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Festival Programme 2020 ——– —• • TUESDAY 2 JUNE • •—–— ——• • WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE • •—– ———• • THURSDAY 4 JUNE • •—–— ———• • FRIDAY 5 JUNE • •—–— ——– —• • SATURDAY 6 JUNE • •—–—— 1 pm – Astley Abbots Church LUNCHTIME CONCERT Welcome to the 27th English Haydn Festival set in the beautiful 1 pm – St Mary’s Church LUNCHTIME CONCERT 1 pm – St Mary’s Church LUNCHTIME CONCERT 1 pm – St Mary’s Church LUNCHTIME CONCERT 10.30 am – Morville Church COFFEE CONCERT market town of Bridgnorth. The Festival offers a fascinating array of the ORGAN RECITAL Followed by coffee in Morville Hall. By kind permission of Mr & Mrs A Lewis and the Rev. Hugh Patterson. music of Joseph Haydn and his contemporaries, performed in St Daniel Blaze began his musical life at the age of 8 when he joined PIANO TRIO on period instruments THE CONSONE QUARTET THE CONSONE QUARTET Mary’s Church, built by the great 18th century engineer Thomas Kingston Church choir. He is now 16, the organ scholar at this Soloists: Simon Standage - violin Pavel Serbin - violoncello Agata Daraskaite - violin Magdalena Loth-Hill - violin Agata Daraskaite - violin Magdalena Loth-Hill - violin Enjoy a visit to the Dower House Gardens by kind permission of Dr. Kathy Swift. Telford in 1792, set next to the spectacular remains of the Castle and church, and accompanies the Tiffin Boys Choir. He has performed Steven Devine - fortepiano Elitsa Bogdanova - viola George Ross - violoncello Elitsa Bogdanova - viola George Ross - violoncello with many famous conductors. He also plays the french horn and currently THE ENGLISH HAYDN ENSEMBLE overlooking the river Severn. The theme this year celebrates the Simon Standage - violin Ada Witczyk - violin attends the Junior Academy of Music, and plays in Thames Youth Orchestra. Haydn Trio No. 28 in E (1797) Haydn Quartet Opus 77 No. 1 in G (1799) Haydn Quartet Op. 9 No. 4 in D minor (1769) contribution made by Joseph Haydn to music, from the Baroque era, through Alexandria Lawrence - viola Pavel Serbin - violoncello Beethoven Opus 1 No. 1 in Eb (1793) Mendelssohn Quartet in Eb major (1823) Beethoven Quartet Op. 18 No. 5 in A (1798/1800) the Classical period to the Romantic years leading to the present day. Bach E minor trio sonata movement 1 Ben Sansom - viola Bach C major prelude and fugue BWV 547 The Consone Quartet: These four talented musicians, with diverse birth-places HAYDN: INVENTION & MUSICAL INNOVATIONS London based Consone String Handel Fugue in Bb major formed their quartet whilst studying at the Royal College of Music, London. Joseph Haydn Quartet Opus 76 No. 5 in D (1797/98) Joseph Haydn was born into an age of inventions and new Quartet is dedicated to exploring They concentrate on performing music of the Classical period with historical Handel Fugue in G minor and recreating the sound-worlds Beethoven String Quintet Opus 29 in C (1801) ideas, and through his own creativity became the first great Bach Christ Lag in Todesbanden bwv 718 instruments. master of the “classical” style. In the late 1750s he began of the Classical and early Romantic Steven Devine Simon Standage Pavel Serbin string quartet repertoire through The English Haydn String Quartet is formed from members of the composing symphonies, and by 1761 he had composed a Malcolm Brinson had organ lessons, aged 13, with Denys Pouncey Orchestra who have performed together at the Festival. Each contribute their triptych (Morning, Noon, and Evening) solidly in the at Wells Cathedral and later with Peter Hurford. He first taught at Tickets: £22 (unreserved seats) period instrument performances. own individual talent bringing together a wealth of experience to produce a contemporary mode. Alcester Grammar, then moved to Petworth where he was organist In partnership with: Walter & Silvia Blum Gentilomo The quartet’s success at the 2015 unique sound. for 16 years, and Head of Music at St. Michael’s, Burton Park. York Early Music International Haydn spent much of his career, from 1761 onwards, as a court Ada Witczyk Alexandria Lawrence Young Artists Competition earned Simon Standage Pavel Serbin musician for the wealthy Esterházy family at their remote Haydn Adagio in F from Symphony No 1 ——• • WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE • •—– Magdalena Loth-Hill Agata Daraskaite Elitsa Bogdanova George Ross them a place on the prestigious estate. Until the later part of his life, this isolated him from Haydn Pieces for Mechanical Clock: GRAND OPENING SYMPHONY CONCERT Emerging European Ensembles Scheme. The group have performed throughout Tickets: £22.00 (unreserved seats) other composers and trends in music so that he was, as he put it, "forced to become Flotenuhr Nos. 1 , 2, and 9 ( 1792). Nos. 14, 17 18 (1772) Europe and recorded their first CD featuring music by Haydn and Mendelssohn, In partnership with: John Hickman and The Haydn Festival Friends original". As vice-Kapellmeister and later Kapellmeister, his output expanded: he Flotenuhr Nos 19, 21 23 (1793 ) 7.30pm – St Mary’s Church EVENING CONCERT was released in April, 2018, on the Ambronay Label. composed over forty symphonies in the 1760s alone. While his fame grew, as his J C H Rink Andante in D flat: Larghetto in G: Moderato in C THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments ——• • FRIDAY 5 JUNE • •—–— orchestra expanded, his compositions were copied and disseminated, and his music Mozart Sonata di Chiesa in C K.266 Conductor STEVEN DEVINE Tickets: £22.00 (unreserved seats) HAYDN’S INNOVATIONS circulated widely, so for much of his career he was the most celebrated composer in Fantasia in F minor and F major K594 Soloists Simon Standage - violin Ada Witczyk - violin In partnership with : The Haydn Festival Trust and Laurence Banbury Tickets: £22.00 (unreserved seats) Europe. Haydn reached a place in music that set him above all other composers except Tickets: £10 (unreserved seats) Note:- Payment: Only on the Door. Pavel Serbin - violoncello 7.30pm – St Mary’s Church EVENING CONCERT In partnership with: The John & Pippa Thorneycroft Trust perhaps the Baroque era's George Frideric Handel. Haydn took existing ideas, and in partnership with The Haydn Festival Trust Crispian Steele-Perkins - trumpet ——–——• • THURSDAY 4 JUNE • •—–——— THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments radically altered how they functioned. His contributions to musical form have earned Haydn Symphony No. 3 in G (1760/62) Conductor STEVEN DEVINE 7.30pm – St Mary’s Church him the titles "father of the symphony" and "father of the string quartet". —– ——• • TUESDAY 2 JUNE • •—–— J. C. Bach Concertante WC42 (1824) EVENING CONCERT Soloists Pavel Serbin - violoncello ———• • SATURDAY 6 JUNE • •—–—– While some scholars suggest that Haydn was overshadowed by Mozart and Beethoven, Haydn Trumpet Concerto in Eb major (1796) THE CHIAROSCURO STRING QUARTET Steven Devine - fortepiano 7.30 pm – St Mary’s Church EVENING CONCERT it would be difficult to overstate Haydn's centrality to the new style, and therefore to 7 pm – Acton Round Church ACTON ROUND OPERA Haydn Symphony No.44 in E minor (Mourning) (1801) Alina Ibragimova - violin Pablo Hernan Benedi - violin the future of Western music as a whole. By kind permission of Mr & Mrs Hew Kennedy and Rev. Sarah Cawdell. Emilie Hornlund - viola Claire Thirion - violoncello Haydn Symphony No 38 in C (1765/69) GRAND FINALE Light refreshments will be served in the grounds of the Farmhouse after the concert. Crispian Steele-Perkins: is considered to be the Schubert Quartet No 14 in D minor (“Death and the Maiden”) (1824) Tricklir Cello Concerto No 6 in G (1783) 6 pm Enjoy a pre-concert glass of sparkling wine served on the lawns of Acton Round Hall world’s leading player of the Baroque Trumpet. Beethoven Piano Concerto Opus 15 No 1 in C (1795) THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments Courtesy of Mr & Mrs Thomas Kennedy. Indisputably he is unique in performing regularly upon Mozart Quartet No 15 in D minor K421 (1783) Haydn Quartet Opus 20 No. 5 in F minor (1772) Haydn Symphony No. 48 in C (1768/69) Conductor STEVEN DEVINE OPERA ARIAS genuine antique trumpets. In addition to his work with Soloists Eva Cabellero - flute Simon Standage - violin The six string quartets opus 20 by Joseph Haydn are considered a milestone in the history of Carleen Ebbs - soprano, Claire Egan - soprano Miranda Westcott classical orchestras and period instruments, Crispian has The innovation in scoring in symphony 38 expands upon an earlier common developed a body of television and film work which is composition; in them, Haydn develops compositional techniques that were to define the baroque practice of cadential phrase-repetition. mezzo soprano, have performed in exciting venues around the world including medium for the next 200 years. Haydn Symphony No 95 in C minor (1791) universally recognisable today - most famously he C. P. E. Bach Flute Concerto in D minor Wq 22 (H 425) (1747) the Royal Opera House, Sydney Opera House, Wigmore Hall, Welsh National played the theme tune to the popular British television H. C. Robbins Landon has described symphony 48 as a "great and indeed Opera, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, Salzburg Festival and Festival ALINA IBRAGIMOVA Born in Russia, Alina is a former pupil of Beethoven Violin Romance No 1 in G (1802) programme Antiques Road Show, the James Bond film the Moscow Gnesin and Yehudi Menuhin schools and the Royal germinal work." It was one of the very few Haydn symphonies of this period Opera New Zealand. They are joined for this concert by the renown bass Beethoven Violin Romance No 2 in F (1798) For Your Eyes Only and the The Lord of the Rings: The College of Music, London. She has performed chamber music at the to survive throughout the nineteenth century in various editions. Haydn Symphony No. 98 in Bb major (1792) Andrew Slater, and accompanied on fortepiano by John Moore, the Two Towers.