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CONCERTS 1985/86

CIVIC CONCERT

CIVIC HALL, GUILDFORD

The Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra welcomes the
Mayor

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members

of

Guildford

Borough

SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 1985
at 7.45. p.m.

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the

orchestra’s

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Orchestra
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JOHN LUDLOW

SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS

Conductor
LORNA ANDERSON
Soprano

CAROLYN PRIDE
Soprano

CATHERINE WYN-ROGERS
Alto

ROLAND VERNON
Tenor

STEPHEN ROBERTS
Bass

JOHN FORSTER
Harpsichord

PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

This concert is promoted by Guildford Borough Council with
financial support from the South East Arts Association.

Lorna Anderson

Sir David Willcocks began his musical training as a

Lorna Anderson was born in Glasgow and began to

chorister at Westminster Abbey. He subsequently won

study singing after winning an entrance scholarship to

scholarships and studied at Clifton College and King’s

the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in 1979 where

College, Cambridge. After a five-year period of war

she studied with Patricia MacMahon. She remained at

service he was elected a Fellow of King’s College, Cam-

the R.S.A.M. for four years, during which time she

bridge and Conductor of the Cambridge Philharmonic

won several prizes, including that for the most distin-

Society.

successively

guished student of the year. In 1983 she reached the

Organist of Salisbury Cathedral, and of Worcester

final of the Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship

Subsequently

he

became

Cathedral, conducting at the Three Choirs Festivals

Competition and was awarded a Foundation Scholar-

from 1950 to 1957. During this time he was also Con-

ship for postgraduate study at the Royal College of

ductor of the City of Birmingham Choir and conducted

Music where she was a pupil of Marion Studholme.

many concerts with the City of Birmmingham Sym-

During 1984 she was awarded first prize in both the

phony Orchestra. From 1957 to 1974 he was Director of

Peter Pears’ and Royal Overseas League Singing Com-

Music at King’s College, Cambridge, University Lec-

petitions and studied at the R.C.M. Opera School

turer in Music and Conductor of the Cambridge Uni-

aided by the Boise Award and the Caird Scholarship.

versity Musical Society; and from 1974 to 1984 he was

She was also awarded the R.C.M’s Tagore Gold Medal

Director of the Royal College of Music. He has been

for the most distinguished student.

Musical Director of The Bach Choir since 1960.

Lorna’s repertoire is extensive and she performs regu-

Under his direction, The Bach Choir, King’s College

larly for music clubs and with choral societies. She has

Choir and the Royal College of Music Chamber Choir

broadcast on radio, recorded for schools and with the

have made many recordings with leading orchestras of

Scottish Early Music Consort, with whom she has also

great choral and orchestral works. He holds Honorary

toured Poland. In December 1983 she took part in the

Degrees at the Universities of Bradford, Bristol, Exe-

10th anniversary ‘Messiah—from—Scratch’, conducted

ter, Leicester and and Sussex and at Westminster Choir

by Sir David Willcocks at the Royal Albert Hall. She

College, Princeton, USA, and he is an Honorary Fel-

has sung on the South Bank at the Queen Elizabeth

low of King’s College, Cambridge.

As well as his regular appearances in the UK, his con-

ducting engagements during 1985 will take him to
USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many
European countries.

Hall, at St James’s Piccadilly and this summer made her
début as soloist at the Edinburgh International Festival. Future plans include a series of recitals in Spain.

Catherine Wyn-Rogers

Catherine Wyn-Rogers made her London recital debut

in 1982 at the Purcell Room for the Park Lane Group’s
Carolyn Pride is currently studying at the Royal Col-

series “Young Artists and 20th Century Music”. Since

lege of Music as a post-graduate student with Margaret

then she has sung with the Bach choir numerous times

Kingsley.

under their director Sir David Willcocks and has made

She has appeared as a soloist with various choral
societies throughout Great Britain, including the Bach
Choir on their tours of the West and South East of England and in Hong Kong. Recently, she was nominated

by the R.C.M. to take part in the Boise Scholarships
and Maggie Teyte Singing Prize.
She is now studying at the College Opera School.

recordings with them and with the London Symphony
Orchestra. She has scored successes in her performances of Messiah with the London Philharmonic
Orchestra, with the Bach choir at the Royal Albert
Hall, in York Minster, Bath Abbey and in Hong Kong.
Her performance in the traditional Malcolm Sargent
Cancer Fund “Messiah” last year has resulted in an
invitation to return next year. On the South Bank,
appearances in the Royal Festival Hall include “Israel
in Egypt” and a performance of Bruckner’s “Te Deum”
with the Philharmonia.

Last season saw Catherine Wyn-Rogers’ first recording
for Television and Radio. She has given broadcast performances of Howell’s “Missa Sabriensis” from the
Royal

Festival

Hall,

Mozart’s

“Requiem”

from

Swansea and the Durufle “Requiem” from Kings College Chapel. She has recorded “Messiah” on BBCTelevision from Chester Cathedral and she appeared on

BBC TV on the occasion of the Royal College of
Music’s Centenary Gala Concert which was broadcast

live.
Miss Wyn-Rogers has given three concerts in Israel this

year, singing Handel’s Israel in Eygpt and the Verdi
Requiem with the Bach Choir, and also in a concert of
works by Bach, with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Zubin Mehta. She also recently sang in a
performance of the Messiah on Handel’s birthday at
the Royal Albert Hall.

Stephen Roberts

Roland Vernon was born in 1961 and began singing at
an early age, performing as a boy chorister and a tenor
recitalist. In 1979 he won a choral scholarship to King’s
College, Cambridge where he spent three years singing
in the Chapel choir and working for his degree in Art
History.
He took part in many recordings, broadcasts and international tours with the choir.
In 1983 he entered the Royal College of Music and now

studies at the College Opera School. During the past
two years he has appeared frequently as an oratorio
and opera soloist at home and in Europe.

Stephen Roberts is now recognised as one of the most
outstanding young baritones of his generation.
Already well- known in this country both for his recitals and oratorio performances, he is rapidly establishing an international reputation, having appeared in
recent seasons in Lucerne, Bordeaux, Barcelona,
Israel, Holland, Belgium, Buenos Aires, Germany and
Canada. He has also sung at the Carnegie Hall in New
York and the Kennedy Center in Washington with the
Steinitz Bach Players and made a tour of the Far East
with the Bach Choir.

He has regular engagements in all the London concert
halls and has made many BBC Promenade appearances.

His television appearances, include the joint BBCTV
and East German TV production in Dresden of the War
Requiem and, most recently, a BBC Promenade Concert performance of Penderecki’s St Luke’s Passion.

Stephen Roberts has already acquired a formidable list
of recording to his credit including the prize-winning
recording of Harrison Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy, Tippett’s King Priam, both conducted by David Atherton,
and Gluck’s Armide for EMI. In BBC recordings, he
has given many first performances of contemporary
works, some of which have been written specially for
him. His most recent recording is Carmina Burana for
Decca, with the Berlin Symphony Orchestra conducted by Riccardo Chailly. He has also recorded Kurt
Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins for Granada TV.

He made his London operatic debut in the Spitalfields
Festival’s production of Gluck’s Armide and sang the
role of the Count in Opera North’s Marriage of Figaro
last season. He returned to Leeds this season to sing
Falke in Die Fledermaus. He has also sung with the
Royal Ballet at Covent Garden.

Guildford Philharmonic Choir

other turned in the opposite direction; he looked into

Guildford Philharmonic Choir (formerly the Festival

Choir) was formed in order to perform the major
choral repertoire with the Guildford Philharmonic
Orchestra. The choir made its first recording in 1973 of

Finzi’s

“Intimations

of

Immortality”

with

the

Guildford Philharmonic, and in 1976 recorded Hadley’s

“The Trees So High” with the Philharmonia

Orchestra, both recordings being conducted by Vernon
Handley. The Philharmonic Choir (in collaboration
with the Goldsmiths Choral Union) made its debut
with the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra in the Festival Hall in March this year in a performance of Verdi’s
Requiem, conducted by Brian Wright. A further collab-

oration with this Choir will take place in May next year
in a performance of “A Child of Our Time” by Sir
Michael Tippett

to

be

conducted

by

Sir

Charles

Groves. The Philharmonic Choir will also join forces
with the University of Warwick Chorus in a performance of Britten’s War Requiem which will be per-

formed in Warwick Arts Centre on 7 March, and in
Guildford Cathedral on 8 March next. Both performances will be conducted by Simon Halsey, who was
appointed Chorus Master to the Choir in 1984 and in
this he acknowledges the assistance of Neville Creed
and the Choir’s accompanist Christopher Mabley.
The Philharmonic Choir welcomes young singers with

good sight reading ability and applications for audition
should be made to the Choir’s office at The Lodge,
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Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110), HG XXXVIII:53

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
1985 has been a year of notable anniversaries: the
quatercentenary of Schiitz, the tercentenary of Handel

and Bach, of Domenico Scarlatti and John Gay, the

bicentenary of De Quincey and Grimm, the centenary
of Berg and Varese, of D.H.

Lawrence and Ezra

Pound, of Pavlova.
Assessing Handel in his book Music in Western Civilisa-

new valleys, and showed new vistas to his colleagues

and followers . . .

the long period of baroque art

ended with these two.”
Dixit Dominus is a work of Handel’s youth: the autog-

raph, in the British Library, is dated Rome, April 1707.
He was then just twenty-two. A product, a vigorously
inspired, highly coloured, vibrantly imagined product,

of his Italian period, we are not sure for what purpose
it was composed, nor when it was first performed. One
theory is that it may have been written for Easter (both
the opening and closing choruses incorporate a Gregorian plainchant cantus firmus associated with Easter), to
be sung on Easter Sunday 1707, possibly at the Church
of St. John Lateran (where Handel, according to one
Roman diarist of the time, enjoyed “universal admiration” as an organist and as “an excellent harpsichordist
and composer”). Another view is that it may have been
commissioned by Cardinal Ottoboni for performance
at Vespers on the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

(16 July). The Vespers association is not a new idea.
Vincent Novello last century suggested such a link,
pointing out further the curious fact that, like Dixit
Dominus, two other Handel works contemporary with
it — Nisi Dominus (13 June) and Laudate pueri Dominum

(8 July) —are also coincidentally settings of psalms similarly appointed for the Vespers service.
Dixit Dominus is laid out for five solo voices (two sopranos, countertenor, tenor and bass), five-part chorus,

and an orchestra of strings with continuo. John Eliot

Gardiner (1978) describes it as “a grand concerto” for
these forces. “Handel is pitiless,” he writes, “in the
demands he makes of his musicians . . . : he requires
energy and breadth, phenomenal agility and precision,
declamatory vigour and a lyrical expressiveness. All
this gives the psalm its feeling of ebullience and breath-

less exhilaration, almost as though this young composer, newly arrived in the land of virtuoso singers and
players, was daring his hosts to greater and greater
feats of virtuosity. The work is masterful for all its bold,

naive assumptions that voices function like violins, and

violins like the manuals of an organ . . .”

tion (1941), Paul Henry Lang says: “[his] art embraces

In G minor, the whole is divided into eight movements.

the scintillating forms, colours, and figures of a gigantic

The first, with its tutti and solo exchanges recalls the

creative imagination, the chief characteristics of which

concerto grosso model of Corelli, while the second and

are a wholesome power of form, monumental dramatic

third (respectively in B flat, with continuo, and C

conception, and a flowing, poetic inspiration, abandon-

minor, with orchestra) are elaborated coloratura arias in

ing itself in the contemplation of nature and its crea-

the

tures. Where Pope and his colleagues saw man only in

“Juravit Dominus” contrasts a grave of astonishing

his rational acts, Handel, together with John Gay,

chromaticism with an allegro fugato of broad diatonic

Allan Ramsey, and James Thomson, discovered the

reference and athletic strength. Its closing six orchest-

existence of the universe in which man is only a parti-

ral bars are remarkable for the precision of their

style of the Neapolitan, Alessandro Scarlatti.

cle. The same tenderness which impresses us in Thom-

dynamic gradation: “piano, pianopiano, ppp, pianiss,

son’s Seasons — a work particularly close to the musi-

pianiss”.

cian’s heart —emanates from many a page of Handelian

polyphonic study in the German manner. For Gar-

music. To him nature is a great drama, the individual

diner, the sixth (in D minor) “is the most boldly experi-

scenes and episodes of which furnish the poet and musi-

mental, revealing Handel’s excitement at the rich pos-

The

fifth

section

(in

B

flat)

is

a fluent

cian with his materials . . . Bach and Handel appeared

sibilities offered by virtuoso singing (and playing) in

at a time when Western music was at the crossroads.

several parts for building a choral drama”. Its pic-

One became the embodiment and final monument of a

torialism and imagery looks fascinatingly to Mon-

conception and practice which looked back from the

teverdi. If Vivaldi’s spirit seems to inform the penulti-

last peak of baroque polyphony to the distant past. The

mate F major “Judicabit in nationibus”, it is a synthesis

essentially of Handel’s own making which characterises the final Gloria, a triple fugue of compelling
climax and conclusion, comparable dimensionally and
conceptually with things to come in the B minor Mass.
Nowhere in early Handel do we find a more brilliant
fusion of grand German severity with flamboyant Italian extravagance.

1. Chorus, soprano/alto/tenor soli
Dixit Dominus Domino meo:
‘Sede a dextris meis:
donec ponam inimicos tuos
scabellum pedum tuorum.

The Lord said unto my Lord:
Sit thou on my right hand,
until I make thine enemies
thy footstool,

2. Aria (alto)
Virgram virtutis tuae emittet
Dominus ex Sion:
dominare in medio
inimicorum tuorum.

The Lord shall send the rod of
thy power out of Sion:
be thou ruler, evenin the
midst among thine enemies.

3. Aria (soprano)
Tecum principium in die
virtutis tuae in
splendoribus sanctorum:
ex utero ante luciferum
genuite.

In the day of thy power shall
the people offer

the free-will offerings with an
holy worship:

the dew of thy birth is of the
womb of the morning.

4. Chorus

Juravit Dominus, et non

The Lord sware, and will not

poenitebit eum:

repent:

5. Chorus

Tu es sacerdos in aeternum,
secundum ordinem
Melchisedech.

Thou art a Priest for ever
after the order of
Melchisedech.

6. Chorus, 5 soli
Dominus a dextris tuis;

The Lord upon thy right
hand;

confregit in die irae suae
reges.

Judicabit in nationibus;

day of his wrath.
He shall judge among the
heathen;

he shall fill the places with the

conquasabit capitain

and smite in sunder the heads

dead bodies:

over divers countries.

7. Chorus, 2 soprano soli
De torrente in via bibet;

He shall drink of the brook

propterea exaltabit caput.

therefore shall he lift up his

in the way:

head.

8. Chorus

Gloria Patri et Filio

Glory be to the Father and to
the Son

Et spiritui Sancto

And to the Holy Ghost
Asit was in the beginning,

et nunc et semper

and is now

Sicut erat in principio;
Etin saecula saeculorum.
Amen

and ever shall be: world

without end. Amen.

© Ates Orga 1985 Department of Music, University of Surrey

INTERVAL

Bach 1685-1750

Bach wrote the great Magnificat to celebrate Christmas
1723. It was originally in the key of E flat major, but
about 1730 he transposed the whole into D major, and
altered some details. Although critics have pointed out
that Bach was probably aware of other Magnificats by
Italian composers like Albinoni, all are convinced of
the striking originality in Bach’s setting. Some of the
choral passages have an impetuosity not found in the
Italian masters, and the arias and ensembles are much
more concentrated in their emotional messages.
Although this concentration was due to the fact that
Bach had to compress the composition to the moderate
time scale which public worship imposed, the work in
fact gains in impressive power through this concentration.

1. CHORUS

2. AIR
3. AIR

4. CHORUS
5. AIR
6. AIR
7. CHORUS

8. AIR

9. AIR

shall wound even kings in the

implebit ruinas,

terra multorum.

Magnificat

10. CHORUS

11. CHORUS
12. CHORUS

MAGNIFICAT

(My soul doth magnify the Lord)
ET EXULTAVIT SPIRITUS MEUS
(And my spirit hath rejoiced)
QUIA RESPEXIT
(For He hath regarded)
OMNES GENERATIONES
(For behold, all generations)
QUIA FECIT MIHI MAGNA
(For He that is mighty)

ET MISERICORDIA
(And His mercy is on them)
FECIT POTENTIAM
(The Lord hath shewed strength
DEPOSUIT POTENTES
(He hath put down the mighty)

ESURIENTES IMPLEVIT BONIS
(He hath filled the hungry)
SUSCEPIT ISRAEL
(His servant Israel)
SICUT LOCUTUS EST
(Even as He promised)
GLORIA PATRI
Glory be to the Father)

Friday 6 December 1985 at 8.p.m.

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

Staines Town Hall

Artistic Adviser — Vernon Handley

Divertimento in D
Chanson de Matin

Mozart

Elgar

First Violins:

Timpani:

Chanson de Nuit

Elgar

Leader: John Ludlow

Brook Green Suite

Roger Blair

Holst

Arthur Price

The Four Seasons

Vivaldi

(Soloist: HUGH BEAN)
John Forster

Sheila Beckensall

Harpsichord:

Hywel Davies

John Forster

Linda McLaren

Conductor

Peter Newman

Tickets: £4.00., and £3.00.,

Administrator:

Alex Suttie

Town Hall Tel: (0784) 52144

Kathleen Atkins

Andrew Thurgood

Staines Pool Tel: (0784) 53171

Concerts Assistant:

Second Violins:

Saturday 14 December 1985 at 7.45.p.m.

Civic Hall, Guildford

Rosemary Roberts

Timothy Callaghan

CIVIC CONCERT

Ruth Dawson

Petite Suite

Debussy

Hywel Jones

Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat (K595)
Pavane pour une Infante defunte

Mozart

Adrienne Sturdy

Symphony No 39 in E flat

Mozart

John Forster

Ravel
Violas:

John Meek

Director/Soloist

John Graham
Jean Burt

Sunday 15 December 1985 at 3.00.p.m.

Frederick Campbell

Civic Hall, Guildford
ROTARY CAROL CONCERT

Cellos:

CAROLS FOR CHOIR AND AUDIENCE

Steven Milne

GUILDFORD BRASS ENSEMBLE

Peter Esswood
Christina Macrae

Roger Blair

Timpani

Philharmonic Choir

Simon Halsey

Conductor

ADMISSION FREE - COLLECTION IN AID OF
THE MAYOR’S CHRISTMAS AND

LOCAL DISTRESS FUND

Saturday 4 January 1986 at 7.45.p.m.
Civic Hall, Guildford
NEW YEAR STRAUSS GALA CONCERT

(Sponsored by Lloyds Bank)
Programme includes Radetsky March,

The Blue Danube, Gipsy Baron Overture,

Polkas, Marches, Waltzes etc by the Strauss family

John Georgiadis

Paul Hilliam

Nicholas Maxted Jones

John Hursey
Basses:

Michael Lea

Colin Paris
Flutes:

Simon Hunt
Alexa Turpin

Oboes/oboe d’amore
Deirdre Dods

Ann Greene
Bassoon:

Nicholas Hunka

Conductor
Trumpets:

Tickets: £5.50., £4.50., £3.70., £3.10.,

Michael Hinton

(Children aged 16 and under half price).

Clifford Haines

Box Office: Civic Hall, Guildford. Tel: 67314

Patricia Reid

A & N Travel, Guildford, Tel: 68171.

The audience may be interested to know that the violin
sections are listed in alphabetical order after the first

desk because a system of rotation of desks is adopted in
this orchestra so that all players have the opportunity
of playing in all positions in the section.

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(Charity Registration 288295)

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Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra and was originally founded
with the prime object of encouraging not only its members but
also the general public in the awareness of and to attend the
season of concerts in the Civic Hall by the Guildford Philharmonic
Orchestra. It still has this main object but also the Society assists
with the provision of the fiances for considerable extra publicity
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welcomes the payment of subscriptions by a Deed of Covenant, as
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If you would like to join the Society, Covenant forms are obtainable
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for your subscription together with your name and address to:

Telephone 01-637-8471

Mr R A Forrow
Flat No 3, 6 Mareschal Road
Guildford Surrey GU2 5JF Tel: Guildford 575274

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The Choir performs regularly with the fully profes?ional Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra in its annual series
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PROGRAMME FOR 1985/86 SEASON:
12 October 1985

Schubert Songs
Conductor: Simon Halsey

Guildford Civic Hall

24 November 1985

Handel Dixit Dominus
Bach Magnificat
Conductor: Sir David Willcocks

Guildford Civic Hall

15 December 1985

Carol Concert
Conductor: Simon Halsey

Guildford Civic Hall

1 February 1986

Holst's The Planets Suite

Guildford Civic Hall

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Holst's The Planets Suite
(Ladies Chorus)
Conductor: Vernon Handley

Leas Cliff Halll
Folkestone

7 March 1986

Britten War Requiem
Conductor: Simon Halsey

Warwick

8 March 1986

Britten War Requiem
Conductor: Simon Halsey

Guildford Cathedral

3 May 1986

TippettA Child of Our Time
Conductor: Sir Charles Groves

Guildford Cathedral

(Ladies Chorus)
Conductor: Vernon Handley

The Philharmonic Choir meets on Monday evenings from 7.15
young singers (all voice parts) with good

p.m. The Choir welcomes applications from
sight reading ability.

Enquiries: Administrator, Guildford Philharmonic Choir Office,
The Lodge, Allen House Grounds, Chertsey Street, Guildford, GU1 4HL. Tel: Guildford 573800.

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