1999 Spring Programme

CONCERT DIARY

WINCHESTER MUSIC CLUB THE WAYNFLETE SINGERS Come and Sing ... Handel’s Messiah 10th June 1999 7.30pm Conductor: Neil Chippington in Winchester Cathedral 1 May 1999 from 2.00 pm Poulenc Gloria (Performance at 6.00 pm) Fauré Pavane WINCHESTER MUSIC CLUB in Winchester College Chapel Saint-Saëns Symphony No 3 in with a buffet supper in School C minor (Organ) afterwards Fauré Peléas et M élisande Details from Mrs R. Halliwell, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 2 Southend Close, Hursley, S021 2LJ Conductor: David Hill (tel 01962 775584) ROSSINI 2nd July 1999 7.30pm WINCHESTER and COUNTY in Winchester Cathedral MUSIC FESTIVAL Verdi Requiem 8 May 1999 at 7.30 pm Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Winchester Cathedral Conductor: David Hill Petite Messe Solennelle Dvorák Stabat Mater Conductor: Francis Wells WINCHESTER MUSIC CLUB 25 November 1999 at 7.30 pm 15 May 1999 at 7.30 pm in Winchester Cathedral in Romsey Abbey Mendelssohn Elijah Susanna Spicer Mezzo soprano Charpentier Te Deum , WMC Choir and Orchestra Shelley Everall Contalto Vivaldi Beatus Vir Conductor: Neil Chippington Handel O Praise the Lord with Andrew Carwood Tenor One Consent Christopher Foster Baritone Conductor: Colin Howard Winchester Music Club Choir and Orchestra Tickets, except where indicated, from Music at Winchester (tel. 01962 977977). Elizabeth Russell Leader Neil Chippington

NEW HALL, WINCHESTER COLLEGE Winchester Music Club is affiliated to the National Federation of Music Societies which represents and Saturday 20 March 1999 at 7:30 p.m. supports amateur choirs, orchestras and music By kind permission of the Headmaster promoters throughout the United Kingdom. Winchester Music Club is a Registered Charity No. X83763 Programme Winchester Music Club Orchestra 1st Violins Oboes Petite Messe Solennelle Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868) Elizabeth Russell Geoffrey Bridge Peter Marsh Margaret Gilleat Kyrie - Kyrie Anne Shorter Richard Shorter Clarinets Christe Tom Dutton Kyrie Nikki Rogers Jane Denley Kate Gordon Gloria - Gloria in excelsis Deo 2nd Violins Gratias Bassoon Paul Jeffrey Domine Deus John Sargent David Gillot Qui Tollis Bernard Green Anna Meadows Quoniam Joanna Selborne Jane Bennett Cum Sancto Spiritu Elizabeth Gillings Angela Robinson French Horns

Violas Peter Widgery INTERVAL -20 minutes Tony Catterick Andrew Griffiths Mark Kane Margy Jeffrey Simon de Souza Gill Collymore Credo - Credo Philly Sargent Trumpets Crucifixus Libby Merriman Et resurrexit Julian Poore 'Cellos Frazer Tannock Alex Jagger Sanctus - Benedictus Alison Myers Andy Smets Anne Stow O salutaris Fiona Smith Trombones Jane Austen Agnus Dei Vicky Darling Richard Pywell Fannie Leigh David Thomas Neil Thompson Double Bassses Tuba Barry Glynn We are indebted to the Friends of Winchester Polly Falvey Cliff Bevan Music Club and to Winchester College, who help to make these concerts possible Flutes Timpani

Robin Soldan Jack Richards Claire Lund Opera), Marcello in La Bohème (Opera del Mar), Count Almaviva (covered for Sir Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle John Eliot Gardiner), Arthur in Maxwell Davies’ The Lighthouse and Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress (studied at Britten-Pears School, Snape). His recordings “Dear God: Here it is, finished, this poor little Mass. Have I written sacred music include Purcell’s Timon of Athens for Deutsche Grammophon conducted by Trevor or damned music? I was born for opera buffa , you know it well! A little science, Pinnock. Christopher is building a reputation as a recitalist and was a finalist in the some heart, that’s all. Be blessed, then, and grant me a place in Paradise.” 1995 Richard Tauber Competition at The Wigmore Hall. He was also selected to take part in Thomas Allen’s inaugural singing course in the Lake District. This is what Rossini wrote at the end of the manuscript of his Petite messe Recent engagements include: Tippett’s The Tempest Suite with the Britten Sinfonia butsolennelle, there is more to hear in this piece than simply the work of the and a weeklong tour of northern Holland singing Stainer’s Crucifixion. popular composer of comic opera. There is lyrical beauty and a sense grandeur at times, but there are also moments of contemplation.

NEIL CHIPPINGTON received his early musical education as a chorister at Rossini described his Mass as “the last mortal sin of my old age”, and Winchester Cathedral and then as a Music Scholar at Cranleigh School In 1987 he although we should not take such a remark too seriously, it points to the fact that was appointed Organ Scholar of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. this was the last major work that he wrote and one of only a few works that he Neil graduated from Cambridge in 1990, and then spent a year as Guest Artist in wrote towards the end of his life after he had stopped composing for well over Residence at the First United Methodist Church, Lubbock, Texas. He subsequently twenty years. spent a short time as Acting Assistant Organist at the London Oratory and then as Acting Organist at Cranleigh School before taking up his present position as a full The Mass was composed in 1863 and was originally written for 12 voices, time teacher in the Music Department of Winchester College in 1992. From two pianos and harmonium. Rossini revised the work himself in 1867 for full January 1994 to July 1998 he was tutor to the Scholars of the College and since orchestra, but this version was not performed until February 1869, a few months then has taken up the appointment of Head of Academic Music at Winchester. after his death.

In 1994 he became co-conductor of Winchester Music Club and their Musical The work includes the main movements of the mass and is undoubtedly on Director in 1995. He has also directed the Waynflete Singers in rehearsal on a number of occasions, and conducted them and the Winchester Cathedral Choir in a scale that could hardly be called petite! Certainly the outer movements of the a performance of Handel’s Messiah in December 1997. Gloria and the Credo do not have anything introspective or small scale about them. There is, though, much to enjoy in this work from its Mozartian tunefulness to its more extrovert operatic qualities.

WINCHESTER MUSIC CLUB was founded in 1925 by Sir George Dyson. Neil Chippington The choir, which has a membership of about 120, is joined for some concerts by Winchester College Glee Club. The Club has in recent seasons performed many major choral and orchestral works of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries in the One of the first female choral scholars at Trinity College, Cambridge, SUSANNA Cathedral and elsewhere. SPICER went on to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Rehearsals for the choir are held weekly during term time from September to Noelle Barker OBE, and at the Britten-Pears School at Aldeburgh. She now studies March on Fridays at 7:45 pm in St Michael’s Church. Friends of Winchester Music with Catherine Wyn-Rogers. On the concert platform her solo engagements have Club kindly provide financial support for concerts, and are entitled to privilege included appearances at the Royal Festival Hall with Simon Rattle and the LPO in booking. If you would like to audition for the choir, or require any further Stravinsky’s Mass and with Kurt Masur and the LPO in Debussy’s Le Martyre de information, please contact the Secretary, Noreen Tatham, 34 Wales Street, Saint Sebastien (both broadcast live on Radio 3), at the Royal Albert Hall with Sir Winchester, Hants SO23 8ET (tel: 01962 869800). David Willcocks in Messiah and Elijah, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat and in 1997 she made her BBC Promenade Concerts debut singing the role of Luitgarde in Schubert’s Die Verschworenen with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by Nicholas McGegan. Susanna is a popular choice with choral societies throughout the UK where she has sung the major works in the oratorio repertoire in the cathedrals of Bristol, Canterbury, Chelmsford, Chichester, Durham, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, Manchester, The winner of a Choral Scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge in 1983 where Oxford, Ripon, Salisbury, Sheffield, Southwell, Truro, Wells, Winchester and he read English, ANDREW CARWOOD went on to take up Lay Clerkships at Worcester (to name but a few!) as well as in venues such as the Birmingham Christ Church, Oxford and subsequently at London’s Westminster Cathedral. A Symphony Hall, Snape Maltings, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford and the Royal Concert most popular performer, he has sung as consort singer and soloist with many of Hall, Nottingham. Her solo performances on disc include Paul Patterson’s Missa the major European vocal ensembles both on disc and on the concert platform, Brevis with Owain Arwell-Hughes and the LPO, Poulenc’s Les Carmelites with Kent including The Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen, The English Concert, The King’s Nagano, recordings of Britten with the Finzi Singers, Frank Martin with The Consort, The Finzi Singers, The Oxford Camerata, The Parley of Instruments, Sixteen, and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia and works by Percy Grainger with John Collegium Musicum 90, The City of London Sinfonia, The Orchestra of the Age of Eliot Gardiner. Susanna’s operatic work has included contracts with Glyndebourne Enlightenment, Choeur de La Chapelle Royale, Pro Cantione Antiqua, The Festival and Touring Opera companies, Kent Opera, Opera de Lyon and the Gabrieli Consort, The Academy of Ancient Music, The Schutz Choir and The Monteverdi Choir’s Mozart Opera series. She has sung in master-classes for Janet Monteverdi Choir. Andrew also enjoys an active solo career that encompasses both Baker, Heather Harper, Sarah Walker and Ian Partridge and is a popular recitalist. opera and concert work worldwide. Particularly known for his championship of the English repertory of the Baroque and Twentieth Century, he made his debut in SHELLEY EVERALL studied at the Royal College of Music with Margeret the Sydney Opera House singing works by Purcell, Blow and Handel and has Kingsley; on graduating she continued her studies with Johanna Peeters, and Dame recently recorded songs by John Ireland, Samuel Wesley’s Mass (with Nicholas Heather Harper. Shelley continues to study with Janice Chapman and Ludmilla Kraemer) and made the premiere recording of The Healing Fountain by Christopher Andrew. In January 1999 she was runner up in the London Bayreuth Bursary Headington (with Nicholas Cleobury and the Britten Sinfonia). His discography Competition, she will take part in a public masterclass for the Wagner Society in also includes works by Hassler, Vivaldi, Warlock, Howells and Poulenc. Andrew’s 1999. She was one of only four finalists in the prestigious Dame Eva Turner performances of roles in Mozart’s operas Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio), Le Nozze di competition for aspiring dramatic sopranos, held at the Royal Northern College of Figaro (Don Basilio), and Cosi fan Tutte (Ferrando) have met with particular Music in 1997. Shelley made her operatic debut as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana at enthusiasm, and he has been described by Gramophone Magazine as having a the Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh. She has sung a variety of roles, including “magnificent” voice. He has also given recitals in Cambridge, Oxford and London Fiordiligi, La Contessa, Donna Anna, and Woglinde and Freia in das Rheingold. venues. As musical director of the vocal consort The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew She sang the title role of Guenever, in the premiere broadcast of Parry’s opera enjoys international acclaim as a conductor, and the group’s recording of the music with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth for Radio 3. of Robert Fayrfax won the 1996 Gramophone Award for Early Music. He is also Shelley has been a chorister with many professional opera companies, including Director of Music at the Brompton Oratory. Opera North, Frankfurt Opera, Covent Garden, and Scottish Opera. Shelley’s oratorio engagements include many of the larger scale works. Recent concerts have A graduate of Newcastle University, CHRISTOPHER FOSTER was a winner included Mozarts Requiem in Leicester’s De Montfort Hall with the Manchester of the NFMS Young Concert Artists’ Award in 1991. He has broadcast on French Camerata conducted by Laslo Heltay, Verdi’s Requiem in Canterbury Cathedral, radio under the direction of Phillippe Herreweghe and Mark Minkowski and on Snape Maltings, and Cheltenham Town Hall. Elijah in Budapest, Hungary. several occasions on Radio 3. These broadcasts include the Henry Wood Janacek’s Otcenas and Puccini’s Salve Regina in St John’s Smith Square preceeded a Promenade Concerts in Joshua Rifkin’s performance of the St. Matthew Passion; world premiere recording of Janacek and Puccini with the choir of Gonville and Bruch’s Schön Ellen and the world premiere of Donizetti’s cantata Christopher Caius College Cambridge for ASV. Shelley made her American debut in September Columbus (both with the BBC Concert Orchestra). At the Royal Festival Hall, he 1998 with the Charlston Symphony Orchestra, in a programme including the Four has sung with the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra in performances of Schumann’s Last Songs by Strauss, and songs by Gershwin, given as part of the Pawley’s Island Manfred conducted by Andrew Davis and Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol conducted by Music festival in South Carolina. Shelley is no stranger to international Pierre Boulez, which also enjoyed a weeklong tour of Europe. Other BBC S.O. masterclasses. She was selected by Barbara Bonney to take part in a masterclass at performances include the world premiere of Britten’s The Rescue of Penelope at the the Wigmore Hall in London. She has also participated in masterclasses with Rita Aldeburgh Festival. His travels have also taken him to the Baltic States, in the Hunter, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Diane Forlano and Barbara Pearson. Future Latvian premiere of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and most recently to Luxembourg engagements include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Sherborne Abbey, The Seasons for two concerts in the Stravinsky Festival with the Orchestre Philharmonique du for the North Yorkshire Chorus, and Carmina Burana for the Cumbria Rural Choirs Luxembourg. conducted by Philip Ledger CBE. Future operatic roles include Sieglinde in die Christopher is also known for his operatic performances of roles such as Mozart’s Walküre. Figaro, with four different companies, Baron Douphol in La Traviata (Clonter Chelmsford, Chichester, Durham, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, Manchester, The winner of a Choral Scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge in 1983 where Oxford, Ripon, Salisbury, Sheffield, Southwell, Truro, Wells, Winchester and he read English, ANDREW CARWOOD went on to take up Lay Clerkships at Worcester (to name but a few!) as well as in venues such as the Birmingham Christ Church, Oxford and subsequently at London’s Westminster Cathedral. A Symphony Hall, Snape Maltings, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford and the Royal Concert most popular performer, he has sung as consort singer and soloist with many of Hall, Nottingham. Her solo performances on disc include Paul Patterson’s Missa the major European vocal ensembles both on disc and on the concert platform, Brevis with Owain Arwell-Hughes and the LPO, Poulenc’s Les Carmelites with Kent including The Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen, The English Concert, The King’s Nagano, recordings of Britten with the Finzi Singers, Frank Martin with The Consort, The Finzi Singers, The Oxford Camerata, The Parley of Instruments, Sixteen, and Beethoven’s Choral Fantasia and works by Percy Grainger with John Collegium Musicum 90, The City of London Sinfonia, The Orchestra of the Age of Eliot Gardiner. Susanna’s operatic work has included contracts with Glyndebourne Enlightenment, Choeur de La Chapelle Royale, Pro Cantione Antiqua, The Festival and Touring Opera companies, Kent Opera, Opera de Lyon and the Gabrieli Consort, The Academy of Ancient Music, The Schutz Choir and The Monteverdi Choir’s Mozart Opera series. She has sung in master-classes for Janet Monteverdi Choir. Andrew also enjoys an active solo career that encompasses both Baker, Heather Harper, Sarah Walker and Ian Partridge and is a popular recitalist. opera and concert work worldwide. Particularly known for his championship of the English repertory of the Baroque and Twentieth Century, he made his debut in SHELLEY EVERALL studied at the Royal College of Music with Margeret the Sydney Opera House singing works by Purcell, Blow and Handel and has Kingsley; on graduating she continued her studies with Johanna Peeters, and Dame recently recorded songs by John Ireland, Samuel Wesley’s Mass (with Nicholas Heather Harper. Shelley continues to study with Janice Chapman and Ludmilla Kraemer) and made the premiere recording of The Healing Fountain by Christopher Andrew. In January 1999 she was runner up in the London Bayreuth Bursary Headington (with Nicholas Cleobury and the Britten Sinfonia). His discography Competition, she will take part in a public masterclass for the Wagner Society in also includes works by Hassler, Vivaldi, Warlock, Howells and Poulenc. Andrew’s 1999. She was one of only four finalists in the prestigious Dame Eva Turner performances of roles in Mozart’s operas Don Giovanni (Don Ottavio), Le Nozze di competition for aspiring dramatic sopranos, held at the Royal Northern College of Figaro (Don Basilio), and Cosi fan Tutte (Ferrando) have met with particular Music in 1997. Shelley made her operatic debut as Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana at enthusiasm, and he has been described by Gramophone Magazine as having a the Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh. She has sung a variety of roles, including “magnificent” voice. He has also given recitals in Cambridge, Oxford and London Fiordiligi, La Contessa, Donna Anna, and Woglinde and Freia in das Rheingold. venues. As musical director of the vocal consort The Cardinall’s Musick Andrew She sang the title role of Guenever, in the premiere broadcast of Parry’s opera enjoys international acclaim as a conductor, and the group’s recording of the music with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth for Radio 3. of Robert Fayrfax won the 1996 Gramophone Award for Early Music. He is also Shelley has been a chorister with many professional opera companies, including Director of Music at the Brompton Oratory. Opera North, Frankfurt Opera, Covent Garden, and Scottish Opera. Shelley’s oratorio engagements include many of the larger scale works. Recent concerts have A graduate of Newcastle University, CHRISTOPHER FOSTER was a winner included Mozarts Requiem in Leicester’s De Montfort Hall with the Manchester of the NFMS Young Concert Artists’ Award in 1991. He has broadcast on French Camerata conducted by Laslo Heltay, Verdi’s Requiem in Canterbury Cathedral, radio under the direction of Phillippe Herreweghe and Mark Minkowski and on Snape Maltings, and Cheltenham Town Hall. Elijah in Budapest, Hungary. several occasions on Radio 3. These broadcasts include the Henry Wood Janacek’s Otcenas and Puccini’s Salve Regina in St John’s Smith Square preceeded a Promenade Concerts in Joshua Rifkin’s performance of the St. Matthew Passion; world premiere recording of Janacek and Puccini with the choir of Gonville and Bruch’s Schön Ellen and the world premiere of Donizetti’s cantata Christopher Caius College Cambridge for ASV. Shelley made her American debut in September Columbus (both with the BBC Concert Orchestra). At the Royal Festival Hall, he 1998 with the Charlston Symphony Orchestra, in a programme including the Four has sung with the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra in performances of Schumann’s Last Songs by Strauss, and songs by Gershwin, given as part of the Pawley’s Island Manfred conducted by Andrew Davis and Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol conducted by Music festival in South Carolina. Shelley is no stranger to international Pierre Boulez, which also enjoyed a weeklong tour of Europe. Other BBC S.O. masterclasses. She was selected by Barbara Bonney to take part in a masterclass at performances include the world premiere of Britten’s The Rescue of Penelope at the the Wigmore Hall in London. She has also participated in masterclasses with Rita Aldeburgh Festival. His travels have also taken him to the Baltic States, in the Hunter, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, Diane Forlano and Barbara Pearson. Future Latvian premiere of Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius and most recently to Luxembourg engagements include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Sherborne Abbey, The Seasons for two concerts in the Stravinsky Festival with the Orchestre Philharmonique du for the North Yorkshire Chorus, and Carmina Burana for the Cumbria Rural Choirs Luxembourg. conducted by Philip Ledger CBE. Future operatic roles include Sieglinde in die Christopher is also known for his operatic performances of roles such as Mozart’s Walküre. Figaro, with four different companies, Baron Douphol in La Traviata (Clonter Opera), Marcello in La Bohème (Opera del Mar), Count Almaviva (covered for Sir Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle John Eliot Gardiner), Arthur in Maxwell Davies’ The Lighthouse and Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress (studied at Britten-Pears School, Snape). His recordings “Dear God: Here it is, finished, this poor little Mass. Have I written sacred music include Purcell’s Timon of Athens for Deutsche Grammophon conducted by Trevor or damned music? I was born for opera buffa , you know it well! A little science, Pinnock. Christopher is building a reputation as a recitalist and was a finalist in the some heart, that’s all. Be blessed, then, and grant me a place in Paradise.” 1995 Richard Tauber Competition at The Wigmore Hall. He was also selected to take part in Thomas Allen’s inaugural singing course in the Lake District. This is what Rossini wrote at the end of the manuscript of his Petite messe Recent engagements include: Tippett’s The Tempest Suite with the Britten Sinfonia butsolennelle, there is more to hear in this piece than simply the work of the and a weeklong tour of northern Holland singing Stainer’s Crucifixion. popular composer of comic opera. There is lyrical beauty and a sense grandeur at times, but there are also moments of contemplation.

Robin Soldan Jack Richards Claire Lund CONCERT DIARY