Christopher’s Classics - Series XXIII 2018 Fe. The Thurch ... · Violin & Piano Antonin Dvorak ~ String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, op. 96 (’American’) Allegro ma non troppo

DVORAK ~ String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, op. 96 (American)JACK BODY ~ Three Transcriptions-interval-RAVEL ~ String Quartet in F Major

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The final Christopher’s Classics concert for 2010 is the:

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Programme includes: Rachmaninoff, Babdjanian, Schumann.Tuesday October 12th, 2010, 8pm

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Tuesday, May 1st, 2018, 7.30pmThe Piano, 156 Armagh St, Christchurch

The busiest lives deserve beautiful music.

NEXT CONCERT: Miles Jackson“The Romantic Guitar - from Bach to Beatles”

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All concerts start at at 7.30pm in The Piano, 156 Armagh StDoor sales are available, No Eftpos, cash only.

October Thursday 20: Affetto, early music fromseventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe- ‘a play on words’

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October Thursday 20:Affetto, early music fromseventeenth and eighteenth-century Europe- ‘a play on words’

The 2017 Season line-up has been finalised comprisingsix concerts including the following:Sweet Chance - Morag Atchison, Catrin Johnsson & RachelFuller • Mark Menzies, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, & JulieFeves • Diedre Irons, Vesa-Matti Leppanen, Julia Joyce &Andrew Joyce • New Zealand String Quartet • WilmaSmith & Friends • Tony Lin & Jun Bouterey-Ishido.The 2017 Season brochure is now available and will also be sent to the mailinglist. The Early Bird Subscription offer will be available from November to earlyFebruary. The first concert will be on Thursday March 2nd, 2017.

29th March, Wednesday, 7.30Mark Menzies (piano),Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick (cello - USA),& Julie Feves (bassoon - USA).

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17th August, Thursday, 7.30New Zealand String QuartetHelene Pohl (violin), Monique Lapins (violin),Gillian Ansell (viola) & Rolf Gjelsten (cello).Janacek - String Quartet no 2, Intimate Letters;Jack Body - Saetas;Mendelssohn - Quartet no 2 in A minor, op 13.

Performing: Dvorak, Body and Ravel

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Antonin Dvorak~ String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, op. 96 (’American’)Allegro ma non troppoLentoMolto vivaceVivace ma non troppo

Jack Body ~ Three TranscriptionsLong-ge (China)Ramandriana (Madagascar)Ratschenita (Bulgaria)

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Maurice Ravel ~ String Quartet in F MajorAllegro moderato - Tres douxAssez vif - Tres rythmeTres lentVif et agite

The Behn Quartet is formed of players from New Zealand, the Netherlands,England, and Wales. Winners of the Charles Hennen First Prize at the OrlandoInternational Chamber Music Competition 2017, they currently hold theCAVATINA Chamber Music Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music inLondon. They take their name from Aphra Behn, the seventeenth-centuryplaywright, political activist, and philanthropist of the arts.Since their formation in 2015 the Behn Quartet have given recitals aroundEurope, including at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, String QuartetBiennale Amsterdam, in association with Dimore del Quartetto, and atWigmore Hall with thanks to the Maisie Lewis Young Artists' Award. Theygave the world premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ final work at hisMemorial Concert in St John’s Smith Square and live on BBC Radio 3, andhave recorded chamber works by Maxwell Davies, Stravinsky and Birtwistlefor Linn Records. The Behn Quartet were also part of the official 40th

Tony received furtherinspiration at numerousmasterclasses (including theLucerne Festival, Emil GilelsFoundation Festival, CohiliaInternational Arts Festival) withworld-renowned pianists andpedagogues such as PaulBadura-Skoda, Ferenc Rados,

NZSQ with Serenity Thurlow - Quartets by Beethoven andBartok, the Mozart C Major QuintetRichard Mapp - piano recitalNZ Barok with James Bush (cello) - The Splendor of Venice

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28th February, Wednesday, 7.30pmNatalia Lomeiko†(viola);†KirstenRobertson†(piano)Debussy; Strauss; Ysaye - no 4Sonata; Brahms - Scherzo from FAESonata

Beethoven ~ Piano Quartet in E-flat Major Op. 16I. Grave - Allegro ma non troppo II. Andante Cantabile III. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppoThis work is a reimagining by the composer of his previously written wind quintet,that had itself, been inspired by Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds. Beethovenmade no secret of being a great admirer of Mozart and used the same compositionalform

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Anniversary celebrations of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, performing aspecially-commissioned ‘reimagination’ of the iconic song featured in newsoutlets worldwide, and praised by Rolling Stone Magazine as “a sweepingperformance as grand as the original”.The Behn Quartet currently study with Christoph Richter and David Watermanon the Chamber Studio masterclass scheme at Kings Place London, and haveperformed for the Takacs Quartet in a masterclass on Beethoven at WigmoreHall. Future engagements include their Concertgebouw debut as part of theOrlando Competition Winner’s Tour in the Netherlands, and a performanceof Mendelssohn Octet as part of their Residency at the Wiltshire Music Centrewith the Doric Quartet.The Behn Quartet are generously supported by Help Musicians UK, the DeLancey & De La Hanty Foundation, and the CAVATINA Chamber MusicTrust. The Quartet plays instruments and bows kindly on loan by the RoyalAcademy of Music and Hurwitz Fine Instruments.New Zealand violinist Kate Oswin was awarded the Patricia Pratt Scholarshipin Musical Performance to undertake Masters studies at the Royal Academyof Music in London in 2014. While studying as the Leverhulme Trust Scholar,she performed as Concertmaster of all the Academy ensembles, and performedin the elite Academy Soloists at Wigmore Hall, Buckingham Palace, and liveon BBC Radio 3. She studied with Remus Azoitei, and received masterclassesfrom Maxim Vengerov, Daniel Hope, and Lawrence Power. Upon graduating,Kate was awarded the prestigious Regency Award for outstanding achievement.She is currently working as a Chamber Music Fellow at the Academy, teachesundergraduate violin students at King’s College London, and works with theLondon Philharmonic Orchestra as part of their 'Future Firsts' programme,for which she is mentored by the Concertmaster Pieter Schoemann.Kate is a graduate of the NZSM, where she was awarded the Roy Jack Prizefor String Players and Clare Galambos-Winter Scholarship in ViolinPerformance. She is a former winner of the NZCT Chamber Music Contest,finalist in the NZ Concerto Competition, and Special Prizewinner at theGisborne International Music Competition. She has previously worked as aviolinist in Orchestra Wellington, the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, andas a contract player in the NZSO.Kate plays a 1780 Gagliano violin, on generous loan from the Royal Academyof Music.Dutch-born violinist Alicia Berendse graduated with distinction from theRoyal Academy of Music in 2016. She attended the Academy thanks to thegenerous sponsorship of the Prins Bernhard Foundation, the VSB-foundation,and others. In 2014, she completed her undergraduate studies at theConservatorium van Amsterdam where she studied with Peter Brunt andLex Korff de Gidts. Alicia is both an active chamber and orchestral musician.She regularly plays with the London Chamber Orchestra, Oxford Philharmonic,

and Pynarello, an ensemble performing from memory. As a principal playerof the Orpheus Sinfonia London, she performed chamber music with SirAntonio Pappano and appeared in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall.Alicia plays a Thomas Carcassi violin from 1775 and a Lamy bow, which iskindly on loan from the Royal Academy of Music and Hurwitz FineInstruments and Bows.Violist Lydia Abell is originally from Cardiff, and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She was the recipient of the Margit & Benjamin Dale Award,which supported her studies with Martin Outram at the Royal Academy ofMusic, and during her studies at the University of Cambridge.Recent engagements include working with composer John Adams on newcompositions and pieces from his Book of Alleged Dances; performing BoulezMessagesquisse for seven violists with principal violist of the LSO, PaulSilverthorne; and performing in masterclasses given by Atar Arad, HelenCallus, Garth Knox, and Hartmut Rohde. She performed with the RoyalAcademy Soloists in the Menuhin Competition 2016 and live on BBC Radio3, and in the highly-acclaimed Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata series. Shealso enjoyed playing Schubert Octet as part of the Crying Out Loud ConcertSeries at Wigmore Hall 2016.Lydia plays an unnamed Milanese viola, on generous loan from the RoyalAcademy of Music.Ghislaine McMullin is an award-winning cellist, based in London. Shereceived the Musicians’ Company Silver Medal 2016 for musical excellence,and has also won recognition from the London Symphony Orchestra, beingjointly awarded the 2010 LSO Candide Award for the most promising youngstring player. She has taken part in the prestigious LSO Strings ExperienceScheme, and the Birmingham Royal Ballet Mentorship Scheme, 2016/17.Ghislaine has also worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra and BBC ConcertOrchestra.A graduate of The Royal Academy of Music, and St John’s College, Cambridge,Ghislaine previously studied with Josephine Knight and LSO principal cello,Tim Hugh. Her playing has been broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and on BBCRadio Scotland. Recent notable concert performances include Messiaen’sQuartet for the End of Time with international violinist Jack Liebeck, andStravinsky’s Septet conducted by Oliver Knussen.She plays a c.1760 Gagliano cello, kindly on loan from the Royal Academyof Music.

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Biographies and Notes from Chamber Music New Zealand (CMNZ).

Our "Six of the Best" XXIII Season continues with:

Behn StringQuartetTuesday May 1st, 7.30pmLed by Kate Oswin of Christchurchbut now in England with thisexciting new Quartet playing:Dvorak -The AmericanRavel - QuartetJack Body - Transcriptions

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* We are doing PROGRAMME TWO- DVORAJust speaking to Christopher about what to include in theProgramme from the information attached.

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* We are doing PROGRAMME TWO- DVORAK

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- finishing after INTERVAL with RAVEL

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We will need to include the NEXT CONCERT on the BACK PAGE -Thursday, 23rd August 2018 7.30pmNew Zealand String Quartet & Serenity ThurlowPlaying Beethoven, Bartok, Webern String Quartets, Mozart String Quintetin C

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"The Behn Quartet presents a sublime Dutch debut in the Witte Kerk Ö. Already inthe first few bars, the Behn Quartet stands out with a controlled, powerful andexpressive sound, promising much for the rest of the concert... throughout, the BehnQuartet demonstrates excellent expressiveness and technique." De Uitkijkpost,Heiloou8232"All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn whichis, most scandalously but rather appropriately, in Westminster Abbey, for it was shewho earned them the right to speak their minds."f0 - Virginia Woolf, A Room of Oneís Own

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LISTEN and Watchhttps://youtu.be/wM3l3AxibjU - Ravel in Performance 2017https://soundcloud.com/behn-quartet/j-haydn-string-quartet-in-d-major-op645-lark-iiimenuet-trio-iv-finalehttps://youtu.be/1_AUCXjURLo - interview for Norfolk & Norwich Festivalhttps://youtu.be/g9BAS4gua5k - interview in The Netherlandshttps://youtu.be/gWyBmuLqx6M - Queen!https://youtu.be/3KodAi4ChDo - tour in pictureshttps://youtu.be/aIFUyROR47c - a short feature about the Three Transcriptions ofJack Body

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Programme TwoDVORAK | String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, op. 96 (ìAmericanî)JACK BODY†| Three Transcriptions-interval-RAVEL | String Quartet in F Major

Hi Christopher and Dee

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Diana

From: Jack H obbs <[email protected]>Sent: Friday, 6 April 2018 11:25 AMTo: Diana Moir <[email protected]>Subject: RE: As discussed - inclusion of Christopher's Classics as co-presenter of Behnquartet concert

Dear Diana,Thank for you call this morning – I have spoken to our marketing team about findingmore places that we can include Christopher’s Classics in our marketing. They havealso sent me some information to help you share our electronic newsletter (EDM)with your networks.

You can either share the whole EDM by copying this link into a facebook post oremail:https://mailchi.mp/chambermusic/rccdi9lzsu-2680341

Or to share the various parts singularly, which might be more engaging, simplyfollow the link to each of them and use that. Copied them below for ease:

Kate Q&A: http://www.chambermusic.co.nz/news-and-reviews/q-a-with-kate-oswin-from-the-behn-quartetSpotify Playlist:https://open.spotify.com/user/chambermusicnewzealand/playlist/0Hp6d9DfuMeD5jklk6RAzA?si=6FFoJ3Y9SzS7AkVRpjC3vg

5 Fast Facts: http://www.chambermusic.co.nz/news-and-reviews/5-fast-facts-behn-quartetBohemian Rhapsody Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWyBmuLqx6MMessage from Behn Quartet video:https://www.facebook.com/ChamberMusicNZ/videos/1852064434813072/ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUOuFP3Cguw

Antonin Dvorak Born 8 September 1841 ~ Died 1 May 1904String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, op. 96 (’American’)Allegro ma non troppoLentoMolto vivaceVivace ma non troppo

In June 1893, Dvorak and his family travelled from New York to the ruralsettlement of Spillville in north-east Iowa ~ a community inhabited by Czechimmigrants. Eight months earlier, Dvorak had taken up the position of Directorof the National Conservatory of Music of America, but his time in New Yorkwas darkened by bouts of nostalgia and homesickness. In Spillville, however,he felt very much at home and took great delight in being able to greet andchat with the townsfolk in his native language. For their part, the men andwoman of Spillville were delighted too, when Dvorak sat at the organ andled the music at the town’s little church of St Wenceslas. In Spillville, Dvorakimmediately set about composing a new string quartet ~ finishing the sketchin three days. Within a fortnight the score was complete, and he wrote in themanuscripts. “Thanks to the Lord God. I am content. It went quickly.” Thequartet was later given the title ‘American’ and serves as a pleasant reminderof that wonderful holiday that the Dvorak family spent with their countrymenin Spillville, Iowa.One of Dvorak’s most joyous works, the American Quartet is American reallyin name only. Certainly, it is difficult to determine what (if any) influence thesights and sounds the United States had on Dvorak and his work.The quartet opens in good humour with a pentatonic theme in the key of Fmajor. Outlined on the viola against the brightly murmuring accompanimentof the violins. The lyrical second melody, also pentatonic in character but thistime in A major, is introduced at the end of the exposition and leads to acanonic episode in the development section.The Lento second movement starts with a dreamy molto expressivo melodyin D minor which soars over a gently rocking accompaniment. A passionatedialogue ensures between the first and second violins ~ and later betweenthe first violin and cello.Dvorak constructs the entire third movement out of a single eight-bar phrase,which contains a four-note theme in the key of F major. In the trio section,later in the movement, he uses the same theme, but this time in longer notesand in the key of F minor. The chirruping of the first violin is said to havebeen inspired the call of a ‘red bird with black wings’ (the scarlet tanager),which Dvorak heard while in Spillville.The quartet ends in an effervescent mood, broken only by a chorale-likesection ~ a fond reminder perhaps of Dvorak at the Pfeffer organ in StWenceslas church in Spillville.

Jack Body Born Te Aroha, Waikato, 1944 ~ Died Wellington, 2015Three TranscriptionsLong-ge (China)Ramandriana (Madagascar)Ratschenita (Bulgaria)

After music studies that took him around the world from Auckland, toUtrecht and to then to Indonesia, Jack Body took up a teaching post at theNew Zealand School of Music that he held for three decades. His outputincludes a great variety of forms from opera to electroacoustic compositionsand often draws on Jack’s ability to take inspiration from non-westernmusic such as Indonesian gamelan.Kate Oswin first met Jack Body when she was at high school ~ “he camein one day and I had an individual composition lesson with him on a pieceI had written for full orchestra. I remember feeling quite in awe of him!His Three Transcriptions was actually the first work we selected for ourtour - I was researching NZ works to include in our programmes and cameacross a YouTube video of the NZSQ playing excerpts of this piece. Weloved the energy and variety of the different folk traditions, and it is greatfun to perform! The other works we decided to programme around it alsohave strong folk influences.”During 30 years lecturing music at Victoria University Wellington he keenlypromoted music from the Asia-Pacific, establishing a residency for overseasmusicians to work with staff and students. Body’s long musical journeyalso included a variety of compositions for the screen, from the evocativescore of Vincent Ward classic ‘Vigil’ to 1974's ‘Ueneku’, the first televisiondrama in te reo as well as the theme music for soap opera ‘Close to Home’.Born in the Waikato town of Te Aroha, Body grew up in a house with norecord player. At eight he began learning piano; by 11 he was playing hiscompositions at concerts run by his music teacher. By his third year ofstudying music (with first class honours) at Auckland University, Bodywas organist and choirmaster at a Remuera church.Ever popular with audiences, this three movement string quartet juxtaposestranscriptions of music played by a Chinese jaw harp, a Madagascan zitherand the music of a Bulgarian village band. It was composed at the requestof the Kronos Quartet who have played the work throughout the world.In 2001 Jack Body was honoured with a New Zealand Order of Merit forhis services to music, education and photography; three years later the ArtsFoundation made him an Arts Laureate, and shortly before his death,became the first laureate to also be named an Arts Foundation Icon.

Maurice Ravel Born Ciboure, Basses Pyrenees, 7 March 1875~ Died Paris, 28 December 1937String Quartet in F MajorAllegro moderato - Tres douxAssez vif - Tres rythmeTres lentVif et agite

Ravel was a young man of 27 when he wrote his much-loved and only StringQuartet. Already well known in France, he had gained a reputation for hissensuous melodic writing, particularly in works such as the song cycleShéhérazade, and the miniature masterpiece Pavane pour une infante defunte.The String Quartet is an important landmark in Ravel’s career, although likemost of his works it attracted mixed responses in its first few years. At the firstperformance in 1904, the work was praised by his contemporaries Debussyand D’Indy, but was harshly criticized by the dedicatee, Ravel’s teacher GabrielFauré. Initially composed as part of a quartet written in honour of Fauré byfour of his pupils, the first movement was submitted by Ravel for the ParisConservatoire composition prize in 1903. Despite reaching the final round hewas unsuccessful, with the Conservatoire Director Theodore Dubois commentingthat the work “lacked simplicity”. However, Debussy, with whom Ravel waspersonally acquainted, told him not to change a note.The overall form of the String Quartet in F draws on the cyclic structure foundin the quartets of Franck and Debussy. In Ravel’s work, the main themesreappear throughout all four movements, and much of the Quartet’s materialis derived from the melodic and rhythmic transformation of these themes.The first movement (marked 'moderately fast ~ very sweetly') is written insonata form and opens with a flowing melody in first violin accompanied bygentle parallel scale passages. After a short outburst of energy a delicate secondmain theme is presented by the first violin and viola, playing in unison buttwo octaves apart. A triplet upbeat figure from this theme becomes a signature.The second movement ('quite lively ~ very rhythmically') is a scherzo that isnotable for its interlocking pizzicato effects, which clearly show the influenceof Debussy's Quartet. A central slow passage, for muted instruments, recallsthe tenderness of the first movement, and at one point r equires the secondviolin to play “like a harp”. The 'very slow' thir d movement is a type of freerhapsody, although Ravel’s emotional restraint controls its expression andgives it a nostalgic character.The final movement ('lively and restless') concludes the Quartet with a splashof rhythmic energy. Beginning with furious tremolando phrases and percussivepizzicato chords, it contains many references to material from earlier movements,with dance-like versions of the main themes and fr equent changes of timesignature.

KATE OSWIN & ALICIA BERENDSE, violinsLYDIA ABELL, viola GHISLAINE MCMULLIN, cello

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Your contact to Christopher’s ClassicsFor addition and alterations to the mailing list phone Helen Webbyon (03) 331 7112 or 021 664 344 or email: [email protected] general concert information and subscription queries email:[email protected] or visit our website:christophersclassics.nz or Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/christophersclassics/

Acknowledgements : Elizabeth Ball Trust, Rata Foundation, The Piano,Antonio Strings, Gloria Streat, The Philip Carter Family Concert Hallat The Piano and private donors - thank you all.

September 13 Richard Mapp - piano recitalOctober 16 NZ Barok with James Bush (cello) - The Splendour of Venice

Our "Six of the Best" XXIII Season continues in Spring with:

The "Six of the Best" XXIII Season resumes in Spring with:

Tickets: Door Sales: Subject to availability, by Cash or Eftpos.On-line Sales: www.eventfinda.co.nz (all charges to purchaser).

NEXT CONCERT on theBACK PAGE -Thursday, 23rd August2018 7.30pmNew Zealand StringQuartet & SerenityThurlowPlaying Beethoven,Bartok, Webern StringQuartets, Mozart StringQuintet in C

New Zealand String Quartet& Serenity Thurlow (viola)Thursday Aug 23rd, 7.30pmBeethoven - String Quartet in f minor, Op. 95, Bartok - String QuartetNo 2, Op. 17, Webern - 6 Bagatelles, Mozart - C Major Quintet.

ATTENTION: Chris MarshallExtra message page:

Hi Chris

Here’s the programme proof.I think I have everything in there.

I’ll probably print it on Monday, as Friday is Sally’sbirthday...

But I can send you a ‘Final website version’ forFriday if there are no mistakes with this - (or justa few) - But don’t use this one anyway.

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The Behn Quartet is formed of players from New Zealand, the Netherlands,England, and Wales. Winners of the Charles Hennen First Prize at the OrlandoInternational Chamber Music Competition 2017, they currently hold theCAVATINA Chamber Music Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music inLondon. They take their name from Aphra Behn, the seventeenth-centuryplaywright, political activist, and philanthropist of the arts.Since their formation in 2015 the Behn Quartet have given recitals aroundEurope, including at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, String QuartetBiennale Amsterdam, in association with Dimore del Quartetto, and atWigmore Hall with thanks to the Maisie Lewis Young Artists' Award. Theygave the world premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ final work at hisMemorial Concert in St John’s Smith Square and live on BBC Radio 3, andhave recorded chamber works by Maxwell Davies, Stravinsky and Birtwistlefor Linn Records. The Behn Quartet were also part of the official 40th




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Ravel was a young man of 27 when he wrote his much-loved and only StringQuartet. Already well known in France, he had gained a reputation for hissensuous melodic writing, particularly in works such as the song cycleShéhérazade, and the miniature masterpiece Pavane pour une infante defunte.The String Quartet is an important landmark in Ravel’s career, although likemost of his works it attracted mixed responses in its first few years. At the firstperformance in 1904, the work was praised by his contemporaries Debussyand D’Indy, but was harshly criticized by the dedicatee, Ravel’s teacher GabrielFauré. Initially composed as part of a quartet written in honour of Fauré byfour of his pupils, the first movement was submitted by Ravel for the ParisConservatoire composition prize in 1903. Despite reaching the final round hewas unsuccessful, with the Conservatoire Director Theodore Dubois commentingthat the work “lacked simplicity”. However, Debussy, with whom Ravel waspersonally acquainted, told him not to change a note.The overall form of the String Quartet in F draws on the cyclic structure foundin the quartets of Franck and Debussy. In Ravel’s work, the main themesreappear throughout all four movements, and much of the Quartet’s materialis derived from the melodic and rhythmic transformation of these themes.The first movement (marked 'moderately fast ~ very sweetly') is written insonata form and opens with a flowing melody in first violin accompanied bygentle parallel scale passages. After a short outburst of energy a delicate secondmain theme is presented by the first violin and viola, playing in unison buttwo octaves apart. A triplet upbeat figure from this theme becomes a signature.The second movement ('quite lively ~ very rhythmically') is a scherzo that isnotable for its interlocking pizzicato effects, which clearly show the influenceof Debussy's Quartet. A central slow passage, for muted instruments, recallsthe tenderness of the first movement, and at one point requires the secondviolin to play “like a harp”. The 'very slow' third movement is a type of freerhapsody, although Ravel’s emotional restraint controls its expression andgives it a nostalgic character.The final movement ('lively and restless') concludes the Quartet with a splashof rhythmic energy. Beginning with furious tremolando phrases and percussivepizzicato chords, it contains many references to material from earlier movements,with dance-like versions of the main themes and frequent changes of timesignature.




Your contact to Christopher’s ClassicsFor addition and alterations to the mailing list phone Helen Webbyon (03) 331 7112 or 021 664 344 or email: [email protected] general concert information and subscription queries email:[email protected] or visit our website:christophersclassics.nz or Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/christophersclassics/

Acknowledgements : Elizabeth Ball Trust, Rata Foundation, The Piano,Antonio Strings, Gloria Streat, The Philip Carter Family Concert Hallat The Piano and private donors - thank you all.






New Zealand String Quartet& Serenity Thurlow (viola)Thursday Aug 23rd, 7.30pmBeethoven - String Quartet in f minor, Op. 95, Bartok - String QuartetNo 2, Op. 17, Webern - 6 Bagatelles, Mozart - C Major Quintet.


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Thursday Aug 23rd, 7.30pmBeethoven - String Quartet in f minor, Op. 95, Bartok - String Quartet

No 2, Op. 17, Webern - 6 Bagatelles, Mozart - C Major Quintet.


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Anniversary celebrations of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, performing aspecially-commissioned ‘reimagination’ of the iconic song featured in newsoutlets worldwide, and praised by Rolling Stone Magazine as “a sweepingperformance as grand as the original”.The Behn Quartet currently study with Christoph Richter and David Watermanon the Chamber Studio masterclass scheme at Kings Place London, and haveperformed for the Takacs Quartet in a masterclass on Beethoven at WigmoreHall. Future engagements include their Concertgebouw debut as part of theOrlando Competition Winner’s Tour in the Netherlands, and a performanceof Mendelssohn Octet as part of their Residency at the Wiltshire Music Centrewith the Doric Quartet.The Behn Quartet are generously supported by He lp Musicians UK, the DeLancey & De La Hanty Foundation, and the CAVATINA Chamber MusicTrust. The Quartet plays instruments and bows kindly on loan by the RoyalAcademy of Music and Hurwitz Fine Instruments.New Zealand violinist Kate Oswin was awarded the Patricia Pratt Scholarshipin Musical Performance to undertake Masters studies at the Royal Academyof Music in London in 2014. While studying as the Leverhulme Trust Scholar,she performed as Concertmaster of all the Academy ensembles, and performedin the elite Academy Soloists at Wigmore Hall, Buckingham Palace, and liveon BBC Radio 3. She studied with Remus Azoitei, and received masterclassesfrom Maxim Vengerov, Daniel Hope, and Lawrence Power. Upon graduating,Kate was awarded the prestigious Regency Award for outstanding achievement.She is currently working as a Chamber Music Fellow at the Academy, teachesundergraduate violin students at King’s College London, and works with theLondon Philharmonic Orchestra as part of their 'Future Firsts' programme,for which she is mentored by the Concertmaster Pieter Schoemann.Kate is a graduate of the NZSM, where she was awarded the Roy Jack Prizefor String Players and Clare Galambos-Winter Scholarship in ViolinPerformance. She is a former winner of the NZCT Chamber Music Contest,finalist in the NZ Concerto Competition, and Special Prizewinner at theGisborne International Music Competition. She has previously worked as aviolinist in Orchestra Wellington, the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra, andas a contract player in the NZSO.Kate plays a 1780 Gagliano violin, on generous loan from the Royal Academyof Music.Dutch-born violinist Alicia Berendse graduated with distinction from theRoyal Academy of Music in 2016. She attended the Academy thanks to thegenerous sponsorship of the Prins Bernhard Foundation, the VSB-foundation,and others. In 2014, she completed her undergraduate studies at theConservatorium van Amsterdam where she studied with Peter Brunt andLex Korff de Gidts. Alicia is both an active chamber and orchestral musician.She regularly plays with the London Chamber Orchestra, Oxford Philharmonic,









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and Pynarello, an ensemble performing from memory. As a principal playerof the Orpheus Sinfonia London, she performed chamber music with SirAntonio Pappano and appeared in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall.Alicia plays a Thomas Carcassi violin from 1775 and a Lamy bow, which iskindly on loan from the Royal Academy of Music and Hurwitz FineInstruments and Bows.Violist Lydia Abell is originally from Cardiff, and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She was the recipient of the Margit & Benjamin Dale Award,which supported her studies with Martin Outram at the Royal Academy ofMusic, and during her studies at the University of Cambridge.Recent engagements include working with composer John Adams on newcompositions and pieces from his Book of Alleged Dances; performing BoulezMessagesquisse for seven violists with principal violist of the LSO, PaulSilverthorne; and performing in masterclasses given by Atar Arad, HelenCallus, Garth Knox, and Hartmut Rohde. She performed with the RoyalAcademy Soloists in the Menuhin Competition 2016 and live on BBC Radio3, and in the highly-acclaimed Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata series. Shealso enjoyed playing Schubert Octet as part of the Crying Out Loud ConcertSeries at Wigmore Hall 2016.Lydia plays an unnamed Milanese viola, on generous loan from the RoyalAcademy of Music.Ghislaine McMullin is an award-winning cellist, based in London. Shereceived the Musicians’ Company Silver Medal 2016 for musical excellence,and has also won recognition from the London Symphony Orchestra, beingjointly awarded the 2010 LSO Candide Award for the most promising youngstring player. She has taken part in the prestigious LSO Strings ExperienceScheme, and the Birmingham Royal Ballet Mentorship Scheme, 2016/17.Ghislaine has also worked with the Philharmonia Orchestra and BBC ConcertOrchestra.A graduate of The Royal Academy of Music, and St John’s College, Cambridge,Ghislaine previously studied with Josephine Knight and LSO principal cello,Tim Hugh. Her playing has been broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and on BBCRadio Scotland. Recent notable concert performances include Messiaen’sQuartet for the End of Time with international violinist Jack Liebeck, andStravinsky’s Septet conducted by Oliver Knu ssen.She plays a c.1760 Gagliano cello, kindly on loan from the Royal Academyof Music.








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Programme includes: Rachmaninoff, Babdjanian, Schumann.Tuesday October 12th, 2010, 8pmnow at the Maurice Till AuditoriumChch Music Centre, Barbadoes StTickets from Court Theatre Ticket Office


Your contact to Christopher’s ClassicsNick & Judy Derrick, phone (03) 352-3412 or email [email protected] mailing list and subscription queries. Tickets & brochures available at theCourt Theatre in The Arts Centre, Worcester Boulevard, ph (03) 963 0870.

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The 2017 Season line-up has been finalised comprisingsix concerts including the following:

Sweet Chance - Morag Atchison, Catrin Johnsson & RachelFuller • Mark Menzies, Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick, & JulieFeves • Diedre Irons, Vesa-Matti Leppanen, Julia Joyce &Andrew Joyce • New Zealand String Quartet • WilmaSmith & Friends • Tony Lin & Jun Bouterey-Ishido.

The 2017 Season brochure is now available and will also be sent to the mailinglist. The Early Bird Subscription offer will be available from November to early

February. The first concert will be on Thursday March 2nd, 2017.


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