Shaldon Festival 2006
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Choral Workshop and Informal Concert 2006 directed by Ronald Corp
Royal College of Music Junior Department
Richard Studt and The Sinfonietta
Allegri String Quartet
Concert
Sunday 18 June 2006
Allegri String Quartet
Daniel Rowland First Violin
Rafael Todes Second Violin
Dorothea Vogel Viola
Pal Banda Cello
Programme
Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 1 Op. 49
Beethoven: String Quartet in F Op. 18/1
Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11
An attentive audience of music lovers packed St Peter’s Church in Shaldon for a concert given by the world-renowned Allegri String Quartet.
These fine musicians, concluding four days of exciting and varied music arranged for the annual Shaldon Music Festival, provided a faultless programme drawn from three very different but extraordinary composers. They began with Shostakovich’s first chamber quartet, which revealed a playful and more lyrical side of the 20th century Russian than is apparent in his later works.
This was followed by Beethoven’s String Quartet in F, a marvellous canvas of emotions, particularly in the second adagio movement, where the empathy between these virtuosic performers was an edge-of-the-seat experience.
After the interval, listeners were treated to the rich and inventive melodies of Tchaikovsky which, in the perfect acoustic of St Peter’s, filled the church with a gorgeous mesh of sound. The exuberant final movement showed off the players’ abilities to perfection, particularly first violinist Daniel Rowland, whose unison passages with the cello were breathtaking.
The quartet was not allowed to leave without an encore, a complete contrast in the form of a slow movement by Mozart.
This is the 17th Shaldon Festival. It has proved once more to be a box of musical delights attracting audiences and musicians from far and wide.
Glenn Price
Choral Workshop and Informal Concert 2006 directed by Ronald Corp
Choral Workshop
Saturday 17 June 2006
Choral Workshop and Informal Performance
Conductor: Ronald Corp
Baritone: Benedict Nelson
Programme
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Ronald Corp: Missa San Marco
Royal College of Music Junior Department
Type: Concert
Date: Friday 16 June 2006
Royal College of Music Junior Department
Programme:
Christina Sweeney-Bird: Harp
JS Bach arr Grandjany: Sarabande from Violin Partita No. 1
Mayer: Sonata in G minor
David Watkins: Petite Suite
Tournier: Etude de Concert – Au Matin
Nicholas Brown: Double Bass
François Rabbath: Ode D’Espagne
François Rabbath: Ibérique Péninsulaire
JS Bach: Prelude to Cello Suite in G major
Nicholas Brown: Double Bass and Rachel Ridout: Saxophone
JS Bach: Inventions in G minor & in F major
Gareth Woods: Two Pieces for Soprano saxophone and Double Bass (2006) – World Première
Saxophone Ensemble:
Farkas: Hungarian Dances
Jim Parker arr. Luke Marzec-Smith: Billie’s Bounce
Ulrich Schultheiss: Time Out
Karen Street: Carnival
Philip Buttall: The Lone Ar-ranger
Richard Studt and The Sinfonietta
Concert
Thursday 15 June 2006
Richard Studt & The Sinfonietta
Programme:
Mozart: Symphony No. 15 in G major K124
Pärt: Fratres
Poulenc: Organ Concerto
Mozart: Serenata Notturno
Albinoni: Adagio in G minor
Haydn: Symphony No. 49 ‘La Passione’
The Sifonietta is a professional chamber orchestra residing in the South West of England dedicated to serving audiences regardless of location and size of venue. Many of the Orchestra’s members are from the Bournemouth Sinfonietta with some distinguished guests. The thirty-year history of fine concert giving and recording still commands the loyalty and devotion of audiences around the region; their proud tradition continues under the leadership of Richard Studt.