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Mozart Violin Concertos with Vilde Frang ARCANGELO PRESENTS Mozart Violin Concertos with Vilde Frang “Arcangelo is a ‘super-chamber ensemble’ of soloists who respond to each other’s lines yet allow each instrument’s individuality to shine” SINFINI MUSIC PROGRAMME MARTIN RANDALL TRAVEL • MUSIC FESTIVALS 2016 Rivers have rarely sounded Mozart Violin Concertos as beautiful as this. with Vilde Frang FRIDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2016 pre-concert talk, 18.30 Donald Macleod, host Jonathan Cohen concert, 19.30 franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) Symphony No. 47 in G major, Hob. I:47 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, KV219 Our music festivals present private concerts in appropriate historic settings. You’ll hear major 20-minute interval international musicians perform a thrilling range of music, and daily talks on the music. Accommodation is on board luxury river cruisers; the price includes travel, meals and more. Symphony No.29 in A major K201 All brought to you by the UK’s leading experts in cultural tours. Violin Concerto No.1 in B♭ K207 The Seine Music Festival The Danube Festival of Song A Festival of Music in Franconia arcangelo 23–30 June 2016 5–12 July 2016 16–23 August 2016 Vilde Frang, violin Tenebrae Mary Bevan, Susan Bullock, La Serenissima & Adrian Chandler violin Jonathan Cohen, conductor Kenneth Weiss harpsichord, Véronique Gens, Miah Persson Barocksolisten München Lucile Boulanger & Julien Léonard viols soprano Dorothee Oberlinger recorder housekeeping In accordance with the requirements of Westminster City Council persons shall not be permitted Juliette Hurel fl ute & Hélène Couvert piano Katarina Karnéus, Dorottya Láng, & Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca Pascal & Ami Rogé piano Renata Pokupić Christiane Karg soprano to sit or stand in any gangway. The taking of photographs and use of recording equipment is strictly forbidden Van Kuijk Quartet mezzo-soprano & Gerold Huber piano without formal consent from St John’s Smith Square. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in St John’s Smith Square. Ensemble Gilles Binchois Ian Bostridge, Christoph Prégardien The Mandelring Quartet Refreshments are permitted only in The Footstool Restaurant. Please ensure that all digital watch alarms, pagers tenor The Orlando Consort Mozart Chamber Ensemble and mobile phones are switched off. During the interval The Footstool Restaurant is open for licensed refreshments. Christophe Rousset harpsichord Benjamin Appl, André Schuen, Amphion Wind Octet The Footstool Restaurant will be closed to the public after the concert. Roderick Williams I Fagiolini Markus Märkl harpsichord baritone Susie Allan, Julius Drake, Daniel Heide, Susan Manoff, Malcolm Martineau, Christoph Schnackertz, Roger Vignoles 5085 ABTA No.Y6050 piano Saint John’s Smith Square sw1p 3ha Box Office Tel: 020 7222 1061 www.sjss.org.uk St John’s Smith Square Charitable Trust Image: The River Seine, 19th-century lithograph. Registered charity no: 1045390 Registered in England, company no: 3028678 Visit martinrandall.com or contact us for details +44 (0)20 8742 3355 • info@martinrandall.co.uk INTRODUCING WELCOME Arcangelo Jonathan Cohen Arcangelo is one of the world’s leading Category at the 2012 Gramophone Classical Music Awards. Other ensembles, bringing together exceptional recordings include ‘Enchanted Forest’ musicians who excel on both historical with Anna Prohaska on Deutsche Grammophon, ‘Amoretti’ with and modern instruments under the Christiane Karg (Mozart, Gluck) on direction of founder, artistic director Berlin Classics, Handel’s ‘Finest Arias for Base Voice’ with Christopher Purves and conductor Jonathan Cohen. on Hyperion and ‘Monteverdi Sestina Madrigals’. ‘Bach Mass in B Minor’ numerous invitations to appear at major (2014) was voted Gramophone Editor’s festivals and concert halls in Europe choice, Sunday Times album of the week, and America including Wigmore Hall and received a 2015 Gramophone Award (London), Musikverein (Vienna), nomination. Releases in 2015 included Prinzregententheater (Munich), the Mozart violin concertos album with Philharmonie (Berlin), Salzburg Festival Vilde Frang which is the basis of tonight’s (Austria), Carnegie Hall (New York), concert and was number 1 in the uk e are thrilled to start off our Aldeburgh Festival (uk) and the specialist classical chart, “Scene!” an 2016 concert calendar with our London Edinburgh International Festival (uk). album of concert arias with Christiane concert and tour of Mozart violin Busy in the recording studio, Arcangelo Karg which was nominated Gramophone Borggreve Marco Wconcertos with the wonderful rcangelo’s players believe that has received five star reviews for Magazine Critics’ Choice for 2015, Norwegian violinist Vilde Frang. the collaboration required in chamber ‘Porpora cantatas’ and ‘Arias for and Bach violin concerti with Alina Vilde and I met on a tour of Asia in 2012 music, whether working in duos or Guadagni’ with Iestyn Davies on Ibragimova, also number 1 in the uk performing together these very pieces as a chamber orchestra, is the highest Hyperion; the latter disc won the Recital specialist classical chart. and I was struck by the beauty and expressionA of what it means to make elegance of her Mozart playing. Out We are most grateful to the If you like our work, I encourage you music. Setting it apart from other of this collaboration sprang the Mozart individual donors and to The Jerwood to drop by our website, and subscribe to ensembles, all performers are committed project, to record and tour these Charitable Foundation who supported our newsletter or become part of our to this chamber ideal and as such exceptional concertos together with this particular project. Particular thanks, circle of friends. We would be delighted Arcangelo attracts an outstanding Arcangelo. The resulting album, of also, go to Tom Corran, for his to keep you posted on our future plans! calibre of performers who already have which I am very proud, is available consistent and enlightened investment flourishing solo and chamber music on Warner Classics. in Arcangelo this and past seasons. As careers. These are performers of dazzling always, it is Arcangelo’s ongoing technical ability who also have a passion thank you generous supporters and donors who for faithful interpretation that goes far make it possible for us to realise our Thank you to Greta Hemus, beyond historical understanding. exciting artistic plans: our ongoing Adam Swann Adam Alan Sainer and The Jerwood Formed in 2010, Arcangelo has Charitable Foundation for their projects, concerts and recordings are exploded onto the musical scene with support of the recording. greatly reliant on this wide network of verve and energy and has since enjoyed support. Thank you to all and every one! 4 | Arcangelo Mozart Violin Concertos | 5 PROGRAMME NOTES PROGRAMME NOTES Mozart and the Violin it was as a precocious keyboard Augsburg trip: ‘In the evening at supper player that Mozart first made his name, I played my Strasbourg concerto [K216, accompanying his violinist father whose finale features a folk tune from Leopold on tours around the courts of Strasbourg], which flowed like oil.’ Europe as a child prodigy. Later, it was It is not known, however, whether the piano that helped establish the he composed his five violin concertos mature composer’s reputation in Vienna, initially for himself or for another soloist. as soloist in subscription concerts of his All five were written in Salzburg, increasingly masterful concertos for the Mozart’s home town, while he was instrument. Mozart was also a highly in the service of Archbishop Colloredo, Ludwig Guttenbrunn accomplished violinist, but although and may have been intended for Unknown the violin played a crucial role in his Antonio Brunetti, leader of the Salzburg development as a composer – it was orchestra. Brunetti certainly played them as a violinist that he first encountered – it was at his request that Mozart wrote wolfgang amadeus mozart, the orchestral and chamber repertoire – a replacement finale for K207 and middle 1756–1791 surviving correspondence with Leopold movement for K219. Nos. 2–5 (K 211, 216, franz joseph haydn, 1732–1809 written in 1772, when haydn was compositional techniques by using Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, K219 suggests that it was not his favoured 218 and 219), and the ‘Haffner’ Serenade symphony no. 47 in g, hob. i:47 well established in his role as the an old organ pedal theme that is Violin Concerto No. 1 in B♭, K207 instrument. In October 1777 Leopold K250, which features a mini concerto for Kappellmeister at the court of the constructed such that it can be played wrote admonishingly to his son in violin within it, were all composed in Esterházy family, his Symphony No. 47 reversed. Yet the real experiment comes Augsburg: ‘When you were in Munich, a single year, 1775. The Violin Concerto falls in the early stages of what is often in the third movement, which has you probably did not practise the violin No.1 in B flat, K207, dates from two years known as the composer’s Sturm und earned the symphony the nickname, at all? But I should be sorry to hear this.’ earlier, and is probably Mozart’s first Drang (Storm and stress) period of Palindrome. After the minuet and trio Eager to defend himself, Mozart replied: original concerto composition. He had composition. The symphonies of this are played in full they are then played ‘After lunch I played two concertos, begun dabbling with concertos at the period are characterised not necessarily backwards, with Haydn’s cunning use improvised something and then played age of eleven, concocting orchestral by a particularly turbulent character or of orchestration and accents enabling the violin in one of Hafeneder’s trios. accompaniments for keyboard works by a minor key; rather, more broadly as part the listener to realise his trick. Haydn’s I would gladly have done some more other composers. By the time he came of Haydn’s incessant exploration of experiments continue into the finale, fiddling, but I was accompanied so badly to write K207, aged 17, he had gained vast expressive contrast and compositional distinctive for its daring harmonies that it gave me the cholic!’ His next few musical experience on his travels with sophistication in the symphonic genre.
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