2019 12TH – 28TH JULY BOOKING DETAILS SUMMARY OF EVENTS

GENERAL BOOKING OPENS WEDNESDAY 10TH APRIL FRIDAY 12TH JULY WEDNESDAY 17TH JULY 36 3pm • Helmsley Arts Centre 1 11am • St Mary’s Church, 19 11am • All Saints ’ Church, Festival Masterclass: violin Lastingham Helmsley 37 8pm • St Mary’s Priory Church, Box Office Priority Booking Dido and Aeneas I Dido and Aeneas III Old Malton 2 2.30pm • Helmsley Town Hall 20 2pm • Helmsley Arts Centre Olivia Chaney John Langton Exhibition Preview Lucy Beckett talk ONLINE: The easiest way to book is online at Patrons, Members and Friends can buy TUESDAY 23RD JULY www.ryedalefestival.com. priority tickets online, by phone or by post in 3 7pm • Castle Howard 21 6.30pm • St Peter and St Paul’ s Church, Pickering 38 11am • St Mary’ s Church, Birdsall the following periods: Triple Concert echo Choir / HMSC / Elias Quartet Behind the beard III – Ferio Saxophone Quartet PHONE: You can also phone our box office on Katy Hamilton 39 6pm • Performing Arts Centre, PATRONS: 21st – 24th March SATURDAY 13TH JULY 01751 475777 . 22 7.30pm • St Peter and St Paul’ s Ampleforth College PATRONS AND MEMBERS: 25th – 31st March 4 11am • St Oswald’s Church, Sowerby Church, Pickering Sally Palmer and Leo Nicholson Lauren Zhang IN PERSON: Or come and see us at Ryedale FRIENDS: 1st – 7th April Brahms on holiday 40 8pm • Ampleforth Abbey 5 3pm • Kirk Theatre, Pickering Festival Box Office, Memorial Hall, Potter Hill, 23 9.45pm • All Saints ’ Church, Bach’ s Angels – Solomon’s Knot The Wind in the Willows I Kirkbymoorside WEDNESDAY 24TH JULY Pickering, YO18 8AA. 6 7.30pm • St Peter’s Church, Norton echo Choir Young Ryedale Jess Gillam in recital 41 8pm • Long Gallery, Castle Howard OPENING HOURS: The box office is open THURSDAY 18TH JULY Orsino Ensemble If you are under 30 years old our Young 7 9.45pm • St Mary’s Priory Church, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays Old Malton 24 11am • Duncombe Park THURSDAY 25TH JULY Ryedale scheme offers access to unmissable Elias Quartet Mario Häring between 9.30-1pm; and on Wednesdays 42 11am • Church of St Martin-on- performances, with tickets for all festival 25 8pm • Duncombe Park between 2-6pm. SUNDAY 14TH JULY the-Hill, Scarborough Ian Bostridge, Roger McGough events available from only £1. For more A Purcell Pageant 8 3pm • Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York and Christopher Glynn POST: Postal booking forms are sent to details, visit our website, email us, phone us, The Wind in the Willows II 43 7pm • Birdsall Estate FRIDAY 19TH JULY everyone on our mailing list. They can also be or follow us on social media (more on 9 6.30pm • Hovingham Hall Double Concert downloaded from our website or requested page 34). Orchestra of the Age of 26 10am • Duncombe Park Pavel Kolesnikov and Sean Shibe Behind the beard IV – from the Box Office. Booking forms can be Enlightenment FRIDAY 26TH JULY 10 9.45pm • All Saints’ Church, Katy Hamilton 44 11am • St Hilda ’s Church, received anytime and will be processed Hovingham 27 11am • Duncombe Park Coach Transport Sherburn according to Priority/General Booking dates. Flora Curzon Julian Bliss and friends Please register interest for coach transport to 28 7pm • Milton Rooms, Malton Orsino Ensemble MONDAY 15TH JULY 45 8pm • Duncombe Park QUERIES: Please call us on 01751 475777 or event numbers 18 (York), 32 (Scarborough) Back to Basie 11 10am • All Saints ’ Church, Slingsby 29 9.45pm • St Gregory’s Minster, Imogen Cooper email us at [email protected]. and 42 (Scarborough) with the Box Office. Behind the beard I – Kirkdale SATURDAY 27TH JULY Katy Hamilton Camille Thomas 46 11am • St Lawrence Parish 12 11am • All Saints ’ Church, Slingsby SATURDAY 20TH JULY Church, York Jonathan Plowright 30 10.30am – 2pm • St Peter and Solomon’s Knot General Information 13 3pm • St Michael ’s Church, Malton St Paul’ s Church, Pickering 47 5.30pm • Ampleforth College Dido and Aeneas II Come and Sing with Sarah Latto Performing Arts Centre • Early booking is advised as many events sell out • If you are a wheelchair user or have access 14 7pm • Sledmere House and Church 31 3pm • Helmsley Arts Centre Yorkshire Young Musicians quickly. requirements, please contact the box office in Double Concert Festival Masterclass: clarinet 48 7pm • Ampleforth College Theatre advance so we can advise you. Schubert and Co. and Esme Quartet • The festival reserves the right to change artists, 32 7.30pm • Grand Hall, Scarborough Burying the Dead TUESDAY 16TH JULY programmes and venues without prior notice. • Tickets can only be refunded when an event is Spa 49 9.45pm • All Saints ’ Church, 15 10am • St John and All Saints’ Orchestra of Opera North • Please note that many festival venues are not sold out and your ticket is resold. The final date Helmsley for refunds is Friday 5th July. Any refunds will be Church, Easingwold SUNDAY 21ST JULY Imogen Cooper with Orsino designed as concert halls and some seats may Behind the beard II – paid less a 10% handling charge. 33 3pm • Helmsley Arts Centre Ensemble have a restricted view. Katy Hamilton An afternoon with Roxanna SUNDAY 28TH JULY • Some performances may be filmed or recorded for 16 11am • St John and All Saints’ • Timings have been scheduled to ensure that Panufnik broadcast. By purchasing tickets, you consent to Church, Easingwold 50 2pm • Garden of the Worsley Arms audience members can attend both the evening 34 8pm • St Peter’s Church, Norton Esme Quartet and friends Hotel, Hovingham concert and late-night concert where applicable. filming, photography and sound recording which Carducci Quartet Garden Party However, late night concerts may start slightly may include you or any member of your party and 17 3pm • St Olave’s Church, York Roger McGough MONDAY 22ND JULY 51 4pm • All Saints ’ Church, later than advertised if the earlier concert its use in commercial distribution without 18 8pm • Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, 35 11am • St Michael’s Church, Hovingham payment or copyright. overruns. University of York Coxwold Festival Service • Doors open approximately 30 minutes before • For full terms and conditions, please see our An Italian Songbook with Tabea Debus and Paula 52 6.30pm • Hovingham Hall advertised performance times. website. Roderick Williams Chateauneuf Royal Northern Sinfonia

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INTRODUCTION 1 11am St Mary’s Church, Lastingham FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR DIDO AND AENEAS spontaneity and shared wonder to everything they do, the peerless wind players of the Eamonn Dougan musical director Orsino Ensemble, echo choir, poet Roger McGough, artist Jake Attree and composer Henry Purcell Dido and Aeneas Roxanna Panufnik. ‘Remember me but ah, forget my fate…’ In the inspirational conductor Eamonn Dougan, a Performers such as Ian Bostridge, Imogen first great English opera, Dido, Queen of group of outstanding young singers and Cooper and Roderick Williams mingle with Carthage, loves the Trojan prince Aeneas, but players create a concert staging of Purcell’s stars of the new generation, like saxophonist fate conspires to keep them apart, along with masterpiece for three of the region’s most Jess Gillam. Concerts are given in the great boisterous sailors and cackling witches. It’s a atmospheric medieval churches. houses of the region, including Castle tale of duty and desire, painful tragedy and • £17 • bawdy comedy, and Purcell’s music ensures it Howard, Duncombe Park, Sledmere and Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am – 10.45am Birdsall House. But the spirit of the festival is will never be forgotten. Working with the in Lastingham Village Hall also found in quiet corners, including the many beautiful village churches that host Has England ever had a greater composer morning Coffee Concerts. than Henry Purcell ? Or one who absorbed Also in the melting pot: an invitation from so wide a range of influences into such a Hello and welcome to the Ryedale Festival Katy Hamilton to listen to Brahms with fresh sharply individual style? Little is known 2019. It finds a special place for the music of ears; some of Bach’s greatest sacred music at about his life, but he seems to have moved Henry Purcell, the composer who absorbed Ampleforth Abbey; a new staging of Hugo easily between the worlds of the royal court, influences from all over Europe and brought Wolf’s song masterpiece; big band Basie jazz; church, theatre and tavern, and his music back brilliance and glory to English music. A and performances of Richard Shephard’s The has a similar range and reach. He immersed pop-up production of his opera Dido and Wind in the Willows by an all-age cast from himself in the latest musical trends from Aeneas travels to three beautiful and ancient across the region. Europe, but also took inspiration from his churches. There’s also a pageant performance I hope you enjoy exploring the programme. It most talented forebears, from the theatre, of his most magical and popular theatre centres on classical music but also has space folk traditions and ancient myths. His music, a concert-drama imagining his life in for jazz, folk, poetry, talks, the visual arts and music reconciles old and new, high art and Restoration London, and explorations of his a Come and Sing. Young festival-goers can earthy humour, tragedy and comedy, influence on musicians from Benjamin Britten come for as little as £1. Thank you to all those solemn devotion and tender enchantment – to contemporary folk singers. who so generously support the festival and and it’s at the heart of this year’s Ryedale Festival. The opera Dido and Aeneas is heard The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment enable such a broad programme of events. I in three ancient churches; the deeply-felt and Royal Northern Sinfonia perform at look forward to seeing old friends and new in Funeral Sentences which gave voice to a Hovingham Hall, and the Orchestra of Opera July and hope you find lots to inspire and nation’s grief are sung by candlelight; North play an unmissable symphonic uplift you in the festival. Solomon’s Knot give a pageant programme at Scarborough Spa. Artists in Christopher Glynn performance of magical and spine-tingling residence include Solomon’s Knot, who bring music from The Fairy Queen ; the Elias Quartet delve into the austere beauty of his viol fantasias; Olivia Chaney celebrates a Ryedale Festival Trust Limited Design: www.basementpress.com Registered Charity No. 1117355 Printing: www.inprint-colour.co.uk ‘bawdy baroque populist’; and Ceruleo Company Registration No. 5976080 Branding: Instinctif Partners stage an imaginative recreation of the man VAT No. 500 6984 56 behind the music.

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3 7pm Castle Howard TRIPLE CONCERT

An event unique to the Ryedale Festival, the Triple Concert features three contrasting concerts in different parts of Castle Howard, each performed three times, with the audiences changing places between performances. The concert will be preceded by a Patrons Reception at 6pm. CHAPEL echo Choir Sarah Latto director His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts Purcell Hear my prayer GREAT HALL Roxanna Panufnik O Hearken His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts Castle Howard Tallis O Nata Lux Tippett Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen Purcell Hear my prayer Morago Oculi Mei Henry Loosemore Fantasy for three viols to Duruflé Ubi Caritas the organ Arvo Pärt Bogoroditse Dyevo Byrd Prelude in C Byrd Agnus Dei from Mass for four voices Peter Philips Pavane & Galliard ‘Dolorosa’ Antonio de Cabezón Fabordón y glosas del 2 2.30pm One of the freshest and most forward-thinking Primer Tono Llano Helmsley Town Hall of vocal groups, echo choir are ensemble in José Ximénez Batalla del sexto tono residence at this year’s Ryedale Festival. They Scheidt Paduana Dolorosa JOHN LANGTON journey here from the austere beauty of one of Schein Die mit Tränen säen Purcell’s greatest motets to an evocative and Scheidt Galliard Battaglia RETROSPECTIVE celebratory piece by Roxanna Panufnik. Guami Toccata del secondo tuono EXHIBITION PREVIEW Gabrieli Canzon seconda echo This pioneering group of cornett and sackbutt Francis Spalding speaker Elias Quartet virtuosi delights audiences worldwide with the sound of its noble instruments. Their John Langton is one of Yorkshire’s most LONG GALLERY programme uses the galleries and antiphonal famous living painters. Often known as the Elias Quartet possibilities of Castle Howard’s Great Hall, Senior Painter of the North, his work is found beginning with Purcell and featuring English, in public collections both in this country and Purcell Fantasia Spanish, German and Italian music from a abroad. A retrospective at the Ryedale Festival Britten String Quartet no. 2 in C golden age. celebrates his long career. Come and meet this Benjamin Britten composed this hypnotic, fascinatingly diverse and mercurial artist at the ‘There’s great variety among the wonderful split- deeply moving string quartet to mark the preview, as art historian and biographer chorus effects, hypnotic chordal intonations and the 250th anniversary of Purcell’s death. It evokes Frances Spalding looks back over an lovely spicy harmonic clashes … the performers the Suffolk coast, the opera Peter Grimes , the extraordinary body of work. marvellously project the power, glory and praise of composer’s anguish about the war which had BBC Music Magazine • £10 • this music.’ – just ended and, above all, the music of Henry • £40 • The Exhibition is on the first floor of Helmsley Town Hall, with stair lift. Purcell, whose music precedes it. Please note that moving between venues includes using a staircase

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6 7.30pm St Peter’s Church, Norton JESS GILLAM IN RECITAL Jess Gillam saxophone Zeynep Özsuca piano Iturralde Pequeña Czarda Dowland Flow my tears Britten Temporal Variations Nyman ‘If’ from The Diary of Anne Frank Poulenc Sonata for Oboe and Piano John Harle Rant Marcello Concerto for Oboe in C Minor Bartók Three Hungarian Folksongs Weill Je ne t’aime pas Wiedoeft Valse Vanité The Wind in the Willows, drawing by Jake Attree Milhaud Scaramouche In 2016, Jess Gillam made history as the first Jess Gillam 4 11am 5 3pm ever saxophonist winner of the woodwind St Oswald’s Church, Sowerby Kirk Theatre, Pickering category of BBC Young Musician of the Year,

captivating the public with her talent and 7 9.45pm COFFEE CONCERT THE WIND IN charisma. Since then, Jess has signed a St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton recording contract with Decca Classics, THE WILLOWS presented a regular slot on Radio 4’s Today LATE,NIGHT Lauren Zhang piano programme, won a BRIT award and performed A COMMUNITY OPERA CANDLELIT CONCERT Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 28 in A BY RICHARD SHEPHARD at the 2018 Last Night of the Proms. Together Brahms Variations on a theme of Paganini with a superb accompanist she brings a FANTASIAS AND FOLK typically eclectic programme to Ryedale. Chopin Andante Spianato and Grande Em Whitfield Brooks director Polonaise ‘Funny, cool and down to earth. What’s not to like?’ Elias Quartet Eamonn Dougan musical director – Gramophone The winner of the Lauren Zhang Purcell Fantasias Join Rat, Mole, Badger and Mr Toad for a ‘The sound of the future.’ – Melvyn Bragg 2018 BBC Young Donald Grant Scottish folk tunes suite Musician competition series of riotous adventures on the river bank, • £30 • £25 • £20 • performs a scintillating as Richard Shephard recreates Kenneth Interval bar Like Purcell, who often borrowed traditional set of variations Grahame’s classic story of friendship and tunes of his day, the Elias Quartet see no hard nicknamed ‘ Witchcraft ’ bravery as a community opera. An all-age cast border between folk and classical music. for their diabolical from across the region join together for this Interleaving dazzling fantasias with Scottish nature and fearsome musical morality tale set in the turning traditional tunes, they relish the unstuffy technical challenges, seasons of the English countryside, full of blend of complexity and immediacy, grit and as well as a piece by nostalgia, adventure, camaraderie, fast cars delicacy, that is at the heart of Purcell’s art. Chopin where (poop poop!) and irresistible tunes. nocturnal calm gives • £15 • £10 • ‘There’s something intoxicating about the Elias way to a fiery Polonaise. Interval refreshments St Mary’s Priory String Quartet…. Intensely absorbing, exquisitely Church, • £15 • considered…stunning.’ – Philadelphia Inquirer Old Malton Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am – 10.45am • £15 •

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8 3pm 9 6.30pm 10 9.45pm Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York Hovingham Hall All Saints’ Church, Hovingham THE WIND IN ORCHESTRA OF LATE,NIGHT THE WILLOWS THE AGE OF CANDLELIT CONCERT A COMMUNITY OPERA ENLIGHTENMENT BY RICHARD SHEPHARD Flora Curzon violin J.S. Bach Orchestral Suite no. 1 in C Pawel Siwczak harpsichord J.S. Bach Sinfonia BWV 42 Em Whitfield Brooks director J.S. Bach Violin Concerto in E J.S. Bach Violin Sonata in G Eamonn Dougan musical director J.S. Bach Orchestral Suite no. 2 in B minor Trad. Sephardic Lullaby from Andalusia J.S. Bach Concerto in D minor for two violins Pandolfi La Cesta For details, see event 5. Trad. British folk songs suite • £15 • Order and moderation versus rebellion and Böddecker Sonata in D minor Interval refreshments sensuality. In between those battling forces lies that elusive ideal we call happiness. For the ‘I love playing different styles of music – for musicians of the OAE, that balance of pleasures fun, to hear how different genres talk to one Orchestra of the Age is found above all in Bach, especially the another, how they inspire composers, and to of Enlightenment Orchestral Suites, with their blend of French get closer to the heart of the music.’ A fast- dance, Italian virtuosity and German tradition, rising and captivating performer, both as which are performed here alongside other violinist and folk-fiddler, Flora Curzon celebrated works including the Double Concerto. presents a specially devised programme in just ‘Britain’s indisputably best period ensemble.’ – The that spirit, interleaving three great baroque Independent works with her own improvisations on • £35 • £30 • £25 • Johannes Brahms traditional melodies from home and abroad. Pre-concert and interval bar Concert-goers are invited to picnic in the grounds of Hovingham Hall ‘fiercely passionate.’ – BBC Late Junction before the concert from 5.30pm. A post-concert supper is available at the Worsley Arms Hotel, • £15 • 11 10am including for those who wish to attend the late-night concert. All Saints’ Church, Slingsby To book please call 01653 628234.

Hovingham Hall BEHIND THE BEARD I THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FACES OF JOHANNES BRAHMS

Katy Hamilton speaker How do we think of Brahms? The beard, the belly, the cigar? A buttoned-up, beer-drinking bachelor? In the first of four talks, Katy Hamilton joins pianist Jonathan Plowright to look beyond the clichés and caricatures, exploring fresh perspectives on this misunderstood composer and the deep personal emotions that run through his music. • £3 •

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12 11am 15 10am All Saints’ Church, Slingsby St John and All Saints’ Church, Easingwold

COFFEE CONCERT BEHIND THE BEARD II BRAHMS AT THE PUBLIC AND THE PIANO PRIVATE FACES OF JOHANNES BRAHMS Jonathan Plowright piano Brahms Piano Sonata no. 1 in C Katy Hamilton speaker Brahms Waltzes op. 39 Brahms Four pieces for piano op. 119 Katy Hamilton Schubert and Co. continues her search for the real Jonathan Jonathan Plowright Plowright explores Brahms from 14 7pm Brahms, inviting Sledmere House and Church first to last opus. A us to listen to his simple German folk music with fresh song provides the seed DOUBLE CONCERT ears and decoding for a heroic first piano secret messages hidden within two sonata. Brahms the Sledmere House and Church are the venues for great chamber pleasure-seeker two concerts, both performed twice, with the Katy Hamilton works for strings. beguiles the ear in a audience changing places after a picnic interval famous set of • £3 • enchanting waltzes. HOUSE And a final set of piano Schubert and Co. 16 11am miniatures draw us in St John and All Saints’ Church, Easingwold with music of Schubert Lieder and part-songs melancholy and deep introspection. An exciting new vocal ensemble recreates the COFFEE CONCERT ‘How richly satisfying to hear playing of such spirit of the Schubertiade – the intimate and SIGNS AND unimpeachable musical honesty and awe-inspiring informal atmosphere of music-making that was grandeur…it is surely no exaggeration to say that if so close to Schubert’s heart – with eight singers SECRET MESSAGES such playing is anything to go by you are listening gathered around the piano for some of the Sledmere House to one of the finest living pianists’ – Gramophone composer’s most uplifting works. Schubertian Esme Quartet • £15 • dances are played as the audience arrive; solo and Rosalind Ventris viola Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 9.30am – 10.45am CHURCH in Slingsby Village Hall ensemble numbers are introduced from the stage; Camille Thomas cello and the audience is warmly invited to chat with Esme Quartet the performers before and after the performance. Brahms String Quartet in A minor Schubert String Quartet in G, D.887 Brahms String Sextet in G 13 3pm St Michael’s Church, Malton Played here by the winners of the Wigmore Brahms as musical cryptographer. The motto Hall International String Quartet Competition, ‘Free, but lonely’ runs through one of his most DIDO AND AENEAS Schubert’s final string quartet explores a deeply felt string quartets, whereas an ethereal breathtaking range of emotions and has long string sextet enshrines a tender message to been considered one of his greatest works. Agathe, the fiancée whom Brahms loved but For details see event 1. • £35 • eventually abandoned. • £17 • The grounds of Sledmere will be open from 5.30pm for concertgoers • £15 • Esme Quartet and there will be a further picnic opportunity during the 45-minute interval between performances when a bar will be available Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 9.30am –10.45am

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18 8pm 19 11am Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York All Saints’ Church, Helmsley AN ITALIAN DIDO AND AENEAS

SONGBOOK For details see even t 1. • £17 • Roderick Williams baritone Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 10.00am – 10.45am Rowan Pierce soprano

20 2pm Kathryn Rudge mezzo-soprano Rowan Pierce James Newby Nicky Spence tenor Helmsley Arts Centre James Newby baritone Christopher Glynn piano NORTH AFRICA Roger McGough Jeremy Sams and FROM DIDO TO Louise Shephard directors THE ARAB SPRING 17 3pm St Olave’s Church, York For his final masterpiece, Hugo Wolf looked south – to Italy – and produced a collection of Nicky Spence Kathryn Rudge Lucy Beckett speaker tiny jewel-like songs that paint a kaleidoscopic ROGER M CGOUGH portrait of village life. The men and women of The novelist and historian Lucy Beckett talks JOINEDUPWRITING his Italian Songbook fall in and out of love, with Darker undercurrents also occasionally emerge about North Africa as part of the Greek, squabbles and petty jealousies heard alongside in a songbook that Wolf filled with humour Carthaginian and Roman worlds, taking in Roger McGough is one of Britain’s best- serenades and love songs of great beauty. and charm, sarcasm and tenderness, delight the story of Dido, Virgil, Rome’s African loved poets, host of the long-running and despair. Like Mozart, Wolf creates emperors and St Augustine, and then the Arab Radio 4 series Poetry Please and poet in characters that are astonishingly precise, vivid invasions, Barbary pirates, and the story of residence at this year’ s Ryedale Festival. and detailed, but also somehow universal. And French, Italian and British rule, decolonisation For more than fifty years, he has his tiny scenes of village life paint a bigger and the aftermath. entranced generations of readers with picture too: a whole world of human frailty, • £10 • poetry that is at once playful and passion and pain. Roderick Williams heads a poignant, intimate and ambitious in its hand-picked cast of top British singers in a new 21 6.30pm scope. From forgotten friendships and staged English version of his Italian Songbook , St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Pickering the idiosyncrasies of family life, to the created by Jeremy Sams and Christopher Glynn. BEHIND THE BEARD III trauma of war right through to ‘We don’t tend to perform art-song in translation, contemporary politics, joinedupwriting which is strange because it’s much more personal THE PUBLIC AND explores the human experience in all its and direct than opera, and most composers would shades, but always with McGough’s think it bizarre to see audience members turning PRIVATE FACES OF signature wit, irreverence and vivacity. pages rather than simply listening to the singers… JOHANNES BRAHMS This is the nation’s favourite poet at his An utterly and unexpectedly disarming very finest. performance. The deft, simple staging was very touching and very credible... Williams is a superb Katy Hamilton speaker ‘McGough has done for poetry what communicator’ – The Times ***** champagne does for weddings.’ – Time Out Katy Hamilton, author of the recently ‘a moving and entertaining (laugh-out-loud) published Brahms in Context , invites us on ‘The patron saint of poetry.’ – Carol Ann Duffy presentation of the forty-six songs of Hugo Wolf’s holiday with Brahms, finding him at his most Italienisches Liederbuch …We were in rich vocal • £15 • company.’ – Classical Source ***** genial and optimistic. Books will be on sale and the event will be followed by • £3 • a book signing • £25 • £20 • Roderick Williams Pre- and post-concert bar. No interval

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25 8pm Duncombe Park IAN BOSTRIDGE

Ian Bostridge tenor Roger McGough reader Christopher Glynn piano Schumann 8 songs from Album for the Young op. 79 Schumann Kinderszenen op. 15 Schumann Five Songs op. 40 Britten Winter Words Britten Three songs from Who are these Children? Tamsin Waley-Cohen Britten Three French folksongs A frequent guest of all the world’s greatest concert halls, Ian Bostridge brings to Ryedale a 22 7.30pm 23 9.45pm programme of songs inspired by childhood. St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Pickering All Saints’ Church, Kirkbymoorside Ian Bostridge He is joined by the festival’s poet in residence, Roger McGough, who has chosen poems to BRAHMS ON LATE,NIGHT read – his own and those of others – on a CANDLELIT CONCERT 24 11am similar young-hearted theme, and pianist HOLIDAY Duncombe Park Christopher Glynn, who plays Schumann’ s THEY ARE AT REST Scenes of Childhood . Tamsin Waley-Cohen violin COFFEE CONCERT Camille Thomas cello echo Choir ‘How does Ian Bostridge move us so much with his Roger McGough reader singing? It is as if he was born to sing Schubert and Mario Häring piano Mario Häring piano Schumann, and is also a peerless performer of Purcell Funeral Sentences on the death of Brahms Cello Sonata in F op. 99 English songs.’ – The Daily Telegraph Queen Mary Debussy Children’s Corner Suite Brahms Violin Sonata in A op. 100 ‘there was an inward intensity to his singing that Purcell Remember not, Lord, our offences Schumann Carnaval Brahms Piano Trio in C minor op. 101 held the audience rapt.’ – Chicago Tribune Robert Ramsey When David Heard Debussy Estampes • £30 • £25 • In the summer of 1886 Brahms took a much- Edgar Bainton And I saw a new heaven A much-admired prize-winner at the Leeds Pre-concert and interval bar Elgar They are at Rest needed holiday near Lake Thun in International Piano Competition 2018, Mario Imogen Heap Hide and Seek Switzerland. ‘ It ’s magnificent here’ he wrote Häring conjures a world of colour at the on a postcard to a friend, adding how much he The Smiths There is a light and it never goes out / Cemetery Gates piano. He explores how Debussy was inspired was enjoying the beer gardens. But it was an by his daughter Chou-chou, an ancient book astonishingly productive holiday. Buoyant and Poetry and music on the theme of mortality, of counterpoint exercises, Moorish gypsy reinvigorated, Brahms composed three of his as echo join Roger McGough in a programme music, ragtime, Japanese art and French folk greatest chamber works by the lake that that ranges from the profoundly moving music. He also enters Schumann’s musical summer and this concert brings them Funeral Sentences that Purcell composed for a picture gallery Carnaval in the company of together. much-loved monarch to iconic songs by The Pierrot, Harlequin and other characters from • £28 • £24 • Smiths, alongside poems that muse with wit Italian comedy, as revellers at a masked ball. Pre-concert and interval bar in the Parish Hall and wisdom on the end of life. • £15 • Mario Häring • £15 • Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am – 10.45am

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26 10am 30 10.30am – 2pm Back to Basie Duncombe Park St Peter and St Paul’s Church, Pickering BEHIND THE BEARD IV COME AND SING THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE FACES OF Sarah Latto leader JOHANNES BRAHMS echo Choir All ages and abilities are welcome at this Katy Hamilton speaker singing workshop led by the inspiring director Sarah Latto and members of echo . They start In the last of her four talks exploring new with the sound world of Purcell, delving into perspectives on Brahms, Katy Hamilton looks at his catches, canons and ground basses to show the reflective, often melancholy late works, how improvisation can be used in many written with dear friends and performance, from ancient classical music to collaborators in mind. contemporary folk and pop songs. An ability • £3 • to read music is not needed – just enthusiasm and a desire to sing. After a short break for

27 11am lunch, the workshop will end with a short informal performance at 1.30pm for friends and Duncombe Park Back to Basie family. COFFEE CONCERT • £12 ( under 18 s free ) •

28 7pm 29 9.45pm ‘FRAULEIN Milton Rooms, Malton St Gregory’s Minster, Kirkdale KLARINETTE…’ BACK TO BASIE LATE,NIGHT Julian Bliss clarinet CANDLELIT CONCERT Rosalind Ventris viola Paul Lacey trumpet/leader Camille Thomas cello Jacqui Hicks vocalist Jessica Dandy mezzo-soprano Camille Thomas cello Christopher Glynn piano No one recreates the Basie sound like Paul Lacey and his orchestra. Featuring top London J.S. Bach Suite in G Brahms Clarinet Sonata in E flat soloists and vocalist Jacqui Hicks, they conjure Ysaÿe Sonata for cello solo Sarah Latto Cassadó Suite for cello Clara Schumann Romances the spirit of the legendary ‘Swing Machine’, Brahms Lieder, including Viola songs op. 91 perpetuating Basie’s style of big band jazz, Artist in residence Camille Thomas plays solo Brahms Clarinet Trio with dynamism, good humour and a large 31 3pm works by candlelight. Helmsley Arts Centre Autumnal Brahms, as Julian Bliss plays a deeply dose of the blues. Following sell-out tours and felt sonata for the instrument Brahms fell in rave reviews, The Atomic Mr Basie comes to ‘The full-bodied, confident tone with which she love with late in life, as well as pieces by Clara Malton! enables melodies to blossom beneath her bow is FESTIVAL MASTERCLASS: Schumann, the great love of his whole life. thrilling. The grace with which she then contrasts JULIAN BLISS CLARINET Jessica Dandy explores some of his most personal ‘The music and the magic of Count Basie were back this with a velvety pianissimo is simply magical.’ songs and the concert ends with the Clarinet in town!’ – Sunday Times – Süddeutsche Zeitung Clarinettist and clarinet designer Julian Bliss • £15 • Trio, of which it was famously said, ‘it is as if ‘a beautifully crafted and controlled performance.’ works with young musicians from across the instruments are in love with each other.’ – Jazz Review Ryedale. To take part please email • £15 • • £30 • £25 • [email protected] Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 9.30am – 10.45am Pre-concert and interval bar • free event •

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34 8pm St Peter's Church, Norton CARDUCCI QUARTET JULIAN BLISS CLARINET

Haydn String Quartet in D, op. 20 no. 4 David Bruce Gumboots Roxanna Panufnik Modlitwa Weber Clarinet Quintet The joyous rhythms and klezmer-like wheeling of David Bruce’ s Gumboots celebrates the resilience of black miners in South Africa Roxanna Panufnik, Composer in Residence under apartheid, who were chained together and made to wear wellington boots while they 33 3pm worked in the flooded gold mines, but Helmsley Arts Centre developed a form of dancing by slapping Scarborough Spa together their boots and chains. It makes a THIS PARADISE stark contrast to the beauty and poignancy of Roxanna Panufnik’s prayer-poem evoking the 32 7.30pm AN AFTERNOON WITH Grand Hall, Scarborough Spa ROXANNA PANUFNIK AND Virgin of Skempe, a miraculous wooden statue FESTIVAL MUSICIANS in rural Poland. To partner these two contemporary works, the Carducci Quartet ORCHESTRA OF OPERA NORTH Katy Hamilton interviewer and Julian Bliss offer the wit and invention of Haydn and the high-stepping exuberance of Few composers combine such a wide Weber’ s virtuosic Clarinet Quintet. Alpesh Chauhan conductor ‘Alpesh Chauhan has risen from Birmingham range of influences with the warmth and Camille Thomas cello apprentice to international maestro in a dazzlingly elegance of festival composer in residence ‘It isn’t just his technique, though that is short time, and is currently stealing the hearts of the Roxanna Panufnik. Full of curiosity Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the astonishing enough. It’s the wit, poise and vivacity Parmensi.’ – BBC Music Magazine about other countries, cultures and faiths, Orchestra (Variations and Fugue on a in his playing. In short, it is the pure intuition ‘Camille Thomas’s playing certainly repays their her music is a melting pot, fusing leading him straight to the heart of what he plays.’ – Theme of Purcell) confidence: beautifully shaped phrases flow from different traditions into a style that has The Times on Julian Bliss Elgar Cello Concerto her bow as naturally as singing, and her impressive made her one of the most successful of all • £25 • £20 • Musorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition virtuosity appears effortless.’ – The Strad contemporary composers, loved by Pre-concert and interval bar In 1946, Benjamin Britten borrowed a little • £30 • £25 • £20 • £15 • audiences and performed regularly all hornpipe by Purcell and used it to take young Pre-concert and interval bar over the world. Join Roxanna Panufnik listeners on an epic tour of the orchestra, for an afternoon celebrating her music. introducing countless children to classical The composer will be in conversation music. Another great technicolour orchestral with Katy Hamilton, and festival showpiece by Musorgsky evokes the vivid musicians perform some of her most emotional response he had to a series of haunting and memorable chamber music. sketches, watercolours and architectural ‘a gifted composer with a fast-growing repu - designs he saw one day at an exhibition. The tation for heart, spunk and individuality outstanding cellist Camille Thomas also ...distinctive in voice, serious, bold and ap - makes her UK concerto debut with one of the pealing.’ – The Observer greatest of all English concertos, full of • £15 • Camille Thomas Pre-concert bar Julian Bliss passion and poetry.

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35 11am Tabea Debus Olivia Chaney St Michael’s Church, Coxwold ‘There’s an unstuffiness, populism COFFEE CONCERT and grit to Purcell’s songwriting. His music Tabea Debus recorder comes from a pre-industrialised, Paula Chateauneuf theorbo pre-urbanised, Telemann Sonata in C pre-Enlightenment Telemann/Max de Wardener Fantasia per il society, before the Flauto senza Basso disconnection from our J.S. Bach Andante (from BWV 1034) and own folk culture took Allegro (from BWV 1035) its toll. After exploring Robert de Visée Chaconne and experimenting in J.S. Bach Sinfonia (from BWV 156) and many different genres, Sinfonia (from BWV 35) I became what I am Telemann/Misha Mullov-Abbado Fantasia today: a singer- per il Flauto senza Basso (from Rinaldo ) songwriter and a folk, Telemann Fa pur Guerra (from Flavius classical and pop- Bertaridus ) inspired musician.’ Described by The Times as ‘ a charismatic – Olivia Chaney virtuoso ’, Tabea Debus is constantly exploring the horizons of music for recorder. Her recital celebrates the music of Telemann, interweaving contemporary responses to his music by Misha Mullov-Abbado and Max de 37 8pm Wardener, as well as other baroque gems. St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton

‘Tabea Debus is one of the most exciting young musicians in the early music world…she’s challenging OLIVIA CHANEY perceptions of the instrument.’ – Classic FM ‘Debus was so full of beauty and deep, natural Folk singer, songwriter and multi- ‘Chaney’s voice is effortless, clear and bright, a beacon musicality that one listened with more than a little instrumentalist Olivia Chaney conceived burning on an ancient, rolling hill, as her modern awe.’ – New York Classical Review much of her Grammy-nominated recent narratives arrive, subtly couching older details.’ • £15 • album Shelter in a cottage on the North York – The Guardian • £20 • £18 • Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am – 10.45am Moors, drawing on influences as diverse as folk, pop, jazz and her love of the music of Pre-concert and interval bar St Michael’s 36 3pm Henry Purcell. ‘Melancholy has never sounded Church, Coxwold Helmsley Arts Centre so rapturous’ enthused the Daily Telegraph . St Mary’s Priory Church, Heard in the medieval beauty of this Priory Old Malton FESTIVAL MASTERCLASS: Church, with accompaniment from piano and PENNY STIRLING VIOLIN folk fiddle, these haunting songs will surely be unforgettable.

Violinist Penny Stirling works with string ‘Her voice holds the purity, tension, dignity and players from across Ryedale. To take part sorrow of a heritage full of songs about lost love and please email [email protected] cruel fate. But in her quiet way, she’s radical.’ Olivia Chaney • free event • – The New York Times

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38 11am 40 8pm St Mary's Church, Birdsall Ampleforth Abbey COFFEE CONCERT BACH’S ANGELS

Ferio Saxophone Quartet Solomon’s Knot To open their festival residency, the inspirational group Solomon’s Knot draws together three of Purcell Rondeau from Abdelazer J.S. Bach Es erhub sich ein Streit BWV 19 Bach’s great Michaelmas cantatas and J.S. Bach Air from Suite no. 3 J.S. Bach Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir performs them alongside the famous J.S. Bach Sheep May Safely Graze from Cantata BWV 130 Magnificat , in which the Virgin Mary responds BWV 208 J.S. Bach Man singet mit Freuden vom to the message brought by the angel Gabriel. Handel Sarabande from Harpsichord Suite in Sieg BWV 149 D minor J.S. Bach Magnificat in D, BWV 243 ‘Time and again zig-zagging choruses, lightly Handel Water Music Suite no. 2 accompanied, sprang into fire almost as if by Corelli Adagio from Christmas Concerto How do you evoke angels in music? Even for spontaneous combustion. Most exciting.’ – The Bozza Andante and Scherzo Bach, as he composed music for the yearly Times Lago Ciudades Feast of St Michael and all Angels, it must ‘a sense of warmth, of inclusion, of shared wonder… The lively brilliance of the Ferio Saxophone have been a challenge, but it was one that intimate, uplifting and simultaneously personal and Quartet has attracted a string of awards and inspired some of his greatest sacred works. universal…great musicianship allied to unaffected accolades. They present some of their most Bach’s angels are mighty creatures, battling communication’ – The Observer celebrated repertoire, beginning with one of Satan in apocalyptic battles, but they are also • £35 • £30 • £25 • Purcell’s most famous tunes and ending with gentle souls who teach us how to sing. Pre-concert and interval bar a series of musical portraits that depict some of the world’s great cities, from Tokyo to Ampleforth Abbey and College Sarajevo.

‘Artistry beyond question.’ – Gramophone ‘every emotional hue you could want.’ – BBC Music Magazine • £15 • 39 6pm Performing Arts Centre, Ampleforth College Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am – 10.45am YOUNG ARTIST PLATFORM

Sally Palmer flute Leo Nicholson piano J.S. Bach Sonata in E flat Carl Vine Sonata for Flute and Piano Gaubert Ballade Roxanna Panufnik A Wind at Rook’s Haven Vitali Chaconne An award-winning flautist plays music from Bach to Panufnik. Ferio Saxophone Quartet • £5 • Solomon’s Knot

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42 11am Church of St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough

COFFEE CONCERT A PURCELL PAGEANT

Solomon’s Knot Join Solomon ’s Knot to delve into the morning by Phoebus himself. The sun god Castle Howard shimmering fantasy world of A Midsummer leads us through a pageant of the four Night’ s Dream as depicted in Purcell ’s Fairy seasons, which in turn rouses Hymen for a final celebratory wedding feast. 41 8pm Queen , bestudded with jewels from his odes, Long Gallery, Castle Howard welcome songs and masques. Dramatised for ‘They feel the music as one body. That was one of concert performance by exciting director the things that made this concert a joy.’ – The Daily ORSINO ENSEMBLE Tama Matheson, we begin as we end, with a Telegraph party, which goes on late into the night until • £23 • £18 • £15 • all are asleep, only to be roused the next Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am – 10.45am Katya Apekisheva piano Glinka Trio Pathétique Rachmaninov Vocalise Rimsky Korsakov Quintet for Piano and Wind Shostakovich Four waltzes Rachmaninov (arr. Farrington) Suite no. 2 World Premiere

‘breathtaking.’ – Washington Post Adam Walker Amy Harman ‘staggering virtuosity and charm.’ – The Guardian

• £25 • £20 • Solomon’s Knot Interval bar

It’s hard to imagine a more star-studded group of wind players than the Orsino Ensemble, led by Adam Walker on a mission to showcase the depth and versatility of the wind chamber repertoire. Alec Frank Gemmill Nicholas Daniel They open their festival residency by joining pianist Katya Apekisheva to play Solomon’s Knot Russian chamber masterpieces, beginning with a Trio which bears the inscription ‘I Described by The Observer as ‘organic music-making at its most sophisticated’ and have known love only through the championed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the baroque collective Solomon ’s Knot are one of unhappiness it causes’, and ending with the freshest and most exciting of baroque groups, and artists in residence at this year’s the premiere of a new arrangement of the Ryedale Festival. Performing without conductor, and often from memory, they describe glorious and life-affirming suite themselves as ‘a group of singers and players who are prepared to take risks in order to Rachmaninov composed on emerging communicate more directly with their audience’ and have rapidly established a reputation

from mid-life depression. Matthew Hunt Katya Apekisheva for inspirational and revelatory performances

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43 7pm Birdsall Estate DOUBLE CONCERT

Birdsall Estate hosts two concerts, both performed CONCERT 2 twice, with the audience changing places after the softLOUD one hour interval. The audience is invited to picnic in Sean Shibe guitar the grounds between the two concerts. James Oswald Divertimento CONCERT I Anon. From medieval Scottish Lute Manuscripts Pavel Kolesnikov piano James MacMillan From Galloway James MacMillan Motet 1 Carducci Quartet Steve Reich Electric Counterpoint Chopin Piano Concerto no. 2 in F minor Sean Shibe plays music from his award- The shimmering virtuosity of Chopin’s 2nd winning album softLOUD. The gentle beauty Imogen Cooper Duncombe Park piano concerto shines even more intimately in of ancient Scottish tunes and two short pieces the composer’s own chamber arrangement for by James MacMillan are heard alongside a breathtaking interpretation of Steve Reich’s 44 11am 45 8pm string quartet. Rising star Pavel Kolesnikov St Hilda’s Church, Sherburn Duncombe Park joins the Carducci Quartet to perform it in the classic Electric Counterpoint . ‘Have we today ballroom of Birdsall House. forgotten how to speak with grace,’ Sean Shibe asks, ‘or is the real danger that we aren’t COFFEE CONCERT IMOGEN COOPER ‘Pavel Kolesnikov...has something that signals a screaming loudly enough?’ unique individuality: he knows how to tell stories, PIANO without forcing his voice.’ – Diapason ‘He is an artist blessed with grace to spare, and a Orsino Ensemble roar that is fearsome.’ – BBC Music Magazine Schubert Sonata in A, D.959 ‘A poet of the keyboard.’ – The Guardian Haydn Music for a musical clock ‘genius is a term which should rarely be applied to Liszt Gretchen (from Faust Symphony ) Reicha Andantes and Adagio for cor anglais Brahms Fantasias op. 116 performing musicians, but at 25 he has it.’ – Arts Desk Debussy Syrinx • £33 • Fauré Dolly Suite After opening with one of the great soliloquies Pre-concert and interval bar James MacMillan Motet V for solo horn of Schubert’s last year, Imogen Cooper turns Julio Medaglia Belle Epoque in South to Liszt’s rarely-heard transcription of the America moving central movement of his Faust Virtuosity, flair and charm from this peerless Symphony, where an innocent game of ‘he loves and intrepid group of wind players, in music me, he loves me not’ gradually turns into Haydn composed for a friend’s clock, evocative erotic obsession. The recital ends in the solo pieces for cor anglais, horn and flute, dreamlike work of Brahms’s late piano pieces. Fauré’s famous suite depicting childhood (‘Are Their dedicatee, Clara Schumann, confided to you sitting comfortably…?’) and a dazzling, her diary that they were ‘a true source of folk-inspired work based on dances from enjoyment, everything, poetry, passion, across South America. rapture, intimacy and full of most marvellous • £15 • effects.’

Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am – 10.45am ‘Cooper commands a dynamic and colouristic range beyond the reach of most pianists.’ – BBC Music Magazine • £35 • £30 • Pavel Kolesnikov Sean Shibe Pre-concert and interval bar

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46 11am 50 2pm Ceruleo Ensemble St Lawrence Parish Church, York Garden of the Worsley Arms Hotel, Hovingham COFFEE CONCERT GARDEN PARTY Solomon’s Knot Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band J.C. Bach Fürchte dich nicht J.S. Bach Fürchte dich nicht A perfect Yorkshire afternoon: one of the J.S. Bach Komm Jesu, komm county’s finest brass bands and a cream tea in J.C. Bach Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf picturesque Hovingham. J.S. Bach Lobet den Herrn • £20 (including cream tea) • J.C. Bach Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener J.S. Bach Jesu, meine Freude 51 4pm J.C. Bach Der Gerechte, ob er gleich zu All Saints’ Church, Hovingham zeitlich stirbt J.S. Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied FESTIVAL SERVICE The motets of Johann Sebastian Bach are famously among the most beautiful and powerful choral works ever written. Rarely The Revd Tim Robinson heard, but full of beauty and interest, is the The Dean of York preacher music of his father’s brother, Johann Ryedale Festival Singers Christoph, revered as one of the most gifted of A short, ecumenical service of thanksgiving a famously musical family. 48 7pm 49 9.45pm Ampleforth College Theatre All Saints’ Church, Helmsley for the festival, including music by Purcell ‘virtuosic fioritura and vivid articulation of text and and festival composer in residence Roxanna musical texture were combined in a performance of Panufnik. prayerfulness, playfulness and uninhibited, BURYING THE DEAD LATE,NIGHT • free event • unmediated expressiveness. Were Grinling A CONCERT,DRAMA ABOUT Gibbons’s carved cherubs to burst into song, they CANDLELIT CONCERT might sound like Solomon’s Knot.’ – The Times HENRY PURCELL • £17 • Ceruleo Ensemble Orsino Ensemble Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am – 10.45am Imogen Cooper piano in the Church Hall November, 1695. The 36-year-old Henry Purcell works through a fever to deliver a song for the Ligeti Bagatelles young singer Leticia Cross. As he drifts in and Knussen Three Little Fantasies 47 5.30pm out of consciousness, dream-like memories of Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds K.452 Ampleforth College Performing Arts Centre the Plague, the Fire of London, family life and the vibrant Restoration stage merge seamlessly Wit, energy and abandon run through Ligeti’s YORKSHIRE YOUNG with his exquisite vocal and instrumental music. sparkling Bagatelles, just as the stories of Written specially for the London-based baroque Winnie-the-Pooh were among the inspirations MUSICIANS ensemble Ceruleo, Clare Norburn’s latest for three short ‘reflections’ by Oliver Knussen. concert-drama takes us inside the fevered head The Orsino Ensemble then join Imogen Festival partner Yorkshire Young Musicians enables of Henry Purcell as he lies dying, exploring the Cooper to play a piece that Mozart himself young musicians from the Yorkshire and inner and outer worlds of one of England’s believed to be one of the greatest things he Humber areas to benefit from the highest greatest composers. No programme notes, no ever composed. quality tuition in their local area. This concert lectures: all you need to know is how to listen. • £15 • features some of their most talented performers. • £25 • £20 • All Saints’ Church, Hovingham • £10 • Pre-concert and interval bar

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52 6.30pm 12th-28th July FESTIVAL ARTIST Hovingham Hall 11-4pm daily / Helmsley Town Hall IN RESIDENCE FINAL GALA CONCERT FESTIVAL EXHIBITION JAKE ATTREE JOHN LANGTON Royal Northern Sinfonia Ryedale Festival is proud to welcome the RETROSPECTIVE distinguished artist Jake Attree for a two year Bradley Creswick director residency. Born in York in 1950, Attree attended Julian Bliss clarinet the Art School there before going on to do a Amy Harman bassoon Jake Attree and Peter Miller curators degree at Liverpool and then post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools. He now Purcell (arr. Britten) Chacony John Langton is one of lives in Saltaire, West Yorkshire and, at 68 years, Finzi Clarinet Concerto Yorkshire’s most famous finds the same sense of challenge, trepidation Roxanna Panufnik Cantator and Amanda living painters, often and excitement when standing before a chosen World Premiere known as the Senior motif as he did at 18, perhaps slightly more. Haydn Oxford Symphony no. 92 in G Painter of the North. Drawing is fundamental to his practice; it is, he The poignant strains of Purcell’s great Chacony With a hundred has said ‘How I explain the world to myself, introduces two works featuring wind soloists. exhibitions behind him, his work is found in wordlessly, an activity that cuts across all Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto marries baroque boundaries.’ Look out for Jake drawing in influences, folk-inspired melody and Elgarian public collections both in this country and abroad. Helmsley, Malton, Pickering and all over echoes. Roxanna Panufnik chose a bassoon for Ryedale through the spring and summer Rather than settle for an a piece inspired by an old Rye legend of months. ‘I shall always paint my own places easily recognisable doomed love between a monk and a local girl, best’ said John Constable, a painter Attree rates heard here in the world premiere of a new signature style, he has very highly. Don’t hesitate to talk to him and orchestral version. The concert culminates with explored abstracts as well ask him more about his residency, which will a lively, lyrical symphony Haydn presented in as figurative art and also include running workshops for amateurs honour of the city of Oxford. remains curious, and school students, including the creation of • £40 • £35 • £30 • imaginative and backcloths for the festival production of The Pre-concert and interval bar inventive, open to new Wind in the Willows . For the first year of his Concert-goers are invited to picnic in the grounds of Hovingham Hall Amy Harman subjects and new before the concert from 5.30pm. residency, Jake has chosen to curate a techniques. A retrospective exhibition of the artist John retrospective at the Langton, while working on drawings inspired

John Langton, Ryedale Festival by the festival, music and the local area, that he Gazebo and topiary celebrates his long career. will exhibit as part of the 2020 festival.

FUTURE DATES

20th – 22nd March 2020 10th – 26th July 2020 RYEDALE FESTIVAL RYEDALE SPRING WEEKEND FESTIVAL 2020 Join us for three events marking the arrival of Two weeks of great music and arts events in spring and launching the summer festival the many beautiful and historic venues of Hovingham Hall programme. More details will be available on Ryedale, . the festival website soon.

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FESTIVAL PARTNERS BBC New Generation Artists BBC Radio 3 Hall é Orchestra Leeds International Piano Competition Opera North Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Royal Northern Sinfonia Kathleen Ferrier Awards Yorkshire Young Musicians RYEDALE FESTIVAL / YORKSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS MASTERCLASSES Julian Bliss (clarinet) 20th July Penny Stirling (violin) 22nd July ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE YOUNG ARTIST PLATFORMS Solomon ’s Knot Flora Curzon (violin) and Pawel Siwczak Orsino Ensemble (harpsichord) 14th July echo Choir Sally Palmer (flute) 23rd July Camille Thomas Yorkshire Young Musicians (27th July) COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE PATRONS, MEMBERS bespoke opportunities for corporate sponsors, WORLD PREMIERES AND FRIENDS including high-profile publicity, pre- Roxanna Panufnik performance and interval entertaining areas, Rachmaninov arr. Iain Farrington Suite no. 2 The Ryedale Festival is one of the country’s 24th July website and programme credits and POET IN RESIDENCE most exciting, enterprising and friendly advertising opportunities. We will work with Roxanna Panufnik Cantator and Amanda festivals, described by The Guardian as ‘the Roger McGough 28th July you so that your sponsorship achieves what jewel in Yorkshire’s cultural crown’ and The you wish. Please contact Lorna Vasey for more Times as ‘Yorkshire’s boldest music festival.’ ARTIST IN RESIDENCE FESTIVAL CHARITY details: [email protected] Our generous supporters are at the heart of Jake Attree Anti biotic Research UK the festival, enjoying priority booking VOLUNTEERS amongst many other benefits. Above all, they provide the support that enables a unique At the heart of the festival is a dedicated band festival to thrive and develop, nurturing young of enthusiastic volunteers, who work in YOUNG RYEDALE talent, and helping bring great music to North partnership with the festival staff to achieve COME AND EXPLORE THE FESTIVAL FOR ONLY £1. Yorkshire at reasonable ticket prices. For more the successful festival that audiences know details, please see the festival website or contact and love and help create its famously friendly Lorna Vasey: [email protected] Are you under 30 years old? Do you love live opens at half price for all Under 18s and a atmosphere. There are many ways in which music? Interested in hearing top-class limited number will be available for Under 30s SPONSORSHIP volunteers can get involved, from stewarding, performers in stunning local venues? Our for £1. Under 30s can also become Friends of hospitality, transport and offering Young Ryedale scheme offers access to the festival for only £10. For more details, Supporters can sponsor individual festival accommodation. New volunteers are assured unmissable performances, with tickets for all please see our website, email us, phone us, or events – perhaps to mark a special anniversary of a warm welcome. Please contact the festival events available from only £1. Tickets follow us on social media. or occasion – or associate themselves with Volunteers Coordinator Gerard Simpson for are available as soon as General Booking specific concerts or artists. There are also more details: [email protected]

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RYEDALE FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE Phone Postcode Locale Ampleforth Area White Swan* 01439 788239 YO62 4DT Ampleforth The Memorial Hall, Potter Hill, Pickering, N. Yorks YO18 8AA White Horse* 01439 788378 YO62 4DX Ampleforth www.ryedalefestival.com • [email protected] • Tel: 01751 475777 Fairfax Arms* 01439 788212 YO62 4JH Gilling East Stapylton Arms 01347 868280 YO61 4BE Wass Easingwold area George Hotel* 01347 821698 YO61 3AD Easingwold Bay Tree* 01347 811394 YO61 1JU Stillington Fauconberg Arms 01347 868214 YO61 4AD Coxwold The Durham Ox* 01347 821506 YO61 4TE Crayke Castle Howard area Crown and Cushion* 01653 618304 YO60 7DZ Welburn Helmsley area Black Swan Hotel* 01439 770466 YO62 5BJ Helmsley Feversham Arms* 01439 770766 YO62 5AG Helmsley Feathers Hotel* 01439 770275 YO62 5BH Helmsley Helmsley Spice 01439 771777 YO62 5BG Helmsley Pheasant Hotel* 01439 771241 YO62 5JG Harome Star Inn* 01439 770397 YO62 5JE Harome Royal Oak Inn* 01751 431414 YO62 7HX Gillamoor Hovingham/Nunnington area Worsley Arms* 01653 628234 YO62 4LA Hovingham Plough Inn 01751 431356 YO62 7RW Wombleton Malton area Talbot Hotel* 01653 639096 YO17 7AJ Malton Old Lodge* 01653 690570 YO17 7EG Malton New Malton* 01653 693998 YO17 7LX Malton Mansion House 0871 911 8000 YO17 6UX Flamingo Land The Blacksmiths Arms 01653 619606 YO60 7NE Westow Pickering area White Swan Inn* 01752 472288 YO18 7AA Pickering Forest and Vale Hotel* 01751 472722 YO18 7DL Pickering Fox and Hounds* 01751 431577 YO62 6SQ Sinnington Moors Inn* 01751 417435 YO62 6TF Appleton le Moors Lastingham Grange* 01751 417345 YO62 6TH Lastingham Scarborough area Ampleforth Abbey, Theatre and Malton Milton Rooms YO17 7LX Blue Bell* 01944 738204 YO17 8EX Weaverthorpe Performing Arts Centr e YO62 4EN St Michael's Church YO17 7LX Crown Spa Hotel* 01723 357400 YO11 2AG Scarborough Downe Arms* 01723 862471 YO13 9QB Wykeham Birdsall St Mary’s Church YO17 9NW Norton St Peter’s Church YO17 9AE La Lanterna 01723 363616 YO11 1HQ Scarborough Birdsall House YO17 9NR Old Malton St Mary’s Priory Church YO17 7HB Giannis 01723 507388 YO11 1SB Howard YO60 7DA The Anvil Inn* 01723 859896 YO13 9D Sawdon Pickering St Peter and St Paul’s YO18 7AW Sledmere Coxwold St Michael's Church YO61 4AD Kirk Theatre YO18 7DL Triton Inn* 01377 236078 YO25 2QX Sledmere Easingwold St John and All Saints’ YO61 3HH Scarborough Scarborough Spa YO11 2HD Thirsk area Church of St Martin- Golden Fleece* 01845 523108 YO7 1LL Thirsk Helmsley Duncombe Park YO62 5EB on-the-Hill YO11 2BT The Crab & Lobster 01845 577286 YO7 3Q Asenby Helmsley Arts Centre YO62 5DW The Carpenters Arms 01845 537369 YO7 2DP Felixkirk All Saints’ Church YO62 5AQ Sherburn St Hilda’s Church YO17 8PP York Town Hall YO62 5BL Sledmere Sledmere House YO25 3XG Grand Hotel & Spa* 01904 380038 YO1 6GD York Hovingham All Saints’ Church YO62 4LG The Principal York* 01904 653681 YO24 1AA York Slingsby All Saints’ Church YO62 4AD Hovingham Hall YO62 4LU The Grange Hotel* 01904 644744 YO30 6AA York Worsley Arms Hotel YO62 4LA Sowerby St Oswald’s Church YO7 1JG Dean Court Hotel* 0844 387 6040 YO1 7EF York The Star Inn the City 01904 619208 YO1 7DR York Kirkbymoorside All Saints’ Church YO62 6BZ York St Lawrence Parish Church YO10 3BW Novotel* 01904 611660 YO10 4FD York Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall YO10 5DD Kirkdale St Gregory’s Minster YO62 7TZ Beverley area Joseph Rowntree Theatre YO31 8TA The Wellington 01377 217294 YO25 9TE Lund Lastingham St Mary’s Church YO62 6TN St Olave's Church YO30 7BZ The Pipe and Glass 01430 810246 HU17 7PN South Dalton Cerutti 2 01482 866700 HU17 0AS Beverley *with accommodation • • • 36 • • • • • • 37 • • • • • • 38 • • • • • • 39 • • • The New Malton A relaxed pub serving fresh, seasonal food, wine and cask ales all day, every day. You can find us in CAMRA’S Good Beer Guide 2015 and The Michelin guide since 2014. Open Monday – Saturday 11.30am – 11pm, food served 12pm – 9.00pm, Sunday 12pm – 10.30pm, food served 12pm – 8pm 01653 693 998 The New Malton, 2-4 Market Place, Malton YO17 7LX [email protected]

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