Introduction and welcome
Ross Winters
10.00 – 11.00am
Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire
Ross Winters (Head of Recorder, Birmingham Conservatoire)
Annabel Knight (recorder)
Christopher Orton (recorder)
with Joanne Seeley (piano)
An introduction to the weekend from the Conservatoire recorder department tutors, presenting key works from the very first recital of modern recorder music, given by Dolmetsch at the London Contemporary Music Centre in 1939.
Featuring:
Lennox Berkeley Sonatina (1939)
Stanley Bate Sonatina (1939)
Paul Hindemith Plöner Musiktag: Trio for three recorders (1932)
11am Break
Short Recital
Dan Laurin and Anna Paradiso-Laurin (photo: Per Ellström)
11.30am – 12.15pm
Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire
Dan Laurin (recorder)
Anna Paradiso-Laurin (piano)
Songs of Yesterday
Walter Leigh Sonatina (1944)
York Bowen Sonatina (1947)
Cyril Scott Aubade (1952)
This charismatic, Swedish-Italian virtuoso couple will perform and talk about important music from the Dolmetsch archive, tracing some of the earlier repertoire written for Carl Dolmetsch and Joseph Saxby’s Wigmore Hall recitals.
Tickets available on the door
Birmingham Conservatoire Concert Diary link
12.30 Lunch
Key Notes Presentation
2.00 – 2.45pm
Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire
Ross Winters talks about the importance of Carl Dolmetsch’s legacy
Talk
3.00 – 4.30pm
Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire
Dr Andrew Mayes, author of Carl Dolmetsch and the Recorder Repertoire of the 20th Century (pub Ashgate/Peacock Press) discusses the background to Carl Dolmetsch’s repertoire, drawing on information discovered in an extensive collection of manuscript scores and correspondence in the Dolmetsch archive
4.30 Break
Short Recital
Jill Kemp
5.00 – 5.45pm
Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire
Jill Kemp (recorder)
Aleksander Zram (piano)
Herbert Murrill Sonatina (1951)
Norman Fulton Scottish Suite (1954)
Donald Swann Rhapsody from Within (1982)
Malcolm Arnold Sonatina (1958)
Multi-award winning recorder player Jill Kemp continues the day’s Dolmetsch recital series with Polish pianist Aleksander Szram, this time choosing recorder music from the 1950s-80s.
Tickets available on the door
Birmingham Conservatoire Concert Diary link
Concert
7.00 – 9.00pm
Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire
Carl Dolmetsch Weekend Recorder Extravaganza
Ross Winters (recorder)
Dan Laurin (recorder)
Anna Paradiso-Laurin (harpsichord)
Conservatoire string ensemble
Birmingham Schools Recorder Sinfonia and Birmingham Schools Recorder Ensemble
Birmingham Society of Recorder Players
with local city school children
Music to include:
Arnold Cooke: Divertimento; Concerto for recorder and strings
Walter Leigh: Concertino for Harpsichord
New commissions by Birmingham composers
A celebration of recorder playing in Birmingham, with young and enthusiastic amateur players sharing the stage with professional artists from the UK, Sweden and Italy. The programme celebrates Carl Dolmetsch’s pioneering spirit of commissioning new works and championing of amateur music making, showcasing some exciting newly-commissioned works for recorder ensemble. The programme also includes important and rarely heard works for recorder, harpsichord and string ensemble.
Book tickets at www.birmingham-box.co.uk
Birmingham Conservatoire Concert Diary link