Buckingham Summer Festival 2019 Concerts

J.S. Bach	Overture in the French Style BWV 831
Ludwig van Beethoven	Andante Favori WoO 57
Richard Strauss	Five Piano Pieces Op.3

Described by the Russian critic Olga Ivannikova as a ‘great English young talent’, Craig Greene is a versatile and exciting pianist and conductor who is in much demand as a concert soloist. He has performed with leading orchestras and conductors including the Russian National Orchestra with whom he performed the Tchaikovsky 1st Piano Concerto.

Craig is committed to teaching and is Director of Music at Stowe School.

Concert sponsored by Peter and Léonie Thorogood

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Lionel Tertis	Sunset
Percy Miles	Grand Solo
Frank Bridge	3 Pieces: Pensiero Allegro appassionato Meditation
York Bowen	Sonata No.2 in F major Allegro assai e semplice Grave Allegro giocoso
Rebecca Clarke	I’ll bid my heart be still

Viola Duo is cancelled due to a family bereavement. We hope you will enjoy this alternative programme.

Concert sponsored by Peter & Cherry Baker and John & Pat Walton

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Mozart	Quintet for Piano and Winds in Eb major K 452
Poulenc	Sextet for Piano and Winds Op.100
Nielsen	Quintet (wind quintet) Op.43

Mozart completed his Quintet on the 30th of March 1784. After the first performance he was so pleased with the work that he wrote to his father ‘I myself consider it to be the best thing I have written in my life.’ With the masterpieces by Poulenc and Nielsen this will make for a very special concert.

Christopher Redgate studied at Chetham’s School of Music and at the Royal Academy of Music where he was a prize-winner. His professional career began with several prizes at international competitions. He performs regularly with many contemporary music ensembles including Exposé, Suoraan, Trio Krosta, Music Projects/London and Lontano.

The Redgate Wind Ensemble is joined by pianist Helen Davies. Helen studied piano first at the Academy of Music, Vienna, and then at the Royal Manchester College of Music. A busy career has followed as an accompanist, chamber musician and teacher. She has given recitals on Radio 3 and has appeared many times on BBC TV, ITV and S4C.

Concert sponsored in memory of Cath Higgins

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Schubert	Six moments musicaux
Queen/Crossland	Love of my Life Bohemian Rhapsody
Neil Crossland	Piano Sonata No.3 Op.58 (world première)

Yorkshire pianist and composer Neil Crossland began playing the piano at the age of six and studied at the Royal College of Music, where he won major prizes in both piano and composition. Since then he has performed extensively at home and abroad, and written pieces in all genres.

Neil has played at many major London venues, including the Barbican, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St John’s Smith Square, St Martin’s in the Fields, and frequent appearances at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room. He has performed all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in a concert series at St James’ Piccadilly. He has also performed throughout the UK, and in France, Greece, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Tunisia and recently in Singapore giving concerts of the unfinished Schubert Sonatas, also workshops and master classes.

Concert sponsored by John and Sue Wrigley

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William Hurlstone	Four Characteristic Pieces
Srul Glick	Suite Hebraique
Max Bruch	Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano
Alan Richardson	Postcards
Gabriel Grovlez	Sonatine

Paul Harris studied the clarinet at the Royal Academy of Music with Professor John Davies, winning the August Manns Prize for outstanding performance, composition with Timothy Baxter and conducting with Maurice Miles. He then went on to study music education at the University of London where he was a pupil of Professor Keith Swanwick. He now has over six hundred publications to his name dealing with a vast array of subjects within the sphere of music education. Paul has a delightful way of introducing the music he plays which will make this a concert not to be missed!

Concert sponsored by Louise Hammond in memory of her mother, Mrs Doreen Parr

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Beethoven	12 Variations for Cello and Piano on ’See the conqu‘ring hero comes‘ WoO 45 Sonata No.3 in A major, Op. 69
Schumann	Fantasiestücke, Op.73
Brahms	Sonata in E minor, Op.38

The charismatic cellist Julian Metzger is often praised for giving both technically and musically exciting performances. Drawing on a rare depth of emotions he delivers exhilarating and inspired interpretations whilst faithfully communicating the composer’s message.

Marco Fatichenti is an internationally acclaimed performer and recording artist who has appeared in some of the most prestigious venues across Europe and the United States. He was described by Hilary Finch in The Times as ‘none other than Chopin incarnate.’

Concert sponsored by Jane and Howard Mordue

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Schumann	Violin Concerto
Mahler	Symphony No.5 (horn solo – Laurence Davies)

Schumann wrote his Violin Concerto for the violinist Joseph Joachim in 1853. The concerto was hidden in the archives in the Prussian State Library until the work was discovered eight decades later. Today, the Concerto has firmly become part of the mainstream of the violin repertoire and is considered an important late Schumann work. Yehudi Menuhin hailed it as the ‘missing link’ between the violin concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, with the ‘same human warmth, caressing softness, bold manly rhythms, the same lovely arabesque treatment of the violin, the same rich and noble themes and harmonies’.

Mahler’s fifth symphony has a well-known and loved slow movement – the Adagietto for harp and strings – which is said to be a love song for his wife Alma. The movement came to fame through the film Death in Venice and has remained a favourite ever since. There is far more to this symphony – the conductor Herbert von Karajan once said that in Mahler’s Fifth ‘you forget that time has passed. A great performance of the Fifth is a transforming experience.’ From the opening trumpet fanfare, the wonderful third movement with its horn solo to the exuberant finale the symphony has an immense emotional breadth.

We are delighted to welcome back violinist Dima Tkachenko. Dima was a prize-winner at several international violin competitions including the Carl Nielsen Competition (Odense, Denmark), the Lysenko Competition (Kyiv, Ukraine) and the Wronski Solo Violin Competition (Warsaw, Poland).

We are also pleased to welcome back Laurence Davies who will be the horn soloist in the third movement of the Mahler symphony. Laurence has been principal horn in both The Philharmonia Orchestra and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and guest principal with the LSO, LPO and CBSO.

Concert sponsored by Buckingham Town Council

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