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CADOGANHALL.COMwww.chelsea-pensioners.org.uk
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PLATINUM MEMBERSHIPPlatinum members are invited to Silver & Gold events plus an exclusive reception and private viewing of the Chelsea Flower Show.
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WELCOME BY WILLIAM VANN FRCO ARAM
The Royal Hospital Choir’s concert is always one of the highlights of the programme. They perform Mozart’s Requiem, one of the most compelling of all choral masterpieces, alongside Bach’s stunning Magnificat before we close the series with a concert bringing together local schoolchildren, musicians and prize-winning soloists for performances of Rutter’s Mass of the Children and Britten’s St Nicolas - a real treat in the run-up to Christmas.
Finally, a few words of thanks: first to all of you for your staunch support both now and over the past ten years; secondly, to our sponsors, whose support is crucial to the survival of the concerts, and in particular to David Bowerman, who was the inspiration behind the series and continues to support many young artists at the start of their careers.
Last year’s 10th anniversary of the Royal Hospital Chelsea concert series emphasised its reputation for musical excellence: some of the finest musicians from the UK and across Europe performed a programme of chamber music, choral and orchestral works and jazz in the wonderful setting of Christopher Wren’s Chapel.
This year, for the first time, we open with an opera. Purcell’s The Fairy-Queen was written at the same time as the Chapel was holding its very first services and will be a unique and unmissable musical event. We continue by welcoming back the Gould Piano Trio, one of the country’s most accomplished chamber music groups, and the critically acclaimed flute duo of Lisa Friend and Anna Stokes playing an enchanting and fascinating programme from their recent album Luminance.
With grateful thanks for the generous support of
THE BOWERMAN CHARITABLE TRUST
THE CHAPEL MUSIC FOUNDATION
THE DUNARD FUND
THE TILLETT TRUST
THE KATHLEEN FERRIER AWARDS
BURY COURT OPERA
Director of Music and Organist of the Royal Hospital Chelsea
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THE FAIRY-QUEEN in association with Bury Court Opera
THE GOULD PIANO
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Henry Purcell The Fairy Queen, Z. 629
Composed in 1692, Purcell’s The Fairy-Queen consists of an astonishing set of masques, written to accompany Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and is one of the very first English ‘operas’, representing in many ways the culmination of Purcell’s dramatic style. It is possible that the work, with its concluding masque featuring Hymen, the God of Marriage, was written for the fifteenth wedding anniversary of William and Mary, who were on the throne during the completion of the Royal Hospital and the consecration of its Wren Chapel in 1691: it is hard, therefore, to think of a more apt setting for this concert performance of Bury Court Opera’s critically acclaimed 2014 production, moving to the Royal Hospital for one night only: an unmissable treat to open our 2014 RH Concert Series.
Eloise Irving, Flore Philis soprano Lily Papaioannou mezzo-soprano Magid El-Bushra, John Lattimore counter-tenor David Webb tenor Richard Latham baritone Aidan Smith bass Julia Burbach director Simon Over, William Vann musical directors The Wren Players
Edwin York Bowen Rhapsody Trio (1926) Robert Schumann Trio in G minor, Op. 110 Felix Mendelssohn Trio in D minor, Op. 49
For over twenty years the Gould Piano Trio have remained at the forefront of the chamber music scene, having been launched into an international career by winning the first Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. Selected as YCAT artists they subsequently became ‘Rising Stars’ performing at major venues in Europe and North America. Familiar to listeners of BBC Radio 3, they perform at major festivals and venues in the UK and abroad, with regular tours to the United States. They have recently recorded the trios by Dvorak and Mendelssohn for Champs Hill Records and on 8th October they perform three highlights of the trio repertoire: once dubbed the ‘English Rachmaninov’, York Bowen’s music is enjoying ‘a remarkable revival’ (The Times) and his haunting rhapsody appears alongside Schumann’s late, passionate trio and Mendelssohn’s first trio: one of his most popular chamber works and a romantic masterpiece.
Lucy Gould violin Alice Neary cello Benjamin Frith piano
Wednesday 24th September Wednesday 8th October
“THE CAST’S ENUNCIATION WAS BEYOND ONE’S WILDEST HOPES...
THE TIMBRES OF AIDAN SMITH’S VOICE ARE QUITE GORGEOUS...
SHE TOOK HALF PURCELL’S PLUM SOPRANO ARIAS AND TURNED
THEM INTO GOLD.”
TheArtsDesk.com
“PURE GOULD... TRIO PLAYING AT ITS BEST.”
The Strad
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LUMINANCE: LISA FRIEND & ANNA STOKES
THE CHAPEL CHOIR OF THE
ROYAL HOSPITAL
Internationally-renowned, British flautists Lisa Friend and Anna Stokes joined forces for their critically acclaimed 2014 CD Luminance, and on 22nd October they perform this unique recital of romantic and charming arrangements for flute duo with cello and piano accompaniment. Works by the French composers Fauré, Ibert and Saint-Saëns are performed alongside music by Argentine Piazzolla, who revolutionised the tango and Ennio Morricone, one of the most prolific film composers of all time, and some rare treats by lesser-known composers.
Since its release, Luminance has been chosen as Classic FM’s CD of the Week (January 2014), David Mellor’s Album of the Week (5 Star Review) in the Mail on Sunday (January 2014) and aired on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 2, Classic FM and RTE Lyric FM. They are delighted to be joined for the evening by cellist Martin Radford and pianist Mark Kincaid.
Lisa Friend flute Anna Stokes flute Martin Radford cello Mark Kincaid piano
Gabriel Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine Jaques Ibert Deux Interludes Ennio Morricone Cinema Paradiso Ástor Piazzolla Oblivion Camille Saint-Saëns Odelette and other works by Joachim Andersen, Franz Doppler, Philippe Gaubert and Georges Hüe.
Johann Sebastian Bach Magnificat, BWV 243 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Requiem, K. 626
Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor is undoubtedly the most famous of all unfinished musical compositions. Composed in Vienna in 1791, the work was only partially complete when Mozart died of a fever on 5th December and was completed the following year by Franz Xaver Süssmayr, in order to fulfil the original commission by Count Franz von Walsegg, an amateur chamber musician who routinely commissioned works by composers and passed them off as his own! On 5th November we hear the Requiem alongside Bach’s 1733 Magnificat, a stunning extended setting of the Virgin Mary’s speech from Luke’s gospel for choir, soloists and orchestra. The Royal Hospital’s own, critically acclaimed Chapel Choir, which is formed from some of London’s finest professional choral singers and musicians, provides the chorus and soloists and William Vann, Director of Music, conducts.
The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea The Wren Players William Vann conductor
Wednesday 22nd October Wednesday 5th November
“IF THE SOUND OF ONE FLUTE IS ATTRACTIVE, THE SOUND OF
TWO, PLAYED AS WELL AS THEY ARE HERE, IS EXHILARATING.”
Mail on Sunday (Album of the Week review)
“BEAUTIFUL PLAYING”
BBC Music Magazine (April 2014)
“A VIVIDLY INVOLVING SEQUENCE OF CHORUSES, THE CHOIR COMBINED CHARACTERFUL PERFORMANCE WITH SOME FINELY FOCUSSED SINGING. EACH [SINGER] CONTRIBUTED HIGHLY CHARACTERFUL AND TECHNICALLY ACCOMPLISHED SINGING...
THIS WAS A MARVELLOUSLY INVOLVING PERFORMANCE.”
Robert Hugill’s review of the Chapel Choir’s performance of Israel in Egypt, 2013
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MASS OF THE CHILDREN/SAINT
NICOLAS supported by the Tillett Trust
and the Kathleen Ferrier Awards
John Rutter Mass of the Children Benjamin Britten Saint Nicolas, Op. 42
Last year’s opening concert in the RH Concert Series brought together professional musicians alongside singers and orchestral players from local schools in a stunning performance of Britten’s Noye’s Fludde and this year we repeat the feat. Rutter’s Mass of the Children, first performed at Carnegie Hall in 2003, is a non-liturgical Missa brevis, setting the traditional Latin and Greek Mass text interwoven with several English poems. Britten’s cantata Saint Nicolas ushers in the Christmas season with a text by Eric Crozier, written after extensive research into the legendary life of Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, and is a dramatic portrait of the life of, and legends associated with, this mystical figure. The English Chamber Choir celebrated their fortieth anniversary in 2012, and join soloists Keri Fuge, Thomas Herford, 2013 Kathleen Ferrier Award winner Gareth Brynmor John, the Wren Players and local schoolchildren under the baton of the Royal Hospital’s Director of Music, William Vann.
The English Chamber Choir The Wren Players The Choirs of Garden House School, St Barnabas’ CE Primary School & Thomas’s School, Battersea Keri Fuge soprano Thomas Herford tenor Gareth Brynmor John baritone William Vann conductor
Wednesday 19th November
“KERI FUGE SANG WITH
DRAMATIC FORCE AND
VOCAL SPLENDOUR”
Ceasefire Magazine
“GARETH BRYNMOR JOHN’S CLARITY, WARMTH AND EVEN SPREAD
HELD US GRIPPED FROM THE BEGINNING.”The Times
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DIRECTIONSThe Royal Hospital Chelsea is easily accessible by public transport. Victoria railway and coach stations are approximately 20 minutes walk and bus numbers 11, 137, 211 and 360 stop just outside the grounds. Sloane Square on the District and Circle lines is the nearest underground station and is approximately 10 minutes walk from the Royal Hospital.
If traveling by car, free parking is available at the Royal Hospital Chelsea.
Cadogan Hall are acting as the Box Office for the 2014 Royal Hospital Concert Series
PRICES Series Box Seat .......................................... £100 Series Unreserved Seat ................................ £80Individual Performance Box Seat ................ £25 Individual Performance Unreserved Seat ... £20
WAYS TO BOOK TICKETSOn-line: cadoganhall.com Telephone: 020 7730 4500 In Person: Cadogan Hall Ticket Office,
5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQPost: Please use the postal booking form opposite
Wine and soft drinks will be served at the interval of each concert (this is included in the ticket price).
All concerts start at 7pm. Latecomers may be refused admission to the performance until a suitable break or the interval.
There will be a Concert Series programme available each evening priced at £3.
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The Royal Hospital is perfectly situated for all of London’s attractions and is well serviced by Sloane Square underground station just 5 minutes away and a number of bus routes that you can catch from right outside the Royal Hospital gates.
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SEASON TICKETS Price per person No. of Tickets TotalSeries Box Seat £100Series Unreserved Seat £80The Fairy-Queen - 24th September Price per person No. of Tickets TotalBox Seat £25Unreserved Seat £20The Gould Piano Trio - 8th October Price per person No. of Tickets TotalBox Seat £25Unreserved Seat £20Lisa Friend & Anna Stokes - 22nd October Price per person No. of Tickets Total
Box Seat £25Unreserved Seat £20The Chapel Choir - 5th November Price per person No. of Tickets TotalBox Seat £25Unreserved Seat £20Mass of the Children/Saint Nicolas - 19th November Price per person No. of Tickets Total
Box Seat £25Unreserved Seat £20Booking fee Please add £2.50
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