Carnival
at Cheltenham 1997
 A series of 5 BBC Invitation concerts from the Pittville
Pump Room in Cheltenham,
based on the theme of `Carnival’
Presented
by John Bird
1 The Composers’ Ensemble (tx 30/3/97) Sibelius:
Scene d’amour for violin and piano
Stravinsky: 3 Pieces
for string quartet
Deirdre Gribbin: Narrative for a Harlequin
for trumpet and piano
Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp
Birtwistle: Chorale
from a Toyshop
Roussel: Serenade
Martinu: 3 Pieces from `Puppets’
Ravel: Introduction and
Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
2 Eileen Hulse (soprano), Paul Watkins (cello), John
Constable (piano) (tx 6/4/97)
Debussy: Pantomime; Clair de lune; Pierrot
Satie: Le Carnaval;
la Comedie Italienne
Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano
Faure: Clair de lune; En
sourdine; Mandoline
Debussy: Fetes galantes Set I
Satie: Les pantins dansent; Petitie
musique de clown triste
Woolrich: La Cantarina
Stravinsky: Suite italienne for cello
and piano
3 The Composers’ Ensemble, Lucy Shelton (soprano),
Simon Wills (trombone), conducted by Diego Masson (Tx 13/4/97)
Sciarrino: Let me die before I wake, for solo clarinet
Couperin:
La Pantomime; L’Arlequine (for piano)
Woolrich: Harlequinade
Berio: Sequenza V for solo trombone
Schoenberg: Pierrot lunaire
4 Eric Le Sage (piano) (tx 20/4/97)
Schumann: 6 Intermezzi, Op.4
Debussy: Masques; L’isle
joyeuse
Poulenc: Napoli
Debussy: Suite bergamasque
Schumann: Carnaval
5 The Nash Ensemble, with Ian Brown and Susan Tomes (pianos),
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)/conducted by Lionel Friend
(tx 27/4/97)
Faure: Dolly Suite
Michael Berkeley: Entertaining Master Punch
Poulenc: Le bal
masque
Richard Rodney Bennett: Commedia I
Saint-Saens: Carnaval des
animaux
The Tales of Hoffmann 1998
A series of four BBC Invitation
concerts from the Pittville Pump Room in Cheltenham,
based around the stories of E.T.A. Hoffmann.
Presented
by Chris de Souza
Programme 1
The Composers Ensemble, Eileen Hulse (soprano), conducted
by Brad Cohen
Mozart, arr. Woolrich: Adagio for glass harmonica, K356
John
Woolrich: 4 Songs after Hoffmann for soprano and clarinet (Ensler’s
Rope Dancer; Olimpia; In the Arsenal at Danzig; The Talking
Turk)
Hoffmann: Quintet in C minor for harp and strings
Carl Reinecke:
Overture and Drosselmeyer’s Automata
from `Music for E.T.A. Hoffmann’s children’s tale
Nutcracker and Mouse King’ for piano duet
Haydn: 6 Pieces
for Flute Clock, arr. Deirdre Gribbin, Richard Baker, Oscar
Bettison, Richard Causton, Jonathan Powell and Julian Anderson
Donatoni:
Schweige Still, for soprano and ensemble
Lyadov, arr. Woolrich:
A Musical Snuff-Box
Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
(from The Nutcracker), for piano
Waltz of the Flowers, arr for
piano by Percy Grainger
Offenbach: Olimpia’s Aria from
`The Tales of Hoffmann’
Mozart, arr. Woolrich: Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica
Programme 2
Leslie Newman (flute), The Joachim
Piano Trio (Rebecca Hirsch, violin, Caroline Dearnley, cello;
John Lenehan, piano)
Schumann: Fantasy Pieces, Op.88, for piano trio
Hoffmann:
Piano Trio in E major
Reinecke: Flute Sonata, Op.167 (Undine)
Weber: Trio in G minor
for flute, cello and piano
Programme 3 - no info available
Programme 4
Piers Lane (piano)
Offenbach, arr. Moszkowski: Barcarolle (from The Tales of
Hoffmann)
Busoni: Study after Mozart, from the suite To Youth
Erscheinung
(Apparition), from Elegies
Klein Zaches, from Racconti fantastici,
Op.12
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
Glinka: Transcription of a scene from
Gluck’s Armide
Liszt: Transcription of the Idee fixw from
Berlioz’s
Symphonie fantastique
Liszt: Reminiscences de Don Juan
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