Bournemouth Chamber Music Society

Butterworth	Romanza (horn & strings)
York Bowen	Horn quintet
Haydn	String quartet in G, op.77 no.1
Mozart	Quintet in E flat for horn and strings, K.407

Ioana Petcu-Colan	Violin
Sarah Sexton	Violin
Rebecca Jones	Viola
Sarah McMahon	Cello

The Callino Quartet was formed in June 1999 following a critically acclaimed performance at the West Cork Chamber Music festival in Bantry, Ireland.

Now in its fifth year, the Quartet regularly appears in festivals and concerts throughout Europe and has collaborated with such established and diverse artists as the Vanburgh and Vogler String Quartets, double-bassist Edgar Meyer and the Paris-Bastille Wind Octet.

The Quartet was awarded a Special Prize from the 2002 Paulo Borciani String Quartet Competition for their performance of Haydn, and has recorded a disc of Schubert works for string quartet. They have also recorded Ian Wilson’s 4th, 5th and 6th quartets.

The forthcoming Winter season sees the Quartet making their Wigmore Hall debut performance.

Richard Bayliss is well-known to Bournemouth Chamber Music audiences as a founding member of the award winning Galliard Ensemble wind quintet, with whom he regularly performs for Radio 3 and Classic FM.

Richard studied the horn at the Royal Academy of Music with Derek Taylor and Andrew Clark. During this time he appeared as soloist with the RAM String orchestra in Haydn’s Concerto for two horns and Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn and strings.

Richard has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Manchester Camerata, and London Festival Orchestra. As a natural horn player he has performed with the London Classical Players.

This concert highlights the role of the horn in chamber music, and included two great quintets for horn and strings, both being presented at BCMS for the first time – by Mozart and the 20th Century British composer York Bowen.

For those not familiar with Bowen’s music, you can expect music which is unashamedly romantic in personality and ambience, brooding and emotional with a frequent haunting and sensual beauty. His scores, spanning two world wars, are much more than mere curios, wheeled out occasionally for historical interest. The Horn quintet is a masterwork, and many are amazed that it is not a major part of the chamber music repertoire.

Butterworth’s Romanza for horn and strings was composed in 1954 for the then principal horn of the Scottish National Orchestra – by all accounts an eccentric character, whose grandmother was said to be a Red Indian squaw! He never performed it, but the work eventually received its first performance by Ifor James, with the BBC Northern Orchestra, in 1958.

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