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Welcome
Welcome to our 2016/17 classical season. In this series of concerts given by both new and returning artists, we hope that there will be something for everyone. There is a special offer for those who buy for 3 or more concerts in the series – you will get £2 off each ticket. We particularly welcome younger concert-goerrs, and our reduced price offer of tickets at £10 for all under 26s continues for another season. Once again with the support of Orchestras Live we are able to enjoy two orchestral concerts: the English Concert with a programme from the Baroque Masters and the European Union Chamber Orchestra, with Nicholas Daniel, in a concert which includes the Mozart Oboe Concerto. Angela Hewitt joins us for a recital which includes music by Bach, Scarlatti, Ravel and Chabrier. Gramophone magazine described Angela as ‘One of the outstanding Bach pianists of our time, her playing of the great Partitas is something very special indeed’.
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The English Concert 8 October 2016
Many of you will have seen Alina Ibraginova’s televised concerts of all the solo Bach Sonatas and Partitas for violin from last year’s BBC Proms. She returns to Stamford with her quartet, the Chiaroscuro Quartet, for a concert of Haydn, Berwald and Beethoven. Other concerts include the Lendvai String Trio bringing performances of Classical trio works, Lisa Ferschtman and Martin Roscoe in a lively and varied programme for violin and piano, and Tabea Debus with her baroque ensemble. We also welcome back the mezzo soprano, Anna Huntley, who sang so beautifully at the memorial concert for Sonia Withers. We look forward to seeing you at this season’s concerts in our beautiful ballroom, which receives compliments for its acoustics from every musician who comes to play in Stamford.
Remember, if you buy tickets for 3 concerts or more in the series you will get £2 off each ticket.
Lendvai String Trio 5 November 2016 Anna Huntley and James Baillieu 10 December 2016 Chiaroscuro Quartet 7 January 2017 Angela Hewitt 18 February 2017 Cantata per Flauto 11 March 2017 European Union Chamber Orchestra 8 April 2017 Liza Ferschtman and Martin Roscoe 6 May 2017
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NOVEMBER
Photo: Richard Haughton
OCTOBER
THE ENGLISH CONCERT Purcell Corelli Telemann Vivaldi Handel JS Bach
LENDVAI STRING TRIO
Suite from King Arthur or The British Worthy Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 10 Viola Concerto in G, TWV51:G9 Concerto for Strings in G minor, RV 157 Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 6 Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068
Director/harpsichord: Viola:
Harry Bicket Alfonso Leal del Ojo
The English Concert ranks amongst the finest chamber orchestras in the world, with an unsurpassed reputation for its performances of baroque and classical music. They bring to Stamford a programme of music by the Baroque masters. It is all too easy to think that the musical centres of Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries were isolated pockets of creativity, yet entirely the opposite was true. Purcell knew French music well: the now restored King Charles II had been in exile there, and Purcell inserted aspects of French music into his quintessentially English style. Bach and Telemann sought to infuse the Italian and French styles into their compositions, but with a German attention to harmony and counterpoint. Likewise Handel, although adopted by the English, betrays his upbringing in Germany and early success in Italy. From this fusion of ideas and styles came the greatest music Europe had ever heard.
Saturday 8 October 2016 7.30pm £22 (£20) £10 under 26s
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Röntgen Schubert Beethoven
String Trio, No. 13 in A major String Trio, No. 2 in B major, D581 String Trio in E flat major, Op. 3
Nadia Wijzenbeek Ylvali Zilliacus Marie Macleod
Violin Viola Cello
Since their Wigmore Hall debut in 2006, the Lendvai String Trio has performed at major venues throughout Europe, including several re-invitations to Wigmore Hall, recitals at King’s Place, the Barbican and Purcell Room, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Musikaliska in Stockholm. Their violinist, Nadia Wijzenbeek leads the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and is a BBC New Generation Artist. Violist Ylvali Zilliacus has been a member of the English Concert and has worked as guest principal with the Philharmonia and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. After winning the string section of BBC Young Musician of the Year, cellist Marie Macleod has forged a career as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician. She is now the principal cellist of the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. The Trio’s recording of the complete Beethoven String Trios was the BBC Music Magazine’s Chamber Choice in 2013. They are bringing to Stamford two of the most beautiful trios in the repertoire, Beethoven’s Op. 3 and Schubert’s D581. These are matched with Röntgen’s Trio No. 13. The compositions of Julius Röntgen (1855 – 1932) have been overlooked for decades. They are written in the romantic style of Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, and are only now being rediscovered.
Saturday 5 November 2016 7.30pm £16 (£15) £10 under 26s
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Anna Huntley
James Baillieu
DECEMBER
ANNA HUNTLEY AND JAMES BAILLIEU CHIAROSCURO QUARTET Rossini Dvorak Braga
La Regata Veneziana Ciganske Melodie, Op. 55 Cinco Cancoes do Folclore Nordestinas Brasiliero
followed by a selection of light-hearted and seasonal songs by Howells, Ireland, Quilter, Adam, Weil, Flanders and Swann and Sterndale-Bennett, amongst others
Anna Huntley James Baillieu
Mezzo - soprano Piano
Anna Huntley is well known as a lieder singer, and also performs regularly with English National Opera where she has recently played Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte and Pauline in Queen of Spades. This year she took on the role of a Daughter in Philip Glass’s Akhnaten which received great critical acclaim. She regularly sings with accompanist, James Baillieu. James has a successful career as a soloist, but also has a growing reputation as an accompanist having worked with singers and instrumentalists including Lawrence Power, the Heath Quartet, Mark Padmore, Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Kiri te Kanawa, Allan Clayton, Jacques Imbrailo and John Mark Ainsley. They begin this concert with Rossini’s La Regata Veneziana, a set of three songs in which the singer, Anzoleta, encourages her lover to row faster during a gondola regatta. Dvorak’s Ciganske Melodie is a set of gypsy songs including the ever popular, Songs my mother taught me. Braga’s Cinco Cancoes celebrate the folk music and rhythms of north eastern Brazil. After the interval, Anna and James will perform a selection of light-hearted and seasonal songs, appropriate for our last classical concert before Christmas. Saturday 10 December 2016 7.30pm £16 (£15) £10 under 26s
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String Quartet in G major, Op. 76, No. 1 String Quartet No. 3 in E flat major String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op. 131
Haydn Berwald Beethoven Alina Ibragimova Pablo Hernán Benedi Emilie Hörnlund Claire Thirion
Violin Violin Viola Cello
The Chiaroscuro Quartet return to Stamford after Alina Ibragimova’s triumphs in last year’s Proms playing all of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in two televised concerts in the Albert Hall. The Chiaroscuro is now established as the foremost quartet playing on gut-string instruments in Europe. Gramophone magazine dubbed them, “a trailblazer for the authentic performance of High Classical chamber music”, and the sound they produce and the panache with which they perform is acclaimed by audiences and critics everywhere. In this concert they will be playing Haydn’s Op. 76, No. 1, the first in his extraordinary last full set of quartets. As Walter Cobbett wrote, if Haydn had not written any other string quartets, “this set alone would have served to immortalise his name”. Beethoven’s Op. 131 is similarly monumental: after hearing it, Schubert said, “After this, what is left to write?”, and Schumann remarked that Opp. 131 and 127, “stand … on the extreme boundary of all that has hitherto been attained by human art and imagination”. The quartet by Franz Berwald (1796 – 1868) is less well known: it a romantic piece with a muscular first movement, a turbulent and yearning second, a lovely adagio, a diabolic scherzo and a lilting finale.
Saturday 7 January 2017 7.30pm £16 (£15) £10 under 26s
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FEBRUARY MARCH
ANGELA HEWITT JS Bach JS Bach Scarlatti Ravel Chabrier
CANTATA PER FLAUTO Partita No. 1 in B flat major Partita No. 2 in C minor Sonatas (selection tbc) Sonatine Bourée Fantasque
Angela Hewitt
Piano
Angela Hewitt is one of the world’s leading pianists. She appears regularly in recital and with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia. Paul Driver, writing in The Sunday Times after of one of her Wigmore Hall recitals, said, “The Canadian pianist is one of the reliably mesmerising musicians of the day. You sit entranced…. It would have been more accurate to say I was floating just below the ceiling. She seems to me the complete performer, gifted not only with fingers that imprint each note with a svelte newness and a mind that is not deflected by such precision work from calmly surmising the larger structure, but also with the ability to convey a spiritual seriousness that nonetheless does not exclude an utter charm.” Her performances and recordings of Bach have drawn particular praise, marking her out as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time. She is now embarking upon recordings of Scarlatti’s keyboard works. She completes this concert with two of the masterpieces from the French piano repertoire, Ravel’s Sonatine and Chabrier’s Bourée Fantasque. The Sonatine can only be played by the most virtuosic of pianists, indeed, when touring the United States in the 1920s, Ravel often omitted the third movement as he found it too hard. The Bourée Fantasque is shorter but equally complicated. Chabrier described it as “amusing...bright and crazy”. Saturday 18 February 2017 7.30pm £18 (£17) £10 under 26s
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Suite in A minor for Recorder, Strings and Basso-continuo, TWV55:a2 Dall’Abaco Capriccio for Cello solo JS Bach Selection of arias from sacred and secular cantatas Purcell A New Ground Hasse Cantata per Flauto in B flat major, for Alto recorder and Basso continuo Handel Selected arias from Allesandro, HWV 21 Berio Gesti for Alto recorder Telemann Cello Sonata in D major, TWV41:D6 Sammartini Concerto in F major for Soprano recorder, Strings and Basso-continuo Telemann
Tabea Debus Claudia Norz Henry Tong Jordan Bowron Alexander Rolton Johannes Lang
Recorders Baroque Violin Baroque Violin Baroque Viola Baroque Cello Harpsichord
Tabea Debus has been described by Dorothee Oberlinger as the “neuer Stern am Blockflötenhimmel” (the new star in the recorder heavens). Reviewing Tabea Debus’s first CD, Upon a Ground, Early Music Review said that Tabea Debus’s “playing is an absolute delight. She plays with a beautiful sense of musical line and phrasing, wearing her obvious virtuosity lightly”. She released a second CD in April 2016, and we are very fortunate that she is visiting Stamford with her Ensemble for this concert of baroque music, plus the extraordinary but all-too-brief Gesti by Berio. Saturday 11 March 2017 7.30pm £16 (£15) £10 under 26s
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MAY Martin Roscoe
Liza Ferschtman
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EUROPEAN UNION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
LIZA FERSCHTMAN AND MARTIN ROSCOE
Mozart Mozart Tchaikovsky
Prokofiev March from The Love of Three Oranges Tchaikovsky March from The Nutcracker Korngold Dogberry and Verges, March of the Watch, Op. 11 No. 3, from the incidental music for Much Ado About Nothing Kreisler March Miniature Viennoise Beethoven Violin Sonata in C minor, No. 7, Op. 30, No. 2 Britten Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 6 R. Strauss Violin Sonata in E flat major, Op. 18
Serenade in D major, K 185 Oboe Concerto, K 314 Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48
Director: Oboe:
Eva Stegeman Nicholas Daniel
We welcome the European Union Chamber Orchestra and their Director, Eva Stegeman, back to Stamford for another orchestral concert. The EUCO gave its first concerts in 1981 and soon gained a worldwide reputation as a musical ambassador for the European Union. Its Patron is Queen Sofia of Spain. On this visit they are joined by Nicholas Daniel in Mozart’s Oboe Concerto. Having won BBC Young Musician in 1980, Nicholas Daniel is now regarded as the foremost oboist working in Britain today. Mozart’s concerto is currently one of the most important in the oboe repertoire, but for many years it was lost. Its parts were rediscovered in Salzburg only in 1920. The concerto is preceded by movements from Mozart’s Serenade in D major, K 185, written in 1773 for a friend, Judas Thaddaus Antretter, who was completing his studies at Salzburg University. The concert ends with Tchaikovsky’s beautiful Serenade for Strings. Tchaikovsky described it to his patron, Nadezhda von Meck, as a “heartfelt piece and so, I dare to think, is not lacking in real qualities”. It is regarded as one of the Romantic movement’s definitive compositions.
Saturday 8 April 2017 7.30pm £22 (£20) £10 under 26s
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Liza Ferschtman Martin Roscoe
Violin Piano
Liza Ferschtman is well known on the Continent as a concerto soloist and chamber musician. As a soloist she has played with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic and many other orchestras in Europe, and as a chamber musician, she has played the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas in the Concertgebouw. We also welcome back the acclaimed pianist, Martin Roscoe, famed as a concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He needs no introduction to a Stamford audience! The evening will begin with a set of four short marches arranged for violin and piano from opera, ballet and a play, ending with Kreisler’s delightful and amusing Viennese march. Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 30 No. 2 begins in a mood of defiance against fate but works through to periods of stunning beauty and tranquility. Britten’s Suite Op. 6 is one of his early compositions, begun at the age of 21 during a spell in Vienna, and reflects that Viennese influence. Strauss’s Violin Sonata is also an early piece; in it he expresses his love for Pauline de Ahna whom he was eventually to marry six years later. Saturday 6 May 2017 7.30pm £16 (£15) £10 under 26s
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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.
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OCTOBER 2016 - MAY 2017
MET OPERA 2016-17 NOW ON SALE! TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (WAGNER) 8 Oct 5pm LIVE DON GIOVANNI (MOZART) 22 Oct 5.55pm LIVE L’AMOUR DE LOIN (SAARIAHO) 17 Dec 7pm ENCORE
RUSALKA (DVORAK) 25 Feb 5.55pm LIVE (new production)
LA TRAVIATA (VERDI) 18 Mar 7pm ENCORE IDOMENEO (MOZART) 25 Mar 5.55pm LIVE EUGENE ONEGIN (TCHAIKOVSKY) 22 Apr 5.55pm LIVE DER ROSENKAVALIER (R. STRAUSS) 13 May 5.30pm LIVE
(new production)
NABUCCO (VERDI) 15 Jan 2pm ENCORE ROMEO ET JULIETTE (GOUNOD) 21 Jan 5.55pm LIVE
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Oct 2016 - May 2017 All tickets £20 (£18) Satellite Screening/Opera
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STAMFORD CHAMBER ORCHESTRA FROM DARKNESS INTO LIGHT Stamford’s resident orchestra invites you to join them for the opening concert of their new season. Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor Soloist: Rachel Spencer Dvorak Symphony No 8 in G major
Sibelius, a violinist himself, exploits every resource of the instrument in this mysterious and thrilling concerto, with probably the most haunting concerto opening ever written. Exciting young soloist Rachel Spencer recently performed it with the BBCSSO. Dvorak’s 8th symphony is his happiest, a celebration of his Bohemian homeland brimming with melodic invention.
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