Resident Orchestra of Fairfield Halls, Croydon
Wednesday 19 January 2011 7.30pm Fairfield Halls, Croydon Jaime MartĂn conductor Jadran Duncomb guitar KODĂ LY Dances of Galanta rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez interval
mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A minor Scottish
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ORCHESTRA 1st Violins Krysia Osostowicz Susanna Candlin John Mills Nicoline Kraamwinkel
(Chair supported
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by Anonymous)
by Anonymous)
Emily Marsden
Oboes Gareth Hulse
Cellos Julia Desbruslais Aoife Nic Athlaoich Julia Graham
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Clarinets Angela Malsbury Margaret Archibald
Ann Criscuolo Martin Smith Catherine Van de Geest Anna De Bruin 2nd Violins Jenny Godson Miriam Teppich Jeremy Metcalfe Anna Harpham Vernon Dean Frances Richards
Violas Julia O'Riorden Michael Posner Matthew Quenby
Elinor Browne)
Rowena Calvert
Flutes Celia Chambers (Chair supported by Brian and Doreen Hitching)
Robert Manasse
Horns Christopher Newport Tony Catterick Richard Lewis Martin Grainger Trumpets Paul Archibald Simon Gabriel
Pat Sandry)
Katie Clemmow
(Chair supported by Anonymous)
Bassoons Sarah Burnett
Basses Stacey Watton Andy Marshall
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Timpani Ben Hoffnung Percussion Glyn Matthews Sacha Johnson
Alec Botten)
Robert Porter
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After a distinguished career as a flute soloist, Jaime Martín entered the world of orchestral conducting in 2007 and just one year later was championed by Sir Neville Marriner as an emerging conductor during a joint tour of Spain with the Orquestra de Cadaqués. A great natural conducting talent, he has since then worked with many orchestras in Europe including the Barcelona Symphony, Manchester Camerata, Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Galicia Symphony and Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, among others. He has also recorded with the Orquestra de Cadaqués conducting Beethoven’s Third Symphony and the Sinfonietta by Ernesto Halffter on the Tritó label, as well as works by Agustí Charles with the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. Born in Santander, Spain, Jaime Martín studied at the Music Academy in Madrid and later at The Hague. As a flute soloist he performed with the leading orchestras in Europe under the baton of distinguished conductors including Daniele Gatti, Andras Schiff, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Sir Neville Marriner and Gianandrea Noseda. He has made recordings for Sony and EMI and also premièred new works by such composers as Deirdre McKay, Xavier Montsalvatge, Jesús Rueda and Mike Mower. This year Jaime Martín will make his conducting debut with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, London Mozart Players, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and Orchestre National de Lyon, and will also be making his operatic debut with
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jaime martÍn Conductor
English National Opera conducting performances of Rossini’s Barber of Seville. Jaime Martín teaches at the Royal College of Music in London.
Born in Sheffield in 1989, Jadran began to play the guitar at the age of eight. Moving to Norway in 1999, he was admitted to the Young Talents section of Barratt Due Musikkinstitutt in 2002, where he was taught by Vegard Lund. He also began weekly lessons with Prof. Sven Lundestad at the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2006. Jadran is a multiple prize-winner at the Norwegian Music Competitions for Youth, having won 1st prizes in both the guitar and duet classes with his pianist brother, Emil. In 2008, Jadran was a finalist in Norwegian television’s “Virtuos” concerto competition, performing with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, as well as winning the Strings category in the BBC Young Musician of the Year. Jadran has performed all over Norway and Europe, including a performance of Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Cardiff’s Millenium Centre and a solo recital in the Wigmore Hall. Recent engagements have included recitals in MusicAncona, Italy, and the Trigonale Early Music Festival, Austria, where he also played the baroque guitar in a performance of Purcell’s Fairy Queen with I Fagiolini and the Harmony of Nations Baroque Orchestra. Future engagements include concerts in the UK, Norway, Italy, Germany and Austria. Jadran regularly gives concerts with his brother to great acclaim. Together they have performed in festivals including Olavsfestdagene in Trondheim, Norway, and the Victoria International Arts
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JADRAN DUNCOMB Guitar
Festival in Victoria, Malta, and in venues such as the Wigmore Hall and King‘s Place in London. Jadran was awarded a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London, where he currently studies the classical guitar with Gary Ryan and theorbo with Jakob Lindberg.
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zoltÁn kodÁly (1882–1967) Dances of Galanta I II III IV V
Lento – Maestoso Allegretto moderato Allegro con moto Allegro Allegro vivace
Kodály grew up in a healthy musical environment – his father played the violin and his mother sang and played the piano – although during his childhood he received very little formal musical tuition. He learnt to play the piano, violin, viola and cello (largely on his own) to such a standard that he was able to take part in chamber music-making with his parents and as a member of the school orchestra. He began singing in a church choir and composing; indeed many of his early compositions were actually performed, including Overture in D Minor for Orchestra in 1898 and Trio in E-flat for Two Violins and Viola in 1899. During his school years, Kodály became fascinated with the unspoilt folksongs of his native Hungary. At the University of Budapest, he studied Hungarian and German; however, he received such a broad education that he was able to take classes in composition and music education, studying with Hans Koessler (who would also teach composition to the likes of Béla Bartók, Emmerich Kálmán and Ernst von Dohnányi). In 1906, he completed his PhD thesis on the stanzaic structure of Hungarian folksongs, using examples he had collected throughout his early years living in rural Hungary. The Dances of Galanta were composed in 1933 and dedicated to the Budapest Philharmonic Society to celebrate their 80th anniversary. During this time, Kodály produced a large body of orchestral works, including his Dances of Marosszek (1930), Peacock Variations (1939) and the Concerto for Orchestra (1939). The dances take their name from the market town of Galanta, between Vienna and Budapest, where Kodály spent seven years of his childhood. They are in the style known as www.lmp.org
verbunkos (from the German “werbung”, meaning “recruitment”), and were used by the Austrian army to entice young men to sign up. The dances reflect the traditional verbunkos style, with slow figures alternating with fast ones; Kodály uses solo instruments (cello, horn, oboe and clarinet) interspersed with rushing strings to demonstrate this and the soldiers’ “swagger, giving way to irresistible foot-stamping”. © Martin Sargeson
joaquÍn rodrigo (1901–1999) Concierto de Aranjuez I II III
Allegro con spirito Adagio Allegro gentile
The guitar plays a vital part in the musical life of our times. In one form or another it dominates the folk music of the western world, in particular, of course, that of Spain and the Spanish gypsies. The instrument is reputed to have been brought to Spain by the Moors, and to Southern Italy by the Spaniards. It became generally popular on the continent in the early nineteenth century, but a great deal of good and interesting music was composed for the instrument long before that. The main function of the guitar has always been the accompaniment of songs, but the famous virtuosi of our time have done much towards establishing the Spanish guitar as a solo instrument. Joaquin Rodrigo has written a number of compositions for the guitar, and the work that secured his fame as one of the foremost Spanish composers was the composition of this concerto. The Concierto de Aranjuez was composed in Paris in 1939 and first performed the following year in Barcelona. The reference to Aranjuez (just south
of Madrid) is intended to evoke the royal palace and the magnificent gardens in that town where the kings of Spain used to spend the summer. The first movement of the concerto, Allegro con spirito, begins with a guitar solo over a pedal octave ‘D’, played by the divided basses. A characteristic rhythm – two beats followed by three – pervades the whole movement. In the Adagio the soloist accompanies the cor anglais before playing the extended theme. The movement is in the form of a conversation between the wind instruments and the guitar, but there is an important solo cadenza near the end of the piece. The Allegro gentile is once more based on an alternating pulse of two and three beats, but while these changes in the first movement took place within bars of the same length, the theme of the finale is spread over an upbeat, one bar in 3/4 and two 2/4 bars. The result is an intriguing rhythm of the kind common to all countries on the northern shores of the Mediterranean. This insistent rhythm supports a simple tune which keeps appearing in various guises throughout the movement. In the end it builds up to an orchestral climax, only to leave the guitar almost on its own for the last bars, which end pianissimo. © Stefan de Haan
INTERVAL The Palace at Aranjuez
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felix mendelssohn (1809–1847) Symphony No. 3 in A minor Scottish I II III IV
Andante con moto – Allegro un poco agitato Vivace non troppo Adagio Allegro vivacissimo – Allegro maestoso assai
Mendelssohn made the first sketches for his third symphony in the summer of 1829. The inspiration for this work came from impressions he had gathered during a tour of Scotland that lasted three weeks. Describing the palace of Holyrood in Edinburgh, he wrote to his parents: “There I found, I believe, the beginnings of my Scottish Symphony”. After seeing Edinburgh, Mendelssohn and his friend Klingemann visited Sir Walter Scott (who had no time for them) and continued to Stirling, Blair Atholl, Glasgow and Fort William. Having left Scotland, he found it difficult to recapture the Scottish impressions, particularly when he went to Italy, where the blue skies prevented him, as he said, “from returning in his mind to the misty Scottish mood”. The result was that the completion of the symphony was much delayed, and when he finished it in January 1842, over 12 years had passed since he had made his first sketches. The Scottish Symphony was first performed under Mendelssohn’s direction in Leipzig on 3 March 1842 and again in London on 13 June, with such success that he asked permission to dedicate the work to Queen Victoria. He went to see her in Buckingham Palace where she sang one of his songs to him and graciously accepted the dedication. Each movement is to move immediately to the next without pause, setting it apart from Mendelssohn’s other symphonies. To the tempo markings of each movement Mendelssohn adds directions reflecting the character of the music, which convey
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Mendelssohn’s impressions of the Scottish landscape. The orchestration of the first movement is among Mendelssohn’s most dense; curious and exhilarating modulations open both the development section and coda. The development section is concise and effective. When the main theme returns in the recapitulation and the introduction returns in the coda, the themes are underpinned with a counter-theme in the cellos. The coda also contains the famous chromatic “wave”, played by the strings. The cheerful Scherzo, marked Vivace non troppo, is derived from Scottish folk music. It stands in stark contrast to the thick first movement and is in sonata form. The movement fades and dissolves to prepare for the ensuing Adagio. Resignation reigns in the third movement with an Adagio cantabile. A clear reference to Beethoven appears in the low strings, which play a motive resembling the theme of the Allegretto of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Folk melodies appear again in the Finale, an unusually powerful and militant movement for Mendelssohn. A leaping, aggressive theme in the violins begins the movement, appropriate for Mendelssohn’s direction, Allegro guerriero (fast and warlike). Fragmentation technique propels the development section as themes are layered and treated contrapuntally. After the recapitulation we do not hear a coda with thematic references to the exposition. Instead, Mendelssohn shifts to a Maestoso coda, in which we hear new material and the theme from the introduction, which is again taken through variations and now conveys an air of triumph after the “battle”. © Femke de Vos Burchart
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