Elgar's Third Symphony

"Payne's quiet but thoughtful presence in British music always strikes me as a kind of anchorage in sanity, confirming the continuing life of trusted values"
The Independent on Sunday

	JANE MANNING and ANTHONY PAYNE after receiving Honorary Doctorates (their third each) at a special joint ceremony at the University of Durham in February 2007- the first time that Durham has ever honoured a married couple in this way. (See Durham University's Web site - www.dur.ac.uk )
Married since 1966, Anthony Payne and Jane Manning have long been admired for their combined expertise and communicative gifts. Their special rapport with young musicians led to the formation of their acclaimed young ensemble JANE'S MINSTRELS in 1988.

Anthony Payne, Hon. D.Mus (Dunelm), Hon. D. Mus (Birmingham), Hon D. Mus. (Kingston), FRCM, BA Hons (Dunelm).

A facsimile of part of Elgar's sketch for the Third Symphony

Elgar's Third Symphony (sketches elaborated by Anthony Payne; commissioned by the Elgar Trust)

Hear an extract from the NMC CD of Elgar's Third Symphony Uses Real Audio - click for help Recording and cover artwork © NMC Recordings Ltd., 1998

Internationally celebrated for his completion of ELGAR'S THIRD SYMPHONY, commissioned by the Elgar Trust and premiered at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 15th February 1998 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Its first recording for NMC instantly topped the Classical music charts. Two more recordings are already in the catalogue, one by Paul Daniel and the Bournemouth Symphony on Naxos ( another chart-topper, a copy of which was taken to the International Space Station on the shuttle Atlantis) and the other by the LSO and Sir Colin Davis on the LSO's own label. There have now been more than 150 known performances of the Symphony, by orchestras including Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra ( US premiere), St. Louis Symphony, Dallas Symphony,Cincinnati Symphony, National Symphony of Washington, ( including New York debut at Carnegie Hall) , Sapporo Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, New Zealand and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, St.Petersburg Philharmonic, Czech Philarmonic, Danish Radio Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, LSO, Halle, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, CBSO, and all the BBC Orchestras, of which the BBC Symphony have toured it internationally and performed it twice at the Proms, including a televised relay. In addition it is now in the repertoire of many amateur and youth orchestras here and abroad. Awards that Anthony Payne has received for his work on the 3rd Symphony include: The South Bank Award for Classical Music The Evening Standard Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. Classical Music Magazine's Special Award, and The New York Radio Critics' Award. Also several TV documentaries have featured him and his work on the Symphony. Press reaction to the premiere "Payne's deep knowledge and love of the Elgar style .. have enabled him to 'elaborate' the sketches with a skill and a fidelity to the original that take the breath away...The result is convincingly ambivalent, utterly Elgarian and deeply moving...Payne's labour of love was ... a triumph for all concerned, and a landmark in the history of British music" The Times (Barry Millington)

2007 will see 2 further CD recordings of the Symphony: by BBCNOW and Richard Hickox, and the Sapporo Symphony, Japan, under Tadaaki Otaka.

On Anthony Payne's 70th Birthday, August 2nd 2006, his completion of Elgar's POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE MARCH NO. 6 received its premiere at the Proms by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis, and no less than 3 CD recordings of this are planned for the near future: by Hickox/BBCNOW, Otaka/Sapporo Symphony, and, in its new brass band version arranged by Philip Wilby, The Black Dyke Mills Band.

Payne's book 'ELGAR'S THIRD SYMPHONY: THE STORY OF THE RECONSTRUCTION' is published by Faber & Faber. He is also author of books on SCHOENBERG (Oxford University Press) and FRANK BRIDGE ( Thames Publishing) and many articles in Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He currently writes reviews for Country Life and is in great demand as a broadcaster and lecturer.

He has been Milhaud Professor ( jointly with Jane Manning) at Mills College, California, Composition Tutor at New South Wales Conservatorium and the University of Western Australia, and has also given lectures at Bowdoin, Cornell, Queens, MIT, Princeton, Rice, USC and Yale in the USA, plus many campuses in Australasia, Canada and the UK, and has directed special seminars for composers in Scandinavia.

	Publishers
	Elgar Third Symphony completion:	Boosey & Hawkes;
	Most other works:	Chester Music (Music Sales Group)
	Selected Discography
	Elgar Third Symphony	NMC D 053
	Elgar Third Symphony	Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Paul Daniel (Naxos 8.554719)
	Elgar Third Symphony	LSO under Sir Colin Davis. (LSO Live - 019)
	Elgar Third Symphony	Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Gary Brain (Artemis Classics- ART 60301)
	Companion CD explaining the process involved in making this completion	NMC D 052
	Anthony Payne Time’s Arrow (BBC SO/Andrew Davis)	NMC D 037S
	A Day in the Life of a May-Fly - the Chamber Music of Anthony Payne (Jane’s Minstrels)	NMC D 056
New recording 2007	The Stones and Lonely Places Sing - the Chamber Music of Anthony Payne, 2. (Jane’s Minstrels)	NMC D 130

"..it is that English Romantic way of thinking about melodic line, expressive harmony and instrumental colour- and above all, creating haunting musical atmosphere, which shines through"
Stephen Johnson - The Gramophone

Jane Manning, OBE, Hon D. Mus. Dunelm, Hon. D. Univ ( York), Hon. D. Mus. (Keele), FRAM, FRCM, GRSM.

“a legend in her own lifetime...one of the most remarkable instigators of artistic achievement of others in our day” (Hi-Fi News & Record Review)

Soprano Jane Manning has worked closely with composers such as Birtwistle, Bennett, Boulez, Cage, Carter, Dallapiccola, Knussen, Ligeti, Lutyens and Weir. She continues to enjoy an active performing career with regular appearances in London, the USA, and throughout Europe.

Her books, NEW VOCAL REPERTORY - AN INTRODUCTION, and NEW VOCAL REPERTORY 2, published by Oxford University Press, are proving invaluable to teachers and performers. She is also author of the chapter on the vocal cycles in Faber & Faber's A MESSIAEN COMPANION, and has had articles published in TEMPO and other learned journals . She is currently completing a two-volume detailed study of sprech-stimme, especially in relation to Schoenberg's PIERROT LUNAIRE, the culmination of her 3 years' Research as AHRC Creative Arts Fellow at Kingston University, due to end in Autumn 2007. This will be published by Southern Voices ( Glasgow and Canberra). She has also been invited, with Anthony Payne, to contribute the chapter on Vocal Music of the 20th and 21st centuries to Cambridge University Press's forthcoming 'HISTORY OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE'

“Imaginative scope, executive achievement and seemingly inexhaustible stamina” (The Times)

• With perfect pitch, a sense of adventure and the ability to assimilate new scores quickly, she has always enjoyed working with young people and has maintained a parallel career in advanced education.
• Visiting Professor at Mills College, Oakland (4 times), Artist in Residence at University of Manitoba, University of Western Australia (6 times), and at the Banff Centre.
• Lectures and Master Classes
  Harvard (US debut as guest in 'Learning from Performers’), Cornell, MIT, Princeton, Rice, Smith, Stanford, USC, Yale, Penn and Smith and at most of the leading universities and conservatories of Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Scandinavia and UK, has run courses for singers and composers in Poland, Germany, Israel, Korea, South Africa and Spain and is currently Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music, London and has completed 6 years as Honorary Professor at Keele University, who awarded her a Doctorate in 2004. In November 2004 she began 3 years as AHRC Creative Arts Research Fellow at Kingston University, making an exhaustive study of the vocal part of Schoenberg's PIERROT LUNAIRE. She gives regular master classes at the Royal College of Music where she is a Visiting Professor. fass.kingston.ac.uk
• During her Fellowship at Kingston she has co-ordinated projects with the SPNM, RAM and RCM , given an exceptionally well-received Saul Seminar on PIERROT LUNAIRE at the British Library, and presented papers at academic conferences, as well as giving a ground-breaking series of lunchtime recitals (also recorded) featuring Schoenberg and his contemporaries, for which she provided her own translations and programme notes, meanwhile continuing to perform major contemporary works in London, all over the UK and abroad.

• Recitals (British music, contemporary classics, or works by local composers);
• Collaborations with local orchestras, ensembles or pianists;
• Illustrated lectures (Topics: Elgar 3; Contemporary Music; The Singers Role; The Composer/Performer Relationship; British Music Now and Then; etc.)
• Master Classes, Workshops and Seminars for singers and/or composers
• Informal talks, discussions or interviews (especially in connection with ELGAR 3 events)
• One-to-one coaching or consultation sessions can also be arranged.

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