Programme For Autumn 2009 Concert
Programme For Autumn 2009 Concert
Programme For Autumn 2009 Concert
Programme 1
trumpets in major seconds. The movement prominently features a side drum which
taps out a rhythm at the beginning and end of the movement.
While the printed score has the second movement as Giuoco delle coppie (Game of
the pairs), Bartk's manuscript had no title at all for this movement at the time the
engraving-copy blueprint was made for the publisher. At some later date, Bartk
added "Presentando le coppie" (Presentation of the pairs) to the manuscript, and
addition of this title was included in the list of corrections to be made to the score.
However, in Bartk's file blueprint the final title is found, and because it is believed
to have been the composer's later thought, it is retained in the revised edition of the
score. The original 1946 printed score also had an incorrect metronome marking for
this movement. This was brought to light by Sir Georg Solti as he was preparing to
record the Concerto for Orchestra and the Dance Suite. Solti writes:
When preparing these two works for the recording I was determined that the
tempi should be exactly as Bartk wrote and this led me to some extraordinary
discoveries, chief of which was in the second movement of the Concerto for
Orchestra. The printed score gives crotchet equals 74, which is extremely slow, but I
thought that I must follow what it says. When we rehearsed I could see that the
musicians didn't like it at all and in the break the side drum player (who starts the
movement with a solo) came to me and said Maestro, my part is marked crotchet
equals 94, which I thought must be a mistake, since none of the other parts have a
tempo marking. The only way to check was to locate the manuscript and through
the courtesy of the Library of Congress in Washington we obtained a copy of the
relevant page, which not only clearly showed crotchet equals 94, but a tempo
marking of "Allegro scherzando" (the printed score gives "Allegretto scherzando").
Furthermore Bartk headed it "Presentando le coppie" (Presentation of the pairs)
not "Giuoco delle coppie" (Game of the pairs). I was most excited by this, because it
becomes a quite different piece. The programme of the first performance in Boston
clearly has the movement marked "Allegro scherzando" and the keeper of the
Bartk archives was able to give us further conclusive evidence that the faster
tempo must be correct. I have no doubt that thousands of performances, including
my own up to now, have been given at the wrong speed!
Third movement
The third movement, called Elegia by Bartk, is another slow movement, typical of
Bartk's so-called "night music". The movement revolves around three themes,
which primarily derive from the first movement.
Fourth movement
The fourth movement, called Intermezzo interrotto by Bartk, consists of a flowing
melody with changing time signatures, intermixed with a theme parodying and
ridiculing the march tune in Dmitri Shostakovich's "Leningrad" Symphony (No. 7).
The theme is itself interrupted by glissandi on the trombones and woodwinds. In
this movement, the timpani are featured when the second theme is introduced,
requiring 12 different pitches of the timpani over the course of 20 seconds. The
general structure is "ABAinterruptionBA."
Fifth movement
The fifth movement, called Finale by Bartk and marked presto, consists of a
whirling perpetuum mobile main theme competing with fugato fireworks and folk
melodies. This is also written in sonata allegro form.
Cello
Miranda Ricardo
Sarah Turnock
Peter Button
John Pimm
Ruth Mankelow
Mary Martin
Paul Morley
Alice Hill
Jennifer Hubble
Violin II
Emma Callery
Rachel Sansome
Rachel Saunders
John Thomson
Andrew Waite
Sue Christie
Christine Morley
Bryony Yelloly
Joanne Butler
Gill Walker
Double Bass
Robert Gilchrist
Jo Hammond
Jane Martin
Piccolo
Rachel Hawes
Trombone
Paul Macey
Gary Clifton
Malcolm Saunders
Viola
David Bolton-King
John Maksinski
Jonathan Rowe
Alison Packer
Sue Wightman
Oboe
Estevan Ellul
Corinne Ellul
Lyn Gosney
Tuba
James Bolton-King
Cor Anglais
Lyn Gosney
Percussion
Justin Rhodes
Sue Woolhouse
Dave Martin
Flute
Rachel McCubbin
Nick Planas
Clarinet
Helen Payne
David Rule
Bass clarinet
Alice Palmer
Bassoon
Ian McCubbin
Rachel James
Contra bassoon
Ian White
Horn
David Settle
Richard Hartree
Simon Mead
Edward Bolton-King
Helen Barnby-Porritt
Trumpet
Tony Chittock
Ron Barnett
Terry Mayo
Harp
Karina Bell
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