GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
1991/92 SUBSCRIPTION SERIES CONCERTS
SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 1991 at 3.00pm
THE HART BROWN CONCERT
Dvorak
Mendelssohn
Elgar
Overture: Carnival
Violin concerto in E minor
Symphony No.2 in Eb
violin
conductor
GYORGY PAUK
SIR CHARLES GROVES
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PETER FRANKL
SIR CHARLES GROVES
Purcell/Britten
Haydn
Brahms
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conductor
(From the New World)
Dvorak
NIKOLAI DEMIDENKO
JIRI STAREK
piano
conductor
Overture: Leonore No.3
Piano Concerto No.5 in Eb (Emperor)
Symphony No.7 in A
Beethoven
Beethoven
Beethoven
JOHN LILL
SIR CHARLES GROVES
piano
conductor
SATURDAY 7 MARCH 1992 ar 7.30pm in
Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
SATURDAY 26 OCTOBER 1991 at 7.30pm
Ravel
Mozart
Tchaikovsky
clarinet
conductor
MICHAEL COLLINS
JACEK KASPSZYK
Symphony No.9 in E minor
Mozart
Rachmaninov
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Clarinet Concerto in A (K.622)
Symphony No.1(Winter day-dreams)
Overture: Marriage of Figaro
Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor
SUNDAY 2 FEBRUARY 1992 at 3.00pm
SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER 1991 at 7.30pm
Chacony in G minor for strings
Symphony No.104 in D (London)
Piano Concerto No.2 in Bb
SUNDAY 19 JANUARY 1992 at 3.00pm
Pre-concert talk in the Civic Hall at 6.15pm with JACEK
KASPSZYK, for ticket holders.
SATURDAY 9 NOVEMBER 1991 at 7.30pm
Oboe Concerto
Benedictus
Vaughan Williams
Strauss
Blake
MALCOLM MESSITER
oboe
SIR CHARLES GROVES
conductor
MARTYN HILL
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
tenor
Pre-concert talk in the GUILDHALL at 10.30am with
HOWARD BLAKE, for ticket holders.
SUNDAY 29 MARCH 1992 at 3.00pm
Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.2
Concerto for Two Violins
Handel
Bach
(Soloists: Hugh Bean and John Ludlow)
Israel in Egypt
Handel
RUTH HOLTON
NICOLA JENKIN
soprano
soprano
Serenade for Strings
Holberg Suite
Two Aquarelles
Simple Symphony
Dag Wiren
Grieg
Delius
Britten
PHILIP SHEFFIELD
tenor
HUGH BEAN
director
alto
MICHAEL CHANCE
STEPHEN ADLER
GRAHAM TITUS
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
NEVILLE CREED
bass
bass
conductor
SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 1991 at 3.00pm
Suite: Midsummer Night's Dream
Trumpet Concerto
Symphony No.1 in Bb minor
Mendelssohn
Horovitz
Walton
GARETH BIMSON
trumpet
VERNON HANDLEY
DAVID NOLAN
MATTHIAS BAMERT
Copland
Konzertstuck for Snare Drum
and Orchestra
Masson
EVELYN GLENNIE
BARRY WORDSWORTH
percussion
conductor
Symphonic Dances from 'West Side Story'
Bernstein
SATURDAY 2 MAY 1992 at 7.30 pm
Prokofiev
Prokofiev
Mussorgsky
(orchestrated by ravel)
violin
conductor
Pre-concert talk in the Civic Hall at 6.15pm with Terry Barfoot
for ticket holders.
Ballet Suite: Rodeo
conductor
SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER 1991 at 7.30pm
CROSSLEY CLITHEROE MEMORIAL CONCERT
Lieutenant Kije
Violin Concerto No.1 in D
Pictures from an Exibition
SUNDAY 12 APRIL 1992 at 3.00pm
National Anthem
Cello Concerto in E minor
Symphony No.l (Sea Symphony)
FELIX SCHMIDT
ALISON PEARCE
arr. Britten
Elgar
Vaughan Williams
cello
soprano
BRIAN RAYNOR COOK
baritone
SIR CHARLES GROVES
conductor
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
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orchestra. And it provides opportunities to enjoy a wide
variety of first class musical events at special Members’
Evenings.
Your opportunity to join this exciting choir in
performances with Sir Charles Groves and the
Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra
Chorus Master: Neville Creed
SEASON 1991/92
1991
29th September, Civic Hall Restaurant
New members’ RECEPTION
21st November, Methodist Hall
Evening with Kate Hill (flute) (GPO)
1992
Fauré : REQUIEM
Blake : BENEDICTUS
IN EGYPT
Handel : |\SRAEL
Vaughan Williams : SEA SYMPHONY
12th January, Civic Hall Restaurant
New Year Party
26th February, Guildford Guildhall
Quartet (details to follow)
29th March, Civic Hall Restaurant
Meet the Orchestra
Choral Workshop
Christmas Carols
Following the outstanding success of the choir’s visit to
Freiburg — Guildford’s ‘twin town’ in Germany —the Freiburg
Bach Choir will visit Guildford in 1992 and the Guildford
Philharmonic Choir will tour Southern Germany in 1993.
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The Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir
are
very
grateful
to
Vernon
Handley
who
is
CIVIC HALL, GUILDFORD
conducting this evening’s concert owing to the
SATURDAY 2 MAY 1992
Sir Charles, who was taken ill in February, is
indisposition of Sir Charles Groves.
making good progress and sends his best wishes to
at 7.30 p.m.
everyone present tonight. His greatest hope is to be
back with us all next season, and we send him our
warmest wishes for a complete recovery.
Guildford
Philharmonic
Orchestra
Tonight’s concert is the final concert of the Guildford
JOHN LUDLOW
Corporate
Philharmonic
Orchestra’s
1991/92
season
and
Guildford Borough wishes to thank everyone who has
helped with the promotion of the concerts during the
season. The financial assistance received from the
South East Arts Association, and the help provided by
members of the
Guildford
Philharmonic
Society,
pupils of Guildford County School and the Red Cross
Organisation has been greatly appreciated, as indeed,
has the support
of the
Members.
Orchestra’s sponsors and
Guildford
Borough
also
acknowledges assistance from the South East Music
Leader
Trust and the Musicians’ Union.
FELIX SCHMIDT
Cello
ALISON PEARCE
Soprano
BRIAN RAYNER COOK
Baritone
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC
CHOIR
VERNON HANDLEY
Conductor
Vernon Handley was for 21 years Guildford’s Director
of Music and he is now the Guildford Philharmonic
This Concert is promoted by Guildford Borough with
Orchestra’s Conductor Emeritus.
financial support from the South East Arts Association.
He is one of Britain’s most popular and distinguished
The
conductors and has worked closely with all the British
Guildford
Philharmonic
Orchestra
gratefully
acknowledges the support of its major sponsors:
orchestras throughout his career. He has held several
HART BROWN & Co., Solicitors
titles including, most recently, Principal Conductor of
BOC
the Ulster Orchestra 1985-1989, and he is currently
The Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra & South East
Principal Guest Conductor of the Royal Liverpool
Music Trust acknowledge the generous support of the
Musicians’ Union.
The Orchestra is pleased to acknowledge the Corporate
Philharmonic Orchestra. He has recently been elected
an
honorary
member
of the
renowned
for
Royal
Philharmonic
Society.
Memberships of:
Handley
BOC
recordings, particularly of British music and has won
is
HART BROWN & CO, Solicitors
several major awards in this area. In 1989 he won the
HUTSON POOLE & CO
Gramophone
PLASTIC COATINGS LTD
Simpson’s
9th
Award
for
Symphony
his
many
excellent
his recording of Robert
with
the
Bournemouth
Symphony Orchestra and in January 1991 he gave the
world premiere of Simpson’s 10th Symhony (which is
dedicated to him) in Liverpool, followed by a London
performance in the Royal Festival Hall. He has also
recorded the work with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra for Hyperion. Other recordings with
the Liverpool Orchestra include the Symphonies of
Vaughan Williams for EMI of which No 5 won the
British Record Industry Award and subsequently sold
25,000 copies.
Handley’s recent engagements have included a visit to
North America with the Jeunesses Musicales World
Orchestra and concerts with the San Diego Symphony
Orchestra,
Royal
Philharmonic
Orchestra,
Yomiuri
Orchestra,
Philharmonic
Netherlands
Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic
Orchestra and the ABC orchestras in Australia.
Future engagements include an appearance at the
Malvern Festival with the BBC Welsh Symphony
Orchestra and concerts with the Oslo Philharmonic,
Royal Philharmonic and The London Philharmonic
orchestras. In May 92 he will take part, with the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, in the ceremony to
open the British Pavilion at Expo 92 in Seville. In July
92 he closes the City of London Festival with The
Philharmonia in a performance of Elgar’s Dream of
Gerontius in St Paul’s Cathedral.
Vernon Handley is a keen amateur ornithologist and
devotes several weeks a year to studying and photo-
graphing birds in their natural habitats.
since appeared extensively on the television and radio
networks of over nine countries, including a
performance of the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations
with The Central Philharmonic of China in the Great
Hall of the People, Peking, as part of a lavish charity
gala watched by over 200 million television viewers.
He has played with many of the major European
Orchestra,
Ulster
the
including
orchestras,
Bournemouth Sinfonietta, RLPO, LPO, RPO, LSO,
The Philharmonia, CBSO, The Stuttgart Philharmonic
and the Warsaw Sinfonia under the batons of some of
the world’s most prolific conductors. Apart from a
notable performance of the Brahms Double with Sir
Yehudi Menuhin in Berlin, Felix Schmidt has worked
with conductors such as Sir Charles Groves, Georg
Solti, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Rafael Frubeck de Burgos
and Jean Benard Pommier.
His release of the Elgar Cello Concerto with the
London Symphony Orchestra and Rafael Frubeck de
Burgos received many excellent reviews. Having
previously recorded the Beethoven Triple Concerto
with the Trio Zingara and the Boccherini Concerto
with Edward Heath MP, Felix Schmidt is viewed by
many as one of the world’s most profound young
cellists, confirming Sir Yehudi Menuhin’s belief that he
is “one of the best cellists in the world today”.
In addition to his concerto works he plays as part of the
Trio Zingara who won the Nicanor Zabeleta Chamber
Music Competition in 1987. He frequently performs
with the Trio’s pianist, Annette Cole, as a duo, for
which they have been internationally acclaimed.
Felix Schmidt plays on the “Jansen” Stradivarius of
1721.
Born near Stuttgart, Felix Schmidt began studying the
cello under the meticulous direction of Maurice
Gendron. His studies continued with Gendron at the
Menuhin School and the Paris Conservatoire, where
he soon caught the ear of both William Pleeth and
Mstislav Rostropovich, from whom he greatly
benefited from their extraordinary musicianship.
Felix gave his Carnegie Hall debut in 1983 and has
Alison Pearce is one of the United Kingdom’s most distinguished and sought-after soprano soloists in
oratorio, opera and recital work.
She appears frequently with Britain’s leading
orchestras, including the Bournemouth Symphony,
Bournemouth Sinfonietta, The Halle, the Royal
Philharmonic, the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra,
—wmw/m
as well as being heard regularly in oratorio and lieder
recital on the BBC’s Radio 3 and World Service.
London Symphony Orchestras.
Brian Rayner Cook was encouraged by Sir Charles
Among her recent engagements have been a concert
tour of the Far East; the title role in Puccini’s ‘Manon
Groves at the outset of his career when he was invited
to Liverpool to sing with the RLPO. Subsequent
Lescaut’ for Dublin’s International City of Culture
concerts with the RLPO in the later 1970s included
celebrations; Vaughan-Williams’ Sea Symphony and
important performances, all broadcast by the BBC, of
Mahler’s 8th Symphony at the Three Choirs Festival; a
“The Apostles”, “The Kingdom” and then “Caractacus” (which Brian Rayner Cook also recorded with
Sir Charles for EMI).
recital of Britten and Bridge songs for the Brighton
Festival; Richard Strauss’ ‘Four Last Songs’ in
London; and performances of works by Bach, Handel
and Mozart in France, The Netherlands and Spain.
His
most
recent
appearance
with
the
Guildford
Philharmonic Orchestra was in “Belshazzar’s Feast”.
It was with this Orchestra that, towards the beginning
of his career, he first sang with Vernon Handley, in
Vaughan
Williams’
“Five
Tudor
Portraits”.
Sub-
sequently, their work together has included two CD
recordings: of music by Delius, and Elgar’s “King
Olaf”.
Brian Rayner Cook graduated in Music from Bristol
University, developing his interests as an organist and
as a conductor and repetiteur, before devoting himself
wholeheartedly to singing.
He won all the major
singing prizes during his postgraduate studies at the
Royal
College
of Music,
London;
and was then
awarded a Kathleen Ferrier Memorial Scholarship.
Guildford Philharmonic Choir
The Guildford Philharmonic Choir was formed by
Brian Rayner Cook
Guildford Borough in order to perform the major
Brian Rayner Cook has given opera, oratorio and
choral repertoire with the Guildford Philharmonic
recital
performances
European
Festivals
at
most
and
British
other
and
major
many
centres,
appearing throughout Western and Eastern Europe,
the Middle East, North Africa, the Far East, the USA,
Canada and South America.
Early in the 1990 season he gave concerts and recitals
in Singapore and again in Canada; and in the last
month of 1990 alone flew to three countries (including
Italy, to sing in a rarely-heard Caccini opera in Rome,
where he had just previously given a recital of contemporary music). In that month he recorded a recital CD,
sang with the Philharmonia in London’s Royal Albert
Hall, and gave first performances of seven newly-
Orchestra. As well as performing well-known choral
works,
the
choir specializes
in
twentieth century
British music and this has led to recordings of Gerald
Finzi’s ‘Intimations of Immortality’ with the Guildford
Phiharmonic Orchestra and Patrick Hadley’s ‘The
Trees So High’ with the Philharmonia Orchestra, both
recordings being conducted by Vernon Handley.
The choir is conducted by some of the most eminent
British
Musicians including Sir Charles Groves
(Principal Conductor), Vernon Handley and Sir David
Willcocks. As well as giving frequent concerts in
Guildford, the choir occasionally visits other British
cities.
In
1988 the Guildford Philharmonic Choir
Ivor Gurney songs (which were later
visited Paris, in 1990 joined forces with the Freiburger
broadcast). Engagements in 1991 included work at the
Royal Opera House, London, a return visit to New
York, commercial recordings and televised concerts,
The Choir is trained by Neville Creed, who was
transcribed
Bach Choir in Freiburg Munster.
appointed Chorus Master in 1987 and he is assisted by
one of which, Mozart Requiem with period instru-
Peter White. Lynette Newman is the Choir’s accom-
ments, was transmitted live in Europe on the 200th
panist.
anniversary of the composer’s death. He recently sang
Bach’s solo cantata “Inch habe genug” in Bach’s
“own”
church,
forward
St
Thomas’,
engagements
are
Leipzig.
Among
commercial
his
recording
The choir’s future plans include a summer concert in
the Guildford Festival in July and next season a return
visit to Freiburg.
Further details about the choir may be obtained from:
projects in London and in Czechoslovakia.
His gramophone recordings range from Schutz and
Kathleen Atkins
Charpentier to the Faure Requiem and “Carmina
The Lodge, Allen House Grounds,
Burana”;
from
Dvorak’s
orchestrated
“Biblical
Songs”, in Czech, to a number of large-scale works by
Vaughan Williams with the London Philharmonic and
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and the London Symphony Orchestra at a Queen’s
Neville Creed
Neville Creed began his conducting career whilst a
Choral Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge. He
then became Director of Choral Music at Tiffin School
in
Kingston-upon-Thames,
several
providing
highly-acclaimed
choirs
recordings
on
for
radio,
television and disc. The Tiffin Boys’ Choir recording of
Mahler’s 8th Symphony with The London Philharmonic under Klaus Tennstedt gained a nomination for
a
‘Grammy’
Conductor
award.
of
the
During this time he became
Milton
Keynes
Chorale
and
Assistant Chorus Master of the London Philharmonic
Choir.
In
1986
he
was
awarded
a
scholarship
to
study
conducting at the Guildhall School of Music where he
won the Ricordi Conducting Prize.
Whilst at the
Guildhall he conducted the second British staging of
the opera “Julietta” by Martinu. Since completing his
studies he has founded the London Musici Singers,
been appointed Musical Director of the Bournemouth
Symphony Chorus and the Guildford Philharmonic
Choir,
as well
as being invited to return to the
Hall Concert in London. The public found it a strange
work, though beautiful, glimpsing the Elgar that they
knew from the slow movement of the First Symphony
and parts of the Violin Concerto, but surprised by the
passion of the slow section of the last movement. It
seems that in this section and in the echo of the third
movement which follows it, Elgar was looking back
over his music and had found a tranquility that was
deeply moving.
In
form
the
movements
Concerto
instead
of
is
unusual,
the
wusual
having
three,
four
and
is
considered one of the finest ’cello concertos ever
written. It is certainly in the repertoire of every solo
‘cellist of note.
Unlike most other works for this
instrument, it is a very personal and almost introvert
work, although the introversion is not self-pitying, but
rather more an honest inspection of the serious side of
the composer, just as the finale of the Enigma
Variations is an inspection of the more optimistic
Elgar. It is also a very original piece technically and
there are pages which defy the hunter of influences.
Guildhall to conduct. In 1988 he won the second prize
in
the
First
International
Choral
Conducting
Competition held in Italy and in 1991 won a semi-final
prize
in
the
Leeds
competition
for
Orchestral
European
Community
INTERVAL
Conducting.
In
1990
he
Chamber
conducted
Orchestra
the
in
France
and
he
regularly
conducts in Denmark. He has given concerts with the
Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Bournemouth Symphony
Orchestra, Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra, The
Royal Philharmonic ‘Pops’ Orchestra and The Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Symphony No.1 - A Sea Symphony
Ralph Vaughan Williams 1872 — 1958
With
the
Unknown
production
of
his
Region
the
Leeds Festival
at
cantata
Toward
in
the
1907,
Vaughan Williams, hitherto known chiefly as a song
writer, drew attention to himself as one of whom great
things might be expected. Three years later, at the
same Festival, he introduced his first symphony, A Sea
National Anthem
Symphony, which made an even stronger impression
arr. Britten 1913 — 1976
This version of the National Anthem was arranged by
Benjamin Britten for the Leeds Festival of 1961.
text to the American poet Walt Whitman, choosing
sections of the poem ‘Sea Drift’, from Leaves of Grass,
for his first three movements and parts of ‘Passage to
India’ for his finale. (It was the first of the 11 poems
’Cello Concerto in E minor
which make up ‘Sea Drift’ that Delius set.)
Adagio — Moderato
Lento — Allegro molto
Adagio
Allegro ma non troppo
This work is judged by many critics to be amongst
Elgar’s
finest,
for
ranking with
Strings
and
the
the
Introduction
Symphonic
and
although
it
has,
of
course,
The voices — soloists and chorus — play the leading part
throughout; there is no purely orchestral movement.
The symphony is memorable for its wealth of broad,
noble melodies, the feature above all which makes a
hearing such an uplifting inspiring experience.
and
Study
“Falstaff”. Certainly no works that he wrote is more
penetrating
English music.
As in the earlier work, Vaughan Williams went for his
Elgar 1857 — 1934
Allegro
and established him as a figure of real significance in
the
thumbprint of the popular marches, it stands apart
from the other works in style.
It was written in 1919, the year before Lady Elgar died,
and after she died he wrote nothing of note. He died in
1934. The work was first performed by Felix Salmond
1. A SONG OF ALL SEAS, ALL SHIPS
Baritone, Soprano, Chorus
Behold, the sea itself,
And on its limitless, heaving breast, the ships;
See, where their white sails, bellying in the wind,
speckle the green and blue,
See, the steamers coming and going, steaming in or out
of port
See,
dusky and undulating, the long pennants of
smoke.
Behold, the sea itself,
After the white-gray sails taut to their whistlin
(Baritone)
Of ships sailing the seas, each with its special
ship-signal,
flag or
Of unnamed heroes in the ships — of waves spreadi
ng
and spreading far as the eye can reach,
Of dashing spray, and the winds piping and blowing,
And out of these a chant for the sailors of all nations,
Fitful like a surge.
Of sea-captains young and old, and the mates,
and of
Of the few, very choice, taciturn whom fate can
never
all intrepid sailors,
surprise nor death dismay,
Picked sparingly, without noise by thee, old
ocean,
chosen by thee,
Thou sea that pickets and cullest the race in time,
and
unitest nations,
Suckled by thee, old husky nurse, embodying thee,
Indomitable, untamed as thee.
(Soprano)
Flaunt out, O sea, your separate flags of nations!
Flaunt out visible as ever the various flags and
signals!
But do you reserve especially for yourself and
soul of man one flag above all the rest,
A spiritual woven signal for all nations, emblem
elate above death,
Token of all brave captains and of all intrepid
and mates,
ship-
for the
o’er all
with curves,
buoyant
Where the great vessel sailing and tacking
displaced
Larger and smaller waves in the spread of
the ocean
the surface,
yearnfully flowing,
The wake of the sea-ship after she passes,
frolicsome under the sun,
flashing and
A motley procession with many a fleck of
many fragments,
foam and
Following the stately and rapid ship,
in the wake
following.
4. THE EXPLORERS
Baritone, Soprano, Chorus
O vast Rondure, swimming in space,
countless stars above,
and
Below, the manifold grass and waters,
With inscrutable purpose, some hidden prophet
ic
intention,
Now first it seems my thought begins to span thee.
Down from the gardens of Asia descending,
Adam and Eve appear, then their myriad progeny
after them,
Wandering, yearning, with restless explorations,
questioning, baffled, formless, feverish, with neverhappy hearts that sad incessant refrain, —
‘Wherefore unsatisfied soul? Whither O mocking
2. ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE
Baritone, Chorus
life?’
On the beach at night alone,
As the old mother sways her to and fro singing
her
husky song,
As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought
the clef of the universe and of the future.
A vast similitude interlocks all,
of
different,
All nations, all identities that have existed
or may
exist,
All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future,
and
Who justify these restless explorations?
Who speak the secret of impassive earth?
carried out,
All distances of time,
All souls, all living bodies though they be
ever so
spans them,
Ah who shall soothe these feverish children?
Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall
All distances of space however wide,
always
And shall forever span them and shall complet
and enclose them.
waves,
Toward that whirling current, laughing and
Unspeakable high processions of sun and moon
All sea, all ships.
similitude
prying,
Waves, undulating waves, liquid, uneven
, emulous
sailors
(Baritone)
brave sailors,
lifting up
their necks
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of
the ship,
Waves of the ocean bubbling and gurgling,
blithely
Covered all over with visible power and beauty,
Alternate light and day and the teeming spiritual
darkness,
young and old.
A pennant universal, subtly waving all time,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves hastening,
of man
And to all that went down doing their duty,
Reminiscent of them, twined from all intrepid
captains
vast
g spars
and ropes,
Today a rude brief recitative,
spanned,
Chorus
After the sea-ship, after the whistling winds,
And on its limitless, heaving breast, the ships.
This
3. (SCHERZO) THE WAVES
has
ely hold
be
Perhaps even now the time has arrived.
After the seas are all crossed,
After
the
great
captains
accomplished their work,
and
engineers
have
After the noble inventors,
Finally shall come the poet worthy that name,
The true son of God shall come singing his songs.
O we can wait no longer,
We too take ship O Soul,
Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas,
Fearless of unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to
sail,
Amid the wafting winds (thou pressing me to thee, I
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
Caroling free, singing our songs of God,
Chanting our chant of pleasant exploration.
First Sopranos
O Soul thou pleasest me, I thee,
Susan Barton
thee to me, O Soul),
Sailing these seas or on the hills, or walking in the
night,
Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and
Death, like waters flowing,
Bear me indeed as through the regions infinite,
Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear, lave me all
over,
Bathe me, O God, in thee mounting to thee,
I and my soul to range in range of thee.
O thou transcendent,
Nameless, the fibre and the breath,
Light of the light, shedding forth universes, thou
centre of them.
Swiftly I shrivel at the thought of God,
At Nature and its wonders, Time and Space and
Death,
But that I, turning, call to thee O Soul, the actual me,
And lo, thou gently masterest the orbs,
Thou matest Time, smilest content at Death,
And fillest, swellest full the vastnesses of Space.
Greater than stars or suns,
Bounding O Soul thou journeyest forth;
Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
Cut the hawsers — haul out — shake out every sail!
Reckless O Soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with
me,
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to
£o,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.
O my brave Soul!
A farther, farther sail!
O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
O farther, farther, farther sail!
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Mary Broughton
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Celia Embleton
Josephine Field
Jenny Hakim
Sue Maddox
Elizabeth McCracken
Diana Medlicott
Alison Munro
Margaret Mylchreest
Susan Norton
Robin Onslow
Margaret Parry
Jean Radley
Susan Ranft
Joan Robinson
Judy Smith
Marie Sprott
Claire Stockdale
Enid Weston
Caroline Winfield
Second Sopranos
Jacqueline Alderton
Kathleen Aldridge
Olivia Ames-Lewis
Penny Baxter
Sue Bevan
Margaret Dare
Rachel Edmondson
Angela Hand
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Christine Medlow
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Janet Baumgart
Iris Bennett
Sheila Hendy
Susan Hinton
Evelyn Macmillan
Chris Maunders
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First Altos
Dawn Smith
Kathy Stickland
Margaret Strivens
Susan Taylor
Morag Walling
Christine Wilks
Tessa Wilkinson
Carol Hobbs
Sheila Hodson
Fay Richardson
Prue Smith
Rosemary Smith
Jean Whitehouse
Beatrice Wood
First Tenors
First Basses
Chris Blatchford
Graham Barwick
Bob Cowell
Norman Carpenter
Maggie van Koetsveld
Walter Chattaway
Peter Lemmon
Neil Clayton
Elizabeth Lyon
Douglas Corr
Christopher Morris
Michael Dawe
Roy Price
Clive Dunkley
Christopher Robinson
Terence Ellis
John Trigg
Laurie James
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Stewart Lyon
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Second Tenors
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Maurice Barton
Roger Penny
David Bennett
David Ross
Adrian Buxton
John Schlotel
Geoffrey Forster
George Fordham
Don Skipper
Philip Stanford
Leslie Harfield
Donald Walden
Nick Lamb
Andrew Whitehouse
Andrew Reid
Peter Sayers
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Principal Conductor: SIR CHARLES GROVES
First Violins:
John Ludlow
Joan Atherton
Phillip Augar
Sheila Beckensall
Jackie Bower
Ian Brignall
Eugene Danks
John Davies
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Karen Downs
Avril Maclennan
Peter Newman
Piccolo:
Simon Hunt
Oboes:
James Brown
Ann Greene
Cor Anglais:
Janice Knight
Clarinets:
Nicholas Bucknall
Andrew Mc Cullough
Bass Clarinets:
Christopher Gradwell
Anthony Short
Eb Clarinets:
Alex Suttie
Michael Farnham
Rosemary Van Der Werff
Bassoons:
Ralph Whitehouse
Second Violins:
Nicholas Hunka
John Yeomans
Nicholas Maxted Jones
Anna Meadows
Second Basses
Rosemary Roberts
Julia Atkinson
Michael Allen
Peter Andrews
Roger Barrett
Geoff Boyt
Michael Bradbeer
John Britten
Henry Carew
Arthur Croker
Rodney Cuff
Terence Field
Carl Beddow
Ruth Dawson
Christopher Horner
Elizabeth Ovenden
Richard Quick
Lyn Davies
Brian Smith
Paula Tysall
John Meek
Michael Jeffery
Anne Rycroft
Maxwell New
Frederick Campbell
Barry Norman
Paul Appleyard
John Parry
Jean Burt
Nigel Pollock
Karen Demmel
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FRIDAY 5th JUNE 1992 - 7.30 pm
in
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Bass Trombone:
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Tuba:
Cellos:
Timpani:
Martin Thomas
John Stilwell
Christina Macrae
John Franca
Naomi Zoob
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John Elliott
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John Pickles
Stephanie Williams
John Kirby
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Trumpets:
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George Woodcock
Claire Sansom
Violas:
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Horns:
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Don Hendy
Bernard Preston
Contra Bassoon:
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Nicholas Boothroyd
Basses:
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Ian Eyres
Simon Archer
Percussion:
Stephen Whittaker
Keith Bartlett
Roy Sinclair
Nigel Shipway
Harp:
Aline Brewer
General Manager:
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Kathleen Atkins
Michael Fagg
Music Administrator:
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David Willis
Flutes:
Lenore Smith
Peter Holt
Concerts Assistant (SEMT):
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Catherine Handley
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.
Today’s concert is the last in the 91/92 Guildford
Borough season but your orchestra will be playing at
various prestigious venues during the next few months
and would be delighted to see you at one or all of them!
May 30 Guildford Cathedral at 7.30 pm
Requiem
Verdi
West Sussex Philharmonic Choir — Kingston Choral
Society and Cantarella Delft
Robin Page
Conductor
Cathedral Box Office — 0483 440459
June 5 Festival Hall at 7.30 pm
Te Deum
Dvorak
Brahms
A German Requiem
Soprano
Pamela Kuhn
Baritone
John Hancorn
Goldsmiths’ Choral Union
Conductor
Brian Wright
Tickets: £6., £9., £12., £18., and £22.
Available from the Royal Festival Hall Box Office Tel:
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June 13 Fairfield Halls Croydon at 8 pm
Overture: Mastersingers
Wagner
Rachmaninov
Walton
Piano Concerto No 2—piano
Lucy Parham
Belshazzar’s Feast
Chichester Singers — Portsmouth Choral Society
Jonathan Willcocks
Conductor
Fairfield Halls Box Office — 081 688 9291
July 11 Chichester Cathedral at 7.30 pm
Messiah
Handel
Chichester Singers
Conductor
Tickets — 0243 265563
Jonathan Willcocks
Box Office — 071 413 1443
John Forster and Brian Wright next year.
Neville Creed, the Choir’s Chorus Master, takes the
Guildford Philharmonic Choir to Freiburg next April,
and will conduct the Choir in a performance of
Haydn’s Paukenmesse on his return to Guildford.
Other choral works in the season are Brahms’
magnificent Requiem which will be conducted by Hans
Michael Bueurle, Director of the Freiburger
Bachchlor and Walton’s stirring Belshazzar’s Feast
with the internationally famous baritone Willard
White. This concert forms part of the Guildford International Music Festival 1993 and will be conducted by
Sir Charles Groves.
The annual Carol Concert, which is promoted in
association with the Rotary Club of Guildford, takes
place on 6 December conducted by Neville Creed and
will feature the Philharmonic Choir and the Guildford
Cathedral Choristers. Barry Wordsworth, who
delighted the Guildford audience this season with his
all-American programme, returns by popular request
to conduct the New Year concert — which will comprise
the well-loved music of the Strauss family, Lehar etc.,
He will be joined by the well known talented soprano,
Marilyn Hill Smith.
Discounts of 25% are available to subscribers and full
details of next season’s programmes can be obtained
from the Guildford Philharmonic Office at The Lodge,
Chertsey Street, Guildford, Surrey. Tel: 0483 444666.
Current subscribers will be given the opportunity
to renew this subscription and full details,
including next seasons programmes, will be sent
through the post.
August 15 Kenwood Lakeside at 7.30 pm
Hebrides
Mendelssohn’s Overture:
Flute Concerto
Mozart
Mahler
Kaspsyk, who worked successfully with the orchestra
last season, returns to conduct Schubert’s ‘Great’
Symphony — and we shall be pleased to welcome both
Symphony No. 1
1992/93 SEASON - A Preview!
The opening concert on 27 September features the well
known Fifth Symphony of Sibelius and marks the
return of John Lill to the concert platform for the
Schumann Piano Concert following the successful collaboration with Sir Charles in Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’
Concerto this year. Sir Charles conducts three further
concerts in the subscription series and our Conductor
Emeritus, Vernon Handley, will present a programme
of British music which will include a world premiere of
the orchestral version of Derek Bourgeois’ Trombone
Concerto with one of the world’s most talented tromboniests — Swedish born Christian Lindberg. Bax will
be represented in Vernon Handley’s programme by his
Winter Legends in which the young British pianist,
Margaret Fingerhut, will play the taxing piano part.
Distinguished ~ conductors ~ making their first
appearance before our Guildford audience include En
Shao, Hans Michael Bueurle and Meir Minsky. Jacek
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Dates for your Diary
Concerts in and around the South East
16 November 1991, Leisure Centre Worcester
Worcester Choral Society, Conductor: Donald Hunt
4 December 1991, Holy Trinity Church Guildford
“The Night Mozart Died”, Guildford Chamber Choir
Conductor: Sir Charles Groves
12 January 1992, Civic Hall Guildford
Ron Goodwin in Concert
1 February 1992, The Hawth Crawley
Piano: John Lill, Conductor: Sir Charles Groves
23 February 1992, Leas Cliff Hall Folkestone
Piano: John Lill, Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes
21 March 1992, Petersfield Festival
Petersfield Festival Choir, Conductor: William Llewellyn
28 March 1992, Chichester Cathedral
The Chichester Singers, Conductor: Jonathan Willcocks
11 April 1992, The Hexagon Reading
Reading Festival Chorus, Conductor: Jonathan Grieves Smith
23/24/25 April 1992, Leith Hill Festival
Leith Hill Festival Choir, Conductor: William Llewellyn
30 May 1992, Guildford Cathedral
Kingston & West Sussex Choral Societies
Conductor: Robin Page
13 June 1992, Fairfield Halls Croydon
The Chichester Singers, Belshazzar’s Feast (Walton)
11 July 1992, Chichester Cathedral
The Chichester Singers, Messiah (Handel)
15 August 1992, Kenwood Concert Bowl London
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