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«Images of Paris»

Subscription №8 «Dialogues on the Arts» (1st concert)
«Images of Paris»
15
September
Saturday
2018
18:30 The Concert Hall
1500 RUB
Joseph Spooner’s performances and recordings have garnered high praise from audiences and critics alike. This is recognition not just of the passion and beauty of his playing, but of his success in rediscovering works previously abandoned through ignorance and changing tastes. Yet Joseph’s repertoire encompasses also mainstream classical and contemporary works, facilitating an exceptionally broad and flexible approach to programming.

   Joseph Spooner
Joseph Spooner came to the cello indirectly, via a degree in Classics at Cambridge, and a doctorate in Greek papyrology at London and Florence universities. During subsequent postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Music, he embraced traditional repertoire and developed a taste for contemporary and non-standard works. Since then, he has pursued a diverse career, principally as a soloist and chamber musician, and this work has taken him across the UK, from the Baltic to the Atlantic, and from the recording studio to concert platforms in Continental Europe, New York, Russia, Mexico and New Zealand. As a soloist, there have been performances of familiar and less familiar concertos (including Dvořák, Leighton, Korngold, Shostakovitch and Moeran); broadcasts from his recordings on BBC Radio 3 and Radio New Zealand; and recital series featuring the complete works for the cello by Bach, Beethoven, Bloch, and the Mighty Handful.

Joseph has worked extensively as a chamber musician, currently with the Summerhayes Piano Trio, and was a founder member of the mixed ensemble Camarada. His work with contemporary-music ensembles (notably Continuum and New Music Players) has included performances at major festivals (among them Huddersfield), broadcasts (BBC Radio 3, Channel 4), several premieres, and recordings of works by Errollyn Wallen and Roger Smalley. Joseph’s deep delving into the cello repertoire has led to the rediscovery of unjustly neglected works. Audiences have greatly appreciated hearing this music, and critics have offered high praise for Joseph’s recordings, noting the initiative entailed and agreeing that these works – by composers as diverse as Alan Bush, Alexander Krein, Michael Balfe, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Edgar Bainton, Aaron Copland, George Dyson, and Percy Sherwood – were indeed worth rehabilitating.

Joseph was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2012, and in 2013 was made an honorary member of the International Felix Draeseke Society. He is proud to be the dedicatee of Alwynne Pritchard’s Danaides, Errollyn Wallen’s Spirit Symphony: Speed Dating for Two Orchestras, and Martin Read’s Troper Fragment. His instrument was made by Nicholas Vuillaume in c.1865

Program

Paris in the works of painters at the edge of 19th and 20th centuries
Degas, Pissarro, Marquet, Bonnard, Manet, van Dongen, Picasso, Matisse

Debussy. Nuages («Clouds»), Fêtes («Festivals»)
Saint-Saëns. Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor
Ibert. Suite symphonique «Paris»
Gershwin. An American in Paris

Performers

Samara Philharmonic Orchestra
Mikhail Shcherbakov – conductor

Joseph Spooner – cello 

The concert is hosted by Lyudmila Troshina, the Hermitage museum researcher