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The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Trustees' Report The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts For the year ended 31 March 2019 Registered Charity number 1156614 The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Year ended 31 March 2019 Reference and administrative details Registered Charity 1156614 Honorary President Sir Andrew Davis CBE Honorary Vice-Presidents Stephen Connock MBE Joyce Kennedy Trustees Simon Coombs Chairman John Francis Vice-Chairman and Treasurer Chairman, Albion Records Martin Murray Secretary Mark Hammett Membership Officer Director, Albion Records Graham Muncy Information Officer William Hedley Journal Editor Graham Aslet Dorking and Leith Hill Place Liaison Officer Roy Bexon Members’ meetings including the AGM John Treadway Concert Resources Officer William Vann Music Consultant and performer Laura Coombs (died 26 October 2018) Marketing Jonathan Pearson Discography Christopher Batt Leith Hill Place exhibition adviser Gaye Hadley (from 27 April 2019) Merchandising Ronald Grames (from 27 April 2019) Critical Discography Officers Karen Fletcher Publicity and Events Principal office c/o John Francis North House, 198 High Street Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1BE Bankers Barclays Bank plc PO Box 33 Oxford OX1 3HS Independent Examiner Trevor Lane Director in M N Jenks & Co Limited 72 Commercial Road, Paddock Wood Kent TN12 6DP Website www.rvwsociety.com 1 The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Review of activities and outlook for the coming year Membership Our membership currently comprises 897 members from 23 countries worldwide; an increase of 12 members when compared to the same time last year. The stability of membership numbers indicates that our Society continues to provide a valuable service to its large and loyal group of supporters. Thirty of our original members from June 1994 are still with us, this perhaps being a testament to the quality of the Society’s offering, with the Journal quite rightly being regarded as best-in-class. We offer our sincere thanks to members for their continued support. Albion Records Albion Records had an outstanding year. Members and supporters were generous with financial support, and sales (especially of our Christmas recording) were good. So Albion enters the new accounting year in good shape. In September 2018 we released Earth and Sky: Vaughan Williams Choral Premières with the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, conducted by William Vann, and Hugh Rowlands at the organ. James Altena wrote in Fanfare Magazine: ‘It is a magnificent ensemble, truly one of the best choral groups I’ve ever heard for vocal blend and clarity of diction, among other musical virtues.’ The recording was highly praised on Radio 3, and appeared in the UK Specialist Classical Chart. A Vaughan Williams Christmas, made by the same forces, was well-reviewed everywhere – there are some extracts on the Society’s website - with praise for the choir, its director, the producer and engineer and even the booklet notes. We had to print more copies, ready for next Christmas! In May 2019 we released Viola Fantasia - the complete works for Viola and Piano played by Martin Outram and Julian Rolton – with Mark Padmore joining them to record the Four Hymns for Tenor, Viola and Piano. Hugh Canning wrote in the Sunday Times ‘The Maggini Quartet’s viola player, Martin Outram, has put together a rare and beautiful programme of less familiar Vaughan Williams. The Suite for Viola and Pianoforte, written for Lionel Tertis, is unjustly neglected, but works well in this piano reduction, and it is complemented by the Romance. The neglected Four Hymns are given vivid, trenchantly enunciated performances by the tenor Padmore.’ We have recorded two discs of songs by Vaughan Williams and Holst (the latter in conjunction with the Holst Society) with William Vann, piano, Jack Liebeck, violin, Mary Bevan, soprano, Kitty Whately, mezzo soprano and Roderick Williams, baritone. The Song of Love and Time and Space will be released in September and October 2019. In 2015 we made a “sampler” disc, Albion’s Vision - mainly for giving away to members, though we also sell them world-wide – and we put these into the new members’ “Welcome Pack”. In October 2019 we will be issuing a further compilation, Albion’s Journey, updating the story. 2 The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Review of activities and outlook for the coming year This autumn we shall be recording songs and piano works by Vaughan Williams’s pupil John Sykes, with Keri Fuge, soprano, Gareth Brynmor John, baritone, and William Vann, piano. The songs are all settings from William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ and the collection will be called The Voice of the Bard. Other events and performances The Songs of Travel (performed by Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside) were a major item in the last of the Woodbridge Chamber concerts, a series curated over many years by Society trustee John Treadway. A Vaughan Williams Festival took place in August 2018 at Down Ampney under the artistic direction of Philip Dukes. One of the highlights was James Gilchrist singing The Songs of Travel on the 60th anniversary of the composer’s death. Another highlight was the ‘Ralph Vaughan Williams’ beer brewed for the occasion by nearby Ramsbury Brewery, which made up for some heavy rain. Plans are under way for a similar festival in 2020. The newly formed ‘Vaughan Williams Singers’ celebrated that 60th anniversary with their inaugural concert at Leith Hill Place. Also in August, English Music Festival performed Nocturne and The House of Life at their Yorkshire festival. Proms performances in 2018 included Toward the Unknown Region, The Lark Ascending, the Pastoral and London Symphonies and Dona Nobis Pacem. The Society’s concert on the composer’s birthday, 12 October 2018, at St Stephen’s Church, Gloucester Road, London, launched Albion’s Earth and Sky recording. Gareth Brynmor John joined the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea directed by William Vann to sing the Five Mystical Songs; we also heard the Three Vocal Valses, the Three Gaelic Songs and Valiant for Truth. More than forty performances of Dona Nobis Pacem took place as the 1918 Armistice was remembered. The English Music Festival showcased works by Vaughan Williams including Suite de ballet, In Windsor Forest and the Charterhouse Suite. The Pilgrim’s Progress was performed by students at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester. There were numerous performances of the symphonies in the UK during the year, conducted by John Wilson, Sir Mark Elder, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Manze, Jeremy Backhouse, Marc Dooley and others. Overseas performances included our President, Sir Andrew Davis, conducting the Fifth Symphony in Boston, Sylvain Gasançon with the Fifth Symphony in Mexico City, Sir Mark Elder with the Pastoral Symphony in Washington, James Judd with the Fifth Symphony in Tenerife, Michael Francis with the London Symphony in Reutlingen, Albrecht Mayer (oboe) and Pietari Inkinen with the Oboe Concerto in Prague, Cristian Măcelaru with the Fourth Symphony in Munich (as well as Birmingham), and Jonathan Webb with the Fifth Symphony in Santiago de Compostela. This selection has been made to illustrate the composer’s ever-growing international standing; it would not be possible to list all significant performances. Media Holst and Vaughan Williams - Making Music English was a major BBC broadcast presented by Amanda Vickery and Tom Service, partly filmed at Leith Hill Place. Illustrating the story, the BBC Concert Orchestra performed excerpts of both composers' music. Crux Productions released John Bridcut's Vaughan Williams film-biography The Passions of Vaughan Williams on DVD. 3 The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society Review of activities and outlook for the coming year New recordings In addition to the Albion recordings, 53 works by Vaughan Williams were recorded by other record labels during the year (not including a number of reissues). The number reduces to 44 if we remove works recorded more than once. They were made by 31 different performing groups and spread across 29 discs issued by 20 labels! A number of these are available only as downloads, and this emphasizes how the market is changing. Of particular importance were: • Martin Yates’s disc with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra including the first recording of incidental music that Vaughan Williams wrote for Maeterlinsk’s play The Blue Bird, as well as Norfolk March (a work that the Society commissioned from David Matthews), Variations for Orchestra and an EFDS Masque. • A Sea Symphony recorded by Martyn Brabbins with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and by Andrew Manze with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The recording of the Oboe and Piano Concertos by Sarah Jeffrey (oboe) and Louis Lortie (piano) with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra was nominated for a Grammy Award. The Vaughan Williams Exhibition at Leith Hill Place The redesigned and relocated exhibition on the life of Vaughan Williams was completed in time for the re-opening of Leith Hill Place at the end of March 2018. The exhibition attracted favourable comment from visitors during 2018, but when the house closed at the end of October it was decided to make some minor changes to the arrangement of one of the exhibition rooms to allow for the possibility of adding new items to the exhibition. At the end of March 2019 a baton used by RVW and a pair of his spectacles, previously displayed at the Surrey Performing Arts Library at Denbies, were added to the collection. The Chairman has received from the Thewlis Trust a number of historic items, including material relating to a performance of Sir John in Love that took place in Oxford in 1930, that may be added to the exhibition during 2019. The National Trust has been preparing a long-term development plan for the future uses of Leith Hill Place and the Society remains in close contact with the Visitor Operations Manager to ensure as far as possible that the life and work of RVW continues to be celebrated in his childhood home.
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