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P Beautiful music Beautiful places Tickets 0131 473 2000 ‘Music treats in surprising places. lammermuirfestival.co.uk ‘This festival’s subheading is beautiful music, Hard to ask for more than that I’d say. I urge you to check it out‘ beautiful places. It fulfils its promise‘ Seen and Heard International The Observer The Lammermuir Festival would like to thank the following for their valued support and generosity without which the Festival could not take place. WELCOME TO THE 2019 LAMMERMUIR FESTIVAL Stuart MacRae’s third Prometheus-inspired ‘Locations and music commission promises to be a real highlight. Funder Partner in perfect harmony‘ It is a special pleasure to introduce our 10th The intrepid Red Note Ensemble appear in Creative BBC Radio 3 The Scotsman Lammermuir Festival. At the very heart of our the most intriguing of several new Festival Sponsors programme are some of our favourite artists venues, East Linton’s historic cattle market, - from the extraordinary young flautist Adam and Belgian vocal ensemble Vox Luminis Walker making his Lammermuir debut, to our will take your breath away with Palestrina old friends and Ensemble in Residence the and Victoria in Musselburgh’s lovely Dunedin Consort with four magnificent concerts Catholic church. The Scottish Chamber centred on Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestras We’re delighted that the superb Quatuor are back and the brilliant gypsy band ZRI Mosaïques is back and that the incomparable will perform live to one of Charlie Chaplin’s Trusts baritone Roderick Williams is bringing us all best loved silent movies. three of the great Schubert song cycles. The Binks Trust Penpont Charitable Trust There is of course much more and we Dunard Fund Stevenston Charitable Trust After last year’s success, Scottish Opera’s think you’ll find our programme both richly And our many generous individual donors. delectable Italian double bill is keenly anticipated rewarding and full of surprises. But one thing and our very popular morning coffee and cake is certain: the Lammermuir experience offers Please contact concerts will once again be the indispensable a wealth of beautiful music in some of the [email protected] if start to your Festival day. most beautiful places in Scotland. We hope you would like to become a festival supporter. you’ll decide to try it and we look forward to Our Festival Patron Steven Osborne, Supported by internationally-acclaimed for his Beethoven welcoming you in September. and his Messiaen, performs masterpieces by Hugh Macdonald & James Waters both composers, and Composer in Association Artistic Directors THE VENUES 10 Dirleton 1 2 3 1 mile 10 11 12 ‘It’s not just the Festival’s ‘Locations and music in 2 km programmes that entice, A198 prefect harmony’ FP Free car park at venue it’s the venues too‘ The Scotsman Scotland 11 East P Free parking on street Lothian BBC Music Magazine Please leave time to walk to A198 Venue 1 Our Lady of Prestongrange Whitekirk venue from car park/street Dirleton Kirk St Mary’s The Mart The Brunton Loretto Church Church Dirleton Parish Church East Linton Musselburgh Musselburgh Prestonpans Drem 14 EH39 5EL Whitekirk EH40 3DN EH21 6AA EH21 7AJ EH32 9DX 15 EH42 1XS 12 13 Dunbar FP P P P East P P FP Lothian East Linton Longniddry A1 4 5 6 N 13 14 15 4 5 miles 3 Haddington 9 Port Seton 8 Prestonpans h Stenton

1 2 Train from Edinburg A1 7 B6370 Chalmers Ormiston Parish Crichton Collegiate Gladsmuir Prestonkirk St Anne’s Dunbar Memorial Church Church Church Pathhead Parish Church Episcopal Church Parish Church Port Seton Ormiston Midlothian Musselburgh East Linton Dunbar Dunbar EH32 0HG EH35 5HT EH37 5XA Garvald EH40 3DS EH42 1JL EH42 1LB B6369 P P FP FP P P 5

7 8 9 A6124 Ormiston Pencaitland Gifford ‘A celebration of great music, performed by the finest professional instrumentalists and singers in an array LAMMERMUIR HILLS of historic venues across the region, A68 For information on taxis, buses and trains go to: eastlothian.gov.uk from ancient churches to glorious Lennoxlove House St Mary’s Parish Holy Trinity Church Pathhead Haddington Church Haddington For a detailed map of venue locations, access, stately homes‘ EH41 4NZ Haddington EH41 3EX parking and toilets visit lammermuirfestival.co.uk B6368 and look at the concert page. Cotswold Life EH41 4BZ B6367 6 FP P P FRI 13 SEPT 3pm DIARY St Mary’s Parish Church, Whitekirk

‘Quatuor Mosaïques made a chamber music evening … into a breath-taking experience: art became emotion, emotion became art’ Die Presse, Vienna DIARY FRI 13 SEPT SAT 14 SEPT SUN 15 SEPT MON 16 SEPT TUE 17 SEPT QUATUOR MOSAÏQUES I Morning 11am VENUE 7 11am VENUE 9 11am VENUE 9 ‘Their playing is so natural and Music at Lennoxlove Coffee Concert I Coffee Concert II Haydn String Quartet in D minor Op 42 Lennoxlove House Holy Trinity Haddington Holy Trinity, Haddington communicative that fans will Haydn String Quartet in B flat major Op 76 No 4 ‘Sunrise’ find gold in every measure’ Afternoon 3pm VENUE 11 3pm VENUE 4 3pm VENUE 6 3pm VENUE 10 3pm VENUE 6 Quatuor Mosaïques I Quatuor Mosaïques II Quatuor Mosaïques III Roderick Williams Schubert I Brandenburg Concertos II Beethoven String Quartet in F major Op 59 No 1 ‘Razumovsky’ Early Music America St Mary’s Whitekirk Chalmers Church Crichton Church Dirleton Kirk Crichton Church Where better to open our 10th Festival than Whitekirk’s beautiful Evening 8pm VENUE 8 8pm VENUE 2 7.45pm VENUE 15 7.30pm VENUE 8 7.45pm VENUE 15 Brandenburg Concertos I Vox Luminis I SCO Vox Luminis II Osborne plays Beethoven mediaeval church with its magical acoustic. And who better than St Mary’s Haddington Our Lady of Loretto M’burgh Dunbar Parish Church St Mary’s Haddington Dunbar Parish Church Quatuor Mosaïques, making a welcome return to the Festival

Late Evening 10pm VENUE 8 with three programmes that include Beethoven’s revolutionary David Goode Plays Bach ‘Razumovsky’ quartets. The Mosaïques’ stellar reputation as one St Mary’s Haddington of the world’s leading period instrument ensembles is founded on WED 18 SEPT THU 19 SEPT FRI 20 SEPT SAT 21 SEPT SUN 22 SEPT their performances of the Viennese classics, especially Haydn, whose Morning 11am VENUE 9 11am VENUE 9 11am VENUE 9 11am VENUE 14 music has had an honoured place in every Lammermuir Festival Coffee Concert III Coffee Concert IV Coffee Concert V Maxwell Sting Quartet since the beginning. We can think of no finer interpreters Holy Trinity Haddington Holy Trinity Haddington Holy Trinity Haddington St Anne’s Episcopal Dunbar of these wonderful pieces. Afternoon 3pm VENUE 5 3pm VENUE 3 3pm VENUE 13 3.30pm VENUE 10 3pm 4pm & 5pm VENUE 12 Red Note Enemble Brandenburg Concertos III Roderick Williams Schubert III Brahms Piano Quintet Aeolian Ormiston Parish Church Prestongrange Parish Church Prestonkirk Parish Church Dirleton Kirk The Mart East Linton Prestonpans East Linton 3.30pm VENUE 10 Quartet for the End of Time Dirleton Kirk

Evening 7.45pm VENUE 13 7.45pm VENUE 8 7.30pm VENUE 8 7.45pm VENUE 1 7.45pm VENUE 8 In co-production with Roderick Williams Schubert II BBC SSO Scottish Opera Chaplin in the Jazz Age Brandenburg Concertos IV Prestonkirk Parish Church St Mary’s Haddington St Mary’s Haddington The Brunton Musselburgh St Mary’s Haddington

Late Evening 10.15pm VENUE 9 Tom Poster plays Nocturnes Duration: approx. 1 hour 45 mins Holy Trinity Haddington Photos: (Top) Quatuor Mosaïques Hayashi Kiyotane Photo: Whiteadder Reservoir, Lammermuir Hills Brian Turner £21.00 / £15.75 / £10.50 £S (Bottom) Quatuor Mosaïques Wolfgang Frautzer FRI 13 SEPT 8pm SAT 14 SEPT 11am SAT 14 SEPT 3pm St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington Lennoxlove House, Haddington Chalmers Memorial Church, Port Seton

BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS I MUSIC AT LENNOXLOVE QUATUOR MOSAÏQUES II ‘… even well- Bach Orchestral Suite No 1 in C major Tabea Debus Recorder Mozart Adagio and Fugue K546 known pieces become revelatory Vivaldi Violin Concerto Op 8 No 6 in C major ‘Il Piacere’ Alex McCartney Theorbo Mozart String Quartet in D major K575 ‘Prussian’ experiences in Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major Jonathan Rees Cello continuo Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op 59 No 2 their hands’ Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major ‘… a sensational ‘Razumovsky’ The invention of the printing press Bachtrack Vivaldi Violin Concerto Op 8 No 2 in G major ‘Summer’ recording [of the eroded the predominantly aural tradition Quatuor Mosaïques bring their formidable musicality to a Bach Orchestral Suite No 2 in B minor Brandenburg of music but some melodies are innately wide range of repertoire, but their Beethoven is especially Concertos] – memorable – why? The stunning young admired. In Port Seton’s lovely arts and crafts church they Cecilia Bernardini Violin perhaps the recorder virtuoso Tabea Debus answers continue their cycle of the three revolutionary quartets that Katy Bircher Flute best period the question with music by Caccini, Beethoven wrote for Count Razumovsky in 1806. Before Dunedin Consort Brandenburg Dowland, Purcell, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, that, the first of three late quartets that Mozart wrote for set available ’ John Butt Director Corelli, Marais, Freya Waley-Cohen, the King of Prussia. The Arts Desk Bach and the Dunedin Consort have been at the heart of and (most famous of all) Anonymous… ‘The sheer refinement of the Mosaïques’ playing – every one of our Lammermuir Festival programmes. This year ‘Tabea Debus is one of the most its silk-sewn ensemble and its uncanny ability to sense this world-renowned ensemble celebrate their association exciting young musicians in the early out the living pulse and pace of a work – comes into with the Festival with four concerts including all six of the music world … she’s challenging its own in … the K575 Quartet’ Brandenburg Concertos, as well as Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. perceptions of the instrument’ Gramophone Their residency opens with a veritable feast of Bach centred Classic FM on two Brandenburgs and paired with the always exciting In co-production with music of Vivaldi, whose music Bach admired so much. Sponsored by Duration: approx. 2 hours Duration: approx. 90 mins Duration: approx. 1 hour 45 mins £26.25 / £21.00 / £15.75 £S £26.25 Photo: Lennoxlove House £21.00 / £15.75 £S Photo: Lammermuir Festival Photo: John Butt David Barbour SAT 14 SEPT 8pm SUN 15 SEPT 3pm Our Lady of Loretto and St Michael Catholic Church, Musselburgh Crichton Collegiate Church, Pathhead

VOX LUMINIS I QUATUOR MOSAÏQUES III PALESTRINA MISSA PAPAE MARCELLI Haydn String Quartet in G minor Op 74 No 3 ‘Rider’ Palestrina Super flumina Babylonis Beethoven String Quartet in F minor Op 95 ‘Serioso’ Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli Beethoven String Quartet in C major Op 59 No 3 Victoria Requiem ‘Razumovsky’ Vox Luminis Quatuor Mosaïques end their survey of Beethoven’s ‘Razumovsky‘ Lionel Meunier Director ‘… one could appreciate quartets in the mediaeval church at Crichton, a glorious what it is that has earned building in idyllic surroundings near the western approach to the In our first visit to this stunningly beautiful church Lammermuir hills. This enthralling sequence of great music for with its golden sanctuary we are delighted to this ensemble their celebrity in Europe … string quartet includes the highly concentrated and dramatic welcome Belgian-based Vox Luminis, winner of F minor quartet as well as the last of the ‘Razumovsky’ set. many awards including Gramophone Magazine’s their sound is warm and resonant, and they sing Record of the Year, for the first of two concerts. ‘The Mosaïques have carved out an outstanding … with the freshness and Two celebrated works of the Renaissance make reputation in the quartet repertoire of the late ardour of true believers’ up this glorious programme: Palestrina’s beautiful 18th century…without doubt the greatest quartet masterpiece written in honour of Pope Marcellus II The Independent of our time performing on authentic instruments’ and the Spanish master Victoria’s swansong, ‘Searingly beautiful’ Musicweb International whose grave dignity draws the great polyphonic BBC Music Magazine tradition of the 16th century to a magnificent close. In co-production with

Duration: approx. 1 hour 45 mins Duration: approx. 1 hour 45 minutes Photos: Vox Luminis David Samyn £26.25 / £21.00 / £15.75 £S Our Lady of Loretto Lammermuir Festival £21.00 / £15.75 £S Photos: Crichton Collegiate Church Henry Duncan SUN 15 SEPT 7.45pm MON 16 SEPT 11am coffee & cake, 11.30am concert MON 16 SEPT 3pm Dunbar Parish Church, Dunbar Holy Trinity Church, Haddington Dirleton Kirk, Dirleton

‘The biggest gain is Roderick Williams’s fabulous delivery and his beautiful, creamy voice – which I can ‘Civilisation manifest in SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA COFFEE CONCERT I RODERICK WILLIAMS SINGS never get too much coffee, excellent cakes Haydn Symphony No 44 in E minor ‘Trauer’ Frank Bridge Miniatures SCHUBERT’S SONG CYCLES I of – supported and very fine music!’ Nielsen Flute Concerto Janácek Dumka Schubert The Fair Maid of the Mill beautifully again by Audience member Brett Dean The Siduri Dances Dvorák Piano Trio in E minor (Die schöne Müllerin) Christopher Glynn’ Op 90 ‘Dumky’ BBC Record Review Mozart Symphony No 36 K425 ‘Linz’ Roderick Williams Baritone ‘Walker, playing with Adam Walker Flute Hebrides Ensemble Christopher Glynn Piano staggering virtuosity Daniel Blendulf Conductor and charm, kept the Our popular coffee concerts return with Britain’s leading baritone, and a wonderfully Konditormeister Falko’s cakes and great Adam Walker is among the world’s leading audience on the edge of engaging recitalist, begins his epic traversal music. The Hebrides Ensemble opens the flute virtuosos, an artist of vision and questing their seats throughout, of the three great song cycles by Schubert in series with a vibrant programme climaxing intelligence. In his first appearance he plays Carl and brought the house acclaimed new English translations by Jeremy with Dvorák’s Dumky piano trio with its Nielsen’s inspired concerto and a short piece down at the end’ Sams. The Fair Maid of the Mill was the first to intoxicating mix of Bohemian charm and written for him by Australian Brett Dean. The The Guardian be composed, its twenty songs taking a young thrilling dance rhythms. outstanding young Swedish conductor Daniel miller on a journey through a vast emotional Blendulf leads the SCO in two great Classical ‘An astonishing, vigorous, landscape from happiness to despair. All of symphonies. Haydn’s ‘Trauer’ packs a huge full-blooded account’ life is contained in these marvellous songs, the emotional punch and contrasts beautifully The Scotsman subtleties of their meaning superbly conveyed with the grand and optimistic ‘Linz’. in Sams’s translations.

Duration: approx. 2 hours Concert duration: 1 hour from 11.30am Duration: approx. 1 hour 15 minutes Photo: Adam Walker £26.25 / £21.00 / £15.75 / £10.50 £S Marco Borggreve £17.00 £S Photo: Lammermuir Festival £21.00 / £15.75 £S Photo: Roderick Williams Groves Artists MON 16 SEPT 7.30pm MON 16 SEPT 10pm TUES 17 SEPT 11am coffee & cake, 11.30am concert TUE 17 SEPT 3pm St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington Holy Trinity Church, Haddington Crichton Collegiate Church, Pathhead

‘For all the debates on historically informed performance, the most persuasive aspect of this concert was the sheer sense of joy’ The Times VOX LUMINIS II DAVID GOODE PLAYS BACH COFFEE CONCERT II BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS II SCARLATTI STABAT MATER Buxtehude Praeludium in F sharp minor Poulenc Flute Sonata Handel Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 5 in D major Anonymous (13th C) Lamentation de la Vierge Bach Sonata No 5 in C BWV529 Messiaen Le merle noir Vivaldi Violin Concerto Op 8 No 7 in D minor au pied de la Croix Bach Chorale Prelude on ‘Herr Gott, Debussy Epigraphes antiques Handel Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 6 in G minor Lotti Crucifixus dich loben wir’ BWV725 Franck Sonata Vivaldi Violin Concerto Op 8 No 3 in F Major ‘Autumn’ Monteverdi Adoramus te Christe Bach 2 Chorale Preludes from Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat major Adam Walker Flute Monteverdi Lamento della Ninfa Clavierübung III Christopher Glynn Piano Cecilia Bernardini Violin Alessandro Della Ciaia Lamentatio Virginis Bach Toccata, Adagio and Fugue BWV564 Domenico Scarlatti Stabat Mater David Goode Organ French composers have always loved Dunedin Consort the flute. Poulenc sparkles with Gallic wit John Butt Director Vox Luminis ‘The singing is The teenage Bach admired Buxtehude so much and charm and contrasts perfectly with Lionel Meunier Director that he walked 250 miles to hear him play! You The Dunedin Consort end the second of their particularly beautiful the rich romanticism of Franck. Sparkling can hear why in the strikingly unorthodox opening Brandenburg Concerto programmes with the Vox Luminis move from the Middle Ages to the or impassioned… in works by Debussy and Messiaen will work. Master organist David Goode, currently extraordinary 6th concerto, in which the violins Baroque in this rich, intense programme of music the Stabat mater… show off Adam’s virtuosity to the full. recording all of Bach’s organ music, plays a take some time off and the string sound is darkened dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Lotti’s most famous the group’s voices selection of pieces that superbly displays the full ‘Adam Walker was superb… by viola, cello and viol. Crichton’s lovely acoustic work looks back to the great Venetian era of gloriously expressive range of the great man’s genius. His technical control, at all will make that an experience to treasure, as will Monteverdi at St Mark’s Cathedral while the spatial while retaining clarity volumes and in all Vivaldi (with another of his Four Seasons concertos) grandeur and dramatic sweep of Scarlatti’s 10-part and immaculate ‘David Goode on the organ, conjuring up registers, was breathtaking’ and Handel at his most brilliant in two of his Op 6 Stabat Mater make it one of the most impressive coherence…’ the most musically exciting sounds’ Washington Post concerti grossi. achievements in early 18th-century sacred music. Gramophone The Telegraph

Duration: approx. 1 hour 45 mins Duration: approx. 1 hour Concert duration: 1 hour from 11.30am Duration: approx. 1 hour 30 mins Photo: St Mary’s Parish Church Photo: Cecilia Bernardini £26.25 / £21.00 / £15.75 £S Robin C Mitchell £17.00 £S Photo: John Wood £17.00 £S Photo: Adam Walker Sam Cornish £21.00 / £15.75 £S Diederik Rooker TUE 17 SEPT 7.45pm WED 18 SEPT 11am coffee & cake, 11.30am concert WED 18 SEPT 3pm WED 18 SEPT 7.45pm Dunbar Parish Church, Dunbar Holy Trinity Church, Haddington Ormiston Parish Church, Ormiston Prestonkirk Parish Church, East Linton

‘I cannot think of a more beautifully sung account of this cycle, but that is only part of the story because story it is’ Planet Hugill

OSBORNE PLAYS BEETHOVEN COFFEE CONCERT III RED NOTE ENSEMBLE RODERICK WILLIAMS SINGS Beethoven Piano Sonata in E major Op 109 Martinu Rossini Variations Oliver Knussen Coursing SCHUBERT SONG CYCLES II Beethoven Piano Sonata in A flat major Op 110 Schumann Drei Fantasiestücke Op 73 Peter Maxwell Davies Crossing King’s Reach Schubert Winter Journey (Winterreise) Beethoven Piano Sonata in C major Op 111 Rachmaninov Vocalise with Roderick Williams Baritone Schumann 3 Romances Op 94 New works by Red Note Academy composers Steven Osborne Piano Christopher Glynn Piano Chopin Polonaise brillante in C Red Note Ensemble Lammermuir Festival Patron Steven Osborne is one Paganini Moses Variations Red Note Academy Schubert’s Winter Journey is one of the of Britain’s most internationally acclaimed musicians most precious artistic achievements of the Jamal Aliyev Cello Simon Proust Conductor and his Beethoven is rightly regarded as peerless. Romantic era, an iconic work and for the Can Çakmur Piano The three last sonatas, which Steven will introduce Red Note, with the talented young musicians listener a profoundly moving experience. with his own perceptive observations, represent one Winner of the 2017 Young Concert Artists of its international training academy, play an Sung by one of its finest present-day of the pinnacles of western music, and a formidable Trust competition at London’s Wigmore exciting programme of new commissions from interpreters in Jeremy Sams’s perfectly judged ‘There’s no faulting technical and expressive challenge for the pianist. Hall, Azerbaijani cellist Jamal Aliyev joins Academy members drawn from major European new translation, its capacity to communicate Glynn’s sensitive, ageless truths about life and death will be all detailed piano playing’ ‘A magnificent achievement… from the first with Ankara-born Scottish International conservatoires, plus works by two major British the more powerful. Gramophone note Osborne’s kinship with the composer is Piano Competition winner Can Çakmur in composers. everywhere apparent and he conveys the vast this delightful programme. ‘Red Note add their wit and bright ‘Steven Osborne contrasts of the last three sonatas unerringly’ spirit to whatever they tackle’ is one of the most ‘The tender cello solo from Gramophone on Steven Osborne’s Jamal Aliyev in Memoirs of The Herald recordings of tonight’s music important pianists on the planet’ a Geisha is in my ear still’ Classics Today France The Telegraph Duration: approx. 1 hour 30 minutes Concert duration: 1 hour from 11.30am Duration: approx. 90 mins Duration: approx. 1 hour 25 mins £21.00 / £15.75 £S Photo: Steven Osborne Ben Ealovega £17.00 £S Photo: Jamal Aliyev Kaupo Kikkas £15.75 £S Photo: Red Note Ensemble Wattie Cheung £21.00 / £15.75 £S Photo: Brian Turner THU 19 SEPT 11am coffee & cake, 11.30am concert THU 19 SEPT 3pm THU 19 SEPT 7.45pm Holy Trinity Church, Haddington Prestongrange Church, Prestonpans St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington

COFFEE CONCERT IV BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS III BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ‘… the orchestra, with guest ‘The fizz and crackle of Piazzolla Histoire du Tango Handel Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 4 in A minor Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis conductor Matthew Halls, was the orchestral writing luminous enough in itself to have Debussy Syrinx Vivaldi Violin Concerto Op 8 No 1 in E Major ‘Spring’ Stuart MacRae Prometheus Symphony – could only have come lit up the skies like daylight … Takemitsu Towards the Sea Vivaldi Concerto for Oboe Op 8 No 12 in C Major World Premiere commissioned by from a young genius Lammermuir Festival and BBC Radio 3 Mr. Halls drew lovely sounds from Poulenc Sarabande Handel Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 11 in A major on the make, and Sibelius Symphony No 5 the musicians in front of him’ Shankar L’Aube Enchantée Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major that jumped out of ClevelandClassical.com Adam Walker Flute Alexandra Bellamy Oboe this Dunedin Consort Jennifer France Soprano Sean Shibe Guitar Cecilia Bernardini Violin performance’ Matthew Halls Conductor Seen and Heard ‘Stuart MacRae fuses dramatic The superb young Edinburgh-born Dunedin Consort International The last and most ambitious of Stuart MacRae’s three guitarist Sean Shibe joins Adam Walker John Butt Director magnificent Lammermuir Festival commissions based on the flair, orchestral Prometheus myth is a work for voices and orchestra which finesse and in a delicious programme of sensual, Though extensively rebuilt in the 18th century, colourful music for flute and guitar. will make dramatic use of the space in Haddington’s great luminous vocals’ Prestongrange Kirk has its origins in the early days of mediaeval parish church. So does Vaughan Williams’s The Guardian ‘Shibe is another [Julian] Bream, the Reformation. This fine burgh kirk is the setting for the rich-toned fantasia, to magical effect, with a solo quartet or something close’ Dunedin Consort’s third concert, which climaxes in one placed far from the rest of the strings. Under the acclaimed The Sunday Times of the best-loved of the Brandenburg Concertos, with its young English conductor Matthew Halls, the BBC SSO will brilliant solo roles for harpsichord, flute and violin. demonstrate its close affinity with Sibelius in his life-affirming Another of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons concertos, an oboe 5th Symphony. concerto and two of Handel’s most exquisite concerti In co-production with grossi make this a feast of baroque brilliance. Sponsored by Concert duration: 1 hour from 11.30am Duration: approx. 90 mins Duration: approx. 2 hours £17.00 £S Photo: Sean Shibe Kaupo Kikkas £21.00 / £15.75 £S Photo: Dunedin Consort £31.50 / £26.25 / £21.00 / £15.75 £S Photo: Lammermuir Festival FRI 20 SEPT 11am coffee & cake, 11.30am concert FRI 20 SEPT 3pm FRI 20 SEPT 7.30pm Holy Trinity Church, Haddington Prestonkirk Parish Church, East Linton St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington

Scottish Opera at Lammermuir 2018: ‘… a powerful performance, with strong singing from an excellent cast’ COFFEE CONCERT V RODERICK WILLIAMS SINGS SCOTTISH OPERA DOUBLE BILL The Guardian Deirdre McKay Time, Shining SCHUBERT SONG CYCLES III Zanetto by Mascagni ‘… a mesmerising, memorable and Beethoven ‘Hammerklavier’ Schubert Swansongs Hanna Hipp Zanetto quietly provocative production’ Sonata in B flat Op 106 (Schwanengesang) Sinead Campbell-Wallace Silvia The Scotsman Danny Driver Piano Roderick Williams Baritone Susanna’s Secret by Wolf-Ferrari Christopher Glynn Piano Clare Presland Countess Susanna Danny Driver’s last Lammermuir Richard Burkhard Count Gil appearance brought the audience to Swansongs is a collection of some of its feet after his incredible performance Schubert’s very finest late large-scale songs. Rosie Purdie Director warm-hearted lyricism that is very of Ligeti’s Études. Here he scales Although not written as a cycle it works ‘[Williams] imbued Orchestra of Scottish Opera appealing. Wolf-Ferrari’s sparkling another pianistic Everest in Beethoven’s beautifully as a satisfying concert experience. each song with myriad David Parry Conductor comedy Susanna’s Secret makes monumental ‘Hammerklavier’ Sonata, Jeremy Sams’s translations render the original colourful nuances, his rich, Scottish Opera follow last year’s stunning the perfect contrast: a husband, with Northern Irish composer Deirdre poetry of Heine and Rellstab perfectly. burnished baritone lovely Lammermuir Festival debut with a perfectly- smelling smoke on his wife’s McKay’s evocative portrait of a winter throughout the evening’ After the performance Roderick Williams formed Italian double bill that pairs a tragic clothes, suspects she’s cheating. landscape as an atmospheric prelude. New York Times and Christopher Glynn will discuss with romantic tale with a sophisticated comedy. She admits to having a secret, ‘This country is blessed with Artistic Director James Waters the process of In Zanetto, a lonely courtesan has lost her but it’s not what he expects. several exceptional pianists… reinterpreting the great Schubert song cycles faith in love, until a wandering minstrel re- An excellent cast with of whom Danny Driver in English and what new horizons are opened awakens her heart. Mascagni’s one-act Scottish Opera’s fine orchestra most assuredly is one’ up by singing in the native language of the two-hander, obscured like most of his operas offer a concert semi-staging Classical Source audience. by Cavalleria Rusticana’s popularity, has a of these delightful pieces.

Concert duration: 1 hour from 11.30am Duration: approx. 1 hour 20 minutes Duration: approx. 2 hours Sung in Italian with English Surtitles £17.00 £S Photo: Danny Driver Kaupo Kikkas £21.00 / £15.75 £S Photo: Roderick Williams Ben Ealovega £36.75 / £31.50 / £26.25 / £17.50 £S Image: Bridgeman Images FRI 20 SEPT 10.15pm SAT 21 SEPT 11am SAT 21 SEP 3.30pm Holy Trinity Church, Haddington St Anne’s Episcopal Church, Dunbar Dirleton Kirk, Dirleton

‘A marvel, [who] can play anything in any style’ The Herald

‘[Driver’s] poise, OF NIGHT AND DREAMS MAXWELL STRING QUARTET BRAHMS PIANO QUINTET focus and TOM POSTER PLAYS NOCTURNES Mozart String Quartet in B flat major Brahms Three Intermezzi Op 117 imagination… With music by Chopin, Maria Szymanowska, K458 ‘Hunt’ Brahms Piano Quintet in this is playing Grieg, Fanny Mendelssohn, Debussy, Schubert String Quartet in D minor D810 F minor Op 34 of a most Clara Schumann and Poulenc interspersed ‘Death and the Maiden’ perceptive order‘ Maxwell String Quartet with Tom Poster’s own arrangements of With arrangements of Scottish Folk Music by The Telegraph Gershwin, Kern, Porter and other gems the Maxwell String Quartet Danny Driver Piano from the Great American Songbook. The increasingly in-demand Maxwell Quartet “The quintet is beautiful beyond measure”, Tom Poster Piano are old friends of the Lammermuir Festival and conductor Hermann Levi told Brahms after ‘…these four ‘Brilliantly fresh, he had rewritten the Piano Quintet from A lovely, atmospheric, programme of music we are delighted to welcome them back to young Scots set unexpected its earlier string quintet and piano duo of, about and for the night, played by one this Victorian gem of a church. They play two the bar high… and exhilarating incarnations. It is a heroic work on a grand of Britain’s most talented pianists. great string quartets on either side of their own charming arrangements of Scottish folk tunes. inventiveness, …an enlightening scale and the Maxwell Quartet, hotfoot rhythmic energy …and enthralling from their morning concert, team up with and irreproachable musical Danny Driver for a wonderful afternoon of intonation’ experience’ Brahms, beginning with his elegiac late France Musique The Herald Intermezzi for solo piano. ‘A beautiful tone that you can sink into like a pile ‘This quartet goes to the very heart of cushions’ of what chamber music is’ BBC Music Stavanger Aftenblad

Duration: approx. 1 hour Duration: approx. 80 minutes Duration: approx. 1 hour Photo: Danny Driver Eric Richmond £17.00 £S Photo: Tom Poster Jason Joyce £17.00 £S Photo: Maxwell String Quartet Louise Mather £17.00 £S Dirleton Kirk window Lammermuir Festival SAT 21 SEPT 7.45pm SUN 22 SEPT performances at 3pm, 4pm & 5pm SUN 22 SEPT 3.30pm Venue 1, The Brunton, Musselburgh The Mart, East Linton Dirleton Kirk, Dirleton

‘Osborne’s revelatory performance is a blinding tour de force of interpretive and pianistic incandescence. Awesome’ Classic FM Magazine CHARLIE CHAPLIN IN THE JAZZ AGE ‘ZRI play with AEOLIAN QUARTET FOR THE END OF TIME MUSIC AND FILM with ZRI – Zum Roten Igel consummate Maja S K Ratkje Composer Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Ben Harlan Clarinet virtuosity, magic Kathy Hinde Artist Messiaen Quartet for the End of Time Max Baillie Violin and passion…’ Andreas Borregaard Accordion Jean Johnston Clarinet Matthew Sharp Cello Royal Albert Hall Red Note Ensemble Philip Higham Cello Jon Banks Accordion Café Ignite Series Red Note Academy Steven Osborne Piano Iris Pissaride Santouri Aeolian, by Norwegian composer Messiaen’s Quartet has become a true ‘There’s something Part concert, part cinema, Charlie Chaplin in ZRI – Zum Roten Igel (The Red Maja S K Ratkje, artist Kathy Hinde and classic of 20th-century music. Composed very special about the Jazz Age conjures a world of comedy and Hedgehog) takes its name from ‘With bizarre air-driven Danish accordionist Andreas Borregaard, during WW2 amid the privations of a walking through nature pathos for the whole family. ZRI performs live a 19th-century coffee house in contraptions – bellows, fans, combines newly-designed air-powered German prison camp, it is a work of to get to a concert’ to Chaplin’s classic silent movie The Adventurer, Vienna, regular haunt of many snaking tubes and expanding instruments with live musicians to create deep spirituality and boundless, cathartic Steven Osborne famous composers, including transporting the listener to the exciting melting a new part-performance, part kinetic- concertinas…Aeolian was energy – a profound meditation on the Schubert and Brahms, who pot of early 20th-century New York where sculptural work. Autonomous air-activated an exquisite examination of nature of God. Steven Osborne, one were influenced by the gypsy jazz, klezmer, East European folk music and instruments form a sculptural installation sound, music, breath and air… of the world’s leading interpreters of musicians they heard there. classical music intertwined in film soundtracks. whose sound blends with Red Note’s lyrical and playful…and utterly Messiaen’s music, leads an ensemble The breath-taking energy of these five superb conventional instruments to create an bewitching from start to finish’ perfectly attuned to this great work’s musicians matches the wit, virtuosity and sheer extraordinary sonic experience in an The Scotsman qualities, and they precede it with Ravel’s brilliance of Chaplin in his creative prime. extraordinary building – East Linton’s historic, ardently romantic piano trio. beautifully restored, hexagonal Mart.

Duration: approx 2 hours Duration: approx. 45 mins a promenade performance Duration: approx. 1 hour 45 minutes £15.75 £S / £3 for under 16s Photo: ZRI £15.75 £S some seats will be available if required Photo: The Mart Lammermuir Festival £21.00 / £15.75 – S £S Photo: Steven Osborne Ben Ealovega SUN 22 SEPT 7.45pm LAMMERMUIR FESTIVAL 2010 – 2019 St Mary’s Parish Church, Haddington

‘There’s a quiet class about the whole thing that generates a special kind of listening: for all the dark arts of conjuring festival ambience, Lammermuir tends to simply programme right and let the music do the talking’ The Guardian

The Lammermuir Festival was born of a conviction ‘With superlative BRANDENBURG CONCERTOS IV that historic architecture and beautiful landscape international performances Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F major A spectacular finish to the 10th together can create an ideal environment in which in lovely atmospheric settings Vivaldi Violin Concerto Op 8 No 11 in D major Lammermuir Festival, as the Dunedin to experience great music-making. The Festival was I can see why Lammermuir Vivaldi Concerto Op 8 No 10 in B flat ‘La Caccia’ Consort complete their Brandenburg established to bring the finest musicians together Festival has attracted such Handel Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 10 in D minor Concerto cycle. They open with the with local people and visitors in celebration of accolades and continues to Handel Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 9 in F major extravagantly festive Second Concerto music in towns and villages nestling between the enjoy such success’ Vivaldi Violin Concerto Op 8 No 4 in F minor and end with the pure joy of the Fourth. Lammermuir Hills and the sea. The area’s wealth of Early Music Forum Between these, a veritable treasure beautiful buildings continues to inspire our choice ‘Winter’ trove of Vivaldi, including ‘Winter’ of music and artists. This year we celebrate the ‘Beautiful places these Vivaldi Oboe Concerto Op 8 No 9 in D minor from the Four Seasons, and two more 10th Festival with a programme of musical and certainly are, but to call Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major of Handel’s endlessly inventive Op 6 geographical journeys which affirm the endless the music of the festival simply beautiful would be Cecilia Bernardini Violin concerti grossi. possibilities of music in this beautiful area. missing something: it was Katy Bircher Flute ‘‘Dunedin Consort . . . an We are proud to continue our close relationships a lot more besides’ Alexandra Bellamy Oboe exhilarating performance . . . was with several of Scotland’s leading ensembles and, Daily Telegraph David Blackadder Trumpet rapturously received by the capacity as well as inviting internationally renowned audience in St Mary’s’ musicians, we also seek out the most exciting talent Dunedin Consort ‘The Dunedin Consort, The Herald under John Butt’s historically- from Scotland, the UK and abroad. John Butt Director informed direction, gave a Music has the power to enhance, to refresh and typically dazzling performance sometimes to change people’s lives. We offer the of Bach at his most ravishing’ Lammermuir Festival to all those who come to Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Sponsored by distributors of the The Independent discover the magic of this beautiful place. best UK classical music festival 2017 Lammermuir Duration: approx. 2 hours Festival brochure Photo: Dunedin Consort £26.25 / £21 / £15.75 £S David Barbour Photo: Dunedin Consort John Wood LAMMERMUIR FESTIVAL ARTISTS 2010 – 2019 THANK YOU

Thank you to over Scott Dickinson Robert Hardy McOpera Sean Shibe 500 artists who have Eamonn Dougan Philip Higham National Theatre Scotland Nigel Short We have so many people to thank Our thoughts will soon turn to contributed to the success Dunbar Music School Emily Hoile NYCoS Mark Simpson for the support which has enabled 2020 and the second decade of of the Lammermuir Dunbar Primary School Robin Horgan Navarra String Quartet Cailtin Skinner us to develop the Lammermuir the Festival and building on the Festival including: Dunbar Voices Anna Huntley Allan Neave Simon Smith Dunedin Consort Sam Hutchings Benedict Nelson Karl-Heinz Steffens Festival from an idea in 2008 to successes achieved so far. Our James Akers Thomas Dunford Andrew Kennedy Christopher Nickol Anna Stéphany a 10th Festival in 2019 attracting ability to programme such a Jamal Aliyev Sian Edwards Daniel Kharitonov Lancelot Nomura The Stevenson Winds artists and audiences from across range of outstanding and Alison Balsom Joshua Ellicott The King’s Singers Jenny Ogilvie Stile Antico the UK and abroad. internationally renowned artists Aronowitz Ensemble Ensemble Marsyas John Kitchen The Orlando Consort David Stout will be dependent on developing BBC SSO Mahan Esfahani Jennifer Koh Steven Osborne Duncan Strachan Creative Scotland has supported Christopher Bell our existing public and private Marcus Farnsworth Pavel Kolesnikov Maria Ostroukhova Joseph Swensen the Festival’s steady development Cecilia Bernardini Liza Ferschtman Gerald Kyd Robyn Allegra Parton Hilary Summers partnerships and generous Mary Bevan Alec Frank-Gemmill Sholto Kynoch Julian Perkins Tenebrae from the start with additional and individual donors and supporters. Sophie Bevan Jack Furness Cherise Lagasse Rowan Pierce Simon Thacker substantial support from East Katie Bircher Alban Gerhardt Mhairi Lawson Jennifer Pike Harry Thatcher Lothian Council and EventScotland. Each and every contribution Daniel Blendulf James Gilchrist Alfonso Leal del Ojo Tom Poster Callum Thorpe makes a very real difference to Claire Booth Christopher Glynn Su-a Lee Alice Privett Anna Tilbrook We have been fortunate in what we can achieve and we Andreas Borregaard Pablo Gonzales François Leleux Simon Proust Trio Mediaeval establishing partnerships and Martyn Brabbins Gould Piano Trio Eric Lesage Pure Brass Laura van der Heijden ‘A remarkable experience are extremely grateful for all Christine Brewer Andrew Gourlay Matthew Long Lionel Meunier Van Kuijk Quartet – the Lammermuir Festival, attracting support from a number donations, both large and small. Matthew Brook Sharon Griffiths Joanne Lunn Quatuor Mosaïques Lars Vogt founded only in 2010, of companies and have also Alice Burn Narek Hakhnazaryan Rory Macdonald Roman Rabinovich Ilan Volkov is going from strength received substantial trust and If you would like to make Iain Burnside Heath Quartet Christian Macelaru Raeburn String Quartet Vox Luminis foundation income. a difference and join the John Butt to strength under artistic Hebrides Ensemble Jonathan Manson Marion Ravot Gary Walker Lammermuir Festival family The Cardinall’s Musick Rowan Hellier The Marian Consort Jason Rebello Jan Waterfield directors Hugh Macdonald Above all we are grateful for the Adrian Chandler as a donor please contact Alisdair Hogarth Maximiliano Martin Red Note Ensemble Joshua Wellerstein and James Waters’ loyal and generous support of Consone String Quartet Robert Howarth Anthony Marwood Jonathan Rees Peter Whelan Opera Magazine [email protected] William Conway Alexander Janiczek Maxwell String Quartet Emily Renard William Whitehead our individual donors, without IFUL PLAC UT ES Jessica Cottis A • Alex Jennings Alex McCartney Royal Northern Sinfonia Joel Williams E B which the Festival would be much, Thank you B E Penelope Cousland • A 2010-2019 U Ben Johnson Rory McCleery RSAMD Brass Ensemble Robin Williams C I T much smaller. S I Bradley Creswick TH F U Guy Johnston Alison McGillivray Ryedale Festival Opera Roderick Williams U Hugh Macdonald & James Waters

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