Sypert Summer Concert 2024
'Serenade for brass to salon'
Chamber music program from the 1840s for 5 brass instruments
Les Cuivres Romantiques
Jean-Francois Madeuf - natural (cavalry) trumpet, cornet and soprano néocor
Jean-Daniel Souchon - natural (cavalry) trumpet, cornet and alto néocor
Pierre-Yves Madeuf - natural horn, valve horn, valve trombone and alto ophicléide
Cyrille Grenot - natural horn & valve horn
Andrew Kershaw - slide trombone & bass ophicléide
Programme
Mr Genard (musician of the Dragoons from Imperial Guard ... Joseph David Buhl (1781-1860)
Marche [no.4] & La charge [no.5]
quartet version: natural (cavalry) trumpet, 2 natural horns and (tenor) slide trombone
(published in Paris between 1807 and 1811)
Trumpet signal (extinction des feux)
Sérénades op. 75 ... Antoine Clapisson (1779-1857)
nos. 12 & 4: Romance - Boléro
for cornet, 2 valved horns & (tenor) slide trombone
(published in Paris around 1841)
Sérénades nos. 5 & 4 ... Gustave Carulli (1801-1876) arranged by H.Schiltz (1807-1868)
Prestissimo - Andante-Vivace-Andante
Sérénade no. 5 after Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) ... Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) arranged by H.Schiltz
for 2 cornets, (valved) trombone & bass ophicleide or 2nd trombone
(published in Paris in 1837)
Sérénade no. 3 ... Carulli - Schiltz
2 Mélodies (Lieder) ... François (Franz) Schubert (1797-1828) arranged by A.Lemoine (1813-1895)
Du bist die Ruhe (You are repose) op. 59 no. 3 / D.776 (1823)
Lob der Tränen (The praise of tears) op. 13, no. 2 / D.711 (Décembre 1822)
for 2 cornet, valve horn or 3rd cornet & bass ophicléide or trombone or Clavicor
(published in Paris in 1843)
*** INTERVAL (20 minutes) ***
Grand Quatuor op. 2 ... Edmond Juvin (1811-?)
Allegro modrato - Andante - Tempo di minuetto - Finale allegro
for 2 cornet (soprano & alto) or saxhorns, alto ophicléide or alto saxhornor clavicor & bass ophicléide or saxhorn
(written around 1841 and published in Paris around 1847-8)
Première Sérénade ... ? Clausz ?
Introduction (Andante) & Polacca - Andante - Valse -
Introduction (moderato) - Chasse (allegro) - Marche triomphale - Lent écho
for 2 cornet, 2 (valve) horns & trombone or ophicléide
(published in Paris in 1842)
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Performance Type:
General programme note by the performers.
Promoter:
This series of concerts is generously supported by Dr George and Dr Joy Sypert.
Instruments from the University's Musical Instrument Collection used in this concert.
Thanks also to the staff of St Cecilia's Hall and the Friends of St Cecilia's Hall.
