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DIGITAL CONCERTSBEETHOVEN SEPTET This concert forms part of the CBSO Miniature Collection, and was filmed in CBSO Centre, Birmingham

Oliver Janes – Clarinet

Margaret Cookhorn – Bassoon

Mark Phillips – Horn

Kate Suthers – Violin

Chris Yates – Viola

David Powell – Cello

Julian Atkinson – Double Bass

Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op.20 45’

When the CBSO’s musicians finally reunited this summer, after the longest enforced silence in the orchestra’s 100-year history, this was the first music they made – an exuberant, gloriously tuneful salute to the young Beethoven in his 250th birthday year. Take Beethoven at his happiest, give him seven virtuoso musicians, throw in a couple of pop tunes, and the result is the Septet Op.20: a symphony in all but name, bursting with melody and wit. Extraordinary times called for extraordinary measures, and socially-distanced performance was a new departure for us. But you can’t keep our players down, and this performance from CBSO Centre is testimony both to the irrepressible genius of Beethoven, and the sheer joy of playing great music together.

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Septet in E flat, Op.20 Adagio – Allegro con brio

Adagio cantabile

Tempo di Minuetto

Tema con Variazioni: Andante

Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace

Andante con moto alla Marcia – Presto

And so I arrived in Bohemia. In a little town I found a troop of strolling musicians; they formed a tiny orchestra, composed of a cello, two violins, two horns, a clarinet and a flute; moreover there was a woman who played the harp, and two with lovely voices. In a beautiful shady place beside the highway... I inquired whether they played any other music than dances.

“To be sure”, they answered, “but only for ourselves; not for the gentlefolk”. They unpacked their library, and I caught sight of the Grand Septet of Beethoven; astonished, I asked if they played that too? “Why not?” replied the eldest, “Joseph has injured his hand, and can’t play the second violin today, or we’d be delighted to play it at once”. Beside myself, I snatched up Joseph’s violin, promised to do my best, and we began the Septet. Oh rapture! Here on the side of a Bohemian highway, in open air, Beethoven’s Septet was played by dance-musicians with a purity, a precision, and a depth of feeling too seldom found among the highest virtuosi! – Great Beethoven, we brought thee a worthy offering!

Richard Wagner: A Pilgrimage to Beethoven (1840)

A second violin? Two horns? A harp? Wagner’s Beethoven-worship obviously didn’t go as far as checking the actual instrumentation of Beethoven’s Septet Op.20; but this fictional vignette, quite incidentally, makes some good points about this delightful work. Clearly, Wagner expected his music-loving readership of 1840 to be familiar with the Septet, and clearly, he regarded it as fully characteristic – “worthy” – of Beethoven’s genius. And this rustic

scene captures the spirit and roots of the Septet in the most evocative way. Outdoor music of the 18th century was generally the preserve of all-wind groups (harmonie); string ensembles belonged in aristocratic salons and – increasingly – bourgeois drawing rooms.

Beethoven’s Septet was the first chamber work of any real significance to combine, on equal terms, a group of string instruments and a group of winds. It brought the fresh country air of the wind serenade into the music of the urban connoisseur; and gave wind instruments a place in the expressive world of the chamber ensemble. Street music had entered the drawing room, and at the same time become something more elevated. Written three years before the Eroica symphony, it’s music for a more democratic age, written for anyone capable of enjoying it, whether players or listeners, and not just “the gentlefolk”. And it launched a genre. Imitations followed from Spohr, Schubert (his Octet of 1824), Berwald, Brahms (the first version of his Serenade No.1) and Stanford. The Septet can even be seen as the ancestor of today’s mixed contemporary music ensembles. Recent homages to the Septet have come from composers as varied as Kurt Schwertsik, Howard Ferguson and Robin Holloway. In its own way, it’s as revolutionary a piece as Beethoven ever wrote.

Beethoven knew the Septet was something different. On 15 December 1800 he described it to the publisher Hofmeister of Leipzig as “A septet for violin, viola, cello, contrabasso, clarinet, corno, fagotto – all obbligato (I cannot write anything non-obbligato, for I came into the world with an obbligato accompagnement)”. “This Septet” – he added – “has greatly pleased”. It had been completed early that year, premièred in the same concert as his First Symphony, at the Burgtheater, Vienna on 2 April 1800, and its success had been such that, although the only copies were Beethoven’s own and the copy given to the work’s dedicatee, the Empress Maria Theresia, piracy was already a concern. “Send my Septet into the world at a more rapid rate” he urged Hofmeister: “because the public is waiting for it, and you know the Empress has it – and there are scamps in the Imperial city as well as at the Imperial court. So look sharp”.

Hofmeister can’t have been sharp enough; shortly after the Septet was finally published, in the autumn of 1802, Beethoven had to take out an advert in the Wiener Zeitung disowning a Quintet arrangement that had already entered circulation. The high-minded artist defending the integrity of his work? It would be nice to think so, but Beethoven was probably rather more concerned with protecting a commercially valuable property. At around the same time he was urging Hofmeister to issue the Septet in arrangements for flute quintet, piano solo, and string septet; releasing his own arrangement of the Septet for clarinet trio in 1805. Pirate versions for piano duet and harmonie also existed. Maybe Wagner’s country band wasn’t so far from reality after all.

Beethoven came to be irritated by the Septet’s success, reportedly muttering, later in life, that he’d like to “burn it”. But the reasons why the Septet was so successful, and why it remains so popular with performers to this day, shouldn’t be hard to hear.

“Send my Septet into the world at a more rapid rate because the public is waiting for it...”Beethoven

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Its breezy, exuberant character makes an instant appeal, and the Septet also gives gloriously enjoyable opportunities to all seven of its performers (including an extrovert violin part, originally written for the Viennese virtuoso Ignaz Schuppanzigh). It has the six movements of a classical serenade, and as belt-and-braces for the work’s success Beethoven made the fourth of these a set of variations on a popular tune – the Rhenish folksong Ach schiffer, lieber schiffer:

Adagio – Allegro con brio: A broad, almost symphonic introduction leading to a brisk and thoroughly-worked sonata form first movement.

Adagio cantabile: The clarinet has its chance to shine, with an expressive melody over a gently flowing accompaniment – a pre-echo, if you like, of the Scene by the Brook from the Pastoral symphony. Beethoven develops the movement in long, peaceful paragraphs.

Tempo di Minuetto: Very much a Minuet of the old school. Courtly phrases and clockwork accompanying rhythms make it almost a parody of the classical dance. The central trio calls on all the horn’s agility.

Tema con variazioni: Five variations on that Rhenish folksong, showcasing i) the string trio, ii) the violin, with appreciative comments from the winds, iii) the winds, in a miniature march, iv) melancholy calls from horn and clarinet and v) the whole ensemble in more reflective mood. In a short coda the winds throw the first two notes of the theme to each other like courting cuckoos.

Scherzo: A full-gallop hunting-scherzo, led, of course, by the horn. In the trio the cello finally sings out over a staccato accompaniment.

Andante con moto alla Marcia – Presto: Another imposing introduction leading, this time, to a bustling moto perpetuo finale. In its development, Beethoven continues to spring surprises – a quiet wind chorale over a walking bass and a flamboyant cadenza for the violin, before the Septet regroups for a final, glittering display of high spirits.

Programme note © Richard Bratby

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THE PERFORMERS

Oliver Janes

Clarinet Oliver, who was born and brought up in Manchester, took up the clarinet at the age of 15 in 2008. For ten years before that he had studied the violin but had decided it wasn’t the instrument for him. His grandfather, John Fuest, had played clarinet with the CBSO and convinced Oliver to give the instrument a go. The rest is history!

After two years of lessons with his grandfather, Oliver went to Chethams School of Music to study with Rosa Campos-Fernandez. He followed this with four years at the Royal Academy of Music with Mark van de Wiel. After graduation Oliver freelanced with some of the London orchestras before joining the CBSO as Principal Clarinet in December 2014, describing the months since that as ‘the time of my life’. He singles out the Beethoven Cycle in Bonn and Birmingham with Andris Nelsons as a memory he’ll never forget.

Outside of the CBSO, Oliver enjoys watching sports in general, playing tennis and cricket and balancing all that physical activity with a love of ‘cooking and eating lots of nice food!’

Oliver is supported by Diana and Peter Wardley

Margaret CookhornBassoon Margaret was born in Birmingham and went to school in Sandwell. She took up the bassoon after her school built a new music block and received a selection of woodwind instruments from the local authority. She later went on to join the Sandwell Youth Orchestra before studying bassoon (with David Chatwin and the late William Waterhouse) and contrabassoon (with the late William Greenlees) at the Royal Northern College of Music. During her postgraduate year at the RNCM she was offered the Principal Contrabassoon role at the CBSO. Margaret’s highlights with the CBSO so far include performing the Contrabassoon concerto Falling Down by John Woolrich with the CBSO and Andris Nelsons in 2009, 2014 and at the BBC Proms in 2015.

Margaret is supported by The Grimmitt Trust

Mark PhillipsHorn Mark has held the position of Third Horn in the CBSO for just over 30 years. He is also the horn player and Orchestra Manager of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group (BCMG).

He studied at the Purcell School, the Royal College of Music Junior Department, the Royal Academy of Music and the National Centre for Orchestral Studies under teachers Douglas Moore, James Brown and Adrian Leaper.

Before joining the CBSO, Mark was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and the European Community Youth Orchestra.

He enjoys getting involved in all aspects of the CBSO, having completed three stints as Chair of the Players’ Committee as well as serving two terms as a Player Board member.

When he’s not involved in all things orchestral, Mark enjoys travelling and organising other people’s travel as well as his own!

Mark is supported by an anonymous donor

Kate SuthersViolin Violinist Kate Suthers joined the CBSO in May 2016. She continues to enjoy a busy and varied career around the UK, leading the award-winning Artesian Quartet and working in guest principal roles with a number of other British symphony orchestras. Kate also enjoys smaller ensemble work, especially projects with Scottish Ensemble, Aurora Orchestra and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. Her work has taken her around the world, touring throughout Europe and Scandinavia, as well as to the USA and Asia.

Kate studied with Gyorgy Pauk at the Royal Academy of Music. Among many experiences during her time there, highlights included leading Scheherazade under Yan Pascal Tortelier, performing L’Histoire du soldat at Kings Place with Dame Harriet Walter, and leading the second violins in the world premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies’ opera Kommilitonen!. It was also in her first year at the Academy that she co-founded the Artesian Quartet. After completing undergraduate and Masters degrees, Kate stayed on at the Academy with her quartet for a further year as CAVATINA chamber fellows in 2014-15. During that year they were also selected as a ChamberStudio @ Kings Place quartet and had previously been both Park Lane Group and Britten Pears artists.

Kate is supported by Frank North

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Chris YatesViola Chris Yates began studying the viola at the age of seven and at 16 won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. He studied there with Stephen Shingles and other teachers have included Bruno Giuranna, Nobuko Imai and the members of the Amadeus Quartet. Whilst still a student, Chris gave the UK Premiere of Penderecki’s Viola Concerto in the presence of the composer, which was highly acclaimed in the national press. He was the first viola player to reach the national final of the LSO String Competition where he played the Bartók Concerto with the LSO in the Barbican.

At 22 he became the principal viola with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and, 18 months later, became the Viola Section Leader with the CBSO. He has appeared as a soloist with the CBSO on many occasions, playing the solo parts in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, Tippett’s Triple Concerto, and Britten’s Lachrymae.

He has been a member of Birmingham Contemporary Music Group since joining the CBSO and has undertaken many tours, recordings and television and radio broadcasts with them. In 2000 he gave the world premiere of Thea Musgrave’s Lamenting with Ariadne which was written for him and BCMG, and has given several performances of John Woolrich’s Envoi for viola and ensemble with them.

In addition to his performing commitments he enjoys teaching and has taught for a number of years at Birmingham Conservatoire. He plays on a viola made by John Lott, circa 1830.

Chris is supported by Maurice Millward

David PowellCello David Powell is Sub-Principal Cellist with the CBSO and for three decades has worked with many of the world’s leading conductors and soloists. For a number of years he has taught at the University of Nottingham, a city in which he grew up, and he includes Jacqueline du Pré, David Strange and Bernard Greenhouse (ex-Beaux Arts Trio) among his teachers. As a chamber musician David has performed at many festivals and Midland venues with the Montpellier String Trio, 51 Strings (his cello and harp duo), and Trio Severn, and he appears regularly in CBSO’s Centre Stage series of chamber music concerts. He has served as Chair of the CBSO Benevolent Fund, is a trustee of the Cotswold Suzuki Violin Group and has coached the CBSO Youth Orchestra, the National Youth Orchestra and the National Schools Symphony Orchestra.

David is supported by David Handford

Julian AtkinsonDouble Bass Raised in Renfrewshire, Julian started playing the double bass aged 11. ‘My High School had an amazing music department with an inspirational head of music. I lived in the music department for six years, along with many of my school friends. At a recent reunion, it was incredible to see just how many of us have been influenced by this in our lives.’

Julian learned with Bill Hoare and David Inglis in Scotland before studying with Robin McGee at the Royal Academy of Music. He joined the CBSO in 1985 and continued his studies with Thomas Martin.

Over his 30 years playing in the orchestra Julian has had many highlights but mentions the opening of Symphony Hall as the single most significant event ‘It is a truly world-class venue and has been transformative for the orchestra.’ Julian has enjoyed the chance of discovering so many interesting places when touring with the orchestra. ‘Occasionally we stay in one place for a while, which is always a treat. Among the most memorable residencies have been JenŮfa (my favourite opera) in Paris and The Makropulos Case in Aix en Provence, both with Simon conducting. Most recently, playing all the Beethoven symphonies in Bonn with Andris was a very special week.’

Julian enjoys coaching the basses of Birmingham Schools’ Concert Orchestra each week, one of the many ensembles of Birmingham Music Service, and also the basses of CBSO Youth Orchestra. Away from music, he particularly enjoys the outdoors. ‘I love to get out for a run along the many greenways, rivers and canals of south Birmingham. I also spend probably too much time in the garden.’

Julian is supported by Simon & Margaret Payton

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Partners in Orchestral Development

William King Ltd

THANK YOU The support we receive from thousands of individual donors, public funders, businesses and private foundations allows us to present extraordinary performances and to create exciting activities in schools and communities. Your support makes such a difference and is much appreciated.

For more information on how your organisation can engage with the CBSO, please contact Simon Fairclough, CBSO Director of Development, on 0121 616 6500 or sfairclough@cbso.co.uk

Thank you also to our Major Donors, Benefactors, Circles Members, Patrons and Friends for their generous support.

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BOARDChair David Burbidge cbe dlDeputy Chair David RoperElected Trustees Tony Davis Jane Fielding Susan Foster Joe Godwin Emily Ingram Sundash Jassi Chris Loughran Lucy Williams

Birmingham City Council Nominated Trustees Cllr Sir Albert Bore Cllr Alex Yip

Player Nominated Trustees Elspeth Dutch Helen Edgar

Additional Player Representative Margaret Cookhorn

Hon Secretary to the Trustees Mark Devin

CBSO DEVELOPMENT TRUSTChair Chris Loughran dl

Trustees Charles Barwell obe Gordon Campbell Wally Francis John Osborn cbe David Pett

Hon Secretary to the Trustees John Bartlett

CAMPAIGN BOARDChair David Burbidge cbe, dl Susan Foster Peter How Jamie Justham Her Honour Frances Kirkham cbe Chris Loughran dl John Osborn cbe

Honorary Medical Advisors:

Dr Rod MacRorie. Association of Medical Advisors to British Orchestras/BAPAM

Professor Sir Keith Porter. Consultant, University Hospitals Birmingham

PLAYERS’ COMMITTEEChair Jo Patton Vice Chair Mark Phillips Richard Watkin Andy Herbert Kirsty Lovie Colette Overdijk Heather Bradshaw Matthew Hardy* Recipients of the CBSO Long Service Award † Part-time employee # Volunteer

MANAGEMENTChief Executive Stephen Maddock obe*PA to Chief Executive Niki Longhurst*†

Head of Orchestra Management (Maternity Cover) Adrian RutterOrchestra Manager Claire Dersley*Assistant Orchestra Manager Alan JohnsonPlatform Manager Peter Harris*Assistant Platform Manager Robert Howard Librarian Jack Lovell-Huckle Co-Librarian William Lucas

Head of Artistic Planning Anna MelvillePlanning & Tours Manager Hannah MuddimanProject Manager Claire GreenwoodAssistant Planning Manager Maddi Belsey-Day

Director of Learning and Engagement Lucy GalliardLearning & Participation Manager Katie LucasCommunity Projects Officer Adele FranghiadiYouth Ensembles Officer Rebecca NicholasSchools Officer Carolyn Burton Chorus Manager Poppy Howarth Children’s & Youth Chorus Officer Ella McNameeResearch Assistant Adam Nagel*†

Marketing Consultant Katy Raines Director of Marketing and Communications Gareth Beedie Interim Head of Marketing Maria HowesCRM and Insight Manager Melanie Ryan*†Publications Manager Jane Denton†Digital Content Producer Hannah Blake-Fathers Marketing Volunteer Christine Midgley*#

Director of Development Simon FaircloughHead of Philanthropy Francesca Spickernell Membership & Appeals Manager Eve Vines†Events & Relationship Management Executive Megan BradshawDevelopment Operations Officer Melanie AdeyDevelopment Administrator Bethan McKnight† Trust Fundraiser Fiona Fox

Director of Finance Annmarie WallisFinance Manager Dawn DohertyPayroll Officer Lindsey Bhagania†Assistant Accountant Graham IrvingFinance Assistant (Cost) Susan PriceHR Manager Hollie DunsterCBSO Centre Manager Niki Longhurst*†Technical and Facilities Supervisor Tomoyuki MatsuoAssistant CBSO Centre Manager Peter Clarke*Receptionist Sev Kucukogullari†

CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA