VENUE: LAVENHAM CHURCH at 7:00pm
A Celebration of English Music in the 20th Century
Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad
Vaughan-Williams - Oboe Concerto soloist Kim Haan
Gustav Holst - Symphony in F major "The Cotswolds"
Conductor: Vicente Chavarria
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An American Festival
Copland - Appalachian Spring
Ives - The Unanswered Question
Copland - Quiet City
Ives - Symphony No.2
Conductor: John Paul Jennings
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William Boyce: Symphony no. 4 in F major, op. 2, no. 4
Arcangelo Corelli arranged Francesco Geminiani: La Folia, op. 5, no. 12
Joseph Gibbs: Sonata no. 1 in D minor
George Frideric Handel: Concerto in F major, op. 6, no. 2
Interval
George Frideric Handel: Movements from The Water Music
John Stanley: Concerto in B minor, op. 2, no. 2
Thomas Linley: Concerto in F major
Peter Holman is Emeritus Professor of Historical Musicology at the University of Leeds. He is the author of books on the violin at the English court, Henry Purcell, John Dowland and Life after the Death: The Viola da Gamba in Britain from Purcell to Dowland, published in 2010. His latest book, Before the Baton: Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain, was published in 2020. As a performer he is director of The Parley of Instruments, Leeds Baroque and the Suffolk Villages Festival.
Conductor: Peter Holman MBE
Simon Standage is well known as a violinist specialising in 17th and 18th-century music. Leader and soloist with The English Concert from its foundation until 1990, he also fulfilled the same role for many years with the City of London Sinfonia. As well as the many records he made with The English Concert (including Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, nominated for a Grammy award), he also recorded solo and chamber music, including all of Mozart's violin concertos with the Academy of Ancient Music, of which he was, with Christopher Hogwood, Associate Director from 1991 to 1995.
Since his founding, with Richard Hickox, of Collegium Musicum 90, he has made numerous recordings for Chandos Records. As soloist and director of chamber orchestras and chamber musician, he is active both in Britain and abroad. He had for some years a regular collaboration with Haydn Sinfonietta in Vienna. He is leader of the Salomon String Quartet (founded by him in 1981), which specialises in historical performance of the Classical repertoire. He is Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest and teaches at summer courses in Europe.
Soloist: Simon Standage
With Generous support from Angel Early Music
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Svendsen – Norwegian Rhapsody No. 4
Sibelius – Violin Concerto – soloist Mathilde Milwidsky
Atterberg – En Varmlandrapsodi
Berwald – Symphony No. 3
Conductor: Vicente Chavarria
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Haydn - Symphony No.49 'La Passione'
Shostakovitch - Piano Concerto No.2
Beethoven - Symphony No.8
Soloist - Bocheng Wang
Kindly supported by Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme.
Conductor - John Chillingworth
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Clarinet Quintet in A Major - Mozart
Clarinet Quintet - Weber
Cavatina - Holbrooke
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Telemann - Overture Suite TWV55:B11 'La Bourse'
Hummel - Trumpet Concerto
Farrenc - Symphony No. 3
Conductor - Francis Bushell
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