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Egmont Overture Op.84 Concerto for Piano & the whole movement is derived. This movement forms a more serious and develops into a slow fugal introduction until expressive interlude to the somewhat Orchestra (premiere) the music manages to break free in a cinema-graphic nature of the drama, with (1770-1827) PETER FRIBBINS (B.1969) forceful allegro version of the theme. The some beautiful counter melodies in the solo slow middle movement opens with a trumpet, which then goes on to take a One of Beethoven’s best known overtures, Commissioned by the United Kingdom Embassy plangent oboe melody, then taken up by rather more equal role in the wonderfully ‘Egmont’ forms part of the music he of the Republic of Croatia the piano. An expressive and more amusing and riotous last movement. composed for an 1810 production of I Adagio Drammatico – Allegro Vivo contrapuntal Andante section prefaces a Goethe’s play of the same name at the II Adagio – Andante – Tempo Primo – return to the opening melody, but this time Hoftheater in . Goethe completed his III Allegro Vivo – Andante – Adagio – incorporating ingredients of the middle Symphony No.8 in F Op.93 v famous romantic drama in 1788: the section, particularly a pithy and quietly Conductor ROBERTAS SERVENIKAS musical development was continued Affettando – Fugato LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN sixteenth-century Flemish warrior Count insistent trumpet fanfare. The Finale follows studied at the St. Petersburg through generous grants, enabling her, Egmont is pitted against the Spanish In late 2009 I acquired a Bechstein grand the slow movement without a break and (1770-1827) Conservatoire and since 1993 has eventually, to come to London with a full despotic invader, the Duke of Alba. Egmont piano, owned for seventy years by a opens with strident piano gestures. The conducted the Lithuanian National scholarship to undertake further studies refuses to flee and abandon his ideal of remarkable retired physician, musician and Symphony Orchestra, the Lithuanian, at the Guildhall. The winner of numerous material eventually takes a more lyrical and I Allegro vivace e con brio v liberty and is eventually martyred, his death painter, Dr John Horder CBE, who was keen fluid guise marked Andante, before a II Allegretto scherzando Siauliai and Klaipòda Chamber national and international piano prizes, representing a victory against oppression. for the instrument to go to a fellow ghost-like remembrance of the motto- III Tempo di Menuetto Orchestras as well as leading the including Croatian Artist of the Year 2010, E.T.A Hoffmann, reviewing the music in musician. Shortly after, I met the talented theme of the first movement wistfully leads IV Allegro vivace Lithuanian Academy of Music Symphony Diana Brekalo has performed in cities Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung in 1813 German-Croatian pianist, Diana Brekalo, us back to a more unstable version of the Orchestra. In 1997, Mstislav Rostropovich throughout Europe, the USA, the main Sketches for Beethoven’s eighth symphony wrote: ‘It is indeed a gratifying aspect to and after hearing her perform a concerto in opening material, culminating in a invited him to conduct the Philharmonie concert halls in China and Japan, and date from 1811 and the work was finished see two great masters unified in a London, she asked if I might like to write seemingly unstoppable fugue. A climax der Nationen Orchestra during the Evian given live performances on both TV and by early 1813. The premiere occurred in one wonderful work and a happy fulfillment of one myself. With the support of the Croatian precedes an almost mocking string Festival in France and they conducted radio. She has performed in many cities of Beethoven’s own concerts on February every expectation of the shrewd Embassy, I was able to start work with a pizzicato version of the main theme, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe and halls in the UK, including the 27th 1814, and included the seventh connoisseur’. very particular focus, including my love of overlaid with the motto theme in flute and Verdi in the same festival the following Wigmore Hall, and as soloist with symphony too. Reception of the seventh v The Overture is scored for flute and the great piano concerto repertoire of the horn, before the music cascades to an season. Servenikas toured Germany with numerous orchestras. symphony seemed better than for the piccolo, pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons past and the lyrical tone of a certain late inevitable and powerful conclusion. the Lithuanian National Symphony eighth, and when asked by his student Carl Diana Brekalo can next be heard in London and trumpets, four horns, timpani drums nineteenth-century Bechstein. What I found Orchestra giving concerts in the Alte Czerny why this was so, an annoyed on Friday June 10th 2011 at St John’s and strings. It opens with a slow and myself composing was music of The next London premiere of a work by Peter Oper, Hamburg Musikhalle and Cologne Beethoven is said to have replied, ‘because Smith Square, in a chamber music programme serious introduction marked ‘Sostenuto’, considerable resoluteness and emotional Fribbins will be ‘The Zong Affair’ on May Philharmonic halls with great success, the Eighth is so much better’. The work is with the Hungarian violist Eniko Magyar, featuring powerful unison F minor chords. intensity, and the score is prefaced with the 15th, with the Turner Ensemble in the London and the world premiere of Gubaidulina’s joyous and exuberant, but not lightweight, performing music by Joachim and Schumann, This soon builds to a dramatic and exciting following lines by Omar Khayyám (1048- Chamber Music Series at the new Kings Place Sonnengesang, with Rostropovich on partly because of the nature of the musical sonatas by Brahms and Shostakovich and Allegro, eventually culminating in the major 1131), as translated by Edward FitzGerald: concert hall. solo . His performances have material and also because all four another premiere of music by Peter Fribbins, key, with triumphant fanfares in the brass, included the Vilnius Festival, the The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, movements present moderate to fast tempi, the new ‘Two Fantasias for Viola & Piano’. flourishes in the piccolo, and affirmative Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit and so the symphony has a consistent Forbach, Reims and Berlioz festivals in chords in wind and strings. INTERVAL (20 minutes) ANGELA WHELAN (solo trumpet) Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, forward momentum that never slackens. France, Perelada in Spain, and the studied the trumpet at the Royal Scottish Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. The dance-like first movement opens with Reingau and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Academy of Music and Drama in her And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, a powerful arresting initial theme in the festivals in Germany, as well as tours of native Scotland and in 1995 became the Whereunder crawling coop’t we live and die, Concerto for Piano, violins, balanced by a more lyrical and Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Latvia. Of Lift not thy hands to It for help - for It first female brass player in twenty years Trumpet and Strings Op.35 Italianate second theme. It has often been his 2002 Berlin peformance, Der v to win the coveted gold medal for the Rolls impotently on as Thou or I. said that the light-hearted second Tagesspiegel remarked that ‘…Servenikas DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) Shell/LSO Music Scholarship. In 1996, The first movement is the most substantial, movement was inspired by the recent is a conductor of international class.’ v the year of her graduation, she followed beginning with a Df pedal in low strings and invention of the metronome by Johann Servenikas has also conducted the Cairo, I Allegretto this by taking first prize in the a short lachrymose viola melody from which Maelzel. It is also somewhat like the famous Frankfurt, St. Petersburg Philharmonic II Lento International Brass Explosion Trumpet movement in the ‘Clock Symphony’ by and Russian Symphony Orchestras and III Moderato – Allegro con brio Competition. As a soloist she has given Beethoven’s former teacher, . worked with many of the world’s great recitals all around the world, from The first of Dmitri Shostakovich’s two piano The third movement is unusual in that it soloists including Gering, Rostropovich, London’s Wigmore Hall, to the Sydney PETER FRIBBINS was born in London, winning a composition concertos was composed between March presents another dance in addition to the Dindo, trumpeter Maurice Andre, Opera House, and has played concertos scholarship to the before further studies and July 1933, immediately following the scherzo second movement, this time a trombonist Christian Lindberg, violinists with many of the UK’s leading orchestras with the German composer Hans Werner Henze in London and Italy. completion of the 24 Preludes for solo minuet, already somewhat anachronistic by Fedotov, Grubert, Graffin and Katilius, the such as the Philharmonia, London His music is frequently performed throughout the UK, Europe and piano, Op.34. It was premiered in October this time in the nineteenth century. This pianists Rubackytò, Geniusas,v Pletniov, Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish beyond and is popular with audiences and many high-profile 1933 by the Leningrad Philharmonic minuet is a more ‘earthy’ example than Macujev, and many more. Symphony Orchestra and Royal Scottish musicians who enjoy playing his work. As the Czech musicologist Orchestra, with the composer at the piano. many of the elegant Viennese examples and National Orchestra. Angela now features and critic Milosv Pokora wrote, following a recent performance by the The scoring of piano, solo trumpet and has a glorious trio section for solo horns DIANA BREKALO (solo piano) was regularly as trumpet soloist in Raymond Rosamunde at Dvorak Hall in Prague: ‘As one of the group strings in unusual and the work’s four and . The Finale is the most brought up in Stuttgart, and is of Croatian Gubbay’s festivals around the UK and of English composers primarily striving to develop the compositional line pursued by movements (the third is more of a prelude substantial of the four movements, and is in descent. Formative studies in Germany since 2008 has been Principal Trumpet Britten and Tippett, he has the matchless gift of melodic invention and a sense of to the Finale) feel more like a single a very quick tempo. Soon after the quiet revealed her talents not only as an with the London Chamber Orchestra. dramatic agitation. Fribbins has a penchant for drawing inspiration from original themes of extended movement with sections, albeit scurrying string opening, Beethoven wittily imaginative and thoughtful solo pianist, a literary nature, yet his compositions create the impression of straightforward with many widely dramatic contrasts of presents the audience with the sudden loud but also as a notable accompanist and communicativeness and are extremely popular and sought-after’. Reviewing ‘I Have the mood. The solo trumpet often takes the ‘wrong’ note of a unison Cs: this becomes a fine chamber musician, most recently as Serpent Brought, a recent Guild CD of his Chamber Music for Strings, Barnaby Rayfield role of supplying ironic interjections to the feature of this extended sonata-rondo duo partner to Mezzo-Soprano Mae commented: ‘Fribbins is a confident, young voice in composition… alternately wistful, piano’s endeavours and there are movement, which casts a powerful and Heydorn and violist Eniko Magyar. By the savage, respectful of tradition, and yet also playful.’ As well as a composer, Peter Fribbins numerous witty quotes and parodies, triumphant ending to the whole symphony. age of twelve, Diana Brekalo had already is Director of Music at Middlesex University and Artistic Director of the celebrated and including passages from his own music, won four first prizes as a soloist and two long-established series of Sunday London Chamber Music Society Concerts, resident at Haydn, Beethoven, and the Austrian folk- as a chamber musician in the German the new Kings Place concert hall. song ‘Ach du lieber Augustin’. The slow ‘Jugend Musiziert’, and her precocious