A concert of English wind music to include Sea Shanties by Malcolm Arnold and the charming sextet by Gordon Jacob . Please contact us if you wish to reserve a place as we are still limiting our audience numbers in view of the continuing covid pandemic.

 

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

As part of the West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival three talented post-graduate viola players will receive tuition from Lawrence Power.  You are welcome to attend free of charge as audience members, but please let me know by reserving a seat (below)

There will be a collection in aid of the festival.

 

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