Philip Berg (organ) | 27 April 2024 (19:30)
Philip Berg organ
Kathryn Parry violin
Fiona McCapra violin
Adrian Bradbury cello
Programme:
John Stanley — Organ Concerto no. 3 in Bb, Op. 10
J.S. Bach — Trio Sonata in E minor, BWV 528
Handel — Organ Concerto in Bb, Op. 4, no. 6
Saint-Saëns — Prière, for cello and organ
Gigout — Scherzo and Toccata
Mozart — Fantasia in F minor/major
This concert takes place at St Christopher’s Church, St Christopher's Green, Haslemere, GU27 1DD.
Tickets are available to purchase via EventBrite here and Haslemere Hall here.
Philip Berg studied the organ at the Royal College of Music under Richard Popplewell. In addition to a busy teaching career, he has performed as organist at many different venues, including the cathedrals of St Paul’s, Worcester, Inverness, Westminster Abbey, Chartres, and Brandenburg. He has also been heard as accompanist on BBC radio. He has been Master of the Music at The Queen’s Chapel of the Savoy since1995, and has performed the complete works of Bach there, and much else besides. The fine choir of professional men and boys has broadcast on Radio 3, Radio 2, and Classic FM.
Kathryn Parry has a rich and varied career as an orchestral and chamber musician, recitalist and teacher. She studied at Selwyn College, Cambridge and at the Royal Academy of Music. She has played with many of the UK’s leading orchestras, and was a member of the London Philharmonic and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, living in Edinburgh and performing with the Hebrides Ensemble, Scottish Ensemble and as guest leader of the Edinburgh Quartet. As a member of the Bell’Arte Ensemble she gave the inaugural chamber concert in Birmingham’s Symphony Hall playing piano quintets with Sir Simon Rattle, and as a recitalist she has performed for music clubs and festivals nationwide and abroad. Kathryn was a member of La Serenissima and string quartet The Revolutionary Drawing Room, and plays with the London Handel Orchestra, ETO, and the OAE.
Fiona McCapra began her career recording for Chandos with the McCapra Quartet. She has since performed and recorded with groups such as Endymion, Gaudier and the Nash Ensemble. Fiona now appears regularly with the Piano Quartet Touchwood. A former member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, with whom she still performs, Fiona is now a member of both Britten Sinfonia and the City of London Sinfonia.
Adrian Bradbury was principal cello in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain before winning scholarships to Churchill College, Cambridge (where he read Veterinary Science and Music) and then to the Royal Academy of Music. After further study in Berlin he developed an international career in chamber music as the cellist in Composers Ensemble (winners of the Royal Philharmonic Society Chamber Award, 2002), Jane’s Minstrels, Trio Gemelli, Touchwood Piano Quartet and Chamber Domaine, giving world premieres of solos, duos, trios and quartets by Thomas Adès, Judith Bingham, Tansy Davies, Dai Fujikura, Hugh Wood and John Woolrich.
London Handel Players | 3 May 2024 (19:30)
HHH Concerts, in association with the Tilford Bach Festival, presents the London Handel Players
Rachel Brown flute & recorders
Adrian Butterfield violin & director
Oliver Webber violin
Naomi Burrell violin
Rachel Byrt viola
Gavin Kibble cello & gamba
Carina Cosgrave double bass
Silas Wollston harpsichord
Programme:
Telemann — Concerto in A minor for Recorder and Viola da Gamba and strings TWV 52:a1
Leclair — Violin Concerto Op. 7 no.4 in F major
J.S. Bach — Concerto for Three Violins in D major BWV 1064
Telemann — Concerto for viola and strings in G major TWV 51:G9
Vivaldi — Sopranino Recorder Concerto in C major RV 443
J.S. Bach — Brandenburg Concerto no.5 in D major BWV 1050
This concert takes place at St Christopher’s Church, St Christopher's Green, Haslemere, GU27 1DD.
Tickets (to include a glass of wine/soft drink) are available for purchase via EventBrite here and via Haslemere Hall here.
Praised by the New York Times for their “soulful depth” and their “consummate skill and musicianship”, The London Handel Players have thrilled audiences across the world with their performances and recordings. Established in 2000, the Players appear regularly at leading venues and festivals in the UK, Europe and North America, performing baroque chamber music and concertos and collaborating with the world’s leading singers.
The ensemble has performed across North America, making their New York debut at the Frick Museum in 2012 and returning to perform at Carnegie Hall in 2014. Concerts have also included performances at Wigmore Hall, Internationale Händel-Festpiele Göttingen, Halle International Handel Festival, East Cork Early Music Festival and in Spain, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Serbia and Croatia. Committed educators at every level and holding professorships in Historical Performance at London’s Conservatoires, The London Handel Players give numerous masterclasses and workshops.
Recent tours have taken them to Northern Ireland, Spain, Turkey, Canada and the USA. In the 23-24 season they will return to Wigmore Hall with Bach Cantatas, multi-instrument concertos by Bach, Vivaldi and Telemann and a Handel-Vivaldi programme with the exciting young countertenor, Alexander Chance. Two new recordings, one of Bach Sonatas for keyboard and violin and one of Handel aria arrangements called ‘Total Eclipse’, have been released by Somm Recordings in 2023.
Their highly acclaimed discography also includes four discs of Handel chamber music; his two sets of trio sonatas Op.2 and Op.5, his complete works for solo violin and a disc entitled ‘Handel at Home’ all on the Somm label. They have recorded Geminiani’s complete Op.1 sonatas and a two-disc set of JS Bach’s flute sonatas interspersed with some flute arias from his cantatas sung by Elizabeth Cragg, Charles Daniels and Peter Harvey. Future releases include a disc of Vivaldi flute and recorder concertos.