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SPRING season 2017 greatmusiclive
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One of the most exciting aspects of programming the Turner Sims series is working with artists to create and realise new projects. Read the feature articles in this season’s brochure for perfect introductions to three very different artistic collaborations which you can experience here first in 2017. Violinist Chloë Hanslip has been a regular visitor over many years and I’m delighted that she and pianist Danny Driver will present a complete cycle of Beethoven’s violin sonatas - a first for the artists and for Turner Sims. These 10 works re-defined the landscape for the violin and piano repertoire. Across three concerts we will have the opportunity to understand them with insights from Chloë and Danny and other contributors. It promises to be a fascinating journey.
Photo by Paul McCabe, University of Southampton
Photo by Paul McCabe, University of Southampton
welcome
Pianist and composer Peter Edwards is another artist with a close relationship with Turner Sims. We premiere his new work, a commission from us as part of the PRS Foundation’s extraordinary New Music Biennial initiative, in March. A Journey with the Giants of Jazz, performed by the outstanding Nu Civilisation Orchestra, takes as its starting point and inspiration six jazz greats, all of whom were born in 1917. As part of our work with the Foundation we will be collaborating with our Associate Artists Tomorrow’s Warriors to take the work both to Hull in July as part of the city’s UK City of Culture celebrations in 2017, and to London’s Southbank Centre. Peter Donohoe turns the spotlight on Prokofiev in his Piano Series recital, offering a rare opportunity to hear the composer’s three great War Sonatas in one concert, whilst another landmark of the 20th
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century - Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, features in the Vienna Piano Trio’s programmes. Among many other treats, we explore the violin in its many guises courtesy of virtuosos Tcha Limberger, Maarja Nuut and Thomas Gould. With the distinctive sounds of Quercus, hang player Manu Delago, a first visit from Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodrígues, and a farewell performance by folk legends Coope Boyes and Simpson, I hope that you find much to enjoy this Spring.
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the loop project
Piano
RGS-IBG Lecture
paul lewis
mary-ann ochota hidden histories: a spotter’s guide to the british landscape
with ivo neame Sunday 5 February 7pm
Tuesday 7 February 8pm
Thursday 9 February 8pm
Ivo Neame piano Jasper Høiby bass Jon Scott drums Paul Gardner piano HARTLEY LOOP ORCHESTRA Benjamin Oliver conductor
Bach Partita No 1 in B flat, BWV825
Join presenter and archaeology writer Mary-Ann Ochota on a journey through Britain’s historic landscape. What clues should you look for to puzzle out the origins of a village, or the age of a hedgerow? What are the secrets hidden in tumuli, chambered tombs and churchyards? Drawing on her new book, Hidden Histories, this talk will be packed with clues and examples of what to look for and where to go to decipher the story of the landscape around us. A must for all landscape detectives!
Beethoven Piano Sonata No 4 in E flat, Op 7 Chopin
3 Waltzes: A minor, Op 34 No 2 F minor, Op 70 No 2 A flat, Op 42
The University of Southampton Music Department present the final event of a weekend of performances and workshops exploring musical loops. Leading jazz musicians Ivo Neame, Jasper Høiby and Jon Scott will join the HARTLEY Loop Orchestra to perform a major revision of Benjamin Oliver’s Loop Concerto, which was premiered by Neame and Kent County Youth Orchestra in 2013. Now rescored for jazz trio and large ensemble, the work finds a musical space somewhere between jazz and contemporary classical languages. Also on the programme is the world premiere of Andrew Fisher’s Piano Concertino, Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D (after J C Bach) in which Mozart loops a J C Bach Sonata, and Gavin Bryars’ 1972 seminal work Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet.
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Weber Piano Sonata No 2 in A flat, J199
Paul Lewis makes a welcome return with a recital which opens with Bach’s technically demanding Partita No 1 and continues with Beethoven’s large-scale work, published in 1797 with the title ‘Grande Sonata’. Delightful waltzes by Chopin precede a work by another celebrated pianist-composer, the second of Weber’s four sonatas which are the centrepiece of his piano repertoire.
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Mary-Ann Ochota is a broadcaster and anthropologist whose work has taken her across the world, including into the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the Algerian Sahara, across Australia’s Simpson Desert, and to the slums of Dhaka and Delhi. She writes regularly for Geographical, The Great Outdoors and The Telegraph. She has presented programmes such as Time Team and Unreported World.
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joe stilgoe
vienna piano trio
tcha limberger
songs on film
associate artists
Friday 10 February 8pm
Thursday 16 February 8pm
Friday 17 February 8pm
Joe Stilgoe piano Tom Farmer double bass Ben Reynolds drums
David Mccarroll violin matthias gredler cello stefan mendl piano
tcha limberger violin, vocals Dave Kelbie guitar Sebastien girardot bass mozes rosenberg guitar
After two sell-out years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, internationally acclaimed singer, pianist and entertainer Joe Stilgoe finally takes his smash hit show on tour. SONGS ON FILM pays tribute to much-loved movies, as self-confessed film buff Joe raids his own collection and adds his own original and stylish orchestrations to some of the most memorable moments in cinematic history. From Hollywood’s golden age to the classic films of the 80’s, to the work of Tarantino, Tati, Paramount and Pixar, Joe and his remarkable band perform songs written for and inspired by some of the greatest films of the last century. Sheer joy . The Scotsman ***** Dapper, handsome and quick witted . The Times ****
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Mozart Piano Trio in G, K496 Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night),Op 4 (1899) in the version for piano trio by Eduard Steuermann. Schubert Piano Trio in B flat, D898
Tonight our Associate Artists open with a defining work by Mozart. Composed in 1786 when his career was flourishing, K496 is the first known piano trio in which the three instrumentalists are treated as equals in contrast to simply supporting the keyboard. Schoenberg’s masterpiece Verklärte Nacht is heard in the sumptuous arrangement made by his pupil Eduard Steuermann in 1932. Schubert’s joyous Piano Trio in B flat, closes the programme. Dating from the composer’s final years and published posthumously, Robert Schumann said of it: A glance at Schubert’s trio, and all miserable human commotion vanishes, and the world shines in new splendour.
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A five-star international Gypsy jazz line-up as Mozes Rosenberg - the most recent guitar genius from the Rosenberg dynasty and younger brother of Stochelo - joins violin superstar Tcha Limberger and his trio. Since picking up his first instrument the guitar, composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Tcha Limberger is one of a handful of world class musicians to have become accepted and respected in a style of music culturally not their own. Born into a renowned Belgian family of Manouche musicians, he grew up in a world of the Gypsy swing style of Django Reinhardt, and over the years he has collaborated with many of its leading performers, including the celebrated Fapy Lafertin. Put Tcha - a spectacular guitarist himself - on stage with Mozes Rosenberg and you have something close to Gypsy jazz royalty. Expect guitar mastery and swinging Reinhardt classics mixed with traditional western European Gypsy repertoire. The polymath king of Gypsy music. The Times
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john williams, chloË hanslip soweto kinch john eTHeridge and trio and gary ryan danny driver 6 hands
beethoven violin sonatas i
Thursday 23 February 8pm
Thursday 2 March 8pm
Friday 3 March 8pm
A regular visitor to Turner Sims over many years, classical guitarist John Williams only tours these days accompanied by long-standing musical friends. Tonight he is joined by the sparkling jazz performer, John Etheridge and another master of the classical guitar, Gary Ryan for a programme of solos, duos and trios ranging from Vivaldi to Gary Ryan’s own Benga Beat.
beethoven
Soweto Kinch saxophone, vocals, keys/
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Sonata No 1 in D, Op 12 No 1 Sonata No 3 in E flat, Op 12 No 3 Sonata No 8 in G, Op 30 No 3 Sonata No 6 in A, Op 30 No 1
All but one of Beethoven’s ten sonatas were composed over a six-year period when the composer was in his late twenties and early thirties. Tonight’s first recital in Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver’s series features works from the first two sets of three, Op 12 and Op 30.
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programming
Gregory Hutchinson drums Nick Jurd bass
Soweto Kinch is a multi award-winning saxophonist, MC and composer specialising in a trademark style of jazz, rap and spoken word unlike that of any other performer in the world. Revered among both musicians and rappers alike, Soweto has amassed an unprecedented array of accolades including two MOBO awards, two Urban Music Awards, BBC Rising Star Award, BBC Best Jazz Instrumentalist and BBC Best Jazz Band. He now hosts his own weekly BBC radio show Jazz Planet as well as fronting BBC Radio 3’s Jazz Now. Tonight he plays music from his new album Nonagram with his excellent trio. Expect scalding hot hard bop jazz and hip-hop grooves spliced with free flowing fiery lyrics. Gangsta Rappa or Jazz Supremo? Both. Jazzwise Hyper-talented saxman/rapper. Evening Standard Kicks pure Jazz and authentic rap into a brave new world. The Guardian
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Fo’c’sle in the Foyer
rafael agUirre she’koyokh
vin garbutt
Saturday 4 March 8pm
Tuesday 7 March 8pm
Friday 10 March 8pm
PUJOL Tres piezas españolas
ÇiĞdem Aslan vocals Susi Evans clarinet Meg-Rosaleen Hamilton violin Živorad NikoliĆ accordion Matt Bacon guitar, kaval Paul Moylan double bass Christina Borgenstierna percussion
Powerful, hugely moving, warm, humane, inspired, funny and gut wrenchingly honest. These are just some of the superlatives used to describe Vin Garbitt’s live performance. Vin’s career has spanned over 40 years of constant worldwide touring which must make him some kind of elder statesman of folk. His songs were inspired by the folk tradition at the beginning of his career - they still are - but have transformed into gritty social comment and life observations. An evening with the affectionately nicknamed ‘Teesside Troubadour’ is an exciting combination of his talents as a raconteur, humorist, and his unique and powerful delivery of the music he loves. Tonight is an opportunity to experience Vin’s artistry in the intimate surroundings of the Turner Sims foyer.
BACH Chaconne BWV1004 GIULIANI Rossiniana No 5 ALBÉNIZ Córdoba ALBÉNIZ Torre Bermeja GRANADOS Valses poéticos TÁRREGA Gran Jota
Internationally renowned Spanish guitarist Rafael Aguirre makes his Turner Sims debut with music from his homeland alongside works by Italian composer Giuliani, one of the great guitar virtuosos of the 19th century, and Bach.
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Hailed as one of London’s musical treasures, playing the best Balkan and klezmer music in Britain (Evening Standard), She’Koyokh have spent over a decade absorbing the rich folk music traditions of Jewish Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Balkans. Their evolution spans the origins of busking at East London’s Columbia Road flower market to performing in the famous concert halls of Europe including Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Gasteig in Munich and London’s Southbank Centre. She’koyokh’s members hail from the UK, USA, Serbia, Sweden and Turkey, forging a unique sound that is traditional yet original. Their live shows are an expertly crafted, multi-lingual exploration from the Baltic to the Black Sea with klezmer instrumentals and folk tunes from Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia. ...among the finest klezmer ensembles on the planet. The Australian
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chloË hanslip and danny driver featured artists
‘...what makes this project overwhelmingly appealing to us... is that it provides an opportunity to hear, share, and think about Beethoven in a different light.’ Ludwig van Beethoven continues to inspire generations of listeners and musicians around the world, and his popularity ensures that his music remains a ubiquitous staple of orchestral, chamber and solo concerts. Yet his evergreen appeal seems to rest on a ‘received image’ based largely upon three genres: Symphony, Piano Sonata, and String Quartet. Beside these, the Sonatas for Piano and Violin (the majority of the ten works were titled so) receive comparatively little attention in concert, on record, and in the extensive scholarly literature. There are many reasons why we are both thrilled to perform all ten Sonatas over three concerts during 2017 at Turner Sims, among them the fact that the hall, with its beautifully voiced Steinway piano, forms an ideal setting for experiencing the intimacy and
nuanced dialogue of these works. But what makes this project overwhelmingly appealing to us in a wider context is that it provides an opportunity to hear, share, and think about Beethoven in a different light. Most of the Sonatas for Piano & Violin were written early in Beethoven’s career between 1798 and 1803, at a time when the expressive possibilities of both instruments were being developed at a rapid rate. As such, these Sonatas offer a true voyage of discovery into what had hitherto been impossible. Among the huge variety of character and scope of these works, we find abundant humour, wit, irony, beauty, lyricism, drama, and virtuosity. Epithets such as ‘heroic’, ‘philosophical’ or ‘mystical’, readily applied to Beethoven’s symphonies and string quartets, are not so evidently relevant here.
The cycle leads us from the earliest Op 12 Sonatas through the tender lyricism of the Spring Sonata, culminating in October 2017 with the quasi-pastoral Op 96 Sonata and the Op 47 Kreutzer, an epic work which Beethoven himself deemed almost in the style of a concerto. As our journey through these works progresses, the shift from presenting the violin as an ‘accompanying instrument’ to its assertion as a protagonist equal to the piano is as clearly evident as the journey from Beethoven’s early adoption of Mozartian models to their eventual transcendence. We hope you will enjoy this series and look forward to sharing this remarkable music with you.
Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver Beethoven Violin Sonatas I See Thursday 2 March concert details on page 6 Beethoven Violin Sonatas II See Thursday 4 May concert details on page 16 Beethoven Violin Sonatas III Tuesday 17 October (Autumn Season. Tickets on sale from June 2017) turnersims.co.uk Box Office 023 8059 5151 | 9
World Premiere
chiaroscuro quartet
Piano
peter edwards barry douglas A journey with the giants of jazz
Tuesday 14 March 8pm
Thursday 16 March 8pm
Thursday 23 March 8pm
Alina Ibragimova violin Pablo Hernán Benedí violin Emilie Hörnlund viola Claire Thirion cello
Nu Civilisation Orchestra Peter Edwards director
Schubert Impromptus, D899 (Op 90)
with young people from Southampton schools
brahms 3 Intermezzi, Op 117 Programme includes:
BACH Art of Fugue, BWV1080 (excerpts)
Hailed by Gramophone magazine as a trailblazer for the authentic performance of High Classical chamber music, the Chiaroscuro Quartet return to Turner Sims after leader Alina Ibragimova’s triumphs in the 2015 BBC Proms playing all of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in two televised concerts in the Royal Albert Hall. They open tonight with a selection from Bach’s work exploring the developmental possibilities of a single theme. To follow this we hear music by Schubert, including the composer’s masterpiece named after the song from which a set of variations is heard in the second movement.
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1917 was a defining year for jazz, which saw the birth of some of its most influential artists: Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Tadd Dameron, Buddy Rich and Mongo Santamaria. Peter Edwards conducts the Nu Civilisation Orchestra for the premiere of his latest commission, A Journey with the Giants of Jazz which takes as its starting point motifs from six works associated with these jazz icons. The commission will be preceded by performances of the six works by young people from Southampton schools.
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Schubert Sonata No 20 in A, D959
A Journey with the Giants of Jazz (world premiere)
SCHUBERT
Quartet No 9 in G minor, D173 Quartet No 14 in D minor, D810 Death and the Maiden
Brahms Variations on a theme of Paganini (Book 1)
Barry Douglas’ recital focusses on two composers with whom he has a special affinity, most notably through his acclaimed recent recordings for Chandos. Schubert is represented by the first of his two sets of impromptus and the second of the three sonatas which were composed within the space of a month, just weeks before his death at the age of 31 in 1828. Brahms’ virtuosic set of variations takes as its starting point the most famous of all themes by Paganini, one which has subsequently proved inspiration for composers from Rachmaninov and Lutoslawski to Andrew Lloyd Webber. The 3 Intermezzi are among the best-loved and most popular of Brahms’ late piano output.
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the orchestral decathlon A musical marathon for comic relief Saturday 25 March the decathlon orchestra karen kingsley piano paul ingram, craig lawton conductors
Concert 1: 2pm
Concert 2: 4.45pm
Concert 3: 7.30pm
Rossini William Tell overture
Haydn Symphony No 104
Wagner
Sibelius Karelia Suite
Shostakovich Piano Concerto No 2
Ravel Boléro
Beethoven Symphony No 5
DvoŘák Symphony No 9 From the New World
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg overture Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2 tchaikovsky Symphony No 5
Join us for the day as we embark on the latest musical marathon for Comic Relief. Following the success of Haydathon in 2009, and Beethovathon in 2015, the team have reunited to organise the next musical marathon, to be performed by our orchestral decathletes in three concerts, in one day. All proceeds go to Comic Relief. Since its launch in 1988, Red Nose Day has become something of a British institution. It’s the day, every two years, when people across the land can get together and do something funny for money. The handpicked musicians from across the South will join forces to perform popular orchestral masterpieces from ten different composers.
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Ticket for all three concerts £25
Comic Relief, registered charity 326568 (England/Wales; SC039730 (Scotland)
Student ticket for all three concerts £20
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alfredo rodrÍguez trio
red priest
manu delago
better red than dead: 20 years of baroque revolution!
handmade
Friday 31 March 8pm
Saturday 1 April 8pm
Thursday 6 April 8pm
alfredo rodrÍguez piano munir hossn bass, guitar michael olivera drums
PIERS ADAMS recorders ADAM SUMMERHAYES violin ANGELA EAST cello DAVID WRIGHT harpsichord
Manu Delago hang, drums Isa Kurz piano, violin, vocals Chris Norz drums, percussion
Grammy nominated artist Alfredo Rodríguez reflects the talents of legendary jazz pianists Keith Jarrett and Thelonious Monk. Schooled in the classical conservatories of Havana, Rodríguez’s artistry is informed as much by Bach and Stravinsky as it is by his Cuban and jazz roots. Tonight he performs music from Tocororo - his new album on Mack Avenue Records - where his story is represented by the national bird of Cuba. The Tocororo is a bird that if caged dies of sadness, reflecting not only the desire for liberty, but the necessity of it. Beyond that, though, is the story of everything else the bird represents: freedom, travel, and cross-pollination. In Rodríguez’s case, it represents the cross pollination of his Cuban culture with all of the cultures he has experienced throughout his musical journey Any pianist with training in Afro-Cuban jazz can play tender, introspective lyricism with the same ease as slashing, pounding rhythms. But to pivot back and forth between them with no apparent transition, the way Alfredo Rodríguez does, is to demonstrate a whole other stratum of talent. Washington City Paper
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Since its memorable debut concert, here at Turner Sims in the spring of 1997, Red Priest has become established as an essential part of today’s musical landscape, wowing audiences in all corners of the globe with it’s inventive, high-spirited, rule-breaking approach to music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Twenty years on the group returns to its favourite concert hall to celebrate its landmark birthday, with a selection of musical highlights from the past two decades, together with some amazing new musical creations. Expect music by Vivaldi, Bach and Handel as well as a few unsung baroque heroes, in an evening of baroque brilliance with a modern twist.
The world’s leading Hang player, Manu Delago made his Turner Sims debut in 2015, when his unique, ethereal sounds and percussive virtuosity blew everybody away. A much-sought-after drummer, producer and songwriter, Manu frequently collaborates and performs with artists such as Björk, Anoushka Shankar, Joss Stone, Bugge Wesseltoft, Aurora Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, among others. He returns with music from his new album Handmade, exploring a vast array of sounds, ranging from sweet and delicate vocal lines with colourful Hang accompaniment, all the way through to chunky, electronic beats. ...amazing percussionist and Hang player. Björk ...sensitive and masterful musician. The Telegraph
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Folk
quercus
Jazz
britten sinfonia ensemble associate artists
syjo with julian argÜelles
Saturday 8 April 8pm
Saturday 22 April 8pm
Sunday 23 April 7.30pm
June Tabor vocals Iain Ballamy saxophones Huw Warren piano
Nicholas Daniel oboe Jacqueline Shave violin Miranda Dale violin Clare Finnimore viola Caroline Dearnley cello
Julian ArgÜelles saxophone Daniel Mar-Molinero director Southampton Youth Jazz Orchestra
Quercus brings together three of the UK’s most creative, multi award winning musicians to create exquisite chamber music that weaves together the essence of folk and jazz. Drawing on their life’s work including original compositions, traditional folk songs and reclaimed standards, Quercus subtly colours each song to create a magical atmosphere. Two time winner of the BBC Folk Awards Singer of the Year, June Tabor rose to fame in the mid 70’s and has maintained a high profile career ever since, working with the likes of Maddy Prior and the Oyster Band amongst many others. Listed in the BBC’s 100 Jazz Legends, Iain Ballamy is one of the UK’s most widely celebrated jazz musicians and composers, enjoying an international career stretching from Scandinavia to India. Welsh pianist Huw Warren’s distinctive and enticing music has led to collaborations with Maria Pia de Vito, Mark Feldman and Erik Truffaz. Together they create beautifully poignant music that forges June’s intensely passionate voice with Iain’s gloriously mellifluous melodies and Huw’s off-kilter musicality, to tell of life’s bittersweet tales.
Programme to include : Finzi Interlude, Op 21 Brian Elias Oboe Quintet (world premiere tour) Mozart String Quintet in C minor, bass K4O6
A programme centred on the artistry of renowned oboist Nicholas Daniel features a new work by Brian Elias, alongside Finzi’s intimate yet cinematic Interlude and Mozart’s String Quintet in C minor with the oboe taking the role of the first violin.
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Since joining iconic group Loose Tubes at the age of 20, Julian Argüelles has become an internationally acclaimed and influential performer, composer and arranger, working with a long list of artists including Hermeto Pascoal, Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, and Bill Frisell as well as fronting his own bands. Tonight he joins SYJO to present music from his 2016 Parliamentary Jazz Award winning album Let it Be Told. Hailed by The Observer as infectious energetic township jazz the music celebrates the vibrant sound of South Africa.
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peter edwards feature interview
The composer and pianist talks about his new commission for Turner Sims which premieres in March as part of the nationwide New Music Biennial. Your relationship with Turner Sims goes back a long way…
I’ve been fortunate enough to perform at Turner Sims quite a few times over the years as part of Tomorrow’s Warriors ensembles, with the Nu Civilisation Orchestra and with my own trio playing music from my first album Safe and Sound. I enjoy performing at Turner Sims and always get a good reception from the audience. tell us a little bit about this commission...
Journey with the Giants of Jazz will be celebrating 100 years since the birth of some of the most influential jazz musicians of all time - singer Ella Fitzgerald, drummer Buddy Rich, pianist Theolonius Monk, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, percussionist Mongo Santamaria and composer/arranger Tadd Dameron. I will be deconstructing themes from works associated with those artists and using them as inspiration for my composition. It’s going to have swing, bebop, Cuban music, dazzling drum and percussion solos and elegant vocal features throughout.
How have you researched for this project?
I’ve spent time listening to lots of recordings and read about the careers of the artist to whom we will be paying tribute. I’ve also watched lots of videos, interviews and documentaries online. It’s amazing what you can find out. For example did you know that Dizzy Gillespie ran for President of the USA? Can you tell us a bit about New Music Biennial weekend showcases on 30 June – 2 July in Hull, and 7 – 9 July IN London?
The PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial weekends will showcase 20 compositions from many different genres written by UK composers . The performances will be heard all over the city of Hull as part of its UK City of Culture 2017 celebrations. London showcases will be on stages within Southbank Centre. It’s tremendously exciting to be involved and to have my composition featured at such a prestigious event. The concerts will be free and many of the compositions will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
How important is it for you to work with, and provide a platform for young people?
It’s very important to share the stage with young musicians and give them opportunities to showcase their talent. I’ve delivered workshops in Southampton in the past through programmes developed by Turner Sims and have been very impressed with the level of musicianship and the enthusiasm that young musicians have for playing jazz. Tell us about some of your jazz greats…
Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Fletcher Henderson for me are some of the greatest composers of the 20th Century and were such a huge influence on all the musicians who came after them. I recently had a wonderful experience performing duo (piano and bass clarinet) with Courtney Pine who is without doubt one of the greats in Jazz today.
PRS for Music Foundation’s New Music Biennial is generously supported by Hull UK City of Culture, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Arts Council England, BBC Radio 3, Southbank Centre, Arts Council of Wales, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Cockayne, The John S Cohen Foundation, the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, The Finzi Trust, RVW Trust, The Bliss Trust and NMC Recordings. www.newmusicbiennial.co.uk See Thursday 16 March concert details on page 10 turnersims.co.uk Box Office 023 8059 5151 | 15
Folk
sÓn max richter: the four seasons recomposed
the unthanks chloË hanslip and how the wild wind blows danny driver the songs and poems of molly drake
Beethoven violin sonatas ii
Friday 28 April 7.30pm
Tuesday 2 May 8pm
Thursday 4 May 8pm
Thomas Gould violin
A wistful mother in the 1950s makes some simple home recordings in her family sitting room. Little could she have known that decades later, her son Nick Drake would become one of the most poetic and influential songwriters ever, or that more than sixty years later, the dust would be blown off her own songs.
Beethoven
With active encouragement from the Drake estate, and with the full blessing and enthusiasm of celebrated actress Gabrielle Drake (Molly’s daughter and Nick’s sister), The Unthanks revisit and reappraise Molly’s charming and bittersweet songs - works that are extraordinary enough to rank alongside those of her brilliant son.
Tonight’s second concert in Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver’s survey of Beethoven’s sonatas concludes with one of the most popular. His joyous Spring sonata sits alongside the A minor (Op 23) work conceived as a contrasting but complementary pair (Beethoven headed the manuscript of the F major piece ‘Sonata II’).
són Southampton’s professional orchestra Robin Browning conductor
Part of són’s Reimagined : Recomposed Series Max Richter The Four Seasons Recomposed Max Richter On the Nature of Daylight Barber Adagio for Strings Elgar Sospiri Vaughan Williams
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Continuing their exploration of newly imagined and interpreted music, són present a powerful and eclectic mix of string orchestra works, including The Four Seasons Recomposed by the increasingly popular post-minimalist British composer Max Richter. Alongside works by Richter, són extend their survey of musical remodelling with Vaughan Williams’ beautiful Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, as well as exploring the passionate string colours of Barber’s ever-popular Adagio and Elgar’s Sospiri – looking ahead to their next concert Elgar Unwrapped in June.
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The Mercury nominated mavericks of British folk music are bound to treat the challenge with the same love and diligence for their subject as they did when reinterpreting the work of Robert Wyatt and Antony & The Johnsons. This tour of her reimagined work will be accompanied by an album release of Molly Drake’s work - Diversions Vol 4. - the latest in a growing line of intrepid projects by The Unthanks.
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Sonata No 2 in A, Op 12 No 2 Sonata No 7 in C minor, Op 30 No 2 Sonata No 4 in A minor, Op 23 Sonata No 5 in F, Op 24 Spring
Pre-concert talk 7pm Standard £21 Concessions £20 Friends £18.90 Students £11
Jazz
courtney pine featuring omar
vienna piano trio associate artists
Friday 5 May 8pm
Tuesday 9 May 8pm
Multi instrumentalist Courtney Pine CBE is a British born Jazz Giant. In the 80’s he was one of the first black British jazz artists to make a serious mark on the jazz scene when his first album charted the top 40 and since then he’s had numerous BBC Jazz Awards, MOBO’s, a Mercury Music Prize nomination and remained at the forefront of UK jazz with a contemporary jazz style that integrates modern British sounds like drum‘n’bass and UK garage alongside soul, hip-hop and deep rooted influences from across the Caribbean.
David Mccarroll violin matthias gredler cello stefan mendl piano
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Haydn Piano Trio in B flat, Hob.XV/20
For his latest project, he returns to the tenor saxophone for the first time in a decade and features the vocal talents of UK soul star Omar, whose 1992 hit single There’s Nothing Like This established a truly unique and instantly recognisable ‘signature’ sound that has since earned him widespread critical acclaim and seen him collaborate with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Carleen Anderson and Angie Stone. This very special project brings together two of the UK’s finest jazz and soul talents composing, recording and performing new original material together for the first time. In a class of his own. The Times Courtney Pine was once hailed as the saviour of British Jazz...he still is. The Independent
Schumann Fantasy pieces for piano trio, Op 88 Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1940/41) for clarinet and piano trio
For the Vienna Piano Trio’s final concert of the season they are joined by clarinettist Matthew Hunt to perform one of the most moving chamber music works of the twentieth century. Messiaen’s quartet was composed while he was a German prisoner-of-war in Silesia in 1940-42 and performed by him and three fellow prisoners in the Stalag VIII A on 15th January, 1941. Schumann’s works were his first for piano trio and composed along with his three string quartets in his ‘chamber music year’ of 1842 whilst the programme opens with Haydn’s virtuosic work.
Nothing short of breath-taking. The Telegraph
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Folk
Piano
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coope boyes and simpson
peter donohoe
maarja nuut
farewell tour
prokofiev war sonatas
Saturday 13 May 8pm
Tuesday 16 May 8pm
Friday 19 May 8pm
In 1993, three blokes from South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, with a name like a firm of solicitors, released an album of acappella songs full of social comment and (in the words of Folk Roots) harmonies you could chew.
PROKOFIEV
Hailing from Northern Estonia, fiddler/singer Maarja Nuut combines traditional dance tunes, songs, and stories with live electronics to create a space where minimalism and experimental music meet the village musical traditions of pre-war Europe. Having received the 2015 Tallinn Music Week Prize and showcased at the 2014 Womex festival, Nuut now brings her unique renditions of Baltic folk music to Turner Sims.
They were, of course, Coope Boyes and Simpson, and the album was Funny Old World. Q Magazine named it as their Roots Album of the Year in 1994. Now, twenty three years later, with a career that has encompassed at least a dozen albums, numerous tours and festival appearances, as well as a Folk Awards nomination, Coope Boyes and Simpson embark upon their Farewell Tour. Featuring music from their tenth and final studio album CODA, mainly self-penned or drawn from the tradition, Coope Boyes and Simpson return to their roots and complete the circle that started with Funny Old World.
Piano Sonata No 6 in A, Op 82 Piano Sonata No 7 in B flat, Op 83 Piano Sonata No 8 in B flat, Op 84
Renowned as an insightful interpreter of Russian repertoire, distinguished pianist Peter Donohoe presents a rare opportunity to hear Prokofiev’s landmark trilogy of works in a single sitting. The so-called War sonatas were written during the Second World War and premiered by a trio of legendary pianists: the composer himself, Sviastoslav Richter and Emil Gilels respectively. Tonight’s performance follows the release of Peter Donohoe’s complete cycle of Prokofiev’s sonatas on SOMM Records, all recorded at Turner Sims.
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Estonian fiddler Maarja Nuut takes her country’s folkloric tunes on a stunning personal journey. Her voice’s unusual pitches and repetitive phrasing form gradually shifting soundscapes. Chicago Tribune … that’s what it sounds like when the snow sings. Simon Le Bon Maarja Nuut makes utterly compelling, hypnotic music in the simplest of ways. The Quietus
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Jazz
Jazz
ANDREW MCCORmack’s Zoe Rahman + Graviton jay phelps quartet jazz double bill Saturday 20 May 8pm
Saturday 3 June 8pm
Andrew McCormack keyboards Eska vocals Jean Toussaint saxes Robin Mullarkey electric bass
An exclusive double bill closes the Turner Sims jazz series. Zoe Rahman has firmly established herself as one of the brightest stars on the contemporary jazz scene. A vibrant and highly individual pianist/composer, her style is deeply rooted in jazz yet it reflects her classical background, British/Bengali heritage and her very broad musical taste. Tonight she performs music from her solo piano album Dreamland.
Known for his work with artists as diverse as Kyle Eastwood, Jazz Jamaica and the London Symphony Orchestra, pianist Andrew McCormack brings his latest project to Turner Sims to link with the release of a new album on the JazzVillage label. For Graviton, Andrew has assembled a starry line-up of performers including Mercury prize nominee Eska, saxophonist and former member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers Jean Toussaint, and Jacob Collier’s electric bass supremo Robin Mullarkey.
Trumpeter Jay Phelps is at the forefront of the young and creative generation of jazz musicians in the UK, with an instantly recognizable warm and projecting tone. A founder member of the critically acclaimed band Empirical, he has since performed and recorded with an array of international jazz artists including Courtney Pine, Wynton Marsalis, George Benson, and Jamie Cullum. Tonight he presents music from his much-anticipated new album.
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To see Zoe Rahman in full flood is one of the more startling experiences in British jazz...a furnace of musical energy. The Telegraph
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peter donohoe Featured artist We rarely hear the prokofiev war sonatas played in one concert, what is it that makes them special - for the performer and for the listener?
The wonderful cycle of Prokofiev’s nine piano sonatas forms the 20th Century’s largest and most significant collection of major piano solo works based on the traditional form of ‘Sonata’. (There is also a fragment of a tenth sonata lasting about 2.5 minutes based on material from his earlier Sonatina No 2; both sonatinas are also very interesting works.) By way of contrast the other most significant composers of the century tended to move away from the idea of a symphonic-style in multiple movements, although there were some very great exceptions (eg Shostakovich and Rachmaninov both limited themselves to only two sonatas, Bartók and Stravinsky wrote only one each, whilst Ravel, Debussy, Schoenberg and many others left none at all). To this writer, every one of the Prokofiev sonatas is a masterpiece, and the great trilogy of Nos 6, 7 and 8 is the crowning glory of this great composer’s output of piano music. They form the largest scale of them all, in particular No 8, and all three could be said to be amongst the pinnacles of 20th Century music. I feel them very strongly to be three parts of a whole, very contrasted yet unified, and extremely satisfying to play and hear. What is the history of the WAR SONATAS?
After Prokofiev’s unexpected return to the Soviet Union in 1936 after his time in exile in Switzerland, he was welcomed back, and in return he wrote many works celebrating the Motherland. This was partly expected by the Stalin government, but it was also very deeply felt by Prokofiev in the light of World War Two, in which so many of his compatriots were killed. The three sonatas are often called ‘War Trilogy’ - ie anti-war and depicting the attack by Nazi Germany on Russia - and equally often interpreted as subversive horrific depictions of the worst excesses of Soviet rule. However, they may also be viewed as, at least partly, celebrating the growth of the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, via huge strides in industrial and agricultural development, from the appalling situation that caused the revolution in the first place into a modern state. In other words one can interpret the more driving and dissonant passage as depicting either the inexorable approach of tanks and soldiers, the inexorable march of oppression, or the inexorable progress of the building of factories and tractors. This latter view of the works is one that this writer favours, as it gives scope for a enormous variety of moods and colours, than the other two ‘interpretations’. Let us also remember that they were all written in 1939 - two years before Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union - were premiered during the war itself, and admired openly by Stalin. No 6 was premiered by Prokofiev himself, No 7 (the work that ultimately became the composer’s most frequently programmed piano piece) by Sviatoslav Richter, and No 8 by Emil Gilels. See Tuesday 16 May concert details on page 18
However, in the more global sense of ‘abstract’ music, it is best to view them as pure music with no programmatic implications. That the three sonatas were written simultaneously during the period preceding the War, it does rather indicate that the War Trilogy label is too simplistic. That Prokofiev had returned to the Soviet Union voluntarily also undermines the notion that he was openly expressing horror at his homeland. You’ve recorded all of the Prokofiev sonatas - how has your view on the works changed over the years?
I think the most important way in which they have ‘settled’ is that I have been able to gradually move away from the idea of the music being programmatic. As implied above, to view them as great symphonic unified structures of abstract music raises the spiritual level and makes them greater works, rather than to superimpose a, sometimes even politically-motivated, program. This greatly affects the way one plays the music, and creates the opportunity to value each passage as it is written, rather than to make a point of something that one tries to see in the music that is not born of a musical impulse. After all, in the case of great music from a different era, we know that Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony was inspired by Napoleon and his leadership of the new French Republic - although we also know that the composer tore up the dedication when he later saw Napoleon as a power-hungry dictator. But these facts do not and should not affect the way one responds to this magnificent score; the social background of individual works is always of historical interest, but it does not determine one’s way of performing it - the score alone is enough to do that. Which pianists do you listen to? Are there any that you think are particularly special?
The one who most inspired me as a young student of music was Sviatoslav Richter, but I became aware later of countless others. Richter’s overall cultural awareness and his being far more than just a pianist - an overall musician of huge intelligence and experience of music far beyond the piano repertoire was what I instinctively felt when I became aware of him, and those who impressed me later were from a similar mould. You’ve been awarded a CBE for services to music, and your name has world-wide prominence. tell us about some of your career highlights...
I like to think of all of it as a highlight ie that I never view anything as less important than the rest, and I refuse to make a hierarchy of importance out of what I have done. The CBE Honour is such a thrilling endorsement by the Royal Family and the Cabinet - not only of myself, but of classical music in general at a time when the arts are marginalised to a frightening degree by the mainstream media, and I am very grateful for it. turnersims.co.uk Box Office 023 8059 5151 | 21
Teatime Special
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benjamin grosvenor
elgar unwrapped Sunday 4 June 3pm
Tuesday 13 June 8pm
David Owen Norris presenter són Southampton’s professional orchestra Robin Browning conductor
Schumann Arabesque in C, Op 18 Mozart Piano Sonata No 13 in B flat, K333 Beethoven Piano Sonata No 14 in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2 Moonlight
Concert includes complete performances of:
Scriabin Piano Sonata No 2 in G sharp minor, Op 19
Elgar Enigma Variations
Granados Los Requiebros and El Fandango de candil from Goyescas Op 11
Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No 4
Liszt Rhapsodie Espagnole
Premiere performance of new version of Pomp and Circumstance for chamber orchestra by George Morton, commissioned by són
Joined by David Owen Norris – presenter of their Sibelius Unwrapped launch concert in 2015 – són guide you through one of music’s most touching and inspiring landscapes: Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Enjoy this fascinating unwrapping as they pull the music, its stories and its meaning apart in the first half, presenting all the signposts you could ever need for maximum enjoyment of the complete performance in the second half. David presents extracts at the keyboard and with full orchestra, immersing you in all 14 of Elgar’s musical portraits. A wonderful opportunity to enjoy a summer afternoon’s tea with Mr Elgar, only days after his 160th birthday.
Benjamin Grosvenor’s programme to close the Piano Series includes works with natural phenomenon as their inspiration. The ever-popular Moonlight sonata was so-named after Beethoven’s death by poet Ludwig Rellstab, who likened the effect of the first movement to that of moonlight shining upon Lake Lucerne. Scriabin wrote of the first part of his sonata that it evokes the calm of a night by the seashore, whilst Liszt’s work takes its inspiration from his visits to Spain and Portugal.
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season SUMMARY february Sunday Tuesday Thursday Friday Thursday Friday Thursday
DATE 5 7 9 10 16 17 23
ARTIST The Loop Project with Ivo Neame Paul Lewis Mary-Anne Ochota | Hidden Histories Joe Stilgoe | Songs On Film Vienna Piano Trio Tcha Limberger John Williams, John Etheridge and Gary Ryan | Six Hands
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2 Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver | Beethoven Violin Sonatas I 6 3 Soweto Kinch Trio 6 AP 4 Rafael Aguirre 7 7 She’Koyokh 7 AP 10 Fo’c’sle in the Foyer | Vin Garbutt 7 AP 14 Chiaroscuro Quartet 10 16 Peter Edwards | A Journey with the Giants of Jazz 10 AP 23 Barry Douglas 10 25 The Orchestral Decathlon | A Musical Marathon for Comic Relief 11 31 Alfredo Rodríguez Trio 12 AP
april Saturday Thursday Saturday Saturday Sunday Friday
1 Red Priest | Better Red Than Dead 6 Manu Delago | Handmade 8 Quercus 22 Britten Sinfonia Ensemble 23 SYJO with Julian Argüelles 28 són | Max Richter: The Four Seasons Recomposed
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The Unthanks | How the Wild Wind Blows Chloë Hanslip and Danny Driver | Beethoven Violin Sonatas II Courtney Pine featuring Omar Vienna Piano Trio Coope Boyes and Simpson | Farewell Tour Peter Donohoe | Prokofiev War Sonatas Maarja Nuut Andrew McCormack’s Graviton
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Jazz Double Bill | Zoe Rahman + Jay Phelps són | Elgar Unwrapped Benjamin Grosvenor
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