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When I was first asked to be involved with an American themed programme,I immediately leapt to all of the usual suspects – Glass, Adams and Dvořák – but then I started to think, what if we focussed on the lesser known composers and connections? I’ve always loved to combine the familiar with the less familiar as there is so much unheard but amazing music out there. The result is this – six concerts with compositions by familiar, well loved names such as Haydn, Messiaen, Delius and Piazzolla, interspersed with those of Ruggles, Knell and Varèse.

I should like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved in the organising and planning of the whole programme, all of the artists involved and most importantly, all of you who come to the concerts and give us the opportunity to play for you!I hope that these programmes will take you ona journey of discovery, and that you lovethem as much as I do.

Chloë HanslipArtistic Director

Welcome to the Leeds International Chamber Season 2012/13! It has been a huge privilege, not to mention a voyage of discovery for me personally, to be able to programme this season.

Photo © B Ealovega

We open this season’s exploration of American chamber music with two alternative views of the four seasons, one from the Baroque era in the northern hemisphere and one from the twentieth century and the southern hemisphere.Vivaldi’s Le Quattro Stagioni were composed in 1723 inspired by four sonnets, one for each season, possibly written by Vivaldi himself. They are some of the earliest examples of programme music, featuring dazzling representations of raindrops, buzzing fl ies, storms and barking dogs.Piazzolla’s Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas were written separately over fi ve years as a celebration of tango and Buenos Aires. They evoke the diff ering moods and atmospheres of the seasons through emotional range and depth of feeling rather than through the scene-painting of Vivaldi.

The Galliard Ensemble’s programme of wind music illustrates the intermingling of styles and infl uences that took place between America and Europe. Stravinsky spent a great deal of time in France and later America and the third movement of his Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet has a jazzy ragtime feel to it. Irving Fine is just one of many American composers who travelled to Europe to study composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris and his Partita for Wind Quintet shows infl uences of Stravinsky’s Neo-classicism. Varèse and Milhaud, both Frenchmen, travelled in the opposite direction and spent much of their lives in America – Varèse developing the use of electronic instruments and Milhaud teaching many of the younger generation of American composers including Reich and Glass.

Carl Ruggles was an experimental American composer of short works leaving thousands of compositional sketches, some of which were realised and completed by his friend and editor John Kirkpatrick. As a violinist himself it is surprising that the atmospheric Mood is Ruggles’ only work for violin and piano.Ives was also an experimentalist and a modernist, working with polytonality, polyrhythms and aleatoric music years in advance of the European modernists. His Piano Trio of 1904–11, a refl ection of his student days at Yale, features experiments with form in the fi rst movement and polytonality in the second. Ultimately though, it is a lyrical piece infused, as many of his works were, with American folk, fraternity and popular songs. Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time features simply some of the most ethereally beautiful music of the 20th Century.

Vivaldi The Four SeasonsPiazzolla The Four Seasonsof Buenos Aires

Barber Summer Musicfor Wind Quintet Ravel Tombeau de Couperinfor Wind Quintet Stravinsky Three Piecesfor Solo Clarinet Irving Fine Partitafor Wind QuintetVarèse Density 21.5 for Solo FluteDavid Lang Breathlessfor Wind QuintetMilhaud Suite: La Cheminée du Roi René for Wind Quintet Jim Parker Mississippi Fivefor Wind Quintet

Ruggles Mood for violin and pianoIves Piano TrioMessiaen Quartet for theEnd of Time

2 October 2012 6 November 2012 11 December 2012

Chloë Hanslip violin

Danny Driver piano

Oliver Coates cello

Matthew Hunt clarinet

Galliard EnsembleChloë Hanslip violin

and Friends

Christian Immler and Danny Driver’s recital showcases the great range of styles associated with American song. Representing the classic song cycle are Barber’s Hermit Songs and Korngold’s Songs of the Clown, based on texts from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and written at the height of his Hollywood fi lm score success.Eisler’s Hollywood Songbook features songs with infl uences from Classical Schubert song cycles to serialism and cabaret, whilst Bernstein’s Oif Mayn Khas’neh (At My Wedding) is a dismemberment of the Jewish klezmer style.Cole Porter was one of the most prolifi c songwriters for the musical theatre stage on Broadway, noted for his style, wit and sophistication.

Korngold’s suite of incidental music for Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing was originally composed for chamber orchestra in 1918 – 19. Quickly arranged for violin and piano the music contains hints of the imaginative tone colour, melody and harmonic depth that would later be seen in his fi lm scores.Heifetz was a good friend of Gershwin and his aff ection for the material is evident in his arrangements of songs from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. They retain all the character of the original songs, but with the addition of virtuosic elements such as double-stopping and jazzy fl ourishes to showcase Heifetz’s performing style.Bloch was born in Switzerland in 1880 but settled in America in 1916. He wrote his First Violin Sonata in 1920 soon after the First World War. Bloch described his sonata as representing ‘the world as it is: the frantic struggle of blind and primordial forces’.

The fi nal concert of the season features a quartet from Haydn’s Op 20 – the set of six quartets that earned Haydn the title ‘father of the string quartet’ and which cemented the form and style of the string quartet as we know it – alongside a new quartet from young American composer Peter Knell.Korngold’s Third Quartet was written in 1945 and features a number of themes from his fi lm scores including, The Sea Wolf and Between Two Worlds. Since 1938 the Austro-Hungarian composer had been living and working in America, composing exclusively for fi lm, having abandoned Europe due to increasing anti-Semitism. By 1945 he was becoming disillusioned with Hollywood and was eager to begin writing for the concert hall once more. His Third Quartet heralds the beginning of his return to non-fi lm composing and after sections of agitation, then nostalgia, ultimately ends with a sense of jubilation and hope.

Delius Sonata in B Op PosthKorngold Suite: Much AdoAbout NothingGershwin/Heifetz Selections from: Porgy and BessBloch Violin Sonata No 1

Haydn String Quartet Op 20, No 3Peter Knell String Quartet No 2 (Three American Landscapes)Korngold String Quartet No 3

22 January 2013 12 February 2013 12 March 2013

Christian Immler baritone

Danny Driver piano

Chloë Hanslip violin

Danny Driver piano

Doric String Quartet

Barber Hermit SongsEisler Selection from:The Hollywood SongbookKorngold Songs of the ClownBernstein Three songs: – So Pretty – Oif Mayn Khas’neh – Piccola SerenataCarter Three Poemsof Robert FrostPorter Songs

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