Programme:

Antonin Dvorak - Waldesruhe B. 173 (arranged by the composer from Ze Šumavy Op. 68) for cello and piano
Othmar Schoeck - Nachklang Op. 30/7 (arranged for cello and piano)
Paul Pabst: Concert Paraphrase on 'Eugene Onegin' Op 81 (piano)
Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata for Violin and Piano Op.12 No.1
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Melanie Bonis - Sonata for Piano and Flute Op. 64
Mozart/Hummel - Piano Concerto in D Minor K466 (arranged by Hummel for piano, flute, violin & cello).

Hummel was a student of Mozart and arranged numerous works by his teacher for piano, flute, violin and cello.

Daniel Grimwood, piano
Fenella Humphreys, violin
Michael Cave, flute
Carol Haynes, cello

“Daniel Grimwood, fast making a name for himself as an original and discriminating musician”
Gramophone

...Humphreys's utter absorption and delight ... shines forth at every turn. A particular joy is her realisation of the contrapuntal part-writing that is such a feature of these three and the other works on the disc, carving it with a strong-toned, easy fluidity and immaculate technique. Both volumes will be making frequent returns to my stereo. More than that, though, the new works themselves deserve long wider performance lives beyond this beautiful beginning.
Charlotte Gardner - Editor's Choice
Gramophone Magazine

A concert with a difference - our first ProAm concert.

Daniel and Fenella need no introduction to the Wensleydale audience they have wowed us on numerous occasions both together and as soloists. As part of a fundraising idea for the concert series (which is now a registered charity) they agreed to participate in a concert with two amateurs Michael Cave, a suberbly talented flautist and Carol Haynes (making her debut in a chamber concert).

Information

Pianist Daniel Grimwood is a performer of international renown, combining an exceptional talent, rare versatility and refinement, with an inquisitive personality.

With a repertoire ranging from Elizabethan Virginal music to the works of living composers, he enjoys a solo and chamber career, which has taken him across the globe, performing on the most prestigious concert platforms, including the Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room in London, Saffron Hall, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Symphony Hall Birmingham, the Sage Gateshead, the Three Choirs Festival, the Rachmaninoff and Gnessin Halls in Moscow, the Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as venues in Germany, Austria, Italy, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Estonia, Taiwan, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Lebanon and Oman.
His musical interest started as a 3-year-old playing next door’s piano, and from the age of 7 he was performing in front of audiences. His training continued with Graham Fitch at the Purcell School, where he also studied violin, viola and composition, giving him a broad appreciation of classical music, and later with Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Peter Feuchtwanger.
Although primarily a pianist, he is frequently to be found performing on harpsichord, organ, viola or composing at his desk. Grimwood is a passionate exponent of the early piano, and has given a recital of Chopin’s Etudes on the composer’s own Pleyel piano.

As a solo recording artist his growing discography ranges from Scriabin on Somm Recordings to Algernon Ashton, a world premiere recording on Toccata Classics. His discs of Liszt and Chopin, performed on an 1851 Erard piano, received a unanimous chorus of praise from the press; the Liszt album was Daily Telegraph CD of the week and Editor’s Choice in Gramophone Magazine. He was the first artist to record on the Edition Peters Sounds label, the complete Fauré Nocturnes album was released to excellent reception in The Sunday Times, which was followed by a disc of solo piano works by Adolph von Henselt, described as “a blizzard of dazzling pianism” by the Observer.

Daniel Grimwood regularly performs on live broadcasts on BBC Radio 3, and has been featured in BBC Four’s TV documentary series “Revolution and Romance”. His media work continues with performances and video masterclasses in the “Piano Masterworks” collection on Tido Music, a new iPad app launched in 2016.

Website: www.danielgrimwood.co.uk

With playing described in the press as ‘alluring’, ‘unforgettable’ and ‘a wonder’, violinist Fenella Humphreys enjoys a busy career combining chamber music and solo work. Performances have taken her around the world to venues including the Wigmore Hall, the South Bank Centre, and the new Helsinki Music Centre. She has broadcast for the BBC, Classic FM, DeutschlandRadio Berlin, West-Deutsche-Rundfunk, ABC Classic FM (Australia) and Korean radio, and performed the Walton Concerto at the composer’s home at the invitation of the Walton Trust in a performance that was recorded by Canadian TV.

Fenella performs widely as soloist. Her first concerto recording, of Christopher Wright’s Violin Concerto for Dutton Epoch with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Martin Yates was released in 2012 to great critical acclaim (“Fenella Humphreys’s performance is a wonder” International Record Review; “Fenella Humphreys captures the music’s wistful cantabile to perfection, producing a golden tone in all registers with the utmost sensitivity to where every phrase is moving.” The Strad Magazine), and was selected as Orchestral CD of the Month in a 5 star review in the BBC Music Magazine.

A number of eminent British composers have written works for Fenella, both in her own right and as a former member of the Lawson Trio. During 2014/15 Fenella premiered Bach to the Future, a set of 6 new unaccompanied violin works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Gordon Crosse, Sally Beamish, Adrian Sutton, Piers Hellawell and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. The project has so far seen performances at Aldeburgh, St. Magnus Festival, Presteigne Festival, Ryedale Festival, The Forge, Manchester University, Queen’s University, Belfast etc. and is to be recorded over two CDs for Champs Hill Records. A “radiant recording” with “golden precision and effortless virtuosity” (Five Stars, The Scotsman) the first of these discs, released in August 2015 was picked by BBC Music Magazine as October’s Instrumental disc of the month. The recently released second CD received the same accolade in January 2017’s issue, and was Editor's Choice in Gramophone Magazine in February 2017.

Fenella is a passionate chamber musician, enjoying performances with Ensemble Perpetuo, Counterpoise and I Musicanti as well as collaborations with artists including Alexander Baillie, Adrian Brendel, Pekka Kuusisto, Alec Frank-Gemmill and Martin Lovett, and is regularly invited by Steven Isserlis to take part in the prestigious Open Chamber Music at the International Musicians’ Seminar, Prussia Cove. Concertmaster of the Deutsche Kammerakademie, Fenella also enjoys guest leading and directing various ensembles in Europe, and can be found playing Tango in duo and larger ensembles with the great Uruguayan bandoneonist, Hector Ulises Passarella.

Fenella’s teachers have included Sidney Griller CBE, Itzhak Rashkovsky, Ida Bieler and David Takeno at the Purcell School, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf where she was awarded the highest attainable marks both for the 'Diplom' exam and the 'Konzertexamen' soloists' diploma. She has taken part in masterclasses with musicians including Thomas Brandis, Lorand Fenyves, Anthony Marwood, Thomas Riebl and Krzysztof Penderecki.

Michael Cave is a cardiologist at the University Hospital of North Durham. He began playing flute at the age of 9 and was principal flute in the Irish Youth Orchestra from 1976 to 1980. He then stopped playing for about 20 years to concentrate on studies, career and family life, but now plays in various groups including the Cobweb Orchestra, Orchestra North East, Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra, European Doctors Orchestra and World Doctors Orchestra. He also has been a guest soloist in fundraising concerts in Durham over many years. He passionately believes in the power of music to promote wellbeing, and to bring people together in a divided world.

Carol Haynes in a mad moment decided to learn the cello at the age of 55. Nearly 5 years later cello seems to have taken over her life and she has regularly been described as obsessive. She plays in numerous orchestras and has taken part in masterclasses with Peteris Sokolovskis, Catherine Ardagh-Walter and Corinne Morris at Oxford Cello School. It was from that obsession that Wensleydale Concert Series was born.