Making the British Sound, Conference, Instrumental Music and British Traditions
London - Edinburgh 6 - 11 July 2009
www.galpinsociety.org/gxh



GUITAR@MUSIC FROM BRITAIN
Horniman Museum (London) 4:30pm, 7th July 2009

Taro Takeuchi plays 17th, 18th and 19th British music on original guitars,
with Judy Tarling(violin) & Jennifer Morsches(cello)
Works by Corbetta, Matteis, Purcell, J.C.Bach, Handel, Straube and Sor.

INSTRUMENS
5 course guitar attributed to Sellas (Venice, c.1650)
5 course guitar by Marchal (Paris, c.1770)
English guitar(cittern) by Preston (London,c.1760)
English guitar by Perry (Dublin, c.1760)
6 string guitar by Panormo (London, 1833)



PROGRAMME

Music from the restration period
* Francesco Corbetta: Ciaconna@i1648j
* Nicolla Matteis: Airs for guitar (1682)
* Nicolla Matteis: Airs for violin and continuo

Music surrounding Handel
* George Fredrich Handel: Suite for Musical clock (c.1730)
Prelude-Fugue-Largo-Gigue
* Salvatore Lanzetti: from Sonata for Cello and continuo(c.1745)
Andante-Fanfare

INTERVAL

Music for Guittar (Cistre, English guitar)
* Francesco Geminiani: Sonata for Guittar and Cello (1760)
* Rudolf Straube: Suite (1768)
Fantasia- Largo-Hornpipe
*Johan Cristian Bach: Sonata for guittar and violin (1770?)
Allegro- Largo- Allegro

Music from early 19th century
* Fernando Sor: Studies (1820s)



PERFORMERS

Taro Takeuchi(early guitars)

Taro Takeuchi was born in Kyoto, Japan and studied early music at the Guildhall school of music and drama London (with Nigel North).
Since leaving college, he has became active in Europe and now regularly performs and tours internationally.
He now lives in London and has worked with The Parley of Instruments (Peter Holman) Glyndeboune Opera,
Kings Consort, The Orchestra of Age of Enlightenment (Simon Rattle).
He has made numerous recordings as a soloist and a continuo player for EMI, Hyperion, BBC, Deux-Elles and  others.
Recently he has been working with Nigel Kennedy/Berliner Phirhamonic Orchestra
and  made several  DVDs/CDs  of Vivaldi's concerti  including [Four Seasons].
He specializes early doube course  guitars and continuo playing on lute,theorbo and guitar. 
His solo recording on original baroque guitar [FOLIAS!] is released from Deux-Elles (DXL1030)  and got highly acclaimed. @
New CD on original 18th & 19th century guitar [The century that shaped the guitar] was released in 2006. 


REVIEWS
...As to Taro Takeuchi, Baroque guitar playing does'nt come better than this in any  respect... GRAMOPHONE

...the music takes wings and flies. There is real urge to clap at the end...EARLY MUSIC NEWS

...his charismatic stage presence drew the audience in and and there was hardly any unnecessary noise in Purcell Room as he played ,,,CLASSICAL GUITAR MAGAZINE

...A real winner -  I enjoyed  it immensely. ...INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW 


Judy Tarling(violin)

Judy Tarling is a violinist and violist with an international reputation in early music. After a period playing in the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Judy became interested in historical performance style and since the 1970s has specialised in period performance. As leader of The Parley of Instruments she has made over eighty recordings for Hyperion Records and performed throughout Europe and the Americas. In 1985 The Parley assembled an all-gut-strung Renaissance violin band, the first of its kind in modern times, to play and record the earliest repertoire for the violin family from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Judy was also principal viola of The Hanover Band for twenty years, taking part in dozens of recordings of the symphonic repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries, and principal viola for Roy Goodmanfs Brandenburg Consort. She also toured, recorded and filmed performances of Beethoven and Brahms with Roger Norringtonfs Classical Players.

Her first book Baroque String Playing for ingenious learners (2000) has quickly become the standard text in university performance practice departments and conservatories world-wide. Strad magazine described it as aiming to ere-launch the spirit of discovery in historical performancef. Her second book, The Weapons of Rhetoric, a guide for musicians and audiences (2004) explores the common ground between the performance of music in the espeakingf style and the art of oratory. The book is based on the ancient classical sources by Cicero and Quintilian and the Renaissance eloquence books which they spawned, and has been hailed in America as possibly the emost useful and intriguing book on Baroque performance practice ever writtenf. Her third book Speaking With Quintilian, text, voice, performance, with Jane Oakshott, a voice coach, is to be published shortly.

Judy has lectured on rhetorical performing style at The Royal Academy and the Royal College of Music in London, at the Universities of Cambridge, Veracruz in Mexico and the conservatories of music in Oslo, Utrecht and Amsterdam. She has been made an honorary Associate of the Royal Academy of Music for distinguished achievement in the music profession.


Judy was recently gained a first class honours degree in the Humanities with Classical Studies at the Open University and is currently researching a book exploring the connection between gardens, gardeners and rhetoric in the seventeenth century, for which she has been reading for MA (Garden History) at Birkbeck College, University of London.


Jennifer Morsches(cello)

Jennifer Morsches spent her formative years in Alexandria, Virginia, studying cello with David Hardy under the auspices of the scholarship Fellowship and Apprenticeship Programs of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. During the summer months she participated in orchestral and chamber music courses at the New England Music Camp, Eastern Music Festival and the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in New Hampshire. She has been invited as a guest artist and coach at Apple Hill since 2002.

She pursued a liberal arts education at Smith College, where she graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and First Group Scholar with degrees in Music and German Literature, and was recipient of the Ernst Wallfisch Memorial Prize in music upon graduation in 1990. Jennifer was subsequently accepted into the studio of Timothy Eddy at the Mannes College of Music in New York City, where she received her Master's degree. She continued to study with Mr. Eddy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she received her Doctorate of Musical Arts in 1995. During her post-graduate years, she was a Fellow at the Bach Aria Festival, the Quartet Program and the Tanglewood Music Center. She received regular chamber music coaching sessions with members of the Juilliard String Quartet, Eugene Lehner, Louis Krasner, Felix Galimir, Julius Levine and Gilbert Kalish, and was awarded the C.D. Jackson Prize for outstanding merit and contribution at Tanglewood in 1994. That summer she was also invited to perform with Yo-Yo Ma as part of Wynton Marsalis' educational music videos, recorded by Sony, which have been aired on television worldwide. She was a member of the Cassatt String Quartet in New York City from 1995-96.

A growing interest in period instrument performance led her to London in 1996. Since then she has been in great demand as both continuo cellist and chamber music collaborator in the UK as well as on the Continent. As principal cellist of the highly acclaimed baroque ensemble Florilegium, with whom she regularly records for Channel Classics, she has toured extensively throughout the globe and performs regularly at, among other venues, the Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall. Jennifer performs and tours chamber music in Germany with Trio 1790 (CPO records) and in the Netherlands with the quartet, Island (Centaur Records). Additionally, she is a member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre des Champs Elysees and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. This past spring she was invited to be the continuo cellist for Luc Bondy's production of Hercules at the Nederlands Opera. She also regularly performs in recital with countertenors Michael Chance and Derek Lee Ragin.

On modern cello, Jennifer participates in chamber music festivals such as El Paso Pro-Musica, Bravo! Colorado, Consonances Festival in Saint Nazaire, France, the Barossa Music Festival in Australia and the Flanders Festival in Belgium. She has given world premieres of chamber works by David Matthews, Ben-Zion Orgad, Luna Pearl Wolff and Michael Wolpe. She has performed live on BBC Radio 3, BBC World Service, Deutschlandfunk, CBC (Canada), ABC (Australia), WGBH-Boston, WQXR-New York and NPR in the United States.

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