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NIGEL KENNEDY
- Violin
PETER PETTINGER
- Piano
This concert is arranged in association
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Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor Op. 82
Sonata in C major for unaccompanied violin BWV 1005
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Sonata No. 9 for Violin and Piano in A major Op. 47 (Kreutzer) Beethoven
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minutes before the performance is due to recommence.
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York Festival
Nigel Kennedy was born in Brighton in
December 1956 into a family of dis-
tinguished cellists. At the age of seven he
entered the Yehudi Menuhin School to
study piano on the first scholarship given
by Menuhin's father, switching to violin,
and at the age of 16 went to New York to
study at the Juilliard School with the
assistance of various scholarships. For
several years, Kennedy continued occa-
sional studies in America with Dorothy
DeLay in New York City and Aspen.
BBC Television showed their confidence
in Nigel Kennedy's future when they chose
him as the subject of a five-year documen-
tary on the development of a soloist,
which culminated in his Festival Hall
debut with the Philharmonic Orchestra
and Riccardo Muti in 1977. He has now
played with all the major British
orchestras-including performances in
London of the Elgar Concerto in May 1981
with the Royal Philharmonic, of Tchaikov-
sky at the 1982 Proms, and of the Walton
Concerto at the ISM Centenary Gala
Concert in October 1982 with the Hallé
Orchestra and Loughran which received
particularly impressive critical attention.
In February 1981 he toured in Australia
and Hong Kong with the Hallé. In June
1983 Kennedy appeared at the Hallé and
City of Birmingham Orchestra Proms and
in 1983-84 he has concerts with the
Philharmonic, Hallé, Royal Philharmonic
and Scottish National Orchestras. In May
1984 he featured as soloist on the Monte
Carlo Orchestra's UK tour. Nigel Kennedy
is also a popular recitalist, appearing at the
Wigmore Hall and QEH in chamber music
regularly. In September 1981, he was
invited to the Benson & Hedges Music
Festival in Aldeburgh and in 1982 and
1983, to the Malvern Festival. In summer
1983 he participated in the International
Chamber Music Festival in Lockenhaus in
Austria. On November 11 last year, Ken-
nedy gave his first solo recital in the
Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Nigel Kennedy performed at the Gstaad
Festival in the summer of 1980 and in
November 1980 debuted with the Berlin
Philharmonic. In America, he has ap-
peared with the St. Louis Symphony and
the Baltimore Symphony and given two
recitals in Chicago. In February 1982 he
made a British Council-supported tour to
India and Turkey; in August travelled to
Denmark and Norway and played the
Elgar Concerto at the Stresa and Lucerne
Festivals with the Philharmonia and
Ashkenazy. In October 1983 Kennedy
gave a highly successful debut recital at
the Berlin Festival. A major tour to
Australia is planned for 1985.
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York Festival
Nigel Kennedy's interests go beyond
classical music into Indian music and jazz:
he has given concerts with Stephane Grap-
pelli and played at the Chichester
and Cork Festivals with American jazz
musicians. His previous group, Zigane, was
heard around London and at the Edin-
burgh Fringe and his new ensemble,
Crossover, appeared in concert at the Fair-
field Hall, Croydon and St. David's Hall,
Cardiff last April and will be appearing
later in the York Festival. He is also an
ardent cricket fan and supporter of Aston
Villa.
Nigel Kennedy plays a Stradivari violin
loaned to him through J. & A. Beare Ltd.
at the express wish of its former owner,
the late Dorothy Jeffreys of Trebetherick,
Cornwall.
Peter Pettinger was born in Peter-
borough, Cambridgeshire in 1945. From
an early age he was a keen pianist and
whilst his sights were always focussed on
the classical repertoire, he also became
much intrigued by the music of Dave
Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan and Miles Davis.
His classical training took place at the
Royal Academy of Music from 1962 to
1968, studying with pianist Vivian
Langrish and composer Hugh Wood. He
has since travelled extensively including
three tours of Japan and countless
appearances in the USA.
In 1972 he was a founder member of the
International Musicians Seminar music
course for string players held in England
each year and during this time he record-
ed the Bartok Violin and Piano Sonatas for
Telefunken-Decca with its artistic direc-
tor Sandor Vegh.
He is a firm believer in 'variety being the
spice of music'. This involves him in jazz
concerts and composing and arranging for
television.
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Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor Op. 82
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Allegro non troppo
Sir Edward Elgar died fifty years ago,
leaving a legacy of masterpieces for his
beloved Britain. Powerfully partiotic and
confident symphonies and large-scale or-
chestral works, great choral works such as
"The Dream of Gerontius' and martial
works of Pomp and Circumstance with
central melodies which have sent au-
diences away humming, all have
characterised Elgar. Yet in each of these
there are oases of serenity and deeply felt
expression, owing much to Elgar's own
delight in Nature, particularly in his
Worcestershire home.
Elgar's world was shattered by the First
World War, during which he suffered
intensely through the knowledge of the
horror and waste of life. Then living in
London, Lady Elgar realised that her
husband must be taken back to the
countryside. It was she who found and
rented 'Brinkwells', a cottage surrounded
by friendly woods, with a studio in the
garden where Elgar could work, situated
near Fittleworth in Sussex. Shortly before
this move Elgar had been admitted to a
nursing home where he had made
sketches of some chamber works: at
'Brinkwells' he felt able to compose again
and this period led to four important
works belonging to the autumn of his
creative life: the String Quartet, Piano
Quintet, this Violín and Piano Sonata and
the great Cello Concerto.
In 1917 the 60-year-old Elgar, refreshed by
the woods and English countryside, began
work on the Sonata, helped by W. H.
Reed, the Leader of The London Sym-
phony Orchestra, who had been an in-
valuable technical aid in the composition
of the Violin Concerto seven years earlier.
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In October 1918 Reed and Elgar were able
to perform the Sonata in the music room
of Severn House, Elgar's London home in
Hampstead, and it was Reed, this time
with Landon Ronald at the piano, who
gave the first public performance of the
work in the Aeolian Hall in March 1919.
While the material of the opening move-
ment is essentially calm Elgar achieves an
atmosphere of unease by opening the
work in A minor and placing the second
subject in B flat major, only homing in on
the true key of E minor towards the end
of the movement. To the listener these
keys are of no importance, but the mood
of the music is established by this typical
Elgarian departure from the academic
rules.
Close to 'Brinkwells' was a group of dead
trees, which W. H. Reed said had been
"Apparently struck by lightning, had very
gnarled and twisting branches stretching
out in an eerie manner" and were locally
supposed to be a group of Spanish monks
who had been performing an ungodly rite
and were metamorphosed in perpetual
punishment. Elgar's imagination was
caught by this legend and the character
of the central Romance was
influenced by the trees, as well as the com-
poser's long fascination with Spanish
music.
Confidence and enjoyment in music mak-
ing inhabit the finale, which recalls the
Romance just before the coda, a section
inserted by Elgar after the work had been
finished as a personal tribute to his dear
friend Marie Joshua who died shortly after
the Sonata's original completion. The
work is also dedicated to her.
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York Festival
Sonata in C major for unaccompanied violin BWV 1005
Adagio
Fuga-Alla Breve
Largo
Allegro assai
Although we think of Bach as a great
organist and keyboard player he also
learned the violin when a child, so well,
in fact, that he played in the orchestra of
the Duke of Weimar's brother after leav-
ing the Lüneberg Gymnasium. Never-
theless, his chamber and orchestral works
invariably date from Bach's appointment
as Court Musician to Prince Leopold of
Anhalt-Cöthen. He was 32 and has spent
nine years mainly composing Church
music, but was now also expected to pro-
duce secular works to please his new
master, himself an excellent keyboard
player who was also familiar with the
violin and viola de gamba. However, the
collection of six works, comprising three
sonatas and three partitas for unaccom-
panied violin, were most probably written
for the Prince's principal violinist Joseph
Speiss.
Bach wrote his music for immediate per-
formance with little or no thought for
posterity and it is fascinating to realise that
the earliest known manuscript of these
Bach
(1685-1750)
great works, in the handwriting of Bach's
second wife, Anna Magdalena, was found
in a job of old papers en route to a
grocer's shop in St. Petersburg, where they
would have been used as wrapping paper!
All the sonatas follow the da chiesa four-
movement pattern of slow-fast-slow-fast in
which the second movement is invariably
fugal in character. For the C major Sonata
Bach provides his most elaborate and
astonishingly creative fugue for a solo
string instrument. Indeed, when the move-
ment seems about to end Bach inverts his
subject and starts another fugue calling for
interpretive and technically brilliant play-
ing of the highest order.
The largo is cast in the Italian manner pro-
viding a beautifully shaped preparation for
the exciting finale, a brilliant perpetuum
mobile of a movement which superbly
rounds off a work in which each move-
ment is a perfect contrast to the others,
yet contributes to a beautifully shaped
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Sonata No. 9 for Violin and Piano in A major Op. 47 (Kreutzer)
Adagio sostenuto-presto
Andante con variazioni
Finale (Presto)
In common with many other works this,
the ninth of Beethoven's ten sonatas for
violin and piano, was written with the per-
sonality and ability of a particular violinist
in mind. However, the violinist was not the
French player Rodolphe Kreutzer, whose
name has become immortalised by the
sonata, but the mulatto violinist George
Bridgetower who was on a visit to Vien-
na. Bridgetower was an extrovert player
who was renowned for his brilliance and
panache, and Beethoven was anxious to
provide him with a sonata which would
suit his solo qualities, describing the work
as "a sonata written in a very concertante
style-almost a concerto".
There was very little time to write the
work and Beethoven only just managed
to finish the first and second movements
in time for the first performance, at a con-
cert probably held in Vienna on 24 May
1803. A year earlier he had discarded the
finale he wrote for his sixth Violin and
Piano Sonata Op. 31 No. 1, replacing it
with an allegretto set of variations. Now
he took that finale and put it at the end
of his new sonata. Bridgetower is said to
have been given virtually no time to learn
the sonata, playing virtually from sight,
although with the advantage of Beethoven
at the keyboard to give him support.
Nevertheless, the performance seems to
have been a brilliant success.
Beethoven
(1770-1827)
Unfortunately Beethoven's increasing
deafness made him especially difficult in
the following years and by the time
Simrock published the sonata in Bonn in
April 1805 Beethoven had quarrelled with
Bridgetower. He therefore dedicated the
sonata to the French violinist Rodolphe
Kreutzer, who thought so little of it that
he never performed the sonata in public!
Rich double-stopping adds dignity and
power to the solemn introduction which
is swept aside for the main presto in which
the two players exchange strongly
rhythmic accounts of the main staccato
theme. There are two other ideas, the first
a thoughtful chorale-like melody and the
second a return to the energy of the main
theme, played by the piano with the violin
playing pizzicato interjections, on which
the development is mainly based.
An elegant theme and four variations
comprise the central movement, in which
the charm and ornamental qualities of the
violin are beautifully exploited.
Finally, the movement from the earlier
sonata. Not right at that time, but ex-
cellently suited as an extrovert tarantella,
filled with virtuosic humour and drama,
to end a sonata tailor-made for two
virtuoso performers.
Programme notes Denby Richards
1984.
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Masterful performance on violin
YEP 18/6/84
Nigel Kennedy: In concert.
SATURDAY'S recital by
Nigel Kennedy confirmed to
a capacity Guildhall audience
that, without reservation, this
young musician. should be
numbered among the very
finest violinists of his gene-
ration.
His programme consisted of
three diverse, complementary
and masterful works; sonatas
by Elgar and Beethoven and
Bach's magnificent unaccomp-
anied Sonata in C (Bwv.1005).
In the Elgar Sonata, written
during the final years of the
First World War, Kennedy
captured the music's most
subtle underlying tensions.
During the first movement, in
particular, one felt that his
interpretation was absolutely
correct. His tone was warm but
never over-indulgent, incorpor-
ating a varied and well-consid-
Music
ered use of vibrato and dyn-
amics. Perhaps he might
consider investing in a few
more portamenti, but playing
of such quality is beyond such
minor criticism.
The curious central move-
ment, which so often leaves the
listener in some confusion, was
wonderfully clear and access-
ible. Here the playing had great
poise and space, and the sec-
tion leading back to the opening
idea was especially beautiful.
Ovation
The Finale was a joyous
release of tension. Only here
did one feel the pianist
(Peter Pettinger) emerge from
his earlier, rather marked
reticence and establish himself
as an equal partner.
Kennedy achieved the transi-
tion from Elgar to Bach effort-
lessly. His reading of the
unaccompanied sonata was not
simply a tour de force of
supreme technical assurance,
this was just the starting point
from which he moulded a quite
remarkable musical experience
beyond even the most magnan-
imous literary description.
Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata
(Op47), one of the repertoire's
most taxing works,
produced a performance which
again
was musically imaginative yet
stylistically apt. As was the
case in the Elgar, one felt that
the piano should have con-
tributed more, especially at the
opening of the celebrated
variation movement (which felt
a little too hasty and rather
insensitively phrased). The
Finale was fiery and bold, and
the ovation richly deserved.
John Cranmer.
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destioned by police today in
connection with the murder of
a woman at Oxted, Surrey. The
body of Sarah Jenkins, aged 20,
of Oxted was found under an
M25 Motorway bridge yesterday
by a woman passer-by. Police
believe Sarah had been to a
party and was on her way home
when the incident occurred.
Sarah switches
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Sarah Kennedy, one of the
presenters of BBC Television's
doomed Sixty Minutes pro-
host twice-
gramme, is to
weekly afternoon show on ITV.
Sarah will be joining Thames
Television next month and the
programme, provisionally titled
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from August 1.
Birth call
A law banning agencies "sell-
ing" surrogate mothers will be
among the main recommenda-
tions of the Warnock Committee
on artificial reproduction. Dame
Josephine Barnes, a committee
member, said the study, which
goes to the Social Services Secre-
distributor, O 4 Middle Croit,
Wilberfoss.
olms which
saw some parts of North York-
shire and Humberside drenched
with heavy rain while others
basked in brilliant sunshine.
are a sign of the times.
The sudden rise in tempera-
ture
could lead to anything
from showers to severe down-
pours at this time of year, the
Evening Press weather corres-
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In spite of the ferocity of the
brief storms, only
minor
problems were reported by the
North Eastern Electricity Board.
About 500 consumers lost power
for up to two hours in the
York area, mainly at Haxby,
Wigginton and Strensall region.
Some consumers at Swinton,
near Malton, were also affected
briefly.
In Hertfordshire, one of two
brothers struck by lightning in
a park at St Albans died today.
Optimism by
Problems
Mr Boitoult, his wife Sandra.
and sons Dennis and Mark have
been in their £42,500 home for
only nine months.
Mr Boitoult said there had
been a series of problems with
the house.
Today the builder, J and K
Prestige Developments, of
Doncaster, said any complaint
would be investigated.
Mr Boitoult said: "It seemed
there was water in every room.
I think the water must have got
in between the inside and out-
side walls.
Mr Boitoult said his next step
after calling in the builders
would be to contact the Humber-
side building inspectorate for
advice.
A spokesman for J and K
married at Our Lady of
Lourdes Church, Huddersfield,
on Saturday.
"It was really great-1
enjoyed every minute," said
Debbie, of Thief Lane, York.
The bride gave her a silver
bracelet, which Debbie says
she will always treasure.
"I was made really welcome.
The best moment was when I
was walking down the aisle. I
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