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The Stanford Legacy Martin Outram, Viola • Julian Rolton, Piano NI 6334 Financial support from the following is gratefully acknowledged: The Canterbury Christ Church University The John Ireland Trust Stanford The Stanford Society Legacy MARTIN OUTRAM, VIOLA JULIAN RoLTON, PIANO For further information please visit www.martinoutram.com www.wyastone.co.uk The Stanford Legacy Martin OutraM, ViOla • Julian RoltOn, pianO Charles Villiers Stanford (arr Henry Waldo Warner): Sonata for Viola and Piano op 129 master classes of such eminent singers As an adjudicator Julian sat on the jury 1. Allegro moderato 7.10 as Galina Vishnevskaya, Phyllis Bryn- of the Charles Hennen International 2. Caoine: Adagio (quasi Fantasia) 6.14 Julson and Anthony Rolfe Johnson. He Chamber Music Competition in Holland. 3. Allegretto grazioso 5.50 has performed extensively with the violist Julian Rolton is a music teacher at Michael Rebecca Clarke: Sonata for Viola and Piano Martin Outram and for Naxos they have Hall Steiner School in East Sussex. 4. Impetuoso 7.40 made celebrated recordings of works by 5. Vivace 4.00 Rawsthorne, Bliss and Arnold Bax, and 6. Adagio 11.20 a disc titled, ‘The English Viola’. Further John Ireland (arr Martin Outram): acclaimed CD’s have been released on Sonata for Viola and Piano Nimbus Alliance. 7. Allegro leggiadro 9.44 Julian was a member of the Chagall Trio 8. Romance: In tempo sostenuto quasi adagio 9.56 which released an acclaimed premiere 9. Rondo: Allegro sciolto assai 6.21 recording of works by Ethel Smyth on Total playing time 68.15 Meridian and a disc of contemporary piano trios entitled ‘Borderlands’ on Campion Cameo which attracted Recorded at Wyastone Hall, Monmouth between 21-23 July 2015. Producer & editor: Andrew Walton Sound engineer: Mike Clements exceptional reviews. Cover photograph: Melanie Strover www.classicfotos.co.uk Booklet design: www.doubletakedesign.co.uk This release made under license to Wyastone Estate Limited P & © 2016 2 11 Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) is recollected of his teacher Carl Reinecke: remembered as one of the most influential ‘Of all the dry musicians I have ever known musicians of the late-nineteenth and he was the most desiccated. He had early-twentieth centuries. He wrote no not a good word for any contemporary JULIAN ROLTON fewer than seven symphonies, ten operas, composer... He loathed Wagner... sneered many songs, thirty large scale choral at Brahms and had no enthusiasm of any A highly versatile musician, Julian Rolton works and around twenty chamber music sort’. is equally at ease as a concerto soloist, pieces. Stanford’s background was very Having been appointed Professor of chamber musician and accompanist. accomplished musically. His father, a Composition at the Royal College of Julian has worked with the Calgary lawyer by profession, was one of Dublin’s Music in 1883 and Professor of Music at most prominent amateur musicians during Philharmonic Orchestra in Canada, Cambridge University in 1888, Stanford the 1840s. Stanford senior befriended performed concertos by Britten, taught many of the leading British Mendelssohn and Sir William Sterndale Shostakovich and Strauss in the South composers of the day. To name but a few, Bennett and appeared frequently as a these included Frank Bridge, Gustav Holst, Bank Centre, London and with Martyn bass singer and cellist. Stanford’s mother’s Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arthur Bliss and Brabbins and Sinfonia 21 at the Ars abilities were such that she was the soloist the other two composers represented on Musica Festival in Brussels. He has in a performance of Mendelssohn’s First this disc, John Ireland and Rebecca Clarke. appeared at festivals in Aldeburgh, Piano Concerto with the Dublin Musical Another pupil, Edgar Bainton, remembered “the excellent pianist, Cambridge, Warwick, Peterborough, Bath Union. Stanford’s teaching style thus: ‘Stanford’s and Oxford. Julian Rolton, manages Stanford studied Classics at Cambridge teaching seemed to be without method or With the mezzo-soprano Helen Lawrence, University and served as organist at Trinity plan. His criticism consisted for the most the fiendishly elaborate he recorded an acclaimed CD of Russian College. Sterndale Bennett, Principal of the part of, “I like it, my boy,” or, “It’s damned Royal Academy of Music, advised him to ugly, my boy” (the latter in most cases). piano writing effortlessly song in celebration of Pushkin’s bi- study in Leipzig at the famous Hochschule In this, perhaps, lay its value. For in spite centenary; whilst at the Britten-Pears in a grand finale” established by Mendelssohn. This did not of his conservatism, and he was intensely School in Snape he has played for the BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE prove to be particularly inspiring; Stanford and passionately conservative in music as 10 3 in politics, his amazingly comprehensive sent him he began to dissect them with Maconchy Romanza with the Ambache Nimbus labels. Their performances have knowledge of musical literature of all nations fascinating accuracy and justice. I could Chamber Orchestra and the Dale Romance included recitals at many international viola and ages made one feel that his opinions, see why he was considered the finest with Vernon Handley conducting. Martin congresses and Martin has served on the however irritating, had weight’. Herbert composition teacher in England and I was gave the first European performance for jury for the Lionel Tertis International Viola Howells stated that, ‘...corner any Stanford enthralled’. seventy-five years of York Bowen’s Viola Competition. His recording of all the music pupil you like, and ask him to confess the It is well known that Stanford had huge Concerto, with Ronald Corp and the New for viola and piano by Bax with Julian Rolton sins he most hated being discovered in by respect for the music of Johannes Brahms. London Orchestra. He has played the attracted a five-star review in the BBC his master. He will tell you “slovenliness” As Musical Director of the Cambridge Britten Lachrymae many times at home and Music Magazine and their discs of English and “vulgarity”. When [students] went University Musical Society, Stanford gave abroad with the Britten Sinfonia and toured Viola Sonatas, all the viola music of Britten into the teacher’s room they came out, notable British premieres of his works, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante together with and Bridge and a CD featuring the legacy badly damaged. Against compromise became his friend and was instrumental Tasmin Little as fellow soloist. He has also of the great Scottish violist Watson Forbes with dubious material or workmanship in inviting him to England (an invitation appeared as a soloist in South America, have also received similar outstanding Stanford stubbornly set his face.’ Vaughan which was initially accepted but never performing in Argentina and Brazil. Recently praise internationally. Williams declared, ‘Stanford was a great realised). When Stanford wrote his Sonata his peformances of the Bartok Concerto teacher, but I believe I was unteachable’. for Clarinet and Piano Op.129 in 1911, Martin Outram is a Fellow of the Royal and the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with When John Ireland presented Stanford it would appear that again Brahms was Academy of Music, where he has been with a string quartet he had written in in his mind. Structurally the work follows Julian Leaper have been highly acclaimed a professor since 1984. He is also an 1895 never having received a composition the broad outline of Brahms’s Eb sonata and another highlight was his world Honorary Fellow of Canterbury Christ lesson, Stanford’s response was,”Dull as for clarinet op120 no.2, being in three premiere performance of Stuart MacRae’s Church University and Brunel University. ditchwater, m’bhoy”; however, two years movements with a light-weight and graceful ‘Equilibrium’ for solo viola and chamber He has given masterclasses in major music later, Ireland was accepted into Stanford’s finale. Here the central movement is entitled ensemble. institutions in Britain, China, Sweden, class and remained with him until 1901. Caoine, a Gaelic lament, which constitutes Martin performs in recital with Julian Norway, Poland and America, and gives Rebecca Clarke’s memories of Stanford the emotional heart of the work. Stanford’s Rolton. Together they have performed annual masterclasses in Leipzig. He plays were however far more benign: ‘Sir Charles Sonata for Clarinet and Piano was arranged widely throughout the UK and have on a very fine viola made by Henricus was a very tall, loosely built man, with a for viola by Henry Waldo Warner (1874- recorded several discs for the Naxos and Catenar in Turin in 1680. friendly though slightly caustic expression. 1945) with the composer’s full approval Producing the songs [my father] had 4 9 Martin OUTRAM and was published alongside the version in Stanford’s composition class at the for clarinet in 1919. A contemporary of RCM and it was he who suggested she Since studying at Cambridge University the great Lionel Tertis, Waldo Warner switch from violin to the viola and begin and the Royal Academy of Music with John was a leading violist of his generation, taking lessons with Lionel Tertis. During White, Martin Outram has enjoyed a wide known principally as a chamber music this period her already difficult relationship ranging career as quartet player, soloist and player, appearing in groups such as the with her father worsened. Following her teacher. New (later London) String Quartet. He criticisms of his extra-marital affairs, she In addition to his work with the Maggini was also a composer in his own right, was forced to quit the RCM in 1910 as he Quartet, Martin appears frequently as a producing choral and orchestral works, a had banished her from the family house soloist. His repertoire embraces the major comic opera and a good deal of chamber and cut off funding for her studies.
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