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Rediscovered Telemann Fantasies - Richard Boothby - Viol
Sunday September 4th, 4pm - 5:15pm
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Richard Boothby (founder of the Viol Consort, Fretwork, and Professor of the Viol at the Royal College of Music), playing the newly discovered solo sonatas by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767). It’s not often that 12 works previously unknown by a major composer just turn up. Yet that is precisely what has happened with these solo Fantasies by Telemann. He wrote and published sets of 12 sonatas for solo violin, flute, harpsichord and viola da gamba, issued in monthly format, as was usual at the time. Those for violin, flute and harpsichord all survive in several copies, but those for the viol were thought lost. In 2014 these extraordinarily precious works were rediscovered and virtuoso viol player Richard Boothby gives one of the first performances of the complete set. |
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Richard is an international virtuoso viol soloist. This promises to be an outstanding concert. The Viol was popular in Elizabeth I’s time and is noted for its reedy tone. A member of the guitar family, it has frets and is played like a cello with an underarm bow. During the eighteenth century a considerable solo repertoire developed in both Germany and France.
4pm-5pm. Tickets: adults £6.00, concessions £5.00, children £2.00. Tickets available at the door. Crèche facilities available.
4pm-5pm. Tickets: adults £6.00, concessions £5.00, children £2.00. Tickets available at the door. Crèche facilities available.
Richard Boothby
Richard Boothby has been playing the viol ever since David Fallows handed him a tenor viol while attempting to teach him about Wagner’s ‘Ring’ in Manchester University in 1977. After studying with Charles Medlam and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, he founded The Purcell Quartet in 1984 and Fretwork in 1985.
He has helped to enrich the viol-consort repertory with new music from today’s finest composers, from Elvis Costello to George Benjamin, from Alexander Goehr to Nico Muhly.
He was recently invited to join a new group, called ‘Trio Aporia’, together with Stephen Preston (baroque flute) and Jane Chapman (harpsichord), to explore radical experimental contemporary music, alongside the more usual baroque repertory.
With the Purcell Quartet he recorded nearly 50 albums for Hyperion and Chandos; and with Fretwork he recorded over 30 albums for Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi USA and other companies.
He arranged and transcribed many of the great keyboard music of J. S. Bach for viols, which were recorded under the title ‘Alio Modo’; and his arrangement of the Goldberg Variations has also recently appeared.
In 1998 he directed performances of Monteverdi's “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” with the Purcell Quartet; and in 2001 directed them in a fully-staged production of “L’Orfeo”, with Mark Padmore in the title role.
He has recorded the complete lyra viol music of William Lawes for Harmonia Mundi, USA, which will be released later this year, and he regularly gives solo recitals throughout the country.
He is professor of Viola da Gamba at the Royal College in London and teaches on the Marnaves viol course in southern France.
He has helped to enrich the viol-consort repertory with new music from today’s finest composers, from Elvis Costello to George Benjamin, from Alexander Goehr to Nico Muhly.
He was recently invited to join a new group, called ‘Trio Aporia’, together with Stephen Preston (baroque flute) and Jane Chapman (harpsichord), to explore radical experimental contemporary music, alongside the more usual baroque repertory.
With the Purcell Quartet he recorded nearly 50 albums for Hyperion and Chandos; and with Fretwork he recorded over 30 albums for Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi USA and other companies.
He arranged and transcribed many of the great keyboard music of J. S. Bach for viols, which were recorded under the title ‘Alio Modo’; and his arrangement of the Goldberg Variations has also recently appeared.
In 1998 he directed performances of Monteverdi's “L’Incoronazione di Poppea” with the Purcell Quartet; and in 2001 directed them in a fully-staged production of “L’Orfeo”, with Mark Padmore in the title role.
He has recorded the complete lyra viol music of William Lawes for Harmonia Mundi, USA, which will be released later this year, and he regularly gives solo recitals throughout the country.
He is professor of Viola da Gamba at the Royal College in London and teaches on the Marnaves viol course in southern France.
Listen to Richard and the Viol below...
Location
Acton Hill Church
Corner of Woodland Avenue, High Street, Acton, Greater London, W3 9BU
Corner of Woodland Avenue, High Street, Acton, Greater London, W3 9BU
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We are on the corner of the Uxbridge Road and Gunnersbury Lane, W3, opposite Acton police station. Ten minutes walk form Acton Town tube station – District (Ealing Broadway) and Piccadilly lines. Front main entrance is on Gunnersbury Lane, turn right and walk down to the T-junction, turn right and the church is a twenty yards on your right.
Parking in Morrisons’ car park diagonally opposite (up to 1 hour before 4pm and unlimited thereafter). Street parking on Steyne Road (opposite), limited parking in Woodlands Avenue down the side of the church. Beware of the dropped curb at the end as parking tickets are issued on Sundays! |
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