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13 th –29 th July 2018 BOOKING DETAIlS SuMMARY OF EvENTS FRIDAY 13Th JulY 19 8PM 39 8PM GENERAl BOOKING AND BOx OFFIcE 1 10AM choir of King’ s college, cambridge Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello) OPEN FROM ThuRSDAY 12 Th APRIl Pre-concert talk Ampleforth Abbey Isata Kanneh-Mason (piano) St Mary’s Church, Birdsall The Long Gallery, Castle Howard 2 11AM ThuRSDAY 19Th JulY For a booking form, further booking details and booking terms please see pages 35–38 The chamber music of 20 10AM WEDNESDAY 25Th JulY or visit our website Antoní n Dvo řá k 1 Pre-concert talk 40 11AM St Mary’s Church, Birdsall Pickering Parish Church coffee concert 3 6PM 21 11AM Duncombe Park Royal Northern Sinfonia The chamber music of 41 7PM Hovingham Hall Antoní n Dvo řá k4 Robert hollingworth in conversation Pickering Parish Church Church of St Martin-on-the-Hill, POST SATuRDAY 14Th JulY 22 5.30PM Scarborough (can be received anytime, but dealt with according to Priority/General Booking dates ) 4 11AM chi-chi Nwanoku in conversation 42 8PM Young Artist Platform 1 Castle Howard Sacred and Profane: The Other Vespers Ryedale Festival Box Office, Memorial Hall, Potter Hill, Pickering, YO18 8AA St Oswald ’s Church, Sowerby 23 7PM Church of St Martin-on-the-Hill, 5 2PM Triple concert Scarborough PhONE (FROM 12 Th APRIl) Festival Masterclass: Brass Castle Howard Helmsley Arts Centre ThuRSDAY 26Th JulY 6 6PM 01751 475777 FRIDAY 20Th JulY 43 11AM Mozart – così fan tutte 24 2PM Soli Deo Gloria 2 IN PERSON (FROM 12 Th APRIl) Ryedale Festival Opera (with picnic Judith Weir in conversation St Lawrence ’s Church, York interval). First of two performances. St Mary’ s Priory, Old Malton 44 5PM Ryedale Festival Box Office, Memorial Hall, Potter Hill, Pickering, YO18 8AA Ampleforth College Theatre 25 3PM Young Artist Platform 3 Judith Weir Afternoon (2nd floor of Memorial Hall) SuNDAY 15Th JulY Helmsley Arts Centre St Mary’ s Priory, Old Malton 45 8PM 7 3PM 26 7PM Th Ways with Words John Warrack at 90 – a celebration ONlINE (FROM 12 APRIl) The Bratislava hot Serenaders Duncombe Park Galtres Centre, Easingwold Milton Rooms, Malton www.ryedalefestival.com 8 8PM 27 9.45PM The Nutcracker and I FRIDAY 27Th JulY Th late-Night candlelit concert 46 11AM EMAIl (FROM 12 APRIl) Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, St Gregory ’s Minster The University of York Soli Deo Gloria 3 St Michael and All Angels Church, [email protected] SATuRDAY 21ST JulY MONDAY 16Th JulY Garton on the Wolds 28 11AM Th 9 10AM 47 7PM BOx OFFIcE OPENING TIMES (FROM 12 APRIl) Pre-concert talk Soli Deo Gloria 1 Double concert Monday 9.30am to 3.30pm; St Mary’s Church, Lastingham All Saints’ Church, Hovingham Sledmere House and Church 10 11AM 29 2PM Tuesday - Friday 9.30am to 1.30pm; The chamber music of Festival Masterclass: Singing SATuRDAY 28Th JulY Helmsley Arts Centre Saturday 9.30am to 12.00pm. Antoní n Dvo řá k 2 48 11AM St Mary’s Church, Lastingham 30 7.30PM Young Artist Platform 4 Orchestra of Opera North 11 4PM St Mary’s Church, Lastingham Grand Hall, Scarborough Spa Ways with Words 49 2PM Performing Arts Centre, Ampleforth SuNDAY 22ND JulY come and Sing 12 7PM 31 4.30PM Pickering Parish Church Mozart – così fan tutte The World Encompassed 50 4PM PRIORITY BOOKING DATES Ryedale Festival Opera. Second of Helmsley Arts Centre Young Artist Platform 5 two performances. 32 7.30PM Helmsley Arts Centre (Priority Booking by post only) Ampleforth College Theatre Richard Goode in recital 51 7.30PM Duncombe Park David Rees-Williams Trio TuESDAY 17Th JulY Pickering Kirk Theatre Gold Members : 21st – 27th March 13 10AM 33 9.45PM Game of Thrones 52 9.45PM Pre-concert talk Soli Deo Gloria 4 All Saints ’ Church, Helmsley Silver Members: 28th March – 3rd April St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton Pickering Parish Church 14 11AM MONDAY 23RD JulY Friends: 4th – 10th April The chamber music of 34 11AM SuNDAY 29Th JulY Antoní n Dvo řá k 3 coffee concert 53 2.30PM St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton Garden Party (For details on how to become a Member or Friend and the benefits please see page 43) 15 8PM St Hilda ’s Church, Sherburn 35 2PM Garden of the Worsley Arms Hotel, Gabriela Montero in recital Hovingham St Peter ’s Church, Norton Festival Masterclass: Wind Helmsley Arts Centre 54 4.30PM WEDNESDAY 18Th JulY 36 8PM Festival Service cOAch TRANSPORT 16 11AM Alan Bennett ’s Hymn All Saints ’ Church, Hovingham coffee concert Birdsall House 55 5.30PM Please register interest for coach transport to event numbers 8 (York), All Saints ’ Church, Slingsby Final Gala concert Hovingham Hall 30 (Scarborough), 42 (Scarborough) and 56 (York) with the Box Office 17 2PM TuESDAY 24Th JulY Festival Masterclass: Strings and 37 11AM chamber music coffee concert WEDNESDAY 17Th APRIl 2019 Helmsley Arts Centre St John and All Saints’ Church, 56 7.30PM uNDER 25 S AT RYEDAlE FESTIvAl 18 5.30PM Easingwold Parsifal Young Artist Platform 2 38 3PM York Minster Under 25s can buy tickets at half price for most concerts as soon as General Booking opens. Performing Arts Centre, Ways with Words From Monday 2nd July, 500 tickets will be available for £1 under the Ryedale500 scheme. Ampleforth College Helmlsey Arts Centre For more details, please contact the Box Office. 3 N.B. Doors will be opened approximately 30 minutes before performances. RYEDAlE FESTIvAl 2018 FRIDAY 13 Th JulY morning Coffee Concerts ; whilst a parallel series, 1 10am 2 11am Soli Deo Gloria , couples poetry (read by Alex St Mary’s church, Birdsall St Mary’s church, Birdsall Jennings) with music by Bach, who believed art should aim for the ‘refreshment of the soul’. PRE -CONCERT TALK cOFFEE cONcERT The Master of the Queen’s Music, Judith ‘A N ORDINARY CZECH Weir, is composer in residence. There are also The musician and writer Katy Hamilton festival residencies for the vocal ensemble introduces the first in a series of four concerts MUSICIAN ’ I Fagiolini and viol consort Fretwork – both devoted to the chamber music and songs of THE CHAMBER MUSIC renowned for the vitality and freshness of their Antoní n Dvo řá k. music-making – and the ground-breaking OF ANTONíN DVOřáK 1 group Chineke!, which champions diversity in classical music. Albion Quartet The great American pianist Richard Goode Albion Quartet ‘In the Slav spirit…’ leads a sparkling line-up of soloists, including Dvořák – Quartet no. 8 in E major Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Gabriela Montero, Dvořák – Quartet no. 10 in E flat Slavonic Adam Walker, Kathryn Rudge, Elin Manahan The festival’ s Dvo řák exploration begins with INTRODucTION Thomas, Benjamin Appl, Rachel Podger and two of his string quartets, in which wistful Charles Owen, along with outstanding FROM ThE ARTISTIc DIREcTOR melodies rub shoulders with lively polkas, and emerging artists such as cellists Kian Soltani the world of Beethoven and Brahms joins Welcome to the Ryedale Festival 2018, and Sheku Kanneh-Mason. hands with the traditional songs and dances of bringing great music and top-class performers The festival celebrates the 90th birthday of its Bohemia. to beautiful and historic venues, in a unique President John Warrack but also creates and friendly atmosphere amid idyllic North Coffee, tea, soft drinks and biscuits served from 9.30am – 10.45am opportunities for a new generation of musicians Yorkshire countryside. and music lovers, with the Ryedale500 ticket offer, Young Artist Platform concerts, and a series of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment masterclasses to give local young musicians the and Royal Northern Sinfonia give major chance to work with renowned visiting artists. concerts at Hovingham Hall, the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge are at Ampleforth There’s jazz too, both hot and cool, along with Abbey and the Orchestra of Opera North talks, literary events, an art exhibition and bring an unmissable symphonic programme to much more. And on the horizon, in 2019, an Scarborough Spa. unmissable performance by the Hallé and Sir Mark Elder at York Minster. ‘An ordinary Czech musician …’ There’s a new production of Così fan tutte , Mozart’s great comedy of duty, desire and lost ‘Art that has to pay its own way is apt to COUNTRY BOY , the son of a butcher and innkeeper, he played violin innocence. Other stories of growing up are become cheap’ said Dvořák once – and it is A in his village band and grew up surrounded by nature and the explored too: in Alexandra Dariescu’s piano- certainly true that a programme such as this is traditional folk and gypsy music of the ancient kingdom of Bohemia. He ballet The Nutcracker and I and a touching only possible because of the festival’s many grew to be a world-famous composer – a grand old man of European music musical memoir of childhood by Alan generous supporters and volunteers. I’m – but the miracle was that in so many ways he remained ‘ordinary’ . Dvo řák Bennett. thrilled to be able to share my enthusiasm for is one of the most loveable of all composers, happy to appeal to the heart the music and musicians in this programme. The Albion Quartet and friends focus on rather than the head, with music full of melody and colour that speaks of I hope you find lots to inspire you in the nature, love and simple pleasures. He borrowed the modes, rhythms and Dvořák, bringing the folk-flecked optimism of festival and look forward to seeing you there. his chamber music and songs to a series of mood swings found in the traditional music of his native land and wove christopher Glynn them into a personal style that proved popular in concert halls all over the world; and when fame eventually took him to America, the indigenous music he discovered there inspired a fresh set of masterpieces ‘from the Ryedale Festival Trust Limited Front cover image: Old Slavic wood carving New World’.