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The Guildford Philharmonic, a professional orchestra of
75 players, is at the heart of music-making in the south east,
with a huge repertoire extending from the 17th century to the
present day. Its main concert season runs from September to

May in two venues: the Civic Hall, Guildford, and Guildford
Cathedral; and as well as this it gives concerts throughout
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which include Kenwood Park, Royal Festival Hall,

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As well as the more mainstream orchestral concerts, the
orchestra is involved in a wide range of educational projects,
both in schools and concert halls, involving young composers,
instrumentalists and singers.

The young Chinese conductor En Shao was appointed Principal
Conductor in 1995, following in the illustrious footsteps of
Crossley Clitheroe (who founded the orchestra in 1944),
Vernon Handley, Sir Charles Groves and Sir Alexander Gibson.
With En Shao, the orchestra continues its work of attracting

new audiences for all types of classical music, and of blending
the traditional and familiar with the new and challenging.

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more such mutually beneficial relationships in the future.

GUILDFORD CATHEDRAL

SATURDAY 3 MAY 1997 at 7.30pm

Principal Conductor: EN SHAO
Associate Leaders: Hugh Bean, John Ludlow

Beethoven

Choral Fantasy

INTERVAL
Beethoven

(5 minutes)

Symphony No.9 “Choral”

- LUCY PARHAM (piano)
JULIET BOOTH (soprano)

BRIDGET BUDGE (contralto)

JOHN OAKMAN (tenor)

EDWARD CASWELL (bass)
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

EN SHAO (conductor)
All concerts in the current season are funded by

Guildford Borough

The orchestra is grateful to the following for financial assistance:
South East Arts Board
The Friends of Guildford Philharmonic
South East Music Trust

K

Musicians’ Union

Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He made his
London debut with the London Symphony
Orchestra in 1992, and with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra in 1994.
En Shao has completed four major tours with
the ABC orchestras in Australia. He has worked
with the Toronto Symphony, the Colorado
Symphony, and the Vancouver Symphony; and
with the National Symphony Orchestra in
Johannesburg. Future engagements include
visits to Australia, the United States,
Scandinavia and the Far East.

En Shao has a wide range of interests including
Chinese cooking, contemporary interior design
and architecture, ballet and jazz. He takes a
particular interest in environmental issues.

En Shao was born in Tianjin, China, in 1954. He
started to play the piano at the age of four,
and the violin at five. In 1966 he was forced to
stop his music studies for four years because of
the Cultural Revolution. Gradually, however,
he was able to return to these studies, and by
the age of 18 was working as a composer,
pianist and percussionist with a local orchestra.
After graduating from the Beijing Centre Music
Conservatory, he became second Principal
Conductor of the Chinese Broadcasting
Symphony Orchestra, and Principal Guest Conductor of the Central Philharmonic Orchestra
of China and the National Youth Orchestra.
He came to England in 1988, having been
awarded the Lord Rhodes Fellowship at the
Royal Northern College of Music. In 1989 he
won the Sixth Hungarian Television International Conductors’ Competition, resulting in
engagements with the Hungarian Radio
Orchestra and State Symphony Orchestra. In
January 1990 he became Associate Conductor
of the BBC Philharmonic, a post created
specially for him. From 1992-1995 he was
Principal Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra,
with whom he made his Proms debut in
August 1995. He is now Principal Guest
Conductor of the Euskadi Orchestra in Spain.
This is his second season as Principal Conductor
of the Guildford Philharmonic.
In the UK,

En Shao has worked with the

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the BBC
Orchestras, The Northern Sinfonia, the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic, the Hallé and the

Lucy Parham came to prominence when she
won the Piano Class of the BBC Young
Musician of the Year in 1984. Since then, she

has performed with many of Europe’s leading
orchestras and conductors. In recent seasons

she has appeared and toured with the Polish
National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Sofia
Philharmonic, L'Orchestre National de Lille, the
Bergen Philharmonic and the Russian State
Symphony Orchestra.
Lucy Parham studied at the Guildhall with
Joan Havill where she won all the major prizes.
Further successes include the 1988 NFMS/Esso
Award, the 1990 London Philharmonic Pioneer
Young Soloist of the Year, and First Prize in the

Concert Artists

of Music and Drama where she won the Gold

Competition. In 1989 she gave a highly success-

1989

International

Young

Medal for Singers, the Schubert Prize for

ful debut recital at the Wigmore Hall and has
since appeared regularly at all the major
London venues and at numerous international
music festivals. In 1996 she adjudicated the
final of the BBC Young Musician of the Year.
As a concerto soloist, she has performed with
the London Philharmonic, Royal Scottish
National Orchestra, London Mozart Players,
BBC Philharmonic, and the Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra — with whom she has also toured in
the UK and abroad.
In

1996

Lucy

Parham

commemorated

the

centenary of the death of Clara Schumann
with a Wigmore Hall recital and a series of
broadcasts for BBC Radio 3's Composer of the
Week. Her latest recording includes concertos

Lieder, the Ricordi Opera Prize and scholarships from the Countess of Munster Musical
Trust and the Craxton Memorial Trust.

She made her operatic debut with

Opera

North as Frasquita (in Carmen) in the 1987/88
season and has since returned for Ninetta

(Love of Three Oranges), Xenia (Boris
Godunov), Norina (Don Pasquale), Arminda
(La Finta Giardiniera), Lauretta (Gianni Scicchi),
Gilda (Rigoletto), and Musetta and Mimi (La
Boheme). Other roles include the Countess (Le
Nozze di Figaro) for Welsh National Opera and
Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Morgana in
Handel's Alcina (her Covent Garden debut),
and Helena (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) at
the Aix-en-Provence Festival.

by Robert and Clara Schumann and was voted

Juliet

1996 Critics’ Choice of the Year by BBC Music

repertoire, and recent performances include

Booth

has

an

extensive

concert

Magazine. Later this month she will present

Gorecki’s Third Symphony, Paul McCartney’s

two feature-length programmes about the
relationship between Brahms and Clara

Liverpool

Schumann for Classic FM.

Ulster Orchestra, and Birtwistle’s The Mask of
Orpheus with the BBC Symphony Orchestra
and Andrew Davis to open the South Bank'’s
Birtwistle Festival. Her recordings include

Other recordings include Gershwin'’s Rhapsody
in Blue with the BBC Concert Orchestra, a solo
Chopin Disc, and concertos by Ravel, Franck
and Faure with the RPO.

Oratorio,

Beethoven’s

Choral

Symphony and Bruckner’s Te Deum with the

L’Incoronazione di Poppea for Virgin Classics
and Bruckner’s Mass in F for Hyperion.

Television appearances include Dennis O’Neill

and Friends,

and Carmina Burana at the
Edinburgh Festival with Neeme Jarvi. In recital

she has performed at the Aldeburgh and Aixen-Provence Festivals, the Chatelet in Paris,

and

at

St

John’'s

Smith

Square

and

the

season

include

Tatyana

Wigmore Hall.
Engagements this

(Eugene Onegin) at the Wexford Festival,
Micaela (Carmen) at the Royal Albert Hall,
Tatyana at the Holland Park Theatre, a Puccini
gala concert at the Barbican and her first Verdi
Requiem.

z
Juliet Booth was born in London and studied
at Bristol University and the Guildhall School

Elgar's Sea Pictures conducted by the late
Norman Del Mar and recorded for Capital Radio.
Bridget Budge has recently been working in
Germany, performing concerts and oratorio in
a variety of venues. These include a recording
of Stravinsky’s Mass for WDR Cologne, and a
CD of Russian music by Mordechai Seter.

Bridget Budge began her singing career as a
choral exhibitioner in Trinity College Choir,

Cambridge, graduating in 1985 with an
honours degree in music. She studied at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the
Royal College of Music where she was made
the Opera Scholar. She was the recipient of a
number of prizes (including the RCM Albani
Prize for female vocalists and a Countess of
Munster Scholarship), and reached the semifinals of the Shell International Opera
Competition in 1988 whilst still a student.

Operatic roles have included Ericlea (The
Return of Ulysses) in Cambridge, Florence Pike
(Albert Herring), Madame de la Haltiere
(Cendrillon), and the Sorceress (Dido & Aeneas)
at the Royal College of Music, Mamma Lucia
(Cavalleria Rusticana) for Scottish Opera Go
Round, and Dardano (Amadigi) for the
Cambridge Handel Opera Group. She has also
covered the roles of Sosostris (Midsummer
Marriage), Suzuki (Madam Butterfly) and
Jocasta (Oedipus Rex) for Scottish Opera.
Her oratorio experience is extensive, ranging
from works by Bach and Handel to Verdi and

Tippett. She has performed alongside such
distinguished artists as Benjamin Luxon and
Neil Jenkins. Highlights have included a performance of the Verdi Requiem conducted by Sir
David Willcocks in the Royal Albert Hall, and

John Oakman studied at Trinity College of
Music with James Gaddarn and Elizabeth
Hawes. This was followed by the Opera Studio
where his teachers included Hans Hotter. Since
then he has sung regularly with Kent Opera
and Glyndebourne Festival Opera. His major
roles include Don Jose (Carmen), Cavaradossi
(Tosca), the title role in The Tales of Hoffmann,
and Rodolpho (Boheme).
He enjoys a wide and varied repertoire in
oratorio, notably Verdi's Requiem, Rossini’s
Stabat Mater and Handel’s Saul. As a founder
member of the Gratis Singers he gives concerts
throughout the country.

He has recently made two CDs, for IMP
Classics, of Gilbert & Sullivan arias and of
operatic arias.

Minster, and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis for
U.E.A.

Future plans include Mozart’s Requiem in
Romsey Abbey, Richard Blackford’s Mirror of

Perfection with the Bournemouth Symphony
Chorus in Israel, Brahms's Requiem with
Woking Choral Society, and the roles of Timur
(Turandot) for Kentish Opera, Ramphis (Aida)
for Surrey Opera and Sarastro (Magic Flute)
for Court Opera.
He is currently studying with Robert Dean.

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
The Guildford Philharmonic Choir was formed

by Guildford Borough in order to perform the

major choral

repertoire with the Guildford
Philharmonic Orchestra. As well as performing

well-known choral works, the choir specialises
in 20th-century, particularly British, music. It
recorded Gerald Finzi's Intimations of

Edward Caswell was born in Bournemouth in

has

1964. He was a chorister at Exeter Cathedral

Immortality with the Guildford Philharmonic
and Patrick Hadley's The Trees So High with
the Philharmonia Orchestra, both recordings

and

after attending

Bournemouth

School

went to Christ Church, Oxford, where he read

Music and sang in the Cathedral Choir. As a
postgraduate he studied with Norman Bailey
at the Royal College of Music and later with

Edward Brooks.
Oratorio engagements have included Israel in

Egypt for the London Handel Festival; Haydn's
Creation at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford;
Tippett's A Child of Our Time in Canterbury
Cathedral; Mozart's Requiem in St John's

Smith

Square, Paris, Amiens and Rouen;
Dvorak’s Stabat Mater and Requiem in York
Minster; Beethoven’s Mass in C in St James's
Piccadilly; and Alexander’s Feast for the BachChor, Luneburg.

conducted by Vernon Handley.

The choir has worked with many eminent
conductors, and as well as giving concerts in
Guildford, it visits other British cities. Guildford

is twinned with Freiburg, and in 1990 the choir
joined forces with the Freiburger Bachchor in
Freiburg Munster, and then in November 1993

gave an outstanding performance of Britten’s

War Requiem with them under Neville Creed.

The

choir's Chorus Director is Jeremy
Backhouse, who was appointed to the post in

January 1995 and who is also conductor of the
Vasari Singers with whom he has made several

notable recordings. The choir’s new President

In opera he has taken the roles of Colline,
Angelotti and Sparafucile for Opera East;

is Sir David Willcocks, this country’s
distinguished choral conductor.

Mozart’s Figaro for Park Opera; Herman
Augustus (Candide) for Musica nel Choistro,
Batignano; and Sir Richard Cholmondeley (The

If you would like more details about singing in
the choir, please telephone: 01932 221918.

Yeomen of the Guard) for Surrey Opera.
Recent engagements have included Rossini’s

Petite Messe Solennelle,

Brahms's Requiem,
Beethoven’s Choral Symphony at the Barbican,

The Dream of Gerontius in
Guildford
Cathedral, the St Matthew Passion in York

most

what

proved

to

be the

last subscription

concert in which he himself performed. The
concert introduced the Fifth and Sixth

Symphonies, but just a few days beforehand, a

last-minute addition was announced in the

press: ‘A Fantasia for the Pianoforte which

ends with the gradual entrance of the entire

orchestra and the introduction of choruses as

a finale.’

Beethoven intended the Fantasia as a piano
concerto

containing

two

entirely

novel

features, and the addition of a chorus was
only one of them. In due course he also

planned an overture with the addition of
and in the 1820s he brought the
chorus into his celebrated final symphony. In

chorus,

traditional choral works, such as oratorios,

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

masses and operas, the orchestra was in many
respects subservient to the voices, whereas

(1770-1827)
Beethoven

is

as central

to

our

music

as

Shakespeare is to our literature. He was a key
figure in the 19th century artistic consciousness, the very type of the ‘artist as hero’; and

the myth of the tempestuous romantic genius,
wrestling with his stormy creations in his silent
world, remains a potent image.

When Beethoven arrived in Vienna in the early
1790s, he soon made a strong impression with

the musical public, but as pianist rather than
composer.

Contemporary

evidence

that

improvisations

at

his

abounded

in

brilliant

the

suggests

keyboard

ideas and

featured
sudden changes of mood; but despite his
individuality Beethoven did not seek to break
with the tradition of the Viennese classical
style, the tradition which had drawn him to

the city. Rather his intention was to modify the
formal procedures of the time, in order to suit
his own expressive needs.
This development can clearly be traced in his
celebrated series of nine symphonies which
span the years from the turn of the century to

the 1820s, and which have remained at the
very heart of western musical consciousness to

this day.

Beethoven's new concept involved reversing
these priorities, to focus upon his favoured
approach, the instrumental drama.
Unusually for Beethoven, the Fantasia was
written almost without interruption, as if in
the white heat of inspiration; certainly it is a
most original conception. For rather than a
conventional three-movement concerto, the

work

is

planned

as

a

substantial

course of composing it, Beethoven managed
to anticipate both Ravel’s Bolero, with the
gradual growth towards a powerful tutti

fortissimo, and Britten’s Variations on a Theme
of Purcell (The Young Person's Guide to the
Orchestra), in introducing the orchestral instruments, individually and by section.

However,

the Fantasia begins with a large-scale piano solo,
which Beethoven improvised at the first performance, and only wrote down subsequently.
There is only one theme of any significance,

which is introduced by the piano before being
developed in a series of variations. He had
composed it as a song more than ten years

before, but now it was set to new words, most
probably by Christoph Kuffner. The choral

treatment is varied and dramatic, bringing the

Fantasia to an exciting conclusion.

FANTASIA in C major, opus 80

for piano, orchestra and chorus
On

22nd

single

movement using semi-variation form. In the

December

1808

Beethoven

gave

Schmeichelnd hold und lieblich klingen
unsers Lebens Harmonien,
Und dem Schénheitssinn entschwingen

Blumen sich, die ewig bluhn.

Fried" und Freude gleiten freundlich

wie der Wellen Wechselspiel;

Was sich dréngte rauh und feindlich

ordnet sich zu Hochgefiihl.

Wenn der Téne Zauber walten

und des Wortes Weihe spricht,

Muss sich Herrliches gestalten,

Nacht und Stiirme werden Licht.

brother Joseph was installed as King of Spain.

It was this struggle that inspired Goya to
complete his famous painting The Execution
of the Citizens of Madrid. Other famous

contemporary

paintings

included

Friedrich’s

The Cross on the Mountain and Ingres’s La
grande baigneuse. In Britain, the Dome and
Royal Pavilion were constructed at Brighton.

Auss're Ruhe, inn're Wonne

herrschen fiir den Glucklichen.
Doch der Kinste Friihlingssonne

SYMPHONY no. 9 in D minor,

Crosses, das in's Herz gedrungen,

1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
2. Molto vivace

Hat ein Geist sich aufgeschwungen,

3. Adagio molto e cantabile - Andante

opus 125 - ‘Choral’

lasst aus beiden Licht enstehn.

bliht dann neu und Schénempor.

hallt ihm stets ein Geisterchor.

Nehmt denn hin, ihr schénen Seelen,

froh die Gaben schéner Kunst.

Wenn sich Lieb’ und Kraft vermahlen,

lohnt dem Menschen Gotter-Gunst.

Soft and sweet through ether winging
sound the harmonies or life,
The immortal flowers springing
when the soul is freed from strife.
Peace and joy are sweetly blended

like the waves alternate play;
What for mastery contended,
learns to yield and to obey.

When on music’s mighty pinion

souls of men to heaven rise,
Then both vanish earth's dominion,
Man is native to the skies.

Calm without and joy within us

is the bliss for which we long.

If the art of magic wins us
joy and calm are turned to song.
With its tide of joy unbroken,
music’s flood our life surrounds.

What a mastermind has spoken,

through eternity resounds.

Oh! Receive ye joy invited,

all its blessings without guile.
When in love and strength united,
man earns the gods’ approving smile.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

In March 1808 French forces under the
command of General Murat occupied Madrid,

and after a prolonged struggle Napoleon’s

moderato - Adagio

4. Presto - Allegro ma non troppo - Allegro

assai - Allegro assai vivace - Alla marcia Andante maestoso - Allegro energico,

sempre ben marcato - Allegro ma non tanto Poco adagio - Prestissimo

‘I am that which is. | am all that was, that is,
and that shall be.” It is said that Beethoven
kept this quotation from Eastern philosophy
framed and before him on his desk. Certainly

the sentiments implied therein are crucial to
an understanding of the creative processes of
his final years, since during some fifteen years
before his death in 1827, Beethoven lived in a
silent world, completely deaf and able to

communicate only through his conversation

books

and,

more

importantly,

through

composing his music, having long since ceased

to perform in public. In his later compositions

he was forced to withdraw

into

himself,

creating music of a spiritual depth scarcely to

be found elsewhere in the literature of music.

If Beethoven had extended the range of the symphony in the celebrated Fifth Symphony, with
its imagery of triumph over fate, in the Ninth,
his final symphonic composition, he moved on

to a conception profounder still: the brother-

hood of all mankind. For in no work of art is
the philosophical spirit which developed out
of the French Revolution more clearly expressed.

The popular title ‘Choral Symphony’ is
misleading, however, as Beethoven'’s own title

reveals: ‘Symphony with Final Chorus on
Schiller's Ode to Joy’. The choral forces, who

provide the culmination and resolution of the
work, take part only in the second half of the

finale; up to that point the music is purely

instrumental. Yet despite its revolutionary
aspects, which must have made a powerful
impression in 1824 when the work was new,
the Ninth Symphony still owes much to the
classical tradition, especially in its overall structure and pacing. The expressive and technical
demands extend the scale of the classical symphony, but the instruments are never allowed
the indulgence of virtuosity, and solo passages
quickly merge again into ensemble. Thus the
orchestral writing directs the listener’s
attention towards the strength of the musical
argument rather than to superficial effects.

The opening of the first movement is an immediate revelation of Beethoven's powers. It is as if
the preoccupation is with the act of creation
itself, for the music seems to grow from
nothing, taking the form of a huge crescendo.
The celebrated analyst Donald Tovey went so
far as to suggest that this first subject had the
deepest and widest influence of any single
theme upon later musical developments. And
certainly those who know the symphonies of
Bruckner, for example, would hardly disagree.

At its best symphonic music is intensely
dramatic, and here Beethoven achieves a
drama of unparalleled proportions. The music
evolves on an extended scale, with a second
subject group which at once finds richness,
diversity and continuity, the moods alternating in the evocation of consolation and doubt.
In the closing phase of the movement, the selfsufficiency of the main material (the first
subject) is emphasised by the way that it is
extended and brought to its close with a
statement which has such unequivocal finality.
The second movement exudes a quite
different personality, for it is a striking
intensification of the possibilities of the
scherzo and its predecessor the minuet. The
chord of D minor is thrown back and forth,
and the basic rhythm strongly projected, not
least by the explosive contributions of the
timpani. When the strings begin a five-part
fugue, the woodwinds point up the start of
each bar; but this movement too is a sonata
form, and the second subject has a more
flowing contour above the active strings. This
symphonic scherzo is an extraordinary
example of the possibilities of scale, energy
and economy; so it is that the trio section, for
which Beethoven left a very leisurely metronome marking, is played once only rather than

twice, as was his usual preference. Now, the
sheer scale of the movement allows just a
passing reference to a second statement,
immediately prior to the emphatic conclusion.

In his famous essay, Tovey writes of ‘the
broadest and most spacious processes set side
by side with the tersest and most sharply
contrasted statements’. Thus there were good
reasons for placing the slow movement after
the scherzo, and before the clamorous
introduction to the finale. The Adagio is a
theme and variations, with the addition of
two interludes whose pulse is slightly more
rapid. The lyricism of the music could hardly be
further removed from the dynamism of the
scherzo, though towards the close there are
martial outbursts which show that there is
more than a single dimension to the movement. The effect of the storm, however, is to
make the closing bars seem more serene still.
Beethoven had known and loved Schiller’s Ode
to Joy (written in 1785) for more than thirty
years, and he had always intended to set it to
music. But the idea of a choral ending to the
Symphony had not been present from the first;
rather it emerged in response to the evolution
of the whole project. Schiller’s words, with their
focus on the emotion of joy, made the ideal
solution to the symphonic problem Beethoven
sought in his finale to resolve. His approach was
to precede the vocal entry with a substantial
prelude consisting of purely instrumental
music. A powerful recitative introduction
contrasts against quotations from the previous
movements, out of which emerges the famous
‘joy’ theme, whose character has elements of
hymn, folk tune and symphony. The sublime
simplicity of this theme was surely the result of
long labours on the composer’s part.

When the baritone enters, his words speak for
Beethoven (who did, after all, write them himself): ‘Oh friends, not these sounds! Let us strike
up something more pleasing and more joyful!’
The choral finale begins with the ‘joy’ theme,
which becomes the basis of variations and
developments setting Beethoven’s rearranged
selection from Schiller's Ode. The music has
both diversity and unity, with the four soloists
and chorus delivering treatments of the theme
which range through many moods and presentations, from the awestruck to the delirious.
No wonder, then, that the influence of this
work has been so profound and so enduring.

Beethoven’s funeral procession, Vienna 1827

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

Vienna remained a leading musical centre
throughout Beethoven'’s lifetime. The city
numbered
some
quarter of a
million
inhabitants — more than Berlin but fewer than
Paris or London - and was one of the focal
points of European artistic and political life.

© Terry Barfoot.

O Freunde, nicht diese Téne!

O friends, not these sounds!

Sondern lasst uns angenehmere anstimmen,
Und freudenvollere.

Let us rather take up a more pleasing
and more joyful refrain.

Ode an die Freude
Freude, schéner Gétterfunken,

O joy, glorious spark of the gods,

Tochter aus Elysium,

Wir betreten feuertrunken

Ode to Joy
daughter of Elysium,

Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.

intoxicated by the flame, we enter,
celestial one, your sacred shrine.

Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt;

what rigorous convention sets apart;

Alle Menschen werden Brider,
Wo dein sanfter Flugel weilt.
Wem der grosse Wurf gelungen,
Eines Freundes Freund zu sein,

Wer ein holdes Weib errungen,

Mische seinen Jubel ein!
Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele

Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!

Und wer’s nie gekonnt, der stehle
Weinend sich aus diesem Bund!
Freude trinken alle Wesen

An den Brusten der Natur;
Alle Guten, alle Bésen
Folgen ihrer Rosenspur.

Your magic powers reunite

all men become brothers,
there, where your gentle wing comes to rest.
He who enjoys the blessed fortune

of mutual friendship,

he who has won a loving wife,
let him partake of the rejoicing!
Yes, and if he has but one other soul

in this world to call his own!
And who has not accomplished this, let him steal
weeping from this company!

All creatures drink in joy
at Nature’s breast;

good and evil together

follow her rosy trail.

She gave us kisses and the vine,
a friend proven unto death;
the worm too feels love’s pleasure,
and the cherub stands before God!

KUsse gab sie uns und Reben,
Einen Freund, gepruft im Tod;
Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben,
Und der Cherub steht vor Gott!

Joyously, as His suns race

Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen
Durch des Himmels pracht’'gen Plan,
Laufet, Briider, eure Bahn,
Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen!

joyfully, as a hero toward victory!

Freude, schéner Gotterfunken, etc.

O Joy, glorious spark of the gods, etc.

Seid umschlungen, Millionen!
Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt!
Bruder, GUberm Sternenzelt
Muss ein lieber Vater wohnen!

Be embraced, ye millions!
This kiss to all the world!
Brothers, there above the firmament
a loving Father surely dwells!

Ihr starzt nieder, Millionen?
Ahnest du den Schopfer, Welt?
Such’ ihn Uberm Sternenzelt,

Do you fall prostrate, ye millions?
Do you divine your Creator, world?
Seek Him beyond the firmament,

Uber Sternen muss er wohnen!

He surely dwells beyond the stars!

Freude, schéner Gotterfunken, etc.
Seid umschlungen, Millionen!, etc.

O joy, glorious spark of the gods, etc.
Be embraced, ye millions!, etc.

through Heaven'’s resplendent plains,
brothers, run your course,

Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
EN SHAO - Principal Conductor
First Violins
John Ludlow
Maurice Brett
Sheila Beckensall

Violas
John Meek
John Graham
Justin Ward

Nick Barnard

Jean Burt

Peter Newman
Martin Palmer

Paul Appleyard
Bob Winquist

Avril Maclennan

Emma Calthorpe
Phillip Augar
R Van Der Werff

Second Violins
Nicholas Maxted Jones

Cellos
Douglas Cummings
John Stilwell
Michael Ronayne
John Kirby
Nicholas Boothroyd

Rosemary Roberts
Julia Brocklehurst

Basses

A Sturdy
T Callaghan
Peter Hembrough
Carl Beddow
Ruth Dawson

Flutes
Sarah Newbold
Alexa Turpin

Piccolo

Horns
Percussion
Christopher Nall
Kevin Elliott
Jane Hanna
Chris Blundell
Richard Wainwright ~ Nigel Shipway
Christine Norsworthy

Simon Hunt
Trumpets

Oboes
Neil Black
Caroline Marwood

Gareth Bimson
Patricia Reid

General Manager
Nicola Goold

Trombones

Clarinets
Keith Pudey
Victor Slaymark

lan White
Michael Crowther

Music
Administrator
Peter Holt

Bass Trombone

Michael Lea
Jeremy Gordon
David Jones
Paul Moore

Bassoons

Robin Kennard
Anna Meadows
Contra Bassoon

lan Fasham

Secretary

Shirley Ewen
Timpani
Roger Blair

Stage Assistant
Ken Davidson

Martin Field

If you would like further information about the work of the Guildford Philharmonic or if you are interested
in sponsorship opportunities please contact the Guildford Philharmonic office on 01483 444666.
PRIZE DRAW

The winner of the bottle of champagne in the recent subscribers’ survey was Mrs J. Rake of Avington Close,
Guildford. Congratulations to her, and many thanks to everyone who filled in and returned survey forms.

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR 1996-7
Sopranos

Rosalind Plowright

Amanda Clayton

Prue Smith

Jacqueline Alderton

Susan Ranft

Mary Clayton

Jana Stepankova

Norman Carpenter

Kathleen Aldridge

Elizabeth Redford

Andrea Dombrowe

Hilary Trigg

Walter Chattaway

Olivia Ames-Lewis

Gillian Rix

Valerie Edwards

Jorien van Gulik

Neil Clayton

Joanna Andrews

Joan Robinson

Celia Embleton

Janice Wicker

Rodney Cuff
Philip Davies

John Burrows-Watson

Noreen Ayton

Maureen Shortland

Mandy Freeman

June Windle

Penny Baxter

Judy Smith

Rebecca Greenwood

Maralyn Wong

Michael Dawe

Sally Bayton

Kathy Stickland

Liz Hamilton

Beatrice Wood

Simon Doran

Mary Broughton

Carol Terry

Ingrid Hardiman

Elaine Chapman

Sally Wallington

Jo Harman

Tenors

Terence Ellis

Sandra Docker

Enid Weston

Carol Hobbs

Adrian Buxton

Geoffrey Forster

Rachel Edmondson

Christine Wilks

Sheila Hodson

Douglas Cook

Michael Golden

Angela Hand

Elizabeth Willis

Joy Hunter

Bob Cowell

Nick Gough

Susan Hinton

Lucinda Wilson

Helen Lavin

Leslie Harfield

Peter Herbert

Kay McManus

Bob Holland

Laurie James

Nora Kennea

Michael Dudley

Judith Lewy

Altos

Krystyna Marsden

Andrew Reid

Michael Jeffery

Elizabeth McCracken

Sally Bailey

Christine Medlow

Chris Robinson

Stephen Jepson

Margaret Mackie

Iris Ball

Mary Moon

John Trigg

Tony Macklow-Smith

Jacqueline Norman

Mary Anne Barber

Brenda Moore

Maggie van Koetsveld

Neil Martin

Susan Norton

Evelyn Beastall

Jean Munro

Robin Onslow

Iris Bennett

Nikki Paige

Basses

John Parry

Barry Norman

Penny Overton

Jane Brooks

Anne Philps

Peter Andrews

David Ross

Alison Palmer

Jean Brown

Lesley Scordellis

Roger Barrett

Philip Stanford

Margaret Parry

Barbara Buck

Catherine Shacklady

Michael Bradbeer

Keith Torbet

Jessica Pires

Juliet Butler

Gillian Sharpe

John Britten

Ralph Whitehouse

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97/98 Season of the
Guildford Philharmonic
opens on 10 October

PHILHARMONIC

New season includes:
% Candlelight Concerts in Holy Trinity

If you would like

% Large-scale orchestral music in the

to be more involved in the

% Some of the greatest choral music

work of the

ever written

Guildford Philharmonic

% Late-night concerts in the Electric

and be part of our

Theatre

exciting development plans,

% Special events for children and

families

Full details from

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Dates for your diary
'H'viv/‘

September 20th

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4 September 28th

Chobham Festival

Saturday 21 June 1997
at 7.30pm
Holy Trinity Church, Guildford

Festival Cabaret Evening
Saturday September 20th

Summer Concert by the

Children’s Workshop:
Rhythm & Percussion

Guildford Philharmonic Choir

Flower Festival & Exhibition

Gershwin Highlights from

Sunday September 21st

Friday 26th — Sunday 28th

Porgy & Bess

Brass Band Concert

Lambert The Rio Grande

Friday September 26th

Festival Concert

Saturday September 27th

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Songs of Praise

Sunday September 28th

Conductor Jeremy Backhouse

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Saturday 10 May 1997

Saturday 12 July 1997

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at 8.00pm

St John's Smith Square, London SW1

Shalford Park, Guildford

Mozart Requiem

Summer Concert with

Stanford Magnificat in B flat

Fireworks Finale

Parry Songs of Farewell

A perfect evening out
for all the family!

Vasari Singers

Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra

Guildford Philharmonic Chamber

Conductor Jeremy Backhouse

Orchestra

Conductor Jeremy Backhouse
Tickets: 0171-222 1061

Tickets:

Adults £12 (if booked in advance),
£15 (on the day); Children £2
Phone: 01483 444555

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The Department promotes regular concerts,
celebrity recitals, masterclasses and workshops,
all of which are open to the public.
Major diary dates for the 1996-97 academic year:

IN THE ARTS

( & HUMANITIES

3 October, 19 January, 11 July (with Jack Brymer)
Medici String Quartet

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24 October, 4 May

university level through

Nikolai Demidenko, piano

the University of Surrey’s

24 November, 15 February (Guildford Cathedral)

open-access, part-time and
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University Symphony Orchestra & Choir
13 December (Holy Trinity Church)
University Chamber Orchestra

Wednesday Lunchtime Recitals
weekly student performances during semesters,

starting at 1.15 pm (admission free).

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