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The Apple Orchard by Ivor Gurney, Frederick Grinke - Violin Ivor Newton - Piano Recorded in 1942. The Apple Orchard is one of two short pieces written for violin and piano by Ivor Gurney that were published posthumously in 1940. Frederick Grinke CBE (8 August 1911 – 16 March 1987) was a Canadian-born violinist who had an international career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He was known especially for his performances of 20th-century English music. He started to learn the violin at the age of 9, and studied with John Waterhouse and others in Winnipeg. He made his first broadcast at the age of about 12, and formed a trio at age 15. In 1927, he won a Dominion of Canada scholarship award to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with Rowsby Woof. He continued his studies (at age 21) for a summer with Adolf Busch in Switzerland, and afterwards in Belgium and London with Carl Flesch. Hamilton Harty considered appointing him leader of the London Symphony Orchestra at the age of 21, but the offer was not made on account of his youth. From around 1930 to 1936, Grinke was second violin of the Kutcher String Quartet (in which John Barbirolli was for a time the 'cellist). In 1935, with pianist, Dorothy Manley, he gave the premiere of the Canadian composer Hector Gratton's Quatrieme danse canadienne. It was with Manley and Florence Hooton, both fellow students at the Academy, that Grinke formed his trio, Kendall Taylor later replacing Manley. In 1937 he became concertmaster of the Boyd Neel Orchestra, a post he would hold until 1947. His first performance with them was at the Salzburg Festival in 1937, giving the premiere of the Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge by Benjamin Britten. Thereafter he performed with them in Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand, the London Proms, and at the Edinburgh Festival. He resigned as concertmaster to pursue his solo career. During the later 1940s, Grinke made numerous recordings, mainly for Decca, many of which were originally released in the last years of 78rpm records. His recordings of John Ireland's chamber music include the Phantasie Trio of 1908, the 1938 Trio no 3 in E major, and The Holy Boy (with Florence Hooton (cello) and Kendall Taylor (piano)), and the Violin Sonata no 1 of 1909 with the composer at the piano. The trio also recorded the Phantasy trio of Frank Bridge and the Beethoven trio in E flat. Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his Sonata in A minor, written in 1952, to Grinke, who recorded the composer's Concerto Accademico in D minor, and The Lark Ascending, with the Boyd Neel Orchestra. Grinke and David Martin (also a Canadian violinist) performed J.S. Bach's Concerto for two violins at Vaughan Williams's funeral. Among other recordings from the 1940s were no's 3 and 9 from the 1697 set of 10 Sonatas by Henry Purcell, with Jean Pougnet and Boris Ord, and Purcell's sonata in G minor with Arnold Goldsbrough. He is heard with Kendall Taylor in the Dvořák G major Sonatina op 100, and with Watson Forbes (violist of the Stratton Quartet and Aeolian Quartet) in Mozart duos. He also premiered and recorded works by Arthur Benjamin, Benjamin Dale, Lennox Berkeley, Kenneth Leighton, Edmund Rubbra, York Bowen, Howard Ferguson, Arthur Bliss, Béla Bartók, Beethoven, Handel, Rachmaninoff and Smetana, often accompanied by Ivor Newton. He recorded all six Brandenburg Concertos with the Boyd Neel Orchestra, and made a broadcast of the Arnold Bax violin concerto from Australia. From 1963 to 1966 he taught at the Yehudi Menuhin School at Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey. He frequently sat on juries for international competitions. He retired from the Royal Academy of Music in 1978, where his students included John Georgiadis, and was appointed a CBE in 1979, but continued teaching until his death, which occurred in 1987. The National Portrait Gallery lists 8 portraits of Grinke in its collections.[ Grinke played an instrument by J. B. Rogerius of 1686, with aluminium-covered D and A, and silver-covered G and steel E strings, but also often played a Stradivarius dated 1718, lent by the Royal Academy of Music. He was married in 1942 to Dorothy Sirr Sheldon and had one son. He is buried in the churchyard of St Mary, Thornham Parva, Suffolk.
Aeolian Quartet Arriaga John Moore Moore Humphreys 2020
Provided to YouTube by NAXOS of America String Quartet No. 1 in D Minor: I. Allegro · Aeolian Quartet Arriaga: The 3 String Quartets ℗ 2020 Cameo Classics Released on: 2020-08-07 Ensemble: Aeolian Quartet Artist: John Moore Artist: Sydney Humphreys Artist: Trevor Williams Artist: Watson Forbes Composer: Juan Chrisóstomo Arriaga Auto-generated by YouTube.
Handel Halvorsen Carl Flesch Boyd Boyd Neel Frank Bridge Benjamin Britten John Ireland Kendall Ralph Vaughan Williams Lark Arnold Bax Arthur Benjamin Benjamin Dale Lennox Berkeley Kenneth Leighton Edmund Rubbra York Bowen Arthur Bliss Béla Bartók Beethoven Rachmaninoff Smetana Newton Buchanan Pisek Otakar Ševčík Albert Sammons Stratton Elgar Matthews Whitehead Hess Salzburg Festival Proms London Symphony Orchestra Aeolian Quartet Bbc Scottish Symphony Orchestra 1696 1908 1909 1911 1930 1933 1937 1938 1939 1940 1947 1952 1954 1964 1970 1972 1974 1987 1997
Frederick Grinke (violin), Watson Forbes (viola) HANDEL-Halvorsen Sarabande with Variations, based upon the Sarabande in Handel's Keyboard Suite in D minor, HWV 437. Recorded Nov 1939 at West Hampstead Studios. Frederick Grinke and Watson Forbes were two exceptional musicians who have been unjustly neglected when it comes to the rerelease of their recordings. As far as I could find out, this particular recording has never been re-released since it was first published, neither on LP or CD. I may be wrong about that, an would happily stand corrected if someone can show me otherwise. Frederick Grinke CBE (1911 – 1987) was a Canadian born violinist who had an international career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. After initial studies in Canada, he won a Dominion of Canada scholarship award to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with Rowsby Woof.continuing his studies in Belgium and London with Carl Flesch. In 1937 he became concertmaster of the Boyd Neel Orchestra. His first performance with them was Salzburg Festival in 1937, giving the premiere of Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge by Benjamin Britten. In 1940, he volunteered for the Royal Air Force, joining its Royal Air Force Symphony Orchestra, and toured with them worldwide. He remained concertmaster for the Boyd Neel Orchestra until 1947, performing in Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand, and at the London Proms, Salzburg and the Edinburgh Festival. He resigned from it to pursue his solo career. During the later 1940s, Grinke made numerous recordings, mainly for Decca, many of which were originally released in the last years of 78rpm records. His recordings of John Ireland's chamber music include the Phantasie Trio of 1908, the 1938 Trio no 3 in E major, and The Holy Boy (with Florence Hooton (cello) and Kendall Taylor (piano)), and the Violin Sonata no 1 of 1909 with the composer at the piano. Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated his Sonata in A minor, written in 1952, to Grinke, who recorded the composer's Concerto Accademico in D minor, and The Lark Ascending, with the Boyd Neel Orchestra. He made a broadcast of the Arnold Bax concerto from Australia. He also premiered and recorded works by Arthur Benjamin, Benjamin Dale, Lennox Berkeley, Kenneth Leighton, Edmund Rubbra, York Bowen, Howard Ferguson, Arthur Bliss, Béla Bartók, Beethoven, Handel, Rachmaninoff and Smetana, often accompanied by Ivor Newton. Watson Douglas Buchanan Forbes (1909 – 1997) was a Scottish violist and classical music arranger. From 1964 to 1974 he was Head of Music for BBC Scotland. He first learnt the violin from his father, who was a Scottish country fiddler. Showing promise, at the age of 16 he was sent to the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied violin and viola, gradually specialising on the viola, In 1930, he went to Pisek in Czechoslovakia to study with Otakar Ševčík. "Sevcik taught me how to practise and how to tackle difficult passages." Following this concentration on technique, Forbes had lessons from Albert Sammons. "He was marvellous. He taught me how to perform - how to put music across to an audience." An invitation to join the Stratton Quartet set the direction of his career. The Stratton was Elgar's preferred quartet, and their recordings in 1933, of his String Quartet and Piano Quintet were the music he chose to listen to on his deathbed. Forbes remained with the Stratton for the rest of its existence as such. At the start of the Second World War, Forbes was joint leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, but from 1940 onwards he joined the RAF Symphony Orchestra which contained a number of small groups of chamber music players. He toured the UK in a piano quintet which included Denis Matthews, Frederick Grinke and James Whitehead. He also made many appearances in Myra Hess's concerts at the National Gallery. After the war he continued with the Stratton quartet, but now, following the departure of George Stratton, renamed the Aeolian Quartet. He also played with other groups, and as a soloist. In 1954 he became professor of viola and chamber music at the Royal Academy of Music in London. In his recitals, he often played on the rare Stradivarius Archinto viola (1696) owned by the Royal Academy. In 1964 Forbes moved to Glasgow to take up the post of Head of Music for BBC Scotland. There he safeguarded and expanded the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and fostered the Scottish musical culture of the day Throughout his working life, but especially in retirement he worked on one of his most enduring legacies as a musician, namely an extensive series of arrangements to expand the viola repertoire, and a series of educational collections for other instruments. In 1970 he was made an honorary Doctor of Music by the University of Glasgow and in 1972 was awarded the Cobbett Memorial Prize for services to chamber music. Notes taken from Wikipedia.
Aeolian Quartet London Symphony Orchestra Stratton Humphreys Watson Simpson 1897 1908 1909 1926 1928 1929 1944 1954 1956 1959 1960 1970 1980 1997 2007 2010 2015
This would seem to be one of the Aeolian Quartet's more rare recordings, probably made in 1959 or 1960. The ensemble was originally the Stratton Quartet (after its first leader, George Stratton +••.••(...)) and after he left in 1944, the name was then changed to Aeolian Quartet. Stratton was by then the leader of the London Symphony Orchestra, amongst other things. He was replaced in the quartet by Max Salpeter +••.••(...)). The next leader was probably Alfred Cave and then the Canadian -born Sydney Humphreys (on this recording) took over as leader from1952-1970. The veteran player in the group would seem to have been the Scottish-born violist, Watson Forbes, who was present in the old Stratton Quartet. In the years after this recording, all the personnel (with the exception of Derek Simpson, who joined in 1956) changed again before the quartet was disbanded in the early 1980's. 1st violin-Sydney Humphreys +••.••(...)), 2nd violin-Trevor Williams +••.••(...)), Viola-Watson Forbes +••.••(...)), 'Cello-Derek Simpson +••.••(...)).