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ADVANCE POSTAL BOOKING FORM Gregynog is now Wales’ oldest extant classical music festival, but it had a significant precursor in the Harlech Castle Musical Festival, founded in 1867 and held al fresco within the Castle walls. Drawing on 20 years’ research, Gregynog Festival 2017: Pageantry is a fantasy on the glorious summers when a remarkable creative community of internationally-recognised musicians, artists, photographers, writers and dancers were drawn to live in Harlech, and thousands more flocked daily to the town by train. Each Festival concert is planned around repertoire by the Harlech composers: Granville Bantock, Josef Holbrooke and Cyril Scott all produced scores that were inspired by Welsh folk music, the Mabinogion, and the landscapes of Gwynedd and Meirionnydd. We also feature Arnold Dolmetsch’s edition of the mysterious Robert ap Huw manuscript of medieval Welsh harp music, the Hebridean folksongs transcribed and arranged by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, and the pianola rolls cut by pioneer photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn; and there is an extensive programme of talks and exhibitions, a commissioned dance production inspired by the work of Margaret Morris, screenings of archive film and community outreach events. The season runs from 16 June to 2 July 2017 and, unusually but appropriately, the whole of the last long weekend is being held in Harlech itself, following concerts at familiar Festival locations including the National Library of Wales, Chirk Castle and Gregynog itself. Special events will include opportunities to view Granville Bantock’s cottage, Coed-y-Bleiddiau, from the Ffestiniog Railway, and to visit Traethdy, a property on Harlech Beach that is still owned by the Bantock family, escorted by the composer’s grandson, the artist Cuillin Bantock (full details to be announced shortly). The Festival closes with a spectacular concert in Harlech Castle that evokes the Historical Pageants in which Harlech’s celebrity set took part. Please fill in the form with your contact details and post with your cheque to the Box Office address below or contact us to pay by BACS. Reserved seating is available for those who join our new Members scheme (which replaces the Patrons’ Circle). More details are given below. All other seating in our historic venues this season is unreserved. Discounted Rover Tickets for entry to all Festival events available for all weekends (excludes Aberystwyth). Those 18 and under can enjoy young persons’ discounts. CONTACT DETAILS Full name ____________________________________________________________________________ Address _____________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________ Postcode ________________________________________ Telephone _____________________ E-mail_________________________________________________ I would like to receive e-Newsletters from the Festival: Yes / No Total amount payable £ _________________ Special requests _____________________________________________________________________ Please make your cheque payable to: Gregynog Festival Company Ltd. Post this order form, enclosing payment, to: Gregynog Festival Box Office, Llwyn y Brain, Adfa, Newtown, Powys SY16 3DA, or email your order to [email protected] and pay by BACS to 20 61 08 80521655 (Box Office enquiries: 01686 207100) Become a Member The new Membership scheme (replacing the Patrons’ Circle) is a way in which you can contribute directly to securing the future of the Festival. The recommended donation is £50 per household, £25 for individuals or £250 for Sponsor Members. Members enjoy reserved seating for concerts, advance booking and promotions. Members are invited to a reception during the Festival and receive a copy of the souvenir programme and an acknowledgement of support if desired, associated for Sponsor Members with a specific concert on request. I would like to join the Gregynog Festival Membership scheme and enclose a cheque for £ ______________ I wish my name to appear in the Festival souvenir programme Yes / No My seating preference is ______________________________________________________________ Gift Aid If you are a UK tax payer, you can increase the value of your donation by completing the Gift Aid form below. As a registered charity (no. 701644), we can then claim back tax with no cost to you. The tax benefit to us is 25%. Please treat the above gift of £ ___________ as a Gift Aid donation to the Gregynog Festival. Signed ___________________________________________Date_________________________________ ABERYSTWYTH Friday, 16 June Talk: Rhian Davies Adult £5.00 2.30pm Gregynog Festival’s Artistic Director tells the remarkable lost narrative of Drwm, National Young person Free Library of Wales Harlech’s creative community and the Musical Festivals and Pageants in the town which have inspired her curation of this year’s programming. Friday, 16 June Paul Dooley, harp Adult £10.00 4.30pm Music from the mysterious Robert ap Huw manuscript, copied around 1613 by an Council Chamber, Anglesey harper using a sophisticated and unique tablature. NLW Young person £5.00 ‘Paul Dooley has brought this ancient music to life with exquisite serenity’ (Taplas) Friday, 16 June Thomas Dunford, lute Adult £20.00 7.30pm One of the hottest properties on the international early music scene today, the Council Chamber, Young person £10.00 NLW brilliant young French lutenist plays Dowland and Bach. ‘The Eric Clapton of the lute’ (BBC Music Magazine) GREGYNOG Saturday, 17 June Talk: Jeanne Dolmetsch Adult £10.00 2.30pm The granddaughter of Arnold Dolmetsch reflects on the pioneering contribution The Music Room, Gregynog made by her grandfather to the early music movement as a performer, scholar Young person Free and instrument builder. Saturday, 17 June Michala Petri & Mahan Esfahani, recorder & harpsichord Adult £20.00 7.30pm Arguably the greatest exponent that her instrument has ever known, the Danish The Music Room, Gregynog virtuoso Michala Petri has championed the recorder in over 4,000 performances Young person £10.00 at the world’s leading festivals and concert halls. ‘Michala Petri is a flawless performer with stunning technical skills and a great charisma’ (Pizzicato, Luxembourg) Sunday, 18 June Ricercar Consort | Philippe Pierlot, director Adult £20.00 2.30pm The fine Belgian ensemble presents an enticing mixed programme of repertoire The Music Room, Gregynog inspired by the programming of Arnold Dolmetsch, including Bach, Purcell, Young person £10.00 Lawes, Rameau and Marais. ‘Pierlot is one of today’s more thoughtful Bach interpreters and his Ricercar Consort respond with ever more intensity’ (Gramophone) Tocyn Crwydro Gregynog | Gregynog Rover Ticket Adult £40.00 Young person £15.00 Y WAUN | CHIRK Friday, 23 June Talk: Thomas Seymour Adult £10.00 2.30pm As a curtain-raiser to our residency at Chirk Castle, the grandson of T. E. Scott- Chirk Castle Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, discusses his famous forebear and highlights his connections with the composer Josef Holbrooke. Young person £5.00 Friday, 23 June Amy Dickson & Catherine Milledge, saxophone & piano Adult £30.00 7.30pm Winner of a Classical BRIT and twice GRAMMY-nominated, the Australian Chirk Castle Chapel superstar’s programme includes Josef Holbrooke’s Saxophone Concerto. ‘A player with a difference who has an individual and unusual tone, luscious, silky- Young person £15.00 smooth, sultry and voluptuous by turns’ (Gramophone) Saturday, 24 June Talk: Hazel Walford Davies Adult £10.00 2.30pm An exploration of the fascinating life of Howard de Walden: patron, poet, Chirk Castle Young person £5.00 playwright, soldier, medievalist and sportsman. Saturday, 24 June Robert Plane, clarinet & Gould Piano Trio Adult £20.00 7.30pm Beethoven’s Kakadu Variations, Brahms’ Clarinet Trio and music by Cyril Scott Chirk Castle Chapel and Josef Holbrooke, both guests of Howard de Walden at Chirk Castle. Young person £10.00 ‘Robert Plane is an eloquent and impassioned clarinettist. The playing is full-blooded and committed’ (International Record Review) Sunday, 25 June Talk: Peter Lord Adult £10.00 2.30pm The renowned historian of the visual culture of Wales considers the artists who Chirk Castle Young person £5.00 were associated with Howard de Walden and the Harlech composers. Sunday, 25 June Llŷr Williams, piano Adult £30.00 7.30pm Schumann’s Papillons and a selection of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces and Liszt’s Etudes Chirk Castle Chapel frame a rare performance of Josef Holbrooke’s four Cambrian Ballades: Dolgelley, Penmachno, Maentwrog and Tan-y-grisiau. Young person £15.00 ‘His infallible technique serves a keen musical intelligence … every phrase imbued with unequivocal meaning’ (Washington Post) Tocyn Crwydro’r Waun | Chirk Rover Ticket Adult £95.00 Young person £40.00 HARLECH Thursday, 29 June Coed-y-Bleiddiau Adult £15.00 12.15pm Special excursion on the Ffestiniog Railway, pausing at Coed-y-Bleiddiau Halt to Ffestiniog Railway Station, see Granville Bantock’s holiday home, then spending an hour at Dduallt to take in Young person £7.50 Porthmadog the views and hear Paul Lewin describe the current project to restore the property. Thursday, 29 June Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello Adult £20.00 7.30pm The outstanding Armenian cellist, winner of the 2011 International Tchaikovsky St Tanwg’s Church Competition, plays Bach Suites and Bantock’s Sonata for unaccompanied cello. Young person £10.00 ‘His tone is as gorgeously sure as it is huge. Hakhnazaryan is clearly on his way to a big career’ (Los Angeles