Ukraine – A Piano Portrait
Vasyl Barvinsky  [1888-1963] Two Preludes, ‘Loneliness, the Sorrow of Love’ (from Piano Cycle on Love
Levko Revutsky [1889-1977] Three Preludes Op.4, Improvisation in E flat
Boris Lyatoshinsky [1895-1968] Two Preludes on Ukrainian Folk Songs
Valentin Silvestrov [b.1937] Three Bagatelles Op.1
Viktor Kosenko   [1896-1938]        Nocturne-Fantasie Op.4
Mykola Lysenko  [1842-1912]  ‘Dumka-Shumka’ – Rhapsody No.2 on Ukrainian Themes
Sergei Bortkiewicz  [1877-1952] ‘Consolation’

£471 was collected for British-Ukrainian Aid

 

Schumann – Frauenliebe und Leben
Debussy – Chansons de Bilitis
Britten – Three folksongs

£505 was collected for the British Red Cross

 

Rupert Bawden* and David Bogle – violins
Liz Hart* and Edmund Booth – violas
Norman Starritt* and Deborah Behrman – cellos
Chris Underhill – piano
* in Fauré

£250 was collected for the National Deaf Children’s Society

 

Schumann – Frauenliebe und Leben
Debussy – Chansons de Bilitis
Britten – Three folksongs

£485 was collected for the British Red Cross

 

Part 1: Viola masterclass
for two pupils, playing Bach G maj cello suite, York Bowen Phantasy
Part 2 :“Musical thoughts and questions”
Having played together for the last thirty (!) years, Simon Crawford-Phillips and will give an open rehearsal and a chat about the music we will be performing later in the evening and many other aspects of our musical lives.
Part 3: “Powerplay(s)

Ahead of their concerts together this summer, Lawrence  and Simon Crawford-Phillips offered a programme inspired by film and theatre:

• Shostakovich Suite from the Gadfly
• Purcell Ades ‘Full Fathom Five’
• Ades Berceuse No.2
• Britten Waltz Op.6 (arr Viola)
• Turnage ‘Powerplay’
  
• Berlioz Death of Ophelia
• Prokofiev 8 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet.
  The day was punctuated by food and drink at several intervals!

£1420 was raised for The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival

 

Bach: Sarabande and Gigue from Partita for solo violin in D minor
Kodaly: Duo for Violin and Cello opus 7

£320 was raised for MIND

 

Jenny Brand (clarinet) and Rachel Neiger (piano

Saint-Saens: Clarinet Sonata
Finzi: Five Bagatelles
Weber: Clarinet Concerto no 1

£445 was raised for the RSPCA

 

Roger Jay (violin), Robert Behrman (violin / viola), Deborah Behrman (cello) and Graham Bowler and Daryl Shippey (piano)

Friskin: Phantasie Piano Trio
Fauré: Piano Quartet no 2

£664 was raised for Oxfam

 

Shirley Turner (violin), Peter Mallinson (viola) and Richard Pearce (piano)

Mozart: Variations on “ah, vous dirai-je maman”
Hollaender: 6 Character Pieces
Klughardt: Schilflieder
Letanka: Agree to Disagree

£575 was raised for Cruse Bereavement Support

 

Daisy Harrison (flute) and Maya Crawford Phillips (violin) with Anita D’Attellis (piano)

Chaminade – Concertino for flute op 107
Ian Clarke – Hypnosis
Doppler – Hungarian Pastoral Fantasie
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Ysaye – Second solo violin sonata – Danse des Ombres, Les Furies
Franck – Violin Sonata

£527 was raised for The Turnbull Fund supporting young musicians at Maidenhead Music Society

A fascinating exploration of this last great chamber work of Benjamin Britten followed by a performance from memory by the quartet from all corners of the barn immersing the audience in the music

Thomas Aldren and Gemma Sharples – violin, Francesca Gilbert – viola and Anna Menzies – cello

£455 was raised for the UNICEF appeal for Gaza

Martinu – Trio for flute, cello and piano
Dring  – Trio for flute, violin and piano
Schumann – PIano trio no 2 in F

Vanessa Smart – flute, Robert Behrman – violin, Deborah Behrman – cello, Daryl Shippey  – piano

£540 was raised for Guide Dogs for the Blind 

Frank Bridge – Irish Idyll
Tippett – String Quartet no 2
Fauré – PIano Quintet no1

Rupert Bawden and Peter Wall – violin, Liz Hart – viola, Norman Starritt – cello, Rob Keeley – piano

£262 was raised for The National Deaf Children’s Society

 

Howard Ferguson – Four Short Pieces for Clarinet and PIano
Prokofiev – Clarinet Sonata (first movement)
David Edwards – Movement for Clarinet Quartet
Robert Behrman – Fantasy, Dodecaphonia, Cookham Dean Dance for Clarinet Quartet
Crusell – Clarinet Quartet no 3 in D

Patrick Sewell – clarinet, Robert Behrman – violin, Jane MacSween – viola, Deborah Behrman – cello, Harry Dadswell – piano

£450 was raised for Médecins sans Frontières

 

Afternoon tea with background music from Norman MacSween and Daryl Shippey (piano), Vanessa Smart (flute), Robert Behrman (violin) and Deborah Behrman (cello).  We played music from composers including Haydn, Beethoven, Dvorak, Grieg, the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and many others and around 40 people enjoyed afternoon tea in the barn and garden.

We were thrilled to collect a further £445 which added to the generous on-line donations already received gives us a total of £1265 (plus gift aid on many of those donations) for our Trussell Trust collection

 

Haydn – Trio for flute, cello and piano in F
Dunhill – Piano Quartet

Lucy Le Fanu – flute, Roger Jay – violin, Robert Behrman – viola, Deborah Behrman – cello, Norman MacSween (Haydn) and Daryl Shippey (Dunhill) – piano

 

£500 was raised for The Student Grief Network

 

Vaughan Williams – String Quartet in C minor
Elgar – Piano Quintet 

Matt Li and Rupert Bawden – violins, Robert Behrman – viola, Deborah Behrman – cello, Rob Keeley – piano

£425 was raised for Cancer Research UK

 

‘Around the World in 88 Piano Keys’

Norway               Grieg                           Evening in the Mountains, March of the Trolls
Switzerland        Liszt                             Les Cloches de Geneve
Spain                 Albeniz                         Seguidillas (Castilla)
Ukraine              Bortkiewicz                   Les Rochets d’Outche-Coche
Rumania            Bartok                           Rumanian Dances
USA.             .    Artie Matthews              Two Pastime Rags
Australia           Peter Sculthorpe            Djilile
Hong Kong       Abram Chasins              Rush Hour in Hong Kong
Mexico              Manuel Ponce                Balada Mexicana

£757 was raised for https://www.british-ukrainianaid.org and donated via Margaret’s JustGiving page www.justgiving.com/Margaret-Fingerhut

 

 

Music by Friskin, Borisovsky, Ruth Gipps, Friskin, Dorothy Howell, Europe, Percy Miles,

£630 was raised for the Disasters and Emergencies Committee (DEC)

 

Britten – On this Island
  Let the florid music praise
  Now the leaves are falling fast
  Seascape
  Nocturne
  As it is, plenty
Liszt – Pace non trovo
Richard Strauss
  An die Nacht
  Nichts
Grieg – from Sechs Lieder op 48
  Gruss
  Dereinst, Gedanke mein
  Ein Traum
Walton – Three songs to poems (after Facade)
  Daphne
  Through gilded trellises
  Old Sir Faulk
Richard Strauss
  Heilige Dank

£230 was raised for Crisis at Christmas

 

Music by Liszt, Rossini, Tailleferre, Godard, Taffanel and Gary Schocker

£359 was raised for MAIDENHEAD AND DISTRICT TALKING NEWSPAPER

 

J. S Bach – Fugue in G minor for solo violin
J. S.Bach – Prelude and Fugue in F minor for solo keyboard
Mendelssohn – Piano Trio no 2 in C minor

£362 was raised for OXFAM’s East Africa Hunger Crisis Appeal

 

Jessie Montgomery – Breakaway Suite
Harrison Birtwistle – Tree of Strings
Schubert – Death and the Maiden quartet

£310 was raised for The Motor Neurone Disease Association

 

Afternoon tea served at your table with background music from Robert and Deborah Behrman and Vanessa Smart and Daryl Shippey

We were thrilled to raise almost £500 at the event itself and then a further equal amount via our fundraising page on the Trussell Trust website Tea for Trussell 2022 (enthuse.com). 

which has led to a total of £975 + £142 in Gift Aid

 

Lawrence Power (viola) and Gabriel Power (piano)

Britten – Elegy for solo viola
Bach – Chaconne
Shostakovich – Intermezzo

 

Purcell – Three Fantasias
Britten- String Quartet no 1

£330 was raised for Young Lives vs Cancer

 

Trio Cordiera – Hatty Haynes (violin), Eliza Millett (cello), Antoine Préat (piano)

Haydn – Trio in A major Hob XV:18
Schubert – Trio in B flat major D898

£383 was raised for MusicWorks

The concert was part of the 2022 Cookham Arts Festival

 

Alison Eales – clarinet and piano, Anna Le Hair – piano

Schubert – Fantasia in F minor for piano, four hands
Brahms – Clarinet Sonata in E flat opus 120 no 2
Moskowski – Two Spanish Dances
‘Keep Young and Beautiful’ arr Clarinet and Piano

£462 was raised for research into retinal detachment at Cambridge

 

Lea Barn Divertimenti

Vanessa Smart – flute, Daryl Shippey – piano, Robert Behrman – violin, Linda Clark – viola, Deborah Behrman – cello

Mozart – Flute quartet in A
Beethoven – Piano trio in G op 1 no 2
Ukrainian song arranged for the whole group by Robert Behrman

£305 was collected for the DEC Humanitarian Appeal for Ukraine. This will be matched by the UK government. A further £250 was donated by Vanessa’s firm, Barnettt Waddingham

 

Two violas of the BBC Symphony Orchestra

Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner with Evgenia Startseva – piano

Bach – Seventh Brandenburg Concerto
John Alexander – A pale blue dot
Raymond Yiu – Three Shidaiku transcriptions  
Gershwinian Nostalgia
Elgar – Wild Bears

£465 was collected for the Red Cross in Ukraine

 

Lawrence Power (viola/violin), Matthew Hunt (clarinet), Huw Watkins (piano)

Huw Watkins  – Three Postcards for Solo Viola
Robert Schumann – Marchenerzahlungen for Clarinet, Viola and Piano
Huw Watkins  – Dreams
Thomas Ades – Four Berceuses for Clarinet, Viola and Piano
Huw Watkins – Five Duos for Clarinet and Violin
Huw Watkins – Speak Seven Seas
Bartok – Contrasts for Clarinet, Violin and Piano

£430 was collected for the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival

 

Ten cellists from the orchestra gave a concert featuring one to ten cellists and composers from Bach to Take That and £240 was collected towards the orchestra’s centenary fund.

A concert of English wind music:

Malcolm Arnold – Three Shanties
Matyas Seiber – Dance Suite for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon
Ian Blake – Hypnosis
Gordon Jacob – Quintet for Piano and Wind.

£305 was collected for Vaccinaid, a UNICEF initiative delivering vaccines to countries round the world

 

A masterclass for three young violists – part of the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival

Patrick O-Reilly – Vieuxtemps – Capriccio for Solo Viola
Joseph Lowe – Vieuxtemps – Elegy for Viola and Piano (with Domonkos Csabay – piano)
Rachel Spence – Hindemith – Der Schwanendreher (with Mark Rogers – piano)

£260 was collected for the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival

Bach – Contrapuncti nos 1 and 9 from The Art of Fugue 
Haydn – Quartet in B flat op 50 no 1
Dvorak – Quartet in G op 106

£435 was collected for Beads of Courage

 

Schubert – Impromptus op 142  no 2 in A flat and no 3 in B flat 

(Jane Seymour – piano)

 

Hurlstone – Quartet for Piano and Strings 

(Daryl Shippey – piano, Roger Jay – violin, Robert Behrman – viola, Deborah Behrman – cello)

 £325 was raised in aid of the Action for Pulmonary Fibrosis in memory of Bob Keeves

Beethoven Sonata in D op 6
Elizabeth Maconchy – Prelude and Fugue
Vaughan Williams ‘London’ Symphony

After the concert there was a collection of £350 for Music in Hospitals and Care

 Mikhail Glinka: Overture from Ruslan and Ludmilla* (arr. M. Taylor-Cohen)
Sergei Prokofiev: Two movements from Romeo & Juliet: i. Morning Serenade ii. Dance with Mandolines (arr. V. Borisovsky)
Nikolai Medtner: Canzona II, Op.43 (arr. E. Startseva)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Hindu Melody from Sadko* (arr. M. Taylor-Cohen)
Pyotr Bulakov: Barcarolle (arr. V. Borisovsky)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Waltz from Jazz Suite No.2* (arr. M. Taylor-Cohen)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Prelude (arr. L. Atovmyan)
Aram Khatchaturian: Waltz from Masquerade (arr. V. Borisovsky)
Harold Arlen: Somewhere over the Rainbow (arr. B. Comeau)
Vittorio Monti: Czardas (arr. B. Comeau)

 After the concert, there was a collection of £601 for BAPAM – British Association of Performing Arts Medicine

 And also a little known trio by Kuhn for flute, viola and piano (Daryl Shippey, Vanessa Smart, Judy Hunter)

 

Players in Spohr – Robert Behrman, Gill Morbey, Deborah Behrman, Hayley Horn, Vanessa Smart, Jean Ashford, Richard Longman, Justin Coombs, Jeremy Fletcher.

 

After the concert £475 was collected in aid of Alzheimers Dementia Support in Maidenhead

Many of you will remember Eralys‘s beautiful playing from previous concerts, as a soloist, in a piano duo and accompanying Diego Carneiro (cello).  The programme this time was: 

Mozart – Piano Concerto in A K414 accompanied by string quartet
                (Robert Behrman, Gill Morbey, Linda Clark, Deborah Behrman)

Beethoven – Fantasie op 77

Liszt – Etude no 2

Rachmaninov – Etude Tableau op 33 no 3

£370 was collected for Cubans en UK to raise money to restore a piano at the music school 

The Enceladus Ensemble is formed of four award winning chamber musicians, coming together to form a flexible ensemble with the piano quartet repertoire at its heart. They have been previous Making Music ‘Selected Artists’, Park Lane Group Artists, and have performed at Wigmore Hall, St John’s Smith Square, The Bridgewater Hall and live on BBC Radio 3.   

They played two favourites of the Piano Quartet repertoire: 

Mozart – Piano Quartet in G minor K478 

Brahms – Piano Quartet in G minor op 25 

There was a collection of £302 in aid Ronald McDonald House, that provides free support and accommodation for families when their children are receiving treatment  in the hospital for children in Bristol.

 Clem Pickering, Jaren Ziegler and Lucas Levin played Brahms, Busser and Brahms and were coached by Lawrence Power (viola)

 This was the opening event of the 2019 West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival

After the concert there was a collection of £110 in aid of the festival

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Gary Carpenter – Cavatina and Polka 

After the concert and tea and cakes there was a collection of £485 in aid of

The Alzheimers Society

Caroline Palmer (piano), Djumash Poulsen (violin) and Sebastien Kolin (cello)

 played

After the concert and tea and cakes there was a collection that raised £250 in aid of HelpMusiciansUK

We were delighted to welcome Wallis Power and her violinist and pianist friends.

Wallis Power (cello), Maja Horvat (violin) and Craig White (piano)  played

After the concert and tea and cakes £280 was collected in aid of Music for Haiti, a charity bringing music to children with disabilities in Haiti.

The Launch event of the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival 2019 for the Festival Friends.

Lawrence and Pavel  played all five of the sonatas for violin and piano and viola and piano.  There was  bubbly and home-made canapés and it was a terrific evening!

You can find out more about Lawrence and Pavel on their websites, and there are also numerous youtube clips.

This event was restricted to Friends of the festival.  There are still benefits of joining the Friends for the 2019 festival in September – a reception with the musicians after the Thursday concert, priority booking and free programmes.  An application form can be downloaded here Friends applic 2019

A concert by Lea Barn Divertimenti members with guest Roger Jay (violin)

Jane Seymour (piano) played Mozart Piano Sonata K283, then Daryl Shippey (piano) was joined by Roger Jay (violin), Robert Behrman (viola) and Deborah Behrman (cello) to play Schumann’s beautiful, exhilarating piano quartet.

After the concert and tea and cakes £517 was collected in aid of The Camphill Village Trust

 

Members of Scordatura returned to play music by women composers.

Poppy Beddoe (clarinet), Rachel Watson (cello) and  Fionnuala Ward (piano) played

After the concert and tea and cakes there was a collection of £323 in aid of the Dahlia Project supporting survivors of female genital mutilation.http://manorgardenscentre.org/our-services/health-advocacy/support-for-survivors-of-fgm/

A glorious setting of the Stabat Mater by late 18th century Italian composer Luigi Boccherini enjoyed by a large audience who braved the snow and ice!

Genevieve Usher (soprano)
Ioana Voicu-Arnautoiu and Jane MacSween (violin)
Elizabeth Hart (viola)
Rosalind Laher and Alan Thomas (cello)
Norman MacSween (harpsichord)

After the tea and cakes £415 was collected in aid of Parkinsons UK https://www.parkinsons.org.uk

Jane Seymour (piano), Robert Behrman (violin) and Deborah Behrman (cello) – Mendelssohn Piano trio in D minor

Vanessa Smart (flute), Robert Behrman (violin), Gill Morbey (viola) and Deborah Behrman (cello) – Mozart flute quartet in C

After the tea and cakes  a collection in aid of War Child raised £513 – https://www.warchild.org.uk.

Lea Barn Divertimenti wind and piano played

Poulenc – Sextet for piano and wind,
Mozart – Magic Flute Overture,
Malcolm Arnold – Three Sea Shanties
Two Northumbrian folk songs

The charity collection afterwards for the Indonesian Tsunami Appeal raised £406

Members of Scordatura are returning to play music by women composers.

Poppy Beddoe (clarinet), Rachel Watson (cello) and  Fionnuala Ward (piano) will play

After the concert and tea and cakes there will be a collection in aid of the Dahlia Project supporting survivors of female genital mutilation.http://manorgardenscentre.org/our-services/health-advocacy/support-for-survivors-of-fgm/

The Arensky Piano Trio – Anna LeHair (piano), David Gaster (violin) and Julian Ogilvie (cello) performed

Beethoven’s ‘Ghost’ trio op 70 no 1
Arensky’s 2nd piano trio in F minor op 73.

After their performance there was a collection that raised £375 for Sightsavers

As part of the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival http://www.westwycombechambermusic.org.uk/friends.html Lawrence Power held a masterclass for three talented young players.

£200 was collected in aid of the festival.

Robert and Deborah Behrman (violin and cello) were joined by Jane Seymour (piano) and Roy Simpson (clarinet) for a concert of two trios and a piano sonata.

Kabalevsky – Sonata no 3 for Piano op 46
Hans Gal – Serenade for Clarinet, Violin and Cello op 93
Hummel – Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano op 12

After the concert we made a collection for Spotlight on Africa,http://www.hsoa.org.uk a very effective small charity working with a refugee community in Uganda
We had a lovely display showing the wonderful work that they are doing around health, education, clean water and economic development, working alongside the families in the community to ensure that help is appropriate and sustainable.  Rory Scales from the charity came to the concert to construct a tippy tap, tell us a little about SOA and answer questions.

 

 

The Heath Quartet played pieces from Bach’s Little Organ Book followed by Jörg Widmann’s ‘Choralquartett’, with its ghostly, disruptive mix of sound and silence.

They were then joined by Ruth Gibson (viola) and Marie Bitlloch (cello) to perform Schoenberg’s richly chromatic Verklärte Nacht, a symphonic poem for string sextet.

A real treat!!

£245 was raised for Spotlight on Africa

 

We were delighted that Eralys came to play for us again, this time with a flute colleague, Ami Lodge.

Flute Sonata by F. Poulenc
Joueurs de Flute by A. Roussel
Suite de trois Morceaux by Godard
Triptico a lo Bach by Mario Badia ( Cuba)
Syrinx by Claude Debussy
Cuban Serenade by Ignacio Cervantes  ( Cuba )
Impromptu in B flat by Schubert

After the concert there was a collection of £160  for the restoration of the grand piano in the music conservatoire Guillermo Tomas in Guanabacoa, Havana. This is Eralys’ hometown and her first music school. The project is supported by Cubans in UK. http://cubanos.org.uk/

 

A morning of chamber music groups coached by Roger Coull and Nick Roberts of the Coull quartet, then in the afternoon more quartet coaching before an orchestra session directed by Roger Coull playing the Dvorak Serenade for Strings

 

Cellist, Rachel Watson, first appeared in our barn as a playing card in Alice in Wonderland, and has now founded the Scordatura Women’s Music Collective. They performed music from the baroque period to the current day written by women.

£686 was raised in aid of the Dahlia Project, which provides counselling and services for women who have undergone FGM:

Norman MacSween (harpsichord), Chiawen Kiew (Flute), Jane MacSween (violin), Rowena Rosenbaum (violin),  Genevieve Usher  (soprano) and Hugh Rosenbaum (bassoon) played
Boddecker – Sonata sopra La Monica for bassoon and harpsichord
JS Bach – Sonata in E flat for flute and harpsichord
Clerambault – Leandre et Hero for soprano, flute and strings

£469 was raised for Thames Hospice

 

The prize-winning Behn Quartet, who recently appeared at Norden Farm as part of the Maidenhead Music Society’s concert series held a concert here to help raise money to fund travel for their concert tour of New Zealand in April.  They played a programme based on folk tunes that they will also be playing at their Wigmore Hall debut later in the year and we collected £560

Virtuoso violinist, Steve Bingham, was joined by a small group of excellent singers to perform an unusual and fascinating arrangement of the great Bach D minor Chaconne.  In addition Steve played some solo violin works:

Debussy – Syrinx arranged for violin
Piazzolla – Tango Etude no 3
Bach – Chaconne from Partita in D minor with vocal Choral arranged by Phil Toms
Bach – Partita in D minor

After the concert a collection of £400 was made for the Adult Critical Care Unit at the Royal London Hospital.

The Lea Barn Divertimenti wind players and Daryl Shippey (piano) played:

Mozart – Quintet for wind and piano
Hummel – Trio for piano, flute and bassoon
Malcolm Arnold – Trio for flute, clarinet and oboe

After the concert a donation of £265 was made to the Marlow Refugee Action Group . They are currently collecting to provide waterproof boots for the refugees living rough in Northern France and Belgium.

 

Many of us remembered Diego from his memorable concert raising money for his project bringing music-making to the children of the Amazon Rainforest.  He has now diversified and is raising money to support the National Youth Orchestra of Ecuador. At the concert today we collected £384 for the project.

Bach – Cello Suite no 1 in G

Carneiro – Fantasia Yumbo

Bach – Cello Suite no 3 in C

Overture to Iolanthe by Sullivan, La Calinda by Delius, Sinfonia by Donizetti and Petite Symphonie for Wind by Gounod

After the concert there was a collection in aid of The Flying Seagull Project http://www.theflyingseagullproject.com/what-we-do/. which raised £388. This charity  believes that it is everyone, man, woman or child’s right to put aside the cares of life and smile for a while. They work with widely varying groups in several countries to help bring smiles and happiness to people, whether as Clown Doctors for children undergoing difficult medical treatments or through arts, music and crafts workshops.

 

Part of the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival http://www.westwycombechambermusic.org.uk/.  Internationally-renowned viola player, Lawrence Power, coached talented young viola players, Connie Pharaoh, Hannah.Gardiner and Henrietta Hill.  £100 was collected towards festival expenses.

Schubert – String Trio movement in B flat

August Walter  – Octet for violin, viola, cello, double bass, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn

Robert Behrman – violin, Judy Hunter – viola, Deborah Behrman – cello, Helen Hollis – double bass, Jean Ashford – oboe, Richard Longman – clarinet, Jo Rushton – bassoon, Adrian Rushton – horn

The concert raised £475 for Freedom from Torture https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/

 

An arrangement by Hummel of the Mozart piano concerto in D minor K466 for piano, flute, violin and cello and the first performance (to the best of our knowledge) of a piano trio by Charlton Palmer.

A pianist friend of ours in Canterbury, Robert Scott, was given the manuscript of the trio when the music shop Forwoods closed.  Clement Charlton Palmer (1871 – 1944) was the organist at Canterbury cathedral and this trio was written at the beginning of the last century..

Anthony Hardwicke – piano
Vanessa Smart – flute
Michael Friess and Robert Behrman – violins
Deborah Behrman – cello

After the concert a collection in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital raised £575

 

 

An evening with Lawrence Power (viola) and Madeleine Mattar (piano)

The recital of

De Falla – Seven Popular Spanish Songs (arr. Viola/Piano)
Esa Pekka Salonen – Pentatonic Etude
Shostakovich – Seven Preludes (arr. Viola/Piano)

was followed by a canape reception

 

 

 

 

 

A morning of chamber music groups coached by Roger Coull and Nick Roberts of the Coull quartet, then in the afternoon a string orchestra session directed by Roger Coull playing Finzi – Romance and Elgar – Introduction and Allegro

 

Ensemble Nova Luce gave a concert for members of the Maidenhead Music Society in celebration of its 70th anniversary.

Chopin – 2nd piano concerto in F arranged for piano and string quartet
Rubbra – Fantasia on a theme of Machaut orig for recorder, strings and harpsichord
Haydn – Symphony no 94 in G major ‘Surprise’ arranged by JP Salomon for piano, flute and string quartet

A collection after the concert raised £109 for Maidenhead Music Society

 

 

 

Naomi Hodson and Edward Brenton (violins) and Yeumeng Lee (piano) gave a concert of music by composers who have been displaced by war eg Chopin, Bartok, and also some contemporary Middle Eastern composers.

Two duos for two violins – Bartok

Lullaby (for Dead Syrian Children) – Shalan Alhamwy  (Naomi and Yuemeng)

Solo Sonata – Bartok (first movement) (Edward)

Sospiro:A Prayer for Damascus – Suad Bushnaq (Yuemeng)

Preludes 1-12 – Chopin (Yuemeng)


Suad and Shalan are instrumentalists/composers who formerly studied at the Damascus Conservatoire and are now living in Canada and Belgium. They are both very proud of their Syrian roots and have been wonderfully supportive of Naomi and her friends performing their music for this cause.

The concert raised £450 in aid of Help Refugees http://www.helprefugees.org.uk/

LBD Piano Quartet – Daryl Shippey (piano), Roger Jay (violin), Robert Behrman (viola), Deborah Behrman (cello) played Beethoven ‘Spring’ Sonata for piano and violin and Faure Piano Quartet no 1 in C minor.

The concert raised £456 for Music Therapy at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

 

Mozart – Quintet for Horn and Strings

Lachner – Nonet for violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn

Lea Barn Divertimenti:

Mozart – Pamela Wise (horn), Robert Behrman (violin), Judy Hunter, Jane MacSween (violas), Diane Mace (cello)

Lachner – Robert Behrman (violin), Judy Hunter (viola), Deborah Behrman (cello), Claire Murphy (double bass), Lucy LeFanu (flute), Jean Ashford (oboe), Richard Longman (Clarinet), Adrian Rushton (horn), Jo Rushton (bassoon)

After the concert there was a collection raising £408 in aid of the Parkinson’s Disease Association.

Dvorak Sonatine

Wieniawski Legende

Brahms Hungarian Dances nos 6 and 1

Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne

The concert raised £356 in aid of the Rennie Grove Hospice at Home.

Dauprat Minuet from Grand Sextet

Humperdinck, arr Hansel und Gretel: Prelude

Interlude – alphorn

trad Bavarian Ländler

Jones (apologies to Mozart) Rond-o-Mania

Interlude – natural horn

Rossini Le Rendez-vous de Chasse

Dukas Vilanelle

arr. Teuber Scarborough Fair Revisited

Handel, arr Water Music: Allegro

The concert raised £325 in aid of the Syrian Refugee crisis

Georgia Russell, Maddy Pickering and Ben Voce were coached on sonatas by York Bowen, Rebecca Clarke and Brahms.  £80 was raised for West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival.

                  Mozart – Larghetto from Divertimento no 4

Poulenc – Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

Ibert – Aria for flute, clarinet and piano

Danzi – Quintet for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon

£269 was collected for Samara’s Aid Appeal

 

Anthony Hardwicke (piano), Lyn Parkyns (soprano), Andrew Parkyns (harpsichord), Deborah Behrman (cello), Robert Behrman (violin)

Purcell – Fairest Isle, The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation,

Monteverdi – Ecco di raggi il sol

Beethoven – Piano Sonata op 111

£219 was collected for Great Ormond Street Hospital

Beethoven – Sonata no 1 for piano and cello in F

Brahms – Sonata no 1 for piano and cello in E minor

£353 was collected for Age UK

 

Anna leHair – piano, Ed Cook – clarinet, Pam Wise –horn, David Gaster – violin, Robert Behrman – viola, Deborah Behrman – cello

Crusell – Clarinet quartet in C minor

Dohnanyi – Sextet for piano, clarinet, horn and strings

£375 was raised for Amyloidosis Research

 

Cassado, Saint-Saens, Bach, Popper, Rachmaninov

£300 was raised for Barnardo’s High Close School

Tschaikovsky – Quartets nos 1 and 3

£375 was raised for the British Heart Foundation

Music for soprano, clarinet and piano

£231 was raised for Great Ormond Street Hospital

Reinecke – Trio for Piano, Oboe and Horn

Daryl Shippey (piano), Frances Jones (oboe), Pamela Wise (horn)

Weissenborn – Kleine Suite for 2 bassoons and piano

Alex Glyn, Justin Coombs (bassoons), Daryl Shippey (piano)

Brahms – Variations on a theme of Haydn

Above wind plus Vanessa Smart (flute), Jean Ashford (oboe),

Richard Longman, Liz Mundy (clarinets), Andrew Hills (horn)

£594 was raised for MacMillan Cancer Support

Beethoven sonata op 10 no 3 – first two movts

Liszt – Liebestraum

Debussy – L’Isle Joyeuse

Satie – Gymonpedie no 1

Chopin – Ballade no 23

Schubert – Impromptu

£438 was raised for Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice

£188 was raised for the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival

Daryl and Lauren Shippey – piano, Vanessa Smart – flute, Robert Behrman – violin, Deborah Behrman – cello

Haydn – trio for flute, cello and piano in G

Dvorak – Slavonic Dance for piano duet

Beethoven – piano trio op 1 no 3

£279 was raised for BLISS

Bridge – Sonata for cello and piano

Glazunov – Chant du menestrel and Serenade Espagnole

Cesar Franck – Sonata for cello and piano

£313 was raised for Prostate Cancer UK

 

Haydn – keyboard sonata in B minor

Bach – Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue

CPE Bach – Oboe sonata in G minor

Telemann – Oboe sonata in A minor

Villa Lobos – The Black Swan

Schumann – Adagio and Allegro

Saint-Saens – The Swan

£394 was raised for AmazonArt

Philip Shirtcliffe (clarinet), Ben Yudkin (cello), Sophie Dear (piano)

Beethoven – trio for clarinet, cello and piano

Brahms – trio for clarinet, cello and piano

£321 was raised for Special Effect

 

Sophie Dear – piano, Alison Packer – violin,  Fi Brodie – viola, Richard Longman – clarinet,  Robert Behrman – violin, Judy Hunter – violin

Piano Quartet in E flat

Duo in G

Clarinet Quintet

£531 was raised for the Stroke Association

Rupert Bawden – violin, Anna Le Hair – piano, Barbara Wyllie- clarinet, Edmund Booth – violin, Peter Wall – viola, Norman Starritt – cello, Deborah Behrman – Duke of Burgundy

Walton – Violin Sonata

Brahms – Clarinet Quintet

Walton – Duke of Burgundy’s speech Henry V Act 5

Baleiro set by Rupert Bawden,

£340 was raised for ActionAid