ensemble360 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ensemble360) wrote,@ 2006-10-03 18:06:00 |
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Hi all, it's Adrian here...
Just updating you on what's been going on since we got back from our Summer sojourns.
First of all WELCOME LAURENE! ....We're very happy that Laurene has joined us from Toulouse and look forward to her amazing energy and musicality. I noticed the other day that she has bought an English dictionary.....so I am sure she'll be speaking perfect Yorkshire before very long!
Thank you for everyone who came to our concert on he 25th at the Crucible, it was great to have your warm response once again and thanks also for our 1st year birthday cake....that was just the icing on the.....Sorry!
We had already given a concert on the 26th in Rotherham and it is great that we are now to have a series of concerts at the Talbot Lane Methodist Church. Our next concert there is on the 26th November......you're all very welcome!!!!
On the 29th the Winds went to Barlow to give a concert in the small village Church. It's a really beautiful place to give a concert and the accoustic is amazing, I really hope to be back there soon. On the 30th we jollied up to historic Richmond en masse and gave our first performance of the Spohr Septet which will be recorded along with the Nonet in November.
This was after an amazing rendition of the Beethoven duo for clarinet and bassoon....there is virtually nowhere to breathe in this piece and as such is incredibly tiring to play...Matt and Ben were absolutely amazing and had about 20 seconds to recover before launching straight into the sextet for piano and winds by Francis Poulenc!
Since then we've been rehearsing alot for various programmes and it suddenly struck me how amazing the programme is that we're playing on the 11th October in the Crucible. It's the first of our 'National' concerts, that is to say that all the music is from one country....Czech in this instance. The programme starts with the Concertino by Janacek which is an extraordinary piece for piano 2 violins, viola, clarinet, horn and bassoon. The movements originally had titles suggesting a nature-based programme (squirrels and hedgehogs etc.) if you know his opera the Cunning little vixen it's a very similar soundworld.
'Mladi' or 'Youth' for Wind Sextet...there's a Bass clarinet added....(a stroke of genius)has to be one of the greatest pieces for winds. It has so much vitality .....Bouncing Czech I suppose...(groan!)and beauty that one wonders why it is so under performed.
The Dvorak Piano Quartet is an undoubted masterpiece and the Martinu Nonet is such a warm sunny piece aswell as being huge fun!
....whilst I remember....the 11th October is also the launch of our Mozart CD....so don't forget your tenners!!! It's cheaper to buy it after one of our concerts than buying it in a shop...and It would make the ideal Christmas present!!!!
Yesterday was a day off so Tim and Martin came round to brave the novelty of my cooking...I had no idea what to make but ended up finding some Venison steaks (never tried those before) and making some pear chutney with it...turns out to be a good combo....tiny bit of clove....magic!
Anyway I think they survived....
This is all making me hungry so time to raid the fridge....
See you all soon
Adrian x
P.S Many thanks to Patrick Vaughan who managed to raise some £650ish for the Lindsay Foundation by hosting a Musical Soiree on the 170th Anniversary of the building of his house.
An amazing experience to perform Chamber music...in a Chamber as originally intended.
Just updating you on what's been going on since we got back from our Summer sojourns.
First of all WELCOME LAURENE! ....We're very happy that Laurene has joined us from Toulouse and look forward to her amazing energy and musicality. I noticed the other day that she has bought an English dictionary.....so I am sure she'll be speaking perfect Yorkshire before very long!
Thank you for everyone who came to our concert on he 25th at the Crucible, it was great to have your warm response once again and thanks also for our 1st year birthday cake....that was just the icing on the.....Sorry!
We had already given a concert on the 26th in Rotherham and it is great that we are now to have a series of concerts at the Talbot Lane Methodist Church. Our next concert there is on the 26th November......you're all very welcome!!!!
On the 29th the Winds went to Barlow to give a concert in the small village Church. It's a really beautiful place to give a concert and the accoustic is amazing, I really hope to be back there soon. On the 30th we jollied up to historic Richmond en masse and gave our first performance of the Spohr Septet which will be recorded along with the Nonet in November.
This was after an amazing rendition of the Beethoven duo for clarinet and bassoon....there is virtually nowhere to breathe in this piece and as such is incredibly tiring to play...Matt and Ben were absolutely amazing and had about 20 seconds to recover before launching straight into the sextet for piano and winds by Francis Poulenc!
Since then we've been rehearsing alot for various programmes and it suddenly struck me how amazing the programme is that we're playing on the 11th October in the Crucible. It's the first of our 'National' concerts, that is to say that all the music is from one country....Czech in this instance. The programme starts with the Concertino by Janacek which is an extraordinary piece for piano 2 violins, viola, clarinet, horn and bassoon. The movements originally had titles suggesting a nature-based programme (squirrels and hedgehogs etc.) if you know his opera the Cunning little vixen it's a very similar soundworld.
'Mladi' or 'Youth' for Wind Sextet...there's a Bass clarinet added....(a stroke of genius)has to be one of the greatest pieces for winds. It has so much vitality .....Bouncing Czech I suppose...(groan!)and beauty that one wonders why it is so under performed.
The Dvorak Piano Quartet is an undoubted masterpiece and the Martinu Nonet is such a warm sunny piece aswell as being huge fun!
....whilst I remember....the 11th October is also the launch of our Mozart CD....so don't forget your tenners!!! It's cheaper to buy it after one of our concerts than buying it in a shop...and It would make the ideal Christmas present!!!!
Yesterday was a day off so Tim and Martin came round to brave the novelty of my cooking...I had no idea what to make but ended up finding some Venison steaks (never tried those before) and making some pear chutney with it...turns out to be a good combo....tiny bit of clove....magic!
Anyway I think they survived....
This is all making me hungry so time to raid the fridge....
See you all soon
Adrian x
P.S Many thanks to Patrick Vaughan who managed to raise some £650ish for the Lindsay Foundation by hosting a Musical Soiree on the 170th Anniversary of the building of his house.
An amazing experience to perform Chamber music...in a Chamber as originally intended.
