Loughborough Carillon

Sunday 7th August 2011 at 3.30pm
Recital by Caroline Sharpe

1. Minuet & Allegro - Tartini
2. Cradle Song - Schubert
3. Waltz from Sleeping Beauty - Tchaikovsky
4. A selection of Hymns
5. Die Zauberflote - Mozart
 Bei Mannern Welche Liebe Fuhlen
 Ein Madchen oder Weibchen
6. Variations on Waltzing Matilda - John Knox
7. Selection of Love Songs
 My Heart will go on - Horner
 Love Changes Everything - Lloyd Webber
 All you need is Love - Lenon & McCartney
8. Oranges & Lemons

Sunday 31st July 2011 at 3.30pm
Recital by Caroline Sharpe

1. Allegro in C for a Musical Clock - Haydn
2. Tales from the Vienna Woods - Strauss
3. Last Spring (Elegiac Melodies op.34 no. 2) - Greig arr. J Knox
4. Les Follies d’Espagne - Sor
5. Rosamunde - Schubert
6. Fly Me to the Moon - Howard
7. Memory - Andrew Lloyd Webber
8. Over the Rainbow - Arlen
9. Selection from The king and I - Rodgers & Hammerstein
10.Prelude no. 9 - Van Den Gheyn

Sunday 24th July 2011 at 3.30pm
Recital by Anthony Brookes

1. PLAISIR D’AMOUR - MARTINI
2. THE SWAN - SAINT SAENS
3. SKATERS WALTZ - WALDTEUFEL
4. O MY BELOVED FATHER - PUCCINI
5. KISS ME AGAIN - HERBERT
6. AH SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE - HERBERT
7. GYPSY LOVE SONG - HERBERT
8. INDIAN SUMMER - HERBERT
9. SAY YOU SAY ME - RICHIE
10. LA VIE EN ROSE - LOUIGUY
11. WHEN YOU TELL THAT YOU LOVE ME - HAMMOND BETTIS
12. MATTINATA  - LEONCAVALLO
13. LA DONNA E MOBILE  - VERDI

Saturday 23rd July 2011 at 1pm
Recital by John Ridgeway-Wood - York

Due to the late rescheduling of Charnwood Borough Council’s Picnic in the Park the recital by John Ridgeway-Wood has been postponed.

Friday 22nd July 2011 at 1pm
Recital by Michael Boyd - Saltley

1. Solemnis Haec Festivitas (*) - John R. Knox
  Arranged: Composer
2. La Vie en Rose - Luiguy
  Arranged: Ray Aldington
3. Aupres de ma blonde - Anonymous
  Arranged: Milford Mhyre
4. Galop de Cortesia - Catalan Folksong
  Arranged: Leen ‘t Hart
5. El Testament d’Amelia - Catalan Folksong
  Arranged: Leen ‘t Hart
6. The Spanish Guitar - Traditional
  Arranged: Ray Aldington
7. Zonnesprankjes (“Sun sparkles”) (*) - Flucie H.A. van Bergen
  Arranged: Leen ‘t Hart
8. Andante - Joseph-Hector Fiocco
  Arranged: John R. Knox
9. Partita III - J.S. Bach
  Arranged: John R. Knox
10. Oran Luaidh - Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
  Arranged: John R. Knox
11. O Waly, Waly - English Traditional
  Arranged: John R. Knox
12. The Castle of Dromore - Irish traditional
  Arranged: Staf Gebruers
13. The Bard of Armagh - Irish traditional
  Arranged: Adrian Gebruers
14. Bagatelle - John R. Knox
  Arranged: Composer

(*) Composition for carillon.

 
Programme Notes:

1. John Knox is a world-renowned British composer and arranger for the carillon. Solemnis Haec Festivitas was originally composed for the three-octave carillon of York Minster.

2. Louis Guglielmi was a Catalan musician of Italian extraction who wrote under the non de plume Louigay. He wrote the melody for Edith Piaf’s song “La Vie en Rose”.

3. Aupres de ma blonde is a popular French chanson dating from the 17th century. This arrangement is by the American carillonneur Milford Mhyre.

4, 5. El testament d’Amélia is a famous Catalan folksong originally arranged for guitar by Miquel Llobet (1878-1938). Miquel Llobet Solés was a classical guitarist and composer, born in Barcelona.  Both these pieces were arranged for carillon by Leen ‘t Hart, and published in his “Volksliederen IV: 50 Catalan folksongs”.

6. The Scottish Students Songbook was published in 1897 by Bayley and Ferguson, for the Songbook Committee of the Students Representative Councils of Scotland. It contains vocal scores of hundreds of student songs, collected and recorded by a committee of four Scottish universities. The book contains an introduction by John Stuart Blackie, dated May 1891, with the preface dated November 1897. There are 9 sections: Songs of the Gown, Songs of the Nations, Soldier Songs and Sea songs, Songs of Love, Songs of Revelry, Divers Ditties, Plantation Songs, For Auld Lang Syne, Songs of the Universities. The lyrics to the Spanish Guitar commence with:

When I was a student at Cadiz
I played on the Spanish guitar
I used to make love to the ladies
I think of them still from afar.

7. Flucie H.A. van Bergen (1893-1963) was city carillonneur of Sneek, The Netherlands. This piece was written for a two-octave carillon.

8. J.H. Fiocco was director of music at Antwerp Cathedral (d. 1749). He was a composer of several volumes of harpsichord music which were published in Brussels in 1746. This Andante appeared in a famous collection of carillon music by Joannes de Gruytters.

10. Marjory Kennedy-Fraser (1857–1930) was a Scottish singer, composer and arranger. She visited many of the Western Isles, recording the traditional songs with a wax cylinder phonograph. Her arrangements of the songs were published in her three-volume Songs of the Hebrides.

12,13. These arrangements are published by Adrian Gebruers in the Irish Carillon Book II
14. This composition by John Knox is dedicated to Clifford Ball (1899-1986), one-time carillonneur of Bournville.
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Michael Boyd
Carillonneur: Church of Our Lady of the Rosary and St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Saltley, Birmingham