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 • • • 3 • • • RYEDALE FESTIVAL 2019 • FRIDAY 12TH JULY 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.