North York Moors Festival

‘A Time There Was…’ 11-24 August 2013

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North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 1 Introduction

North York Moors “Among the most impressive of its kind in Britain” Chamber Music Festival Michael White, The Telegraph 2012

Shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society Welcome to the fifth North York Moors celebration of our tremendous culture on government grants. As a charitable Award 2011 Chamber Music Festival – ‘A Time There and heritage. organisation, we can claim Gift Aid, so Was’ – celebrating the centenary of please consider this option if you do It is with great pleasure that we welcome , his influences and his kindly donate to us. These forms are CONTENTS Sir Peter Maxwell Davies as well as Paul colleagues. Last year’s Eastern European available from the ticket desk. I was Programme 4 Joyce who directed and produced the flavour was a truetour de force and deeply encouraged and touched by documentary on Sir Peter and our film North York Moors 6 an exhilarating marathon for both the the support towards the festival trailer on the Britten Suites. Sir Peter Maxwell Visitor Information 7 audience and the musicians, although which we now have as an asset – and Davies is one of our most celebrated and fatigue was never in evidence. This year marvellous it is too. Notes 10 finest composers and with his friend, artist the mood is considerably more pastoral, and director Paul they have produced I also encourage everyone to Biographies 31 hence the newly commissioned painting a riveting film (shown 19th August). Do join the email (or simple mailing) list - Venues 45 by Carol Tyler of St Mary’s Church, come and enjoy this extra experience in partly because once I send out an Lastingham, which captures the spirit of Acknowledgements 55 email announcing extra dates, tickets the English theme. the presence of these artists. tend to sell rapidly and those not on I would like to, as ever, express my We are so very fortunate to experience the email list may miss out on the first continued appreciation for those who and perform this music within the opportunity to buy them. The book are supporting this festival and it gives profound walls of our various local in which to add your details will be me tremendous pleasure to see it thrive churches and priories and we have available at each concert or simply after all the investment, belief and tireless chosen repertoire appropriate to send us an email: campaigning. It also remains true to its the spaces. ([email protected]) principles: something I think we all feel Last year’s theme depicted an element very strongly about. So here’s to another fortnight of of the bleak shadows and the troubled glorious music – from Henry Purcell to The aim is to keep ticket prices low so decay of Eastern Europe, so by contrast Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. We hope you that we don’t price anyone out: this is this year our resident photographer Frank enjoy it as much as we have done a festival for everybody, regardless of Harrison has used his instinct to capture preparing the programme. a more recognisably local and seasonal background or position, so the prices feel which should resonate with us all. We remain unchanged. Your support is vital, Jamie Walton hope you enjoy this presentation and however small, for we no longer rely Artistic Director

2 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 3 Programme

Week one Week two Sunday 11th August St Nicholas, PURCELL Overture to The Gordian Knot Unty’d Monday 19th August Sneaton Castle, Film by Paul Joyce: ‘Max’ about Sir Peter Maxwell 3.00pm Guisborough ELGAR Serenade for Strings op 20 3.00pm Whitby Davies. (Introduced by Sir Peter. Q & A after.) BRIDGE String sextet in E flat* ROSSINI Duo for cello and double bass in D Monday 19th August St Stephen’s, MOZART String quintet no 1 in B flat K174 SHOSTAKOVICH Two pieces for string octet op 11 7.00pm Fylingdales BRITTEN String quartet no 2 in C op 36* BRITTEN Simple Symphony op 4 BAX Lyrical Interlude MAXWELL DAVIES Naxos quartet no 3 op 236 Monday 12th August St Oswald’s, DOWLAND Preludium and Lachrimae Pavan 7.00pm Lythe ANON Galliarda JOHNSON Pavan in C minor and Almain Wednesday 21st August St Mary’s, PURCELL Voluntary for double organ in D minor DE VISÉE Prelude, Allemande, Sarabande and 7.00pm [repeat of concert Lastingham MOZART Piano quartet no 2 in E flat K493* Chaconne des Harlequins* on 14th August] BRIDGE Phantasie piano quartet in F sharp minor MOZART Quintet in E flat K452 WALTON Piano quartet in D minor BEETHOVEN Quintet in E flat op 16 Thursday 22nd August Sneaton Castle, Film by Paul Joyce: The Britten cello suites Wednesday 14th August St Mary’s, PURCELL Voluntary for double organ in D minor 4.00pm Whitby (Jamie Walton) 7.00pm (concert repeated Lastingham MOZART Piano quartet no 2 in E flat K493* on 21st August] BRIDGE Phantasie piano quartet in F sharp minor Thursday 22nd August St Hilda’s Priory, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Piano quintet in C minor* WALTON Piano quartet in D minor 7.00pm Sneaton Castle, Whitby Supported by the Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust Friday 16th August St Helen’s and All Saints’, MOZART Oboe quartet in F K370 BRITTEN Gemini Variations op 73 7.00pm Wykeham BRITTEN Phantasy oboe quartet in F minor op 2* ELGAR Piano quintet in A minor op 84 ADÈS Arcadiana op 12 ELGAR String quartet in E minor op 83 Friday 23rd August St Hedda’s, BEETHOVEN Septet in E flat op 20 6.00pm Egton Bridge BRITTEN Lachrymae for viola and strings op 48a* Saturday 17th August St Martin-on-the-Hill, HANDEL Overture to An Occasional Oratorio SCHUBERT Octet in F 7.00pm Scarborough MOZART Horn quintet in E flat K407 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending* Saturday 24th August St Hilda’s, STANFORD Fantasia and Toccata in D minor op 57 TIPPETT Preludio al Vespro di Monteverdi 5.00pm West Cliff, Whitby PÄRT Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten BRITTEN Serenade for tenor, horn and strings op 31 ELGAR Introduction and Allegro op 47* Sunday 18th August St Hilda’s, PURCELL Chacony in G minor DELIUS Late Swallows 3.00pm Danby MAXWELL DAVIES String trio op 290 WALTON Movements from Façade MOZART Divertimento in E flat K563 BRITTEN Movements from Soirées Musicales op 9 and Matinées Musicales op 24

4 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 * Interval follows * Interval follows North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 5 North York Moors Visitor Information

It covers an area of 1,436 km (554 moorland. These two kinds of scenery are ago the cold climate of the Ice Age Car Parking Getting there by satnav The North York Moors square miles), and it has a population the result of differences in the underlying ameliorated and temperatures rose The churches in Danby, Lythe and St Danby YO21 2NH of about 25,000. The North York Moors geology and each supports different above a growing point of 5.5˚C. Plant Hilda’s Priory have large car parking is a national park in N54:26:51, W0:55:41 became a National Park in 1952, through wildlife communities. There are records of life was gradually re-established and facilities. Those in Lastingham, Fylingdales, North Yorkshire. The the National Parks and Access to the 12,000 archaeological sites and features animals and humans also returned. Many Guisborough, Egton Bridge and Egton Bridge YO21 1UX moors are one of the Countryside Act 1949. in the North York Moors National Park, visitors to the moors are engaged in Wykeham have local village parking. N54:26:13, W0:45:42 of which 700 are scheduled ancient outdoor pursuits, particularly walking; the At St Hilda’s West Cliff and St Martin-on- The North York Moors National Park Fylingdales YO22 4RN largest expanses of monuments. Radio carbon dating of parks have a network of rights-of-way the-Hill there are local car parks and encompasses two main types of N54:26:03, W0:32:21 pollen grains preserved in the moorland almost 2,300 km (1,400 miles) in length, on-street parking. heather moorland in landscape: green areas of pasture land peat provides a record of the actual and most of the areas of open moorland Guisborough TS14 6BX and the purple and brown heather the . species of plants that existed at various are now open access under the Toilets N54:32:12, W1:02:56 St Hilda’s West Cliff and St Hilda’s Priory periods in the past. About 10,000 years Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. Lastingham YO62 6TL have their own facilities. The churches in N54:18:16, W0:52:58 St Nicholas’ Church St Oswald’s Church Egton Bridge, Fylingdales, Lastingham, Guisborough Lythe St Hilda’s Church Lythe YO21 3RW West Cliff Guisborough, St Martin-on-the-Hill and N54:30:25, W0:41:18 St Hilda’s Church WHITBY Wykeham have village facilities. The St Hilda’s Priory Chapel Danby Sneaton Castle churches in Danby and Lythe have Scarborough YO11 2DB portable toilets. N54:16:30, W0:24:05 St Hedda’s Church Egton Bridge St Stephen’s Church Refreshments Sneaton Castle YO21 3QN Fylingdales Refreshments are available for a N54:28:60, W0:38:31 suggested donation of £1 for soft drinks West Cliff YO21 3EG and £2 for a glass of red or white wine. N54:29:20, W0:37:14

Wykeham YO13 9QA N54:14:14, W0:31:17

St Mary’s Church Lastingham St Martin-on-the-hill Church SCARBOROUGH

St Helen and All Saints’ Church Wykeham

6 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 7 8 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 9 music began to emerge for this newly- Andante cantabile Andante con moto alla marcia – perfected instrument. This anonymous Rondo: allegro non troppo presto Notes dance-form piece is from a 16th century This early chamber work dates from 1796, This genial work from 1800 follows English manuscript, but is a galliard in while Beethoven was on his only major a period of rapid development in the Italian style, which had successfully concert tour as a piano virtuoso; it was Beethoven’s compositional abilities and All notes by Philip Britton, unless indicated. migrated north and across the English when he became ill at the end of the his ground-breaking first set of six string Channel. © Matthew Wadsworth tour that the first signs of hearing loss quartets, published as op 18. It is ahead Composers are listed in alphabetical order by surname. Where several works by the became apparent. The work is a direct by only a whisker of his Symphony no same composer will be performed in this year’s Festival, individual works (and their 1883-1953 homage to Mozart and his quintet K452 1 in C, op 21, which was given its first from 1784 (which precedes it in today’s performance at the same Burgtheater linked notes) are also in alphabetical order, by the first key word of the work’s title. Lyrical Interlude concert). Beethoven copies Mozart concert in Vienna as the Septet. Op 20 In 1908, Bax, not long out of the Royal directly – keyboard plus the same four is for what at the time was an unusual Academy, produced a long and winds, the same ‘home’ key and same combination of string trio (violin, viola Thomas Adès b 1971 images associated with ideas of the idyll, Anon elaborate String quintet in G, which number of movements, the first (by far and cello) with clarinet, horn, bassoon vanishing, vanished or imaginary’. He also followed the Schubert model by having the longest of the three) having a slow and double bass. (Later composers Arcadiana op 12 Galliarda points out that all the odd-numbered two cellos. It was first performed at introduction and the finale in rondo form. using the same forces include Kreutzer, I Venezia notturna movements are aquatic (a lugubrious Berwald and Adolphe Blanc – but none In sixteenth and seventeenth century ’s Aeolian Hall in July 1908 and However, overall the virtuoso piano part II Das klinget so herrlich, das gondolier in the first, singing on the water of their septets are played as often Italy, composers found themselves combined Bax’s love of Irish moods dominates more than in K452. Its first klinget so schön in the third, a ship setting sail in the fifth, as Beethoven’s.) immersed in an atmosphere of and themes with modern European performance in Vienna was probably III Auf dem Wasser zu singen the river of oblivion in the last). The piece seemingly limitless experimentation and trends in composition. In 1914 he sent one in April 1797, with the composer The Septet has a self-confidence IV Et… (tango mortale) also includes direct references to earlier freedom. Echoing the development of the manuscript to Germany in the at the keyboard, including the famous untinged by anger, defiance or V L’Embarquement music: ‘Das klinget so herrlich, das klinget ‘chiaroscuro’ in the visual arts, musicians hope of a performance there, but oboist Friedrich Ramm from Munich, for introspection – all qualities that VI O Albion so schön’ is an aria by Monostatos and were split into two groups: exponents when the First World War broke out the whom Mozart had written the Oboe characterise the works of Beethoven’s VII Lethe his slaves from Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’, of melodic instruments such as the composer thought it must have been quartet K370 (also to be heard in the middle and later period. So much so, and ‘Auf dem Wasser zu singen’ is a song Adès studied at Cambridge with violin, cornetto or recorder, with their lost. It did reappear in 1919; in 1922, Festival). Like its Mozart companion, that Beethoven came to hate the by Schubert, reminiscent of a barcarolle. Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway: his virtuosic and dramatic expressive after completing the Sonata for viola Beethoven’s keyboard part is played Septet’s continued popularity among early works showed the brilliant promise The title of the central ‘mortal’ tango powers, and those who practised the and piano, Bax re-scored the quintet’s today on a fortepiano, appropriate for critics and public, who found his later second, slow movement for a quintet of a naturally gifted and imaginative is a much abbreviated version of the newly established art of basso continuo. the work’s period. To help the published works ‘difficult’. It is true that it has following Mozart’s line-up instead, which composer, fulfilled in a wide range of Latin title of two famous paintings by One of the instruments belonging to score find a wider market, Beethoven a divertimento or serenade feeling replaced an extra cello with an extra chamber, orchestral and operatic works Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), ‘Et in Arcadia this latter group was the chitarrone, soon transcribed the work for piano and structure, with – as expected – a viola. It was published separately in performed round the world. Arcadiana ego’ (literally ‘I too am in Arcadia’, but or theorbo. Its bass-rich sonority was quartet, keeping the same key and movement containing a theme and 1923 as today’s Lyrical Interlude and dates from 1994, commissioned by the really ‘Even in Arcadia, death is also exploited by composers such as Giulio opus number. variations (the fourth movement, using a dedicated to Vaughan Williams. Endellion Quartet with funds from the present’). One of these paintings shows Caccini (1551-1618) and Tarquinio Merula popular tune from the Rhineland). Holst Foundation. It comprises seven an idealised pastoral scene with country (?1594-1665) in the accompaniment Septet in E flat op 20 But it also has far more substance than short movements for string quartet (only folk in Roman garb around an austere of song. Remembering that at this time Ludwig van Beethoven Adagio – allegro con brio most works called divertimento or tomb which has the same Latin phrase the central tango lasts more than three instrumental construction and playing 1770-1827 Adagio cantabile serenade; and the writing is more subtle minutes). Adès himself says that their inscribed on it. This in part explains the title technique were developing hand- Tempo di menuetto and inventive, in particular the use – evocative but elusive titles ‘evoke of the whole work. in-hand with musical composition, it Quintet in E flat op 16 Tema con variazoni: andante rare in chamber music at this time – comes as no surprise to find that solo Grave – allegro ma non troppo Scherzo: allegro molto e vivace of a ‘symphonic’ slow introduction to

10 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 11 both first and last movements. As Peter title, including this Piano quartet of and Pears were stunned by the range Budd’, Britten wrote a set of ‘Reflections’ Phantasy oboe quartet in Dirge: alla marcia grave (anon, Holman points out: ‘… the relationship 1910, which in line with Cobbett’s rules of musical skills of a pair of twelve-year- for viola and piano on themes by the F minor op 2 15th century) between strings and winds is more has a very clear arch-shaped single- old twins, Gábor and Zoltán Jeney, sons celebrated Elizabethan composer of Hymn: presto e leggiero (Jonson) As its early opus number suggests, this is flexible and varied than before. There movement structure. This became of the flautist of the opera orchestra. In lute-songs and solos John Dowland – Sonnet: adagio (Keats) a work from Britten’s late teens, during is antiphonal writing between the two characteristic of much of Bridge’s 1965 Britten completed, and dedicated whose music features elsewhere in this Epilogue: andante his time at the Royal College of Music. groups, ‘orchestral’ passages with the music. As Thomas Kemp suggests: ‘He to them, this set of variations. Its theme Festival. ‘Lachrymae’ (literally ‘tears’) is It follows hard on the heels of his op 1, wind supporting the strings with held developed the idea that you could is one of the Epigrams (1954) by Zoltán shorthand for The Lachrymae Pavan, In March 1943, recovering at home chords, florid wind solos and duets have something of a cyclical form in Kodály, one of Hungary’s greatest a slow dance for lute or theorbo solo the Sinfonietta for chamber orchestra. in Snape after being in hospital with accompanied by the strings, and one movement’ – which this piano composers and an inspired collector whose tune Dowland also used – It was broadcast in August 1933, soon measles, Britten wrote disingenuously to concerto-like passages for solo violin quartet illustrates. and preserver of its folk-music. perhaps writing the words himself – for after completion (‘Mr Britten is the most his long-standing American supporter (written for the virtuoso player Ignaz the song ‘Flow, my tears’ in his Second interesting new arrival since Walton’ said and friend Elizabeth Mayer: ‘I’ve The score has two subtitles: ‘Twelve Schuppanzigh) accompanied by the String sextet in E flat H107 Booke of Songes or Ayres (1600). It was the BBC’s Victor Hely-Hutchinson) and practically completed a new work (6 Variations and Fugue on an Epigram of rest of the ensemble’. The Septet was Allegro moderato one of the favorite improvisational performed in London three months later, Nocturnes) for Peter and a lovely young Kodály’ and ‘A Quartet for Two Players’. overtly the model for the Schubert Octet Andante con moto – themes of the sixteenth and seventeenth then at the 1934 ISCM Festival in Florence. horn player Dennis Brain, & Strings… It is Since the twins both played the piano, D803, featured in the second half of allegro giusto – tempo I centuries, and its gradually descending Britten reported from Italy: ‘Goossens not important stuff, but quite pleasant, I Gábor also playing the violin and Zoltán this concert. Allegro ben moderato opening line of melody opens Britten’s & the Grillers really play my Phant. very think’. Critical opinion rates the Serenade the flute, Britten used twelve variations work, the tune recurring midway through. beautifully & it’s quite well received’. – the first large-scale work with orchestra Arriving at the Royal College of Music in order to exploit every possible The ten variations which are the heart This was the Griller Quartet and the in 1896, Bridge had been a successful combination of these instruments which Britten wrote for Pears, and a Frank Bridge 1879-1941 of the work are on the Dowland song work’s dedicatee, the doyen of English violin, and then viola, student – as well (including piano four hands), stating return to English-language vocal writing Phantasie piano quartet in ‘If My Complaints Could Passions Move’ oboists, Leon Goossens. Eric Roseberry as conductor. The College awarded the theme at the start and closing with – as rather better than pleasant: a F sharp minor H94 from the First Booke of Songes or Ayres points out that the single movement is him a scholarship to allow him to stay a fugue. The twins (‘most engaging masterpiece of both music and word- (1597). Reversing the normal practice, the constructed in an arch form: ‘remarkably In the early years of the twentieth on for composition classes with Charles little chaps’, Britten called them) then setting, as well as an inspired selection theme, together with Dowland’s original for its time in pre-war , its intricate century Walter Willson Cobbett (1847- Villiers Stanford. Once he left the came to Aldeburgh to give the work’s of six (originally seven) poems about the harmonization, gradually emerges, as if structure suggests that the brilliant young 1937), businessman, amateur violinist College, he made a living as a violinist in first performance in the Festival and to night (by extension, about death). The by magic, only at the end of the work. composer… had already absorbed and devotee of chamber music, was several orchestras, played viola in three record it for Decca (the LP also included work’s dedicatee, Eddie Sackville-West, Lachrymae was originally written for the the idea of sonata-cycle compression eager to revive the English fantasia different string quartets and continued Psalm 150 and Friday Afternoons). Now, helped choose and organise the texts. star viola-player William Primrose as op contained in Schoenberg’s First tradition that had its roots in renaissance to compose. In 1906 he started work on almost fifty years later, that recording is 48 (‘to reward him for coming to the Chamber Symphony’. The work is framed It was first performed at the Wigmore and early baroque music – a great this String sextet, but abandoned it until no longer available and the work is only Festival’, Britten said). by a march introduction – an idea Britten Hall on 15 October 1943, with Pears’ source of inspiration for Britten, Bridge’s 1912. Paul Hindmarsh calls it ‘the most rarely heard, even at Aldeburgh. Gábor distinctive tenor voice and Brain’s composition pupil from 1928 onwards. richly textured of all his early romantic is these days a freelance violinist and In 1976, the last year of the composer’s reused in Alla Marcia for string quartet magical horn playing and an ad hoc Cobbett preferred the term Phantasy or chamber works’. It was first performed member of the Hungarian Trio in Cape life, he revisited the work, apparently at the same year and then again in Les in what is now the Wigmore Hall in Phantasie – and via annual competitions Town, South Africa, having played for the suggestion of the British violist, Cecil Illuminations (1939) – and by a postlude. orchestra under Walter Goehr (‘we had June 1913. for single-movement works encouraged the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra Aronowitz (1916-1978), who had a long a lovely show, with wonderful enthusiasm Serenade for tenor, new chamber works with this title from for many years; Zoltán is a professional association with Britten and Aldeburgh, and lovely notices’, Britten reported). horn and strings op 31 Bax, Goossens, Vaughan Williams, Ireland Benjamin Britten flautist based in Germany. including via the Melos Ensemble. Britten The two key performances were quickly and others, even a very young Britten rescored the piece for solo viola and Prologue: andante captured in a 1944 Decca recording, the (see the entry on Britten’s Phantasy oboe 1913-1976 Lachrymae for viola strings (minus first violins, not to swamp the Pastoral: lento (Charles Cotton) composer conducting the strings of the quartet below). Bridge himself wrote Gemini Variations op 73 and strings op 48a soloist), of which Aronowitz then gave the Nocturne: maestoso (Tennyson) Boyd Neel Orchestra: it has never been several pieces with the Phantasie On a visit to Budapest in 1964, Britten In 1950, in parallel with composing ‘Billy first performance six months after Britten’s Elegy: andante appassionato (Blake) out of the catalogue since. death. This is the version played today. 12 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 13 The settings of the poems are framed by This meeting in turn led to Britten starting Ben could work on the score, which String quartet no 3 op 94 (1975), his last- to and fro from the caves of the studios an introduction and postlude, in which to study with Bridge four years later, in the end produced another five but-one completed work. The Quartet no Frederick Delius at Grez-sur-Loing’ [Delius’s home near the horn plays using only its natural before arriving at the Royal College movements. The resulting double 2 therefore comes from the same period 1862-1934 Fontainebleau]. In its original string harmonics (no valves); this introduces the of Music in 1930. The symphony was bill was choreographed by as ‘Peter Grimes’; it is also in effect the Late Swallows quartet form it has the tempo indication edgy and unstable world of night and choreographed by Walter Gore and Balanchine and first performed as companion piece to his song-cycle The ‘slowly and wistfully’. then finally says farewell to the visions performed by Ballet Rambert in 1944. Divertimento in Rio de Janeiro. In Holy Sonnets of John Donne op 35. The The third movement from Delius’s String which have been conjured up. The today’s concert, three pieces from song-cycle and quartet had their first quartet (originally written in 1916, but he climax of the work is the last poem, the Movements from Soirées each suite will be played. public performances at the Wigmore Hall added a scherzo in 1917) has the ‘Late John Dowland 1563-1626 Keats sonnet: as John Bridcut says in his Musicales op 9 and on successive days; by this time, Britten Swallows’ title; much later, it was arranged Preludium ‘Essential Britten’: ‘This is music of taste, Matinées Musicales op 24 String quartet no 2 was already at work on ‘The Rape of for larger string forces by the composer’s Lachrimae Pavan in C op 36 amanuensis, Scarborough-born Eric smell, touch and sight, as well as sound, March Bolero Lucretia’, confirming that opera would in Dowland was one of England’s greatest Fenby (1906-1997) and in this form is which in its perfect marriage with Keats’s Tarantella Waltz Allegro calmo, senza rigore future dominate his composing life. composers and lutenists, as well as a sometimes known as Sonata for Strings. In words stirs the very depths of the spirit’. Nocturne March Vivace ground-breaking innovator. It was he The first movement (marked ‘a calm 1928 Fenby volunteered to assist Delius, Chacony: sostenuto who effectively created the English lute- Simple Symphony op 4 A year after the Simple Symphony, allegro without strictness’) opens with already blind and partly paralysed, with song, imaginatively drawing together Britten was living in lodgings in London Britten wrote many pieces for string a long melodic theme in octaves over his composing work. He lived and worked Boisterous Bourrée elements from the broadside ballad, and became a member of the quartet in the 1930s, but his first a drone (two sustained notes played (unpaid) in the home of the composer Playful Pizzicato dance music, consort song and madrigal. GPO Film Unit in Blackheath under numbered string quartets both came together, suggesting a C major chord) and his wife in France through to Delius’s Sentimental Sarabande He is famous for his passionate and master documentary film-maker John from wartime commissions: String quartet on the viola – Britten’s own instrument. death, then publishing a memoir of this Frolicsome Finale almost obsessive melancholy which is Grierson. WH Auden was to join Britten no 2 from Mary Behrend (1883-1977), This may also be a specific homage to time and becoming an authority on the never far away in his music, with sleep Britten re-used themes from juvenile there: their famous collaboration on whom Pears and Britten had met in Purcell, in whose ‘Fantazia upon one Note composer and advocate for his music. and death being sought as a release works (two per movement) in this Night Mail (1936) was one of the 1937. She was a strong supporter of the a5’ of 1680 (Z745) a tenor viol sustains Fenby’s account of the time with Delius from earthly woes. Although clearly also energetic and tuneful work for strings, results. For a film by Lotte Reiniger English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh middle C for the whole piece: ‘[Purcell] was the springboard for Ken Russell’s 1968 an affectation of the time, it was one which he completed at the family home about the Post Office Savings Bank, Festival, with her husband John; in the running a race with one foot encased black-and-white film ‘Song of Summer’ for 1940s and 1950s their son George helped in stone’, as Laurence Dreyfus puts it. which drew an acutely personal response in Lowestoft over the winter of 1933-1934, Britten was asked to orchestrate the BBC series ‘Omnibus’, with Christopher out at The Red House, Pears’ and Britten’s Britten’s first movement is in sonata form, in Dowland. Prolific, he produced over not long after his Phantasy oboe quartet. some short Rossini piano pieces: Gable as Fenby, Max Adrian as Delius home, sometimes acting as chauffeur but has three related themes developed a hundred solo pieces, in addition to To his then publishers, OUP, unsure about he hunted the music down and had and Maureen Pryor as his wife Jelka. After when they went on tour. The new quartet separately and then exuberantly four books of songs and ayres. The solo his overall alliterative title, he responded: the score ready in ten days. In 1936 Delius’s death, Fenby then joined the ‘I have searched the dictionary in vain & was a key part of the celebrations in combined, with a very abbreviated pieces can be divided into three main Boosey & Hawkes published his revised music publishers Boosey & Hawkes and I can find nothing [else] suitable. After all November 1945 for the two hundred recapitulation at the end. The brief categories: fantasies, dance movements version of five movements as the suite after the Second World War founded – no one can pretend that the material and fiftieth anniversary of Purcell’s and energetic scherzo comes second; (pavans and galliards) and ballad tunes. Soirées Musicales. the music department of the North is not simple, & technically it certainly is death. This in part explains why Britten, and the final slow movement, marked Riding Training College (its present-day Owing to his conversion to Catholicism in not difficult’. The symphony is dedicated Its companion piece, Matinées sharing the older composer’s fondness ‘sustained’ and longer than both other successor seems to be the School of Arts the 1580s, Dowland was denied a court to Audrey Alston (Mrs Lincolne Sutton), musicales, also Rossini-based, came for the chaconne, used this form for the movements put together, offers twenty- and New Media at the Scarborough appointment until 1612, considerably Britten’s childhood viola teacher: she at the request of Lincoln Kirstein and quartet’s final movement – also copying one variants above an unchanging Campus of the University of Hull), finally later than many of his contemporaries. had been a fellow-student and friend the American Ballet Company. It was Purcell’s ‘Englished’ spelling of the word. ground bass, with cadenzas for cello, becoming Professor of Harmony at the The Lachrimae Pavan is one of the of Frank Bridge at the Royal College at composed in 1941 while Britten and Thirty years later, in the year before he viola and first violin. The work ends with in London. starting-points Britten used for his the turn of the previous century and Pears were driving across the USA to died, he used the international version twenty-three C major chords: ‘music Fenby described this piece as ‘a beautiful reworking of Dowland for viola and strings introduced the very young Britten to California in an ancient Ford V8; they of the same form – the passacaglia – for of exceptional confidence’, as Colin autumnal soliloquy in sound conjured – see the entry on ‘Lachrimae’ under Bridge at a concert in Norwich in 1924. stopped early each evening so that the final, valedictory, movement of his Matthews calls it. up from thoughts of the swallows darting Britten above. © Matthew Wadsworth

14 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 15 Edward Elgar 1857-1934 virtuoso character for all performers. and their timing close to the end of the Serenade for strings in its cellist asked Elgar for a string quartet. George Frideric Handel The composer conducted the first First World War may also explain the late E minor op 20 It took nearly two decades for the right Introduction and performance at an all-Elgar concert at romantic mood of regretful acceptance moment to arrive: the composer having Allegro piacevole 1685-1759 Allegro op 47 the Queen’s Hall in London on 8 March his tonsils removed and convalescing out which seems to be dominant. Elgar Larghetto Overture to An Occasional 1905 – to a cool critical reception, of London in a rented house deep in the Concertgoers of mature years may himself acknowledged that his new Allegretto Oratorio HWV62 though it is now firmly established as music was conservative in idiom – ‘it woods at Fittleworth in West Sussex. find that this lyrical and deeply English This oddly named oratorio comes from one of Elgar’s finest and most involving The Serenade for strings may be a Very quickly – after a thirty-year gap – piece for strings irresistibly conjures up does not carry us any further, but it is full 1746 and was written to stiffen the moral works. Its massed strings, its rootedness reworking of a suite Elgar had written he completed three new chamber works, a black-and-white moving image: a of golden sounds and I like it’. As Diana fibre of the nation when King George in rural landscape and its re-imagining some years earlier; if so, apart from the the String quartet having its first public boy in Victorian clothes, wearing a sailor McVeagh puts it: ‘[it is] as if Schoenberg, II had gone home to Germany and of the baroque concerto grosso may ‘Wand of Youth’ suites, it is the earliest performance – with the Piano quintet – cap, gallops on a white horse across a Stravinsky and Holst did not exist’. Bonnie Prince Charlie was advancing have influenced Vaughan Williams in his of his compositions to survive. It was at the Wigmore Hall in 1919. The Brodsky field, with a flock of sheep behind and south. It comprises more than forty Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis of Although the Piano quintet shares dedicated to the philosopher WH Quartet were, as expected, the quartet’s the Malvern Hills in the distance. If so, it movements for four soloists, choir and 1910. Many recordings have coupled the the String quartet’s three-movement Whinfield (also the author of a version of dedicatees, but they had all retired by will be the opening sequence from the orchestra in three sections, with a libretto structure, it is in fact longer and more the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) and first 1962 drama documentary ‘Elgar: Portrait two works – notably Barbirolli conducting the time the work was ready, so an ad by Newburgh Hamilton ‘after’ Milton of a Composer’ – the first of many such the Sinfonia of London and the Allegri ambitious, in part because both its outer performed in public in Antwerp in 1896. hoc string quartet led by and Spenser. Handel wrote it in haste, films directed by Ken Russell (1927- Quartet for HMV in 1963, which was the movements start with slower introductory As the Elgar Society website comments: stepped in. and as a result – not for the first time – 2011) for the BBC arts series ‘Monitor’. favoured analogue stereo recording for sections. The opening of the first ‘it has a youthful charm while at the This work (like the Piano quintet, in three unhesitatingly plundered his own back Elgar was narrated by Huw Wheldon many years. movement has a piano theme in octaves same time displaying indications of the movements, but on a smaller scale) catalogue. As Guardian critic Erica Jeal and produced by Humphrey Burton. It which reflects the plainsong chant ‘Salve skills Elgar developed as he progressed begins with a complex and wide-ranging points out: ‘references to Exodus gave was later selected by the BFI as one of Piano quintet in Regina’, but this is against agonised towards musical maturity’. It remains one first movement, which Andrew Clements him an excuse to lift several numbers the hundred greatest British television A minor op 84 string writing and followed by a complex of the most frequently performed of all describes as ‘a tangle of stream-of- from ‘Israel in ’, before finishing programmes and can still be watched Moderato – allegro chromatic passage, which leads to a his works. consciousness cross-references and with a stirring chorus sung to the music on DVD. Adagio faster moving dance-like second subject String quartet in sly harmonic shifts, whose quality of of the coronation anthem Zadok the Andante – allegro with a Spanish feel. The slow middle The music itself dates from 1905; its E minor op 83 elusiveness sometimes recalls that of Priest’. Its overture, played today on the movement is sublime and deep; and the composition was suggested to Elgar The two Elgar chamber works in this Fauré’s only string quartet, completed six organ, is in four sections: an opening slow finale brings back disturbing echoes of Allegro moderato by his close friend August Jaeger year’s Festival – this Piano quintet and the years later’. The slower middle movement, introduction, a faster allegro, an adagio Piacevole (poco moderato) of the music publishers Novello (he String quartet (discussed below) – come the first movement material. Some think which Lady Elgar described as ‘captured and finally a stirring march heavily Allegro molto had already got into Elgar’s music as from close to the end of his most creative that there may be an unacknowledged sunshine’ – though arguably sunshine reminiscent of the Music for the ‘Nimrod’ in the Enigma Variations): ‘Why phase, between the Enigma Variations programme underlying the whole work, Elgar’s only completed and published interrupted by clouds – has the tempo Royal Fireworks. not a brilliant quick string scherzo, or in 1899 and the Cello concerto in 1919. derived from a legend that a group of string quartet (there had been many marking ‘agreeably’ and quotes from the something for those fine strings [of the Three works from this period, composed contorted dead trees near the house abortive earlier attempts) comes from composer’s own Chanson de Matin op Robert Johnson newly formed LSO] only… You might close in time to each other, all share the where Elgar and his wife were living was 1918. It was composed alongside 15 no 2. The final movement has a fiery even write a modern Fugue for strings’. same E minor key: the Violin sonata op 82, a group of Spanish monks struck down by the Piano quintet (for more of the opening and a more relaxed second c1583-1633 Elgar re-used material from a projected the String quartet and the Cello concerto lightning while performing satanic rituals; background, see the entry above on subject, but moves ahead energetically Pavan in C minor Welsh Overture, sketched some years op 85; the Piano quintet – still in a minor but no Spanish monks ever lived in that the quintet). After a performance in towards the final bars. As Robert Almain earlier, and juxtaposed full strings with key, but a different minor key – comes part of West Sussex. Even if this story does Manchester of the Enigma Variations Matthew-Walker suggests, the quartet is Johnson was appointed lutenist to King a string quartet of soloists; he included from the same period, with the next opus not hit the nail on the head, the quintet under Richter in 1900, Elgar met the ‘valedictory yet forward-looking… the James I, a post previously occupied by the fugue that Jaeger had suggested number after the string quartet. These does give the feeling of a personal Brodsky Quartet (in tribute, a modern-day work of a major composer at the height his father. Johnson’s patron, the Lord and used polyphonic writing of a works were also be his last major ones, drama of some sort being played out. British quartet now has the same name); of his powers’. Chamberlain, also supported the

16 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 17 foremost theatre company in London, isometric disciplines, based upon the material’s swift descent from upon high, quoted at the close of the second and where they don’t usually venture, I have string trio – employing the divertimento’s The King’s Men, to which Shakespeare plainsong proper to the celebration of we are prepared for the appearance the Hymn which ends the third. Here, been careful to preserve what I hope conventional multi-movement layout, but belonged through most of his career; St Cecilia on 22 November, ‘Audi filia of the In Nomine melody in its original in unison with the cello line, I imagine remain audible and meaningful frames in fact the result of sublime and profound the company performed regularly at the et vide’. However, during the course of form, going back to John Taverner’s a baritone voice, quietly intoning part of reference. The Trio is in one continuous invention, on a level with Mozart’s finest Globe and Blackfriars theatres. Johnson composition in March and April 2003, early sixteenth century Mass Gloria Tibi of a stanza by Michelangelo [also set movement, with dramatically contrasting string quartets or quintets. It is in fact also was the last of the great English lutenists; external events affected the composition Trinitas and the organ transcription in the by Shostakovich as part of the Suite on sections. It was difficult to make a suitable his longest work for chamber forces. his surviving output for solo lute, although process: the invasion of Iraq, to which contemporaneous Mulliner Book which Poems by Michelangelo Buonarrotti, for conclusion: I decided it should end in a As so often with Mozart’s music, questions small in quantity, is quite magnificent in bass and piano op 145 (1974)]: spirit of quiet reflection.’ ‘Max’ was and remains utterly opposed. uses that section of the Mass setting the arise: why was this work composed when quality. His writing, unlike Dowland’s, is Here is part of the composer’s own words ‘Benedictus qui venit in nomine ‘Mentre che’l danno e la vergogna dura; © Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, from it was, and why does it stand so alone in not overtly virtuosic, yet the technical analysis of the work: Domini’ – ‘Blessed is he who comes in Non veder, non sentir m’è gran ventura: www.maxopus.com the catalogue of Mozart’s works? There demands on the player are appreciable, the name of the Lord’. This In Nomine is ‘The first movement’, March, starts with Però non mi destar, deh, parla basso.’ is a partial answer to the first question: requiring considerable stretches in the quietly distorted and dissonant – ie very a short exposition (C minor), followed by from one of Mozart’s letters from 1790 it left-hand. Johnson’s tendencies towards much not ‘in the name of the Lord’. ‘While damage and shame persist, Wolfgang Amadeus a varied repeat: there is little hint thus seems that the Divertimento was written lyricism and exotic harmony suggest it is my great fortune to neither see nor far of any music suggestive of the title. The third movement, Four Inventions Mozart 1756-1791 for Michael von Puchberg (1741-1822), a features of later baroque music in the hear – so please do not disturb me, and The following development, however, and a Hymn, stands in for a scherzo. Divertimento in E flat K563 textile merchant in Vienna and brother French style. © Matthew Wadsworth speak quietly.’ gradually transforms the material into a It takes up the thread left from the Allegro Freemason (E flat is sometimes treated military march of a fatuous and splintered first Naxos Quartet in the previous The closing measures of the quartet Adagio as a Masonic key), to whom Mozart Peter Maxwell Davies nature, after which there is, in place of movement, borrowing more of the show, however, that it is just impossible to Menuetto (allegretto) – trio had already dedicated two piano any expected recapitulation, a brief, slow techniques of Bach’s Inventions, but the neither see, nor hear.’ Andante trios, K542 and K548. Puchberg had b1934 lent generously to Mozart, in response meditation, then by way of a coda, a character is burlesque, becoming even © Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, from Menuetto (allegretto) – trio I – trio II Naxos quartet no 3 op 236 to repeated heartfelt begging letters, ghost of the march, in a very slow tempo, grotesque towards the end, where the www.maxopus.com Allegro (In the presence of the composer) drained of all energy, which forms a tonal short Hymn is marked stucchevole – noting on Mozart’s letter about ‘the trio’ This is one of only two works by Mozart March resolution in the correct key: the bones cloying, nauseating. String trio op 290 that the composer had sent twenty-five for string trio (violin, viola and cello); In Nomine of the march are now exposed as a strict florins. Despite this, it appears that Mozart The finale, Fugue, begins with successive ‘Max’ writes that this work from 2008 was the other is K404a from 1782 – a set of repaid little of his debt to Puchberg (or to Four Inventions and a Hymn mensural canon. The movement dismisses instrumental entries in period style, written for the Hebrides Ensemble, and preludes and fugues, most of which any other creditor) while he was still alive; Fugue this with a brief maestoso. recalling the typical procedure of dedicated to the memory of Karen Aim, are arrangements of earlier works by JS his widow Constanze then stepped in. This is the third of the ten string quartets The second movement, a slow In the form. This is soon interrupted and who had died tragically in New Zealand: and WF Bach. Mozart completed the The context for the Divertimento seems commissioned from ‘Max’ by the record Nomine, does not at first make use of replaced by quicker, more dynamic ‘My starting point was a memory of Divertimento on 27 September 1788, therefore to be Mozart’s mysterious label Naxos; all were given their first the plainsong common to Renaissance music, suggesting the Italian fuga (flight) accompanying, with my group The so it comes from the year in which Don financial problems in the last years of performances by the Maggini Quartet In Nomines, but draws heavily on their rather than the form Bach perfected. Fires of London at the 1978 St Magnus Giovanni was first produced in Vienna (it his life and attempts to raise money, in at the Wigmore Hall, and then recorded. polyphonic techniques, while exploring The movement ends with a return to Festival, her relative, the late Ronny Aim, had opened in Prague the year before). return offering those friends and contacts The composer has said that his intention further ramifications of the plainsong with the initial slow tempo, with part only the celebrated Orkney folk musician, in It closely follows his final symphony, the able to make him loans new works in was to create a work exploring the magic squares encountered in the first of a cumulative stretto – one has to traditional Orkney fiddle music. I have ‘Jupiter’ in C K551, and just precedes return. But why a piece for Puchberg compositional potentialities of a magic movement. When the music comes to a imagine that the period-style fugue will, alternated quick music, based on the his first ‘Prussian’ string quartet in D K575, should be a string trio, as opposed to any square of Saturn (3 x 3) within one of Mars resolution on a low G major chord, the meantime, have (silently!) progressed reel, and slow music, based on the slow which begins his final sequence of three other chamber work, is not explained (5 x 5) within one of Venus (7 x 7) – all violins take up the argument left hanging thus far. This is another mensural canon, air – and, while taking liberties with the quartets. The E flat Divertimento is widely anywhere, nor why Mozart wrote no this alongside an independent square in the air at the close of the first Naxos recalling the March’s ghost towards the rhythmic articulations, and extending recognised as one of the first, but also other original works for this combination of the Moon (9 x 9), with the associated Quartet… Now, in the course of this end of the first movement, the In Nomine the traditional harmonies into regions one of the greatest, original works for of instruments.

18 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 19 The music itself gives no hint of these hear a range of the chamber works by the best of friends, as does the fact that renewed a friendship with the oboist the C minor no 24 K491 and the D major having lessons from Mozart himself). For a money troubles. The first movement, Mozart which combine strings with wind Mozart’s father Leopold had lent Leutgeb Friedrich Ramm (1744-?1811), who no 25 K 503 of the same year and comes young woman to play well could be an the longest of the six, opens with a instruments; apart from the well-known money to help establish the cheese had been in the world-famous court hot on the heels of his first opera to a Da ‘accomplishment’ which might ensnare descending arpeggio, unison in octaves (and rightly loved) Clarinet quintet K581 shop; later, when Wolfgang had financial orchestra at Mannheim, which is where Ponte libretto, ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ a suitable husband: in this respect, the and played sotto voce – already (played at Lythe in the 2012 Festival), few troubles of his own, Leutgeb supported Mozart had originally met him. Like many K492, which had its first performance at drawing-rooms of Vienna in the 1780s suggesting more than three instruments of these works are performed regularly – him financially in return. other members of the orchestra, Ramm the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786. resembled those of Jane Austen’s – and uses a conventional sonata usually for logistical reasons, not because had left Mannheim for Munich when the Just as Mozart first put piano and winds Hertfordshire thirty years later. There is no precise explanation for form, with two main themes and a rich their merit does not deserve it. The Horn Elector made the same move. together for the Quintet K452, he seems Mozart’s choice of one violin, two violas However, unlike Mozart’s piano trios, contrapuntal development section quintet, like the Oboe quartet K370 or also to have invented the piano quartet and a cello (rather than a standard It was for Ramm that Mozart somehow his two piano quartets were no help including fugato episodes. There follows Quintet K452, is another Mozart ‘one-off’: form: piano plus a string trio – one each string quartet) to accompany the horn; found time in January or February 1781 for this purpose: his music was too a moving and complex slow movement pioneering but unique, in the sense that of violin, viola and cello. Both piano but his fondness for the dark tone of to compose his only quartet for oboe, uncompromisingly difficult – and each in A flat, with the violin allowed to shine Mozart wrote just one work for this unusual quartets have only three – but relatively the viola is obvious, as his String quintets violin, viola and cello. In ambition and work too long – for most household and a miraculous coda at its end; a first combination of instruments – horn plus long – movements: a large-scale demonstrate, and its range closely scale, and despite having only three salons, where sight-reading was the minuet and trio; a medium-paced theme violin, two violas and cello – and, so far as movements, it prefigures the Clarinet sonata-form first movement with coda, norm. Instead they needed professional matches that of the horn. As with many of in B flat and four variations (the third we know, no future composer has ever quintet K581; at moments, it resembles a a lyrical central slower movement; and musicians, which in turn led amateur Mozart’s strings-plus-wind chamber works, in the minor), so inventive as to almost followed his example precisely. small-scale concerto for the oboe (with a high-spirited rondo-finale. And, once chamber music in domestic settings to the Horn quintet is like a mini-concerto for obscure the theme; a Haydnesque even a mini-cadenza in the D minor slow again as in K452, the writing frequently be overtaken by semi-public concerts It was, as so often, a distinguished the wind player: three movements only, second minuet with two Ländler trios movement). The rondo-finale contains an suggests a small-scale piano concerto, in larger venues, with skilled performers player and friend who inspired Mozart with a short rondo finale. Although the (one rustic and one graceful); and finally unusual passage where the three strings with an interplay between keyboard and some form of ticket or entrance fee. to write for his instrument: in this case, music is amiable and graceful, especially a sunny sonata-rondo in opera buffa are in 6/8, while the oboist has figurations and individual string players far more As happened to Haydn and the string horn-player Joseph Leutgeb (1732- in the central slow movement, it would ‘hunting’ style, with a hint of silent movie in 4/4 above, before returning to join complex and varied than in most of his quartet, once he had visited London, 1811), who played in the Archbishop’s have required great skill from Leutgeb on chase sequence about it. Throughout, the strings’ time-signature in the end. A piano trios. Hans Keller describes the two chamber music of the original Hausmusik orchestra in Salzburg but in 1777 moved his natural horn (the valve horn having the three strings are treated with absolute contemporary account says: piano quartets as ‘the only absolutely sort gradually gave way to much larger- to Vienna, combining his musical career not yet been invented). equality, Mozart taking the risk from time perfect, great, deep masterpieces of with working in his wife’s family’s cheese ‘No-one has yet been able to approach scale concerts, closer to the ones we to time of having only two instruments their problematic genre’. (Brahms later shop. It was for Leutgeb that Mozart Oboe quartet in F K370 him [Ramm] in beauty, roundness, know today. However, the idea of taking playing or of giving one a solo line with softness and trueness of tone on the made three attempts – successful, many wrote this Horn quintet, which apparently chamber music out of great cities and the sketchiest of accompaniments. The Allegro oboe, combined with the trumpet-like think – at solving these problems.) dates from Autumn 1782, not long after into churches in the country was still far in subtlety of the writing (putting heavy Adagio depth of his forte’. Mozart’s marriage to Constanze and American musicologist Neal Zaslaw, the future. demands on each player for the full Rondeau: allegro the successful first performances of his general editor of the revised Köchel range of his or her instrument) is such that Piano quartet no 2 Quintet in E flat K452 opera ‘Die Entführung aus dem Serail’ at In early November 1780 Mozart was catalogue of Mozart’s works, suggests the second violin from the conventional in E flat K493 the Burgtheater in Vienna. The quintet invited to Munich by the Elector Karl that to give a prominent part to the Largo – allegro moderato string quartet is scarcely missed. also fits between the first two of the six Theodor, in order to fulfil the Elector’s Allegro piano, as Mozart often does in his Larghetto Larghetto string quartets he dedicated to Haydn, commission for the opera ‘Idomeneo’. chamber works, might have assisted Allegretto Horn quintet in E flat K407 Allegretto as well as between the ‘Haffner’ and Mozart struggled with the lengthy and the rituals of matchmaking among This is a pioneering piece, being [no tempo marking] ‘Linz’ symphonies. Three of Mozart’s Horn rather static libretto and had to work This work from 1786 is the second of well-to-do Viennese families. Since sons apparently the earliest – and arguably Andante concertos were written for Leutgeb, the feverishly (beset by a persistent heavy Mozart’s pair of piano quartets, the had the manly pursuits of fencing and the greatest – for its combination of Allegro composer adding in the manuscript a cold) to complete the music, but he companion piece to no 1 in G minor horse-riding to attend to, daughters were instruments: keyboard (in today’s Those who attend all the concerts in range of crude jokes at the horn-player’s conducted the opera’s first performance K478 from the previous year. It therefore instead often encouraged to develop concert a fortepiano, correct for the this year’s Festival have a chance to expense. This confirms that they were there in January 1781. In parallel he fits between two new Piano concertos, keyboard skills (some of them even period) plus oboe, clarinet, horn and

20 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 21 bassoon. In Vienna at the end of the was hitherto unknown’. It’s therefore (each movement except the minuet West; it was the first of his compositions to eight bars; seventeen variations follow its 1963), though in its original version for eighteenth century the string quartet disappointing that Mozart wrote no and trio is significantly longer than be played at a BBC Prom, having its UK opening statement. The piece’s regular solo strings it had been played in one of had already gained pride of place other work for piano plus winds, but was the tradition at the time for string première in 1979 under Rozhdestvensky. structure, 3/4 time signature and plentiful the pair of November 1945 concerts at amongst connoisseurs (Kenner) but this quintet directly inspired the young quartets). The first movement clearly (It will be played again at the Royal use of double-dotting suggest a stately the Wigmore Hall to celebrate the 250th mixed chamber ensembles were Beethoven, a decade later, to compose shows the flexibility which the format Albert Hall – for the sixth time at a Prom – ceremonial dance. It is not entirely in G anniversary of the tragically early death becoming fashionable amongst his own quintet for the same forces (op allowed, orchestral writing for all the in September 2013.) minor, its declared key: near the end of of ‘the Orpheus Britannicus’. The same amateurs (Liebhaber). However, the 16), complimenting Mozart by copying players together contrasting with music the ‘ground’ theme (in the bass line at concert included the first performance It is a short canon in A minor for string standard wind quintet format (with a the same three-movement structure and for groups of two or three players and the start) there is a B natural where to of Britten’s String quartet no 2 (also in this ensemble and funeral bell (tuned to A). flute on the top line) was not established using the same ‘home’ key: it is paired for solos with accompaniment. The stay in G minor would have required a Festival), which contains its own chacony It begins and ends with a scored silence until 1813-1814, when Beethoven’s friend with the Mozart in today’s concert. slow movement is mostly in a glowing B flat: this gives the music a spicy and in homage to Purcell. Britten’s own and is based on a mathematically E flat, all instruments muted, but is unexpected twist each time it recurs. arrangement of Purcell’s Chacony Antonin Rejcha (they had been students complex structure, which combines (a) String quintet no 1 interrupted brusquely after the repeat Passing modulations also appear in two was one of the works he conducted together in Bonn) started to compose a series of descending A minor scales; in B flat K174 of the opening section by a dramatic of the variations. The ‘ground’ does not more often than almost any other. Today what became the leading twenty-five with (b) a slowly assembled A minor chromatic passage for the first viola stay in the bass line throughout, migrating it will be played in an arrangement for examples of the genre. Allegro moderato triad, constructed from the notes A-C-E, Adagio under violin suspensions. The brief bucolic at times to another player; and the string trio. In 1784 Mozart was responding to the which gradually increases in volume. Menuetto ma allegretto – trio minuet and gentle trio show Haydn’s texture loses its bottom line altogether for beginning of this trend by writing K452, However, as the final silence begins, one Overture to The Gordian Allegro influence, with echo-effects, and the two of the variations. The occasion which which brings wind instruments into of the overtones of the final strike of the finale (drastically revised at the end of prompted Purcell to write this piece, the Knot Unty’d Z597 ‘serious’ chamber music from what had This first of Mozart’s six string quintets bell is C sharp, which hints at a resolution 1773) is a perfect example of Mozart’s precise date of its composition (around This overture is the first of eight short so far been a largely outdoor, military dates from 1773, a year in which the into the key of A major. The piece most energetic and inventive writing, 1680, some suggest) and the performers incidental pieces for the play of the or divertimento role. He was at the seventeen-year-old composer also commemorates the death of Benjamin with plentiful counterpoint and dramatic for whom it was intended remain title. The music dates from 1691 and is keyboard for its first performance at produced a set of six string quartets Britten on 4 December 1976 and Pärt’s gestures. It was to be fifteen years – a mysterious. However, it would be easy part of Purcell’s ‘theatre music’: a rich the Burgtheater in Vienna, which also influenced by Haydn’s early sets, as appreciation of the loss to music, as well long time in Mozart’s short life – before to imagine it as a piece of incidental collection of pieces (including some saw him as soloist in two new ‘grand well as the ‘little’ G minor Symphony no as his realisation that they would now he returned to writing new music for music for the theatre, just as his music songs with orchestral accompaniment) concertos’ for piano in B flat K450 and in 25 K183. From the start he added an never meet. Paradoxically, Pärt would the string quintet, with a sublime pair from The Gordian Knot Unty’d (whose for a remarkable total of more than forty D K451. The piano writing in the quintet extra viola – his own instrument – to the gain unrestricted access to Britten’s in C major K 515 and G minor K516. Overture is being played in this Festival) music only four years later, when he left plays. As well as composing one true has much in common with the solo part standard string quartet, instead of the Perhaps only the self-evidently unique ends with a Chaconne. opera, the short masterpiece ‘Dido and in his concertos, the winds acting as a what was then still Soviet-dominated extra cello which Luigi Boccherini (1743- and masterly quality of these later Estonia for Austria. Way ahead of the 1960s early music Aeneas’ and longer semi-operas like mini-orchestra but also in dialogue with 1805), the hyper-productive pioneer of quintets explains the relative rarity of revival, much of Purcell’s music gained ‘The Fairy Queen’, ‘The Indian Queen’ the keyboard and with each other. string quintet writing, usually favoured. performances and recordings public exposure through Benjamin and ‘King Arthur’, he therefore also It was, as Richard Wigmore has said, After its first performance, Mozart said of K174. Henry Purcell 1659-1695 Britten, who like Tippett ‘realised’ many played a significant part in the revival ‘a medium which enabled Mozart to in an oft quoted letter to his father: ‘I Chacony in G minor Z730 of the songs, replacing what was only a of theatre itself. This took place after indulge his fondness for dark, saturated myself consider it to be the best thing I The chaconne (however spelt), like its ‘figured bass’ with a fully written out set the Cromwellian ban from 1642 on all textures and rich inner part-writing’. Arvo Pärt b 1935 have written in my life’. As Michael Hasel of notes for a keyboard accompanist. theatrical performances was revoked on Cantus in memoriam international brother the passacaglia, suggests, the quintet ‘seems a stroke This B flat quintet has a relaxed first appeared in English music during Pears regularly performed groups of the Restoration of the Stuart monarchy Benjamin Britten of genius if we consider that he wrote divertimento-like feel – but with some Purcell’s own lifetime. This is one of its them in recital, with Britten at the piano. in 1660. This was also the moment when such a perfectly balanced piece – in heart-stopping and characteristically This is the work which in 1977 brought the most famous examples, originally written Britten made an arrangement of the women were finally permitted to act terms both of form and sonority – for Mozartean changes of key – and is then little known Estonian composer Pärt for four solo strings, seemingly without Chacony for a larger body of strings as on the public stage: most of the male an instrumental combination which written on a generously spacious scale to the notice of the musical public in the continuo. The underlying ‘ground’ takes early as 1947-1948 (he then revised it in actors who had always played female

22 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 23 roles found that their careers were The Octet is one of the sunniest and The fourth movement, following the smelly ‘Bright Reel’ cinema in Leningrad, a proper rediscovery. His output was prematurely over. Some of the plays for Gioacchino Rossini most expansive of Schubert’s chamber divertimento tradition, brings a brilliant inventing accompaniments to silent prodigious, especially if set alongside which Purcell’s music survives were by 1792-1868 pieces, having something of a set of variations, here on a melody from movies and not getting home until 1am. the importance of his role teaching respected names like Congreve, Dryden divertimento or serenade quality (and Schubert’s Singspiel ‘Die Freunde von composition at the Royal College of Duo for cello and The background to these two short or d’Urfey; others are by forgotten authors length): ‘a bourgeois equivalent to Salamanka’ (1815), one of which asks Music in London for more than forty double bass in D pieces for string octet is unclear, except – or by ‘unknown’, like The Gordian Knot summer-party music in the gardens at for the C clarinet rather than the B flat years (pupils included Bridge, Vaughan Allegro that he seems to have once intended Unty’d – and the play texts have often Schönbrunn’ (Arthur Hutchings). Though used in the rest of the work. A graceful Williams, Holst, Bliss, Howells and Gurney). Andante molto a five-movement Suite for string octet, similarly been lost. this ‘open-air’ feel recalls Mozart’s minuet and trio follow, then a tense There are concertos, seven symphonies, Allegro never completed. We do know that the writing for wind band, the Octet was in and ominous slow introduction to the eight published operas and eight string two pieces which he did finish were first Voluntary for double This delightful work for an unlikely pair fact inspired by Beethoven’s early and final mock-symphonic allegro, the slow quartets; and Stanford was a notable performed in 1927 by the combined organ in D minor Z719 of instruments might be expected to popular Septet op 20 of 1800, performed music returning unexpectedly as the organist and choirmaster, composing Stradivari and Glière Quartets in the many works for the instrument (including Although Purcell wrote large numbers of come from the inconsequential but at the start of today’s concert. It was lead-in to the faster final bars of this ‘Mozart’ concert hall in Moscow; and five sonatas), as well as choral music for short pieces for keyboard – much of it not entertaining oddities of Rossini’s later commissioned by Count Ferdinand golden and satisfying work. The piece that they were dedicated to Vladimir I liturgical use (settings of the canticles, yet formally catalogued and containing years (‘The Sins of Old Age’, as he called Troyer, chief officer to the household of dates from 1824, contrasting strangely Kurchavov, a friend who had recently anthems and so on). This substantial many pieces filling no more than sixteen them), in the decades after he had the Archduke Rudolph (Beethoven’s with the far darker string quartets in A died in the Crimea. They have since two-part piece for organ – its title paying bars – his output for the organ is so limited stopped composing operas. However, patron) and a keen amateur clarinettist. minor D804 (‘Rosamunde’) and D minor been arranged (by others) for string obvious homage to Bach, though from as not even to fill one CD. But it does the Duo for cello and double bass in D D810 (‘Death and the Maiden’) of the The Count specifically asked Schubert to orchestra, for piano four hands and a late-Victorian standpoint – dates from include four Voluntaries, which the Oxford actually comes from his busy period of same year; it was not published in full follow Beethoven’s model: the composer – even – four pianos, eight hands. In 1894. It is his first large-scale work for the Concise Dictionary of Music defines as opera composition, dating from 1824 or performed regularly until long after did so very closely, with the same number parallel, a great leap forward was instrument; he revised it in 1917. ‘an organ solo at the beginning and end and hence between ‘Semiramide’ and Schubert’s death. of movements (and even a minor-key being prepared: Shostakovich was of an Anglican church service, sometimes ‘Il Viaggio a Reims’. As Robert Cummings slow introduction to the final movement, writing his First Symphony op 10, which but not necessarily extemporized’. has said: ‘The whole works brims with Michael Tippett bright colours and optimism’. like Beethoven). It also has almost the Dmitri (Dimitrieyvich) was his graduation test piece from the The description of this D minor piece as same instrumentation (just one extra Conservatoire. It stunned the audience 1905-1998 ‘for double organ’ means that it requires Shostakovich 1906-1975 violin), so is scored for string quartet plus and the critics at its first performance by Preludio al Vespro di a dialogue between the two divisions Two pieces for Franz (Peter) Schubert clarinet, bassoon, horn and double bass. the Leningrad Philharmonic under Nikolai Monteverdi of the organ (the Great at the top and string octet op 11 1797-1828 In deference to the Count, many of the Malko in May 1926, showing that here the Chaire organ behind the player). In most memorable themes and moments Prelude: adagio was an original Russian talent, apparently This short piece appears to be Tippett’s Purcell’s time, two-manual organs with Octet in F D803 belong to the clarinet; but all the players Scherzo: allegro molto ready for anything. only work for solo organ and dates from these capabilities were becoming more Adagio – allegro – più allegro have testing music to negotiate. 1946, during his eleven years as part- These pieces, for four violins, two violas common, especially after the Great Fire Adagio time Director of Music at Morley College The opening movement has a slow and two cellos (two string quartets, in of 1666, when Wren newly built almost Allegro vivace – trio – allegro vivace Charles Villiers Stanford in London. His work at the College introduction which works its way in only other words) were written in 1924-1925, fifty churches in the City of London on Andante (variations) – un poco più 1852-1924 was interrupted by three months in a few bars into keys far away from the towards the start of Shostakovich’s the sites of those destroyed. The short mosso – più lento Wormwood Scrubs in 1943 for refusing, ‘home’ key of F and then settles into a composing career. This was a difficult Fantasia and Toccata in Voluntary in D minor opens with a Menuetto: allegretto – trio – as a conscientious objector, to take up broad and genial allegro. The adagio time for him and his family: he was trying D minor op 57 rhythmically intricate section (plenty of menuetto – coda non-combatant military duties; Britten ‘Scotch snaps’ and dotted notes), moves is reminiscent of the slow movement to support his out-of-work mother and After his death, much of the music and Pears, already good friends, visited Andante molto – allegro – andante to an improvisatory-sounding fantasia, of the ‘Unfinished’ symphony, with the young sisters after his father had died. He of the Irish composer Stanford sank him in prison (giving a recital there which molto – allegro molto then back to a more regular beat with clarinet in a prominent role; a lively earned a little from playing on an out-of- into a trough of neglect, as happens Tippett had been able to organise), complex counterpoint. and easygoing scherzo and trio follow. tune upright piano in the draughty and to many composers; it still waits for then had breakfast with him on the day

24 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 25 of his release. The Preludio includes the the composer quotes at the start of the with the possibility that RVW may have from Lully’s incidental music to Molière’s and a few smaller pieces, including Movements from Façade the plainsong chants ‘Sancta Maria, ora score. Its use of the whole-tone scale on occasions played at least the first Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. His use of the a passacaglia for solo cello, written for Through Gilded Trellises pro nobis’ and ‘Ave Maris Stella’, both and free rhythm – the violin’s cadenzas movement with a full string section of theorbo is quite different to that of his Rostropovich – the modest total in turn Polka of which are fundamental to individual are written without bar lines – make its an orchestra, rather than soloists. The earlier Italian counterparts in that much reflecting his painstaking approach Something Lies Beyond The Scene movements of Monteverdi’s ‘Vespro della single movement vividly suggest the lark’s powerful slow movement is reminiscent more use is made of the bass, rather like to composition. But why start with a Popular Song Beata Virgine’ (the Vespers) of 1610 – rhapsodic song, as the bird spirals up into of RVW’s song Silent Noon, also from the right and left hands of a keyboard piano quartet? Old Sir Faulk: foxtrot hence Tippett’s title. invisibility in the blue sky of an idealised 1905; and the theme of the finale, instrument. His colleagues included Marin Andrew Burn suggests that he was eager English summer day. followed by five variations, reappears Marais and François Couperin, and given These are five of the pieces, in their The piece is dedicated to the to copy Herbert Howells’ success, who in fifty years later, slightly modified, in the the extant number of manuscripts in original form also having a singer/reciter, distinguished Welsh keyboard player 1916 had won a Carnegie Trust prize for Piano quintet in C minor last movement of his Violin sonata. which his music appears, de Visée was which constitute an ‘entertainment’ Geraint Jones (1917-1998), who also ran a new piano quartet. Walton achieved Allegro con fuoco Performance sponsored by clearly held in the highest regard. artfully constructed by Walton out of his own orchestra and choir and was his ambition, his own piano quartet also Andante The Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust. poems by Edith Sitwell (1887-1964), with an early music specialist. He directed © Matthew Wadsworth being awarded a prize and published in Fantasia, quasi variazioni whom his life was already intertwined the famous 1952 recording of ‘Dido 1924 under the Trust’s auspices. So it is no (see the entry above on his Piano and Aeneas’ with Kirsten Flagstad and This early chamber work dates from 1903, surprise that the influence of Howells can Robert de Visée William Walton quartet). First performed in 1923, with six Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Jones gave the after RVW had studied with Bruch in be seen in Walton’s music, as also Ravel musicians directed by Walton and Sitwell first performance of the Preludio on Berlin in 1897; he revised it extensively in 1655-1732 1902-1983 and Stravinsky – composers whose scores herself reciting through a megaphone the 1912 Great Organ (3,695 pipes) at 1905 before its first performance. It was Prelude Piano quartet in D minor had been a special focus while he was protruding through a screen, the work Central Hall, Westminster on 5 July 1946. therefore written before he started to Allemande a student. Allegramente quickly gained both fame and notoriety: Earlier the same year, the Hall had been discover and record Sarabande Allegro scherzando The sonata-form first movement opens the Daily Express called it ‘naggingly used for the inaugural meeting of the or went to Paris to study with Ravel over Chaconne des Harlequins Andante tranquillo with a wandering Dorian melody that memorable’. Walton then made two United Nations General Assembly. the winter of 1907-1908. Perhaps with De Visée was employed for much of his Allegro molto begins in the violin over the cello’s purely orchestral suites out of his original advice from his friend Gustav Holst – career at the court of Louis XIV and was This is one of Walton’s earliest drone, suggesting an Englishness not instrumental accompaniments, but there they regularly worked together on each one of the most talented and prolific compositions, begun in 1919 close to the often characteristic of Walton’s music. are also poems Walton set which were other’s compositions at this time – RVW French composers of theorbo and guitar end of his time as an undergraduate This provides much of the material for not included in the original collection – 1872-1958 decided that this Piano quintet and two music. He was frequently called upon to at Christ Church Oxford. He completed the rest of the movement (and the all of which are of course available on The Lark Ascending earlier unnumbered string quartets were play at the evening gatherings at court, it in 1920, after he had already been rest of the piece). The scherzo follows, CD. There are in total thirty-three poems not good enough, since he withdrew This is one of Vaughan Williams’ best often playing at the King’s bedside. De ‘taken up’ by the three Sitwell siblings percussive and punchy, in constant in the definitive 1950 collection ‘Façade them all. When he died, his widow Ursula known and best loved works, chosen in Visée published two books of suites for and invited to join them on a trip to Italy; motion and including a fugato subject and other Poems 1920-1935’ by Sitwell, gave them to the British Library but 2011 as the nation’s all-time favourite baroque guitar and was a frequent on their return, he lodged in the attic of for strings alone, whose notes are which includes some never set to music embargoed their performance, relenting Desert Island Disc; in its original violin arranger of both his own and other their London house for close to fifteen derived from the first movement, and at all; but the 1923 original included only in the 1990s. and piano version it dates from 1914, but composers’ music. Nearly all his surviving years. He returned to the work in 1973, a noble tune for the piano. The slow three poems (including Through Gilded RVW orchestrated it in 1920, Adrian Boult Rather than adding a piano to a string theorbo music, including all today’s illustrating his reputation as constantly movement strongly suggests Ravel but Trellises) which were not republished in conducting its first performance a year quartet, this quintet explores deeper pieces, can be found in the wonderful revisiting old compositions in order to after an agitated episode cello and 1950. It is a cultural detective’s delight. later. It is this far better known version that sonorities by having only one violin but manuscript of Vaudry de Saisenay (Paris, rethink and improve them, and the new viola hint at the first movement theme, Beyond all this background, the music is is played in the Festival. Its inspiration and a double bass on the bottom line, just 1699). Many of these are duplicates of version (as played today) was then before the movement’s opening idea witty, refers to the idioms and rhythms of title come from a long poem by Victorian as Schubert did with the ‘Trout’ D667. As his guitar works; but there are also some published. The piano quartet leads a returns. The final movement is a sonata popular song and dance and – rightly – author George Meredith (1828-1909) Michael Kennedy points out, Brahms’ wonderful arrangements of operatic airs, rather small group of Walton’s chamber rondo with exuberant cross-rhythms and made Walton’s name as a brilliant and about the skylark, some lines from which shadow looms over the whole work, such as the Chaconne des Harlequins works – two string quartets, a violin sonata syncopations and a hint of Petrushka. daring twenty-one-year old composer.

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Katya Apekisheva - Piano Daniel Bates - Oboe Over the past few years a number of Born in Moscow and a graduate of the Daniel Bates is Principal oboe with the Irish musicians who feature in this Festival also Gnessin Music School, Katya Apekisheva is Chamber Orchestra and the City of London one of Europe’s foremost pianists, in demand Sinfonia. He has also held this position with appeared in the various concerts given internationally as a soloist and chamber the Northern Sinfonia and appeared as around the North York Moors. Every one musician and described by Gramophone Guest Principal for all the major UK orchestras of them was struck by the experience Magazine as ‘a profoundly gifted artist who including the Orchestra of the Age of as a whole – the audiences, the sacred has already achieved artistic greatness’. Enlightenment, under the conductor Sir Simon Rattle. buildings, the landscape and general Studying at the Royal College of Music under feeling of escape and freedom. Irina Zaritskaya, she went on to become Born in London and a graduate of the a finalist and a prize-winner at the Leeds Purcell School, Daniel then pursued his studies The musicians unanimously agreed: Piano Competition and Scottish Piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London. ‘how rewarding to be playing music Competition as well as being awarded the He took a further scholarship to study at for all the right reasons’. In stressful London Philharmonic Soloist of the Year. She Pembroke College, Cambridge where he high profile careers it is easy to forget has subsequently appeared as soloist with read Music and the History of Art and went how uplifting a relaxed and intimate the London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Hallé, on to win the prestigious Royal Overseas League competition. performance can feel. This is the magic Moscow Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra and the Royal of chamber music in locations such as He has performed solo concertos with the Philharmonic Orchestra with conductors such London Symphony Orchestra, the City of ours. The tremendous success of the last as Sir Simon Rattle and Alexander Lazarev. London Sinfonia, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, four Festivals has set high expectations Her 2008 recording debut of Grieg solo piano the Brasov Filharmoica, the Turin Philharmonic not just for audiences but also the works (Quartz) received overwhelming critical Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the performers who savour giving their best response, becoming Classic FM CD of the English Chamber Orchestra. Appearing with week and a Gramophone Magazine Editor’s for this unique experience. We all share the Gabrieli Consort and Players and also as Choice and 2008 Critic’s Choice. Katya a soloist, this varied career has taken him to this love of collaborating to bring you recently toured South Africa performing with the Wigmore Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, world-class music within an inspiring all major orchestras and in May 2012 Onyx the Usher Hall and the Purcell Room as well environment. Truly it is a Festival based on released her CD of works by Mussorgsky and as the Pushkin Museum in Moscow and passion, camaraderie and celebration. Shostakovich to great acclaim. This season various European festivals. He’s featured highlights include a Bach solo recital at Kings on stage and television as an actor having studied at LAMDA and has also run the Jamie Walton Place, performances with the Belcea quartet at Wigmore Hall and Aldeburgh. London Marathon twice. Daniel has a cat Artistic Director www.katyaapekisheva.com called Baudelaire.

30 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 31 Jane Booth - Clarinet Simon Browne - Violin/Viola Madeleine Easton - Violin Gavin Edwards - French horn David Frühwirth - Violin Caroline Henbest - Viola Jane Booth is a specialist in the early clarinet Simon Browne teaches and performs at the The Australian violinist Madeleine Easton has Born in Stansted, Essex, into a large and artistic Austrian violinist David Frühwirth studied Born in England, Caroline Henbest studied at and chalumeau. In addition to her work as University of Trinidad & Tobago Academy for forged a unique career combining both family, Gavin Edwards started to learn the at the Salzburg Mozarteum with Ruggiero the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Guildhall Head of Historical Performance at the Guildhall the Performing Arts and is well known at the period and modern performance practice. horn at Haberdasher’s Aske’s School, with Ricci before continuing with Zakhar Brohn School of Music with Robert Masters and School of Music & Drama, London, regular Festival, being part of it right from the start in After winning a scholarship to study at the Richard Martin. He soon moved on to the and Pinchas Zukerman. He has performed David Takeno. After 10 years as violist in the masterclasses and international adjudicating, 2009. As a principal violinist with the Northern Royal College of Music with Dr Felix Andrievsky, Centre for Young Musicians at Pimlico, where at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center New Mistry string quartet, she moved to Australia she has pursued a busy international career, Sinfonia, under the direction of Thomas she began working with orchestras such as he was taught by Gordon Carr. After school, York, Konzerthaus and Musicverein Vienna, to take up the position of Principal Viola with playing all over the world with many renowned Zehetmair, he gained a reputation as a fine the Gabrieli Consort, the Orchestra of the Gavin gained a place at the Guildhall School Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Symphony the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Caroline ensembles including the Orchestra of the interpreter of baroque and classical concerti Age of Enlightenment and the Academy of of Music and Drama being taught modern Hall Birmingham, Wigmore Hall London has performed concertos with the Australian Age of Enlightenment, Tafelmusik and The and his versatility in repertoire from Bach Ancient Music, alongside which she performs French horn by Anthony Chiddel and the and Gewandhaus Leipzig. As well as debut Chamber Orchestra in Australia, USA, Malaysia, Academy of Ancient Music. Her repertoire is to Shostakovich. Amongst other orchestras regularly with the London Philharmonic Classical or Natural Horn by Anthony Halstead, concerto performances in Tokyo, Beijing China, Singapore, Spain and the UK. She has vast and extends from the works of Handel, he has co-led the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony who was at that time the Principal Horn with (Chinese National Symphony Orchestra) and regularly partnered Richard Tognetti in Telemann and Vivaldi through to Wagner, Liverpool Philharmonic, and City of Birmingham and many more. the Academy of Ancient Music and many also at the Salzburg Festival, David was invited Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Though she Mahler and Debussy – all on historically Symphony orchestras and has worked with the Teaching and directing involves a large part other ensembles. by Maestro Valery Gergiev to perform with the left the orchestra as a full-time player in 2002, appropriate instruments. Mariinsky Orchestra in St Petersburg. Having Caroline currently holds a part-time position Berlin Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra of her life, specifically at the Royal Academy Gavin’s professional career started in performed concertos with the Mozarteum with the ACO. In chamber music Jane has performed in and the Hallé Orchestra. of Music where she has directed the Bach 1997 as the Principal Horn in the Orchestre Symphony Orchestra, RSO Berlin, Vienna the UK, North America, Japan, Australia and Simon Browne is much in demand as a Cantata series over the last four years. Further Symphonica de Tenerife, where he played She has worked extensively as a teacher, Chamber Orchestra and the Slovak State Europe. She has performed with Robert Levin, chamber musician on the violin & viola, and to her work teaching period style on modern for a season before returning to England having taught at Monash University, Melbourne Philharmonic, David is a regular guest at many Ronald Brautigam, Eybler Quartet and now has been invited to numerous festivals in instruments, she was invited to lead and to join the Hanover Band as they recorded University, and the Sydney Conservatorium prestigious festivals where he also maintains a performs regularly with her Ensemble DeNOTE Europe, Canada and Japan as well as the coach the world orchestra at the Schleswig their series of Beethoven Symphonies. This of Music, where she fulfilled a year’s contract busy chamber music schedule. and Ensemble F2. Concerto performances International Musicians Seminars in Prussia Holstein Festival in Germany this year. experience allowed Gavin to start working as Senior Lecturer. She is a regular participant include baroque concertos by Fasch, Cove. He was a multiple prize-winner on Royal Madeleine is invited regularly to guest lead with all the Classical ensembles, playing as An enthusiastic explorer of unknown repertoire, at chamber music festivals throughout the Telemann, Graupner, and Molter, Mozart’s Northern College of Music and Manchester orchestras such as the Orquesta Sinfonica a regular member of the Hanover Band, The David has restored many forgotten works to world, including the IMS Prussia Cove 2007 Concerto for basset clarinet and Weber’s University’s joint course, studying violin with de Madrid and the London Orchestra da English Concert, The Orchestra of the Age the concert stage. This has led to numerous tour and has performed as Guest Principal Concertos performed Europe-wide. Richard Deakin and baroque violin with Camera and travels back to Australia as of Enlightenment, English Baroque Soloists, CD recordings and his double CD ‘Trails of Viola with the Sydney Symphony, Melbourne Jane has recorded for Analekta (Canada), Andrew Manze. Simon went on to study guest concertmaster of the Australian Orchestre Revolutionairre et Romantique, The Creativity’ received Editors Choice in the Fono Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Brandenburg Orchestra several times a year. ATMA (Canada) and sfz music (UK) performing with renowned Hungarian pedagogue, London Classical Players, The Academy of Forum Magazine and Gramophone Magazine. Philharmonic, City of London Sinfonia, Scottish Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, solo repertoire for the Ancient Music and many more ensembles. Chamber Orchestra and Glyndebourne on Lorand Fenyves, with the aid of awards She made her concerto debut with La David is the first violinist of the ‘Klenze Basset Horn, wind music by Gossec and Méhul, Gavin has made many recordings with all the Tour. Caroline is based in Melbourne, where from the Countess of Munster Trust, and Philharmonie de Toulouse shortly before Stringquartett’ and plays on the ‘ex-Brüstlein’ and a programme of Lieder by Schubert. A above orchestras. she is a member of the Melbourne Chamber won the chamber music prize at the Royal her debut as soloist with the Australian Stradivari from 1707, which is on loan to him DVD documentary on Mozart’s Kegelstatt Trio Orchestra and teaches at the Australian Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Brandenburg Orchestra last year. from the Austrian National Bank. was released in December 2012 with Ensemble National Academy of Music. www.madeleineeaston.com www.davidviolin.com DeNOTE (Optic Nerve). www.janebooth.com

32 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 33 Benjamin Hughes - Cello John Irving - Fortepiano Adam Johnson - Piano Guy Johnston - Cello Denitsa Laffchieva - Clarinet Ursula Leveaux - Bassoon One of the UK’s dynamic and versatile cellists, John Irving is an internationally recognised One of the most versatile and exciting young Guy Johnston is one of the most exciting and Denitsa Laffchieva made her début as a The bassoonist Ursula Leveaux is a member Benjamin Hughes is Principal Cello of the BBC Mozart scholar. Formerly Director of The musicians on the circuit, the pianist and versatile cellists of his generation, his career soloist at the age of 14 in the Great Bulgaria of the renowned Nash Ensemble where she Concert Orchestra and appears regularly Institute of Musical Research at the University conductor Adam Johnson founded his own rapidly developing after he won the BBC Hall with the Sophia Philharmonic. She has champions a vast range of the chamber on BBC radio and television. As a soloist of London, John was also Professor of Music at orchestra - The Northern Lights Symphony Young Musician and a Classical Brit award. toured extensively throughout Europe, Japan repertoire. She is also a prominent orchestra he has recorded for films such as Brighton the Universities of London and Bristol. He now Orchestra - of which he is both Artistic Director He has performed with many leading and Middle East, playing as a soloist with the player and in 2011 was appointed Principal Rock, Norwegian Wood and Glorious 39 and pursues a dual career as an early keyboard and Principal Conductor. international orchestras including the London major European orchestras and made her Bassoon to the Academy of Ancient Music, concerto performances include Tchaikovsky’s performer and academic as well as being Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, Philharmonia, international debut at the age of 15. By the having held the position of Principal Bassoon Winner of the Ricordi Operatic Conducting Rococo Variations, Gulda’s Cello Concerto Reader in Music at Trinity Laban Conservatoire Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, age of 18 she had recorded her first solo CD with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra for Prize whilst studying under Sir Mark Elder, and Patrick Nunn’s ‘Fata Morgana’, which of Music & Dance. At the IMR, where he Deutsches Symphonie Orchester and St. of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto and was twenty years. Ursula is frequently invited Adam was invited to conduct at the features a semi-acoustic electric cello which is a Senior Research Fellow, he curates its Petersburg Symphony. awarded Musician of the Year 2000 by the to appear as Guest Principal with major Manchester International Festival as well was made by Benjamin, all broadcast live Performance Research strands which includes Bulgarian National Radio. In 2003 Denitsa orchestras and ensembles in Britain and as associate conductorship of the London Recent performances have included on BBC R3. He recently received a ‘Sony a recent video documentary on Mozart’s was given the scholarship for extraordinary throughout Europe. première of Jonathan Dove’s opera Flight Tchaikovsky’s ‘Rococo Variations’ with the Radio Academy Award’ for a production he ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio (with Ensemble DeNOTE), musicianship of the Herbert von Karajan with British Youth Opera under Nicholas Northern Sinfonia, the Elgar Concerto with A regular contributor to Radio 3, her performed in on BBC R2 last year. launched in December 2012. foundation in Vienna and a year later Denitsa the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and works numerous CD recordings include the Schubert Cleobury. His subsequent operatic successes was the youngest musician ever to be given Benjamin was a member of the Philharmonia As a performer on fortepiano, clavichord and by Tavener and MacMillan with the Britten Octet and Beethoven Septet with the Nash have included direction of Karol Szymanowski’s the prestigious award of the Republic of Orchestra prior to his appointment with the harpsichord, he specialises in 18th-century Sinfonia. Future plans include concertos with Ensemble, solo concertos by Mozart, Vivaldi King Roger and Benjamin Britten’s The Rape Bulgaria for Outstanding Contribution to the BBC Concert Orchestra and has worked with solo and chamber music repertoires. His latest the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with the Scottish of Lucretia for Elemental Opera. Bulgarian Culture. She studied with some of many of the world’s leading conductors in solo CD, Mozart on the Hass Clavichord, Scottish National Orchestra and the RTÉ Chamber Orchestra and she also appears the most significant living clarinettists, such as Britain and abroad touring Europe, Mexico, was released on sfzmusic in spring 2013 and A former scholar at the RNCM with the Sema Symphony Orchestra and the commissioning on the Album Midnight May Monday with Peter Schmidl (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra), Japan, China and the United States. He is in features sonatas, fantasias and miscellaneous Group Contemporary Performance Prize to of a new work for cello by composer Charlotte distinguished folk musicians Karen Tweed and Petko Radev (Teatro della Scala di Milano) demand as a Guest Principal Cellist and has early works played on a historic clavichord his credit, Adam continued his piano studies Bray. Guy is an active chamber musician as a Timo Alakotila. and Andrew Marriner (London Symphony worked with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, dating from 1763. Recent and forthcoming solo with Peter Feuchtwanger who has described founding member of the Aronowitz Ensemble Orchestra). Since 2010 she has been Ursula has given classes at all the major music Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic and chamber music appearances include him as ‘in possession of an excellent technique and Artistic Director of the Hatfield House Principal Clarinettist with the Sinfonia Finlandia colleges throughout the UK and has taught Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony the Brighton Early Music Festival; King’s Place; and full of fantasy’. Chamber Music Festival. Guy is also a Professor and now teaches at the Conservatory of as far afield as Toronto and Hong Kong. In her Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and Britten Greenwich International Early Music Festival; of Cello at the Royal Academy of Music. Future plans include developing an ambitious Central Finland. capacity as an adjudicator, she has been Sinfonia. Benjamin is also a member of the LSO St. Lukes; Newcastle Early Music Festival, educational programme in inner London Guy debut recital CD ‘Milo’, with pianist invited to be a member of the Jury for the Fibonacci Sequence, which performs regularly Canterbury Festival; Turner Sims Concert Hall Denitsa made her debut recitals at the with his orchestra which enjoys a residency at Kathryn Stott received much critical acclaim. ARD International Music Competition in at venues such as the Wigmore Hall, King’s and Finchcocks. Wigmore Hall, London and in Carnegie various London churches. A supreme chamber David Matthews’ Dark Pastoral with the Royal Munich. Ursula lives in the Lake District with her Place and Conway Hall. He has recorded Hall, New York during 2009/2010. The great John’s five books on Mozart include an music and frequent artist at this festival both as Scottish National Orchestra was released in husband and six-year-old daughter and this is works by Messiaen, Schubert, Elgar and Brahms Russian conductor Gennady Rojdestvensky international best-selling biography, The Treasures conductor and pianist, the eminent composer Summer 2012 and a recording of the Moeran her first appearance at the North York Moors for the Dutton and Deux Elles labels. said of Denitsa Laffchieva “She is an of Mozart and widely acclaimed scholarly texts Oliver Knussen hailed his performances as Cello Concerto with the Ulster Orchestra was Chamber Music Festival. www.benjaminhughes.com amazing clarinettist.” on Mozart’s Piano Sonatas and Concertos. containing ‘extraordinary detail’. also released by Naxos in Spring 2013. www.johnirving.org.uk www.nlso.org www.guy-johnston.com

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Jack Liebeck - Violin Simon Oswell - Viola David Pipe - Organ Tom Poulson - Trumpet Keith Price - Percussion Nazrin Rashidova - Violin Jack Liebeck began playing the violin at the Simon Oswell’s training began in Brisbane David Pipe read Music at Cambridge Yamaha Music Foundation of Europe Hertfordshire based Keith Price gained a BMus Soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and age of eight and his first appearance was for before going on to study in the United States. University as Organ Scholar of Downing Scholar, Tom Poulson graduated from the (Hons) at Birmingham Conservatoire where orchestral director, Nazrin Rashidova’s musical BBC television, aged ten, when he played the Early successes included awards in the College, later studying at the Royal Academy Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) in he studied with James Strebing, Jonathan acumen is creating a unique place for her role of young Mozart. Performing in concertos Australian National Concerto Competition of Music in London, having gained a 2010. During his studies he performed Jolivet’s Herbert and Liz Gilliver during which time in the music world. Sponsored by BP, the and recitals since the age of eleven, Jack’s playing the Walton and Hindemith concertos. postgraduate entrance scholarship. His Concertino for Trumpet, Piano and Strings he also attended the Franz Liszt Hochschule Azerbaijani-born British violin virtuoso made appearances have taken him around the During this period Simon co-founded the teachers have included David Titterington, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, fur Musik Weimar for a semester on the her solo debut at the age of three in Baku world. He made his concerto debut with Petra String Quartet, actively commissioning Susan Landale and Lionel Rogg. Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto with the Royal ERASMUS exchange scheme. Following and was awarded a Gold Medal by the the Hallé orchestra and has subsequently and performing Australian works. Notable Scottish National Orchestra and Shostakovich’s his undergraduate degree, Keith gained a Cairo Opera House for an exceptional violin David appears regularly as an organ recitalist, performed with many of the world’s finest performances include the Australian premiere Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings with scholarship to study at the Royal College of recital three years later. She then established accompanist and conductor; recent recitals orchestras and most recently with the LPO, of Boulez’s ‘Le Marteau sans Maitre’ and the RCS Symphony Orchestra. Music in London where he graduated with FeMusa in 2008 - Britain’s first female chamber have featured appearances at Westminster RPO, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the performances of Berio’s ‘Sequenza’ for a PGDip in 2009 after studying with many orchestra in 60 years – thus demonstrating her Abbey and Westminster Cathedral as well as A multi-award winner, Tom has won all English Chamber Orchestra. solo viola. distinguished players including Kevin Hathway entrepreneurial and musical talents further. tours to Vermont and Colorado in the USA. He the major competitions at the RCS, is a and Matt Perry. In addition to his studies he In 2002 Jack made his London recital debut Living in the United States for over 20 recently performed Poulenc’s Organ Concerto recommended artist of Making Music’s Philip Nazrin was accepted to the Royal Academy also received orchestral training with the to a sold-out Wigmore Hall and his first disc years, Simon was actively involved in the with Sheffield SymphonyO rchestra and has & Dorothy Green Award and was runner-up at of Music at the age of 15 where she was London Philharmonic Orchestra Future Firsts on the Quartz label (with Katya Apekisheva) Hollywood recording scene and recorded worked as both organist and conductor on the Bromsgrove International Young Musicians’ described as “one of the most talented Scheme and the Orchestra of the Age of was released shortly after to enormous critical the soundtracks to over 800 films, where he BBC television and radio, featuring on several Platform. He has performed concertos with the musicians to have walked through its Enlightenment. Keith plays regularly with acclaim, receiving a Classical Brit Award worked with some of the world’s most popular recordings. His first solo recording - a disc of English Symphony Orchestra and Camerata doors in forty years”. She went on to study Orchestra of St. Paul’s, a chamber orchestra nomination. He won the Brit Award with his artists. He also continued his interest in solo original organ works and transcriptions by Liszt Scotland and given recitals at St. Martin-in- with Professors Gruenberg, Andrievsky based in Covent Garden and has worked next disc of the Dvorákˇ Violin Concerto (Royal and chamber music, joining Los Angeles and Brahms - was released last year to critical the-Fields and the Royal Festival, Wigmore and and Mordkovitch. with the City of Birmingham Symphony Scottish National Orchestra), the Dvorákˇ based groups, the Capitol Ensemble and acclaim on the SFZ Music label. David became Usher Halls. Tom regularly works with Scotland’s Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, A prizewinner of several international Sonata and Sonatina (Katya Apekisheva) after Pacific Serenades. Simon has held numerous Principal Conductor of York Musical Society in national orchestras as well as the Mahler Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the competitions, she has performed in the he signed an exclusive contract with SONY Principal Viola positions including those at April 2012 and has conducted them in works Chamber, Aalborg Symphony and Aarhus Philharmonia, Symphony Orchestra of India United States, Europe and the Middle Classical. His subsequent Brahms violin sonatas the Carmel Bach Festival, the Hollywood Bowl including Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem Symphony Orchestras. He has also been a and the Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra. He East, also performing for Royalty and with Katya was The Times CD of the week. Orchestra, the Mozart Classical Orchestra and and Bach’s St Matthew Passion. member of the Lucerne Festival Academy, also plays period timpani with Spiritato and The other dignitaries. Her extensive repertoire has appeared as Guest Principal Viola with performing under the baton of Pierre Boulez Jack is Artistic Director of Oxford May Music David came to work at York Minster in Brook Street Band. encompasses more than 40 concertos and a the Queensland and Melbourne Symphony and worked as an onstage musician with the Festival, a festival of music, science and the September 2008 and was appointed Assistant large number of chamber and virtuoso works. Orchestras, the Australian Chamber Orchestra Royal Shakespeare Company. His passion for timpani manifests particularly arts, which is now in its sixth year. He plays the Director of Music in September 2010. He as well as participating in the Australian Festival in authentic performance practice, an Her debut CD was released in June 2013 ‘Ex-Wilhelmj’ J.B. Guadagnini dated 1785 and performs regularly with local groups and is Tom is very grateful for the ongoing support he of Chamber Music and the Oxford May experience gained primarily with his on the Naxos label. She is also working on is a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music increasingly in demand as a teacher as well receives from the John Hosier Trust, the Martin’s Music Festival run by Jack Liebeck. He lives in appearances with the Orchestra of the Age of another collaborative recording project with in London. as freelance organist. After last year’s success, Musical/Philharmonia Orchestra Scholarship Melbourne where he frequently teaches Enlightenment. Keith is also a keen golfer (we guitarist, Stanislav Hvartchilkov, to be released www.jackliebeck.com it is a pleasure to welcome him back. Fund and the Anglo-Danish Society. He also and performs. must introduce him to the Whitby Golf Club.) later this year. www.david-pipe.co.uk holds a silver medal from the Worshipful www.nazrin.co.uk Company of Musicians.

36 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 37 Victoria Sayles - Violin Ted Schmitz - Tenor (voice) David Tollington - Elizabeth Trigg - Bassoon Carol Tyler - Resident Artist The Villiers Quartet - Quartet Victoria Sayles was a Foundation Scholar at American tenor Ted Schmitz trained in theatre French horn After graduating from the University of Surrey, Carol Tyler trained in Wolverhampton and At the forefront of innovation and creativity the Royal College of Music, London where and music at Northwestern University in Elizabeth Trigg won a scholarship to the Royal Birmingham receiving a BA.(Hons) Fine Art and in chamber music, the Villiers Quartet (VQ) David left the Royal Northern College of Music she graduated with First Class Honors. She Chicago and received a Masters degree Northern College of Music in Manchester, an MA in Fine Art respectively. Since graduating has become known for their masterful in 2000 collecting the Alfred de Reyghere is currently Associate Leader of the Royal from the Manhattan School of Music. He has studying bassoon with Edward Warren. She as a mature student in 1990 she has exhibited interpretations of works by English composers Memorial Prize. As a successful freelance Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the appeared internationally in a wide range of then graduated to the Royal Academy of widely. Key exhibitions since 2000 include - such as Elgar, Delius, Alan Bush and Frank musician he has worked with many of the London Mozart Players. She was a member operatic roles. Highlights include his work with Music where she took up further studies with Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria - Light Bridge, recently becoming a featured country’s finest orchestras including the BBC of Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Seattle Opera, Opera Bellas Artes Mexico Gareth Newman and John Orford before as a Feather, Installation at the Showroom ensemble of the UK’s Making Music Concert Philharmonic, the Hallé, the Royal Philharmonic Concertmaster in Santiago Opera House, City, Bregenzer Festspiele, Aldeburgh Festival pursuing a career as a chamber musician Cinema Sheffield - Contemporary View, Promoters’ Group. Named Quartet-in- Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, the BBC National Chile as well as guest Concertmaster in Bergen and the Kammer Opera Vienna. Featured and as an orchestral bassoonist in some of the RCA London - Back to Nature, Ikon Gallery, Association with the Northern Lights Symphony Orchestras of both Scotland and Wales, the Philharmonic (Norway), BBC Scottish Symphony, roles include Don Basilio and Don Curzio (Le country’s most eminent orchestras. Elizabeth Birmingham - as well as shows in numerous Orchestra, they created their own ground- City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Nozze Di Figaro), David (Die Meistersinger Von is in great demand as a freelance musician commercial galleries throughout England. She breaking chamber music residency and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. Symphony, London Mozart Players, Royal NÜrnberg), Aschenbach (Death In Venice), and performs with the likes of the London is also a regular exhibitor at the Affordable Art concert series in London and regularly explore Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Philharmonic and Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw). His affinity He also regularly works with Opera North and Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Fairs in London and Glasgow. the relationship of the string quartet with Trondheim Symphony (Norway) Orchestras. with Britten was evident early on when Ted was the English National Ballet as well as appearing Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra dance, art, film, literature, digital media In 1995 she was Artist-in-Residence at Grizedale a resident young artist with the Opera Theatre as guest Principal Horn with The Symphony under such prestigious conductors as Valerie and technology. As a chamber musician Victoria has performed Forest in Cumbria. Living in a caravan and of St Louis, Central City Opera and the Britten- Orchestra of India with whom he recently Gergiev, Sir Colin Davis, Mark Elder and John in festivals all over the world such as the working in a huge attic studio for three months, Last year they collaborated with actor Richard Pears Programme. performed in Moscow. Adams. As well as orchestral playing, she Australian Chamber Music Festival, the Gstaad the experience changed her working methods Mulholland in a performance of Haydn’s The enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, Festival Switzerland, throughout Japan, New In recital, Ted has premiered songs by Ned His work has taken him all over the world with and life. The following year, she moved to a Seven Last Words of Christ and launched the playing regularly at London’s Wigmore Hall. Zealand and UK. In January 2009 Victoria Rorem and John Musto among others with tours of Japan, China, India, much of Europe caravan on the North York Moors near Whitby VQ New Works Competition, reaching a global played to refugees in the refugee camps on the New York Festival of Song. Other concert and, as a baroque hornist, he appeared Elizabeth also has a real passion for music and finally realised her ambition to integrate online audience. They recently performed the Thai-Burmese Border with the Iuventus credits both here and much further abroad as principal with Les Arts Florissant in Paris, education which enhances her busy schedule. her life and work. at the legendary London jazz venue Ronnie String Quartet. Recent concerto performances include Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Beethoven’s Switzerland and the Edinburgh Festival. His Highlights of her career to date include Scott’s as part of the Brit Jazz Fest with vocalist Carol continues to exhibit regularly and in include Bach, Beethoven, Bruch, Glazunov, Ninth Symphony at Birmingham Town Hall recording work has been incredibly varied performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony Seaming To. Projects for 2013 include recording June each year opens her house and studio in Mendelssohn and Saint-Saens Violin Concertos. with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra, with a wealth of classical CDs and also a with the BBC Symphony Orchestra for the the quartets of English composer Robert Still the Dales as part of the North Yorkshire Open She also performed the Bach Double Violin Stravinsky’s ‘Les Noces’ and the Haydn recent collaboration with Sting in Durham First Night of the Proms, recording the sound with the British Music Society, and a recording Studios. Her intimate relationship to the moors Concerto with Jack Liebeck, Sydney Opera ‘Paukenmesse’ with the Auckland Philharmonic Cathedral of his ‘Winter Songbook’. David track for the film ‘The Golden Compass’ and of Sanctus by Canadian-Estonian composer during those nomadic years has given her a House. Tours with Southern Cross Soloists, in New Zealand and the title role in Britten’s has also, occasionally, ventured into the realm touring America and Europe with the Royal Riho Esko Maimets, winner of the VQ New unique perspective to its vision through art Chamber Music New Zealand, Chamber Music ‘Saint Nicholas’ with the New Elizabethan of film and TV with perhaps his most notable Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and Anthony Works Competition. This Autumn, VQ will and this is why her regular depictions of the Festivals in America, Canada, UK and USA. Singers. With his passion for the music of appearance being in the recent Daniels. Elizabeth has appeared with us during make its American debut as part of their East landscapes are commissioned by the Festival www.victoriasayles.com Britten we look forward to welcoming Ted Keira Knightley film ‘The Duchess’. This is his the past two festivals and is very excited to Coast tour. The Villiers Quartet is proud to be each year. into the festival. third appearance at the North York Moors return for a third year. generously sponsored by the Delius and Bush www.tedschmitztenor.com Chamber Music Festival. Trusts, and by the VQ Supporters Circle. www.villiersquartet.com

38 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 39 Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay - Matthew Wadsworth - Jamie Walton - Cello Dan Watts - Flute Anthony Williams - Alexander Zemtsov - Viola Violin Theorbo/Lute Known for his rich, powerful sound with purity Dan Watts attended Wells Cathedral School Double-bass Alexander Zemtsov was born in Ufa, USSR, of tone and emotionally engaging and the Aspen Music School before studying and studied with Elena Ozol at the Gnessin German-Hungarian violinist Zsolt-Tihamér Matthew Wadsworth is in great demand as Born in 1980, Anthony Williams read performances, Jamie Walton has appeared at the Royal Northern College of Music. After Special Music School in Moscow. After further Visontay began performing in 1988 and in 2007, a lute soloist, continuo player and chamber Mathematics and Music at Royal Holloway throughout much of Europe, the USA, New graduating Dan was appointed Professor of studies in Maastricht with Michael Kugel and at the age of 24, he became the youngest musician. He has appeared at major festivals University of London, before undertaking Zealand, Australia and the UK. Flute at the National Conservatory of Music in Berlin with Tabea Zimmermann, he was ever Joint Concert Master of the Philharmonia in the UK, Europe and North America and postgraduate study at the Royal College in Ramallah, Palestine. He has performed awarded a number of prizes, including first Orchestra. Laureate of several international can frequently be heard on radio, both in A tireless chamber musician, Jamie is the of Music in London. Anthony has a busy concertos at Royal Festival Hall, St John’s Smith prize at the International Youth Competition solo prizes including the International Louis live performance and on disc. Matthew has founder of this festival, launched in 2009 and freelance career working with orchestras Square and appeared with the Manchester Classical Legacy in Moscow, at the Elise Meyer Spohr Violin Competition and the International recorded for Avie, Deux-Elles, Linn, EMI, Channel shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Society including the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata, Faros Soloists (Cyprus) and Competition in Hamburg and at the Brahms Henry Marteau Violin Competition, he has Classics and Wigmore Live and his six CDs to Award within two years. The success of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Orquesta di Algarve. Dan has also played Competition in Austria. Alexander Zemtsov has appeared as concerto soloist with a number date have received great international festival has allowed Jamie to combine his Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, with the Royal Shakespeare Company and worked with several European orchestras and of German orchestras and performed the critical acclaim. two passions of music and North Yorkshire; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and numerous West End productions including in 2002 was appointed Principal Viola of the Lark Ascending with the Philharmonia under the bringing together of colleagues and Brandenburg Sinfonia, as well as performing Matthew studied lute with Nigel North at ‘Phantom of the Opera’, ‘Mary Poppins’ London Philharmonic Orchestra. both David Hill and Sir Andrew Davis. With the audiences to create a true celebration of life, principal bass with the London Mozart Players London’s Royal Academy of Music, winning and ‘Wicked’. Philharmonia he has also recorded the John music, history and landscape. and the Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra In addition to his concerts with the Hermitage the London Student of the Year award in 1997 Jeffreys Violin Concerto. Dan is Principal Flute of the Northern Lights (founded and run by Adam Johnson). String Trio, Alexander is active as a soloist for his work on the development of Braille With Signum Records he has recorded much Symphony Orchestra and is one of the and in chamber music; he plays regularly Before becoming Joint Concert Master, Zsolt lute tablature. He then spent a year at the of the cello/piano repertoire as well as ten Anthony is in demand as a chamber founding members of the Metropolitan with the Razumovsky and Aronowitz also led the Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague. concertos with the Philharmonia Orchestra, musician, and last season performed the Ensemble, a flute and string ensemble, Ensembles and his solo engagements Hamburg Philharmonic, London Symphony Recent engagements have included the which include the Dvorák and Schumann Schubert ‘Trout’ Quintet with three different with which he has performed live on include appearances with the Belgian Radio Orchestra, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, the Georgian concertos with Vladimir Ashkenazy released ensembles alongside major works by Vaughan national television. Orchestra, Konzertverein Orchester Vienna and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestra Concert Society (Edinburgh), the Metropolitan earlier this year to great critical acclaim. He has Williams, Rossini and Beethoven as well as the London Philharmonic Orchestra. He has Nacional de Porto, City of Birmingham Museum of Art (New York) and the Lufthansa, also recorded three concertos with the Royal A trademark purity of sound is a distinctive the Dvorákˇ string quintet with the Wihan performed in the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra and Bamberg Symphony Beverley, Spitalfields, Budapest, Vancouver, Philharmonic Orchestra under Okko Kamu quality in his playing and Dan is a committed Quartet of Prague. He also enjoys performing Hall (Moscow), the Musikhalle (Hamburg), the Orchestra, touring throughout Europe, Russia, Ottawa, Montreal Baroque, Mitte-Europa and due out next year. Last month’s CD of Britten’s chamber musician both in modern and contemporary music, as a member of the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), Musikverein Asia and the USA. Innsbruck festivals. Matthew has also worked solo cello suites was the final installment of period performances. His versatility as an critically acclaimed Theseus Ensemble, and (Vienna), Wigmore Hall and Queen Elizabeth with The Academy of Ancient Music, English his complete works for cello and a film about artist manifests also in solo work, guesting as as soloist in the world première of William Established as a sought-after chamber Hall (London). Alexander is viola professor at Touring Opera, Birmingham Opera Company, these suites is premiered here at the festival soloist with the Aubry String Trio and earlier Attwood’s Double Bass Concerto in 2009. He musician, he has performed and recorded the Guildhall School of Music, Konservatorium Independent Opera, The Netherlands Bach (August 22nd) before general release on DVD. this year he gave the world premiere of plays on a double bass from 1840 made by Bartók’s Contrasts with Mark van de Wiel and and also teaches in Lausanne and at the Society, I Fagiolini, The English Cornett and Edward Gregson’s flute concerto at the Manchester-based William Tarr. Last year Yefim Bronfman as well as the Rachmaninov He was recently awarded a Foundation Vienna Konservatorium. His recent solo Sackbut Ensemble, The Musicians of the Globe, St Martin-in-the-Fields with the Northern he performed what turned out to be one of Piano trios with Mats Lidstroem and Vladimir Fellowship by Wells Cathedral School for his and chamber CDs are released on Naxos, Arion, Constantinople, The Theatre of Early Lights Symphony Orchestra. the most popular works in the festival, which is Ashkenazy. As a chamber musician he has also outstanding contribution to music. Jamie Chandos and LPO live labels. Music and Les Violons du Roy, among others. returning this year through public demand – performed at the Mozartsaal, Vienna, the Salle plays on a 1712 Guarneri and divides his time He has also jumped over 70 ft on a motorcycle the Rossini duo for double-bass and cello. This Gaveau, Paris and Wigmore Hall, London. between the North York Moors and London. in the Mojave desert. www.jamiewalton.com will be part of the opening concert. www.matthewwadsworth.com 40 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 41 Photo Credit: Jamie Walton

42 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 43 Venues

The earliest written record of St Oswald’s Sir Walter Tapper, the architect St Oswald’s occurs in 1100; but in 1910, at a major commissioned in 1910, was a Lythe restoration carried out under the distinguished member of the Arts and The church of St Oswald dominates auspices of the Vicar, the Reverend Crafts movement, renowned for his the headland above the village of the third Marquess of Normanby (who attention to detail. The pews, pulpits, Sandsend. Inland, to the north, west began his ecclesiastical career as rood screens and organ lofts in the many and south lie the vast open spaces of assistant curate here), 37 fragments churches he restored were always of the North York Moors but at the church of carved stone were found built into the best quality, and the acoustics were, the eye and the mind are drawn to the the walls of the Norman church. These almost without exception, fine. This is true east, to the sea which forms the Parish are Anglo-Danish gravestones from, of St Oswald’s at Lythe, where Tapper boundary on that side, and south, down most likely, a Christian burying ground created an elegant, calm and airy the steep bank and along the beach to established following the Viking invasion space in great contrast to the fury of the Whitby Abbey, founded in 657. of the neighbourhood in 867. sea and winds outside.

44 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 45 Roman road and near to the great villa lectures sponsored by the Friends of St Mary’s at Hovingham. Bede’s further reference Lastingham Church. Lastingham to Cedd having to purify the site before Today the interior of the church is as J. L. The church is undergoing a major he could begin building seems relevant Pearson reconstructed it in 1879, when reconstruction, not of its fabric but its here. Now that a recent survey carried he was inspired to put groin vaulting history. There was a long accepted belief out by archaeologists from the University over the nave and the chancel. It is this that the site of St Mary’s chosen by of Leeds has found Roman material in that produces the exceptional quality Cedd between 653 and 655 to build a the crypt, it begins to look as if the shell of sound. The rest is plain, and this is monastery was, as described by Bede’s of an Anglo-Saxon religious building what gives the church such a sense of Ecclesiastical History ‘among steep and was neatly dropped into the middle peace, reflection and simplicity, devoid remote hills fit only for robbers and wild of an abandoned Temple. The wider of oppressive features. Simon Jenkins beasts’. Now that is giving way to the significance of Cedd’s church and of its gives it four stars in his Thousand Best realisation that where it stands, on the successor, the Benedictine monastery Churches; Sir John Betjeman gave it one edge of the fertile area of Ryedale, it was refounded in 1078 by Stephen of Whitby, word - ‘unforgettable’. only three miles from an important is being explored in a series of annual

and stayed 45 years, during which his to the Abbey, though this was not St Hilda’s West Cliff forceful personality made him famous achieved without a prolonged struggle Whitby throughout Yorkshire. ‘Whitby was his with the landowner of the site. West Cliff Big and bold is how Nikolaus Pevsner kingdom’ it was said, and what more Fields were open country until George describes this huge church, built in fitting that the five Anglican churches Hudson, the railway king, bought them two years from 1884. Designed by the over which he presided, including the for development. Nowadays the east Newcastle architect, R.J. Johnson, whom endearingly unusual, but not exactly window of St Hilda’s looks soberly down Pevsner salutes for his competence shipshape, Parish Church of St Mary Hudson Street to the River Esk. and high mindedness, St Hilda’s was on the East Cliff, should be formed into Whitby did not become an conceived on a scale, and with features, a new diocese? To that end the new archdeaconry with a suffragan Bishop suitable to the cathedral the Rector St Hilda’s soon acquired a bishop’s until 1923. By that time Austen had left to of Whitby, Canon George Austen, throne. Austen himself planned and become a Residentiary Canon at York intended it to be. A southerner by oversaw every detail of the new church, Minster. He died aged 95 in 1934. birth, Austen arrived in Whitby in 1875 including the view across the harbour

46 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 47 line of the moor’. architect, Ronald Sims, who died in 2007 Wilson in 1799). By the time the school St Hilda’s St Hilda’s Priory aged 80, advised on the reordering of closed in 1997 the nuns had greatly Danby Sneaton Castle, Whitby the chapel ‘to improve its ambience, diversified their work in this county into This is the church that inspired the cult The neo-Romanesque chapel was dignity, accessibility and liturgical use’. preaching, spiritual guidance, retreats, book Forty Years in a Moorland Parish designed by C. D. Taylor and built Later on he was responsible for the cross hospital chaplaincy and missions. They by Canon John Atkinson, in which he between 1955 and 1957 for the Anglican and candlesticks made of black wrought have other houses in and around Whitby famously described how his first sight Order of the Holy Paraclete, whose metal (as also for the crypt window in St as well as in Rievaulx, York and Hull. Their of the interior in 1845 was of shocking Mother House is here. Central to the life Mary, Lastingham.) long-standing commitment to Africa has recently been extended by two neglect, dirt and an almost total of the Order, which follows St Benedict, The Order was founded in 1915 by new convents: in Ashanti, Ghana and absence of worshippers. He believed are the Divine Office and the Eucharist. this was due to its remote position in Margaret Cope when a girls’ school was Johannesburg. There is also a home for the middle of the dale, one and a half In 1992 the distinguished ecclesiastical established in the Castle (built for James girls in Swaziland. miles from Danby village. Arriving at a time when the Methodists had the ascendancy over the Anglican church in the area, he believed the solution lay in returning among the people. In 1863 he caused an iron church to be built in Castleton (the Tin Tabernacle), where he held a service once a week.

Yet under Atkinson’s regime St Hilda’s was no longer neglected; the year after he arrived a new chancel was designed by the architect, William Butterfield. This was only the latest among many alterations since the church was founded. There are possible traces of Danish occupation in the burial ground, and Saxon remains in the church. The tower is 15th century and two of the bells are marked 1698. There was a major restoration in memory of Atkinson in 1903 in the Early English style by Temple Moore. It might have been a muddle, yet the impression nowadays is of a most harmonious building, glowing under 21st century lighting, a sanctuary brought back to life, standing on the promontory below what Pevsner called ‘the noble

48 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 49 completely serviced by clergy from displays a sensitivity often lacking in St Nicholas the priory, so after dissolution separate his peers. Guisborough provision had to be made. There are several fine monuments The church of St Nicholas stands The church building is largely within the church, of which the most adjacent the ruins of the once physically distinguished is the Brus Cenotaph. Perpendicular in style, with the chancel imposing 12th century Augustinian priory. This tomb-chest was originally housed and tower dating from circa 1500. When one imagines the size and scale within the Priory and was executed The west window and doorway are of the priory church, it naturally begs the circa 1520 as a commemoration to the contained within the tower but given question as to why a separate church founder of the Priory, Robert de Brus. focus by an elegant two-centred arch. should be built in such proximity. Yet After dissolution it was moved to the Upon entering the church there is a great on closer examination this is not at all church. The decoration is sophisticated peculiar – separate churches to cater for sense of space which is enabled by the for its time and consists of knights, saints the laity were often established close to lithe and delicate arcade of six bays and possibly the prior all praying for the abbey churches (e.g. St Margaret’s and which ensures that the low roofline does repose of the souls of the family. In the Westminster Abbey) to ensure different not impinge. This overall effect was also right spandrel is seated the Virgin Mary. pastoral, spiritual and liturgical emphases aided by a very skilful restoration of the The window adjacent to the Cenotaph could be harmoniously undertaken. church in 1903–08 by the eminent church contains fragments of medieval glass Even so, the church would have been architect Temple Moore, whose work from the original east window.

on higher ground some way to the in the church at Baldersby St James, St Helen’s and All Saints’ north-east. This again was a deliberate near Ripon, which dates from 1857. In Wykeham ploy by Butterfield: by piercing the old common with both of these locations, Those who travel along the Pickering- tower, to create a gatehouse effect. The Wykeham also possesses elegant secular Scarborough road cannot fail to notice original church building was cleared buildings designed by Butterfield, namely the imposing presence of the church away to create a virtual tabula rasa: a the school to the south and also of St Helen and All Saints: specifically, common aim of certain Victorian church the parsonage. the elegant broach spire that adorns designers, especially those influenced by Wykeham was also the location of the 14th century tower dominating the ‘Ecclesiologist’ tendencies, rather to the the priory of St Mary and St Michael main village crossing. To a superficial detriment of our heritage. for Cistercian nuns, founded by Pain look they appear contemporary but the The Victorian church building shows an Fitz Osbert circa 1153. Little remains of spire is in fact a sympathetic creation adherence to simple Gothic forms of this and the site is now occupied by a of William Butterfield dating from 1853. the 13th century which is consistent with large house which is the home of the This was early Butterfield, who had yet to Butterfield’s earlier work in North Yorkshire Dawnay family who hold the Viscountcy yield to the polychromatic detailing for (e.g. Sessay of 1847); but after Wykeham, of Downe. The modern stained glass which he is renowned. The other notable completed in 1855, this restraint was window in the north aisle commemorates feature is the detached status of the soon lost as he quickly moved towards the life of the 11th Viscount. tower from the church, which nestles the temptations of intense decoration

50 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 51 The new St Stephen’s church – where and Ripon and also undertook St Stephen’s the concert is to be held – is a bold considerable commissions abroad. Fylingdales statement of design as influenced by a Use of such an eminent ecclesiastical Confusingly there are two churches generation of architects raised on the architect with high ideals inevitably dedicated to St Stephen within the civil tenets of the Oxford Movement; Pevsner increased the cost of the building to parish of Fylingdales. The old church of calls it “big, earnest and rather stern”. This a sizeable sum of £6,000. The work 1822 is situated on a hillside overlooking time the emphasis is sacramental with was financed by the long-standing Robin Hood’s Bay, itself built on the site special detailing such as the large four- incumbent, Robert Jermyn Cooper, of a much older chapel. It conformed to light west window and the rib vaulting and local landowner Robert Barry. Their the style of worship common at that time in the apsidal chancel, leaving the munificence ensured a high standard – a simple if somewhat crowded interior worshipper in no doubt as to the focal of design and execution; in particular dedicated to the spoken word. Further point for their devotions, namely the altar. the stained glass designed by Henry down the hill is the new church of 1868- The building was designed by George Holiday is especially meritorious, ranking 1870. Barely fifty years separate the two Edmund Street, whose most notable alongside the best examples of late churches, yet the contrast in architecture building is the Royal Courts of Justice in Victorian stained glass in the county. and interior design is immense: a The Strand, London. Street was much in beautiful illustration of the powerful forces demand as an ecclesiastical architect. unleashed that revolutionised English He was Diocesan Architect to the Christianity in the mid 19th Century. cathedrals of Oxford, York, Winchester

village. He discreetly ministered across apotheosis at Cheadle) this project did St Hedda’s RC Yorkshire for fifty years until he fell victim not rely upon a wealthy patron; instead, Egton Bridge to the hysteria of the Popish Plot of 1678 all the costs were defrayed by small Many features of the story of Roman and was hanged, drawn and quartered donations. Volunteer aid was enlisted in Catholicism within England since the in York the following year. every task including quarrying the stone. Reformation can be found in the history English Roman Catholicism was at its The building itself was designed by of St Hedda’s Church. The village and lowest ebb in the eighteenth century Hadfield & Son of Sheffield in a simple the surrounding population have long yet the first church was built in 1798; this French style with lancet windows and maintained a Roman Catholic tradition even when under extreme official is now the school next door. Within the an apsidal chancel. However at 114ft by disapprobation in the 16th and 17th next fifty years both legal emancipation 47ft with a height of 43ft it was a triumph century. This was aided by gentry families, and the influx of labourers from Ireland of volume over expense. The present such as the Smiths of Bridgehome in the created a rising demand. In 1859 the church opened in 1867 while furnishings village, who were able to provide a safe priest in charge – Fr Callebert – set such as the altar from Messrs Mayer & haven for both priests to live and for Mass about trying to raise funds for a much Co. of Munich and the Lady Chapel to be said. Probably the most notable larger church building. Unlike many large were added over the subsequent ten priest – and later martyr – was Nicholas Catholic churches of the period (one years. The Lady Chapel now contains Postgate who was also born in the immediately thinks of Pugin’s neo-gothic the Postgate Relics.

52 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 53 the munificence of a local spinster, Miss Madox Brown and William Morris can be St Martin-on-the-Hill Mary Craven, who offered to finance seen in abundance while other furniture Scarborough the complete building costs of £6000. such as the pulpit can be accurately Acknowledgements By 1860 the influence of Tractarian Her late father had retired to South Cliff described as a ‘Pre-Raphaelite gem’. principles had spread far beyond Oxford; and she saw the church as a fitting The church was consecrated in July 1863 My sincere thanks to the Sisters at A special acknowledgement to the We sadly lost our Patron Sir Marcus but in Yorkshire it had yet to penetrate memorial for him. and from the start caused controversy. St Hilda’s Priory, Sneaton Castle for the law firm Rollits, who have supported the Worsley during this past year. Sir Marcus beyond Dean Hook’s fortress at Leeds The architect was George Bodley. The first vicar, Rev Robert Henning Parr, use of their wonderful and inspiring festival right from its beginnings. John was a staunch supporter of this festival Parish Church. Yet within three years a This was an early commission and the was openly Tractarian and throughout premises throughout the festival and and Katrina Lane also provide such and of music in general; he will be new church – St Martin-on-the-Hill - was exterior of St Martin’s shows his clear the next few years the vicissitudes of to all the churchwardens for their time committed assistance throughout the greatly missed, not just as a Patron but established that would openly embrace preference at that time for French the Ritualist controversies were played and energy too. festival, for which we are truly grateful. also as a friend. It seems fitting that this the Catholic heritage of liturgy and Gothic e.g. the distinctive ‘saddleback’ out within St Martin’s as he introduced I’d like to thank The Normanby year’s theme should be British music, ultimately become ‘a remarkable tower and high pitched nave roof. While innovations that outraged some – My appreciation also goes to artist Carol Charitable Trust for their continued and something he was passionate about. This treasury of Victorian art’. the exterior is austere, the interior is such as lighted candles, statues and Tyler for producing such imaginative, generous support; also to Derek Knaggs, festival is dedicated to his memory and it topical and beautiful imagery each St Martin’s was born out of need; the anything but. St Martin’s was a showcase vestments, very much encouraged John Haines, Yvette Turnbull, the Vaughan continues in the spirit to which he gladly year; and to photographer Frank expansion of Scarborough had placed for the talents of the ‘Pre-Raphaelites’ by Miss Craven. The church remains a Williams Trust and all those who wish to put his name. too much demand on the ancient who had combined into an artistic place for those who seek ‘distinction in Harrison for generously giving his time to remain anonymous. Finally an enormous thanks to you the church of St Mary’s. However, funds for a partnership in 1861 primarily to furnish decoration and worship’. capture the landscapes and churches There is a committed team who audience, not just for your support and new church on the South Cliff were not new churches. Exquisite stained glass so effectively. It is wonderful to have two work tirelessly throughout the year in stamina but also for helping us to acquire readily available. This all changed with designed by Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Yorkshire based ‘artists in residence.’ order to make this event run smoothly, a trailer so that we can transport what professionally and successfully, so I’d David Denton has been very supportive we need for concerts without the need particularly like to thank Anne Taylor, Joel in the press and we thank him for helping to hire vans any more. It’s a tremendous Brookfield and Adam Johnson. My thanks to spread the word so positively. Thanks asset for us and you, the generous also to Marianne Sweet from Damselfly also to Philip Britton (from Concerts at audience, helped us to purchase it. Cratfield in Suffolk) for his marvellous Communications for PR and helping to Enjoy the fortnight! deliver this splendid brochure, as well as notes on the music within this brochure. our website designer Mike Samuels. Jamie Walton Artistic Director

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54 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2013 55 We welcome support for this event, which is why we’ve set up The North York Moors Chamber Music Festival Trust, a charitable organisation. The aim is to generate such interest that it becomes an annual celebration so if you wish to make a donation please download a Gift Aid form (if you are a UK taxpayer) to ensure your donation goes further. Cheques payable to The North York Moors Chamber Music Festival Trust would be most gratefully received; please send to The NYM Chamber Music Festival, The Granary, Appleton-le-Moors, York yo62 6tf. The accounts will be made readily available as part of our annual returns to the Charity Commission.

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