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HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY President: Stephen Smith 81st Season 1998-99 PRAZAK STRING QUARTET Mondays at St. Paul's University of Huddersfield Huddersfield Music Society Reg. Charity 529340

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1. Monday 19th October 1998 at 7.30 pm PRAZAK STRING QUARTET of PRAGUE One of the finest ensembles of the Czech Republic, the Prazak makes a very welcome return visit to our Society. Quartet in D major Op. 76 No. 5 Quartet No. 7 Haydn Martinu Quartet in A minor Op. 132 Beethoven Financial support for this concert has been gratefully received from an anonymous donor 2. Monday 16th November 1998 at 7.30 pm ARCUS ENSEMBLE of VIENNA This ensemble of piano and string quartet was formed in 1988 by five fine young Viennese musicians and is highly acclaimed at home and abroad. Helmut Eder is a contemporary Austrian composer. Piano Quartet in G minor K478 Piano Quintet Op. 97 Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 34 Mozart Helmut Eder Brahms Sponsored by PETER HAWKE GARAGES 3. Monday 7th December 1998 at 7.30 pm CORINNA HARRIS - clarinet ALEXANDER TAYLOR - piano Corinna graduated at the Royal College of Music and performs regularly as soloist and chamber musician. She was a wind finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year. Clarinet Sonata Op. 120 No. 2 Grand Duo Concertant Brahms Weber and works by Schumann, Messiaen, Horovitz, Gaubert and Müller. Sponsored by COUNTESS OF MUNSTER MUSICAL TRUST 4. Monday 11th January 1999 at 7.30 pm BELCEA STRING QUARTET This young British quartet from the Royal College of Music was selected for representation by the YOUNG 1 Th Pr Ar Th Co Be G₁ Ste Ph

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the ety. dn inu en y d in ghly s a zart Eder ms GES et 10 and She the Thms eber bert RUST of ge UNG CONCERT ARTISTS TRUST in 1997, and won third prize in the prestigious LONDON INTERNATIONAL STRING QUARTET COMPETITION. Quartet in G major Op. 74 No. 3 Quartet in A minor Op. 13 Quartet in E flat Op. 127 Sponsored by WHEAWILL & SUDWORTH 5. Monday 25th January 1999 at 7.30 pm GUARNERI PIANO TRIO of PRAGUE Haydn Mendelssohn Beethoven Another ensemble from this fount of fine chamber music- making, the Guarneri Trio, formed in 1986, is now an established trio of international renown. Piano Trio in C major K548 Piano Trio in E minor Op. 67 Piano Trio in F minor Op. 65 Sponsored by PETER HAWKE GARAGES Mozart Shostakovich Dvorak 6. Monday 15th February 1999 at 7.30 pm PHILIPPE GRAFFIN - violin STEPHEN COOMBS - piano Sonata for violin and piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor French violinist, Philippe Graffin, has recently come to live in this country and has formed a duo with Stephen Coombs, last heard here in 1997 in partnership with Artur Pizarro. Sonata in A major K526 Sonata in G minor Divertimento Mozart Debussy Stravinsky Poulenc Saint-Saens 7. Monday 8th March 1999 at 7.30 pm THE LINDSAYS Quartet in E flat Op. 64 No. 6 Quartet No. 3 The Lindsay Quartet first played for us in 1970 and this will be their tenth visit to our society. We remember their beautiful Mozart concert in 1991 and are very happy to welcome them again. Haydn Britten Quartet in C major Op. 59 No. 3 Beethoven This concert is presented with financial assistance from Yorkshire and Humberside Arts. 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 from the Department of Music at the University Tel. 472003. Single Season Ticket Single Concert Student Season Ticket Tickets may be obtained by using the booking form or from Huddersfield Information Centre, Albion Street, Tel. 223203, or at the door. Please return unwanted season tickets to the Treasurer by 12th October. £ Post this form with cheque payable to Huddersfield Music Society to the Hon. Treasurer, Mr Michael Lord, 14 Garsdale Road, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6QZ (Tel: 01484-310104; Fax: 01484 425658). Please send ........ Please send number(s) Name Tickets Address Postcode £35 Double Season Ticket £66 £9 Student Ticket £2 £10 I enclose cheque single/double season tickets single concert tickets for concert Telephone Total £........

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NEW NORTH ROADO HUDDERSFIELD TO HALIFAX & M62 MUSIC SOCIETY Joint Honorary Secretaries: Mrs M. S. Glendinning Tel: 01484 422612 Fax: 01484 432443 Mr Gordon Sykes Tel: 01484 663474 Fax: 01484 667988 TRINITY STREET HUDDERSFIELD TOWN CENTRE TO LEEDS UU NORTH CASTLE GATE STATION BUS NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC SOCIETIES FMS A62 MANCHESTER ROAD TO MANCHESTER . PAILWAY STATIONE 1009 500 00G00 A616 CHAPEL HILL 001 A QUEESNGATE | CAR PARK Yorkshire & Humberside ARTS EESN ST SOUTHO SOUTHGATE LEEDS ROAD A62 QUEENS TO WAKEFIELD & SHEFFIELD 4629 WAKEFIELD ROAD ST. PAUL'S HALL UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD Car parking is available across Queensgate from St. Paul's Hall for 50p for the evening. The car park is lit and attended. The concerts usually end at about 9.30 pm.

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HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY WT. Eighty-first Season 1998-1999

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Mondays at St. Pauls Huddersfield Music Society Eighty-first Season 1998-1999 19th October 1998 THE PRAZAK STRING QUARTET of Prague Haydn (op 76 no 5), Martinu (No 7), Beethoven (op 132) 16th November 1998 THE ARCUS ENSEMBLE of Vienna Mozart (G mi piano quartet), Helmut Eder & Brahms (piano quintets) 7th December 1998 CORINNA HARRIS clarinet and ALEXANDER TAYLOR piano Weber, Messiaen, Sciroli, Brahms, Horrowitz 11th January 1999 THE BELCEA STRING QUARTET Haydn (op 74 No 3), Mendelssohn (op 13), Beethoven (op 127) 25th January 1999 THE GUARNERI PIANO TRIO of Prague Mozart (K 548), Shostakovich (op 67), Brahms (op 8) 15th February 1999 PHILIPPE GRAFFIN and STEPHEN COOMBS Mozart (K 526), Debussy, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Saint-Saens 8th March 1999 THE LINDSAYS Haydn (op 64 No 6), Britten (No 3), Beethoven (t.b.a.)

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Our 81st Season consists of great music played by some high class musicians. Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms represent the well-known classical composers and they are interspersed with more recent ones, and works such as Britten's 3rd quartet and Martinu's 7th. Another Czech composer, Helmut Eder's piano quintet is played for us by the up and coming Arcus Ensemble, young musicians who have been getting superb reviews in their native Vienna. Corinna Harris and Alexander Taylor provide a varied and interesting programme for clarinet and piano, ranging from Weber to Horrowitz. The tempting programme of the Czech piano trio, the Guarneri from Prague, is followed by the duo of the distinguished French violinist Philippe Graffin and the pianist Stephen Coombs. We have two old favourite string quartets and a young one. The Belcea from the RCM astonished everyone with their performance at the London International String Quartet Competition at which they won third prize, and they have since given some remarkable concerts in various parts of the country. The Prazak from Prague opens our season, and it is ended by our old friends the Lindsays. They last played for us in 1991, for the bi-centenary of Mozart's death, when they were joined by Patrick Ireland to play the composer's two greatest string quintets. (£66 after April 30th) (£35 after April 30th) Double Season Tickets £63 £33 Single Season Tickets Student Season Tickets £10 Season tickets for the series of seven concerts will be on sale at our February and March concerts. Tickets for single concerts will be on sale later priced at £9 (£2 students) If you are not on our mailing list, please give your name and address to our Treasurer Michael Lord (310104), 14 Garsdale Road, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6QZ. The Committee would like to take this opportunity of thanking in particular the Season Ticket Holders for their past support of the Society's programmes. Naturally we rely upon a continuance of this committed attendance in order to permit arrangements of the present calibre. New subscribers are particularly welcome.

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HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Registered Charity 529340 President: Stephen Smith W BOMAR WT. Eighty-first Season 1998-1999 St. Paul's Concert Hall, Queensgate w Monday 7.30 pm.

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Vaclav Remes Vlastimir Holek Monday 19th October, 1998 PRAZAK STRING QUARTET violin violin Josefluson Michal Kanka Programme Quartet in D major op 76, no 5 Quartet no 7, Concerto da Camera Quartet in A minor op 132 Haydn S Beethoven viola cello MARTINU MARTINU The Prazak Quartet's international career began in 1975 when they took part in the Prague Spring Music Festival. It is now one of the leading string quartets of the world with a long list of concerts in most of the major venues of Europe, the USA, and the antipodes. Their present exclusive recording contract is with Harmonia Mundi with whom they have won many gramophone awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque in 1996. Their most recent release is a disk of Dvorak string quartets op 51 in E flat and op 106 in G major, which has been awarded the "Diapason d'Or”.

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Quartet in D major op 76 no 5 Allegretto - allegro Largo cantabile e mesto (sad) Minuet and trio Haydn (1732-1809) Finale - presto (Last performed in 1984 by the Eder String Quartet of Hungary fifth This quartet is the last of a series of six, dedicated to Count Erdödy and written after Haydn's second visit to London. The set was composed in the same period as "The Creation" during the years 1797 and 1798. Great though the preceding quartets had been, Geiringer (Haydn's famous biographer) writes that "if an appropriate motto be sought for this series the word "Excelsior" should be first choice. Everything here is condensed and intensified, the expression more personal and direct." The first movement has a light-hearted dance theme which proceeds through a series of variations. In the second movement the first violin opens with a slow singing melody in the key of F sharp major; this is one of the great melodies of music, full of emotion and beauty. It is developed at length and in its course is twice reduced to an almost static state. The theme of the minuet is clearly derived from that of the slow movement; the trio, in contrast, is in a minor key and has an important cello part. The finale is founded upon a folk-dance the Kolo, which comes from Bosnia and Dalmatia; it makes a bright and happy ending to one of Haydn's finest quartets. C.A.S. Quartet no 7 - Concerto da Camera Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959) Poco allegro, Andante; Allegro vivo (First performance at these concerts) Martinu was one of the most prolific composers of the 20th Century. With Janáček he carried forward the Czech tradition established by Dvorak and Smetana. Few composers have expressed their own personality so clearly in their music as Martinu. He studied at the Prague Conservatoire from 1

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ก J 1906 to 1910 and played second violin in the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vaclav Talich. In 1923 he moved to Paris to study with Albert Roussel and became interested in jazz, ragtime and the music of Stravinsky. In 1941 he and his wife left Paris and settled in the USA where he continued to compose, completing five symphonies. In many ways his career resembled Prokofiev's. Both grew up in the nationalist movements of their countries, found academic training irksome and joined the neo-classical movement in Paris. Prokofiev returned to his native Russia but Martinu returned to France in 1953. He lived in France, Italy and finally Switzerland where he died in 1959 from cancer. Interval of twenty minutes. Quartet in A minor op 132 Beethoven (1770-1827) Assai sostenuto-allegro, Allegro me non tanto Molto Adagio ( a song of thanksgiving by a convalescent to the Deity, in the Lydian mode) Alla marcia - assai vivace; Allegro appassianato (Last performed in March of this year by the Schidlof Quartet) Beethoven's last five quartets, though not understood at the time, are now acclaimed as the peak of quartet writing. The years between 1810, when op 95 was published and 1820 were full of personal difficulties and emotional upheavals and his deafness became almost total. However in 1820 he turned his attention to the last great piano works and then in 1822 he received a commission from the Russian Prince Galatzin for two or three string quartets. Though taken up at the time with the Missa Solemnis and the ninth symphony, Beethoven was already planing a quartet and so he began work on op 127, followed by opp. 132, 130/133, 131 and 135 in that order. Op 132 was originally conceived in four movements, but while working on the quartet Beethoven became seriously ill and on his recovery he replaced the two middle movements with three, including the Heiliger Dankegesang, the spiritual centre-piece of the work

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The quartet opens with a pp treatment of a two-bar theme followed by an allegro in which the 'cello states the first theme. In the second, scherzo, movement four bars of octave unison are followed by a combination of this motif with another. The trio is in the style of a musette, i.e. with a drone, which alternates with a simple melody chiefly in the violin and viola with a staccato accompaniment. The "Heiliger Dankesang" movement has two constituents: a chorale heard three times and a more animated section headed "feeling new strength". A short march follows ending in a cadenza which ushers in the finale. The work ends with a presto - perhaps a triumphant thanksgiving after the remembrance of pain. FORTHCOMING EVENTS HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Monday 16th November, 1998 at 7.30 pm ARCUS ENSEMBLE OF VIENNA Mozart Pno 4tet in G mi; Helmut Eder Pno 5tet; Brahms Pno 5tet MONDAYS AT ST PAULS University of Huddersfield Music Department 2nd November, 1998 at 7.30 pm Chamber Recital by Students Chopin Ballade in F; Haydn Trumpet Concerto; Ponce Sonata Classica; Saint-Saens 'Cello Concerto HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB Friday 13th November, 1998 at 7.30 pm MINERVA WIND QUINTET & JOANNA PORTER - piano Mozart; Nielsen; Barber; Reicher; Poulenc. Square Chapel Halifax

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OFFICERS President Stephen Smith Joint Hon. Secretaries Mrs. M.S. Glendinning Tel. 01484 422612 Fax 01484 432443 & J. Gordon Sykes Tel. 01484 663474 Fax 667988 Hon. Treasurer P. Michael Lord 14 Garsdale Road, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6QZ Tel. 01484 310104 Fax 01484 425658 COMMITTEE Edward Glendinning, Peter Lawson, Simon Rothery, Mrs. E. Stephenson, Brian Walker, Linda Walker Richard Warrington We acknowledge with thanks support for our concerts from Yorkshire & Humberside Arts and The University of Huddersfield to which the Society is affiliated. The Society is grateful for financial help also from: Mrs E. Crossland, Mrs A. Crowther, D. Dugdale, M. Ellis, Miss M. A. Freeman, E. Glendinning, P. Michael Lord, P. L. Michelson, S. Rothery, J. C. S. Smith, Mrs E. Stephenson, J. G. Sykes, Mrs E. R. Taylor, Mrs L. Walker. Wheawill & Sudworth گی Peter Hawke Garages National Federation of Music Societies NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC SOCIETIES NEMS ● •

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HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Registered Charity 529340 President: Stephen Smith ▬▬ WT. Eighty-first Season 1998 - 1999 St. Paul's Concert Hall, Queensgate Monday 7.30 pm.

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Monday 16th November, 1998 ARCUS ENSEMBLE VIENNA Ludwig Müller violin, Martin Tuksa violin, Georg Hamann viola, Christophe Pantillon cello; Janna Polyzoides piano. Programme Piano Quartet in G minor K478 Piano Quintet op 97 Piano Quintet in F minor op 34 Mozart Helmut Eder Brahms The Arcus Ensemble Vienna was founded in 1988 by five young musicians as a string quartet with piano. In addition to the standard repertoire they focus their attention particularly on rarely heard works and unusual instrumental combinations, often performing with additional musicians, giving a wide range of works from all periods. They place particular emphasis on music of the 20th Century, and have commissioned works from contemporary composers. They have made recordings for radio and CD and have received enthusiastic reviews from the international press International tours have taken them to most European countries and Japan. They have appeared in the Menhuin Festival Gstaad; the Vienna Modern Festival; the Jaffa Festival Tel Aviv, and a Festival of Modern Music in Paris. Ludwig Müller violin is first concertmaster and artistic director of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Orquestra de Cadaques Martin Tuksa violin teaches at the Vienna Conservatory and the Musikhochschule Georg Hamman viola is a principal viola in the Vienna Chamber Orchestra Christophe Pantillon cello is principal cello of the Vienna Volksopernorchester Janna Polyzoides piano teaches and has given concerts all over Europe We are very grateful to Peter Hawke Garages for their generous sponsorship of this concert.

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Piano Quartet No 1 in G Minor K478 Allegro Andante Rondo (Allegro) Mozart (1756-1791) The music publisher, Hoffmeister, commissioned Mozart to write a set of six piano quartets. The first one was finished in October 1785 and another the following year. Although Hoffmeister published the G minor work, he asked to withdraw from the contract he had made, as the work was "too difficult" and therefore unmarketable. The second quartet was given to another publisher and Mozart wrote no others. We have no record of how Mozart might have reacted to this sort of problem, but his willingness to serve the public's needs seems almost to have disappeared. His publishers urged him to write something easier; pieces that could "hold their own when performed with average skill." Mozart had virtually no models for this combination of instruments, so these were the first important works of their kind. Even to this day, surprisingly few piano quartets rank as masterpieces besides the two by Mozart. In fact, he did not think the combination of instruments was entirely satisfactory, but he devoted care and time to them as a study towards his great piano concertos. Mozart used minor keys only rarely, yet G minor was without doubt his favourite, and shows the composer at his most dramatic. This ranks with the G minor string quintet as one of his most passionate and sombre instrumental works. Piano Quintet in F minor op 34 Allegro non troppo Andante - un poco adagio Scherzo (allegro) Helmut Eder (born 1916) Finale Poco sostenuto - allegro non troppo - presto non troppo Helmut Eder was born in Linz in 1916. After studying in Stuttgart and Munich and teaching in Linz he was appointed to his present position as Professor and Director of composition at the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg. This quintet received its first performance in 1994, and the 1

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1) of 1 d Or k as 10 is d. ld SO y, by as dy ly, at of 6) and as the present, revised, version was given its first performance, in Salzburg, by the Arcus Ensemble in 1997. The quintet consists of four strongly contrasted movements. So that they may reach the listener with no preconceived ideas, and with uncluttered minds, they are untitled. The music takes its existence from what they do with it. The first movement is slow and mysterious. The second is a fast dance, with a continuo-like motif passed between the instruments. The third movement contains muffled, almost bell-like, tolling on piano and muted strings The musical fabric is twice shattered by a violent chord, the second of these fading into a passage reminiscent of the movement's start. In the final movement the music works up to a relentless climax. Some of our audience may be interested in the composer's view that the music contains no virtuoso elements and is not difficult! Viel Glück! INTERVAL Piano Quintet in F minor op 34 Allegro non troppo Andante, un poco adagio Scherzo: allegro/trio Brahms (1833-1897) Finale: poco sostenuto/allegro non troppo/ presto non troppo The first appearance of this work was in 1862. It started life as a string quintet, destroyed by the composer and rewritten as a sonata for two pianos, which was first performed in 1864 by the composer and Carl Tausig. It was unsuccessful in this medium. Clara Schumann tried out the work with Rubinstein and Brahms in 1863, and persuaded Brahms that he had sacrificed too much when recasting it for two pianos. The piece was reworked in 1864 in its definitive form as a quintet for piano and strings and dedicated to Princess Anna of Hess, who expressed her thanks by presenting Brahms with the manuscript of Mozart's G minor

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Symphony. In spite of its unpopularity Brahms liked the version for two pianos and had it published in 1872. The first movement opens with the restrained announcement of the first subject by violin, cello and piano, then exploding into a restatement in full splendour.. The second movement, calmly serene in A flat major is followed by the scherzo, which begins with the hushed, plucked, bottom note of the cello and proceeds into a cheerful eruption in C major, followed by a trio in that key. The finale, having a subdued introduction, proceeds through a passage of great energy and rhythmic subtlety to the final coda, marked Presto non troppo, emphasising the thematic harmony of the whole work FORTHCOMING EVENTS HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Monday 7th December, 1998 at 7.30 pm Corina Harris clarinet and Alexander Taylor piano Brahms clarinet sonata op 120 no 2, Weber Grand Duo Concertant and works by Schumann, Messiaen and others. January 11th 1999 - Belcea String Quartet: January 25th - Guarneri Piano February 15th - Philippe Graffin & Stephen Coombes: Trio of Prague: March 8th - The Lindsays MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD Wednesday 18th November, 1998 at 7.30 pm University of Huddersfield Symphony Orchestra and Wind Band HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB Friday 4th December, 1998 at 7.30 pm - "Travelling by Tuba" Gavin Woods (Tuba etc) Stewart Death (piano) ELLAND MUSIC SOCIETY Friday 27th November 1998 at 7.30 pm Sarah Fox (soprano) and Samantha Newbould (piano) Quilter, Debussy, Wolf, Schubert, Britten and Ravel

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OFFICERS President Stephen Smith Joint Hon. Secretaries Mrs. M.S. Glendinning Tel. 01484 422612 Fax 01484 432443 & J. Gordon Sykes Tel. 01484 663474 Fax 667988 Hon. Treasurer P. Michael Lord 14 Garsdale Road, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6QZ Tel. 01484 310104 Fax 01484 425658 COMMITTEE Edward Glendinning, Peter Lawson, Simon Rothery, Mrs. E. Stephenson, Brian Walker, Linda Walker Richard Warrington We acknowledge with thanks support for our concerts from Yorkshire & Humberside Arts and The University of Huddersfield to which the Society is affiliated. The Society is grateful for financial help also from: Mrs E. Crossland, Mrs A. Crowther, D. Dugdale, M. Ellis, Miss M. A. Freeman, E. Glendinning, P. Michael Lord, P. L. Michelson, S. Rothery, J. C. S. Smith, Mrs E. Stephenson, J. G. Sykes, Mrs E. R. Taylor, Mrs L. Walker. Wheawill & Sudworth ✓ Peter Hawke Garages National Federation of Music Societies NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC SOCIETIES NEMS

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Monday 7th December 1998 Corinna Harris - clarinet Alexander Taylor - piano Programme Sonata in E flat op 120 no 2 Grand Duo Concertant Fantasiestücke op 73 Abîme des Oiseaux Interval (Quatuor pour la fin du Temps) Diversions on a Familiar Theme Fantasie Le Reve Brahms Weber Schumann Messiaen Joseph Horowitz Philippe Gaubert Iwan Müller Corinna Harris Corinna is a graduate of the Royal College of Music where she won many prizes such as the Prix Mercure of Vienna and the Kathleen Long Prize for chamber music. In 1997 she was selected to join the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme and this year won the N.F.M.S. Young Concert Artist Award. As soloist and cham- ber musician she has performed in London, Cairo, Italy, Gerrnany, Salzburg and Vienna and the South of France and recently played Mozart's Clarinet Quintet with the Chilingirian Quartet. In 1997 she gave the world premiere of a work composed for her by Joseph Horowitz in the presence of H.M. the Queen. She has broadcast internationally and has made two CD's. Alexander Taylor Alexander, a Londoner, read music at Edinburgh University and graduated in 1995 with first class honours. He then went to the Royal College of Music where he won numerous prizes as soloist and accompanist including the Tagore Gold Medal. He made his Radio 3 debut in 1997 as part of Young Artists' Forum and has plans for future recording. He and Corinna have played as a duo in London, Salzburg and Cairo. Sponsored by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.

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Sonata in E flat op 120 no 2 Brahms (1833-1897) Allegro amabile; allegro appassionato; andante con moto. When Brahms visited Meiningen in 1891 he was deeply impressed by the wonderful playing of the clarinettist, Mühlfeld, a member of the court orchestra. Inspired by this musician, Brahms wrote the four late works: the trio op 114, the quintet op 115 and the two so- natas op 120 for clarinet and piano. These sonatas, the last cham- ber music of Brahms, were both written in the summer of 1894. Mühlfeld himself took part in the first performances of these works and remained to the last a great friend of Brahms. The quiet first movement and the impassioned scherzo-like second movement are followed by a finale in the form of a set of variations. It seems fitting that Brahms should have ended his series of chamber works with a movement, almost an epilogue, whose character is deeply pensive and reflective; fitting, too, that the last movement should be in variation form, a form to which Brahms was so greatly at- tached and of which he was so supreme a master. Weber (1786-1826) Allegro con fuoco; andante con moto; rondo. Grand Duo Cancertant Weber wrote little chamber music; his two most important works including the clarinet are this Duo and the clarinet quintet op 34. The Duo was written between 1815 and 1816, the movements be- ing completed in the reverse order. It is, in reality, a sonata though both instruments are given music written in a virtuoso style. The first movement has a vigorous opening theme, followed by a graceful second subject. The melody of the second movement is truly in- spired and has a contrasting and more dramatic middle section. The final rondo has brilliant passage-work and a contrasting melody treated in almost operatic style. Interval

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Fantasiestücke op 73 Schumann (1810-1856) Zart und mit ausdrück; Lebhaft, leicht; Rasch und mit Feuer Schumann wrote a number of separate pieces for piano and other instruments; these the most important are these Fantasy Pieces, written in 1851 and the set for piano and cello op 102 "Stücke im Volkston". Each of the Fantasy Pieces is built on the Lied struc- ture A-B-A. The first is soft and to be played with feeling, the sec- ond lively and the third quick and fiery. There are hints of the first two in the third, giving a feeling of unity to the composition. Abîme des Oiseaux (Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps) Messiaen (1908-1992) The Quatuor, performed here last January in its entirety, was writ- ten by Messiaen in a Silesian prison camp and performed on bor- rowed instruments by prisoners on a bitter January day in 1941. In the printed score is the quotation from Revelation "I saw a mighty Angel come down from Heaven"... and ending with the words "THERE SHALL BE TIME NO LONGER but in the days of the trumpet of the seventh angel the mystery of God shall be finished." The third of the eight movements is for clarinet solo and depicts the abyss - the sadness and desolation of time, the birds - our longing for light, stars and joyful sound. Diversions on a familiar theme Joseph Horowitz (b. 1926) Horowitz was born in Vienna and settled in England in 1938 was educated at Oxford and the Royal College of Music and composed two one-act operas, eleven ballet scores and chamber music as well as some witty parodies for Hoffnung's Music Festivals in London. Fantasy Le Reve Ivan Gaubert Iwan Müller

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Forthcoming events Huddersfield Music Society Monday 11th January 1999: Belcea String Quartet Haydn 74/3; Mendelssohn op 13; Beethoven op 127 Monday 25th January 1999 Guarneri Piano Trio Of Prague Mozart in C K548; Shostakovich E mi. op 67; Dvorak in E minor Op. 90 (Dumky). 15th February 1999 Philippe Graffin & Stephen Coombs violin & piano 8th March 1999 The Lindsays Music At The University Of Huddersfieled Monday 14th December 1998 at 7.30 pm Chamber Recital: Giampieri Il Carnavale di Venezia Dutilleux Conatine for flute & piano Weber Grand Duo Concertant Halifax Philharmonic Club Friday 8th January 1999 Eroica Quartet Mendelssohn op 12; Beethoven op 95; Brahms op 51/1

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aby Monday 11th January, 1999 BELCEA STRING QUARTET Corina Belcea violin; Laura Samuel violin; Krzysztof Chorzelski viola; Alasdair Tait cello. Programme String Quartet in G minor op 74 no3 String Quartet in A minor op 13 String Quartet in E flat op 127 Haydn Mendelssohn Beethoven The Belcea String Quartet was formed in 1994 at the Royal College of Music. Over the last two years the Quartet has won top prizes at several international festivals including third prize at the prestigious London International String Quartet Competition (1997), second prize at the Vittorio Gui International Competition for Chamber Music in Florence (1997) and third prize at the 6th Banff International String Quartet Competition (1998) in Canada. The Quartet has recently been chosen to represent Britain in the European Concert Halls Organisation "Rising Stars" series during the 1999/2000 season. The Quartet has given recitals this year at various major venues throughout the UK, including the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and St. John's Smith Square. They have toured throughout Argentina under the auspices of the British Council, and given recitals in Paris, Tel Aviv, Vienna and at the Festival du Luberon in France. We are very grateful to Wheawill & Sudworth, Chartered Accountants for their generous sponsorship of this concert.

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Quartet in G minor op 74 no 3 bool Haydn (1732-1809) Allegro: Largo assai: Menuetto - Allegretto - Trio: Finale - Allegro con brio (Last performed in 1986 by the Fairfield Quartet) This quartet is one of six written by Haydn in 1793 and dedicated to Count Aponyi. At the time Haydn was deeply involved in orchestral composition and fresh from hearing the richness of Salomon's London orchestra. This may account for the almost orchestral sonority of the work. It opens with a vigorous eight-bar passage, initially in unison, which is of great importance throughout the movement and particularly in the development section. The Largo, in the remote key of E major is of a grandeur seldom equalled even by Haydn. The quartet obtains its name "The Rider" from the rhythms of the last movement. Quartet in A minor op 13 Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Adagio - Allegro vivace: Adagio non lento: Intermezzo Allegretto con moto: Presto (Last performed in 1989 by the Carmina Quartet) Mendelssohn wrote this, his second string quartet, in 1827, when he was only 18. The work bears strong signs of the young composer's deep reverence for the works of Beethoven, whose late quartet op 132 in the same key of A minor seems to have had a particular influence upon it. There are distinct echoes of the Beethoven work in the introductory Allegro and the final section of the Intermezzo, as well as recitative passages for the first violin in the two outer movements. This is not to say that the work is "derived". It bears all the hallmarks of the young Mendelssohn in its spontaneous melodic invention and the characteristic writing in the quick pianissimo section of the Intermezzo. 1

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? (S ( 0 Quartet in E flat op 127 INTERVAL Beethoven (1770-1827) Adagio ma non troppo e molto cantabile: Maestoso - Allegro: Scherzo - vivace: Finale (Last performed in 1991 by the Sorrel Quartet) Beethoven was actively concerned with quartet writing at three stages of his life: between 1798 and 1800- the six quartets of op 18, between 1805 and 1810 - the three Rasoumovsky op 59, op 74 and op 95, and between 1822 and 1827 - the five late works, commissioned by and dedicated to Prince Galitzin. The quartet op 127 begins with a solemn introductory passage, marked maestoso, which recurs twice during the course of the movement, modifying its sonata form. The mood is otherwise of a serene and pastoral nature, ending with a coda founded upon the concluding falling notes of the main theme. The adagio takes the form of a theme and variations, though not so indicated in the score. Indeed they are hardly variations in a strict sense, being of a variable length and having sometimes only the most tenuous connections with the original theme. They are perhaps best regarded as transfigurations of the theme. The Scherzo has an angular rhythm, the theme being announced by the cello and inverted by the viola. A mysterious unison by the lower strings acts as a kind of recitative interrupting the flow. The Trio is a swirling presto developing into a strong two bar rhythm towards the end. After the return of the Scherzo, the Trio is again introduced briefly, followed by another eight bars of Scherzo. The Finale opens in unison and then settles down into a rocking arpeggio figure which permeates the movement. The coda, is unusual in being at a slower tempo and contains a transformation of the main theme.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Monday 25th January, 1999 at 7.30 pm Guarneri Piano Trio of Prague Mozart - C major K548; Shostakovich - E minor op 67; Dvorak - F minor op 65. February 15th - Philippe Graffin & Stephen Coombes March 8th - The Lindsays MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD Monday 18th January at 7.30 pm at St Paul's Hall Royal Northern College of Music String Orchestra Janáček, Poulenc (organ concerto), Dvorak and Suk (serenade) Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd January Ensemble Firebird performs works by final year students and Maxwell Davis (AntiChrist) HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB Friday 22nd January at 7.30 pm at the Square Chapel "Concert Royal" (Soprano two flutes cello and harpsichord) "The Most Fam'd Masters" - Purcell, Handel, Bach, and others. ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY Friday 5th February, 1999 at 7.30 pm at the Church School Hall Thomas Carroll (cello) and Carole Presland (Piano) Beethoven, Schubert, Schnittke & Martinu HUDDERSFIELD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Rupert D'Cruze Martin Roscoe Saturday 13th February at 7.30 pm at Huddersfield Town Hall Wagner Tchaikovsky (Piano concerto No 1) and Dvorak

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OFFICERS President Stephen Smith Joint Hon. Secretaries Mrs. M.S. Glendinning Tel. 01484 422612 Fax 01484 432443 & J. Gordon Sykes Tel. 01484 663474 Fax 667988 Hon. Treasurer P. Michael Lord 14 Garsdale Road, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6QZ Tel. 01484 310104 Fax 01484 425658 COMMITTEE Edward Glendinning, Peter Lawson, Simon Rothery, Mrs. E. Stephenson, Brian Walker, Linda Walker Richard Warrington We acknowledge with thanks support for our concerts from Yorkshire & Humberside Arts and The University of Huddersfield to which the Society is affiliated. The Society is grateful for financial help also from: Mrs E. Crossland, Mrs A. Crowther, D. Dugdale, M. Ellis, Miss M. A. Freeman, E. Glendinning, P. Michael Lord, P. L. Michelson, S. Rothery, J. C. S. Smith, Mrs E. Stephenson, J. G. Sykes, Mrs E. R. Taylor, Mrs L. Walker. Wheawill & Sudworth Peter Hawke Garages National Federation of Music Societies NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC SOCIETIES NEMS ●

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Monday 25th January, 1999 Guarneri Piano Trio of Prague Ivan Klansky piano Cenek Pavlik violin; Michaela Fukačová cello. Programme Piano Trio in C major K 548 Piano Trio No 2 in E minor op 67 Piano Trio in E minor op 90 (Dumky) Mozart Shostakovitch Dvořák The Guarneri Trio of Prague was formed in 1986, as an ensemble of three instrumentalists of the same generation, each of whom is an accomplished soloist in his own right. The Trio has appeared in many international festivals including Lucerne, Schleswig-Holstein, Carinthian Summer, Victoria (Canada), Prague Spring, and in Australia and South America. They make regular visits to the United Kingdom, and have performed at the Wigmore Hall on several occasions, and broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3. Ivan Klansky is one of today's most outstanding Czech pianists. He has won numerous international prizes, has toured throughout the world, and teaches at the Prague Academy of Music and the Lucerne Conservatoire. Cenek Pavlik is an equally distinguished soloist. Due to the unfortunate indisposition of their regular cellist, the Trio is completed tonight by Michaela Fukačová. An established soloist in her own right, she has performed concertos with many European and Japanese orchestras, and also in a duo with eminent Czech soloists, including Josef Suk and Ivan Klansky. We are very grateful to Peter Hawke Garages for their generous sponsorship of this concert.

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Piano Trio in C major K 548 Allegro: Andante Cantabile: Allegro (Last performed in 1976 by the Orion Piano Trio) Mozart (1756-1791) It was Mozart himself who developed the concept of the piano trio. Whilst Haydn wrote a number of works for this combination, his piano trios are in effect violin sonatas in which the cello merely doubles and strengthens the bass line. Although Mozart's early works in the genre were like divertimenti in character, his later works gave an independent part to the cello, and they were properly called trios. The Trio in C, K 548, together with a second (K 564) were the last that he wrote. They appeared in 1788. It is obvious that to Mozart the trio was a form of lesser importance than the string quartet. They were really composed for special occasions, such as parties for his friends. The development section of the apparently simple sonata form first movement is full of variety and imagination. The slow movement, the most outstanding of the three, is lyrical in character. It has been described as "endlessly moving in its soft and religious texture" and the final rondo as "a graceful bit of rococo in the French style." Piano Trio in E minor op 67 Shostakovich (1906-1975) Andante - Moderato - Poco piu mosso: Allegro con brio: Largo; Allegretto. (Last performed in 1970 by the Orion Piano Trio) The trio op 67, was written in 1944, during the war years, and not unnaturally is imbued with feelings of anguish and pain. According to I. I. Martinov the first movement "may be thought of as an elegy, the second would seem to be a scherzo of impetuous urgency and the third a mournful dialogue between the violin and the cello against the background of sombre choral harmonies on the piano." The third movement "leads directly into a broadly developed [

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) } 0 Į finale, introducing us to that world of eerie, foreboding shapes which invaded Shostakovich's music during the years of the war. The theme of the finale is angular and menacing, and it develops with a mechanical, rhythmic motion, accompanied by weird, automatic repetitions of contrapuntal elements - the combined effect of which evokes the image of a monstrous procession and fills the imagination with a frieze of cruel and sinister shapes. In the coda the theme of the first movement returns once more, but now imbued with a sense of mounting excitement, symbol of the noblest aspirations of humanity and of the immutable will which can stand the onslaught of the forces of evil and destruction. INTERVAL Trio in E minor op 90 (Dumky) Dvořák (1841-1904) Lento maestoso-allegro: Poco adagio-vivace: Andante-vivace: Andante moderato-allegretto scherzando: Allegro: Lento maestoso- vivace. (Last performed in 1998 by the Gould Piano Trio) A Dumka is a form of Slavonic folk ballad which juxtaposes intense melancholy and wild gaiety, a type frequently used by Dvořák in his instrumental music. However in this trio Dvořák lets the spirit of Dumka permeate the entire work, giving it the title in the plural form, and giving coherence to what is in effect a sonnet series of movements. The work was composed in winter 1890/91, Dvořák himself being at the keyboard for its first performance. Every movement has a change in tempo, emphasising the duality of the form, and each movement is in a different key. The composer never surpassed the brilliance of the piano writing in this work and has given the string players magnificent parts to play.

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Monday 15th February, 1999 at 7.30 pm Philippe Graffin (Violin) & Stephen Coombs (Piano) Mozart (A major K526), Debussy, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Saint-Saens March 8th - The Lindsays MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD Thursday 28th January at 1.00 pm at St Paul's Hall Recital by students from the University HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB Friday 12th February at 7.30 pm at the Square Chapel The Lindsay String Quartet (Haydn, Mendelssohn and Shostakovi ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY Friday 5th February, 1999 at 7.30 pm at the Church School Hall Thomas Carroll (cello) and Carole Presland (Piano) Beethoven, Schubert, Schnittke & Martinu HUDDERSFIELD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Rupert D'Cruze Martin Roscoe Saturday 13th February at 7.30 pm at Huddersfield Town Hall Wagner Tchaikovsky (Piano concerto No 1) and Dvorak

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OFFICERS President Stephen Smith Joint Hon. Secretaries Mrs. M.S. Glendinning Tel. 01484 422612 Fax 01484 432443 & J. Gordon Sykes Tel. 01484 663474 Fax 667988 Hon. Treasurer P. Michael Lord 14 Garsdale Road, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6QZ Tel. 01484 310104 Fax 01484 425658 COMMITTEE Edward Glendinning, Peter Lawson, Simon Rothery, Mrs. E. Stephenson, Brian Walker, Linda Walker Richard Warrington We acknowledge with thanks support for our concerts from Yorkshire & Humberside Arts and The University of Huddersfield to which the Society is affiliated. The Society is grateful for financial help also from: Mrs E. Crossland, Mrs A. Crowther, D. Dugdale, M. Ellis, Miss M. A. Freeman, E. Glendinning, P. Michael Lord, P. L. Michelson, S. Rothery, J. C. S. Smith, Mrs E. Stephenson, J. G. Sykes, Mrs E. R. Taylor, Mrs L. Walker. Wheawill & Sudworth x Peter Hawke Garages National Federation of Music Societies NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC SOCIETIES NEMS

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(lert-ex) 21 Monday 15th February, 1999 Ali to iliy Phillipe Graffin (Violin) & Stephen Coombs (Piano) Sonata in A major K 526 Sonata in G minor Divertimento Programme Sonata for violin & piano Sonata No 1 in D minor op 75 کے GESlil Mozart Debussy to Stravinsky ove Poulenc Saint-Saënsorinef Born in 1964 in Romilly-sur-Seine, Phillipe Graffin showed remarkable talent at an early age, graduating from the Paris Conservatoire with a first prize at the age of sixteen. He went on to complete his studies in the United States. (810 In 1987 M. Graffin was laureate of the Fritz Kreisler Competition in Austria, and has never looked back since then. He has appeared as a soloist throughout Europe, performing with many renowned orchestras. Besides giving performances on period instruments, he also specialises in modern and contemporary music, in particular by French composers of the new generation. Stephen Coombs is another who showed remarkable talent at a very early age. Having won second prize at the National Piano Concerto Competition at the age of thirteen, his debut at the Wigmore Hall two years later set the pattern for an international career which has won him many awards, including the Gold Medal at the First International Liszt Concourse in Hungary. Now firmly established as one of Britain's foremost pianists, Stephen is in demand both as soloist and as a chamber and duo pianist. Alongside his performances of works from the standard repertoire, he champions the rarities of the piano repertoire. He broadcasts extensively for the BBC, and has now been given his series "Russian Piano Portraits" by Hyperion of which four CDs have already been issued. sor

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Violin Sonata in A major K 526 Mozart (1756-1791) Allegro molto: Andante: Presto (Last performed in 1961 by Tessa Robbins & Robin Wood) This, the last of his "great sonatas", was completed by Mozart in 1787, whilst working on Don Giovanni. Einstein writes "This work is like Bach, yet thoroughly Mozartian, in three contrapuntal parts, yet gallant at the same time; in the slow movement it attains an equilibrium of art and soul that is as if God the Father had brought all motion everywhere to a halt for a moment so that man might savour the bitter sweetness of existence." This sonata has been called the forerunner of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata ; but it avoids the dramatic, the passionate, and in so doing it is all the more complete. After such high-flown comments it is perhaps rather prosaic to mention that the first movement is in sonata form, and the last a virtuoso rondo. Violin Sonata in G minor Debussy (1862-1918) Allegro vivo; Intermède; Finale Allegro (Last performed in 1990 by Rimma Sushanskaya & James Walker) This is a first world war sonata. Debussy, stricken with cancer and knowing that the end was near, embarked upon a series of six sonatas for various combinations of instruments. He began with the cello sonata in 1915 and followed this with the sonata for flute, viola and harp. The violin sonata was the third, and, alas, the last of the projected six he was able to complete. Divertimento Stravinsky (1882-1971) (First performance at these concerts) Stravinsky was born near St. Petersburg into an aristocratic pre- revolutionary family. After he left Russia in 1910, he lived first in Switzerland, from 1920 to 1939 in Paris (adopting French nationality in 1934) and finally in the USA. This variety of residence is reflected in his music, since he adopted various distinct musical styles throughout his life.

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2 s 0 :) The Divertimento is an arrangement of his orchestral score Le baiser de la fée which he made in 1933. INTERVAL Sonata for Violin & Piano Allegro con fuoco; Poulenc (1899-1963) Intermezzo "La guitare fait pleurer les songes"; Presto tragico (First performance at these concerts) Poulenc, whose centenary we celebrate this year, was born in Paris. Although his chamber works include various successful sonatas for wind instruments, he acknowledged that he experienced difficulty in achieving "equilibrium" between the two instruments in a violin and piano sonata, and suppressed two earlier sonatas for the combination. This work was written in 1942/43 and revised in 1949. It was written for the violinist Ginette Neveu, and was inscribed in memory of Federico Garcia Lorca, the Spanish poet/playwright who died in 1936. The inscription over the central movement is a quotation from Lorca and also a reference to the composer's own guitar playing. The final movement is in rondo form, and despite the solemn title one of its episodes is a light-hearted music hall tune. Sonata No. 1 in D minor op 75 Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) (First performance at these concerts) Despite a long and productive life Saint-Saëns, who started as an infant prodigy, never quite managed to achieve the status of a great composer. This work, composed in 1885, was dedicated to the violinist Pierre Marsic, with whom Saint-Saëns had just undertaken a successful tour of Switzerland.

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HUDDERSFIELD MUSIC SOCIETY Monday 8th March, 1999 at 7.30 pm The Lindsay String Quartet endon FORTHCOMING EVENTS MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD Monday 22nd February at 7.30 pm at St. Paul's Hall University Saxophone Quartet, Cornet Ensemble & Symphonic Wind Orchestra Saturday & Sunday 27th and 28th February at 7.30 pm and Monday 1st March at 2 pm at the Lawrence Batley Theatre The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart HALIFAX PHILHARMONIC CLUB Friday 5th March at 7.30 pm at the Square Chapel The Lindsay-String Quartet Haydn, Bartok, Beethoven (op. 127) Keller ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY Friday 19th March, 1999 at 7.30 pm at the Church School Hall The Caractacus String Quartet) & Katherine Spencer Mozart & Brahms (Clarinet Quintets) and Samuel Barber HUDDERSFIELD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Rupert D'Cruze Aeolian Duo (flute & harp) Saturday 24th April at 7.30 pm at Huddersfield Town Hall Berlioz, Mozart & Mahler (5th Symphony) 10 00 1

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1 OFFICERS President Stephen Smith Joint Hon. Secretaries Mrs. M.S. Glendinning Tel. 01484 422612 Fax 01484 432443 & J. Gordon Sykes Tel. 01484 663474 Fax 667988 Hon. Treasurer P. Michael Lord 14 Garsdale Road, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6QZ Tel. 01484 310104 Fax 01484 425658 COMMITTEE Edward Glendinning, Peter Lawson, Simon Rothery, Mrs. E. Stephenson, Brian Walker, Linda Walker Richard Warrington We acknowledge with thanks support for our concerts from Yorkshire Humberside Arts and The University of Huddersfield to which the Society is affiliated. The Society is grateful for financial help also from: Mrs E. Crossland, Mrs A. Crowther, D. Dugdale, M. Ellis, Miss M. A. Freeman, E. Glendinning, P. Michael Lord, P. L. Michelson, S. Rothery, J. C. S. Smith, Mrs E. Stephenson, J. G. Sykes, Mrs E. R. Taylor, Mrs L. Walker. Wheawill & Sudworth گا Peter Hawke Garages National Federation of Music Societies NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC SOCIETIES NEMS

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Monday 8th March, 1999 ni isto garue The Lindsay String Quartet Peter Cropper Ronald Birks Robin Ireland Violin Violin Viola Bernard Gregor-Smith Cello Programme Quartet in E flat Op. 64 No 6 Quartet No. 3 Quartet in C major Op 59 No 3 Beethoven Haydn Britten Although this is their first appearance with us since 1991, there is surely no need to introduce the Lindsays to a Huddersfield audience. Widely praised for both recordings and performances of works ranging from Haydn to Tippett, they are currently engaged in recording the complete set of Haydn Quartets from Opus 20 onwards. The earliest releases in this series have met with considerable critical acclaim. This concert is organised with the support of Yorkshire and Humberside Arts Association.

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String Quartet in E flat major Op 64 No6 Haydn (1732-1809) Allegretto; Andante; Minuet and Trio; Presto (Last performed in 1964 by the Benthien String Quartet) In 1789 Haydn published the six quartets of Opp. 54 and 55 and in the following year the six quartets of Op 64. All twelve were dedicated to Johann Tost, a wealthy wholesale merchant who, it is thought, had previously been a professional violinist. Certainly all of them are distinguished by the prominence and brilliance of their first violin parts, and all have the originality of invention and the perfect balance of form which mark them as being works of Haydn's full maturity. Another characteristic of these twelve is the number of movements they possess which are based upon a single theme. The mood of the E flat quartet is intimate and serene, as are all his quartets in that key. The first movement is constructed on the monothematic plan, but with a daringly free recapitulation. The lyrical Andante, with its constantly rising arpeggios and its delicate and subtle dissonances, is perhaps the finest movement of the work. The soaring part given to the first violin in the Trio of the Minuet is particularly noteworthy. String Quartet No 3 Op 94 Britten (1913–1976) Duets; Ostinato; Solo; Burlesque; Recitative and Passacaglia (La Serenissima) (Last performed in 1994 by the Sorrel String Quartet) Britten's three string quartets are firmly established in the chamber music repertoire. No1 was first heard in Los Angeles in 1941, No 2 was written in 1945 after Britten's return from the United States, and No 3, thirty years later in 1975. This third quartet owes its inspiration to, and is indeed a distillation of the drama in Britten's last opera Death in Venice. Based on the story by Thomas Mann, the opera depicts the city of Venice, and the writer Aschenberg, whose yearning after beauty centres on the young boy, Tadzio. Acquaintance with the opera might be a help in appreciating the quartet. The first movement opens with undulating seconds, suggesting lapping of water on stone. This movement pairs the four instruments of the quartet in all six possible ways. There is here the serenity of Venice, the tortured soul of Aschenbach and the calm of his love for the boy. The second movement is short and the Ostinato is of repeated intervals of the seventh, with a lyrical episode in the middle of the movement. Solo is the apex of the work. It is played very high on the violin and

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) } () The accompanied by very low single notes of arpeggio, which rise up to the level of the solo, whereupon the violin breaks into a rapturous cadenza. accompaniment becomes aleatory that is to say freely timed within the framework set by the solo. The music gradually eases back to the opening calm. The Burlesque is reminiscent of Shostakovich, but without the Russian's grimness. The Trio section has the second violin playing with the wood of the bow and the viola whistling on the strings behind the bridge. The Serenissima refers to Venice - the music was composed during a holiday in the City. Each instrument plays a short recitative quoting from the opera the cello the barcarolle theme depicting Aschenbach's journeys by gondola, the second violin the theme of yearning, the first violin a pizzicato version of the chorale Phaedrus learned what beauty is... and the viola the motif of the cholera epidemic which invaded the city. These are followed by one of Britten's favourite forms- a passacaglia, over the undulating seconds of the first movement. The work ends on an unresolved chord, of which the composer said "I want the work to end with a question." A - The quartet is dedicated to Hans Keller. Britten heard only one play-through, by the Amadeus Quartet, who gave the first public performance in December 1976, a fortnight after Britten's death. INTERVAL during which coffee will be supplied, kindly provided, as usual by the ladies of St John's Church, Newsome String Quartet in C major Op 59 No 3 Beethoven (1770-1827) Introduction - Allegro Vivace; Andante con moto quasi allegretto; Menuet and Trio; Allegro. Last performed in 1997 by the Vertavo Quartet Beethoven dedicated the three Op 59 quartets to the Russian Ambassador, Count Rasumovsky, whence they take their name. 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 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 C major as possible. The opening

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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. This is 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 Rasumovsky quartets were written in 1806, a mere six years after the six of 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. FORTHCOMING EVENTS MUSIC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD Tuesday 9th March at 7.30 pm at St. Paul's Hall International Women's Day Concert by the Dixon-Hoyle Ensemble Clara Schumann, Judith Weir & Rebecca Clarke Monday 22nd March at 7.30 pm at St. Paul's Hall University New Music Ensemble Stravinsky, Schönberg, Fraser Trainer and Ibert ELLAND & DISTRICT MUSIC SOCIETY Friday 19th March, 1999 at 7.30 pm at the Church School Hall The Caractacus String Quartet & Katherine Spencer Mozart & Brahms (Clarinet Quintets) and Samuel Barber quartet Op 11. HUDDERSFIELD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Rupert D'Cruze Aeolian Duo (flute & harp) Saturday 24th April at 7.30 pm at Huddersfield Town Hall Berlioz, Mozart & Mahler (5th Symphony) 1

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I OFFICERS President Stephen Smith Joint Hon. Secretaries Mrs. M.S. Glendinning Tel. 01484 422612 Fax 01484 432443 & J. Gordon Sykes Tel. 01484 663474 Fax 667988 Hon. Treasurer P. Michael Lord 14 Garsdale Road, Newsome, Huddersfield HD4 6QZ Tel. 01484 310104 Fax 01484 425658 COMMITTEE Edward Glendinning, Peter Lawson, Simon Rothery, Mrs. E. Stephenson, Brian Walker, Linda Walker Richard Warrington We acknowledge with thanks support for our concerts from Yorkshire & Humberside Arts and The University of Huddersfield to which the Society is affiliated. The Society is grateful for financial help also from: Mrs E. Crossland, Mrs A. Crowther, D. Dugdale, M. Ellis, Miss M. A. Freeman, E. Glendinning, P. Michael Lord, P. L. Michelson, S. Rothery, J. C. S. Smith, Mrs E. Stephenson, J. G. Sykes, Mrs E. R. Taylor, Mrs L. Walker. Wheawill & Sudworth * Peter Hawke Garages National Federation of Music Societies NATIONAL FEDERATION OF MUSIC SOCIETIES NEMS ·

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