An interview with Jonathan for BBC Music Magazine has been published at http://www.classical-music.com/article/moment-howells-history
Tickets for the premiere at The Cheltenham Festival are available here
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Showing posts with label Herbert Howells. Show all posts
A moment of Howells history
An interview with Jonathan for BBC Music Magazine has been published at http://www.classical-music.com/article/moment-howells-history
Tickets for the premiere at The Cheltenham Festival are available here
Exploring Music: Introduction to British Music and Composers
Public lecture by
Jonathan Clinch
Tallis to Tippett, Byrd to Britten.....
The Sage, Gateshead
Tuesday 22nd October at 7pm
St John's Grainger Street Newcastle
Organ Recital
Saturday 6th July - 12.30pm
Jonathan Clinch
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Programme:
Psalm Prelude set 2 no.3 - 'Sing unto him a new song' - Herbert Howells
Elegie in C - Hubert Parry
Sonata Eroica - Joseph Jongen
Esquisses Byzantines: Vitrail, Rosace, Tu es Petra - Henri Mulet
Organ Recital: Friday 20th April @ 12.30pm
Programme:
Sonata Eroica - Joseph Jongen
Sonata in F - C P E Bach
Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 - J S Bach
Psalm Prelude Set 2 no. 2 - Ps.139:v.11 - 'Yea, the darkness is no
darkness with Thee, but the night is as clear as the day: the darkness
and light to Thee are both alike' - Herbert Howells
Cathédrales - Louis Vierne
Interlude in memory of David Sanger - Flemming Chr. Hansen
Tu es Petra - Henri Mulet
Herbert Howells: An English Mass
With this year’s English Music Festival featuring two major works by Herbert Howells, it’s well worth checking out. On Sunday 29th May The City of London Choir with The Holst Orchestra will be giving a concert that includes An English Mass. The next day Howells’ Second Violin Sonata features in the form of a new edition by Paul Spicer. If you can't get to Dorchester, the mass is being repeated in a concert on Thursday 23 June 2011 at 7.30pm in St John’s, Smith Square. And if you can't get to either of them, Hyperion released a very good CD of the mass in 1992 with Vernon Handley and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra which is available for download here.
Howells @ The Bate Collection, Oxford University
GALLERY RECITAL
A Historical Keyboard recital with Jonathan Clinch
Come hear keyboard works by Herbert Howells at Oxford University's Bate Collection, one of the most magnificent collections of musical instruments in the world.
Tuesday 10 May 1.00pm – 1.45pm
Before me, Careless lying
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| View from Leith Hill Tower |
Leith Hill Music Festival have announced their forthcoming programme, including a very rare piece by Herbert Howells on Day 3 (9th April) of the Festival, 'Before me, Careless lying'.
One can only wonder at what Christmas was like in the Howells’ household as several of his works, including the madrigal ‘Before me, Careless lying’ (1918) and the coronation anthem ‘Behold O God our defender’ (1952), were completed on Christmas Day.
The text by Austin Dobson (1840-1921) was initially set to music by C H Lloyd and published by Novello in 1901. Howells would have found Dobson’s style, his use of forgotten French forms from earlier ages and revelment in a golden age of poetry, was in perfect parallel to his own love of music from the golden age of Byrd and Tallis. Howells first set the text in 1916 as part of a collection of four solo songs (which included the popular King David) giving it the title ‘A Madrigal’. This piece is available online from the University of Rochester.
The five part version dates from a period when Howells was working for Dr R R Terry at Westminster Cathedral, editing Tudor music for publication. The pastiche madrigal follows the form of the solo song. There are four verses, three of which are light and rhythmically energetic contrasting with a slower and more expansive setting of the penultimate verse (Nay child, I cry). Howells dedicates the work ‘To my friend Dr R R Terry’. It was recorded by The Finzi Singers under Paul Spicer in 2006.
©2011 Jonathan Clinch
Piano Works of Herbert Howells
28th February 2011 - 1pm
Newcastle Cathedral
A rare opportunity to hear some of the piano music written by Herbert Howells. Influenced by Rachmaninov, Debussy and Ravel, yet uniquely English, Howells' music is amongst the finest written in the first half of the twentieth century.
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