British Harpsichord Society

Members’ Diary

May - July 2008

MAY 2008

FRIDAY 16^TH MAY at 1.00p.m.

St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ

BAROQUE ENCOUNTERS

Participants from Ton Koopman masterclass.

Programme to be announced.

Information: www.smitf.org Tel: 020 7766 1100

Admission free

FRIDAY 16^TH MAY at 7.30p.m.

Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music, Marylebone Road, London NW1 5HT

NANCY NUTTALL EARLY MUSIC PRIZE

Generously supported by Nancy Nuttall, for historically-informed performances of pre-1800 chamber music.

Information: www.ram.ac.uk/events

Tickets: Free, no tickets required

SATURDAY 17^TH MAY at 4.30p.m.

St. John’s, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA

KNOCK’D ON THE HEAD (Concordia: directed by Mark Levy,Susanne Heinrich, Joanna Levine, Emilia Benjamin, Reiko Ichise and Alison McGillivray: viols, Gary Cooper: organ,harpsichord, with Elin Manahan Thomas: soprano)

William Lawes’s powerful Setts, or suites as we would call them, were written in the shadow of the impending Civil War, in which Lawes was to lose his life. Every page reveals the passionate boldness of a musician far removed from the majority who “chose rather to fiddle at home, than to goe out , and be knock’d on the head abroad.” Alongside two of Lawes’ Setts, the programme includes show-stopping songs by his great successor Henry Purcell, and an unexpected early piece of programme music, John Jenkins’ description in music of the 1646 Siege of Newark.

Information: www.sjss.org.uk Tel: 020 72221061

Tickets: £15, £12, £9, £6

SATURDAY 17^TH MAY at 7.30p.m.

Wollaton Hall, Wollaton, Nottingham

THE LAST ROSE OF SUMMER Musica Donum Dei(Michael Sanderson: baritone/violin, Katharine May: fortepiano, Wendy Hancock: flute, Ian Gammie: early guitar)

A programme of music and readings to evoke the atmosphere at Wollaton Hall in its early 19^th century heyday with music by Thomas Moore, Haydn and Schubert.

Information: Wollaton Hall 0115 9153920 open 9.30a.m. – 4p.m.

Tickets: £12.50 (include a glass of wine)

SUNDAY 18^TH MAY at 11.00a.m.

Orange Tree Theatre, 1 Clarence Street, Richmond, Surrey TW9 2SA

VIVA VIVALDI! (Duo Dorado. Hazel Brooks: violin and David Pollock: harpsichord)

A musical journey to 18^th Century Italy in the company of Vivaldi, Scarlatti and contemporaries.

Information: www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk

Box Office: 020 8940 3633

Tickets: £13 (£11 concessions)

SUNDAY 18^TH MAY at 11.15a.m.

Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford

THE BURNEY PLAYERS (Ian Wilson:recorder, Katarzyna Tomczak: harpsichord and Harriet Wiltshire: cello)

Programme to include Handel, Corelli and Geminiani.

Information: www.ticketsoxford.com

Box Office: 01865 305305 (The Oxford Playhouse)

Tickets: £9, £8 concessions (Free admission to children 5 – 10 years accompanied by an adult)

SUNDAY 18^TH MAY at 11.45a.m.

Courtyard Theatre, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Altwood Road, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 4PF

GOLDBERG VARIATIONS (Gary Cooper: harpsichord)

Gary Cooper plays J.S.Bach Goldberg Variations BWV 988

Information: www.nordenfarm.org

Box Office: 01628 788997

Tickets: £8 (£5 under 16s)

SUNDAY 18^TH MAY at 2.30 – 5.30p.m.

Courtyard Theatre, Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Altwood Road, Maidenhead, Berks SL6 4PF

BAROQUE CHAMBER MUSIC MASTERCLASS with Gary Cooper

Listeners welcome.

Information: www.nordenfarm.org

Box Office: 01628 788997

Tickets: £5

FRIDAY 23^RD MAY at 1.15p.m.

Gallery 3, Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington St., Cambridge CB2 1RB

HIS LORDSHIP’S DELIGHT (4) (Dr. Gerald Gifford: harpsichord)

Treasures of Georgian harpsichord music from the Fitzwilliam collection. Music by J.C.Bach, Stanley, Alberti, A.Scarlatti and F.Conti (arr. W.Babell), Bononcini, Burton, introduced and played by Dr. Gerald Gifford (Honorary Keeper of Music) on his own Shudi & Broadwood harpsichord, c.1775, now on long-term loan to the Museum.

Information: www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

Tickets: Admission free

WEDNESDAY 28^TH MAY at 12 noon

Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, Guildford, Surrey GU4 7RT

PAWEL SIWCZAK – harpsichord

Pawel Siwczak won the Broadwood Harpsichord Competition 2007 at Fenton House and in 2006 the Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial Prize. Pawel graduated with honours from the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and is pursuing an MMus at the RAM. Programme includes Sweelinck, Hassler, Froberger, Warsaw tablature, Scheidemann, Weckmann, Frescobaldi.

Information: www.cobbecollection.co.uk Tel: 01483 211474

Tickets: £10

FRIDAY 30^TH MAY at 10.30a.m.

Invention Studios, Lower Borough Walls, Bath BA1 1QR

BATH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC

(Carole Cerasi: harpsichord)

Music by Handel, Couperin, Fargion, Balbastre and Scarlatti

Information: www.bathmusicfest.org.uk

Box Office: 01225 463362

Tickets: £10 (concessions available)

JUNE 2008

MONDAY 2^ND JUNE at 1.00p.m.

St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ

ORGAN RECITAL (Sean Heath: organ)

Programme: Bach, Brahm, Nicolas de Grigny and Franck

Information: www.smitf.org

Free admission (suggested donation of £3.50)

TUESDAY 3^RD JUNE at 1.05p.m.

Fairfield Halls, Croydon, Surrey

DUO DORADO (Hazel Brooks: violinist and David Pollock: harpsichord)

Programme to be confirmed

Information: www.fairfield.co.uk

Box office: 020 8688 9291

Tickets: £5

WEDNESDAY 4^TH JUNE at 12 noon

Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, Guildford GU4 7RT

SOPRANO AND VIRGINALS (Katherine Fuge: soprano and David McGuinness: virginals)

Programme includes songs by Purcell, Monro, Young, Oswald, Gibbons, Arne, D.Purcell, Leveridge and Suite No. 6 in D (A Choice Collection of Lessons 1696) by Purcell and Suite in D minor (A Choice Collection of Lessons 1698) by Blow.

Enquiries: 01483 211474

For ticket availability: www.cobbecollection.co.uk

Tickets: £10

FRIDAY 6^TH JUNE at 7.30p.m.

Ripley Arts Centre, 24 Sundridge Avenue, Bromley, Kent BR1 2PX

HARPSICHORD RECITAL (Gilbert Rowland: harpsichord)

Programme: Suite in A major (HWV 454) Handel, Sonatas K115.116.427.270.271.387 Scarlatti, Inventions Set 1 (1955) Stephen Dodgson, Ordre No 6 in B flat Couperin, Sonatas Rubio nos: 4,125,130 Soler.

Information: 020 8464 5816

Tickets: £9 (concessions £6)

FRIDAY 6^TH JUNE at 7.30p.m. (Supper 6.15p.m. – pre-book)

Chittlehampton Parish Church, East Street, Chittlehampton, Devon EX37 9QL

A BAROQUE MUSICAL FEAST! Duo Dorado (Hazel Brooks: violin and David Pollock: harpsichord)

Sumptuous sonatas, rich melodies and tantalising counterpoint from eighteenth-century Europe. Corelli, Bonporti, Scarlatti, Telemann, Handel and Bach.

Information: www.beaford-arts.co.uk

Booking: 01769 540581/887

Tickets: £10 inc. supper, £7 concert

SATURDAY 7^TH JUNE at 7.30p.m.

St. Michael’s Church, Framlingham, Suffolk

BACH AT WEIMAR & EAST ANGLIAN ORGAN MUSIC OF THE 18^TH CENTURY (Dr. Gerald Gifford: organ)

A celebration of the 300^th anniversary of the Thamar organ’s arrival in Framlingham from Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Enquiries: Tel. 01728 724456

Tickets: £10 on door. £9 pre-booked. Students £4

TUESDAY 10^TH JUNE at 6.30p.m.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

A BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

MELANCHOLIE, PLAINTE AND LAMENTATION (Michele Benuzzi: harpsichord)

Music by J.J. Froberger, M. Weeckmann, Ch. Ritter. Demonstrating the expressive potential of the harpsichord and the central role of “teoria degli affetti” in 17^th Century music.

Information: www.handelhouse.org

Tickets: £7 Tel: 0207 3991953

Everyone is welcome to join us for refreshments at a local hostelry after the recital.

WEDNESDAY 11^TH JUNE at 12 noon

Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, Guildford GU4 7RT

BACH VIOLIN AND HARPSICHORD SONATAS (Nadja Zwiener: violin and Kasia Tomczak: harpsichord)

Bach’s Sonata in A, BWV 1015, Sonata in B minor, BWV 1014, Sonata in G, BWV 1019

For ticket availability: www.cobbecollection.co.uk

Tickets: £10

SATURDAY 21^ST JUNE at 2p.m.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

A BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY EVENT

BACH PARTITAS (Sharon Gould, young professionals and advanced students from London and Manchester: harpsichord)

Sharon Gould will launch and direct an afternoon to present Bach’s Six Partitas for harpsichord, in which she will be joined by young professionals and advanced students from London and Manchester. Sharon’s experience of interpreting and performing Bach is widely acknowledged and her work with young performers at the Royal Northern College of Music promises a lively and fascinating afternoon.

Sharon’s performance of Bach’s 6^th Partita at Handel House in December brought the following comments from the British Harpsichord Society review ‘…..the inspiring impression that this recital left is of the combination of qualities that it demonstrated: technical command, of course; but also the witchcraft that makes a harpsichord sing – and sing in different voices – so beautifully; and with all that performer’s musicality was combined a teacher’s ability to communicate while she plays, to enact the sense by revealing the structure.’

She will be on hand to discuss the performance puzzles and problems of these challenging works and also to share the many joys that they inspire in both player and listener.

Information: www.handelhouse.org

Tel: 0207 3991953

Tickets: £7

TUESDAY 24^TH JUNE at 1.00p.m.

St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 4JJ

HARPSICHORD RECITAL (Sean Heath: Harpsichord)

Programme includes works by Bach, Bull, Scarlatti and Handel.

Information: www.smitf.org Tel: 020 7766 1100

Admission free (suggested donation of £3.50)

WEDNESDAY 25^TH JUNE at 7.00p.m.

Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, Guildford GU4 7RT

DAVITT MORONEY – RUCKERS HARPSICHORD (Davitt Moroney: harpsichord)

Davitt Moroney plays the recently restored Ruckers-Hemsch harpsichord. He is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley. Programme: Couperin - 17^th Ordre, 14^th Ordre, 8 Preludes from L’Art de toucher le Clavecin, 18^th Ordre.

Information: www.cobbecollection.co.uk Tel: 01483 211474

Tickets: £20

THURSDAY 26^TH JUNE from 10.00a.m. – 5.00p.m.

Durrington Room, Royal College of Music, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BS

HARPSICHORD MASTERCLASS: Davitt Moroney

Davitt Moroney is Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley.

Information: www.rcm.ac.uk

Box Office: 020 7591 4314 for further details

Tickets: Free entry

THURSDAY 26^TH JUNE at 7.00p.m.

Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, Guildford, GU4 7RT

THE BACH PLAYERS (Rodolfo Richter, Huw Daniel: violin, Nicolette Moonen: viola, Alison McGillivray: cello, William Carter: lute/guitar, Pawel Siwzcak: harpsichord)

The Bach Players is a collective of players formed in 1996 to play Bach cantatas with small forces. Recently they have been exploring Haydn’s chamber music, both in connection with Bach and other composers.

This concert connects Haydn and Boccherini to Schmelzer and Biber through their common links to Austria and explores the inspiration of folk tunes for all these composers.

Information: www.cobbecollection.co.uk Tel: 01483 211474

Tickets: £15

FRIDAY 27^TH JUNE at 9.00p.m.

St. Andrew’s Church, Rectory Lane, Ampthill, Bedfordshire

DUO DORADO (Hazel Brooks: violin and David Pollock: harpsichord)

Programme to be confirmed.

Box Office: 01525 403033

Tickets: £10 including brandy coffee served in the chapter house.

SATURDAY 28^TH JUNE at 6.00p.m.

Haslemere Museum, Haslemere, Surrey

‘THE SPIRIT OF ENTERPRISE’ – A PERSONAL TRIBUTE TO ARNOLD DOLMETSCH IN HIS 150^TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR (Gerald Gifford: harpsichord)

Transcribed works by Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, J.C.Bach, a sequence of French harpsichord music and a review of Scarlatti and his influence. Introduced and played by Gerald Gifford (Honorary Keeper, the Dolmetsch Library of Early Music) on a harpsichord by Philip Smart, Oxford 1989, after an original instrument by Hemsch.

Tickets: £17 (inclusive of wine & cheese) from the Dolmetsch Festival Office, Jesses, Grayswood Road, Haslemere, Surrey GU27 2BS. Cheques payable to ‘The Dolmetsch Foundation’ please.

JULY 2008

TUESDAY 8^TH JULY at 6.30 – 7.30p.m.

Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB

A BRITISH HARPSICHORD SOCIETY RECITAL

THE MEANING OF PARTITA (Erik Dippenaar: harpsichord)

The term ‘partita can mean several things: a piece, a variation, a set of variations or a suite. Erik Dippenaar follows the history of the partita and how the meaning of the word has transformed over the course of more than a century. Starting with Frescobaldi and looking at Froberger, Buxtehude, Kuhnau and ultimately J.S.Bach, the recital explores the evolution of this concept in the hands of influential composers.

Information: www.handelhouse.org

Tickets: £7. Tel: 0207 399 1953

Everyone is welcome to join us for refreshments at a local hostelry after the recital.

TUESDAY 8^TH JULY at 7.30p.m.

West Road Concert Hall, 11 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

J.S.BACH WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER BOOK I (Richard Egarr: harpsichord)

Box Office: 01223 503333 (Cambridge Arts Theatre)

Tickets: £14,£20,£27 including free programme

WEDNESDAY 9^TH JULY at 12 noon

Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, Guildford GU4 7RT

CAROLE CERASI – Ruckers harpsichord

Carole Cerasi will be playing the recently restored Andreas Ruckers harpsichord of 1636. Her Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre CD, recorded at Hatchlands on this instrument, won a Gramophone Award 1999; Carole Cerasi is Professor of harpsichord and fortepiano at the RAM, GSMD and at the Yehudi Menuhin School. Programme includes Krieger, Froberger, Böhm, Muffat, Bach, Couperin, Balbastre.

Information: www.cobbecollection.co.uk

Enquiries: Tel 01483 211474

Tickets: £12

WEDNESDAY 9^TH JULY at 7.00p.m.

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

J.S.BACH WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER BOOK I (Richard Egarr: harpsichord)

Information: www.wigmore-hall.org.uk

Box Office Tel: 0207 935 2141

THURSDAY 10^TH JULY

Fishbourne Roman Palace, Salthill Road, Fishbourne, Chichester, W.Sussex PO19 3QR

DUO DORADO (Hazel Brooks: violin and David Pollock: harpsichord)

Programme to be confirmed

Information: Chichester Festivities www.chifest.org.uk

SATURDAY 26^TH JULY at 3.30p.m.

Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London W1

J.S.BACH - THE ART OF FUGUE (complete) (James Johnstone: harpsichord)

Tickets: £8

THURSDAY 31^ST JULY at 12 noon

Fenton House, Hampstead Grove, London NW3 6RT

VIVA VIVALDI (Duo Dorado – Hazel Brooks: violin and David Pollock: harpsichord)

A virtuoso programme of late 17^th and 18^th century music by Corelli, Scarlatti and Vivaldi using Fenton House’s 1770 Shudi/Broadwood harpsichord.

Information www.nationaltrust.org.uk/thamesandsolentevents

Tickets: £10 Tel: 0871 527 1887