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May I take this opportunity to say a huge thank you to all the supporters of our 2016/17 season, who made the concerts such a success. A concert is not only an artist performing but also an audience listening and responding to that performance. It has been lovely to see the audiences grow. I aim to create a series of concerts that appeal to a broad range of musical tastes and I find it particularly interesting and helpful to hear your reaction to the concerts. We are very fortunate to receive support from Orchestras Live who help us to bring chamber orchestras to Stamford. The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment return for a concert of core baroque music under the direction of Matthew Truscott. The Manchester Camerata, who have just won the Best Ensemble Award in the Royal Philharmonic Society's
Music Awards, include in their programme a transcription of a Brahms symphony. We welcome for the first time the Doric String Quartet and the Trio Isimsiz, as well as Kathryn Stott, as part of her 60th birthday recital tour. The Mozartists, created in 2017 by Ian Page from his highly acclaimed Classical Opera Company, come with a mixed programme of instrumental music including some folksong settings by Haydn. Boxwood & Brass also present interesting arrangements, recreating the harmonie music of the late eighteenth century writtenor transcribed-for wind bands by composers such as Mozart and Beethoven. We cannot usually fit a piano concerto on the stage in the ballroom, but the Emperor Quartet and Sarah Beth Briggs’ concert includes Mozart’s own arrangement of his 12th Piano Concerto for piano quintet.
Orchestra of The Age of Enlightenment 14 October 2017
Doric Quartet
4 November 2017
Emperor Quartet and Sarah Beth Briggs 9 December 2017
Boxwood & Brass 13 January 2018
Kathryn Stott 3 February 2018
The Mozartists 10 March 2018
Trio Isimsiz 7 April 2018
Manchester Camerata
Classical Season Programmer
5 May 2018
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OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
DORIC QUARTET
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Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5 Britten String Quartet No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 12 Haydn String Quartet in A major, Op. 20, No. 6 Alex Redington Violin Jonathan Stone Violin Hélène Clément Viola John Myerscough Cello
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is making a welcome return to Stamford. Their motto is "Not all orchestras are the same", as they were founded on the basis of democracy-it is the players who decide where and what they will play. They have been called eccentric and naïve idealists, and they are determined to remain so, but they never compromise their authenticity nor the invention of their performances.
The Doric String Quartet are the finest string quartet of their generation. They bring to Stamford a programme of exploratory string quartets; all are early works in each composer’s quartet writing, indeed Haydn’s Op. 20 quartets, written in 1774, are the foundation stone for all classical string quartets, and the Doric play them excellently. Geoffrey Norris, in The Daily Telegraph described the Quartet’s disc of the Op. 20 quartets (2015) as “miraculous”.
This concert features baroque orchestral music centred around the first two of Bach’s Orchestral Suites. They begin with one of Händel’s Concerto Grossi, and follow the Bach with a Concerto Grosso by Corelli, the first major exponent of the form. The finale is a Suite of Dances from three of Rameau’s “revolutionary” operas. Rameau began to write opera in the 1730s when he was in his 50s, and by doing so broke the stranglehold that Lully had over French opera. But Lully and the conservatives fought back, and like Mozart, Rameau was accused of writing “too many notes”.
Britten’s String Quartet No. 1 was written in 1941 for his patron, Elizabeth Coolidge, while he was in the United States. He had written music for string quartet previously as a teenager, but this is his first mature work for the form.
Händel Concerto Grosso, Op. 3, No. 2 in B flat major, HWV 313 Bach Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 Bach Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major, BWV 1066 Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 3 Rameau Suite of Dances from the operas Hippolyte et Aricie, Castor et Pollux and Dardanus Matthew Truscott
Mendelssohn’s Op. 12 is also an early quartet composition, written at the age of 20 during a tour through England, Wales and Scotland. The quartet shows Mendelssohn’s innate gift of melody combined with the textures of his elfin music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Saturday 14 October 2017 7.30pm
Saturday 4 November 2017 7.30pm
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DECEMBER
EMPEROR STRING QUARTET AND SARAH BETH BRIGGS
Haydn Mozart Brahms
BOXWOOD & BRASS
String Quartet in B minor, Op. 33, No. 1 Piano Concerto in A major, K.414 (a Quattro) Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Sarah Beth Briggs Martin Burgess Clare Hayes Fiona Bonds William Schofield
Piano Violin Violin Viola Cello
Sarah Beth Briggs returns to Stamford with the Emperor String Quartet, bringing a programme of music written for piano quintet and string quartet. Sarah, who was the youngest finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition at the age of 11, is well known as a chamber musician and soloist. The Emperor String Quartet was formed in 1992 by members of the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in order to perform the string quartet repertoire. The concert begins with the first of Haydn’s Op. 33 set of string quartets, in which he developed the form of the string quartet from the beginnings in the Op. 20 set (see the November concert). The size of the stage in the Ballroom normally prohibits us from having a piano concerto in the series here, but the second piece in this concert is Mozart’s 12th Piano Concerto, albeit performed in an arrangement made by the composer himself for piano and string quartet. Finally we have Brahms’ piano quintet, his only piece for this combination of instruments, described by a contemporary as “beautiful beyond words … a masterpiece of chamber music”.
Beethoven Mozart Weber Mozart
Sextet in E flat major, Op. 71 Serenade in C minor, K. 388 (arr. Percival) Adagio and Rondo for Harmonie, J.Anh. 31 Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K. 543 (arr. Percival)
Emily Worthington Oscar Arguelles Ursula Monberg Kate Goldsmith Robert Percival Takako Kunugi
Boxwood & Brass was formed in 2013 to recreate ‘harmoniemusik’. In the late eighteenth century, wealthy patrons and nobles in German speaking lands in central Europe, who had previously employed small orchestras, adopted the harmonie as their resident musicians. A harmonie was a wind band based around pairs of clarinets (and/or oboes), horns and bassoons, sometimes supplemented by flutes, basset horns, trumpets, trombones, contrabassoons and serpents. As a result, composers, including Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn, wrote as many as 12,000 original works for the harmonie to meet the demand from their patrons. Other works based on string sections were arranged for harmonie, so that these too could be heard economically and at home without the need for a full orchestra. In order to give a true impression of what a harmonie concert would have sounded like, the programme includes pieces by Beethoven and Weber written specifically for harmonie, and two pieces of Mozart, including the Symphony No. 39, arranged for this group of instruments.
Saturday 9 December 2017 7.30pm
Saturday 13 January 2018 7.30pm
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FEBRUARY
KATHRYN STOTT
Bach Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (arr. Myra Hess) Grieg Lyric Pieces, Op. 52 Chopin Mazurka in B flat major, Op. 7, No. 1 Wagner (transc. Liszt) Isolde’s Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde Ginastera DanzasArgentinas, Op. 2 Bach (transc. Kempff) Siciliano from the Flute Sonata No. 2, BWV 1031 Strauss Ramble on Love from Der Rosenkavalier (arr. Percy Grainger) Various Londonderry Air, My Favourite Things, Embraceable You, (arr Stephen Hough and Earl Wild) Ravel (transc. Ravel) La Valse, M. 72 As Kathryn approaches her 60th birthday, she tours the UK with a recital programme. Her career began as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger and Vlado Perlmutter and as a prize winner in the Leeds International Piano Competition. Since then she has developed a career as a concerto soloist, a chamber musician, in solo recitals and as the director of music festivals in Manchester and Siena, but she is perhaps best known as the accompanist of Yo-Yo Ma. Kathryn has recorded a large, eclectic body of work including concertos and solo repertoire. Of particular note is her recording for Hyperion of the complete solo works by Fauré and the complete Kabalevsky Concertos for Chandos. She has also recorded with Truls Mørk, Guy Johnston, the Doric String Quartet, Noriko Ogawa, Tine Thing Helseth, the BBC Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. “Her playing was, as you might expect, luminous and delicately shaded her technique is superb, and she’s a master of subtle emotions and telling details” Washington Post
MARCH
THE MOZARTISTS Haydn
Koželuch Haydn Mozart Haydn
Saper vorrei se m’ami, Hob. XXVa: 2 Trost unglücklicher Liebe, Hob. XXVIa:9 Eine sehr gewöhnliche Geschichte, Hob. XXVIa:4 Sonata in A minor, Op. 26, No.2 Piano Trio in D major, No. 7, Hob. X7 Guarda qui che lo vedrai, Hob. XXVa1 Das strickendeMädchen, Hob. XXVIa:1 Das Leben ist ein Traum, Hob. XXVIa:9 Sonata in A minor, K. 310 Three folksong settings Here awa, there awa, Arhyd y nos, and Pat & Kate
Steven Devine Susanna Hurrell Alessandro Fisher Julia Kuhn Jonathan Rees
The Mozartists were created in 2017 by conductor, Ian Page, as a natural extension of his pioneering work with internationally renowned opera company, Classical Opera. Classical Opera is best known for its current series, Mozart 250, in which they perform each year the operas and music that Mozart and his contemporaries composed 250 years ago. Comprising many of today’s leading period instrumentalists, The Mozartists perform alongside some of the world’s most exciting young singers. In this concert, The Mozartists present a wideranging selection of works by Haydn, including a piano trio, songs, duets and some of his most delightful folksong settings, interspersed with two dramatically charged A minor sonatas by Mozart and Koželuch, played on the fortepiano by Steven Devine.
Saturday 3 February 2018 7.30pm
Saturday 10 March 2018 7.30pm
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TRIO ISIMSIZ Schubert Beethoven Brahms
MANCHESTER CAMERATA Piano Trio in B flat major, D.28 Sonatensatz Piano Trio in E flat major, Op. 70, No. 2 Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8
Erdem Misirlioglu Pablo Hernán Benedí Michael Petrov
Piano Violin Cello
Mozart Overture, Marriage of Figaro, K. 492 Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 74, J. 118 Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73 Sergej Bolkhovets Fiona Cross
Conductor Clarinet
Trio Isimsiz was formed in 2009. They have received various accolades including most recently First Prize and the Audience Prize at the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition 2015 and Second Prize at the 2017 International Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna. Their Stamford concert brings three interesting compositions for Piano Trio.
The Manchester Camerata is “redefining what an orchestra can do”. Under Gábor Takács-Nagy, their new Music Director, it has “reinvented itself”. As a result, it was the winner of the Best Ensemble Award in the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Music Awards in May 2017. We are very lucky that the most exciting ensemble working in Britain today has agreed to come to Stamford in their award-winning year.
Schubert’s one-movement Sonatensatz was written when he was just 15 in the August of 1812, just after he had been dismissed from the choir of the Imperial Chapel in Vienna after his voice broke.
This concert starts with the Overture to the Marriage of Figaro. The opera almost didn’t get off the ground as the Beaumarchais play on which it is based was at first banned in Vienna.
Beethoven’s pair of piano trios numbered Op. 70 was written four years earlier while spending the summer in Heiligenstadt. They were written immediately after the Sixth Symphony, and mark a return to the intimacy of chamber music which he had set aside between 1804 and 1808, while he wrestled with the groundbreaking Fifth Symphony, and composed wonders such as the Fourth Piano Concerto.
Weber wrote most of his clarinet music, including the Second Clarinet Concerto, in 1811 for the virtuoso, Heinrich Baermann. It was immediately successful and established his reputation as a composer.
Brahms’ first piano trio was first written when Brahms was turning 21. He revised it in 1889 so, although he wrote two further piano trios (Opp. 87 and 101), Op. 8 is simultaneously Brahms’ first and last compositions for Piano Trio!
Brahms wrote his Second Symphony in 1877 during a visit to Carinthia. Its composition was brief in comparison to the 21 years he took to write his first. Brahms, of course, wrote the Second Symphony for a full symphony orchestra, so as with the other pieces in this programme, it has been transcribed for performance by a chamber orchestra.
Saturday 7 April 2018 7.30pm
Saturday 5 May 2018 7.30pm
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FOOD AND DRINK
There are a number of options for refreshments at the Arts Centre. The gallery and cellar bars will be open for pre-show and interval drinks. The sweet kiosk will also be open for all concerts.
DISCOUNTS
Discounts (priced in brackets) are available to Artscene members, unwaged, over 60s, disabled patrons & their companion. There is a special £10 ticket for under 26s. If you are planning to bring a large group to a concert, please contact the box office to see if we can help organise your trip or if we are able to offer you a discount. We regret that we are unable to exchange tickets or to refund money. If an event is sold out, we will try to resell unwanted tickets. Tickets may also be provisionally reserved over the phone. Payment must be made within three working days or half an hour before the performance, whichever is sooner. Please ask at the box office if you wish to join our mailing list or become an Artscene member. The Classical Season Multi Buy Discount is available to customers who purchase for three or more concerts in one single transaction. The offer will only apply to an equal number of tickets for each concert bought.
ACCESS
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