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Concerts at Hammerwood

HAMMERWOOD PARK SILVER JUBILEE MUSIC FESTIVAL

East Grinstead, Sussex, RH19 3QE - TEL 01342 850594


Each month, often on a weekday evening or Saturday afternoon we organise a concert in the Library which usually starts at 7.45pm or Saturday afternoons at 4pm. The range includes piano recitals, string duets and quartets, organ recitals, choral works and, normally once each summer a full orchestra in the Staircase Hall.

Sometimes there are additional concerts during public opening, starting at 4pm and on those days, the tour is usually curtailed at 3.40pm.


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Celebration of 25 Years of Concerts


To mark 25 years of music-making at Hammerwood, we are inviting you to an outstanding series of concerts by distinguished musicians. All of these concerts will be so spectacular that you can safely introduce friends to come along who did not think that they had an interest in music before…

Particularly exciting is the addition of two extra keyboards to the Hammerwood organ, making it a 5-manual sensation. With this all the organ recitals will be a real spectacle both to see and to hear.

We may slot in further concerts in due course (for instance, pianist Jill Crossland, a brilliant viola player and possibly the young Chopin and Jazz pianist/harpsichordist Jerzy Owczarz) and further details will be sent out on email and appear on our concerts webpage: www.hammerwood.mistral.co.uk/concerts.htm

Easter Monday 24
th March 4pm – Hugh Potton – Organ Extravaganza
THE HAMMERWOOD JUBILEE CONCERT – NOT TO BE MISSED!

Following the success of his concert last November when Hugh performed the first Vierne symphony, he's going to be playing Vierne II on Monday week. His programme will be packed with other well and lesser known organ favourites including a celebratory transcription of the 1812 Overture which will certainly make use of the organ's new rank of tubular bells. This programme is designed for all ages from 5 to 195!

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PROGRAMME

  1. Symphonie No.2 in E Minor - Vierne

    INTERVAL

  2. Prelude & Fugue in C BWV 547 - JS Bach
  3. Te Deum - Demessieux
  4. Suite Op.5 - Durufle
  5. Toccata - Germani

Saturday 3rd May - 4pm – Jong-Gyung Park - Piano
It is with delight that Jong-Gyung is returning to Hammerwood. Members may remember when she came to accompany an instrumentalist but inserted her solo into the programme. We heard magic that evening, and more awaits us . . .

Jong-Gyung Park began her music studies in Korea and Japan. She continued her training at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Russel Sherman and Wha Kyung Byun. She has been studying at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich with Elisso Wirssaladze since 2001. In 1996, she won fourth prize in the Busoni Competition in Bolzano and third prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 1998. She has performed both in recital and with orchestra in the United States, Israel, Italy and Korea.

This evening Jong-Gyung will be performing the Berg Sonata 1, three items from Debussy Images II, Beethoven Sonata 3, and the Prokofieff Sonata 6.

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Thursday 15th
th May - 7.45pm – Julia O’Riordan and Jennifer Carter – Viola and Piano
In our commitment to provide a platform for young performers, we are fitting in an extra concert to the season by Julia O’Riordan, a viola student of Matthew Souter who performed at Hammerwood many years ago both as a soloist and as part of the Primavera Ensemble.

Julia is a scholarship postgraduate student at the Royal Academy of Music, London. She began her undergraduate course as a violinist under the tutelage of Maurice Hasson. At the beginning of her final year that Julia took the decision to become a violist and study with Matthew Souter who currently plays with the Alberni Quartet.

In Ireland, France and the UK, Julia has been the recipient of awards including the Medaille d’Or d’Exellence in violin and chamber music (Conservatoire National de la Region, Nantes, France), an MBF Music Education Award, and the Philharmonia Orchestra Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Award and Meyer Award. Within the R.A.M., Julia’s awards include the Thomas C Fitton Will Trust (Hovis Prize) and the Leverhulme Orchestral Mentorship Award.

The programme is exciting, all the pieces showcasing the instrument’s beauty, strength and virtuosity as well as its subtlety. Julia hopes that it will excite and fulfill her audience as much as it does my pianist and I! Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata arranged for viola and piano, Clarke's Sonata for viola and piano, Ysaye's sonata op.27 no.3 "Ballade" for solo violin arranged for solo viola as a basis as well as Penderecki Cademza for Solo Viola.

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Monday 2
nd June - 7.45pm – Clive Driskill-Smith – Organ
Clive Driskill-Smith is one of England's stars at the organ. Having been awarded a Scholarship to Eton, he was organ scholar at Winchester Cathedral, Assistant Organist at Winchester College, and is now the sub-organist at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. A pupil of David Sanger and Hans Fagius, he was awarded a Travelling Scholarship by the Royal College of Organists in 1999 and the W. T. Best Scholarship by the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 2002. He was the winner of the Royal College of Organists' Performer of the Year Competition in 2000 and the Calgary International Organ Competition in 2002. We are awaiting details of his programme for Hammerwood but whatever he plays, it will be outstanding!
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Saturday 28th June – 4pm – Susan Sheppard - 'Cello
Susan plays the 5-string baroque 'cello and is a Baroque specialist with a Classics degree from Birkbeck. She is a founder member and a principal 'cellist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and has done a recording of the complete Bach Suits for solo Violoncello BWV 1007-1012. She will be performing the 5th and 6th Suit BWV 1010 and BWV 1011 – a rare performance not to be missed!

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Saturday 19
th July – 4pm – Adolfo Barabino - Piano
International recitalist Adolfo Barabino is currently in the course of recording the whole of Chopin's work and has agreed to perform Chopin at Hammerwood. Critics describe his way of playing as “with a velvet touch and great virtuosity” … “a great talent with very deep musicality”.

This musicality is demonstrated by his approach to the piano. “It doesn't matter what the action is like,” he says, “sing into it with the pedal down and see for how long the piano sings back at you.” “It can often be more than a minute” and for this reason he loves the very special piano upon which performers make music at Hammerwood and is looking forward to playing here as a result.

One often promotes concerts with a biographical list of achievements, of which Adolfo is well endowed, but when one hears musicality in the heart, one knows that a good concert will result.

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Saturday 25
th October – 4pm – Jeremy Filsell - Organ
One is never sure as to which concert to bill as the star of the season, but this one will be special. Jeremy is internationally acclaimed especially as a proponent of Marcel Dupre and the Vierne Symphonies, of which he has recorded the whole set on the 1890
Cavaillé-Coll organ in St Ouen Rouen, but more than this his virtuosity includes transcriptions of orchestral works. The Gramophone reviewed him: "Technically he is outstanding, but what impresses me most is his uncanny musical insight and the sheer persuasive power of his performances."

Jeremy is a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music, visiting tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music, and teaches organ at Eton College.

This concert will be one of the last opportunities to hear him before his appointment as Principal Organist at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC, USA where there are four organs!

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Monday 10th November – 7.45pm – Neil Crossland - Piano
We are looking forward to Neil Crossland performing again at Hammerwood. Particularly known for his interpretation of Beethoven, Schubert and his own compositions. We hope also to fix a date for Jill, his sister, who has stunned our audiences now on two occasions with the beauty of her performances.

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Autumn 2007 concert at Hammerwood - BRING FRIENDS!

Inaugural French Organ Symphony Recital

RECORDING OF THIS EXCEPTIONAL CONCERT IS NOW ONLINE - FREE MP3 MUSIC DOWNLOAD click here

- Hugh Potton - Organ


Many people will be taking children to Fireworks displays later this evening . . . start off the evening with our late afternoon recital which promises aural fireworks and lots of colour . . .

Much good music is in danger of being lost as The fact remains that in particular the French Organ symphonies were written for the instrument rather than the context of their venue and so such composers should be heard on an equal footing with Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Bruckner and Borodin. Names such as Widor, Vierne, Boellman, Guilmant, Pierne should be there on the tip of the tongue.

Hugh Potton, organist from Horsham, is going to start to redress the balance kicking off this series of recitals with the Symphony 1 by Vierne. PLEASE COME!

The programme

1. Prelude & Fugue in B Major Op.7 No.1 - Dupre
2 (a) Chorale Prelude 'Christ Unser Herr Zum Jordan Kamm' - J S Bach
(b)Chorale Prelude 'Herr Jesu Christ Dich Zu Uns Zwend'
3. 'L'Orgue Mystique' (Dominica Ascencionis) - Tournemire
4. Toccatina for the Flutes - Yon
5. Concert Piece Op52a - Peeters
------------------ INTERVAL---------------------------------
6. Organ Symphonie No.1 in D Op.14 - Vierne

Hugh Potton

Hugh Potton was born in Hemel Hempstead Hertfordshire in 1962 and commenced piano studies at the age of ten and organ when he was fourteen. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music where his tutors included Eric Chadwick, Ronald Frost and Una Bradbury. Whilst there, he was awarded the Meadowcroft Prize for Organ and an International Scholarship from the Belgian Government to study with Flor Peeters, the distinguished Flemish organist. A further scholarship from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust enabled him to undertake postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with Peter Hurford, David Sanger and Peter Lea-Cox.

His career as a recitalist and concerto soloist has taken him to many parts of the United Kingdom and the USA. He has broadcast for the BBC, including a live performance of Rachmaninov's First Piano Concerto and the premiere performance of Schoenberg's Kol Nidre in the arrangement for choir and organ, with the BBC Singers. His most recent recording, released on the Naxos label, is of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Sacred Service for the Sabbath Eve. He has also given organ recitals at a number of prestigious venues, including Westminster Abbey and the Cathedrals of Southwark, Peterborough and Winchester.

Hugh's main interest is piano and organ music of the nineteenth and twentieth century, with a special affinity for French, Russian and Eastern Block music of this period. At Hammerwood we are looking forward to a future piano performance of Scriabin . . .

In 2007 . . .

Local history: talk at Stoke Brunswick – the Dewar Estate next door . . . 29th June

Details here

Hammerwood Church  – St Stephen’s - Sunday – Surrey Harp Ensemble 

This is a concert which we have been looking forward to for a long time – the magic of a thousand strings! 20 young harpists under the direction of Luisa-Maria Cordell will be performing in the acoustic of the Church at Hammerwood. The ensemble was founded by Luisa to quash the myth that the harp is a lonely closet instrument only played by older upper class ladies, bringing this mysterious instrument to a wider audience with a modern twist! They have to be crazy about the harp and the youngest member of the ensemble has just turned five. The repertoire of the ensemble is versatile and they will prove that it’s possible to play almost anything on the harp.

All funds will be donated to the church: many churches are forced with closure and St Peter’s Church at Holtye, where at least two generations of Hammerwood owners are commemorated or buried (Oswald Augustus Smith’s family and the Whidbornes) is to be declared redundant. We hope that support from concerts will make the difference at Hammerwood.

Jerzy Owczarz - Piano

Jerzy has been playing at Hammerwood since the age of 12. He's a genius. Still in his teens he brings freshness to the classical repertoire whilst being able to turn the whole lot into brilliant jazz. So it will be a varied concert. . . Last year, he diverted to the Harpsichord for both classical items and later for some jazz. Jazz harpsichord is brilliant! Come! <>

Liz Dennis – Flute and Guitar recital

Liz performed on the flute with two other musicians, Jon Rattenbury (guitar) and Charlotte who is a singer.  They play in various combinations - voice and guitar, flute and guitar and also join forces as a trio for lighter music including jazz standards.

Sambucca Peter Martin & Michael Copley - 4pm

From deeply authentic baroque to wilfully unauthentic Mascagni, Sambuca present four hundred years of music plundered from all over Europe and beyond.  Peter Martin performs on guitar, baroque guitar and theorbo with Michael Copley on recorder, ocarina, flute and other woodwind instruments. Whether classic Handel sonatas, virtuosic Vivaldi concertos, sultry tangos by Piazzolla, or lively world music from Bolivia and Macedonia, Sambuca's eclectic range of music has an immediate appeal to audiences of all ages.

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More concerts . . .

Among others we hope to host Jong-Gyung Park, the amazing Liszt pianist who also performs Chopin; Kate Elmitt and John Railton with their “Three hands at one piano” (John lost an arm due to cancer years ago) who play anything from Bach and Mozart to Ravel and Cyril Smith; the young award wining pianist Miyuki Kato from Japan; Masa Tayama who plays Rachmaninov; and finally, organists including ex-St Pauls Cathedral organist Mark Blatchly . . . and hopefully other fine performers on a regular basis.

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2007 HOUSE NEWS:

We apologise for our quietness. The winter was exceptionally hectic with a good team of volunteers and the house and garden saw a lot of work.

Having replaced the cills of 47 out of 101 window frames last year, we have been working on repairs to the French Bedroom, cleaning and repainting of the Brucciani copies of the Parthenon Frieze in the Elgin Room and installing new hidden lighting. Outside had seen the removal of rhododendron roots in the gardens and sowing new grass, creating a new leveled area beyond the Italian garden offering a prospect over the Rhododendron gardens, replacing the gravel on the terraces and installing drains.

Beyond physical restoration, most excitingly, we have acquired the 3 manual Makin organ which served in Derry Cathedral in Northern Ireland for a dozen years after vandals smashed up the pipe organ there. After this St Columb’s Cathedral in Londonderry was a focus for conciliation and Protestant-Catholic ecumenicalism and now that a new pipe organ has been built, this instrument which was described by visitors as "remarkably effective" became available and we are privileged to have it at Hammerwood. We hope to use it in concerts outside on the South Terrace, familiarizing audiences with symphonies beyond Mahler and Beethoven, for instance Vierne, Widor and bringing great composers such as Pierne, Guilmant and Lefebure-Wely to the concert platform. These composers are little heard enough and their music needs to be dissociated from its traditional context if it is to survive in modern society.

Powered by nearly a kilowatt of amplifiers, with the deepest pedal notes represented by a seven foot high speaker nicknamed "the earth mover", we hope that the sounds of this organ will appeal even to the nightclub generation.

We are hoping to use the instrument for community fundraising for churches and music related school projects associated with our visiting organists. Come and bring your friends to hear the sounds of heaven! Concerts will probably be on Saturday afternoons. More details will be available on email, the Hammerwood website, and if you are not on email please telephone. If you like hearing pipe-organs, http://www.organrecitals.com gives lists of organ recitals throughout the country.

Best wishes from the Hammerwood family.



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UNEQUAL TEMPERAMENT IN USE AT HAMMERWOOD

Mozart and his contemporaries linked different keys with different moods. This was no romantic stroke of imagination - it was the product of the tuning schemes in use at the time. F minor denoted anguish and upheaval whilst D major was celebratory, shining like the sun. A major was rich. Will Bruce (who clearly has good taste in liking Django Reinhart) has documented the whole set of keys and the related moods:

The F minor / F major contrast was demonstrated by a piece of Mozart played by Jill Crossland at one of our concerts. What is interesting is that even the keys of Chopin's works fall into such mood categorisations including, most spectacularly the shifting of chords to promote unease in his celebrated funeral march. We beleive that we are the first to have made this observation and are now tuning the main concert piano at Hammerwood Park to an unequal temperament in order for pianists and audiences to test the theory.

The temperament which we have chosen is the Kellner Bach temperament devised from a variation of Werkmeister III in the mid 1960s. As a teenager David Pinnegar experimented with Werkmeister III as one of the mildest "universal" well temperaments and came to hate it for the horrible sound of the keys of C sharp / D flat and A flat. Upon trying the Kellner temperament, it was apparent that Dr Kellner had ironed out the problems of Werkmeister and produced a very workable tuning scheme which allows performance in all keys, none being horrible at all, and yet produces the characters and moods traditionally associated with each key.

We have chosen the Kellner temperament because it sounds good and not for any overriding desire for historical authenticity. Music is what it sounds, not what any dogma says it ought to sound . . . and the temperament produces a wonderful effect. It makes musical sense, with a successive progression of strangeness proportionate to the remoteness of the key. Kellner has been ridiculed by recent temperament researchers for esotericism, basing his inspiration on symbolism of the coronet of Bach's signet ring - but who cares? It works . . . and it sounds good in all keys and works well for all music, even those composed in the 20th century. We have looked at alternatives and especially the Bradley Lehman Bach Temperament. This is based very rationally upon the figure which Bach drew at the top of the title page of his Well Tempered Clavier manuscript. However, in practical terms, whilst it is suitable for Bach, it does not depart significantly enough from Equal Temperament to make enjoyable contrasts between keys, it doesn't make the sense of each key in the moods which are documented to have been expected from each key from other composers. Others have given different condsideration to analysing scrawled figure, notably Andreas Sparshuh, Charles John Francis, Michael Zapf, Kenneth Mobbs, and Alexander Mackenzie of Ord. http://www.eunomios.org/contrib/francis5/francis5.pdf is a good article that show the diagram and the Bach seal upon which Dr Kellner worked. Interestingly, Charles Francis' conclusion is similar to Dr Kellner's in the effect on intervals of major and minor thirds which are critical in supplying sweetness, sadness or unpleasantness to keys . . . so the Kellner temperament is as good as any.

The evidence for playing Chopin and other 19th Century composers in unequal temperaments is not only a hunch upon listening to Chopin's works and key choices, but the knowledge that he played a Broadwood. Although Hipkins tuned for Chopin and liked Equal temperament, this was not standard. Broadwoods were not tuning to equal temperament as late as the 1880s and had their "usual" and "best" temperaments which are documented in 1885. The correspondence between Chopin's keys and mood matching is too much of a coincidence to think that he did not make use of temperemant in his key choices. Interestingly the two string cottage Broadwood grands favoured by Chopin, of which we have an example at the house, are particularly easy to tune and change when required: the tuning of two strings rather than three per note throughout the middle register saves a lot of work.

Tuners, players and composers have all had their pet tunings. None are definitively correct whilst some are better than others and some are better for some particular purposes. The Kellner tuning that we have chosen provides a good universal choice and avoids the discord of the major thord beat frequencies produced by Equal Temperament which makes it sound universally harsh in all keys.



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MUSIC ONLINE

- PLEASE NOTE - OUR MP3 FILES ARE TASTERS AND THE CDs ARE MUCH BETTER QUALITY.
Often the MP3 files are clipped slightly at each end and so joins between tracks don't happen properly as they do on a CD.
We have put taster MP3 files of Jerzy Owcarcz's recent concert on the internet. We recommend the Chopin and the JazzChopin files first . . . The original CD recording is better quality and is available from us at £10 . . . and would make a good Christmas present.

Also in the MP3 archive is the most fantastic 1991 performance by Jan Zak of Bach-Busoni, Liszt, Chopin and De Falla. Of a very different sort not performed here, you might also enjoy dipping into the PamPam library of live recordings which we produced for the Pam Pam especially to capture the live atmosphere. If you enjoy them please let us know and a CD is available.
Jill is often heard on Classic FM and is known in particular for her performances of Bach. Last year her programme at Hammerwood included Rameau and Chopin and was one of the most serene performances ever . . . This year she is using the Viennese piano in the Drawing Room. Mozart and Haydn composed for such pianos and their music takes on a new life because the piano action gives an entirely different feel and rhythm to the performer. This instrument is on the cusp between the fortepiano and the pianoforte, with an iron frame but still with leather faced hammers. We have chosen an unequal temperament not for any reasons of historical authenticity dogma but because it sounds nice and the effect can be stunning. . . . as the recording demonstrates. It's usable in all keys and even 20th century music comes to life with it . . . PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TEMPERAMENTS

Jill Crossland's 2006 concert was glorious:


This concert was the first to be given at Hammerwood in an unequal temperament. Jill deserves the Hammerwood Medal for performance bravery - there had been little rehearsal time available to adjust to the strange action of this instrument and the sound resulting from the unequal tuning, a "well" temperament. The concert was astounding, in particular in the Mozart variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in which the change from major to minor was shockingly dramatic and also in the Mozart Fantasia where the tuning produced the darkest rendition ever heard in modern times. This concert is very well worth downloading from our MP3 library for this recital. Her fantastic performance last year is here

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HAMMERWOOD RESTORATION 2006

LATROBE, HOUSE AND FAMILY NEWS:
We expect a definitive book about Latrobe to be published this year in America with which we have helped with proof-reading at the different stages. However new discoveries are made all the time and we found recently that Latrobe's father assisted the 18c. Egyptian explorer James Bruce in the publication of his memoirs. This explains Egyptian influences at Hammerwood and Ashdown. We look forward to doing a talk about Egyptian architecture in the Autumn. http://www.info-world.com/egypt might whet your appetite in the meantime.

The summer has progressed rapidly with much being achieved. Pavel and Petra invited their friend Daniel to come to help Starki in the garden and in places 60 years of overgrowth has been swept away. They also invited more friends Milan and Indra, carpenters, who have been rebuilding rotting window frames on the top floor.

We are now assisted by additional mechanisation including the acquisition of a crane as well as a front bulldozer bucket for the UniMog. This will enable us to flatten the former areas of lawn ruined by rhododenron roots which have prevented maintenance by mowing . . . Meanwhile the mower has ploughed through 8ft high clumps of brambles and saplings and the transformation has been miraculous in places.

NEW ORLEANS
A member asked me to distribute a personal account of recent events in New Orleans. It puts the propaganda in perspective and we have placed it on http://www.holiday-place.com/neworleans/ .

Water problems in New Orleans are not new. Latrobe's son Henry lost his life from yellow fever whilst installing the city water supply system to his father's design in 1817 and having taken over the task Benjamin Henry Latrobe died there in 1820.


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