Thursday 24 April
The Hauschka Ensemble
Baroque and Classical
music for the baryton
7.30pm
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JEREMY BROOKER
Baryton
IBI AZIS
Viola da Gamba
“King of Instruments,
Instrument of Kings”
The delicate and exotic sound of the baryton has fascinated audiences for almost four hundred years, since its invention in the early 17th century. The baryton is a bowed string instrument, rather like a cello or viola da gamba. Its secret lies in an additional set of wire strings, a ‘hidden harp’, which runs behind the fingerboard and can only be played with the thumb of the left hand. This complex method of playing requires the left thumb to pluck a separate musical line on the sympathetic strings which run underneath the fingerboard whilst simultaneously playing a different part on the bowed strings. It is the unique combination of plucked and bowed sounds which gives the instrument its special character.
PROGRAMME
Part I - The Baroque Baryton
Gottfried Finger
Suite 5
Praeludium-Aria-Courant-Minuet-Ciaccono
Walter Rowe/ Stöeffken (c.1640)
Suite from the Kassel manuscript
[Prelude]-[Courante]-Sarabande-[Allemande]-[Courante]
Tobias Hume
Viol solo
David Loeb (2004)
Caprices for Baryton
Lento-Allegro-Moderato-Allegretto-Con energia
Gottfried Finger
Passacaglia-Aria
I N T E R V A L
Part II - The Classical Baryton
Haydn
Duet No.3 in A (reconstruction by Jeremy Brooker) Hob. XII:1
Adagio cantabile-Minuet and Trio-Allegro molto
Anon
Gallanterie a Pariton
Allegro-Adagio-Polonaise-Capricioso
Fernando Sor
Two Studies
Carl Friedrich Abel
Viol solo
Andreas Lidl
Sonata No.1
Moderato-Andante-Menuet & Trio
Jeremy Brooker - (Baroque and Classical Barytons) Jeremy Brooker is one of the only performers in the world who currently specialises in the techniques of self-accompanied baryton playing. He has been at the forefront of a contemporary revival of interest in the instrument through his performances, broadcasts and publications and has commissioned a number a new works from distinguished British composers. He has been director of the Hauschka Ensemble for the past ten years, giving concerts, radio and TV broadcasts in America, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong and throughout the UK and Europe, and issuing two widely acclaimed CDs.
www.baryton.mailbox.co.uk
Ibi Aziz - Viola da Gamba
Ibrahim (Ibi) Aziz was born in Malaysia and began music lessons when he was eight. In 1999 he went to Trinity College of Music London to study the viola da gamba under Alison Crum. During his studies he was also privately taught by Sarah Cunningham, and attended various master classes in the UK and Europe given by Jordi Savall and Wieland Kuijken. He is the recipient of many awards and prizes: while at Trinity he became the first winner of their Early Music Prize, and was the first person in the college’s history to win its prestigious Gold Medal on a period instrument over all other mainstream instrumentalists. He plays with a number of period groups and ensembles in the UK and abroad, most notably Sestina Consort, Charivari Agreable and The Maresienne Consort and the internationally acclaimed Rose Consort of Viols. www.ibiaziz.com
