When I visited Hugh Wood, he showed me two typed pages, one of which had the programme for the Nocturnal concert, Friday 21 August 1964. There was also a concert that Wood insists took place, but which isn’t listed in any of the other literature I have for the events. This was the programme:
Music for a film scene [sic] Schoenberg
Canzona II David Ellis
Movement Neville Gambier
Castle Music Anthony Gilbert
Little Music for Strings Michael Tippett
Serenade Op.11 Brahms
This is a fascinating programme, and it includes works by Ellis and Gilbert no longer in their catalogue. Hopefully my meeting with Anthony Gilbert will clear up whether or not this took place, and if it did, its date, location and performers. I still have little idea who Neville Gambier was.
The following clip is Wood’s reaction to this concert, making clear his memory of its occurrence, and on the difficulty of clarifying the details of the programme.
(LS100044: 51’10”)
Further to this post, this list of works is part of the participants’ concert given on the final evening. For more details see this post.
Filed under: What music was performed?, Brahms, Ellis, Gambier, Gilbert, Schoenberg, Tippett
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