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CarmenCo

CarmenCo



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12.30 lunchtime (available online afterwards)

Thursday 22nd October 2020


CarmenCo
recounting Carmen's story

    • Emily Andrews, flute & voice
    • Francisco Correa, guitar
    • David Massey, guitar

this recording has been produced specifically for our friends and supporters in the Music on Thursdays audience and for your Mole Valley Arts e-Live Festival

Starts: 12.30 on Thursday 22nd October (available online afterwards)

Listening position:

Relax with your choice(s) of beverage, in a place of your choosing, alone, or with company
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Programme
We join Carmen in her boudoir, as she tells her own story in words and music.

Dare you consult the cards with her?  What does she think of the men in her story? Did she foresee her gruesome ending?

Immerse yourself in the sound of Spanish guitar, with tremendous music arranged from Bizet's Carmen, Boccherini, de Falla, Borne, Albeniz and Tarrega.



Musical Sequence

Bizet: Aragonaise
De Falla: La vida breve
Bizet: Habanera    L’amour est un oiseau rebelle
Turina: Ráfaga
Boccherini: Passa Calle from Night Music of the Streets of Madrid
Bizet: Seguidilla    Près des ramparts de Séville
Ravel: Piece en forme de habanera
Bizet: Toreador    Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre
De Falla: Danza ritual del fuego
Bizet: Entr’acte
Bizet: The card aria    En vain pour éviter les réponses amères
Tarrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Borne: Fantasie brillante sur Carmen


Here is the YouTu.be link for CarmenCo

https://youtu.be/784spLSNn40


Full Programme


Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
from the opera Carmen (1975)
Aragonaise, which sets the scene for Act 4 - flute, 2 guitars

Manuel de Falla y Matheu (1876-1946)
La vida breve  This short Life  - guitar duo

Georges Bizet
from the opera Carmen Act 1
Habanera    L’amour est un oiseau rebelle    Love is a rebellious bird  -  voice, 2 guitars

Joaquín Turina Pérez (1882-1949)
Ráfaga Op 53 (1929)

Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
from String Quintet Op 30 No 6 in C major G324
    Musica notturne della strade de Madrid    Night Music of the Streets of Madrid
    5 Passa Calle    Allegro vivo  - flute, 2 guitars

Georges Bizet
from the opera Carmen Act 1
Seguidilla    Près des ramparts de Séville    Near the ramparts of Seville  -  voice, 2 guitars

Joseph Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera M51    Vocal study in habanera form (1907)  - flute & guitar

Georges Bizet
from the opera Carmen Act 2
Toreador Song    Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre     Your toast, I can return it to you- flute, 2 guitars 

Manuel De Falla
from the ballet El amor brujo (1915)
Danza ritual del fuego    Fire dance  -  guitar duo

Georges Bizet
from the opera Carmen
Entr’acte to Act 3  -  flute, 2 guitars 

Georges Bizet
from the opera Carmen
The card aria    En vain pour éviter les réponses amères   
        In vain to avoid bitter remarks  -  flute, voice, 2 guitars

Francisco de Asis Tárrega y Eixea (1852-1909)
Recuerdos de la Alhambra    Memories of the Alhambra (1896)

François Borne (1840-1920)
Fantasie brillante sur Carmen (1900)  -  flute, voice, 2 guitars


Concert duration: 50-55 minutes


Here is the YouTu.be link for CarmenCo

https://youtu.be/784spLSNn40
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About CarmenCo

CarmenCo
is an ensemble comprising

Emily Andrews • flautist/mezzo  •  David Massey & Francisco Correa • guitars

Exploiting the rich texture of two guitars as a duo or with flute or voice, as well as applying our skills in arranging, we perform vibrant, visual, varied yet cost-effective programmes which can easily tour low-engaged communities. We perform all our music from memory and we move around and dance while playing.

“the playing is exquisite…a delightfully warm, intimate sound.”
– Susan Elkin, Lark Reviews

In 2019 we won a generous Arts Council England grant to develop and tour a new concert-play Creating Carmen, using our music and arrangements, while adding two actors, lighting, director and script writer.

CarmenCo trio grew when international solo guitarist Francisco Correa www.franciscocorreaguitar.com joined the Andrews Massey Duo, (formed by Emily & David in 2009). This duo has a fine pedigree: won the Tunnell Trust Award 2012-2013; were Royal Overseas League Competition semi-finalists 3 times & have appeared at Wigmore Hall, St Martin in the Fields, Kings Place and in Germany, Italy & Sweden. They have made 3 CDs. One of their videos had 240,000+ YouTube views. For more information see www.andrewsmasseyduo.com

Comments from Peter: All the members of the CarmenCo Trio have been performing in these lunchtime concerts, in duos and as soloists, in each of Music on Thursdays' eight previous years. With our 10th year coming in 2021, we didn't want to break the sequence, yet COVID cut in and that continuity was very nearly lost.

Not far into lockdown I was reminded of the trio's technical prowess by the recordings Emily & Francisco began to produce. So I put to them the idea of a 'virtual' concert. Once I had convinced the Arts Alive Festival Committee that this was the way forward, not only for MoT, but for all our local arts communities, Emily, Francisco and David were the very willing test-bed for technical solutions.

That encouraged me to approach the other musicians you are hearing in these five Festival lunchtime concerts. I am delighted to say that, despite their own particular problems, locked buildings, people being locked down in a different country or a different part of the country, none of them turned the idea down. Every one of them was our first choice for that date.

Thank you Emily, Francisco & David because without the strength of your enthusiasm none of these 'recorded as live' concerts would have taken place.

As for CarmenCo, the production. The trio kindly invited me to an early try-out at Guildford's Electric Theatre, nearly three years ago. I could see it was an interesting way of combining a story line with their music. I must admit I wrote them some very direct notes afterwards and, after a highly appropriate gulp, (I did say I was 'direct') they took my remarks in the spirit intended. Their own journey is described on the CarmenCo website.

One day we would like to bring you the full CarmenCo production with the two actors and the developed script. That will have to wait until COVID is much better tamed. If you have enjoyed today's recording, you will absolutely love seeing the whole production performed in a theatre setting.

Concert Presenter: Peter Steadman
Assisted by: Richard Miller & Jane Forrester


Here is the YouTu.be link for CarmenCo

https://youtu.be/784spLSNn40


We hope you have enjoyed your time with  CarmenCo


Watch your email and this website for next week's

classical harmonica concert with Phil Hopkins

and accompanist Stuart Whatton

comments welcome:  musiconthursdays@gmail.com

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Oct 29th

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chromatic harmonica
Stuart Whatton
piano
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AM RECORDS PRESENTS
CARMENCO CD

CarmenCo is out NOW! Featuring 17 tracks of gorgeous Spanish and Spanish-inspired
music for guitars, flute and voice.

£15 including postage and packing.

To purchase CarmenCo as well as other AM Records releases, visit our shop

Track listing:

1. Aragonaise from Carmen (Arr. for Flute and Two Guitars)
2. Entr’acte from Carmen (Arr. for Flute and Two Guitars)
3. Spanish Dance no. 1 from La Vida Breve (Arr. for Guitar Duo)
4. Habanera from Carmen (Arr. for Voice and Two Guitars)
5. Córdoba, Op. 232, No. 4 (Arr.for Guitar Duo)
6. Les Toreadors from Carmen (Arr. for Flute and Two Guitars)
7. Nana de Sevilla (Arr. for Voice and Guitar)
8. El Paño Moruno (Arr. for Voice and Guitar)
9. Mallorca, Op 202 (Arr. for Guitar)
10. Passacalle from Musica Notturna Delle Strade di Madrid, Op. 30 No. 6 (G. 324) [Arr. for Flute and Two Guitars]
11. Seguidilla from Carmen (Arr. for Voice and Two Guitars)
12. Danza Ritual del Fuego from El Amor Brujo (Arr. for Guitar Duo)
13. Pièce en forme de Habanera (Arr. for Flute and Guitar)
14. Les filles de Cadix (Arr. for Voice and Guitar)
15. Recuerdos de la Alhambra
16. Card Aria from Carmen “En vain pour Eviter…” (Arr. for Voice, Flute and Two Guitars)
17. Fantaisie brillante sur Carmen (Arr. for Flute and Two Guitars)

Total running time: 62 minutes

Note: LCAS does NOT benefit from the sales of our artistes' CDs - but we do encourage you to support them by purchasing

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