND & CHAMBER CHOIR
Ian Buckle piano
Philip McCann, Michael Brewer conductors
Rhapsody in Blue
The Kingdom Triumphant
The Year of the Dragon
A Moorside Suite
also Madrigals, motets and part-songs
Gershwin
Eric Ball
Philip Sparke
Holst
HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB
Friday 6th December at 7.30pm
THE LAKE PIANO TRIO
Beethoven Op.1 No.2; Josephs No.2; Dvorák Op.90 (Dumky)
Note: This recital is in the SQUARE CHAPEL (opposite Eureka)
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY
Monday 3rd February 1997 at 7.30pm
ARTUR PIZARRO and STEPHEN COOMBS two pianos
Sonata in D K448
Variations on a theme of Beethoven
Symphonic Dances
10th March VERTAVO STRING QUARTET
14th April SORREL STRING QUARTET with
SIMON ROWLAND-JONES viola and BEN FRITH piano
MONDAYS AT ST. PAULS
27th January at 7.30pm
STUDENTS ON STAGE III
Mozart
Saint-Saëns
Rachmaninov
HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB
Friday 24th January at 7.30pm
CAMILLE VAN LUNEN soprano & ROY HOWAT piano
works by Chabrier, Debussy, Fauré and Ravel
and Wendy Hiscocks - recent discoveries
ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY
Friday 31st January at 7.30pm
MARI-KJERSTI TENNFJORD soprano and
KEITH SWALLOW piano
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Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Handel (1685-1759)
This Sinfonia, heralding the arrival of the Queen at the court of King
Solomon, comes from Handel's Oratorio Solomon, composed during the
latter part of his life, a few years before Messiah. Tonight's performance
is of an arrangement for wind instruments only.
Serenade in D minor, Op.44 (1878)
Dvorák (1841-1904)
Andante con moto:
Moderato quasi marcia: Minuetto:
Finale allegro molto
It is possible that Dvorák was influenced in his masterly Serenade by
Brahms' Second Serenade in A, scored for Harmonie with violas, celli and
basses, and surely the rocking accompaniment to the operatic dialogue
between oboe and clarinet in the andante owe their inspiration to the slow
movement of Mozart's great Serenade in B flat.
The serenade was written in only a fortnight, the first movement
taking only one day to write, and the première was given under the
composer's baton on 17th November. The first movement is ternary, a
spritely march alternating with more lyrical material. The minuet is a
gentle look back to the 18th century, until a swirl of clarinet scales leads us
into the trio which is a furiant. For the finale, Dvorák uses a free rondo
form, with various folk-dance episodes, culminating in a return of the
opening march before a final furious coda.
INTERVAL
Serenade in B flat, K361 'Gran Partita'
Mozart (1756-1791)
Largo - molto allegro; Menuetto; Adagio; Menuetto;
Romanze; Theme and Variations; Finale
It has long been assumed that this Serenade is the earliest of Mozart's
three masterpieces for the Harmoniemusik, the 18th century military band
and that therefore the work was written in 1780 or 1781, shortly after
Mozart moved from Munich to Vienna, where he met the Stadler brothers.
A more recent assignment of the Serenade to 1783/84 is made on the basis
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refers to an 'Akademie' at the Burg-Theater on March 23rd 1784 at which
there was played... 'a great music for winds of a very special kind
composed by Herr Mozart'.
Here is a true fusion of forms, the Symphony and the Serenade, treated
with mastery only matched in the great Octet of Schubert. The first
movement begins with a portentous Largo introduction, leading to a full
symphonic movement with a development section of a detail found only in
the Serenade. There is more than a touch of the influence of Haydn in the
short-winded phrases of the principal theme, and the equally rare adoption
of the same motivic material for the second group. For a description of
the other six movements, let us turn to Einstein:
"The fascination of the work emanates from its sheer sound. There
is a continuous alternation between the two clarinets; a constant
revelling in new combinations: a quartet of clarinets and basset
horns, a sextet of oboes, basset horns and bassoons over the
supporting double bass; oboe, basset horn and bassoon in
unison....this (the adagio third movement) is a scene from Romeo
under the starry skies, a scene in which longing, grief, and love are
wrung like a distillation from the beating hearts of the lovers. The
counterpart to this lyricism is found in the Romance whose
sentimentality is carried towards the point of absurdity by means
of an oddly burlesque Allegretto, an alternativo. A third slow
movement, an andantino with variations, has an episodic effect,
each variation, however offering new evidence of mastery. The
same is true of the two Minuets, the second Trio of the one being
in G minor, and the first Trio of the other in B flat minor, and all
the sections different in character. A somewhat noisy Rondo
forms the conclusion.... The Theme and Variations are taken from
the Mannheim Flute Quartet, K171, if this movement is authentic.
But it probably is; very possibly after the exertion and outpouring
of invention of the first five movements, Mozart was willing to
permit himself a little relaxation."
From notes supplied by Royal Northern College of Music
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Monday 20th January 1997
ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ENSEMBLE
conductor: Edward Warren
Oboes
Clarinets
Basset horns
Bassoons
Rachel Ager
Emma Price
Colin Blamey
Zak Barrett
Keith Slade
Mark Davis
Benjamin Hudson
Joanna Cackett
Programme
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Serenade for Wind Instruments, Op.44
Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments
Contra bassoon
Horns
Cello
Doublebass
Adrian Hughe
Thomas Redmond
Paul Ainsworth
Philip Robinson
Claire Beckett
David Wesling
Thomas Goodman
Handel
Dvorák
Mozart
The Wind Orchestra of the RNCM, consisting of nearly 50 players
at full strength, has built up an international reputation during its fifteen
years' existence that many a fully professional orchestra might envy. The
existence of a wind orchestra of such quality has encouraged a tremendous
expansion of the repertoire and has aroused interest in this music far
beyond the confines of the college. The full orchestra, and smaller
ensembles drawn from it, can boast of an impressive schedule of concerts
in this country and abroad. They have played in all the major concert
halls in the UK, have appeared at the Proms, can be heard regularly on the
radio and undertook, in 1995, a highly successful concert tour of Japan.
Edward Warren (who replaces the previously advertised director of
the Ensemble, Timothy Reynish) is the tutor in Conducting and
Tutor in Woodwind at the RNCM. Before his conducting career he spent
almost twenty years in the orchestral playing profession, with the English
National Opera, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra, in the last of which he was principal bassoon.
We are very grateful to NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK Plc.
for Sponsorship of this concert.
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HUDDERSFIELD
MUSIC SOCIETY
Registered Charity 529340
President: Mrs Linda Walker
WT.
Seventy-Ninth Season
1996-1997
St. Paul's Concert Hall, Queensgate
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Monday 3rd February 1997
ARTUR PIZARRO and STEPHEN COOMBS
Two pianos
Programme
Sonata in D K448
Variations on a theme by Beethoven
Symphonic Dances
Mozart
Saint-Saëns
Rachmaninov
Tonight we welcome back ARTUR PIZARRO, the 1990 winner of
the Leeds Piano Competition. Since that heady success in Leeds, Mr.
Pizarro's solo and concerto engagements have taken him all over the world
and he is also a regular chamber music performer. He records exclusively
for Collins Classics and his discs include works by Liszt, Scriabin,
Rodrigo and Kabalevsky. Future releases include Rachmaninov's two
Suites for two pianos with his teacher and step-father, Sequeira Costa, and
a solo recording of works by Vorísek.
Tonight he comes with a colleague to play some gems from the not
very large repertoire of music for two pianos, drawing on the 18th, 19th and
20th centuries.
STEPHEN COOMBS is paying his first visit to our society. Mr.
Coombs has an impressive reputation as a champion of the rarities of the
piano repertoire; he broadcasts extensively for the BBC and has received
great critical acclaim for his many recordings, particularly of works for
two pianos.
Mr Coombs made his Wigmore Hall debut at the age of 15 and has
won many prizes and awards such as the Gold Medal of the First
International Liszt Competition in Hungary. His many festival
appearances include Cheltenham, Spoleto, Snape Maltings, Bath, St.
Nazaire and Cintra (Portugal). He is also a chamber- and duo-pianist,
working with many international artists including Stephen Isserlis, Tabea
Zimmermann and Artur Pizarro.
We are very grateful to WOODS MUSIC SHOP for sponsorship of
this concert
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Sonata in D K448
Allegro con spirito;
Mozart (1756-1791)
Andante; Allegro molto
The Sonata K448, along with the Fugue in C minor, also
arranged for string quartet, are Mozart's only works for two
pianos, apart from some fragments. The sonata was composed
in Vienna in November 1781 for performance by Mozart
himself and Fraulein Josephine Aurnhammer.
The piece is one of Mozart's supreme essays in the 'galant'
style yet at the same time, unusual for Mozart, embraces an
enormous range of emotions within one work. Einstein has
written of it; 'the art with which two parts are made completely
equal, the play of the dialogue, the delicacy and refinement of
figuration, the feeling of sonority in the combination and
exploitation of the registers of the two instruments all these
things exhibit such mastery that this apparently superficial and
entertaining work is at the same time one of the most profound
and most mature of all Mozart's compositions'.
Variations on a theme of Beethoven
Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Saint-Saëns left hardly any branch of musical art untouched.
The catalogue of his output (169 opus numbers) comprises
piano and organ music, symphonic and chamber music of all
descriptions; cantatas, oratorios, songs and choral works,
incidental music, operas (notably Samson & Delilah), operettas,
a ballet, transcriptions and arrangements. He dabbled in
literature and science, wrote a book of poems and many essays
on music and theatre. He was also a very fine pianist and a
great admirer of Liszt.
The variations, Op.35, consist of an introduction and theme,
tempo di menuetto, followed by eight variations, a fugue and
final presto. The theme comes from Beethoven's sonata for
piano Op.31 No.3, the second movement trio.
The variations are: 1. Allegro, 2. Poco meno mosso,
3. Tempo del tema, 4. Molto allegro, 5. Moderato assai,
6. Presto leggierissimo, 7. Alla marcia funebre, 8. Tempo del
tema, leading to the fugue and final presto.
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Symphonic Dances
INTERVAL
Rachmaninov (1873-1943)
Non allegro - Lento - Tempo 1.
Andante con moto (Tempo di Valse)
Lento assai - Allegro Vivace
The Symphonic Dances were composed in 1940 and exist in
two forms: for orchestra and for two pianos. Rachmaninov's
contribution to the two-piano repertoire spans his entire career
from the Russian Rhapsody, written in 1891, the two Suites in
1893 and 1900/01 to this work Op.45, his last composition. He
wrote the Dances in the summer of 1940 in America where he
lived from 1917 until his death in Tennessee while on a piano
recital tour to raise money for war relief.
When Rachmaninov played the
the Dances to the
choreographer, Fokine, he explained that they followed the
sequence Midday - Twilight - Midnight. The first dance is cast
in three parts with fast outer sections in C minor enclosing a
slower episode in C sharp minor. As this first dance
approaches its end, a calm spreads over the music and a broad
new theme appears against a chiming decoration; it is the motto
theme from his first (ill-fated) symphony.
The second dance is an elaborate waltz, at times taking on
the character of a dance macabre, sometimes ingratiating,
frequently sinister.
The third dance is, like the first, a three-part structure. The
slow central section is imbued with a lingering fatalistic
chromaticism; the outer sections, by contrast, contain some of
Rachmaninov's most vital music, including a chant from the
Russian Orthodox liturgy which Rachmaninov had set in his
1915 All-Night Vigil or Vespers. This chant and the Dies Irae
engage in what is virtually a life-and-death struggle. Towards
the end of the work, at the point where the Dies Irae is finally
vanquished by the Resurrection Hymn from the Vespers, the
composer wrote into the score the word 'Alliluya'.
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FORTHCOMING EVENTS
HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY
Monday 10rd March at 7.30pm
VERTAVO STRING QUARTET Norway
Quartet in B flat K589
Quartet in F minor Op95
Quartet in D minor Op.56 (Voces Intimae)
14th April SORREL STRING QUARTET with
SIMON ROWLAND-JONES viola and BEN FRITH piano
MONDAYS AT ST. PAULS
10th February at 7.30pm
Mozart
Beethoven
Sibelius
UNIVERSITY STRINGS cond. Malcolm Layfield
Concerto for violin and oboe
Ouverture des Nations
Quartet No.8 in C minor
HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB
Friday 14th February at 7.30pm
EMPEROR STRING QUARTET
Quartet Op.77 No.1
Quartet No.7
Six Bagatelles
Quartet in G minor
Bach
Telemann
Shostakovich arr. Barshai
Haydn
Shostakovich
Webern
Debussy
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HUDDERSFIELD
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President: Mrs Linda Walker
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Seventy-Ninth Season
1996 - 1997
St. Paul's Concert Hall, Queensgate
Monday 7.30 pm.
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Monday 10th March 1997
VERTAVO STRING QUARTET
Berit Vaernes violin
Marika Gustafsson violin
Programme
Quartet in B flat K589
Quartet in C major Op.59 No.3
Quartet in D minor Op.56
Henninge Batnes viola
Bjorg Vaernes cello
Mozart
Beethoven
Sibelius
The Vertavo Quartet was founded in 1984 and has become one of
Norway's most outstanding string quartets. The members have studied
with members of the Berg, Brandis, Chilingirian, Amadeus and Endellian
Quartets and at Prussia Cove Seminar with Steven Isserlis. In July 1995
they won the First Prize, Audience Prize and AEG Newspaper Critics
Prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition for
String Quartets and last year, in November, the First Prize in the Nordic
Chamber Music Competition.
Recent engagements include recitals in Berlin, Amsterdam, Oslo,
London (Wigmore Hall), Finland and Sweden and in festivals in
Scandinavia and in Salzburg. They have recorded the Schumann string
quartets for release this Spring.
Berit and Bjorg Vaernes are twin sisters; both are experienced
soloists as are Marika Gustafsson, also leader of Stockholm Philharmonic
Orchestra, and Henninge Batnes who has appeared as soloist in concerts
in Norway, Sweden, England and Japan.
The Vertavo's travelling expenses are funded by NORSK
KASSETTAVGIFTSFOND, ROYAL NORWEGIAN MINISTRY OF
FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND WILHELMSEN LINES.
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Quartet in B flat major K589
Mozart (1756-1791)
Allegro; Larghetto; Minuet and trio; Allegro assai
(Last performed in 1981 by the Pro Arte Quartet of Salzburg)
In 1789, five years after Haydn began writing his Op.50 quartets,
Mozart went to Berlin at the invitation of the King of Prussia, Frederick
William II, and was commissioned to write six string quartets. Only three
of the set were written of which the one in B flat was the second. As the
King was a noted amateur cellist, Mozart was at some pains to give
prominence to that part.
The three works were written at a period of great strain due to his
desperate financial position, the uncertainty of obtaining a suitable post
from the Emperor and his wife's constant illness. Yet in this quartet all the
movements are full of the joy of life. The first movement, in sonata form,
makes much use of counterpoint, particularly in the development section.
The slow movement has cantilenas and passages of delightful melody;
much importance is given to the cello and much use made of its higher
register.
The minuet and trio form the most unusual movement of the work.
Both are exceptionally long, almost reaching the dimensions of a finale in
the older style. The Finale, a happy rondo in 6/8 time, is strongly
contrapuntal from the opening bar.
Quartet in C major Op.59 No.3
Beethoven (1770-1827)
Introduction - allegro vivace
Andante con moto quasi allegretto
Menuet and trio
Allegro molto
(Last performed in 1989 by the Roth Quartet)
Beethoven dedicated the three Op.59 quartets to the Russian
Ambassador, Count Rasoumovsky; and they are now known as the
Rasoumovsky Quartets. The first two contain Russian tunes, perhaps as a
compliment to the Count - not the third, though it is not without a Russian
flavour, notably in the second movement where the atmosphere evokes a
bleak landscape.
As Peter Cropper of the Lindsay Quartet pointed out in notes he wrote
for a complete Beethoven quartet cycle in 1985, this quartet and Mozart's
Dissonance quartet, also in C major, are alike prefaced by a slow
introduction where the composer seems to be getting as far away from
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C major as possible. The opening diminished chord has any number of
possible resolutions and only gradually do the strange chromaticisms and
grace notes work their way towards the chosen key of the Allegro, a
sonata form movement in which the cello makes quite sure of the
importance of the key by pounding away on the open C string as the three
lower strings join the first violin to launch this joyous movement.
The menuet is unexpected in its simplicity and symmetry for 'middle-
period' Beethoven. The Trio is boldly contrasted and the coda moves with
rising tension towards a monumental fugal finale, led off by the viola.
Born of a single idea, it is a thrilling experience for both performers and
listeners.
These Rasoumovsky quartets were written six years after the six opus
18, but they are an age beyond. The opus 18 are in the world of Haydn
and Mozart; with opus 59 the range of the instruments and the dynamic
contrasts are increased beyond belief.
INTERVAL
Quartet in D minor (Intimate Voices) Op.56
Sibelius (1865-1957)
Andante; Vivace; Adagio di molto;
Allegretto ma pesante; Allegro
(Last performed in 1978 by the Fitzwilliam Quartet)
Voces Intimae (1909) was written towards the end of a transitional
period during which, in the very simplest terms, Romanticism had
gradually been giving way to Classicism. One of the quartet's most
striking characteristics is the very real sense of inward communion
between the four 'voices', and this is evident right from the start as violin
and 'cello softly ruminate on what course the music should take. The
main allegro is in fairly simple sonata-form, but with characteristically
blurred outlines; the chorale-like conclusion leads straight into the ensuing
Vivace, which immediately sounds like the more familiar Sibelius, with its
rustling string writing (it is built almost entirely on material from the
preceding movement). This fleet, shadowy piece is over in a flash, and
the Adagio quickly suggests more serious matters. The lush harmony and
scoring of much of this movement look back to the elegiac type of slow
music for strings which was so common with the late nineteenth-century
Scandinavian composers such as Grieg, Svendsen, and the younger
Sibelius himself. The fourth movement sets off as a heavy-footed
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scherzo, but soon settles into that peculiarly hypnotic monotony which is
so characteristic and which conceals the underlying build-up of tension, so
that the sustained climax which results is truly menacing in its unexpected
power. From first to last the finale is a thrilling moto perpetuo which
brings to mind the last of Sibelius's four orchestral legends
(Lemminkainen's Return), depicting the hero's adventurous return home
from Tuonela (Hell).
It might be interesting to note the slightly unusual use of tonality in
this work: although in D minor it is a D minor strongly influenced by the
Dorian mode (i.e. a scale from D to D on the white notes of the piano) and
this lends a particular flavour to many of the melodies - for example, the
viola/'cello theme under the violinists' ostinato, near the beginning of the
first Allegro. Sibelius experimented further with this technique in his
sixth symphony (also in D minor) and the quartet contains many other
pointers towards that most representative of his symphonies, particularly
the strangely grey landscape of parts of the first, second and fourth
movements.
A. George.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY
Monday 14th April at 7.30pm
SORREL STRING QUARTET with
SIMON ROWLAND-JONES viola and BEN FRITH piano
Haydn Op.71/2; Brahms Quintet Op.88; Dvořák Piano Quintet
This is the last concert of the season and tickets will be available for the
following season - details in the accompanying leaflet
MONDAYS AT ST. PAULS
17th March at 7.30pm
STUDENTS ON STAGE VI
20th March Thursday 7.30pm
UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA cond. Barrie Webb
ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY
Friday 14th March at 7.30pm
VERTAVO STRING QUARTET
HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB
Friday 21st March at 7.30pm
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President: Mrs Linda Walker
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Seventy-Ninth Season
1996-1997
St. Paul's Concert Hall, Queensgate
Monday 7.30 pm.
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(2081-SETH) abych Monday 14th April 1997
SORREL STRING QUARTET
Gina McCormack violin
Catherine Yates violin
Simon Rowland-Jones viola
and
Programme
Quartet in D major Op.71 No.2
String Quintet in F major Op.88
Piano Quintet in A major Op.81
Vicci Wardman viola
Helen Thatcher cello
Ben Frith piano
Haydn
Brahms
Dvořák
We are very pleased to welcome back the SORREL QUARTET on
this their third visit to this Society's concerts. Their first visit was in 1991
when their programme included the Vaughan Williams Song Cycle
On Wenlock Edge and their second was in 1994. The Sorrels celebrated
their tenth anniversary this year on 2nd April at the Wigmore Hall, giving
the world première of Elena Firsova's quartet No.9 The Door is Closed.
The Sorrels have performed at all the major venues in Britain and
their future plans include performances in France, Germany, Italy, Austria,
Australia and the U.S.A. including the Round-Top Festival in Texas next
year and a tour of South America. Formerly Quartet in Residence at York
and Liverpool, they now teach at the Royal Northern College of Music
and at Chethams School.
SIMON ROWLAND-JONES is best known as a violist but is also a
teacher and composer. One of the first pupils at the Menuhin School,
where he studied with Patrick Ireland and Nadia Boulanger, he made his
solo debut in 1979 at Carnegie Hall, New York to great acclaim. He was
a founder member of the Chilingirian Quartet and played in the Nash
Ensemble and the Villiers Piano Quartet who performed here in 1988.
BEN FRITH is well known to our audiences and we are happy to
welcome him back to play the Dvořák Quintet which he performed so
magnificently in 1986 with the Fairfield Quartet. His career has taken him
to the far West and the Far East - to festivals as far apart as Pasadena and
Kuhmo in Finland. His repertoire ranges from Bach to the 20th century
and he also plays with the pianist, Peter Hill, two piano works, notably
Messiaen's Visions de l'Amen which they have recorded.
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Quartet in D major Op.71 No.2
Haydn (1732-1809)
Adagio - allegro; Adagio; Minuet and trio; Finale - allegretto
(Last performed in 1994 by the Vellinger Quartet)
Haydn produced fifteen string quartets during his last period of
composition; among them are some of the greatest works the master gave
to this form. Two sets of three, Opp.71 and 73, were written in 1793
between his two visits to London which saw the composition and
performance of his last twelve symphonies. The composer was
concentrating on orchestral matters and therefore the quartets display a
certain symphonic character: an innovation is the use of introductions to
the first movements, a feature which played an important part in the
symphonies. In the Op.71 set, Nos.1 and 3 have only chords, but in No.2
there are four bars of adagio. These are followed by defiant downward
octave leaps in all the instruments and the whirling semiquavers of the
first violin joined by the other instruments carry the melody to a climax.
The adagio is a song mostly sung by the first violin, with an animated
middle section. In his old age Haydn said "people talk about counterpoint
but I wish someone would write a really new Minuet". But it was Haydn
himself who had written all the lovely new ones and, as Geiringer says,
this Minuet and Trio has all the grace and charm and newness which he
brought to that simple form. The Finale is animated, yet at times strangely
hushed.
Quintet in F major Op.88
Brahms (1833-1897)
Allegro non troppo, ma con brio; Grave ed appassionato;
allegretto vivace; Grave; Presto; Grave. Allegro energico
(First performance at these concerts)
Brahms died in April one hundred years ago; tonight we pay tribute to
the composer with a performance of a comparatively neglected work and
one of his most unconventional. It was written in 1882, six years after the
last of his three string quartets and has only three movements. But the
middle movement is in five parts and is one of Brahms' great inspirations.
The work opens with a broad melody on first violin, joined at the fifth
bar by the second violin an octave above, already an unconventional ploy.
The second movement, with its alternating grave and faster sections,
serves as both slow movement and scherzo. It begins with a heartfelt tune
in the minor key, played by cello and first violin with the cello on top, a
third higher and follows this with a quiet little allegretto in A major. The
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the allegretto theme, and the movement ends with a return of the grave,
this time in A major.
Two terse chords introduce the fugue of the Finale and viola I sets off
on its joyous quavers. Each new entry is signalled by two chords (played
by those not otherwise engaged), the fourth entry being for viola II and
cello in octaves. It is a swift movement with a great range of dynamics
and ending in an exciting presto, starting pianissimo and climaxing with a
9/8 variant of the main theme in an exuberant fortissimo.
The first performance was given in Frankfurt in December 1882 and
was highly acclaimed. It was sold to the publisher for 3000 marks which
sounds quite a lot but not too much!
INTERVAL
during which coffee will be served
kindly supplied by the Ladies of St. John's Church, Newsome.
Dvořák (1841-1907)
Piano Quintet in A major Op.81
Allegro ma non tanto;
Dumka: andante con moto
Scherzo Furiant; molto vivace
Finale: allegro
(Last performed in 1986 by Ben Frith and the Fairfield Quartet)
Ten years before Brahms' death, Dvořák produced his masterpiece for
piano and string quartet. In 1884, soon after the first of his many English
tours, Dvořák bought a property in Southern Bohemia. Here he spent
spring, summer and autumn for many years, taking long walks in the
woods and raising pigeons. The charm of this country life had a great
effect on his work and here Dvořák wrote much of his chamber music.
The form of the quintet is classical but with the composer's
characteristic stamp on it. The first movement, albeit in sonata form, is
sectional in the writing, but the great drive of the tunes, the rhythms and
the dynamics carry it forward so that its episodic nature is not obvious or
disturbing and the climax is full of high spirits.
The Dumka is a type of Slavonic ballad with alternating slow and fast
tempi. In this case, the movement is a set of variations on two themes.
For the Scherzo Dvořák uses a variant of the Czech dance Furiant. It
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opens with eight bars for string quartet which the piano repeats and the
cello follows with a joyful waltz.
The slower middle section is a
syncopated version of the same themes.
Finally a Polka - a boisterous peasant movement, amusingly
interrupted by a foray into the academic world in the shape of an extended
fugato. The music seems to wind down, then erupts into a climax of joy.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY
This is the last concert of the season and we thank all our supporters
and sponsors for making it a good one, Details of the 80th Season are in
the leaflet accompanying the programme and we look forward to seeing
you on 29th September after a lovely summer.
Next Season's dates are:
29th September
13th October
3rd November
1st December
19th January 1998
16th February
9th March
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Ilya Itin, piano
Takács Quartet
Paul Robinson, baritone
New Leipzig Quartet
Gould Piano Trio and clarinet
Martin Rosco, piano
Schidlof Quartet
MONDAYS AT ST. PAUL'S
21st April 1997 at 7.30pm
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Ing ORCHESTRA conductors: Philip McCann and John Reynolds
Works by Philip Wilby, Eric Ball, Edward Gregson and John McCabe
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