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Summer Festival of Chamber Music Summer Festival of Chamber Music Paxton House, Scottish Borders Friday 19 – Sunday 28 July 2019 Welcome to Music at Paxton Fri 19 July, 7pm · 15 mins Fri 19 July, 7.30pm · 2 hrs /MusicatPaxton Picture Gallery, Paxton House Picture Gallery, Paxton House Festival 2019! #MaP2019 — — Festival Introductory Talk Paul Lewis Piano Angus Smith, — We are delighted that so many outstanding musicians have Music At Paxton Artistic Director Haydn Piano Sonata in E minor, agreed to come to Paxton House this summer, bringing with — Hob. XVI:34 them varied programmes of wonderful music that offer many In this brief festival curtain-raiser, Angus Brahms Three Intermezzi for captivating and entertaining experiences. Smith will shed light on the process of Piano, Op. 117 assembling the 2019 festival, revealing Beethoven Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33 It is a particular pleasure to announce that the prodigiously some of the surprising stories that lie Haydn Piano Sonata in E flat, gifted and engaging Maxwell String Quartet is to be Music behind the choices of composers and Hob. XVI:52 at Paxton’s Associate Ensemble for 2019–21. This young Scottish group is pieces. making great and rapid strides internationally, delighting audiences and critics Paul Lewis is regarded as one of the on their maiden tour of the USA earlier this year. They will present a variety of FREE EVENT to opening concert ticket holders leading pianists of his generation and concerts and community activities for us during their residency, and we also one of the world’s foremost interpreters invite you to meet the players during the Festival – before, during and after Please note that the duration of of central European classical repertoire. concerts – and follow their journey in coming years. events is approximate and given as His biography features a glittering array an indication only of awards – Gramophone, Deutsche Look out in the brochure too for concerts with Paul Lewis, Louise Alder, the Schallplatten, Diapason d’Or and many Albion Quartet, Tasmin Little, Piers Lane, Tom Poster, Laura van der Photo: Kaupo Kikkas more – and collaborators, including the Heijden and many others. We also invite you to spend more time with us; with Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, minor adjustments to start times and additional facilities, there is even more Royal Concertgebouw and Leipzig reason than ever for bringing a picnic to Paxton House! Gewandhaus Orchestras. Finally, Music at Paxton would like to thank the numerous individuals and organisations who have supported the 2019 Festival, including the Patrons, Paul’s programme for Paxton immediately Benefactors and Friends of Music at Paxton, numerous trusts and foundations, precedes his recital at America’s famed our sponsors and the team of volunteers whose help is invaluable to us. Tanglewood Festival and explores connections between the joyful sonatas Angus Smith, Artistic Director of Haydn, the late works of Brahms, and Beethoven’s captivating Bagatelles. — Get Involved … Tickets £25.00 (concessions £15.00) Sponsored by Andrew Curran Why not join our friendly group of volunteers? Opportunities include front of house roles, page turning, hosting artists overnight, and much more. “Haydn’s sonatas performed Please contact Volunteers Coordinator with a white-hot intensity” Marianne Butler for more information: The Independent 01289 386 022 / [email protected] Sat 20 July, 5pm · 1 hr (no interval) Sat 20 July, 7.30pm · 2 hrs We are delighted to welcome Louise Sun 21 July, 12 noon · 1 hr (no interval) Marquee, Paxton House Picture Gallery, Paxton House Alder, 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the Picture Gallery, Paxton House — — World competition Audience Prize- — Robbie Greig & Hamish Macleod Louise Alder Soprano winner and University of Edinburgh Albion Quartet Guitar, Fiddle and Vocals Gary Matthewman Piano graduate, and her regular recital partner Tamsin Waley-Cohen Violin — — Gary Matthewman. Louise’s meteoric Emma Parker Violin Renowned for their friendly and engaging Mozart An Chloe; rise to international prominence has Ann Bielby Viola performances, these highly talented Abendempfindung; already featured performances at the Nathaniel Boyd Cello musicians draw on their Gaelic roots Der Zauberer Royal Opera House, La Scala Milan, San — and showcase songs from around Fauré 5 Melodies de Venise, Francisco Opera and Glyndebourne, and Haydn String Quartet in the world. Op. 58 she has become a regular soloist at the F minor, Op. 20 No. 5 R. Strauss Drei Lieder der Ophelia, BBC Proms. Mozart String Quartet in Tickets £10.00 (concessions £6.00) Op. 76, Nos 1–3 D, K575; ‘Prussian’ Presented in association with Mendelssohn Gruß; Auf Flügeln des This beautifully crafted recital Live Music Now Scotland Gesanges; Neue Liebe programme includes works by celebrated Liszt 3 Sonetti del Petrarca, classical song-writers alongside rare S. 270 treasures from composers more usually Puccini A te; Morire? associated with the world of opera. Verdi Stornello; Lo Spazzacamino “An irresistible programme, Photo: Patrick Allen sung with a beguiling twinkle in the eye, keen intelligence, The Albion Quartet came together and a voice of sparkling beauty” in 2016 with the individual members Gramophone Magazine having already earned outstanding reputations as solo and chamber musicians. Following prestigious Tickets £25.00 (concessions £15.00) Sponsored by Andrew & Hilary Walker engagements in the UK and across Europe, the Quartet regularly broadcasts + on BBC Radio 3 and has begun a series POST-CONCERT: All ticket holders are invited to of recordings for Signum Records. stay on for an informal Q&A session with Louise immediately after the concert. For this recital the Quartet has chosen to present an emotionally intense early Haydn quartet to contrast with the first of Mozart’s final set of quartets, written at the very height of the composer’s powers. Photo: Gerard Collett Tickets £15.00 (concessions £9.00) Sun 21 July, 2.30pm · 40 min (no interval) Sun 21 July, 4pm · 1.5 hrs Tue 23 July, 7.30pm · 2 hrs The Lawns of Paxton House Picture Gallery, Paxton House Picture Gallery, Paxton House — — — Coquetdale Chamber Choir Albion Quartet Tasmin Little Violin John Casken Director Tamsin Waley-Cohen Violin Piers Lane Piano — Emma Parker Violin — “One of the supremely great ‘Summer Airs’ Ann Bielby Viola Brahms Sonatensatz in C minor violinists of our time” Nathaniel Boyd Cello Schubert Sonatina in D, D. 384 Music-Web International We invite you to join one of — Ireland Sonata No. 2 in A Northumberland’s leading amateur Suk Meditation on the old Czech Vaughan Williams chamber choirs and their director, Chorale ‘St Wenceslas’, Op. 35a The Lark Ascending, “a true collaboration” eminent composer John Casken, for an Dvořák String Quartet in F, original version for Seen and Heard International afternoon of glorious choral music from Op. 96; ‘American’ Violin and Piano Tickets £25.00 (concessions £15.00) across the ages in the beautiful grounds String Quartet No. 2 in A Sonata in A Walton Franck Sponsored by the Patrons of Music at Paxton of Paxton House. Tradition is to the fore in captivating Tasmin Little and Piers Lane’s + Please bring your own rug or a folding works by Dvořák and Suk (father-in- beautiful programme features two POST-CONCERT: All ticket holders are invited chair. In the event of poor weather, this law and son-in-law) that owe much rarely heard treasures – Brahms and to stay on for an informal Q&A session with event will be transferred to the Marquee to Czech folk music with just a hint of Schubert – and an epic sonata by César Tasmin and Piers immediately after the concert. where seating will be available. transatlantic influence in the ‘American’ Franck that is a tour de force for violinist quartet. William Walton’s second quartet and pianist alike. John Ireland’s Sonata FREE EVENT (1947) is a hugely inventive piece that caused a sensation at its premiere in effortlessly switches between haunting March 1917, brilliantly capturing the lyricism and concentrated energy. mood of the period and catapulting the composer to widespread fame. “bucketfuls of energy, Tasmin’s name is indelibly linked teamwork and ideas” with Vaughan Williams’ magically evocative ‘Lark Ascending’, and we are The Times delighted that she will play it in this Tickets £22.00 (concessions £13.00) concert with Piers as she starts her final Sponsored by Victor Wood, year of performing on the public stage. a keen local musician Photo: Benjamin Ealovega Wed 24 July, 7.30pm · 2 hrs Born in Siberia in 1989, Pavel Kolesnikov — TOM POSTER Thu 25 July, 9.15pm · 1 hr (no interval) Picture Gallery, Paxton House attended the Moscow Conservatoire & FRIENDS — Picture Gallery, Paxton House — before continuing his studies at the Royal Over two nights, Tom Poster curates Festival Lates – The Jazz Age Pavel Kolesnikov Piano College of Music in London and with a sequence of concerts together with — — Maria João Pires in Brussels. His award- brilliant young musical collaborators Tom Poster Piano Chopin Fantasie Impromptu in winning international performances have — C sharp, Op. 66; Nocturne attracted rave notices with reviewers Thu 25 July, 7pm · 1 hr (no interval) Music for a late summer evening, in F sharp, Op. 15 No. 2; Scherzo No. 3 in C praising the intelligence, sensitivity, Picture Gallery, Paxton House including Ravel’s ‘La Valse’, ‘Pavane’, and sharp, Op. 39; Prelude in D flat,Op. 28 No. 15 unfailing musicality and beauty of his — Tom’s own arrangements of songs from interpretations. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective the Great American Songbook by George Beethoven Sonata in C sharp, Op. 27 Savitri Grier Violin Gershwin, Cole Porter and others. No. 2; ‘Moonlight’ Set in the wonderfully intimate Ben Goldscheider French Horn Schumann Trauerzug from surroundings of the Picture Gallery, Tom Poster Piano An early fan of jazz music, Ravel travelled Nachtstücke, Op. 23 Pavel’s programme featuring — to America and met Gershwin following Bartók The Night’s Music from masterpieces by Chopin and Beethoven Robert Schumann Three Romances a performance of ‘Funny Face’ on Out of Doors, Sz.
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