Chamber Music Weekends in 2014–15

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Chamber Music Weekends 2014–2015 • Taunton • Newcastle

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Chamber Music Weekends 2014–2015 The Endellion String Quartet 24–26 October 2014 (mb 183) The Castle Hotel, Taunton Speaker: Prof. Geoffrey Norris Page 4

I Fagiolini in Newcastle 30 January–1 Feb. 2015 (mb 235) Jesmond Dene House, Newcastle Page 5

The Leonore Piano Trio 20–22 February 2015 (mb 244) The Castle Hotel, Taunton Speaker: Richard Wigmore Page 6

A Weekend of Mozart 13–15 March 2015 (mb 254) The Castle Hotel, Taunton Speaker: Richard Wigmore Pages 7–8

Easter at The Castle 3–6 April 2015 (mb 274) The Castle Hotel, Taunton Pages 9–10

A music weekend arranged by Martin Randall Music Management is a very special experience. There is the pleasure, first, of hearing music performed by artists of the highest calibre, and who are all among the very best in their fields. Some come from mainland Europe, many from the UK. Second, the music is performed in an intimate setting, a small hall little bigger than a large drawing room – just the sort of size which composers used to have in mind for chamber music.

The audience is rarely more than a hundred, and consists mainly of those who stay throughout the weekend and attend all concerts.

Third, the weekends take place in one of two excellent hotels. The Castle Hotel in Taunton and Jesmond Dene House in Newcastle are among the most agreeable and comfortable in England.

We often have exclusive use of the hotels during these music weekends, and there is the added opportunity for artists and audience to mingle.

While these events are undeniably indulgent and leisurely retreats, they are also intended to stimulate the mind and enchant the aesthetic sensibilities. Within an over-arching theme, the music is carefully chosen and programmed to provide an illuminating sequence – while each concert is satisfyingly self-sufficient.

Some weekends include pre-concert talks with a musicologist.

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The 2014–2015 season begins in October 2014 with The Endellion String Quartet, one of the finest and most established chamber ensembles in the world, who have just celebrated their 35th anniversary. In January I Fagiolini provide a series of four concerts, based around the theme of four cities. February sees the Leonore Piano Trio presenting some of Beethoven’s best trio and sonata works over the course of six concerts.

In March: an entire weekend devoted to Mozart’s music, including lieder, piano trios and piano duets, performed by The London Bridge Ensemble, pianist Alasdair Beatson and soprano Mary Bevan. We conclude in April with The Mandelring Quartet and Quartetto di Cremona performing Mendelssohn’s Octet as the centrepiece to five concerts over the course of the Easter weekend.

The price for each weekend covers almost everything, from the concerts and talks to interval drinks, via luxurious accommodation, extravagant afternoon teas and memorable dinners. Even gratuities for hotel staff are included.

Tickets to individual concerts are also available to purchase for those who live locally. Those who join for just one or two concerts are also welcomed to join the same interval drinks (included in the ticket price) as those staying in the host hotels. Please see the individual weekend descriptions in this booklet for details of how to book these.

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The Hotels

The Castle Hotel Taunton

Jesmond Dene House Newcastle

The Castle Hotel is renowned for its excellent service, for comforts traditional and modern and for its superb catering.

It has been owned and run by the Chapman family for over sixty years.

Jesmond Dene House is a nineteenth-century mansion in a quiet wooded suburb about two miles from the centre of Newcastle. It opened as a luxury hotel in 2005 and in 2012 was awarded ‘Small Hotel of the Year’ at the North East England Tourism Awards.

Music weekends have been held here since 1977, and Martin Randall Music Management took over the running of them in 2003. Concerts and talks are held in the air-conditioned Music Room.

The hotel’s 44 bedrooms are individually and charmingly decorated and well equipped. The majority have a bath with a shower above (only two have walk-in showers). Most are a good size, and the largest (‘Garden Rooms’), in the remains of the twelfth-century castle, have a sitting area and separate dressing room, and overlook the garden. There is no supplement for single rooms – this is because they are smaller than standard double rooms, have single beds and are generally less well-appointed. While there is a lift, some bedrooms involve access via stairs – as does the Music Room – so please let us know on your booking form if you have any mobility problems.

Taunton lies on the doorstep of Exmoor and the Quantocks, areas with some of the loveliest countryside in England. the-castle-hotel.com

The public areas are stylishly decorated and include a Tudorstyle wood-panelled hall where the concerts take place. There is an excellent restaurant and a garden. Service is attentive and efficient.

Bedrooms are well designed in a modern style with attractive textiles and features such as a cd/dvd player. Junior Suites are all in the adjacent ‘New House’, a modern extension built in an arts-and-crafts style. Some bathrooms have a shower only. Single rooms comfortably fit a double bed. There are two suites – the ‘Apartment Suite’ (the larger of the two) and ‘Noble Suite’ – both located on the top floor of the main building and with their own private roof terraces. While there is a lift, some bedrooms involve access via stairs so please let us know on your booking form if you have any mobility problems.

The hotel is close to glorious Northumberland countryside, the setting for great castles, country houses and Hadrian’s Wall. The city centre boasts some of the finest Georgian streetscape in Britain as well as the spectacular riverside and modern arts centres. jesmonddenehouse.co.uk

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The Endellion String Quartet Schubert & Haydn 24–26 October 2014 (mb 183) The Castle Hotel, Taunton Andrew Watkinson violin Ralph de Souza violin Garfield Jackson viola David Waterman cello Pre-concert talks by Professor Geoffrey Norris The Endellion String Quartet is one of the finest and most established quartets in the world, and recently celebrated its 35th anniversary. The quartet has toured worldwide, has broadcast numerous times on BBC radio and television and performed several series of concerts at London’s Southbank Centre and Wigmore Hall. They also hold a residency at Cambridge University. They have appeared six times previously at The Castle Hotel, including Haydn at The Castle – our ten days of Haydn string quartets – in 2009 and more recently a music weekend in January 2013.

Their programme includes all of Schubert’s late string quartets, combined with Haydn, Beethoven and Mendelssohn who are closely related compositionally and historically.

Janáček (his Kreutzer quartet) and Smetana (Quartet No.1, From My Life) provide a contrast.

Pre-concert talks are given by Professor Geoffrey Norris, broadcaster for BBC Radio 3 and former Chief Critic for The Daily Telegraph. He lectured at Royal Northern College of Music 1977–83 and is Emeritus Professor at the Rachmaninoff Music Academy in Russia.

Below: The Endellion String Quartet ©Eric Richmond; right: Professor Geoffrey Norris.

The Programme Concert 1 Friday 24 October 2014, 6.00pm Pre-concert talk at 5.30pm Beethoven, String Quartet in B flat, Op.18 No.6; Schubert, String Quartet No.13 in A minor, D804 ‘Rosamunde’; Mendelssohn, String Quartet in D, Op.44 No.1.

Concert 2 Saturday 25 October 2014, 11.00am Pre-concert talk at 10.30am Haydn, String Quartet in D, Op.76 No.5; Schubert, String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D810 ‘Death & the Maiden’.

Concert 3 Saturday 25 October 2014, 6.00pm Pre-concert talk at 5.30pm Haydn, String Quartet in D minor, Op.103; Janáček, String Quartet No.1, ‘Kreutzer’; Schubert, String Quartet No.15 in G, D887.

Concert 4 Sunday 26 October 2014, 11.00am Pre-concert talk at 10.30am Schubert, ‘Quartettsatz’, D703; Haydn, String Quartet in E-flat, Op.64 No.6; Smetana, String Quartet No.1 in E minor, ‘From My Life’.

Prices – per person Residential package: £690, Garden Room £820 (deposit £100). This includes all concerts and talks, accommodation (2 nights), breakfasts, 2 afternoon teas, 2 dinners with wine, interval drinks, and gratuities for hotel staff. See page 10 for how to book.

Tickets to individual concerts: evenings £25, mornings £24.

Admission to talks and interval drinks are included. Ticket sales are handled

by The Castle Hotel – please call them on 01823 272 671, or book online at www.the-castle-hotel.com.

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I Fagiolini in Newcastle

A Tale of Four Cities • Venice, London, Paris ... & Ingatestone 30 January–1 Feb. 2015 (mb 235) Jesmond Dene House, Newcastle Robert Hollingworth director Grounded in the classics of the Renaissance and twentieth-century vocal repertoire, I Fagiolini is renowned for its innovative staged productions.

The group has staged Handel with masks, Purcell with puppets, and in 2004 premièred The Full Monteverdi, a dramatised account of the composer’s Fourth Book of Madrigals. I Fagiolini has performed worldwide from BBC Proms and the Lincoln Center Festival to the Far East and Africa.

For this weekend, without leaving the UK, five members of I Fagiolini present music for the stately homes of three great cities – plus a tiny village in Essex.

Director Robert Hollingworth provides comments on the music.

The Programme Concert 1: Venice Friday 30 January 2015, 6.00pm Monteverdi relished his freedom as maestro of St Marks’ basilica, providing sacred music there and also working freelance, writing intimate and sensual chamber music for private homes. We eavesdrop on such a recital in a Palazzo on the Grand Canal of his a capella madrigals, solos, duets and music by his contemporaries: Monteverdi, ‘Lagrime d’amante al sepolchro dell’amata’; ‘Lamento della ninfa’; ‘Si dolcè il tormento’; Strozzi, ‘Lagrime mie’; Grandi, ‘Plorabo die ac nocte’.

Concert 2: Paris Saturday 31 January 2015, 11.00am Paris in the 1930s, music of the salons – Poulenc in his prime, discovering the poetry of surrealist Paul Eluard but also taking time to set the children’s story of Babar The Elephant. It is a surprisingly well-kept secret that I Fagiolini’s soprano, Anna Crookes, has

I Fagiolini ©Eric Richmond; right: Robert Hollingworth.

a parallel career as a solo pianist, and won BBC Young Musician of the Year in 1982. Here she plays Parisian music from the early 20th century by Ravel and Debussy, with I Fagiolini dropping in to help her tell the story of Babar and sing one or two Poulenc songs: Poulenc, ‘L’Histoire de Babar’; Debussy, Préludes; Ravel, ‘Jeux d’eau’; Debussy, songs.

Concert 3: London Saturday 31 January 2015, 6.00pm A programme of some of the best-loved English a capella repertoire from 500 years. From Henry VII’s appointee John Skelton’s imaginings of Christ speaking on the cross to madrigals from Elizabeth’s reign. Further music to celebrate the appointment of Thomas Tomkins to the Chapel Royal in 1622 and The Cries of London set into a consort song. Solo songs and trios by Purcell lead us on to Britten’s settings of mediaeval English lyrics in ‘Sacred & Profane’, written just before he died.

Flanders and Swann may be provided.

Cornyshe, ‘Woefully array’d’; Dering, ‘The City Cries’; Ravenscroft, ‘The Three Ravens’; Purcell, ‘When the cock begins to crow’ (and others); Britten, ‘Eight Medieval Lyrics’; ‘Sacred & Profane’.

Concert 4: Ingatestone Sunday 1 February 2015, 11.00am By the 1590s, William Byrd was

unquestionably England’s greatest composer but, as a Catholic in Protestant England, was interrogated and prosecuted, despite Queen Elizabeth I’s personal protection. But Byrd, the ‘father of music’, continued to write for the Catholic church in his ‘retirement’ in the tiny village of Stondon Massey in Essex, near his patron’s home, Ingatestone. These works were performed in secret, ever fearful of the arrival of Walsingham’s secret police. This concert presents Byrd’s peerless Mass for four voices, motets and readings from the time.

Byrd, Mass for four voices; ‘Ne irascaris Domine’; ‘Deus venerunt gentes’.

Prices – per person Residential package: standard double or twin £790; small double £750; double for single occupancy £790; junior suite £890; ‘Noble’ suite £980; ‘Apartment’ suite £1,060 (deposit £100). This includes concerts, accommodation (2 nights), breakfasts, 2 afternoon teas, 2 dinners with wine, interval drinks, and gratuities for hotel staff. See page 10 for how to book.

Tickets to individual concerts: evenings £25, mornings £24. For tickets call us on 020 8742 3355.

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The Leonore Piano Trio Beethoven Trios & Sonatas 20–22 February 2015 (mb 244) The Castle Hotel, Taunton Benjamin Nabarro violin Gemma Rosefield cello Tim Horton piano Pre-concert talks by Richard Wigmore Before forming The Leonore Piano Trio, its members were each already internationally acclaimed artists in their own right. Their performances under the umbrella of ‘Ensemble 360’ were then met with such enthusiastic responses that they decided to form a piano trio permanently. They have toured, coached and recorded together – their latest disc (of Arensky Trios) receiving excellent reviews.

Their programme consists entirely of music by Beethoven, with six concerts over three days. Most of his major piano trio works are incorporated, including the ‘Archduke’ and ‘Ghost’ and the complete Op.1 set. They also perform a good selection of his sonatas for violin or cello and piano.

Musical insight is provided by Richard Wigmore in the form of short pre-concert talks. Richard is a lecturer, writer on music, and broadcaster. He writes for BBC Music Magazine, The Telegraph and Gramophone.

The Programme Concert 1 Friday 20 February 2015, 4.00pm Pre-concert talk at 3.45pm Beethoven, Cello Sonata in A, Op.69; Piano Trio in E flat, Op.1 No.1.

Concert 2 Friday 20 February 2015, 6.45pm Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm Beethoven, Violin Sonata in F, Op.24 ‘Spring’; Piano Trio in G, Op.1 No.2.

Concert 3 Saturday 21 February 2015, 11.00am Pre-concert talk at 10.45am Beethoven, Cello Sonata in F, Op.5 No.1; Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 No.3.

Concert 4 Saturday 21 February 2015, 4.00pm Pre-concert talk at 3.45pm Beethoven, Violin Sonata in C minor, Op.30 No.2 ‘Eroica’; Piano Trio in D, Op.70 No.1 ‘Ghost’.

Concert 5 Saturday 21 February 2015, 6.45pm Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm Beethoven, Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.5 No.2; Piano Trio in E flat, Op.70 No.2.

Concert 6 Sunday 22 February 2015, 11.00am Pre-concert talk at 10.45am. Beethoven, Violin Sonata in A, Op.47 ‘Kreutzer’; Piano Trio in B flat, Op.97 ‘Archduke’.

Only the final concert has an interval – all other concerts are c. 1 hour in length and will run straight through.

Prices – per person Residential package: £690, Garden Room £820 (deposit £100). This includes all six concerts and talks, accommodation (2 nights), breakfasts, refreshments between afternoon and evening concerts, 2 dinners with wine, and gratuities. See page 10 for how to book.

Tickets to individual concerts.

Concerts 1–5 £20 per concert. Concert 6 £24. Admission to talks is included.

Ticket sales are handled by The Castle Hotel – please call them on 01823 272 671, or visit the-castle-hotel.com.

The Leonore Piano Trio ©Eric Richmond.

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A Weekend of Mozart Quartets, Duets, Solos & Song 13–15 March 2015 (mb 254) The Castle Hotel, Taunton The London Bridge Ensemble: Daniel Tong piano Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin Kate Gould cello Michael Gurevich guest viola Alasdair Beatson piano Mary Bevan soprano Pre-concert talks by Richard Wigmore ‘The miracle that God let be born in Salzburg’, to quote Mozart’s father, is today enshrined as the most popular of all classical composers: the most played, the most mythologised, the most commercially exploited. His genius is rightly hailed as universal, protean. Yet even in an age when Mozart has never had it so good, there are masterpieces that seldom appear on concert programmes.

Our celebration of Mozart’s chamber music and song seeks to counter this, balancing the familiar – the two piano quartets, and the tragic A minor

Sonata – with comparative rarities like the E flat String Trio, K.563, whose profundity belies its billing as a ‘Divertimento’. Mary Bevan’s programme of Mozart’s songs may surprise those who think that German Lieder began with Schubert – to contrast with this, she also performs a number of opera arias. And if you are unfamiliar with Mozart’s music for piano duet – still among his best-kept secrets – Daniel Tong’s and Alasdair Beatson’s performances of two magnificent 4-hand works could well come as a revelation.

Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Kate Gould, and Daniel Tong form The London Bridge Ensemble, one of the UK’s most exciting and brilliant chamber groups. They have performed at major concert venues throughout the UK and recorded to critical acclaim. They are regularly joined by additional string players to perform larger works – for this weekend, Michael Gurevich joins them as guest viola.

Daniel Tong is principal pianist for the weekend, performing in all four

concerts. He has also played a large part in assembling the programme. Daniel’s musical life is spent performing as a soloist and chamber musician, directing two chamber music festivals (including his own, in the Wye Valley) and occasionally writing. He has appeared at many of the foremost British venues, and at Aldeburgh, Cheltenham and Edinburgh festivals to name but a few, and is frequently heard on BBC radio.

Pianist Alasdair Beatson is a highly regarded chamber and orchestral musician. In July 2014 he gives his sixth Wigmore Hall recital and other engagements include performances with Pieter Wispelwey, Adrian Brendel and Pekka Kuusisto. He has appeared at Aldeburgh, Bath Mozartfest, Delft and Oxford Chamber Music festivals amongst others and has a regular association with the Scottish Ensemble.

Soprano Mary Bevan trained at the Royal Academy of Music, where she won the prestigious Richard Lewis award. She recently made her Royal Opera House début as Barbarina in Le Nozze di Figaro, and is currently a

London Bridge Ensemble ©Operaomnia; Mary Bevan ©Tina Haldane.

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A Weekend of Mozart continued

The Programme Concert 1: piano duet & solo Daniel Tong & Alasdair Beatson Friday 13 March 2015, 6.15pm Pre-concert talk at 5.45pm Fantasia in F minor for a Musical Clock, K.608; Piano Sonata No.8 in A minor, K.310 (solo piano, performed

by Alasdair Beatson); Piano Sonata for Four Hands in F, K.497.

Harewood Artist at English National Opera. Also a dedicated recitalist, Mary has appeared at the Oxford Lieder Festival and at Wigmore Hall.

The concept and programme for this weekend is devised by Richard Wigmore – lecturer, writer on music, and broadcaster – who will also give illuminating pre-concert talks. He writes for BBC Music Magazine, The Telegraph and Gramophone.

Concert 2: piano & strings The London Bridge Ensemble Saturday 14 March 2015, 11.00am Pre-concert talk at 10.30am Duet for Violin & Viola in B flat, K.424; Violin Sonata No.21 in E minor, K.304; Piano Quartet in E flat, K.493.

Concert 3: piano & strings The London Bridge Ensemble Saturday 14 March 2015, 6.15pm Pre-concert talk at 5.45pm Piano Quartet in G minor, K.478; String Divertimento in E flat, K.563.

Above: Richard Wigmore; below left: Alasdair Beatson; below right: Michael Gurevich.

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Concert 4: soprano & piano Mary Bevan & Daniel Tong Sunday 15 March 2015, 11.00am Pre-concert talk at 10.30am Abendempfindung’ K.523, ‘Das Veilchen’ K.476, ‘Als Luise die Briefe’ K.520, ‘Der Zauberer’ K.472, ‘An Chloe’ K.524, ‘Lied der Trennung’ K.519, ‘Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling’ K.596, ‘Oiseaux, si tous les ans’ K.307, ‘Dans un bois solitaire’ K.308; arias by Mozart (exact selection to be confirmed).

Prices – per person Residential package: £720, Garden Room £860 (deposit £100). This includes all concerts and talks, accommodation (2 nights), breakfasts, 2 afternoon teas, 2 dinners with wine, interval drinks, and gratuities for hotel staff. See page 10 for how to book.

Tickets to individual concerts: evenings £25, mornings £24.

Admission to talks and interval drinks are included. Ticket sales are handled

by The Castle Hotel – please call them on 01823 272 671, or book online at www.the-castle-hotel.com.

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Easter at The Castle

Mendelssohn’s Octet • The Mandelring Quartet & Quartetto di Cremona 3–6 April 2015 (mb 274) The Castle Hotel, Taunton The Mandelring Quartet: Sebastian Schmidt violin Nanette Schmidt violin Roland Glassl viola Bernhard Schmidt cello Quartetto di Cremona: Cristiano Gualco violin Paolo Andreoli violin Simone Gramaglia viola Giovanni Scaglione cello For this special Easter weekend over three days, with five concerts, The Mandelring Quartet – one of the finest string quartets in the world – joins forces with Quartetto di Cremona with whom they have performed and recorded extensively.

The highlight of the weekend, and the element around which the rest of the programme is built, is a performance of Mendelssohn’s incomparable Octet on the morning of Easter Sunday.

The Mandelring Quartet ©Uwe Arens.

If that is not quite enough of an enticement, we also hear the full set of Mendelssohn’s six string quartets, and Beethoven figures prominently in the final two concerts. Combined with these will be some of Mozart and Haydn’s best-loved quartet works.

The Mandelring Quartet are an exceptional group, famed for their expressivity and remarkable homogeneity of sound and phrasing.

They have been prize-winners at prestigious competitions such as Munich International Music Competition, Evian and Reggio Emilia.

Their busy concert schedule has taken them to major venues and festivals worldwide. This will be their second appearance at Taunton – their first being The Schumann Weekend in 2010.

Quartetto di Cremona formed in the year 2000 at the Stauffer Academy of Salvatore Accardo in Cremona. They went on to train with (amongst others) Hatto Beyerle of the Alban Berg Quartet. They have

performed at many of the major concert venues and festivals in Europe and have enjoyed numerous appearances at Wigmore Hall. They are currently Artists in Residence at Milan’s Societa’ del Quartetto.

In due course, we will be offering participants an optional excursion on Easter Sunday afternoon – otherwise this is simply free time.

The Programme Concert 1: The Mandelring Quartet Friday 3 April 2015, 6.00pm Mendelssohn, String Quartet No.1 in E flat, Op.12; Mozart, String Quartet No.17 in B-flat, K.458 ‘The Hunt’; Mendelssohn, String Quartet No.3 in D, Op.44 No.1.

Concert 2: The Mandelring Quartet Saturday 4 April 2015, 11.00am Mendelssohn, String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.13; Haydn, String Quartet in D, Op.64 No.5, ‘The Lark’; Mendelssohn, String Quartet No.4 in E minor, Op.44 No.2.

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Easter at The Castle continued

Quartetto di Cremona.

(Continued from previous page) Concert 3: The Mandelring Quartet Saturday 4 April 2015, 6.00pm Mendelssohn, String Quartet No.6 in F minor, Op.80; Haydn, String Quartet in D, Op.71 No.2; Mendelssohn, String Quartet No.5 in E flat, Op.44 No.3.

Concert 5: Quartetto di Cremona Monday 6 April 2015, 11.00am Beethoven, String Quartet in C, Op.59 No.3, ‘Razumovsky’; Beethoven, String Quartet No.15 in A minor, Op.132.

Concert 4: The Mandelring Quartet & Quartetto di Cremona Sunday 5 April 2015, 11.00am Easter Day Webern, Langsamersatz; Beethoven, Große Fuge Op.133; Mendelssohn, String Octet in E flat, Op.20.

Prices – per person Residential package: £960, Garden Room £1,130 per person (deposit £100). This includes all five concerts, accommodation (3 nights), breakfasts, 2 afternoon teas, 3 dinners with wine, interval drinks, and gratuities for hotel staff. See below for how to book.

Tickets to individual concerts: evenings £25, mornings £24. Interval drinks are included. Ticket sales are handled by The Castle Hotel – please call them on 01823 272 671, or book online at the-castle-hotel.com.

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