Bach & Handel with a Twist! With David Rees-Williams

11th October 2014 7.30pm

St Peters Methodist Church, Canterbury

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Acknowledgements

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We hope that you enjoy the concert and look forward to seeing you again for the next Festival Chamber Orchestra Concert featuring the FCO

Wind Ensemble and The Thorne Trio on the 7th November

Conductor: Anthony Halstead Leader: Jeremy Ovenden

Soloists: David Rees Williams, piano and Ian Crowther, oboe

First Violins Jeremy Ovenden Ivana Cetkovic Elina Hakanen Second Violins Florianne Peycelon Amanda Wyatt Ellen O’Dell

Violas Adrian Smith Jane Browne

Cellos Julia Vohralik Joe Giddey

String Bass Jamie Kenny

Oboe Ian Crowther

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the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra and the Uppsala Chamber Orchestra. Outside his work in the UK he makes regular return visits to Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand as well as making guest appearances worldwide for concerts or recordings. Anthony Halstead has conducted or directed over 50 recordings. On his most recent visit to Sweden, he was presented with a „gold disc‟ by Naxos to commemorate the sale of over 40,000 CDs of the „Drottningholm Music‟ in Sweden alone. Anthony completed a 7-year project with The Hanover Band, recording, on 22 CDs, all the orchestral music of JC Bach for the German company cpo, during the course of which he played solo harpsichord or fortepiano in the 27 keyboard concertos, whilst directing the orchestra from the keyboard. The FCO are very honoured that Tony brings his immense talent and musicianship to produce the very best performances from the Orchestra. The April Concert in 2015 will celebrate Anthony‟s 70th year with a performance of his chamber work Concertino Elegiaco, written in 1983 for the 40th anniversary of the Detroit Chamber Music Society. It was subsequently performed in Ann Arbor, Michigan and at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. This will be the first performance in Canterbury, in the Colyer-Fergusson Hall.

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David Rees-Williams began his

musical career as a chorister at New

College Oxford, where the rich

variety of musical styles performed by

choir and organ were to make strong

and lasting impressions. From there

he won the top music scholarship to

Cranleigh School where he studied

piano, oboe and organ. He studied at

The Royal College of Music from 1979 and graduated from there with a

BMus (Hons) in 1981. While still a student, he held posts as organist at two

London churches.

Apart from his concert work with his trio and as a soloist on piano and

organ, he teaches piano in Canterbury, both at The Kings School and

privately.

David‟s first solo album Full English was released in the summer of 2012 to

coincide with the Jubilee celebrations. This was followed shortly by his trio‟s

most recent recording Ex-Mass. Both have received outstanding reviews in

publications such as Gramophone, The Arts Desk and Classics Today. Tracks

from Full English have been played on Radio 2, and Ex-Mass was chosen by

David Mellor as one of the best Christmas discs to be reviewed on his New

Releases programme on Classic FM in December 2012.

David‟s arrangement of Purcell‟s When I am Laid in Earth was played by Sean

Rafferty on In Tune on Radio 3 in the summer of 2001. The response was

extraordinary, and the producer of the programme was inundated with

enquiries. This subsequently led to the trio being invited by the BBC to

record a commercial disc on their new Late Junction label.

Tonight's concert features David's brilliant improvisatory skills as he bridges

the gap over musical styles and provides a new dimension to the baroque

repertoire, creating a totally different perspective to the music.

David Rees-Williams - Piano

Programme

Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 - 1st Movement I. Allegro

Corelli Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 1 in D major I. Largo - Allegro, II. Largo - Allegro, III. Largo, IV. Allegro V. Allegro

J.S. Bach Adagio from Sinfonia BWV 156 Oboe and Piano

David Rees-Williams - Improvisation

Albinoni Oboe Concerto in D major, Op. 7, No. 6 I. Allegro, II. Adagio, III. Allegro

Interval Handel Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 12 in B minor I. Largo, II. Allegro, III. Larghetto, e piano, IV. Largo, V. Allegro

J.S. Bach Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring From Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147

David Rees-Williams - Improvisation

Douglas Sonata for Oboe and Piano - 2nd Movement II. Expansive Oboe and Piano

Pachelbel Canon in D major

Corelli-Barbirolli Concerto for Oboe and Strings I. Preludio, II. Allemanda, III. Sarabanda, IV. Gavotta, V.Giga Oboe and Piano

Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik - Final Movement IV. Rondo: Allegro

Programme Notes W. A. Mozart (1756 – 1791) Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525 - 1st Movement I. Allegro IV. Rondo: Allegro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most significant and influential of all composers of Western classical music. A child prodigy, Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was eight years old and his first opera at twelve. He went on to write some of the most important masterpieces of the Classical era, including symphonies, operas, string quartets and piano music.

Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, was written in 1787 around the time Mozart was working on the second act of his opera Don Giovanni. The piece's light, sunny nature belies the sadness of his father's illness and death only a few months before. Today the serenade is widely performed and recorded and has become one of Mozart's most popular pieces. The German title means "a little serenade," though it is often rendered more literally, but less accurately, as "a little night music". The opening Allegro is a miniature sonata-form movement built on the graceful and jaunty opening theme and a more fluid second idea announced by the first violins in D major. The development section is quite brief, and Mozart quickly recapitulates his ideas and brings the movement to a close on its opening theme. Throughout, this movement sparkles and dances with an ease rare even in Mozart‟s music. We finish the concert with the fourth and final movement of this Serenade, a lively tempo, marked Allegro and is in the key of G major.. The movement is written in sonata form and Mozart specifies repeats not just for the expos i t ion sect ion but a lso for the fo l lowing development and recapitulation section. The work ends with a long coda.

A. Corelli (1653 - 1713) Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 1 in D major

I. Largo - Allegro, II. Largo - Allegro, III. Largo, IV. Allegro, V. Allegro Corelli virtually invented the concerto grosso, a multi-movement work that divides the orchestra in a larger component called the ripieno for the comparatively easier music, and the smaller concertino, which handles the more virtuosic lines. Handel, who studied in Italy before permanently locating to London, was amply familiar with Corelli and adopted the concerto grosso in preference to the more modern three-movement model established by Vivaldi.

The multiple movements of Op. 6, No. 1, differ in how they are listed in different editions, partly because even within movements there can be several episodes bearing tempo indications. Of the dozen works, the Christmas Concerto (performed by FCO Christmas 2013) is unquestionably the best known, but every one of these splendid works is a thing of exquisite beauty and craftsmanship.

Programme Notes

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Programme Notes

J.S. Bach (1685- 1750) Adagio from Sinfonia BWV 156

Johann Sebastian Bach was born and died in Germany, and spent his entire life there, working as an organist, teacher, and composer. He was one of the greatest composers of all time, but during his lifetime, he was little-known and was mostly recognized for performing on the organ. This Adagio comes from the first movement of the cantata Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe (I am standing with one foot in the grave), BWV 156, which Bach wrote in

Leipzig for the third Sunday after Epiphany. The first movement, Sinfonia, is scored for oboe, strings, and continuo and is in F major and common time.

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

The tenth and last movement of the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 ("Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life”) is one of Bach's best-loved works and is a perennial favourite at weddings when the bridal party enters. The music's wide popularity has led to numerous arrangements and transcriptions.

G. Handel (1685 – 1759) Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 12 in B minor I. Largo, II. Allegro, III. Larghetto, e piano, IV. Largo, V. Allegro

No.12 is the final concerto from the Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, or Twelve Grand Concertos, HWV 319–330. The arresting dotted rhythms of the opening largo recall the dramatic style of the French overture, although the movement also serves to contrast the full orchestra with the quieter ripieno strings. The following highly inventive movement is a brilliant and animated allegro, a moto perpetuo. The busy semiquaver figure in the theme, passed constantly between different parts of the orchestra and the soloists, adds to the overall sense of

rhythmic and harmonic direction. The central third movement, marked Larghetto e piano, contains one of the most beautiful melodies written by Handel. The melody in 3/4 time and E major is simple and regular with a wide range with a chaconne-like bass. After its statement, it is varied twice, the first time with a quaver walking bass, then with the melody itself played in quavers. The fourth movement is a brief largo, like an accompanied recitative, which leads into the final allegro fugue. Its gigue-like theme is derived from a fugue of Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, Handel's boyhood teacher in Halle, to whom the movement is perhaps some form of homage.

Programme Notes

T. Albinoni (1671 – 1751) Oboe Concerto in D major, Op. 7, No. 6

I. Largo, II. Allegro, III. Larghetto, e piano, IV. Largo, V. Allegro The Oboe Concerto in D major, Op. 7, No. 6 was dedicated to the Venetian nobleman Donato Correggio. The oboe concerti in the volume are credited as the most original and best items of the collection. Albinoni was particu-larly fond of the oboe, a relatively new introduction in Italy, and has been credited as being the first Italian to compose oboe concertos. The concerto is exemplary and fascinating, remarkable for its compactness, for its beautiful combination of the solo part with the tutti and the original development of all its ideas.

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Bill Douglas (1944 - ) Sonata for Oboe and Piano

Bill Douglas is a Canadian musician, composer, pianist, and bassoonist whose works received influence from classical music, jazz, African, Brazilian and Indian music, 1970s funk and many other genres. In 1994, SOCAN, the Canadian equivalent of ASCAP and BMI, presented him with their classical composer of the year award. His compositions have been performed by major orchestras and chamber groups around the world.

This three movement Sonata is full of the jazz stylings one has come to expect from the compositions of Bill Douglas. The 2nd movement is marked as "Expansive".

Programme Notes

Johann Pachelbel (1653 - 1706) Canon in D

Johann Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher who brought the South German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most important composers of the middle Baroque era. Pachelbel's Canon for 3 violins and basso continuo was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo

and paired with a gigue. Like most other works by Pachelbel and other pre-1700 composers, the Canon remained forgotten for centuries and was rediscovered only in the 20th century. Several decades after it was first published in 1919 the piece became extremely popular.

Corelli (arr. Barbirolli for Oboe and Piano) Concerto for Oboe and Strings I. Preludio, II. Allemanda, III. Sarabanda, IV. Gavotta, V.Giga

The “Corelli” Oboe Concerto is a collection of themes from the Italian Baroque violinist-composer Arcangelo Corelli. It was formed into a concerto for oboe and strings by the renowned conductor Sir John Barbirolli for his wife Evelyn Rothwell and published in 1947.

Sir John Barbirolli (1899 –1970), was a British conductor and cellist. He is remembered above all as conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester, which he helped save from dissolution in 1943 and

conducted for the rest of his life. He was Arturo Toscanini's successor as music director of the New York Philharmonic, chief conductor of the Houston Symphony, and was a guest conductor of many other orchestras, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic, with all of which he made recordings.

Programme Notes

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