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Music from the Golden Age of Italian Splendour Contents 03 Chair’S Welcome Somerset Chamber Choir with Southern Sinfonia Saturday 28 July 2018 Wells Cathedral Music from the golden age of Italian splendour Contents 03 Chair’s welcome 03 Chair’s welcome On behalf of Somerset Chamber Choir, 05 Friends may I offer you the warmest of welcomes! 06 Programme 08 Texts and notes One of the highlights of the year for our choir 12 Biographies members is the opportunity to sing in the 24 Next concert glorious Cathedral Church of St Andrew in Wells. There is something very special about making music, with old friends and new, in a place which has been the focus of worship and celebration for over 800 years. Wells Cathedral has echoed to the sound of great music down the centuries performed by some of the best loved and most acclaimed professional musicians from around the world. We are delighted that you are able to join us this evening for our performance of ‘Music from the golden age of Italian splendour’. All of the works in tonight’s concert were written within a single decade but each is very different from the other. We hope there will be something here for everyone to savour and that you will enjoy both the familiar and less familiar musical offerings. Our fervent hope is that you share Please note that photography (with or without flash) and/or recording of any sort during the performance is forbidden without the prior written consent our enthusiasm for this great music and that of the Dean and Chapter and Somerset Chamber Choir. The right is reserved, without incurring liability, to substitute artists and you will return to our future exciting concerts to vary the programme for reasons beyond our control, although these details which are listed later in this programme! are correct at the time of going to print. Somerset Chamber Choir Dame Emma Kirkby Patron somersetchamberchoir.org.uk Chris Cutting, Anthony Leigh, Registered Charity 1003687 Adrian Male Vice-Presidents 04 Finally, if you would like to sing with us in the 05 Friends of Somerset Chamber Choir future or become involved in helping us to run The choir is most appreciative of the support it gets from its Friends (see our and develop the choir, we would love to hear current supporters below) without whom it would be difficult, if not financially impossible, to stage our performances. Every bit of our Friends’ annual donations from you so do get in touch. goes directly into our end product – our concerts. From venue hire, music hire, orchestras and soloists – there is so much to bring together to arrive at concert day – so much to do, though also not forgetting Adrian Male how much the costs are adding up! You will appreciate why we value our Friends so much, not only for their Chair of Trustees, financial support but their familiar faces in our audiences – ‘Friends’ in every sense of the word. Perhaps you too feel you would like to support us and help Somerset Chamber Choir keep our diverse music-making going? No better way, then, than joining our Friends Scheme! Our scheme offers five membership levels, each with a different range of benefits. As a member you will receive: ¶ Your name in concert programmes ¶ The opportunity to get the best seats in the house with an exclusive priority booking period ¶ An invitation for you and your guests to post-concert drinks with the choir ¶ Twice-yearly newsletter and free mailing of advance publicity In addition, members of the upper levels of the scheme receive superb extra benefits such as free or discounted concert tickets for themselves and their guests, and free concert programmes. Subscription levels start from just £10 per annum, so you can choose the level of support that suits you best – whichever level you choose, be assured that each and every Friend is equally important to us. You can become a Friend, or find out more, online at our website somersetchamberchoir.org.uk; by email to our Friends Scheme Manager, Lin Winston [email protected]; or by post to Lin Winston, 3 Parkland Drive, Campion Meadow, Exeter, Devon, EX2 5RX. Acknowledgements Members of the Friends Scheme This concert takes place by kind permission of the Dean and Chapter. Honorary Great Friends. Sue & James Okell Robert & Shaune We are very grateful for the support we receive from our Patron, Dame Life Friend. Mr & Mrs David DGD O’Neil Roe Shearer Mrs Dorothy Tullett Brandhuber Audrey Pillar Marie & Mike Emma Kirkby, and from our Vice-Presidents Chris Cutting, Anthony Leigh Tony Palmer Liz & Patrick Rendell Simmonds and Adrian Male. Corporate Friends. Dr Aideen Perry Mrs JM Satchwell MG & JH Willbourn Programme notes were written by Richard Laing; the programme was Christophers Shirley Rossiter Mrs Janet Stubbins Chartered Surveyors Mrs Janet Stallard Friends. compiled and edited by Wendy Baskett and designed by Neil Tinson mistd. Mrs Ann Tucker Friends Together. Mrs Tosh Arscott Production was co-ordinated by Janice Collins. Proofreading was done by Best Friends. Mr & Mrs AF Bell Mrs Ros Broad Tim Lewis. Mr & Mrs MJL Good Friends. Robin & Noreen Mrs Dylys Crabtree Armstrong Mr Martin Adams Cullup Mr Frank Curtiss We acknowledge with thanks the assistance of Yeovil Library and their Christopher J Cutting Ian & Pam Anderton Mr & Mrs RG Derrick Ed Elderton Performing Arts division in sourcing and loaning the music used in this concert. Mrs John Greswell Gill Bracey & Mr & Mrs HG Dolling Mrs Margaret Gibbins Anthony Leigh Tony Gelsthorpe Keith & Molly Farmer Ann Jeffery Tim & Maggie Lewis Rowley Cantello Mr & Mrs J Gathard Anne Mitchell Martin & Gill Parker Revd David Fletcher Michael & Angela Sally Pinder Michael & Margaret Brian & Mary Leigh Hawkins Jill Rogers Stocks Brian & Cynthia HC & KM Lewis Jane Swinyard Mindel John & Annette Neate Mrs Ruth Tucker Heather Noel-Smith Mr David Watson 06 Programme 07 Somerset Chamber Choir Alessandro Scarlatti Salve Regina in F minor Southern Sinfonia (1660–1725) i Salve Regina Wells Cathedral ii Ad te clamamus 7pm, Saturday 28 July 2018 iii Ad te suspiramus iv Eia ergo April Fredrick Soprano v Et Jesum Cathy Bell Mezzo-soprano vi O clemens Steve Lee Trumpet vii Agnus Dei Richard Laing Conductor Domenico Scarlatti Stabat Mater (1685–1757) Paradisi Gloria Interval 15 minutes Music from the golden age Giuseppe Tartini Trumpet Concerto in D (1692–1770) i Allegro of Italian splendour ii Andante iii Allegretto grazioso The four works presented here tonight were Antonio Vivaldi Gloria in D, RV589 (1678–1741) i Gloria in excelsis Deo all written within a ten-year period by Italian ii Et in terra pax hominibus iii Laudamus te composers at the height of their powers, yet they iv Gratias agimus tibi are each as different from the other as the works v Propter magnam gloriam vi Domine Deus of Brahms and Wagner. The early 18th century vii Domine Fili Unigenite viii Domine Deus, Agnus Dei was a golden age for music in the courts and ix Qui tollis peccata mundi x Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris cathedrals of Rome, Naples and Venice, which xi Quoniam tu solus Sanctus would never again be equalled. We hope this xii Cum Sancto Spiritu evening to give a flavour of the astonishing expressive power of these great Italian masters. After the concert, the choir looks forward to meeting members of the Friends Scheme and their guests in Wells Town Hall, located in nearby Market Place. 08 Texts and notes 09 was working at the Vatican and itching to break free of his father’s overbearing influence. It is an astonishingly richly-textured and virtuosic work which could be argued to be the most expressive piece of Baroque music ever written. Alessandro Scarlatti Salve Regina in F minor Stabat Mater dolorosa The grieving Mother stood weeping juxta crucem lacrimosa, beside the cross where her Son was hanging. Founder of the so-called ‘Neapolitan’ school of composition, Alessandro Scarlatti dum pendebat Filius. spent most of his life in Naples and in Rome in various court appointments despite his humble origins, working for several enlightened and forward-looking patrons. Cujus animam gementem, Through her weeping soul, He wrote nearly 700 cantatas as well as 20 oratorios and 115 operas, of which about contristatam et dolentem compassionate and grieving, a sword passed. 70 survive. He greatly developed opera as an art form, taking it to new expressive pertransivit gladius. heights which profoundly influenced subsequent generations, though his own music was neglected after his death and only came back into fashion during the O quam tristis et afflicta O how sad and afflicted, twentieth century. fuit illa benedicta, was that blessed Mother of the Only-begotten! Scarlatti’s range of emotional expression is evident in the beautiful Salve Mater Unigeniti! Regina in F minor, scored for soprano and alto soloists, two violins and continuo. It is one of the composer’s four settings of the same text, and perhaps the finest, Quae mœrebat et dolebat, who mourned and grieved, the pious Mother, creating a particularly intimate atmosphere. pia Mater, dum videbat looking at the torment of her glorious Child. nati pœnas inclyti. Salve, Regina, Mater misericordiæ, Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy, Quis est homo qui Who is the person who would not weep vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve. our life, our sweetness and our hope. non fleret, seeing the Mother of Christ in such agony? Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevæ, To you do we cry, poor banished Christi Matrem si videret children of Eve. in tanto supplicio? Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes To you do we send up our sighs, in hac lacrimarum valle. mourning and weeping in this vale Quis non posset contristari Who would not be able to feel compassion of tears.
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