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A Royal Welcome HRH The Duke of Kent KG

Last year was very special for the Newbury Spring Festival as we marked the fortieth anniversary of the Festival. But following this anniversary there is some sad news, with the recent passing of our President, Jeanie, Countess of Carnarvon. Her energy, commitment and enthusiasm from the outset and throughout the evolution of the Festival have been fundamental to its success. The Duchess of Kent and I have seen the Festival grow from humble beginnings to an internationally renowned arts festival, having faced and overcome many obstacles along the way. Jeanie, Countess of Carnarvon, can be justly proud of the Festival’s achievements. Her legacy must surely be a Festival that continues to flourish as we embark on the next forty years.

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Jeanie, Countess of Carnarvon MBE Founder and President

1935 - 2019

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The Festival’s founder and president, Jeanie Countess of Carnarvon was a great and much loved lady who we will always remember for her inspirational support of Newbury Spring Festival and her gentle and gracious presence at so many events over the years. Her son Lord Carnarvon pays tribute to her with the following words.

My darling mother’s lifelong interest in the arts and music started in her childhood in the USA. As a rancher’s daughter she grew up near Sheridan, Wyoming where she had a love of nature and the extraordinary views and landscape around her. She enjoyed water colour painting and had a great eye for colour and beauty of the natural world. Her love of music stemmed from the time she spent with her Grandmother Jean Moore when she attended high school near Baltimore, Maryland USA. Jean Moore lived in New York and loved to have her grand daughter to stay with her in the short holidays and she took her to most of the new musicals on Broadway. My Ma was reminiscing about her times in New York with me only three days before she died.

My mother created the Newbury Spring Festival some 41 years ago having met John Wright the original Director whilst raising money for the new arts centre in Northcroft Lane. It was an extraordinarily brave initiative which took a lot of energy and persistence but as we know today the Festival has grown into an annual landmark of culture for Newbury and its region. The finest orchestras and musicians of the world bring enormous pleasure to the local community each year. My mother loved the great composers and orchestras large and small but was also a charming host to the many professional musicians who have visited Newbury over the years. I still have vivid memories of when Paul Tortelier the virtuoso cellist had dinner with us at Milford Lake House in the late 1970s. She was always excited about the festival plans for the following year and I know was a great contributor to the NSF committee meetings and had strong opinions as to what would be an interesting new piece of music or musician to be invited to the next festival.

I know Jeanie would have loved to be at the Festival this year and was asking me about the first concert just a short time ago. She would have wished us all a very enjoyable time and would have loved to hear the Beethoven and Brahms at the first concert with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. The Spring Festival is one of her greatest legacies and I am sure you will all join me in saying a prayer for her and remembering her special contribution to Newbury and West Berkshire.

Lord Carnarvon

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The Festival Director’s Introduction Mark Eynon

It was twenty years ago, in It is also a great pleasure to welcome for the first time May 1999, when I Orpheus Sinfonia with their popular family concert of welcomed you to the first Peter and the Wolf & Carnival of the Animals, Newbury Spring Festival distinguished actors Juliet Stephenson and Henry under my direction, and I Goodman accompanying Lucy Parham in Beloved Clara, find it astonishing not only sarod maestros Ayaan and Amaan Ali Bangash and how quickly the years have French period instrument group Ensemble Masques, on passed, but how much I their Grand Tour. am still enjoying being the Festival’s Director! Each year the programme changes, and we welcome

© Fiona Cue more new artists to display their talents and share their music with us, but there is also the continuity of revisiting favourite venues and inviting back some of our most popular performers.

This year we welcome for the first time some distinguished guests: the great British pianist Imogen Cooper, with her colleagues Henning Kraggerud and Adrian Brendel, will bring an all-Beethoven programme to St Lawrence Church, Hungerford. When I was directing the Covent Garden Festival Paul McCreesh was a regular © Ben Ealovega visitor, so I am delighted to finally welcome him and his world-renowned Gabrieli Consort for their Festival debuts One of the things I most enjoy about my job is that I can to magnificent Holy Cross Church, Ramsbury with their invite so many fine young musicians at the outset of what performance of English choral gems. On the opening I am sure will be important careers. This year I am proud Saturday distinguished conductor Jac van Steen will to welcome the brilliant French guitarist Thibaut Garcia make his Festival debut with BBC National Orchestra of who will give an evening recital drawn from his acclaimed Wales in a programme of Beethoven and Brahms, while recent CDs at Donnington Priory. All this year’s lunchtime the following weekend The Russian Philharmonic recitalists at the Corn Exchange are recent prize-winning Orchestra and conductor Thomas Sanderling will make graduates and worthy of our attention, as will be this their first visit to Newbury from their home city of year’s finalists of our own Sheepdrove Piano Competition. Novosibirsk. Roderick Williams is one of the world’s great And we welcome current members of National Youth Jazz baritones and I am delighted to welcome him on our final Orchestra, Ballet Central and Chichester University’s night to join the Festival Chorus, Bournemouth Symphony Musical Theatre Company with their latest productions. Orchestra, Sophie Bevan and Martyn Brabbins for a Returning by popular demand are young jazz stars Misha performance of Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony. Mullov-Abbado and his group, trombone virtuosos Michael Buchanan and his quartet, former Sheepdrove Piano Competition winner Robertas Lozinskis, period instrument collective Istante and vocal ensemble SANSARA, all emerging stars with bright futures.

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It is also a pleasure to welcome back some established BBC Big Band in an evening of cinema classics and musicians of international repute who performed with us Pasadena Roof Orchestra, celebrating their 50th at the outset of their careers: I am thinking of Alexander Anniversary. Sitkovetsky, Adam Walker, Jennifer Pike, Julian Bliss, and the Doric and Sacconi Quartets. Also coming back this year are Festival favourites Tenebrae bringing a programme of 16th century Spanish masterpieces to St Nicolas Church, Newbury, the ever-popular Budapest Café Orchestra returning to the Corn Exchange, and stars of the New York cabaret circuit Simon Green and David Shrubsole with their tribute to Noel Coward, Life is for Living at Combe Manor. Jazz features prominently at the Corn Exchange, and balancing our middle weekend of young jazz stars, we open and close with Festival regulars

Marking somewhat longer anniversaries, our talks this year focus on two great historical figures: the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci and the 200th birthday of Queen Victoria, I am pleased to welcome Matthew Landrus and A N Wilson to speak at Shaw and Englefield Houses. It is always a privilege to visit Andrew Lloyd Webber’s private theatre, and this year Edward Seckerson’s Sydmonton interview is with celebrated lyricist Don Black.

So welcome to another Newbury Spring Festival, our 41st, taking place in this lovely part of the country, which we celebrate with two weeks of world-class music.

The Chairman’s Introduction Julian Chadwick

The sense of anticipation Our Sponsors give so generously, and although each each year does not lessen gets thanked individually I would like to express publicly but grows stronger. As I and in writing my thanks and appreciation. The Festival write this in early March I Friends contribute so much as well - without them and the know that in two months Sponsors we would not be able to lay on such we shall begin to enjoy a magnificent concerts at affordable prices. Please do fortnight of wonderful consider becoming a Friend or a Sponsor. music. The spread of music and the depth of Amid all the uncertainties and controversies of 2019 I am talent are, as always, sure we can all agree that the Newbury Spring Festival is amazing. a beacon of light and serenity. I hope you enjoy as many of the Festival events as possible, and I look forward to

© Fiona Cue/Newbury BID As Chairman my meeting old and new friends. appreciation for the hard work and generosity of the Festival family grows. I use the term “family” because the It is with great sadness that we dedicate this year’s team, both professional and volunteer, combine high Festival to Jeanie, Countess of Carnarvon who recently standards with a friendly and informal approach. This died. makes our Festival -your Festival- so special and friendly. I express my thanks to all those who work so hard throughout the year to produce this fortnight.

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Supporting the Festival Ashley Morris, General Manager

I’m very much looking It is not only financial support that we rely on. The Festival forward to another Festival thrives as a result of the goodwill and generosity of so fortnight, bringing the very many local organisations and individuals. That ranges best concerts to Newbury. from companies that gift us the use of vehicles, through to The Festival continues to the loyal team of volunteers who steward each and every go from strength to one of our concerts. strength, despite the challenges of the current Among those volunteers there’s a loyal band working economic climate. One of away months in advance of the Festival – namely the my roles continues to be Ambassadors. They are a key team working to get our securing the funding of the Festival Guide and posters out and about across the Festival. It is no secret that region. That in turn hopefully generates ticket sales, which

© Antonia Schroeder we receive no public helps fund the concerts that we aim to put on each year. funding and rely entirely on the generosity of the Friends A particular thanks must therefore be extended to the of the Festival, Trusts, and individuals giving to the following, who help cover an area from Swindon, to Festival. I would of course always welcome anyone Oxford, Abingdon, Newbury, Kingsclere, Whitchurch and wishing to discuss ways they might support the Festival beyond! financially. David & Sarah Denly-Ball, Devina Cameron, Christine We have launched a new way to raise funds – through the Catton, Simon Coates, Duncan Croucher, Penny Barnes, West Berkshire Lottery. This new initiative, created by West Stacey Farrell, Christopher & Lisa Gale, Andrew & Alison Berkshire Council, gives everyone the opportunity to Gordon, Gill Knappett, Geoffrey & Jennifer Morris, purchase a lottery ticket for £1 with a chance to win £25k Gill Palmer and Mariana Pease. each week! The difference is that the Festival will directly get 50% of every ticket sold. For more information, please do visit the website mentioned in the advert below.

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Newbury Spring Festival

Patron Chairman Festival Director General Manager HRH The Duke of Kent KG Julian Chadwick Mark Eynon Ashley Morris

Committee of Management Administrator The Earl of Carnarvon Jane Pickering The Countess of Carnarvon Mr H Cobbe OBE Marketing Mrs M Edwards Alex Amey Mr M Farwell (Hon Treasurer) Mr S Fenton (Honorary Solicitor and Company Secretary) Press & PR The Hon Mrs Gilmour Arabella Christian Miss K Green Mrs C Holbrook (Chairman of The Friends) Festival Assistant and Print Editor Mr A McKenzie Simon Coates Mrs H Rudebeck Mrs A Scrope DL Programme Artwork Mrs J Stevens LVO Sheila Hughes at CCG

Stage Management by The Company Vice Presidents Presents Lady Benyon Mary Hamilton (Front of House) Mr D Bowerman CBE John Harris (Technical Direction) Sir James Butler CBE The Rt Rev & Rt Hon The Lord Carey of Clifton Box Office Lord Donoughue The Corn Exchange, Newbury RG14 5BD Mr J Gladstone Tel 0845 5218 218 Sir Michael Howard OM, CH, CBE, MC, FBA Mr D Livermore OBE Bankers Mr J Roskill Barclays Bank plc, 23–26 Parkway, Newbury RG14 1AY Lady Wroughton Hon Solicitors Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Mercantile House, 18 London Road, Newbury RG14 1JX

Accountants James Cowper Kreston LLP Festival Administration Office Mill House, Overbridge Square, Hambridge Lane, 33/34 Cheap Street, Newbury RG14 5DB Newbury RG14 5UX Tel 01635 32421 / 528766 [email protected] www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk Registered Charity No.284622

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Platinum Friends of the Festival 2019

We really appreciate those who contribute to the Friends scheme annually, and acknowledge and thank particularly those who have joined us as new Friends this year, or have generously upgraded their membership level, and of course, the Platinum or Joint Platinum Friends who are listed below. All support is so valuable and vital to us. Thank you so much.

Dr G Adshead Mrs I M Hunter Mr & Mrs R Aird Mr J & Mrs D Jeffs Dr E A Beverley Mr P J & Mrs C Jones Mrs J M Blyth Currie Mr B A E Laurie Mr & Mrs J Botts Mr D J Livermore Mr C Bourghardt Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith Mr P M Bowers Mr S & Mrs F Lyon Mr C Brading & Ms A Lechner Mr & Mrs M B J Kimmins Mrs M F Cameron Lady Eliza Mays-Smith Mr J & Mrs J Cazalet Mr & Mrs M McCalmont Mr J W M Chadwick Mr P & Mrs A Millar Mr & Mrs R A Chamberlain Mr J H & Mrs D Mitchell Mrs M S Churchill Mrs V A Mitchell & Mr A Palmer Mr & Mrs R H Cowen Mr J & Mrs J Murray Mr & Mrs A K Cox Mr R Murray Bett Mr C J H Cripwell Mrs R Osmer Mrs C Cundy Mr J & Mrs J Patrick Mr S R Day Mr & Mrs K J Pearson Mr M De Ferranti Mr C & Mrs M Pease Mr P A & Mrs J C Denny Mr & Mrs E Penser Mr D J & Mrs S Dinkeldein Mr R F H Pickering Lord B Donoughue Lady Eliza Mays-Smith Mrs J Edwards Mr I A D & Mrs P Pilkington Mr M N & Mrs S F Edwards Mr & Mrs B Pinson Mrs J A Floyd Mr A & Mrs S Popplewell Mr & Mrs J E K Floyd Dame Theresa Sackler Mr R Foxwell Sir Timothy & Lady Sainsbury Mr & Mrs D A W Gardiner Mr W E P Sandalls Mr & Mrs T B M Gatward Mr S Seddon-Brown Dr S J Golding Mr J & Mrs H Skinner Major T C Gore Mr C J Spence Mrs S M Gould Mr C D Stewart Ms K Green Mr A & Mrs E Storey Mrs E J Hall Lady Judith Swire Felicity, Lady Hoare Mr B A & Mrs H Teece Sir Michael Howard Mr & Mrs M J B Todhunter Mrs G A Hunt Sir Philip & Lady Wroughton

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Friends of the Festival

Dear Friends, We have some lovely concerts to enjoy. I am very excited to be singing in the Newbury Spring Festival Chorus which The Festival is now into its is performing Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony. The fifth decade – what a soloists are Sophie Bevan and Roderick Williams, and we fantastic achievement and are so privileged to be able to hear them so close to home. one that could not have happened without your An exciting lunchtime concert was given last year by invaluable help. As well as Misha Mullov-Abbado Group. They now have an evening supporting the Festival you concert on the 17th May which unfortunately clashes with enable us to fulfil our Tenebrae, but they are worthy competitors. If you would charitable objectives by like a change, give them a try. giving other small grants -

© Philip Tull the grants you have given Whatever your musical tastes are you will find lots to enjoy this year are to Newbury Spring Festival (£25,000 for the and I look forward to seeing you at the concerts. 2019 Festival), Open Studios (£600), to the Piano Competition (3rd Prize of £500) and Speenhamland Steel Caroline Holbrook Drums project via the Good Exchange website (£250). Chairman of Friends of Newbury Spring Festival Thank you.

Gift Aid Membership Benefits from 1st July 2019 In 2018 the Friends of Newbury Spring Festival were able Friends to claim over £5200 through Gift Aid, which is a great help c Festival Focus with preview of next year’s artistic to finances. If you have not already done so, please programme posted to you in Autumn; consider signing up for Gift Aid; we can reclaim 25% of c Festival Guide posted to you in January; your annual donation directly if you are a UK resident and a tax payer. Please contact Jane Pickering for a Gift Aid c Friends Priority Booking in February; Declaration Form. c Membership Card and biannual Newsletters; c Free Souvenir Programme when purchasing tickets New Membership Rates for 6+ concerts or spending £200+on tickets; The annual subscriptions have not been increased for 10 Gold Friends yearsalthough from 1st July 2019 there will be new rates c 24 hours’ additional priority booking to join the Friends of Newbury Spring Festival. c All of the above, plus invitation to receptions, In January 2019, existing Friends were sent a new where possible (sandy-coloured) Friends Application Form together with Platinum Friends their new Festival Guide and Newsletter. They were asked c 48 hours’ additional priority booking to complete and return this form to the Festival office to c All of the above plus your name printed in increase their standing order in July 2019; many Friends Souvenir Programme (if desired) have very kindly done so already (thank you), although c there are a large number of forms still to be returned. If Invitation to the annual Festival Launch you have lost your form and need a new one, please call Jane on 01635 528766 and a new one can be sent out. Contacting us If you have changed your postal and/or email address Membership rates from 1st July 2019 please let us know, providing both your old and new Friend £35 Joint Friend £45 contact details. For information on how we will use any contact details you provide us, please see our Privacy Gold Friend £65 Joint Gold £80 Policy on our website – www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk Platinum Friend £130 Joint Platinum £170 www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk Administration Office/Friends Membership office Newbury Spring Festival 33/34 Cheap Street Newbury, RG14 5DB Festival: 01635 32421 Friends: 01635 528766

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Sponsors & Business Partners

Newbury Spring Festival could not be presented without support from the following, whose generosity is most gratefully acknowledged.

Mr and Mrs Robin Aird Mr and Mrs Malcolm Kimmins Apple Print & Creative Mrs Katalin Landon Ashendene Trust Miss W E Lawrence 1973 Charitable Settlement Mrs Rosamond Brown Lionel Wigram Memorial Trust Le Bureau Export MAXX Design Limited Mr and Mrs David Bruce Mr and Mrs Peter Maydon Mrs Mary Cameron Lady Eliza Mays-Smith Career Guidance Services Marion Moore Foundation Earl and Countess of Carnarvon Mrs David Naylor-Leyland CH-R Family Solicitors Mr Barry Pinson Colefax Charitable Trust Ramsbury Estates Sir Jeremiah Colman Gift Trust Resonates Mr and Mrs Peter Davidson Mr and Mrs Jason Russell Mr and Mrs David Dinkeldein The Sackler Trust John Dollin Printing Services Mrs Sarah Scrope Donnington Valley Hotel Mr Claude Michel Schönberg Doves Farm Foods The Sheepdrove Trust Dreweatts Sir David and Lady Sieff Mr and Mrs Mark Edwards Sir Hugh and Lady Stevenson Mrs Susie Eliot-Cohen Peter Stirland Ltd, Hungerford Elmdale IT Support The Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation Englefield Charitable Trust The Adrian Swire Charitable Trust The Englefield Estate The Ambrose and Ann Appelbe Trust Eranda Foundation Vaughan Williams Charitable Trust Fairhurst Estates Viking Cruises Mr & Mrs J E K Floyd The Vineyard Friends of Newbury Spring Festival Sir Mark and Lady Waller The Gamlen Trust Mr and Mrs Toby Ward Dr Stephen Golding Lady Wroughton Gordon Palmer Memorial Trust and a number of anonymous donors Greenham Trust The Greenwood Trust Harbrook Farm Business Partners: Mr and Mrs Bryan Harper James Cowper Kreston The Headley Trust Newbury Building Society Felicity, Lady Hoare Rivar Ltd Hogan Music SAS Auctions Horsey Lightly Mr and Mrs Patrick Hungerford Irwin Mitchell Kilfinan Trust

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Sponsors & Business Partners

The Committee of Management thanks most sincerely everyone who has made the 41st International Newbury Spring Festival possible, including the following whose venues we are delighted to be able to use:

Lady Benyon; Mr and Mrs Richard Benyon; The Earl and Countess of Carnarvon; Corn Exchange Newbury; Donnington Priory; The Abbot and Community of Douai Abbey; Englefield Estate; Mr and Mrs Peter Kindersley; Mr and Mrs Jason Russell; St George’s Church Wash Common; St Lawrence Church Hungerford; St Martin’s Church East Woodhay; St Mary’s Church Kintbury; St Mary’s Church Shaw-cum-Donnington; St. Mary’s Church Speen; The Rector, Church Wardens and Council of St Nicolas Parish Church Newbury; Holy Cross Church Ramsbury; The Vineyard; Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber; West Berkshire County Council.

The Festival would also like to record its thanks to all the Festival volunteers.

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Festival Diary

Saturday 11th May Sunday 12th May BBC National Orchestra of Wales Sound Beginnings: Babar the Elephant St Nicolas Church Corn Exchange 7.30pm page 14 11.00am page 23 BBC Big Band Beloved Clara Corn Exchange Corn Exchange 7.30pm page 20 3.00pm page 24 Cabaret at Combe Combe Manor 8.00pm page 28

Wednesday 15th May Thursday 16th May Vario Duo Leonardo, 500 Years On Corn Exchange Shaw House 12.30pm page 46 3.00pm page 53 Film: Scott of the Antarctic Sarod Maestros Corn Exchange Corn Exchange 7.30pm page 49 7.30pm page 54 The Grand Tour Imogen Cooper, Henning Kraggerud St. George’s Church, Wash Common & Adrian Brendel 7.30pm page 50 St. Lawrence Church, Hungerford 7.30pm page 57

Sunday 19th May Monday 20th May The 11th Sheepdrove Piano Competition Final Sheepdrove Piano Competition Winner Lambourn Corn Exchange 3.00pm page 85 12.30pm page 95 Carnival of the Animals & Peter and the Wolf A Taste of Italy at The Vineyard Corn Exchange The Vineyard, Stockcross 3.00pm page 89 7.30pm page 97 Studio 5 St Mary’s Church, Kintbury 7.30pm page 92

Thursday 23rd May Friday 24th May Don Black talks to Edward Seckerson Samantha Crawford The Chapel, Sydmonton Corn Exchange 11.30am page 118 12.30pm page 123 Lucky Stiff Julian Bliss Septet Corn Exchange Corn Exchange 7.30pm page 119 7.30pm page 125 Thibaut Garcia SANSARA Donnington Priory St. Martin’s Church, East Woodhay 7.30pm page 120 7.30pm page 127

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11–25 May 2019

Monday 13th May Tuesday 14th May Foyle-Štšura Duo Visit The Base Corn Exchange The Base 12.30pm page 30 11.00am page 36 The Highclere Concert Ballet Central Highclere Castle Corn Exchange 7.30pm page 32 7.30pm page 37 Gabrieli Consort Holy Cross Church, Ramsbury 7.30pm page 39

Friday 17th May Saturday 18th May Tom Millar Quartet Greenham Trust Music Bursary Corn Exchange Celebration Concert 12.30pm page 62 Corn Exchange The Sheepdrove Recital 11.00am page 75 Lambourn Festival Evensong 8.00pm page 65 St Mary’s Church, Speen Misha Mullov-Abbado Group 3.30pm page 76 Corn Exchange National Youth Jazz Orchestra 7.30pm page 68 Corn Exchange Tenebrae 7.30pm page 83 St Nicolas Church Russian Philharmonic Orchestra of Novosibirsk 7.30pm page 70 St Nicolas Church 7.30pm page 78

Tuesday 21st May Wednesday 22nd May Victoria - A talk by A N Wilson FIGO Englefield House, Theale Corn Exchange 3.00pm page 102 12.30pm page 109 Budapest Café Orchestra Harry the Piano Corn Exchange Corn Exchange 7.30pm page 103 7.30pm page 113 Adam Walker Trio The Doric Quartet St Mary’s Church, Shaw Englefield House, Theale 7.30pm page 105 7.30pm page 115

Saturday 25th May The Mystery of Memory Lane Corn Exchange 11.00am page 133 Pasadena Roof Orchestra Corn Exchange 7.30pm page 134 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra St. Nicolas Church 7.30pm page 135

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales St Nicolas Church Newbury Saturday 11th May 7.30pm

BBC National Orchestra of Wales Jac van Steen conductor Brahms Violin Concerto in D major Op.77 Alexander Sitkovetsky violin Sat 11th Interval

Beethoven Coriolan Overture Op. 62 Beethoven Symphony no.1 in C major Op. 21

The Festival is delighted to open this year’s two weeks of world-class music with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. This concert is dedicated to the memory of Gina Livermore, who died on 19th March 2019.

Opening with Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture we hear the depiction of a Roman leader’s transition from brutality to tenderness. This is followed by his First Symphony, one of the most ground-breaking compositions in musical history.

After the interval, Alexander Sitkovetsky makes a welcome return to the Festival with Brahms’ one and only Violin Concerto, written in the Hungarian style and dedicated to his great friend the violinist Joachim.

Sponsored by Greenham Trust

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) This is the last great concerto in musical history to leave Violin Concerto in D major, Opus 77 the first movement cadenza to the soloist’s extemporisation, and today’s performance will feature the 1. Allegro non troppo cadenza by Joachim. Following this, the short coda begins 2. Adagio with a quiet resumption of the main theme played by the 3. Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace soloist, but the music soon becomes more lively and the Brahms began the composition of his Violin Concerto by moves proceeds rapidly to a conclusion. the Wörthersee in the summer of 1878, soon after completing his Second Symphony. It was premiered by The slow movement is deceptively simple. In fact it is a Joseph Joachim on New Year’s Day 1879, with the carefully organised, immensely subtle construction, based composer conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. upon a broad and expressive melody first played by the oboe. The musical landscape is varied and spacious, The concerto takes full advantage of the dual character of featuring many passages for wind instruments alone. the violin: its reflective lyricism and its dancing energy. Not These afford relief to the ear and ensure that the solo only is the solo part brilliantly written, its accompaniment entries lose none of their effectiveness through throughout is a typical reflection of the composer’s competition with the tone of the orchestral strings. concern for details of scoring and balance. For in a violin concerto the soloist cannot compete with the orchestra in The spirited rondo finale begins with the theme given out the way a pianist can. alternately by soloist and orchestra, its Hungarian character undoubtedly in tribute to Joachim. The The first movement’s opening tutti states all but one of the movement contains a written-out accompanied cadenza themes, with so closely-knit a construction that the first and closes in a blaze of orchestral fire, with the rondo three sound almost like one continuous theme. The flow of theme transformed into march tempo. To the very end inspiration in this genuinely symphonic exposition is Brahms maintains his admirable balance between soloist perfectly suited to the demands of the work’s large-scale and orchestra, a balance which ensures that integrity of structure. The soloist enters over a drumroll, and design and expression which is such a strong feature of immediately embarks upon a fiery transformation of the his style. With its intensification of tempo, the coda is quiet initial idea, the strings providing a strong rhythmic brilliant in the extreme coda, but it also includes a accompaniment. Then, on reaching the second subject, wonderful surprise, with a restrained dynamic immediately the solo violin turns the material into a beautiful new theme before the three emphatic final chords. © Terry Barfoot which is duly worked out at some length. It is a feature of the musical development that there is a balanced contrast between the lyrical and the stormy.

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BBC National Orchestra of Wales St Nicolas Church Newbury Saturday 11th May 7.30pm

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) The best description of the Symphony No.1 is surely that Coriolan Overture Opus 62 of Sir Donald Tovey: ‘A fitting farewell to the eighteenth century.’ By the time he composed it Beethoven had The first performance of Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture

established his position in Viennese musical life. Therefore Sat 11th was given at the Lobkowitz Palace in Vienna in March it is appropriate that we consider this as music that 1807, an occasion which also featured the premieres of anticipates the scale and substance of later masterpieces, the Symphony No. 4 and the Piano Concerto No. 4. while at the same time acknowledging the debt to established masterpieces. It was not, of course, the Beethoven’s concert overture Coriolan was inspired by a composer’s first attempt at orchestral music, since he had play written by a friend, Heinrich Joseph von Collin, who already completed the first two of his piano concertos. was poet laureate to the Viennese imperial court. Both poet and composer knew their Shakespeare, and The symphony employs the standard classical orchestra: certainly the music can be seen to represent the climax of woodwinds in pairs, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and the tragedy in Coriolanus, reflecting the general’s strings. There are four movements, and the first of them eagerness to find vengeance by attacking Rome, has an introduction whose discord leading away from the contrasted against the pleas of his own wife and mother main key was at the time a revolutionary gesture. for mercy. However, this Adagio molto proves to be no more than a gesture. It extends over just twelve bars before leading Coriolan’s personality and his military power are into the Allegro, whose busy and energetic principal represented in the intensely dramatic gestures of the theme is firmly based upon the common chord of C opening bars, whose C minor tonality is typical of major. The second subject is admirably balanced, its Beethoven at his most strikingly passionate (the Fifth innate lyricism providing a foil, though the lively Symphony comes to mind, for instance). The contrasted momentum is always maintained. second subject is of course associated with the pleas of the women, but initially these make little headway. Then The second movement contains an elegant and the hero’s agonies of indecision, founded upon the somewhat formal theme, which is developed with many relationship between the contrasting themes, form the subtle imitations within the texture. An unusual feature of basis for the musical development, until in the final stages this slow movement is the prominence given to the his stubborn will collapses, when he realises that any act timpani, and the fact that the mood remains so pensive is of mercy must also bring his own death. (In Collin he a tribute to Beethoven’s ingenuity. commits suicide, in Shakespeare he is murdered.) Beethoven therefore closes his overture with a quiet, The third movement is another example of the composer ghostly version of the music which hitherto had been so looking forward rather than back. Despite the title this is passionately assertive. © Terry Barfoot really a scherzo rather than an eighteenth century minuet, since the music is swift in motion and active in texture. There is often that contrast in dynamic range between LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) pianissimo and fortissimo that is so characteristic of Symphony No. 1 in C major, Opus 21 Beethoven. 1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio 2. Andante cantabile con moto The introduction to the finale immediately generates a 3. Menuetto - Allegro molto e vivace sense of wit, with its various false starts. Soon the spirit of Haydn is reflected in the infectious dancing rhythms, that 4. Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace soon generate that essential vitality which lies at the very Beethoven conducted the first performance of his First heart of the classical symphonic style. Symphony at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 2nd April 1799. © Terry Barfoot

Beethoven was acutely aware of the classical tradition he inherited from earlier masters in Vienna, since he knew the works of Haydn and Mozart well. He held back from composing in the important genres of string quartet and symphony, preferring instead to be judged by the quality of his compositions and performances featuring his own instrument, the piano. Accordingly, his Symphony No.1 was composed after he had been living in Vienna for nearly eight years.

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Alexanderisafounding the LincolnCenter, andin2016receivedtheLincoln prestigious ‘ChamberMusicSocietyTwo’ programmeat Qian.Heisanalumnus of the alongside pianistWu awarded 1stprizeattheTrio diTrieste DuoCompetition won anICMASpecialAchievementAward. Alexanderwas Berlin commemoratingthecomposer’s100thbirthday Panufnik’s His criticallyacclaimedCPOrecordingofAndrzej the ChamberMusicSocietyofLincolnCenter. Philharmonic NovosibirskaswellseveralUSTours with He willalsoembarkonaUKTour withtheRussian Philharmonic andtheWelsh NationalOperaOrchestra. Philharmonic Orchestra,CamerataSalzburg,Arctic Chamber OrchestraandreturntotheLondon Philharmonie Dessau,CamerataZurich,AnimaMusicae with theResidentieOrkestTheHague,Anhaltische Orchester. Theforthcomingseasonwillseehimperform Petersburg SymphonyOrchestra,andtheTonkünstler includingtourswiththeBrusselsPhilharmonic,St the UK, Alexander isaregularguestsoloistinnationwidetoursof Symphony Orchestra,andareturntoCamerataSalzburg. 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BBC Big Band Corn Exchange Newbury Saturday 11th May 7.30pm

BBC Big Band The Sound of Cinema

Sat 11th Barry Forgie conductor Emer McParland vocalist

Inspired by some of the greatest film sound-tracks of all time, the internationally renowned BBC Big Band and conductor Barry Forgie celebrate The Sound of Cinema, featuring music and themes from films such as Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Meet Me in St. Louis and James Bond – all performed in the BBC Big Band’s own inimitable style.

The Band are also be joined by special guest vocalist Emer McParland, performing songs made famous by the leading-ladies of film music, including Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey and Marilyn Monroe.

Sponsored by Friends of Newbury Spring Festival

BBC Big Band Barry Forgie When you consider that Barry Forgie conducted a brass band at the age of three, was playing trombone by the age of ten and leading his own jazz group at sixteen, it seems strange that his first career aspirations were to be a vet! However, the lure of music and the somewhat belated realisation that four-legged beasts filled him with dread, eventually led him to a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Wales, Cardiff, and regular Regarded as one of the world’s finest and most versatile BBC Broadcasts with his own band. bands, The BBC Big Band continues to delight audiences around the world through their broadcasts on BBC Radio The 1970s saw him quickly established as an and their live performances. arranger/composer, working as Musical Associate on several Hollywood films and, over the next fifteen years, he The Band has played with stars such as diverse as covered the whole gamut of music, from conducting George Benson, Van Morrison, Georgie Fame, Tony Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Song and Dance in London’s West Bennett, George Shearing, Michel Legrand, Phil Woods, End, to the composition of a fifty-minute Beatles Joe Lovano, Lalo Schifrin, Michael McDonald, Bob Symphony. This was broadcast all over Europe and was Brookmeyer and Ray Charles. premiered in the UK by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. It was performed by the BBC Scottish Orchestra In addition to its regular studio and concert recordings, in a special feature programme for BBC Radio 2. the BBC Big Band regularly gives live performances at major venues around the UK and abroad. Within the UK, Despite this musical Catholicism, Barry began conducting the BBC Big Band is probably best known for its regular the BBC Big Band on a regular basis in 1977 and was Monday night show Big Band Special and Friday Night is conductor of BBC Radio 2’s Big Band Special between Music Night on BBC Radio 2, as well its appearances on 1979 and 2013. During this time he has built an BBC Radio 3’s Jazz Line Up. Its performances also reach unparalleled repertoire for the Band, transcribing the best huge global audiences through its regular broadcasts for of Big Band music, from early Ellington, through the Swing the BBC World Service, satellite radio and via the BBC’s Era, to the music of Gerry Mulligan, Buddy Rich et al. website services. Tours of the USA and Canada followed with the BBC Big Band and George Shearing, music associate work with Mel Torme, Natalie Cole and Jools Holland to name a few,

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and numerous broadcast concerts with artistes as varied as Van Morrison and Cybil Shepherd.

Jazz arranging and conducting has seen his involvement Sat 11th with Bob Brookmeyer, James Moody, Arturo Sandoval, Clark Terry, James Morrison, etc., as well as many of the Stan Kenton alumni and many of Britain’s foremost musicians and singers, including Cleo Laine, Claire Martin, Helen Shapiro and Georgie Fame.

Amidst all this BBC Big Band bonanza, Barry has still found time to compose music for wind bands, notably Jazzin’ the Community, a special commission for the BASWE Conference, major pieces for the BBC Concert Orchestra, including a thirty-five minute musical tribute to Lorenz Hart, individual arrangements for Sheona White, the BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year, plus a concert of Beatles music which the BBC Big Band toured through Brazil alongside the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra.

Unrealised ambitions to swim the Channel, play rugby for England, row for Cambridge, beat Gary Kasparov at chess and develop a new computer language for Microsoft are more than compensated by the thrill of fronting the exciting sound of the BBC Big Band!

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Emer’s heart lies in live work, and she has appeared at venues as diverse as The Royal Albert Hall through to London’s Hyde Park with an audience of over 125,000 people.

Working with big bands and orchestras has played a central role in Emer’s career. Her credits include the BBC Big Band, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the RTE Concert Orchestra (Ireland) and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

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Sound Beginnings Corn Exchange Newbury Sunday 12th May 11.00am

Babar the Elephant Mikhail Kazakevich piano Elena Zozina piano Richard Morris narrator

The whole family is welcome to this performance of Babar the Elephant at the Corn Exchange. Everybody’s favourite

little elephant comes to life when pianists Mikhail Kazakevich and Elena Zozina perform the story with narration from Sun 12th Richard Morris.

In Francis Poulenc’s playful music, Babar and the story’s other characters are brought to life, much like Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf (see page 89). Francis Poulenc composed L’Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant after his three-year- old cousin showed him the children’s book Histoire de Babar and said, “Play this!” Poulenc then improvised a piano accompaniment to each scene in the book.

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Elena Zozina Elena Zozina was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. She began playing the piano at the age of 5, and at 11 made her debut with the Nizhny Novgorod State Philharmonic at the Kremlin Concert Hall, playing Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1. At 14 she won the Grand Prix and a Special Diploma at the famous D. Kabalevsky’s National Piano Competition. In 1992 Elena made her first concert tour abroad, playing in Dortmund and Bonn where she received great critical acclaim. Richard Morris Richard Morris comes from South Wales. After a sports scholarship to Millfield School he studied singing at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Banff in Canada. Mikhail Kazakevich Leonard Bernstein chose him for the role of Celebrant in Born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, Mikhail Kazakevich his Mass for the Opera Company of Boston, a role he has studied at the city’s State Conservatoire with the famous repeated all over Europe, the Barbican and the Soviet pianist and teacher Isaak Katz, who was a pupil of Southbank in London. the legendary professor Alexander Goldenweiser. As well as Bernstein, Richard has worked with many of Immediately after graduating with the highest honours, the world’s leading composers: Stephen Sondheim, Sir Mikhail joined the professorial staff at the conservatoire Harrison Birtwistle, Sir Maxwell Davies, John Casken, and taught there until 1992 when his burgeoning John Metcalf, Gavin Briars and Dominic Muldowney. performing career led him to the West. Directors he has worked with include Sir Peter Hall, Sir Mikhail returns to perform with the Russian Philharmonic Trevor Nunn, Richard Jones, Bill Brydon and Di Trevis. He Orchestra on the evening of Saturday 18th May (see was Enjolras in the West End hit Les Misérables. Roles in page 78 for more details of this concert). opera include Macbeth, Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Toreador, Papageno and Malatesta. He has been a company member of the Royal National Theatre and worked with many leading orchestras, including the Liverpool Philharmonic with Carl Davis. He has made many CDs, one of which won a Grammy, and has recorded for BBC Radio 2, 3 and 4.

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Beloved Clara Corn Exchange Newbury Sunday 12th May 3.00pm

Beloved Clara Lucy Parham piano and script Juliet Stevenson narrator Henry Goodman narrator

Schumann Des Abends (In the evening) from Interval

Sun 12th Fantasiestücke Op.12 Schumann Intermezzo in E flat minor Op.26 Mendelssohn Spring Song (Songs without Words Schumann Davidsbundlertänze Op.6 No.4 Op.62 No.6) Brahms Intermezzo Op.118 No.1 Schumann Warum? (Why?) from Fantasiestücke Op.12 Schumann Romance in F sharp major Op.28 Schumann Piano Sonata No.2 in G minor: First Schumann Träumerei (Dreaming) from movement Kinderscenen, Op.15 Clara Schumann Nocturne Op.6 Brahms Capriccio Op.76 No.1 Brahms Piano Sonata No.3 in F minor Op.5: Brahms Intermezzo in B minor Op.119 No.1 Scherzo Schumann/Liszt Widmung (Dedication) Schumann In der Nacht from Fantasiestücke Op.12 The story of the intricate and complex relationship between Brahms, Clara and Robert Schumann has fascinated music lovers for years. As three of the nineteenth century’s most prolific musicians they hold an unparalled position in music history and we owe much of what is known about them to the extensive letters and diaries they kept.

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The Story the very last thing Clara’s father wanted was for this young man (whom he saw as an extremely bad influence) to fall in love with his daughter. As the inevitable happened, Wieck used as much influence as possible to keep them apart to such an extent that music was often the only way they could communicate. An extraordinarily accomplished composer herself, Clara had a five-note “theme” that was unique to their music and that Robert embedded in much of his piano music. It was his way of telling her he loved her when they were forcibly kept apart. However, Friedrick Wieck’s intervention wasn’t enough to prevent the two young lovers from marrying. In 1840 Clara Wieck became Clara Schumann. She was 21 and Robert was 30.

The intimate diary they kept jointly from the day they were married provides much of the material for Beloved Clara. And there is no doubt that they enjoyed a period of great happiness in their early years together. But by the time the young Brahms had burst upon the musical scene in Hamburg, Schumann’s mental illness had already firmly established itself. Schumann’s support of Brahms and his Clara Wieck (born 1819) was a child prodigy pianist who music are well documented, but how he felt about the had been groomed for stardom by her piano teacher young composer’s obsession with his wife one can only father. Hailed as the “next Mozart” for her extraordinary imagine. After he was admitted at his own request to a pianistic talent, she’d been delighting audiences mental asylum at Endenich, Clara was forbidden by the throughout Europe from a very young age. When the doctors from seeing him. The young Brahms, whose love young Robert Schumann came to the house for lessons and admiration for Clara was unwavering, temporarily

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moved into the Schumann household to help with her BBC Music Magazine, Independent, BBC Radio 3, Pianist seven children and the finances. Clara had to continue Magazine and the Guardian. with her numerous concert tours, as they had always been the main source of income. Her correspondence The CD of Beloved Clara (featuring Joanna David and with Brahms is extensive, although sadly, at the end of his Martin Jarvis) was released on ASV to critical acclaim. It life, he consigned many of her letters to the fire. But many was “CD of the Week” in the Sunday Times, the Observer of his letters to her have survived and there is no doubt and the Independent on Sunday.

about the extent and depth of his feelings for her. Much of Sun 12th what happened between Clara Schumann and Brahms Beloved Clara’s creation was inspired by Lucy Parham’s we will never know – most especially as to whether any lifelong passion for the music of Robert Schumann and physical liaison ever took place. It is possible that after Johannes Brahms, a subject that she has specialised in Schumann’s death in 1856 that Clara rejected a marriage for many years. proposal from Brahms, as there was a situation that caused a long and extensive rift between the two of them. The Music When I chose the music for Beloved Clara, I was more Clara Schumann was an extraordinary woman by any concerned with reflecting the mood of the letters rather standards. Prodigiously talented, she was the first female than an exact chronological order. Consequently, the “concert pianist”, an outstanding composer, and a pieces speak the same language as the preceding words standard bearer for Robert Schumann’s music. We will in order to tell a story. never know the exact nature of her relationship with Brahms but there is no doubt she was his true love. A The first of Schumann’s Fantasiestȕcke Op.12, Des muse to two giants of the Romantic school, Beloved Clara Abends (In the evening), is a peaceful and reflective work tells her story in words and music. evoking his poetic and introverted side. He named the two “characters” of his musical personality Florestan and The History Eusebius. The former reflected the passionate, impulsive Beloved Clara was Lucy Parham’s first Composer Portrait. and quixotic side of his nature and the latter, as can be It comprises the original letters and diaries of Robert and heard in Des Abends, represents Schumann at his most Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms interspersed with tender and intimate. The melody is woven into a soft their piano music. It premiered in the Wigmore Hall arpeggio accompaniment – a figuration that he often used Masters Series in 2002 and has since been performed in his piano music. well over 100 times in concert halls, theatres and at festivals throughout the UK, USA and Europe. These Mendelssohn makes a cameo appearance with one of his engagements have included the Bergen International much-loved Songs Without Words, the Spring Song. A Festival, Cadogan Hall, BAFTA, Chichester Festival great friend of the Schumanns, Mendelssohn also Theatre, Perth Festival, Victor Hugo Festival, St John’s conducted performances of his piano concertos when Smith Square, Schumann Anniversary Festival, Kings Clara herself was the soloist. Place, Salisbury Playhouse, Yvonne Arnaud and the Royal Hall, Harrogate. Beloved Clara returned to the Warum? (Why?), is the third piece from Schumann’s Wigmore Hall in December 2010, receiving a 5 star review Fantasiestȕcke Op.12. Its gentle, pleading theme recurs from the Independent – “A lovely entertainment – throughout, in the form of a duet between the right and flawlessly performed” left hands. The Sonata No.2 in G minor was written with Clara in mind and the highly passionate first movement The US debut took place in Los Angeles in 2008 with suggests an unbearable yearning for her. performances for LA Theatreworks; this was broadcast nationwide on National Public Radio. The young Clara Wieck wrote her Op.6 at the age of 14. An original and musically sublime piece, the Nocturne Actors who have appeared with pianist Lucy Parham represents Clara’s early work at its finest. include Juliet Stevenson, Henry Goodman, Joanna Dame Harriet Walter, Dominic West, Tim McInnerny, Patricia She was the dedicatee behind Brahms’ Second Sonata Hodge, Niamh Cusack, Samuel West, Alex Jennings, and spent many hours helping Brahms with his piano Edward Fox, Charles Dance, Robert Glenister, Timothy playing. The Scherzo from his subsequent mighty F minor West, Malcolm Sinclair, Martin Jarvis, Sebastian Koch and Sonata is a tour de force, proving Schumann’s Gabrielle Drake. predications about his prodigious talent to be true. Remaining in a turbulent mood, In der Nacht portrays Beloved Clara has been widely featured in the national Schumann’s wild and uninhibited temperament at its most press and media, including Woman’s Hour (Radio 4), the vivid and driven. It tells the story of two star-crossed Times, Sunday Times, Observer, Classic FM Magazine, lovers who meet at sea. The central lyrical section unites

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Liszt’s transcriptionofSchumann’ssongWidmung exhaustion isprevalentthroughout. of fallingthirdsandanoverridingfeelingsadness played very, veryslowly!”Thepieceisbasedonaseries minor wasexceptionallymelancholyandthatit“mustbe constantly inhismind.HedecreedtheIntermezzoB arthritis andBrahmswrotehislatepianopieceswithher As shegrewolder, Clara’shandsbecamecrippledwith the contextofstory. exactly theanguishedmoodandtormentasdescribedin Brahms leftClaraandreturnedtoHamburg,itcaptures was only38whenhewroteitandalthoughwrittenbefore eight piecesthatformhisKlavierstuckeOp.76.Brahms in itatall!Alonelyandhauntingwork,isthefirstof The CapriccioinFsharpminorhasnocapriciousquality small gemsoftherepertoire. for thepiano.Itsuttersimplicitymarksitoutasoneof possibly themostsublimeshortpieceSchumannwrote Träumerei two voicesofRobertandClara. form aduetand(possiblyunconsciously)representthe Clara onherdeathbedbygrandson.Thetwovoices especially poignantinthissettingasitwasplayedto The secondofSchumann’sRomancesOp.28is into themajorkeyinfinalbars. No.1 hasaturbulentandtroubledfeeltoituntilresolves Serving almostasanintroductiontotherestofset, mood ischangedwithBrahms’IntermezzoOp.118No.1. introspective expressioncombinedwithwildpassion.The and intheDavidsbundlertänze,wehearSchumann’s undertone providingthebasisforasoaringmelodicline Schumann’s IntermezzoOp.26againhasaturbulent pure FlorestanandEusebiustogetheratitsfinest. them beforetheyaredrivenapartbythewaves.Thisis (Dreaming) fromScenesofChildhoodis © LucyParham Lucy Parham presented fourseriesofKings PlaceCoffeeConcerts Schumann 200Festival atKing’sPlacein2010.She Anniversary Festival atCadoganHallandtheDirectorof invited tobetheDirectorof 2006Schumann TV. Radio3and4BBC guest onBBC Shewas She alsoappearsfrequentlyasabroadcastpresenterand National de Lille. Philharmonic, Polish National Radio SO and L’Orchestre State Symphony, Sofia Philharmonic, Bergen performances. Abroad, she has toured with the Russian Orchestra with whom she has now given over sixty as Mexico and Turkey with The Royal Philharmonic Concert OrchestraBBC on their 50th anniversary, as well Hall. Shethe has Wigmore also toured the USA with the the major British orchestras and is a frequent recitalist at played throughout the UK as concerto soloist with most of Festival Hall concerto debut at the age of 16, she has Youngthe 1984 BBC Musician of the Year. Since her Royal Lucy first came to public attention as theof Piano Winner Music Magazine CO/Sanctuary)wontheBBC Schumann Concertos(BBC Schumann CD(ASV).HerofClaraandRobert by Ravel,Fauré andFranck (RPOrecords)andasolo Gershwin’s RhapsodyinBlue(RPO/EMIGold),concertos Lucy hasmadenumerousCDrecordingsincluding Clara Goodman) wasreleasedinMay2018.Herlatestshow, have allreleasedtocriticalacclaim.Elégie Goodman/Juliet Stevenson)andRêverie (Samuel West/Harriet Walter) OdysseyofLove(Henry Rachmaninoff, AHeartinExile.TheCDsofNocturne Henry Goodman.ThiswasfollowedbyElégie– HallLondonPianoSerieswith premiered attheWigmore Rêverie –theLifeandLovesofClaudeDebussywas Hall.Herfourthprogramme, Piano SeriesattheWigmore Life ofFrédéricChopin Liszt -AnOdysseyofLoveand was releasedtocriticalacclaim.Two furtherevenings, evening, inspired theoriginalconceptofwordsandmusic is touringin2019. Beloved Clara.TheCDof(ASV) Critics’ ChoiceoftheYear. also premieredintheLondon the musicofSchumann Her life-longpassionfor Liszt and Debussy. Chopin, Rachmaninoff, composers as Schumann, in words and music of such recitals, but also to portraits not only to concertos and sensitivity and imagination Lucy Parham applies her Britain’s finest pianists, Acknowledged as one of Nocturne -TheRomantic (Alex Jennings) (Henry I, 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:31Page27 CD ofOdysseyLove(LisztAndHisWomen). Portrait Juliet frequentlyperformsLucyParham’s Composer television work. times andisfiveBAFTA nominatedforherfilmand her Olivieraward,Juliethasbeennominatedafurtherfour Arnett. ShewasawardedtheCBEin1999.Inadditionto Atlantic’s Heat. ShehasrecentlywrappedproductiononSky Place ofExecution,TheAccused,Hour of Haunting andSkyLiving’ssupernaturalthrillerTheEnfield BBC1 brothers’thriller starring rolesinWilliams feature filmLetMeGo.Recenttelevisionworkincludes Smile, Dianaand Last SeeYour BeingJulia,Pierrepoint,MonaLisa Father?, Truly, Madly, Deeply, BenditLikeBeckham,WhenDidYou Happy Days,alsoatTheYoung Vic.Herfilmsinclude transferred totheWest End)andofcourseBeckett’s Feldman/Almeida andVaudeville), RichardIII(RSC), National Theatrerolesinclude: DuetforOne(Dr Other majorWest End,Broadway, RSCandRoyal Theatre andintheWest End(DuchessTheatre2013). ofArturoUi The RiseandFall TMA awards.Hereceivedabestactorawardin2012for for EveningStandard,CriticsCircle,WhatsonStageand Critics’ CircleandTMAawards,multipleawardnominee winner oftheOlivierBestActorAward, winnerofthe Leading BritishactorHenryGoodmanisatwo-time Henry Goodman Juliet Stevenson for moreinformation. Music andDrama,London–visitwww.lucyparham.com Lucy isaProfessorofPianoattheGuildhallSchool Johns SmithSquare. ) tookplaceatSt series (all5ofherComposerPortraits (Word/Play) andin2017/18hersecondSheafferMatinée Corn ExchangeNewburySunday12thMay3.00pm Beloved Clara Vic, RobertIcke’sMaryStuart Atlantis concerts. SheisjoinedbyHenryGoodmanonthe as wellplayingseriesregularsontwo Riviera, starringoppositeJuliaStilesandWill and The Village. Departure. Recentreleasesinclude Other televisionworkincludes at theChichesterFestival and Wings roles inWings credits includestarring 1991. Mostrecenttheatre Death andTheMaidenin performance asPaulina in an Olivierawardforher the RoyalCourt,winning the NationalTheatreand Shakespeare Company, extensively fortheRoyal She hasworked Britain’s leadingactors. Juliet Stevensonisoneof Hamlet One ofUsfor (both ofwhich and at theYoung White acclaim. A HeartinExilehasrecentlybeenreleasedtocritical – recorded Strauss’epicmelodramaforpianoandnarrator of UK tours).HejoinsJulietStevensonontheCDrecording Hall,KingsPlace,St.John’s SmithSquareand (Wigmore Love, Nocturne, Parham concerts-Odysseyof inherComposerPortrait Henry frequentlyappearswithconcertpianistLucy and (Channel 4Docudrama),MidsomerMurders,NewTricks New Tricks Four), &Challenger(BBC Alan Turing Kissinger), Dreadful(Adrian/TVSkyAtlantic),Nixon Penny than Water and days ofLehmanBrothers,TheirFinest,LoveisThicker Hill, MerchantofVenice Surprise, Taking Woodstock(AngLee),TheSaint,Notting Avengers, CaptainAmerica, His filmsincludeAdamJones,WomaninGold,The Ambassadors Priestley’s an all-dayadaptationofJamesJoyce’sUlysses, (Joseph Roth)asLeopoldBloomonBloomsdayRadio- Broadway intitlerolesTartuffe, Theatre andintheWest End.Hehasalsoappearedon Sir HumphreyinYes MinisteratChichesterFestival attheOldVicandas Boy(ArthurWinslow) The Winslow (Nathan Detroit/RNT).HehasalsostarredinRattigan’s Mitterand Award winner. HewasrecentlyheardinBookoftheWeek radioandisaSony Henry appearsregularlyonBBC Bath. Stratford andLookingatLucian (Serge). MostrecentlyhestarredinVolpone (Marc/Wyndhams), (Marc/Wyndhams), Enoch Arden.TheirrecordingofElégie–Rachmaninoff, Odyssey ofLove.HeandLucyParham havealso (BBC One). Murders(BBC The ABC and Angel Pavement The MakingofCoronationStreet(SkyArts), (Lambert). Ivanhoe Woman inMind.RecentTVincludes Reverie, BelovedClaraandElégie Broken Glass(RNT), www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk Series, (BBC TV)andTVdramaLast (BBC (Golspie), HenryJames’The foreign languagefilmThe Jaws, TheRadetskyMarch Flynn/West End),Art (David/RNT), Holy Rosenbergs (Guiteau/Donmar), Wales), Assassins of Angels(Buddy/Prince Feelgood (Buddy/ PrinceofWales), Savoy), (Tevye/Crucible, Sheffield& Fiddler onRoof Cohn), Angels inAmerica(Roy at theTheatreRoyal, The Producersand Shylock City ofAngels (Garrick), Guys andDolls Chicago at theRSC, (RNT), (Henry The Theatre (Billy Art

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Cabaret at Combe Combe Manor Barn Combe Sunday 12th May 8.00pm

Life is for Living – Conversations with Coward Simon Green vocalist David Shrubsole piano

Simon Green and David Shrubsole return to Combe Manor and the Newbury Spring Festival bringing their unique theatrical conversation with Noel Coward for which they won New York’s 2017 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding

Sun 12th Revue.

In this entertaining and sophisticated cabaret, with the audience seated at round tables in a jazz club style, Coward’s own inimitable words and music are interwoven with gems from Ivor Novello, Irving Berlin and George Gershwin, the wisdom of Maya Angelou and new musical settings of Coward’s verse.

A truly original insight into how “The Master” can speak to us today.

Sponsored by Mr and Mrs Bryan Harper, by kind permission of Mr and Mrs Jason Russell

Simon Green Schultz in Showboat (Palladium - co-production with Opera North).

Simon has played leading roles in many major regional theatres, including M. Andre in Cameron Macintosh’s new production of The Phantom of The Opera (national tour), Henry Carr in Travesties (Nottingham Playhouse), Bernard Nightingale in Arcadia (Ipswich), seasons for Sir Alan Ayckbourn at Scarborough including House and Garden, Dexter in High Society (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Crestwell in Relative Values (Salisbury Playhouse), and the title roles in Don Giovanni (Kings Theatre, Glasgow) Simon is delighted to be returning to Combe Manor and Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Guildford and Windsor), alongside his musical director and collaborator, David as well as the dames Widow Twankey in Aladdin and Shrubsole. Tonight they present Life is for Living for which Sarah the Cook in Dick Whittington (Oxford Playhouse). they won New York’s 2017 Drama Desk Award. Simon has had many happy times appearing in Evenings at Other theatre includes: Anything Goes (Grange Park), Combe and is thrilled to be back here in another one. Putting It Together, Antony and Cleopatra, Cavalcade Other recent credits include Bruce Ismay in Titanic (Chichester), Noel and Gertie, House and Garden (Southwark Playhouse, Toronto and last year’s national (Scarborough), The Play’s The Thing (Cambridge Theatre tour), Terri Dennis in Privates on Parade (Union), Lord Company), The Beaux’ Stratagem, The Bacchae (Bristol Cromer in Mrs. Henderson Presents (Toronto) and Old Vic), Tony in West Side Story (Coventry). Bernadette in the UK national tour of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert and also in Amsterdam, Tel Aviv and Films include: Kingsman - The Secret Service (2015), A Auckland. Other London credits include three Sondheim Christmas Carol, Bedrooms and Hallways, Day Release, original West End productions: Sunday in the Park with Dead In The Water. George (Menier Chocolate Factory/Wyndham’s), Passion (Queen’s) and Young Ben in Follies (Shaftesbury) also Television includes: Mr Selfridge, 24 - Live Another Day, Sondheim at 80 – BBC Proms and The Phantom of The Affinity, Robin Hood, Roman Road, Urban Gothic, Rhona, Opera 25th anniversary production (both Royal Albert Eastenders, In The Red, Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde, The Hall), Knight of The Burning Pestle (Barbican), Lumiere in Upper Hand, After Henry, Never The Twain, Victoria Wood Disney’s Beauty and The Beast (Dominion), Whizzer in as seen on TV, The Two of Us, The Agatha Christie Hour, March of The Falsettos (Albery), Elegies For Angels, The Good Companions. Punks and Raging Queens (Criterion), Coriolanus (Young Vic), Elmer Gantry (Gate), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Her Other cabaret credits with David Shrubsole include Majesty’s), Lady Be Good (Regent’s Park) Tony in The Minerva at Chichester Festival theatre, Live at Zedel, Boyfriend (Old Vic, Albery and Royal Alexandra, Toronto), Crazy Coqs, The Pheasantry and in New York at and for the RSC: Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz and Frank Feinstein’s, The Metropolitan Room, Carnegie Hall, Weill

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Recital Hall and at 59E59 Theaters with Coward at (Oldham Coliseum), Kes (Liverpool), Steel Magnolias Christmas, Travelling Light (Drama Desk Award (Sydney), An Ideal Husband (Frankfurt), The Dark Side of nomination) and So, This Then Is Life. They have Buffoon (Coventry), Hay Fever (Chichester), Gaslight (Old recorded two CDs, Take Me To The World and A Changing Vic), Total Eclipse (Meniere Chocolate Factory), Of Mice World – the words and music of Noel Coward. and Men (Colchester) and Epitaph For George Dillon (Comedy Theatre). David Shrubsole David studied at Trinity Sun 12th College of Music, London. David has written music and lyrics for Life Is For Living (59E59, New York - drama desk winner 2017), The Great Wall, The Friendship of Town Mouse & Country Mouse and Pinocchio (Drama Centre, Singapore). Musical Direction credits include: American Psycho (Almeida, Broadway), London Road (National Theatre & Cuba pictures Feature Film), Matthew Bourne’s Dorian Gray (Edinburgh International Festival and World Tour), The Threepenny Opera (also co-lyricist), The Magistrate, Major Barbara, The Alchemist (NT), Just So (Chichester Festival Theatre & Album), Ragtime (Piccadilly, London), Miss Saigon (National Tour), My Fair Lady (NT and Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), The Christmas Carol (Royal Festival Hall), Martin Guerre (West Yorkshire Playhouse, National Tour & Album), Master Class with Patti LuPone (Queens, London), Chess (National Tour, Oslo) and Carmen Jones (European Tour).

As an orchestrator/arranger his credits include You Are Here (Goodspeed Musicals), Sunshine On Leith, Sweeney Todd, Annie (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Something Wicked This Way Comes (Delaware Theater Company), The Wind in the Willows (Palladium, London), wonder.land (Manchester International Festival), Porgy & Bess, Hello Dolly (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre) The Three Musketeers (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) Assassins, Ain’t Misbehavin’, A Chorus Line (Sheffield Crucible). David has worked extensively as MD and arranger for Simon Green and together they have played four seasons at New York’s 59E59 Theatres including Clearly Coward, Traveling Light (Drama Desk Nominated) and So, This Then Is Life. A beautiful venue

As a composer of music for plays credits include The for your perfect wedding in the Great Wave, My Country, Table, The Enchantment unique valley of Combe, Berkshire (National Theatre), Europe, The Crucible (Leeds Playhouse), A Streetcar Named Desire (Theatr Cymru, Leicester Curve), The Diary of Anne Frank (York Theatre www.combemanor.com Royal), As You Like It (Chester), Macbeth (Shakespeare in the Park, Singapore), Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo & Telephone: 01488 668931 Juliet (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Troilus and Combe Manor • Hungerford • Berkshire • RG17 9EJ Cressida (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Absent Friends

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Foyle-Štšura Duo Corn Exchange Newbury Monday 13th May 12.30pm

Young Artists Lunchtime Recital 1 Michael Foyle violin Beethoven Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 8 in G Maksim Štšura piano major Op. 30 No. 3 Strauss Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat major Op. 18 Kreisler Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta

The award winning Foyle-Štšura Duo bring a lunchtime concert set against the backdrop of Vienna. Evoking a glamorous and aristocratic lost world the recital draws a curtain on the Viennese ballroom for the 20th Century with a series of nostalgic and virtuosic waltzes. Mon 13th

Sponsored by The Headley Trust

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949) Sonata for Violin and Piano in G major, Opus 30 Sonata for Violin and Piano in E flat major Op. 18 No. 3 1. Allegro, ma non troppo 1. Allegro assai 2. Improvisation: Andante cantabile 2. Tempo di menuetto 3. Finale: Andante - Allegro 3. Allegro vivace Under the direction of his father Franz, who was the After his arrival in Vienna in 1792, the combination of principal horn in the Munich Opera orchestra, Strauss violin and piano interested Beethoven across a period received a strongly classical musical education. He was a spanning more than twenty years. The three sonatas prodigy as a young man, already writing music of lasting published as Opus 30 were written during 1802, the year value, although these compositions are of less originality which saw the crisis of his deafness expressed in the than those he would later create. Among the best of his moving Heiligenstadt Testament, and in which the style of early compositions, for example, is a Violin Concerto his music was entering a new phase, which can be dating from 1882. summarised in terms of an extended range of technique and a greater depth of feeling. All three sonatas were By the time Strauss composed his Violin Sonata in 1888, dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia, whose he was an experienced composer even though he was in Ambassador in Vienna, Count Rasumovsky, was a his early twenties. In fact of all the ‘classical works’ of his supporter of the composer. younger years, the sonata is generally held to be the most successful. And despite his extended career as a The conception of a duo sonata as a partnership of composer, it remained one of only three such examples, equals, rather than as solo and accompaniment, is the others being the piano sonata and cello sonata, early established from the outset, which presents a genuine works also. duet between violin and piano. The music grows naturally out of this scheme, with an ideal balance of rhythmic The Violin Sonata opens with a strong statement on the vigour and lyrical flow, in the context of an often dramatic piano, introducing the ardent lyrical line of the violin, and expressive environment. this distinctive beginning sets the tone for whole composition. The second movement has a song-like The central movement is a Menuetto, and as such typifies character. Entitled Improvisation, it has a traditional the unexpectedly wide-ranging nature of Beethoven’s ternary form, with a capricious middle section in which genius during this phase of his development. The piano occasionally the violin is muted. presents the charming main theme, which is then heard in a variety of treatments. The finale is a lively moto After an atmospheric and restrained introduction, the perpetuo, whose contrasted features relate closely to the finale becomes more assertive in style, while developing ideas presented by each instrument in the first few bars. motivic fragments that had appeared during the earlier © Terry Barfoot movements. There is also a fine new melody, whose expressive breadth anticipates the glories that were to come in both the opera house and the concert hall. © Terry Barfoot

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Foyle-Štšura Duo Corn Exchange Newbury Monday 13th May 12.30pm

FRITZ KREISLER (1875-1962) Michael Foyle (violin) won The Netherlands Violin Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta Competition 2016, giving an acclaimed performance of Szymanowksi’s Concerto No.1 with the Rotterdam The eminent violinist Fritz Kreisler composed many Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2017-18 he returned to the attractive short pieces for his own instrument; and some, Rotterdam Philharmonic and Polish Baltic Philharmonic for instance Liebesleid (Love’s sorrow) and Liebesfreude with Korngold’s Concerto, and makes his Cadogan Hall (Love’s joy), have become classics of the violin repertoire. debut playing Prokofiev’s Concerto No.1 with the English In addition Kreisler looked for opportunities to make Chamber Orchestra. Other London appearances included transcriptions of existing music, both to give it a wider performances of the Beethoven, Dvořák, Elgar and currency and to provide a showpiece for his own Tchaikovsky concerti. virtuosity. Throughout the ages instrumentalists have

demanded such opportunities to display their talents. Born in Ayrshire in 1991, Michael gave his concerto debut Mon 13th Kreisler’s Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta is an evocation in Edinburgh Festival Theatre aged eight. He went on to of his native city and its famous musical traditions, but it is win the BBC Young Musician of the Year Tabor Award much more personal than that. In 1938, following the 2008 and the Royal Overseas League String Competition Anschluss, Kreisler left Austria and accepted the French 2013, before studying at the Vienna Konservatorium with government’s offer of citizenship. Then after the outbreak Pavel Vernikov and in London with Maureen Smith and of war he emigrated to the United States, becoming an Daniel Rowland. Upon graduation from the Royal American citizen in 1943. The Fantasietta dates from Academy of Music, he was awarded the Regency Prize these years, and its Viennese spirit exudes nostalgia for for Excellence and the Roth Prize for the highest violin past times. mark of the year. He has premiered solo and chamber works by over 25 living composers. Michael plays a © Terry Barfoot Gennaro Gagliano violin (1750) on loan and is Foyle-Štšura Duo represented by Interartists Amsterdam. In addition to his solo and chamber performances this season, he is invited as Guest-Leader of BBC Symphony Orchestra and as Violin Professor at Royal Academy of Music.

Maksim Štšura (piano) won First Prizes at the Beethoven Intercollegiate Piano Competition (2013), the Estonian Piano Competition (2008), the Steinway-Klavierspiel- Wettbewerb in Germany (2004) and the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition in Estonia (2000). He has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Saint Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Kammersymphonie and the Praised for ‘playing of compelling conviction’ (The Daily Chester Philharmonic Orchestra. As a chamber musician Telegraph) and ‘astonishing mutual feeling, understanding he is in great demand, collaborating with Jakobstad and responsiveness’ (Seen and Heard International), the Sinfonietta (Finland), Mediterranean Chamber Brass Foyle-Štšura Duo won the Beethoven Piano Society of (Spain) and Florin Ensemble (UK) among many others. Europe Duo Competition and the Salieri-Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition in 2015. Maksim studied at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre with Ivari Ilja and on exchange at the Hochschule Since then they have given recitals in Wigmore Hall, für Musik und Theater Hamburg, before moving to Purcell Room, Buckingham Palace, Bridgewater Hall, London to complete his Masters and Artist Diploma Usher Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, as well as for the degrees with Gordon Fergus-Thompson at the Royal New York Chamber Music Festival, Cervantino Festival in College of Music. He has additionally received Mexico and Evgeny Mravinsky Festival in Tallinn and St. masterclasses from Dmitri Bashkirov, Stephan Hough, Petersburg. Their performances have been broadcast on John Lill and Eliso Virsaladze. Alongside his performing BBC Radio 3, NPO Radio 4 and Estonian Klassikaraadio. career, Maksim is currently completing a Doctoral course Formerly Park Lane Group, Kirckman Concert, Making at the RCM, where his research is focused on the piano Music and Live Music Now artists, receiving masterclasses transcriptions of the contemporary orchestral scores. He from Stephen Kovacevich and Maxim Vengerov, they are is also a Trustee of the Mills Williams Foundation. now City Music Foundation Ambassadors. In 2018 they record their debut CDs – complete works of Penderecki and Lutosławski for Delphian Records and a World War One recital release for Challenge Records.

www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 31 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:32Page32 32 Mon 13th which achievesthenatureofamotoperpetuo. This islargelybecauseofthemusic’srapidmomentum, finale callsforconsiderablevirtuosityfromtheplayers. though thereisacontrastingtriointheminorkey. The for theminuet.Thismovementismoreplayfulinmanner, There isareturnfromAmajortothetonickeyofD minor keycentraldevelopment,knownasthe‘minore’. period, withmajorkeysectionsateitherendframinga The slowmovementemploysafamiliardeviceofthe the laterstages. dispelled whenthematerialoffirstsectionreturnsin adds anextradegreeoftension.Thismoodiseventually the developmentwhichoccursheartofmovement of activity, whilethedeploymentofremotekeysduring of theinstrument.Triplet figuresaddanincreasedsense violin. Thisproceedstoreachtowardsthehighestregister Lark, The FifthoftheOpus64Tost Quartets,knownasThe Opus 54and55Quartets. in Vienna.ThelatterhadalsocommissionedHaydn’s for anothervirtuosochambermusician,JohannTost, back Johann Salomon,thoughtheyhadoriginallybeenwritten occasion theywerepresentedbytheviolinist-impresario appeared thereinpersontomuchacclaim.Onthat London attheendoffollowingyear, whenhe publication inVienna,buttheywerealsopresented Haydn composedhissixOpus64quartetsin1790for 4. Finale:Vivace 3. Menuetto:Allegretto 2. Adagiocantabile 1. Allegromoderato Lark String QuartetinDmajor, Opus64No.5-The JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809) Sponsored byTheEarlandCountessofCarnarvonViking Cruises Cara Berridge Robin Ashwell Hannah Dawson Ben Hancox Sacconi Quartet Highclere CastleNewburyMonday13thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 The HighclereConcert takes itsnicknamefromtheinitialentryoffirst violin ‘cello viola violin © Terry Barfoot re QuartetinGminorop.27 Grieg Interval QuartetNo.3inD Korngold QuartetinDop64no.5,TheLark Haydn the Brontësisters entitledDevotion. that wascontemporarywiththe quartet,a1947filmabout (1941), andthesecondsubject ofthefinalefromaproject slow movementcamefromthe classicfilmTheSeaWolf Between Two Worlds,themainthemeofSostenuto second movementscherzobegan lifeinthe1944film from existingfilmscores.For example, thetrioof feature throughout.Someofthemusicalmaterialderives construction, theintervalofseventhactsasaunifying Roth StringQuartet.Atraditionalfourmovement No. 3wasfirstperformedatLosAngelesin1946bythe neighbour theconductorBrunoWalter, theStringQuartet No. 3inDmajor. Dedicatedtoanotherémigré,his Christmas gift,thefinalsketchofnewStringQuartet that inDecember1945,hesurprisedhiswifewitha music againuntilHitlerhadbeendefeated.Thusitwas Korngold hadvowedthathe wouldnotcomposeconcert musical ideology.’ concessions whatevertowhatheconceivesbehisown writing mayvary, butthecomposerneedstomakeno rostrum orcinema.Form maychange,themannerof expression. Musicismusicwhetheritforthestage, ‘It isnottruethatcinemaplacesarestraintonmusical In aninterviewgivenin1946Korngold statedhisbeliefs: European ex-patriots. leading filmcomposers,workingalongsideother United States.InHollywoodhebecameoneofthe compelled toleaveAustriain1935andsettlethe Hamburg, butsincehewasofJewishdescent, successful careerintheoperahousesofViennaand composed attheageof13.Hewentontobuilda Artur SchnabelperformedthepianosonataKorngold Gustav Mahlerpubliclyacknowledgedtheboy’sgiftsand child prodigyasbothpianistandcomposer. For example, son ofaprominentcritic,andhebecamecelebrated Korngold wasborninViennaintoamusicalfamily, asthe 4. Finale:Allegroconfuoco Tune3. Sostenuto:LikeAFolk 2. Scherzo:Allegromolto 1. Allegromoderato String QuartetNo.3inDmajor, Opus34 ERICH WOLFGANGKORNGOLD (1897-1957) 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSF programme book 23/04/2019 12:32 Page 33

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The opening movement is a sonata allegro employing two The opening motif – an octave, falling to a seventh, then a contrasted themes. The first features a chromatic descent, fifth – is also found in his Piano Concerto, and this motivic while the second has an ascending contour. As these core pervades the entire quartet, binding it together to ideas are developed so the intervals become more form a composite whole. Here it is played in its brooding, stretched, intensifying the element of conflict. Only at the minor key form. Then in turn it becomes in the major key end does a chord of D major confirm the identity of the the first theme of the second subject. The development home key. techniques are typical in focusing on melodic expansion and elaboration, while there is a subsidiary related motif The second movement is a scherzo, which is exciting that generates the coda at tempo Presto. rhythmically while employing the convention of a contrasted central trio. The slow movement’s principal The quasi-orchestral richness of sound is another striking

theme, so romantic in mood, uses chains of ascending feature, with fortissimo double-stopping often employed. Mon 13th fourths, a technique typical of the film composer. After its Grieg explained: ‘the quartet is not designed to peddle initial statement it develops as a sequence of variations. occasional flashes of brilliance. Rather it aims at breadth, The finale, a Stravinskian allegro, generates much activity to soar, and above all at a vigorous sound for the before dissolving into the expressive second subject. In instruments.’ Thus the style is largely homophonic, the later stages of the quartet, various recollections from although there are some notable polyphonic passages the earlier movements achieve a sense of unity and too. apotheosis. © Terry Barfoot The pastoral reveries of the second movement are three times interrupted by an Allegro agitato theme derived EDVARD GRIEG (1843-1907) from the motto, which again haunts the principal theme of the Intermezzo. Here it is not only the motivic elements String Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Opus 27 that make the link with the song, but the emotions of Un poco andante – Allegro molto ed agitato sadness and anger besides. The lofty and careworn Romanze: Andantino – Allegro agitato feelings of the solitary composer are contrasted with the Intermezzo: Allegro molto marcato – Più vivo e scherzando middle section, in which a lively country dance makes for Lento – Presto al Saltarello a strong contrast.

Grieg inherited his musical gifts from his mother’s side of The motto in its minor key form opens the finale and it the family, and his progress was such that at the age of also brings the quartet to its conclusion with a sudden fifteen he left his homeland to further his studies at the burst of sound in the major, as an image of hope. When Leipzig Conservatoire. It is hardly surprising that his larger the first performance took place, it formed part of an all- works, such as the famous Piano Concerto, should have Grieg programme at Cologne on 29th October 1878. been influenced by the German style, and that of Grieg played his own Piano Sonata and partnered Robert Schumann in particular. The major influence on Grieg’s Hechmann in the Second Violin Sonata. At the personal creative personality, however, was his love of nature, and request of the composer, a group of songs was also particularly the scenery of the Norwegian coast around included, but Spillemaend was not among them, since he Bergen, where he lived for most of his life. chose not to publicise the link between the song and the Quartet. After busy years in Oslo, teaching and conducting to © Terry Barfoot make a living, Grieg and his wife Nina left for Hardanger in 1877. In the course of a couple of years there he wrote several fine compositions, among them the String Quartet in G minor. Working hard to find a thematic and formal framework, he decided to build the whole quartet on the melody of his Ibsen song Spillemaend (Minstrel, Opus 25 No. 1). There is an autobiographical aspect to this, since Nina was away for periods of time, and Ibsen’s text tells of a musician who spends every night of the summer thinking of his beloved, from whom he is separated. Wandering alone by a stream, he wonders if the water sprite could teach him a magic song that would impel his fair one to return to him. But it is too late. She has given his brother her love. He wanders, performing in palaces and great halls, but a tempest of terror fills his heart.

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Sacconi Quartet commission by Judith Bingham. 2018 also saw the eleventh year of the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival in The award-winning Sacconi Quartet is recognised for its Folkestone, with Graham Fitkin as composer in residence, unanimous and compelling ensemble, consistently and collaborations with the London Bridge Trio, Moray communicating with a fresh and imaginative approach. Welsh and African trio Chesaba. Formed in 2001, its four founder members continue to demonstrate a shared passion for string quartet In Summer 2015 the Quartet launched HEARTFELT, their repertoire, infectiously reaching out to audiences with most innovative project to date. A radical re-interpretation their energy and enthusiasm. The Sacconi is Quartet in of Beethoven’s iconic String Quartet in A minor opus 132, Association at the Royal College of Music. HEARTFELT pushed the boundaries of chamber music through combining sound, light and touch, for a truly

2017 saw the release of three new CDs by the Sacconi Mon 13th unique performance in which audience members Quartet: In Damascus, their CD of music by Jonathan connected with each performer’s heartbeat through Dove including the title track, commissioned by the holding robotic ‘hearts’. Visit www.heartfelt.org.uk for Quartet and featuring Mark Padmore and Charles Owen; more details. Graham Fitkin’s complete string quartets; and three of John McCabe’s quintets, featuring the composer on The name Sacconi Quartet comes from the outstanding piano, horn player David Pyatt and baritone Roderick twentieth-century Italian luthier and restorer Simone Williams. Sacconi, whose book The Secrets of Stradivari is considered an indispensable reference for violin makers. 2018-19 plans include a cruise to the Arctic circle, Robin is indebted to Ellen Solomon for the use of his performing fifteen concerts with artists including Simon viola. Ben, Hannah and Cara have all been generously Rowland-Jones and Tim Horton; two Wigmore Hall loaned their instruments by the Royal Society of concerts (the first with Daniel Hope and Freddy Kempf); Musicians, a charity which helps musicians in need, for the Irish premiere of In Damascus with tenor Robin which they are extremely grateful. Tritschler; a tour of the rarely heard John Ireland Sextet with Robert Plane and Alec Frank-Gemmill and a new © Alejandro Tamagno

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Visit the Base The Base Greenham Business Park Tuesday 14th May 11.00am

Talk & Tour Grant Brisland Director, Corn Exchange Newbury John Brazendale Chair, Open Studios West Berkshire and North Hampshire

A tour of the building will be led by Grant Brisland, director of the Corn Exchange. The Corn Exchange has supported the development of this exciting new venue and has led on curation to date. You’ll hear first-hand the artistic choices made in order to launch The Base and the hopes and ambitions for the future.

There will also be an opportunity to visit the Open Studios exhibition. John Brazendale, Chair of Open Studios will be on hand to guide you through the exhibition which will be on display throughout May.

gallery, and the first international exhibition in the gallery space was the highly prestigious and world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year. As well as presenting

Tue 14th Tue high quality exhibitions The Base will host a range of workshops, classes and events led by highly skilled creative practitioners and artists.

For children and families these include the chance to get crafty with Creation Station or learn about character illustration. For adults there are one-off sessions in a The Base is a new arts and culture venue that opened in whole host of skills including arm knitting, cyanotype early 2019. printing, book binding and calligraphy or there are courses focusing on oils, watercolours and pastels and Designed to replace the ageing New Greenham Arts life drawing. building and proving The Greenham Business Park’s commitment to the arts, The Base provides a huge Open Studios improvement to the Park's amenities, and comprises a Between 4th and 27th May, The Base will be hosting modern, fit-for-purpose building that houses not only a Open Studios West Berkshire and North Hampshire’s café with both indoor and outdoor seating, but also a INSIGHT exhibition, where 120 local artists will be visual arts gallery, an arts outreach classroom and exhibiting their work and sharing their creative processes makers’ studios. with visitors. To find out more, please visit page 148 at the back of this Programme. Located just to the north of the main entrance road, Albury Way, The Base will become a central hub, providing both an attractive and convenient eating venue with ample parking provision, suitable for business meetings, and also a home to some of the finest artists and makers in the country.

The Base arts Managed by the Corn Exchange, Newbury, the arts complex at the Base will provide additional arts facilities for local people. The Base will house a national standard Marsel van Oosten

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© ASH Photography Japan. across EnglandculminatinginaperformanceTokyo, July. ThisyeartheBalletCentralwillperformin20venues Spring, usuallycommencinginMarchgoingthroughto company visitstownsandcitiesacrosstheUKevery performing experiencetoticket-buying audiences.The graduating studentstheopportunityofprofessional company ofCentralSchoolBallettogiveCentral’s Ballet Centralwascreatedin1984asthetouring Ballet Central Sponsored byMrsKatherineAstorandDavidNaylor-Leyland acclaimed Solo Dances, inspiredbythe1945musicalCarousel promised, withstunningcostumesenhancedbypowerfulmusic.HighlightsincludeChristopherMarney’sCarousel An excitingeveningoftheatricality, technicalexcellenceanddramachoreographedbytopdanceindustryinfluencersis classical balletandcontemporarydancetheatre. chance toseeyoungdancegraduatesonthecuspoftheirprofessionalcareersperformavariedprogramme Ballet CentralispleasedtoreturntheCornExchangein2019withanexceptionalrangeofrepertoire.Thisa Philip Feeney Christopher Marney Ballet Central Corn ExchangeNewburyTuesday 14thMay7.30pm Ballet Central created byCalvinRichardson,andtheCompanyisdelightedtopresentanextractfromFrederick Ashton’s Valses NoblesetSentimentalesperformedtoMauriceRavel’ssuiteofwaltzes. musicaldirector artisticdirector by RodgersandHammerstein,auniqueversionoftheDyingSwan a patronoftheChelmsfordBallet. Artist oftheUKFoundation forDancein2009.Heisalso Bourne’s many yearsAssociateChoreographerforMatthew Degree inChoreographyatCentral.Christopherwasfor Christopher GableandlatercompletedhisMaster’s studied atCentralhimselfunderthedirectionof and leadsBalletCentral’sannualtour. Christopher year inpostasArtisticDirectoratCentralSchoolofBallet; Artistic DirectoratBalletCentral,Christopherisinhisthird Christopher Marney New AdventuresandwasnamedAssociate www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk

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As a professional dancer Christopher has worked for Ballet Central Dancers Balletboyz, Gothenburg Ballet, Ballet Biarritz, Bern Ballet, Central’s final year students join Ballet Central as part of Michael Clark Company, Ivan Putrov’s Men in Motion & their BA (Hons) Degree course in Professional Dance and Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures where he has danced Performance. This year’s cohort come from Australia, many principal roles. The Critics Circle National Dance South Africa, the USA, Japan, the UK and across Europe. Awards nominated him for Outstanding Performance in Central School of Ballet is the only classical vocational Modern Dance two years running, as well as being school to offer an Honours Degree and pre-professional included in Dance Europe’s Outstanding Male Dancer touring experience on such a scale. 2013 list. Under the direction of Artistic Director Christopher As a choreographer he has created works for Ballet Marney, Ballet Central presents a broad repertoire by Black, Images of Dance, English National Ballet’s working with distinguished choreographers, who often Emerging dancer competition, Regensburg Opera House create new work especially for this young touring and the Edinburgh festival. In London’s West-End Chris company. Choreographers who have recently supported has choreographed McQueen The Play, Tell Me on a Tue 14th Tue Ballet Central include Matthew Bourne of New Sunday and Hotel Follies. Adventures, Wayne McGregor, Kenneth MacMillan, Jenna Lee, Liam Scarlett, Christopher Bruce, Thiago Soares, Philip Feeney David Nixon, Jasmin Vardimon and Christopher Gable. Philip Feeney studied composition at Cambridge and at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and has worked The Ballet Central experience also provides young with Ballet Central from its inception, composing up to dancers with an understanding of all aspects of creating fifty scores for the company. He has composed performance, including the staging of repertoire, costume extensively for dance, collaborating with many different design and technical aspects of sound and lighting. and varied choreographers including Christopher Gable, Michael Pink, Didy Veldman, Cathy Marston, David Nixon, The tour is a springboard for hundreds of dancers into the Sharon Watson and Adam Cooper for companies as dance profession and graduates join renowned UK-based diverse as Northern Ballet, Rambert Dance Company, and international dance companies and leading musical Cullberg Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Scottish Dance theatre productions including Matthew Bourne’s New Theatre. He has also established an enduring Adventures, Scottish Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, collaboration with choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan, Nederlands Dans Theater, English National Ballet, most notably on Giselle and the award-winning The Bull Rambert, Ballet Black, Phantom of The Opera, Milwaukee for Fabulous Beast. Ballet, USA, Singapore Dance Theatre and K-Ballet, Japan. The fruits of his long-standing association with Northern Ballet are eight full-length ballets, including two versions If you would like to know more about training for a career of Cinderella, the classic original production by as a professional dancer please read Central’s Christopher Gable (1993) and a new interpretation for prospectus for more information at David Nixon’s production of 2013. With choreographer www.centralschoolofballet.co.uk Michael Pink he has assembled an impressive back catalogue of full-length narrative ballets, leading from the celebrated Dracula (originally created for Northern Ballet Theatre) to the landmark works produced for Milwaukee Ballet, Peter Pan (2010), Mirror Mirror (2014) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (2016). His latest ballet in a series of rewarding collaborations with choreographer Cathy Marston, for whom he has written scores for the critically acclaimed ballets Jane Eyre and The Suit for Ballet Black, will be Victoria, which will receive its world premiere by Northern Ballet in March.

38 box office 0845 5218 218 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:32Page39 And fromthecraggyledgepoppyhangsinsleep. And inthestreamlong-leavedflowersweep, And thro’themossiviescreep, Here arecoolmossesdeep, skies. Music thatbringssweetsleepdownfromtheblissful Than tir’deyelidsuponeyes; Music thatgentlieronthespiritlies, Of shadowygranite,inagleamingpass; Or night-dews onstillwatersbetweenwalls Than petalsfromblownrosesonthegrass, There issweetmusicherethatsofterfalls There isSweetMusic EDWARD ELGAR(1857-1934) It caughtitsimageasitflew. A moment,erethebirdhadpassed, The skybeneathmebluein The skyabovewasblueatlast, A birdwhosewingswerepalestblue. Across thewaters,coldandstill, O’er itasIlooked,thereflew The lakelaybluebelowthehill, The BlueBird SIR CHARLESVILLIERSSTANFORD Sponsored byHarbrookFarm andRamsburyEstates sublimity andmortality. of aradiantandbeautifuldawncreatingthesameunbearablesadnessravishingsong,bothwithintimations Renaissance forebears.Attheheartoftheseiscomplexrelationshipbetweenmanandnature,bitter-sweetness be foundmanysettingsofgloriouspoetry, formingacorpusofsublimemadrigalsatleastasfinetheirfamous ‘part-songs’. Buriedamongstvastquantitiesofslightlytweepastoralism–themuch-derided‘cow-pat’schoolareto This movingsequenceexploresthe20thcenturysecularEnglishchoralrepertoirewhichgoesundergenerictitle Vaughan Williams Vaughan Williams TheSummerisComing Howells Vaughan Williams ThereisSweetMusic Elgar TheBlueBird Stanford Paul McCreesh Silence &Music Gabrieli Consort Holy CrossChurchRamsburyTuesday 14thMay7.30pm Gabrieli Consort conductor The Winter isGone TheWinter BushesandBriars SilenceandMusic Alfred LordTennyson Mary Coleridge (1852-1924) Vaughan Williams Owls(AnEpitaph) Elgar TheEveningPrimrose Britten Jonathan Dove Vaughan Williams BriggFair Grainger James MacMillan But thegleaming coat Sad forthewildgeesegone, And sadisthesky, And greyisthestone Dark istheturf, As heflitshighandlow. Breathes likeaflute In CountyMayo All daythecuckoo Is burstingandspills; The milkoftheblackthorn Over thehills. The summeriscoming The SummerisComing HERBERT HOWELLS(1892-1983) and musicwakesfromsilence,whereitslept. lie intheoctavesofman’svoiceandhand, that windandseaallofwingeddelight so neartocomprehensiondowestand Voices ofgriefandfromtheheartjoy; the birdsrejoicebetweenearthandsky. the seanamesalltreasureofhertides, all ofearth’sstoriesastheyweepandcry, The fourwindsintheirlitaniescantell a handoutstretchedtogatherhollowreeds. a wintermoon,grovewhereshadowsdream, wings closed,anddriftingwherethewaterleads, Silence, comefirst:Iseeasleepingswan, Silence andMusic RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS(1872-1958) WhoKilledCockRobin? TheGallantWeaver Rest TheTurtle Dove www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk Ursula Vaughan Williams

39 Tue 14th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:32Page40 40 Tue 14th If everIprovefalsetoher, tothegirlthatlovesme. shall die The greenleavestheyshallwitherandthebranches But anun-constantloverisworsethananythief. For it’smeetingisapleasure,andpartinggrief, “And nowwe’remettogether, Ihopewene’ershallpart”. heart: I tookholdofherlily-white hand,Oandmerrilywasher to see. Of thinkingtheretomeetmydear, longtimeIhadwished of glee, I roseupwiththelarkinmorning,myheartsofull Unto BriggFair Ididrepair, forloveIwasinclined. It wasonthefifthofAugust,errweatherfineandfair, Brigg Fair PERCY GRAINGER(1882-1961) As heflitshighandlow. Breathes likeaflute All daythecuckooinCountyMayo On youandonme. And lightswithkisses The summeriscomingoverthesea, Black heifersstandovertheoldgreengraves. On thewesternwaves; The blackboatstilt On theedgeofland; Like beetlesthatgo On thesilverstrand, The blackboatswalk Brooch ofthewhins. Under thegolden Of thegrassbegins And sweetsmellstheblossom ofMay. The larkinthemorningsosweetly shesings, The meadowsarepleasantand gay, The winterisgoneandthesummer iscome, The WinterisGone If Ishowtohimmyboldness,he’llne’erlovemeagain.’ And ifIshouldgotomylove,lovehewillsaynay, mind. Sometimes IthinkI’llgotomyloveandtellhim Sometimes Iamuneasyandtroubledinmymind, ‘Long timeIhavebeenwaitingforthecomingofmydear. I overheardmyowntruelove,hervoiceitwassoclear, and play. All fortohearthesmallbirdssingandlambsskip Through bushesandthroughbriarsIlatelytookmyway; Bushes andBriars RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS(1872-1958) Holy CrossChurchRamsburyTuesday 14thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 Gabrieli Consort

Bryan Guinness Traditional Traditional As Iwilldoforthee. As Iwilldoforthee,mydear, A-making amoanforthelossofhislove, He dothsitonyonderhightree, O yonderdothsitthatlittleturtledove, Till allthesethings be done. Till allthesethings be done,mydear, But Ineverwillprovefalsetothebonnylasslove, Nor therocksmeltwithsun, The seawillneverrundry, mydear, Till thestarsfallfrom thesky. Till thestarsfallfrom thesky, mydear, But Ineverwillprovefalsetothebonnylasslove, So deepinloveamI; So fairthouart,mybonnylass, Though Iroamtenthousandmiles. Though Iroamtenthousandmiles,mydear, If IroamawayI’llcomebackagain, And leaveyouforawhile; Fare youwell,mydear, Imustbegone, The Turtle Dove (I lovemygallantWeaver.) and giveittotheWeaver. but tomyheartI’lladdhand, to gietheladthathasland, My daddiesign’dthetocher-band (I lovemygallantWeaver.) and IgiedittotheWeaver. and Iwasfearedmyheartwouldtine, they giedmeringsandribbonsfine, Oh, Ihadwooersaughtornine, (I lovemygallantWeaver.) he isthegallantWeaver. there livesalad,theladforme, by monyaflow’randspreadingtree, Where Cartrinsrowintothesea, The GallantWeaver JAMES MACMILLAN(b.1959) As hecrownedhertheQueenofMay. So bellstheydidring,andthebrideshesing, Their vowsinthechurchfortopay. It wasearlynextmorninghemadeherhisbride, A treespreaditsbranchesaround. Then heplacedakissonhersweetrubylips, On thegreenbushybanktheysatdown; He tookthefairmaidbyherlilywhitehand, And thedairymaidmilkinghercow. The blackbirdsandthrushessinginthegreenbush, hishorses,tofollowtheplough; With Young Johnnytheploughboycomeswhistlingalong

Traditional Traditional 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:32Page41 It faintsandwithersisgone. ‘Bashed atthegazeitcannot shun, When daylooksoutwithopen eye, Thus itbloomsonwhilenight isby; Knows notthebeautyhepossesses. Who, blindfoldtoitsfondcaresses, Wastes itsfairbloomuponthenight; And, hermit-like, shunningthelight, Its delicateblossomstothedew The eveningprimroseopensanew Or itscompanionablestar, Almost aspalemoonbeamsare, And dewdropspearltheevening’sbreast; When oncethesunsinksinwest, The EveningPrimrose (1913-1976) BENJAMIN BRITTEN When theyheardthebelltollforpoorCockRobin. All thebirdsofairfella-sighinganda-sobbing, Because Icanpull,I’lltollthebell. Who’ll tollthebell?I,saidbull, As shesatonabush,I’llsingpsalm. Who’ll singapsalm?I,saidtheThrush, Both thecockandhen,we’llbearpall. Who’ll bearthepall?We, saidtheWren, If it’snotthroughthenight,I’llcarrycoffin. Who’ll carrythecoffin?I,saidKite, I mournformylove. Who’ll bechiefmourner?I,saidtheDove, I’ll fetchitinaminute,carrythelink. Who’ll carrythelink?I,saidLinnet, If it’snotinthedark,I’llbeclerk. Who’ll betheclerk?I,saidLark, mylittlebook,I’llbetheparson. With Who’ll betheparson?I,saidRook, mypickandshovel,I’lldighisgrave. With Who’ll dighisgrave?I,saidtheOwl, mythreadandneedle,I’llmaketheshroud. With Who’ll maketheshroud?I,saidBeetle, mylittledish,Icaughthisblood. With Who caughthisblood?I,saidtheFish, mylittleeye,Isawhimdie. With Who sawhimdie?I,saidtheFly, mybowandarrow,With IkilledCockRobin. Who killedCockRobin?I,saidtheSparrow, Robin... CockRobin… Who KilledCockRobin? JONATHAN DOVE (b.1959) I lovemygallantWeaver. while corngrowsgreeninshimmershowers, while beesdelightinop’ningflowers; While birdsrejoiceinleafybowers; Holy CrossChurchRamsburyTuesday 14thMay7.30pm Gabrieli Consort

Robert Burns John Clare Traditional Is it...what?Nothing. All thatcouldbeissaid. Is nowatthefootoftree; apall, With But abier, spread That isall: A marchingslowofunseenfeet, What isthat?...Ah! What isit?...Nothing. All thatcanbeissaid. Dead atthefootoftree; Till itlies In itsdread, And itcries A wildthinghurtinthenight, What isthat?...Nothing; What isit?...Nothing. All thatcanbeissaid. Dead atthefootoftree; As theyfall,- They aredead That isall: The leavesmustfall,andfalling,rustle; What isthat?...Nothing; Owls (AnEpitaph) ELGAR And whenshewakeswillnotthinkitlong. Her restshallnotbeginnorend,butbe; Until themorningofEternity Even herveryhearthasceasedtostir: Silence moremusicalthananysong; Darkness moreclearthannoon-dayholdethher, stillnessthatisalmostParadise.With Of allthatirkedherfromthehourofbirth; Hushed inandcurtainedwithablesseddearth She hathnoquestions,shereplies, itsharshlaughter,With norforsoundofsighs. Lie closearoundher;leavenoroomformirth Seal hersweeteyeswearyofwatching,Earth; O Earth,lieheavilyuponhereyes; Rest VAUGHAN WILLIAMS www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk Christina Rossetti Edward Elgar

41 Tue 14th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:32Page42 42 Tue 14th time, andhissecularchoralmusic reflectshisScottish James MacMillanisoneofthe leadingcomposersofour years previously. folk songthathadbeen‘collected’ byCecilSharpseveral and therearedirectreferencestotheoriginalSomerset 1912. Thesubjectistheblossomingofnatureinspring, isGone, The Winter Another exampleofthedarkertonesmalevoicesin choral voices. five yearslaterhemadethisbeautifularrangementfor was sungtohimbytheshepherdCharlesPottifer, and Bushes andBriarsatIngraveinEssex1903,whenit Cecil SharpandGustavHolst.He‘collected’thefolksong the heritageoftraditionalsongs,apassionhesharedwith revival’, themovementdedicatedtopreservationof Vaughan wasasignificantfigureinthe‘folksong Williams Bax. keeping withitsdedicationtothememoryofSirArnold texture, butthemoodisactuallyrathersorrowful,in masterly initssensitivitytowordsettingandchoral Bryan Guinness(ofthebrewingfamily).Themusicis International Festival of1965,towordsbytheIrishpoet song compositions shouldnotbeunder-estimated. Thepart- linked withhisachievementsinsacredmusic,secular While thereputationofHerbertHowellsisinvariably particularly telling. Villiers Stanford,andhisBlueBird’,whoseinfluenceis The dedicationwasgiven‘tothememoryofCharles Queen, intributetoElizabethIIhercoronationyear. Silence andMusicashiscontributiontoAGarlandforthe talented writerandpoet,thatyearhesetherpoem In 1953Vaughan marriedUrsulaWood, Williams a part inGandtheladies’Aflat. composition, writtenintwokeysatonce,withthemen’s best Ihavedone’.Itisatechnicallychallenging pleased withthispiece,describingitas‘aclinkerandthe the 1909MorecambeFestival. Hewasparticularly Songs, Opus53,waswrittenfortheOpenChoirclassat There isSweetMusic,thefirstofElgar’sFour Choral the markingLarghettotranquillo. crafted compositions,itsspecialcharacterdeterminedby Blue Birdisthemostcelebratedamongthesefinely by MaryColeridge,adescendantofthefamouspoet.The published in1910.Alleightsongsweresettingsoftexts Stanford’s collectionofpart-songs, hisOpus119,was heart-rending. … itisthecontrastbetweensweetandhardthat The objectofmymusicisnottoentertain,butagonise Silence andMusic Holy CrossChurchRamsburyTuesday 14thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 Gabrieli Consort The SummerisComing Percy Grainger which Vaughan composedin Williams was composedfortheCork members oftheMagpieMadrigal Society’. words byChristinaRossetti,Rest and several yearspriortoworkssuchashis and hispart-song Restwasfirstperformedin1902, As acomposerVaughan wasalatedeveloper, Williams in factthepetrabbitofhisdaughterCarice. and wasdedicated‘tomyfriendPietrod’Alba’,who sounds ofawoodatnight.IthasthesubtitleAnEpitaph, was writtentohisownwords,andintendedcapturethe Elgar’s part-song Owls,anotherofhisOpus53collection, were keengardeners,hencethechoiceofsubjectmatter. Dorothy andLeonardElmhirstofDartingtonHall,who were writtenasasilverweddinganniversarygiftfor somewhat sentimentalslowmovement.Thesepart-songs of The EveningPrimrosecomesfromBenjaminBritten’sset of collectivesadness.’ engaged untilthetollingofbellannouncesapassage music, becomingmoresustainedandmelodically Their litanyofquestionscombinesbird-likeandnursery Cock Robin,andsuddenlycomeacrosshisdeadbody. is sungbythebirdsofair, whohavecomelookingfor explains: ‘Insettingtherhymetomusic,Iimaginethatit hides imagesthataredarkerandmoredisturbing.Dove rhymes, thesimplicityencounteredatasurfacelevel the NationalYouth ChoirofWales. Likemany nursery Robin? Jonathan Dovecomposedhispart-song WhoKilledCock the symboloffaithfulness. The True, andthedoveispersonifiedas Lover’sFarewell and MrPenfold ofRusper’.Thesongisalsoknownas tune inSussexback1904,‘fromMrsVerral ofHorsham completed in1924.Hehadfirstencounteredtheoriginal The Turtle Dove,asettingthatVaughan Williams frequently thefocusoffolksongs,anditisfoundagainin The themeoffarewellandpromisedconstancywas Old England. folk songs:LowDownintheBroomand song wasonlyshort,headdedversesfromtwoadditional was publishedlaterthatyear, andbecausetheoriginal All-Saints. Grainger’ssettingforsolotenorandchorus , sungbyJosephTaylorBrigg Fair inthevillageofSaxby In 1905Percy GraingerheardtheLincolnshirefolksong and rewarding. division ofpartsinthechoraltextureisparticularlysubtle Gaelic psalmodyandofScottishfolkmusic,the ancestry. InTheGallantWeaver Five FlowerSongsof1950,amongwhichitformsa Sea Symphonyof1910whichmadehisname.Setting in 1995forthetenthanniversarycelebrationsof there areechoesof was dedicatedto‘the Tallis Fantasia A MerryKingof © Terry Barfoot 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:32Page43 development ofGabrieliRoar, anaudacious choral the concerthall,Gabrieliiscommitted totheongoing critically-acclaimed recentoratoriorecordings.Beyond collaboration whichfeatures strongly insomeofour partnership withtheWrocław PhilharmonicChoir, a Festival, andsubsequentlyembarked onanexciting we wereassociateartistsoftheWratislaviaCantans most excitingprojectsover17years.From 2006to2012 Northumberland, withwhomwedevelopedsomeofour We wereresidentartistsatBrinkburn Musicin buildings andcitiesinwhichtheyareperformed. new programmesspecificallyinspiredbytheexquisite festivals ofmusicinEuropeanhistoriccentres,developing have pioneerednewareasof‘culturaltourism’increating 15 years,inconjunctionwithMartinRandallTravel, we partnerships remainattheheartofouractivities.For over international profileovermanyyearsandsuch A numberofstrongrelationshipshavedefinedour cappella discASpotlessRose. Requiem, andaGrammynominationin2010forthe for Berlioz’sGrandeMessedesMortsandBritten’sWar (2012 EarlyMusicAward),MagazineAwards BBC Choral Award) and A NewVenetian Coronation1595 Awards forrecordings ofHaydnTheCreation(2008 numerous internationalawards,includingGramophone and BachPassions andourrecordingshavegarnered Gabrieli areacclaimedinterpretersofHandeloratorios reconstructions ofmusicfromhistoricalevents. music frommanycenturiesandmould-breaking oratorio tradition,virtuosicacappellaprogrammesof dynamic performances.We performmajorworksofthe iconoclasm, remainconstantfeaturesoftheensemble’s musicianship, togetherwithahealthydegreeof McCreesh’s ever-questioning spiritandexpressive repertoire hasexpandedbeyondanyexpectation,but true toouroriginalidentity. Overmorethan35years,our McCreesh in1982,wehavebothoutgrownandremained present day. Formed asanearly-music ensemblebyPaul and instrumentalrepertoirefromtheRenaissanceto Gabrieli areworld-renownedinterpretersofgreatvocal Gabrieli Consort Holy CrossChurchRamsburyTuesday 14thMay7.30pm Gabrieli Consort English Coronation. KingArthurand include Purcell’s Handel recordinginmorethan adecade).Future releases Handel’s featuring musicbyAndreaandGiovanniGabrieli) recording oftheensemble’sfamed1990reconstruction New Venetian Coronation1595 (themuch-anticipatedre- from theRenaissancetopresentday);aswellA Magnificat English part-song inthe20thcentury)andARose Silence andMusic(amovinglyintrospectivesurveyof inspiring sequenceoflesser-known Christmasmusic), Sheppard toHowellsandMacMillan),Incarnation Farewell Gabrieli’s belovedacappellaprogrammes, Lioncataloguealsoincludesfourof The Winged The Seasons, Mendelssohn’s in thisseries:Berlioz’sGrandeMessedesMorts, Forum ofMusic,Wrocław. Therearenowfourrecordings Philharmonic ChoirwiththekindsupportofNational recordings madeinconjunctionwiththeWrocław Cantans OratorioSeries,spectacularlarge-scaleoratorio Lion’soutputistheWratislavia The focalpointofWinged McCreesh’s breadthofvision. diverse recordings,underliningGabrieli’sversatilityand which initsfirstyearalonereleasedfourextremely Lion, McCreesh establishedhisownrecordlabel,Winged recordings thatstandoutfromthecrowd.In2011,Paul aims tocreateinspirationalandthought-provoking In additiontoourrenownedliveperformances,Gabrieli century’s fourcoronations. spectacular large-scalerecreationofmusicfromthe20th Praetorius programmesandAnEnglishCoronation,a and Recent projectsincludeHaydnMasses,Purcell Anglican choralrepertoireatElyCathedralinJuly2016. Cathedral, followedbyalarge-scalecelebrationof name tookplaceinFebruary 2016atSouthwark Gabrieli Roar’sinauguralperformanceunderitsnew Requiem. Elijah PromsperformanceofMendelssohn’s include aBBC professional musicians.Earlysuccessesinthisscheme and recordingopportunitiesalongsideGabrieli’s young singerstopreparethemforunrivalledperformance youth choirsoffersintensivetrainingandmentoringto This ambitiouspartnershipwithanetworkofleadingUK abilities ofteenagesingers. training programmethattakesaboldstanceonthe and studiorecordingsofElijah (English choralrepertoirefromMorleyand L’Allegro, il Penseroso edilModerato(ourfirst L’Allegro, ilPenseroso (works devotedtotheBlessedVirginMary released in2017touniversalacclaim. Elijah, Britten’sWar Requiem www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk The Fairy Queen, andAn The Fairy and Britten’sWar A Songof and Haydn’s (an

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Gabrieli’s reputation for award-winning recordings was In 2011 McCreesh launched his own record label, Winged established during a 15-year association with Deutsche Lion, in collaboration with the Gabrieli Consort & Players, Grammophon. Our current Winged Lion releases are Signum Classics and the Wratislavia Cantans Festival, equally regarded as benchmark recordings, receiving where he was Artistic Director from 2006-2012. To date accolades that include BBC Music Magazine Awards they have made ten recordings, most recently A Rose (Berlioz’s Grande Messe des Morts, Britten’s War Magnificat, music dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary Requiem), Gramophone Award (A New Venetian from the Renaissance to the present day, released in May Coronation 1595) and a Diapason d’Or de l’Année 2018 and lauded by critics: “Captivating… imaginative… (Mendelssohn’s Elijah). ambitious” (Financial Times), “the superlative Gabrieli Consort give a formidably encompassing performance” Paul McCreesh (BBC Music Magazine), “pristine: carefully balanced and Paul McCreesh is the always cleanly tuned” (Gramophone). Other highlights founder and Artistic include Haydn’s The Seasons, Britten’s War Requiem Director of the Gabrieli (BBC Music Magazine Award 2014), Mendelssohn’s Elijah (Diapason d’Or Award 2013), Berlioz’s gargantuan Tue 14th Tue Consort & Players which he established in 1982 and Grande Messe des Morts (BBC Award 2012), and a with whom he has toured reworking of his earlier Gabrieli disc, A New Venetian world-wide and made Coronation 1595 (Gramophone Award 2013). many award-winning recordings. McCreesh is McCreesh’s recordings on Winged Lion build on his large well-known for the energy catalogue with Deutsche Grammophon, which includes and passion that he brings the 2008 Gramophone Award-winning Haydn’s Creation. to his music-making, and

© Ben Wright he is especially enthusiastic about working with young musicians, broadening access to classical music. He works regularly with youth orchestras and choirs and is active in building new educational initiatives whenever possible. McCreesh has conducted many of the major orchestras and choirs across the globe, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Bergen Philharmonic, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Verbier Festival Orchestra and Berlin Konzerthausorchester. McCreesh also enjoys regular and ongoing collaborations with Saint Paul and Basel Chamber Orchestras. In 2018-19 he conducts Elgar and Brahms for Kammerakademie Potsdam, Mendelssohn and Britten for Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, and Handel for Symphonique de Montréal, alongside appearances with Filharmonia Poznanska and MDR Radio Symphony.

From 2013-2016 he was Principal Conductor and Artistic Adviser of the Gulbenkian Orchestra (Lisbon) with whom he conducted a wide range of music from the classical period through the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing in particular on symphonic repertoire, oratorio and opera in concert, working closely with the world-renowned Gulbenkian Choir.

McCreesh has established a strong reputation in the opera house and has conducted productions at the Teatro Real Madrid, Royal Danish Opera, Opera Comique, Vlaamse Opera and at the Verbier Festival. Most recently he conducted Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Bergen Opera, and returned to Vlaamse Opera for a production of Idomeneo.

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GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898-1937) FRANÇOIS BORNE (1840-1920) Rhapsody in Blue (arr. Yoko Sakai) Fantasie brillante sur des airs de Carmen The premiere of Rhapsody in Blue took place on 12th (arr. Ian Roth) February 1924 in the Aeolian Hall, New York, with the Paul With its fund of unforgettable tunes, Bizet’s Carmen Whiteman Band and Gershwin at the piano. The idea of inspired a host of arrangements for different instrumental applying a jazz idiom to concert music appealed to the combinations. It was in 1900 that François Borne made bandleader Whiteman as it appealed to Gershwin, and his adaptation for flute and piano, which is here the collaboration of the two men led to this celebrated rearranged for the saxophone. Over the years it gained a ‘Experiment in Modern Music’. It began with an wide currency, and particularly so when it was taken up

Wed 15th Wed announcement in the press, which Gershwin later claimed by James Galway. There are some imaginative and subtle had taken him by surprise, proclaiming that he was treatments of the original material, and all the famous composing a new piece for the ‘special concert’ by the tunes are present, building towards a most effective Whiteman orchestra. conclusion. © Terry Barfoot Although already committed to preparing a new show for production, Gershwin was fired by Whiteman’s DARIUS MILHAUD (1892-1974) enthusiasm. Having made full use of the notebook in Scaramouche which he kept ideas for tunes, he composed the music within a month. The celebrated opening solo, incidentally, Vif - Modéré - Brasileira originated in the player’s improvisation rather than the Born at Aix-en-Provence in 1892, Milhaud gained a composer’s plan. © Terry Barfoot distinctive flavour to his musical style as the result of living in Rio de Janeiro for two years from 1917. On returning to Paris in 1919, he joined with other young MANUEL DE FALLA (1898-1937) composers under the influence of Jean Cocteau, as a Seven Popular Spanish Songs (arr. Manu Brazo) member of the group known as Les Six, his colleagues Nana - Jota - Asturiana being Germaine Tailleferre, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc. Falla developed a deep interest in indigenous folk music, Milhaud’s suite Scaramouche (1937) proved so popular and his preferred method was to assimilate the folk over time that he found himself returning to it repeatedly influence within his own style, rather than to quote original in order to create new arrangements for publishers. The tunes, saying, ‘I think that in popular song the spirit is versions for clarinet and saxophone became the best more important than the letter.’ known, beyond the original piano duet version. The final movement, Brasileira, is like a new version of Saudades The Seven Popular Spanish Songs were shortly before do Brasil of 1921, and is so close to that folk idiom that it the outbreak of war in 1914, at the time when he returned could easily be mistaken for the real thing. to Spain after having lived in Paris for several years. © Terry Barfoot

Of the three numbers arranged here, Nana is an PEDRO ITURRALDE (b. 1929) Andalusian lullaby, while the Jota, one of the most Pequeña Csarda celebrated of the Spanish dance-song forms, has strong contrasts between ‘voice’ and accompaniment. Asturiana Pedro Iturralda was a pioneer of the Spanish jazz style, has a sophisticated accompaniment that adds an extra and his Pequeña Csarda (Little Dance) is designed as a dimension to the lamenting effect made by the popular virtuoso composition for the saxophone. The csarda itself tune. originated as an Hungarian gypsy dance in binary form, © Terry Barfoot beginning slowly and then concluding at a very fast tempo. © Terry Barfoot

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Vario Duo and Third Prize in I Yago Foundation Chamber Music Created on October 2016 when Manu Brazo (saxophone) Competition; the quartet has performed for national and and Prajna Indrawati (piano) began to study their Master’s international radio and TV channels, and in many notable degree in Performance at the Royal College of Music of venues including the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville London. Only one month after that they began to perform and MAMA in Algeria. regularly. Since then they have given more than fifty performances in the UK, Spain and Greece, including St He is now studying for an Artist Diploma course at the Martin in the Fields, Victoria Albert Museum and St Royal College of Music of London, being a Sir Roger and James’s Piccadilly among other venues. Lady Carr Soirée d’Or Scholar. In 2018 Manu finished his Masters in Performance at the RCM with Kyle Horch (RCM In July 2018 they were appointed as BBC Introducing scholar supported by Dr Michael West). He is a Drake Artist and performed and gave an interview on BBC Radio Calleja Trust Scholar and a Talent-Unlimited and 3’s in tune, with Sean Rafferty. They are sponsored by Concordia Foundation Artist. Manu completed his The Tillett Trust, Concordia Foundation, Talent Unlimited undergraduate studies in Seville at the Conservatorio and RCM Creative Careers Center. Superior de Música Manuel Castillo with Juan Jimenez.

Manu Brazo Prajna Indrawati Spanish saxophonist Manu Indonesian pianist Prajna Brazo was born in Utrera Indrawati obtained her 15th Wed (Seville) in 1993. Masters of Performance degree in Piano In July 2018 he was Accompaniment at the The appointed BBC introducing Royal College of Music artist and performed and under the tutelage of Roger was interviewed on BBC Vignoles, Kathron Sturrock Radio 3’s In Tune. and Simon Lepper. As an accompanist she has Manu made his concerto performed in several high- debut in the UK with The profile venues in London, Guildford Symphony such as The Victoria and Orchestra in 2016. In 2017 he performed Tansy Davies’s Albert Museum, The Royal Festival Hall and the book Saxophone Concerto with The London Sinfonietta, he has launch of Brahms and his Poet by Natasha Loges at The also performed with The RCM Philarmonic, The London Royal College of Music. She was awarded second place City Orchestra, OSC (University of Seville), Orquesta Accompanist Prize in the “Brooks- van der Pump” English FiIlarmonía de Granada and RCM New Perspectives with Song Competition and Joan Chisell Schumann which he premiered Dan Chappell’s Saxophone Concerto. Competition, and won the Titanic Memoriam Award for accompanist in Lies Askonas Competition 2018. Recently Manu won the Royal College of Music Saxophone she joined the 2018 Oxford Lieder Mastercourse Competition 2017 (Jane Melber Prize), was awarded the Programme with lead tutor Wolfgang Holzmair and guest Jellinek Award in the 2017 “Guildford Symphony tutors Véronique Gens, Roger Vignoles, Eugene Asti, Orchestra Competition for Young Soloists” and won first Susan Manoff and Helen Abbott. With her Vario Duo prize in the 2016 Concerto Competition at Conservatorio partner Manu Brazo she has performed on BBC Radio 3’s Superior de Musica Manuel Castillo of Seville. He also In Tune, and at The Victoria and Albert Museum and St. was selected to take part in the 2017 London Sinfonietta James Piccadilly, as well as in Seville and Crete. She has Academy and to collaborate with the National Youth participated in masterclasses with renowned pianists Orchestra Youth Musician Symphony Orchestra (YMSO). Susan Manoff, Michael Dussek, Hans-Jürgen Schnoor, Adam Gyorgy, Patrick Zygmanowsky, amongst others. Manu was chosen for the Tillett Trust Young Artist She achieved her Diploma in Piano Performance and Program 2018/2019 and was selected to take part in the Grade 8 Singing from ABRSM. Britten-Pears YAP 2018, playing at the Snape Proms under the baton of Marin Alsop Today’s Young Artists Lunchtime Recital is supported by He performs regularly in the UK and internationally as a The Tillett Trust as part of its Young Artists’ Platform soloist and with pianist Prajna Indrawati (Vario Duo). programme of helping talented young musicians to find Manu plays the baritone saxophone in The SQ4 performing opportunities in the early stages of their saxophone quartet, with whom he has achieved First professional careers. Prize in the I Jose Gamez Chamber Music Competition

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The Grand Tour Ensemble Masques Olivier Fortin director and harpsichord Robbie Fletcher-Hill actor Louis Créch violin Simon Pierre violin Kathleen Kajioka viola Guillaume Cuiller oboe Mélisande Corriveau ‘cello Benoît Vanden Bemden double bass

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Wed 15th Wed HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695) CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI (1567-1643) – Overture (Abdelazer,1695) – Sanctorum meritis Primo (Selva Morale e Spirituale) – Rondeau – 2nd Act Tune – Aire TOMASO ALBINONI (1671-1751) Excerpts from Sinfonia a cinque op. 2 in G Major MARIN MARAIS (1656-1728) – Grave-adagio Excerpts from Alcione, 1706 – Allegro – Tempête – Chaconne ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) Concerto for strings in G Major RV 157 II. PARIS & VERSAILLES – Allegro MICHEL CORRETTE (1707-1795) – Allegro (Sonata op.20 n. 2 from Les délices de la solitude) ALESSANDRO MARCELLO (1684-1750) Concerto for oboe in D Minor S.Z 799 ANDRE CAMPRA (1660-1744) – Adagio Excerpts from l’Europe Galante, 1697 – Presto – Air pour les plaisirs – Passepieds ARCANGELO CORELLI (1653-1713) Excerpts from the Concerto Grosso in D Major, MICHEL-RICHARD DELALANDE (1657-1726) Opus 6, Nr. 1 – Chaconne (Les Fontaines de Versailles, 1683) – Allegro – Allegro MARIN MARAIS – Marche pour les bergers et les bergères (Alcione) IV. GERMANY G.P. TELEMANN (1681-1767) JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU (1683-1764) Excerpts from Les Nations TWV 55:B5 – Le Vézinet (Pièces de clavecin en concerts, 1741) – les Moscovites MICHEL CORRETTE (1707-1795) – les Suisses – Les Sauvages – les Portuguais J.S. BACH (1685-1750) Interval – Sinfonia, Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75

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The Grand Tour choices are underpinned by the same appetite for trade, The Grand Tour was a fashionable way for young 18th blending, borrowing and mixing that was the very breath century aristocrats — mainly British — to broaden their of the Baroque era itself. It is a spirit reflected in the minds. To travel across Europe and gain exposure to its diverse nationalities of Masques’ musicians, who hail from wide ranging views, ideas, art and customs, was Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland and France — and considered a finishing element of a proper education. through their playing, made new.

Inspired by this tradition, French period instrument group “Old music … perhaps, but played in this way, still stirs the Ensemble Masques offers a concert that transports the heart.”www.leparnassemusical.com listener on a musical voyage with stops in the great cities of France, Italy and Germany, where works by Rameau, Masques’ concert schedule has taken them to Germany, Couperin, Vivaldi, Bach and Telemann were performed. Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Poland and Austria; to The Guided by the words of those very travellers, this program Netherlands at Amsterdam’s Musiekgebouw and Utrecht’s not only situates the music in its creative context, but also renowned Early Music Festival; to Belgium at Brussels’ sheds new light on the period and places visited. Bozar, Antwerp’s AMUZ and Gent’s Bijloke. They have also appeared in most major centres in Canada and the Ensemble Masques United States, including New York, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and Los Angeles. An exclusive artist for the ALPHA label, their discs dedicated to17th century Austrian Wed 15th Wed composers Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and the almost unknown Romanus Weichlein have enjoyed unanimous critical praise, between them receiving the Diapason d’Or, the “ffff” Telerama, the two “Chocs” de Classica and Gramophone Magazine’s “Editor’s Choice” award. Most recently, they have celebrated the music of Georg Philipp Telemann with an acclaimed recording of his Theatrical Overture-Suites, in honour of the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death in 1767. Other critically acclaimed albums have been recorded on the ATMA, Dorian and Analekta labels. Two forthcoming recording projects for ALPHA are slated for release in 2019. Renowned as much for their expressiveness and vitality as for their integrity and precision, Masques is an ensemble Olivier Fortin which fully embodies the dynamic spirit of the Baroque. The name of the group is inspired by the masques of Olivier Fortin graduated Elizabethan England — dramatic entertainments that with distinction from the incorporated music, dance and poetry. The six members Québec Conservatory in of Masques each have impressive individual careers, with 1995. He continued his a collective résumé that encompasses a prestigious roster training with Dom André of international early music ensembles. When they come Laberge, obtained a together, their combined breadth of experience is felt in an Masters Degree from uncommon interpretive depth, bound together by an University of Montreal equally uncommon chemistry which continues to under the direction of mesmerize audiences and critics alike. Réjean Poirier, and received scholarships for “One is struck by the perfect balance between the studies in Paris with Pierre

musicians, by the osmosis in the slightest nuances of the © Jean-Baptiste Millot Hantai and in Amsterdam rubato, in the quantity of hair applied to the string…” – with Bob van Asperen. In 1997 he was awarded top prizes Classica at the Montreal Bach Competition and the Bruges Festival. He is in demand as a soloist and chamber musician, A chamber group without conductor, Masques benefits touring and recording throughout Europe, China and from the creative involvement of each member. Their South Korea, the United States and Canada with Masques, shared curiosity has led them, and their audiences, along Capriccio Stravagante and Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra. an ever-evolving path of discovery. From their deep immersion into the fascinating world of 17th century He also performs with Skip Sempé and Pierre Hantaï in German music, to the unveiling of Telemann’s programs of music for two and three harpsichords. Olivier universalism, humour and humanism, to their interest in has appeared in the Festivals of Berkeley, La Roque the initiatory journey of “The Grand Tour,” Masques’ artistic d’Antheron, Utrecht, Aldeburgh, Regensburg, Zermatt,

www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 51 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:32Page52 52 Wed 15th Toronto. currently teaches at the Tafelmusik Summer Institute in the Conservatoire de Musique de Quebec, and he 2004-2008 he taught harpsichord and chamber music at point for young Canadian and European musicians. From Since 1998, the ensemble has become a strategic meeting de toucher le Clavecin”. release being an album dedicated to Fr Couperin’s “l’Art Atma, Paradizo, Teldec and Alpha Classics – the latest recorded more than twenty CDs for Alpha, ZZT, Analekta, harpsichordist and featured collaborative artist he has Lisbon and the Festival Bach de Lausanne. As both solo in Brussels, the Folle Journée in Nantes, Bilbao and Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Music BOZAR Collection in New York, the Cite de Musique in Paris, the Montreal Baroque; Music Before 1800 and the Frick St George’sChurchWash CommonWednesday 15thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 The GrandTour Benedictine monkswholeadtheChristianlife inthe Details onourwebsite: www.douaiabbey.org.uk for conferences, meetingsandretreats, bothday and The Abbey isalsoanattractive andaffordable venue Concerts areConcerts heldinthe Abbey Church throughout To bookaretreat orfor more information, p oatctaiinadwloeohr asguests. monastic traditionandwelcome others the year. To joinourmailinglist, pleasecontact The Abbey isthehomeofacommunity of contact [email protected] 2019 Ritter, playing Toby. feature short Toby’s Song, written and directed by Eric Most recently Robbie has wrapped filming on his first ). Stops Falling ( Robbie Fletcher-Hill Look BackinAnger), and Gabriel York (When The Rain Douai Abbey wishesthe [email protected] Newbury SpringFestivalNewbury great success. residential. ( ( Lear, Sebastian and Maria roles in Hamlet studying include the title Previous roles whilst Acting. First Class Honours in Speech and Drama, with a Royal Central School of recently graduated from Robbie Fletcher-Hill The Oresteia), Jimmy Twelfth Night ), Orestes and lease King 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:32Page53 Dr MatthewLandrus Sponsored byTheEnglefieldCharitableTrust such asthecontroversialSalvatorMundi. talks aboutthepolymath’sachievementsasartist,scientistandinnovator, whilealsodiscussingrecentattributions, Leonardo daVinci,DrMatthewLandrusofOxfordUniversity, Leonardoauthorityandauthorofarecentbookonhim, To markthe500thanniversaryofdeathonegreatestgeniuses,quintessentialRenaissanceMan A Talk byDrMatthewLandrus Shaw HouseNewburyThursday16thMay3.00pm Leonardo, 500Years On Mechanisms: LeonardoandtheArtofEngineering(2013). il dereMilitaridiLeonardo(2010)andInstruments Giant Crossbow(2010), The Treasures ofLeonardo(2006), Le ArmieleMacchinedaGuerra: da Vinci.Hisbooksinclude contributions byLeonardo in manycaseson and technology, focusing culture, naturalphilosophy early modernvisual engagements between of hispublicationsaddress University ofOxford.Most Faculty ofHistoryatthe Wolfson Collegeandthe Research Fellow at Dr MatthewLandrusisa Leonardo daVinci’s www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk

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Soul Strings Ayaan Ali Bangash sarod Amaan Ali Bangash sarod Jennifer Pike violin Sanju Sahai tabla

Tonight’s concert aims to preserve the essence of both Indian and Western traditions so that they can flow into each other without artistic compromise. The aim of this process is to explore the common musical “DNA” of both traditions.

Indian classical music has had a very spiritual and scientific development and growth. This was a phenomenon that existed from Vedic times, when the earliest version of classical music were the Vedic chants. Interestingly, the effect of all the twelve notes on our body, mind and soul are very scientific. Various permutations and combinations give the scales a shape of a raga. However, a raga is much more and beyond - it’s not just a mere scale. A raga has to be invoked, understood and cared for, like a living entity. People might find it amusing but in olden days, and even to some extent now, artists would say, ‘Don’t mess with a raga, it can curse you!’. We come together with the brilliant Jennifer Pike in the spirit of sharing the unique treasures of our own traditions as well as finding common ground in ragas and Medieval modes, Vibrato (pitch inflection on a single note), portamento and gamakas (the sliding melodic ornaments connecting notes). Along with the sarods and violin, we have tabla, a membranophone percussion instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent, accompaniment in all the pieces.

Sacred Evening (Raga Yaman) This performance is shaped as a binary structure with an

Thu 16th Ayaan Ali Bangash and Jennifer Pike extended alaap. The sarod opens the seven-part introduction with an ethereal descent of the notes of the Sacred Evening is cast by its composer, Amjad Ali Khan in raga, as it emerges from the accompanying drone. The Raga Yaman, in a metric cycle of 16 beats. This raga, not sarods and violin now exchange improvised surprisingly, is usually associated with the evening and embellishments of the raga as well as the melody. Close with the dying of the day. The sarod and violin open the listening will reveal how the violin portamento at the introduction together in a slightly drowsy trance that critical cadential moments before passing the line back leaves one in the same space as Mallarme’s Afternoon of reveals its kinship to the Indian slides (gamakas). The a Faun. The autumnal atmosphere of the alaap sarods and violin alternate with virtuoso improvised (introduction) gives way quickly as the main melody arabesques on the tune, while the other intones the notes arrives in that familiar texture of repeated notes in the of the raga below in the very same spirit as the cantus spirit of the dulcimer or cimbalom. firmus styles of Medieval and Renaissance European music. By the Moon (Raga Behag) Amaan Ali Bangash and Jennifer Pike Temple of Hope (Raga Kirwani) Also composed by Amjad Ali Khan, Raga Behag is a raga Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash and that is profoundly associated with the second quarter of Jennifer Pike the night, set to a 16-beat meter. The ascending version of the raga is again pentatonic, while the descending Raga Kirwani is identical to the harmonic minor mode in version oscillates between various versions of the raised Western Music and is well-known as a raga appropriate and normal fourth scale degree. The violin leads us into for instrumental music. The violin opens the introduction the alaap with various versions of the rising raga, with a dramatic octave-wide fanfare (coincidentally preparing the way for the sarod to embark on a fairly identical to the first sounds of Richard Strauss’ Also typical exploration of the intervals and pitches, waiting as sprach Zarathustra, familiar to most listeners as the it were, for the melodic edifice to reveal itself. Sarod and opening music of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space violin embrace each other in a unison exposition of the Odyssey). The introduction, first in conversation with one main tune which is a mildly modified iteration of the raga. sarod and then the other, proceeds to explore the inner space of the raga from above or below as one might examine a polished gemstone from different angles and Romancing Earth (Raga Pilu) varied light before setting it, while the different strings of Amaan Ali Bangash, Ayaan Ali Bangash and the violin and sarods flash a veritable kaleidoscope of Jennifer Pike colours. We are then led by the violin with sarods Raga Pilu, often described as a peaceful raga, is accompanying it into the central body of the work where associated with the second quarter of night. Amjad Ali all three sing the main melody together, making feints at Khan’s melody is a profoundly vocal idiom that shares imitating each other. Finally at the climax, the sarods join much with the Indian classics and latter-day Bollywood. the fray, but at the dissonant interval of a fourth away from

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the violin lending a fantastical shade of avant-garde with Amjad Ali Khan at London’s Royal Festival Hall, psychedelia to the proceedings before all three merge in WOMADelaide and WOMAD New Zealand festivals, and an utterly ecstatic blur of dazzling harmony propelling not performances of Samaagam in Melbourne, Houston, only the listener and themselves, but the very future of Portland, New Jersey and the United Nations this meeting in the temple of Indian and Western music Headquarters in New York City, as part of the annual UN into a new dimension and new possibilities of hope. day. As a duo, they perform a programme of crossover © George Mathew classical repertoire with violinist Jennifer Pike at Wigmore Hall, Swaledale Festival and Newbury Spring Festival. Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash Jennifer Pike Renowned for her unique artistry and compelling insight into music from the Baroque to the present day, Jennifer Pike has established herself as one of today’s most exciting instrumentalists.

Jennifer first gained international recognition in 2002 when, aged twelve, Thu 16th Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash represent the she became the youngest seventh generation of a musical lineage known as the ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year and Senia Bangash School. Disciples of their father, the great the youngest major prize-winner in the Menuhin sarod maestro Amjad Ali Khan, both were initiated into International Violin Competition. Aged fifteen she made the fine art of sarod playing from an early age, with each acclaimed debuts at the BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall, brother giving their first public performances at the age of and her many subsequent Proms appearances include eight. being a ‘featured artist’ in 2009. She was invited to become a BBC New Generation Artist (2008-10), won the They have performed across the globe, including inaugural International London Music Masters Award and appearances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in became the only classical artist ever to win the South the USA, Royal Festival Hall, Symphony Hall and Bank Show/Times Breakthrough Award. Barbican Centre in the UK, Konzerthaus Vienna, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Esplanade Singapore and Performing extensively as soloist with major orchestras Sydney Opera House. They have also appeared at worldwide, Jennifer’s highlights include concertos with all festivals including WOMAD, Edinburgh International BBC orchestras, London Philharmonic, Brussels Festival and World Beat in Brisbane. Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Rheinische Philharmonie, Strasbourg Their pioneering approach to the repertoire has led them Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool to collaborate with percussionist Evelyn Glennie, guitarist Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Royal Scottish National Derek Trucks of the Allman Brothers Band, cellist Matthew Orchestra, Hallé, Tampere Philharmonic, Malmö Barley, Bulgarian violinist Elmira Dararova and folk singer Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Prague Carrie Newcomer. They also regularly perform their Symphony, Auckland Philharmonia, Singapore father’s sarod concerto Samaagam which they have Symphony, Tokyo Symphony and Nagoya Philharmonic played with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Britten orchestras. She has appeared as a Guest Director with Sinfonia and The Moscow State Philharmonic. the BBC Philharmonic and Manchester Camerata. She made her Carnegie Hall debut playing Vaughan Williams’ Along with their father they are Gold Medal winners at the The Lark Ascending with the Chamber Orchestra of New Global Music Awards for their outstanding contribution to York, also recorded for Naxos. the global music industry and excellence in the classical music sphere. This honour was bestowed on the Eminent conductors with whom she has worked include trailblazing trio in recognition of their Peace Worshippers Jirf BelohLävek, Martyn Brabbins, Sir Mark Elder, James album which was released in July 2017 by Affetto Gaffigan, Richard Hickox, Christopher Hogwood, Andris Records and distributed by Naxos. Nelsons, Sir Roger Norrington, Michael Sanderling, Jukka Pekka Saraste, Leif Segerstam, Tugan Sokhiev, John Highlights of the 2018/19 season include performances Storgårds and Mark Wigglesworth.

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Hall andAndrewSchultz’sViolinConcerto the LondonPhilharmonicOrchestraatRoyalFestival Orchestra, CharlotteBray’sScenesfromWonderlandwith the ScottishChamberOrchestraandIcelandSymphony Hallgrimsson’s many workswrittenforher, includingHaflidi An enthusiasticpromoterofnewmusic,shehashad rewarded bythecritics. followed inJanuary2019onChandos,whichwasrichly celebrating Polish music.AdiscofPolish violinworks curated andperformedthreerecitalsinoneday Hallandin2017 appears regularlyattheWigmore Radio3.She at LSOStLuke’swerebroadcastonBBC Poster andMahanEsfahani.In2016herseriesofrecitals Rysanov, BenJohnson,IgorLevit,MartinRoscoe,Tom Nikolaj Znaider, NicolasAltstaedt,Maxim AdrianBrendeL, collaborated withartistsincludingAnne-SophieMutter, As arecitalistandchambermusician,Jenniferhas Corn ExchangeNewburyThursday16thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 Sarod MaestroswithJenniferPike Violin Concerto,whichshepremieredwith with theBergenPhilharmonicandSir and Sonatina and ispatronoftheLordMayor’sCityMusicFoundation. Prince’s Trust andFoundation forChildrenandtheArts, She wasinvitedtobecomeanambassadorforthe the UKandabroad. Philharmonie. Shealsogivesnumerousrecitalsacross Philharmonic, EnglishChamberandRheinische invitations fromtheRoyalPhilharmonic,BBC Orchestra, CzechNationalSymphonyandreturn City ofBirminghamSymphony, ZurichChamber Plans forthe2018/19seasonincludeconcertswith the SundayHerald. mercurial technique”andas“breathtakinglybeautiful”by acclaimed intheObserverforher“innatemusicalityand Symphony andEdwardGardnerforChandos,whichwas Mendelssohn Symphony Orchestra.Sherecentlyrecordedthe Sinfonietta CracoviaandSchultzwiththeTasmanian Violin ConcertowiththeCityofBirmingham 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:32Page57 of eleven pleasing pieces composed in various styles’. he described them as ‘Trifles for the Pianoforte, consisting London courtesy of the publisher and composer Clementi, When in due course the Bagatelles duly appeared in since the music is at once charming and enigmatic. performing career in Vienna, and this seems the more so Beethoven’s public improvisations, so important to his Bagatelles give us a special insight into the nature of marks these compositions is also important. Perhaps the distillation; at the same time, the improvisatory quality that option of independent selections. The style is that of intended their performance as a set, while offering also the The nature of these pieces suggests that Beethoven Variations. 1824. The adjacent Opus (120), incidentally, is the Diabelli essential Beethoven’, as witnessed in the Opus 119 set of they may not be major works, they still contain ‘the beneath him to spend his time on such trivialities. 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Allegromoderato Archduke Piano Trio inBflatmajor, Opus97 St LawrenceChurchHungerfordThursday16thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 Imogen Cooper, HenningKraggerud& Adrian Brendel Wholemeal Spelt Bread Wholemeal Spelt Archduke is undoubtedlythecomposer’sfinest quasi-romantic conclusion. achieve theunequivocalaffirmationofa‘triumphant’ transport theTrio towardsanewkindofexperience,to been gathering.For itisthefunctionofthisfinaleto impression. Theeffectistoreleasethetensionthathas follows withoutpause,makesaparticularlystrong the suddenarrivalofrondothemefinale,which the After theextraordinaryconcentrationandinwardnessof movements. quartets. Thisexamplegeneratesoneofhisfinestslow Beethoven’s latercompositions,suchashisfinalstring ‘sublime simplicity’whichisfoundsoofteninthe theme ofhymn-likecharacter, whosenaturehasthat The basicmaterialofthethirdmovementvariationsisa unexpected. mysterious fugato,isstrangeandcompellingaswell forceful. Thecentraltriosection,whichtakestheformofa Beethoven’s ‘middleperiod’style,byturnspointedand which bynowhavebecomethetrademarksof The Scherzohasarhythmicinsistenceandingenuity Andante’s closingpages,withtheirhushedrecitatives, at dovesfarm.co.uk. Discover therangeandtastyrecipeinspiration andmuchmore. biscuits, cakes,pastry of ancientgrainfloursaddvarietytobreads, unique, naturallydeliciousflavours,ourrange Khorasan, EmmerandEinkorn.Packed with Rye,ancient grains,includingSpelt, KAMUT® milledfromorganic range offloursexpertly something new. That’swhywe’vecreateda few thingscomparetothejoyofbaking Here atDovesFarm inHungerford, webelieve taste oforganic Experience the ancient grains © Terry Barfoot 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:32Page59 St LawrenceChurchHungerfordThursday16thMay7.30pm Imogen Cooper Imogen Cooper, HenningKraggerud& Adrian Brendel and RobertClaraSchumann. Records featuremusicbyBrahms, Chopin,Liszt,Wagner Schubert Live.HerrecentrecordingsforChandos by Schubertrecordedliveandreleasedunderthelabel Live)andacycleofsoloworks Hall(Wigmore Wigmore the RoyalNorthernSinfonia(Avie), asolorecitalatthe studio. HerdiscographyincludesMozartConcertoswith Wolfgang Holzmairinboththeconcert hallandrecording a Liederrecitalist,shehashadlongcollaborationwith regularly withHenningKraggerudandAdrianBrendel.As Imogen isacommittedchambermusicianandperforms viola player, Brett Dean. the quintetVoices forAngels , writtenbytheensemble’s members oftheBerlinerPhilharmonikerinpremiere Deirdre Gribbin(2003).In1996shealsocollaboratedwith Overhead works attheCheltenhamInternationalFestival; Traced As asupporterofnewmusic,Imogenhaspremieredtwo London, focussingonHaydnandBeethoven. Hallin performed aseriesofrecitalsattheWigmore Schubertiade inSchwarzenberg.Lastseasonshe York, Singapore,Paris, Vienna,Pragueandthe appearances haveincludedTokyo, HongKong, New Northern SinfoniaandBrittenSinfonia.Herrecital including particularlycloserelationshipswiththeRoyal PromsandwithallthemajorBritishorchestras, BBC and OrpheusChamberOrchestras.Shehasplayedatthe undertaken tourswiththeCamerataSalzburg,Australian NHK andLondonSymphonyOrchestras.Shehasalso Concertgebouw, LeipzigGewandhaus, BudapestFestival, Boston, Cleveland,ViennaPhilharmonic,Royal appeared withtheNewYork Philharmonic,Philadelphia, Imogen hasawidespreadinternationalcareerand Philadelphia andBaltimore. Amsterdam. HersolorecitalsthisseasonincludeLondon, performances inLondonandattheConcertgebouw Aurora OrchestrawithNicholasCollon,thelatterincluding Symphony OrchestrawithThomasDausgaardandthe by ThomasAdès(1996)and Young, Scottish theBBC Symphony withSimone Simon Rattle,Sydney Philharmoniker withSir include theBerliner concerto performances lyricism. Recentandfuture for hervirtuosityand is internationallyrenowned repertoire, ImogenCooper Classical andRomantic finest interpretersof Regarded asoneofthe Decorated Skinby Henning Kraggerud counterpart toastoryspecially writtenbyworld-famous Henning assoloist,thework was composedasamusical by theArcticPhilharmonicChamber Orchestrawith String Orchestra.Commissioned,premieredand recorded entitled around theglobe.Hislargest-scale workto-dateis performed bymanyprominentmusiciansandorchestras Henning isaprolificcomposerwhoseworksare the SalzburgMozartwocheandontourinGermany. appears withCamerataSalzburgandJanineJansenat Symphony andVancouver Symphonyorchestrasand Symphony. HenningalsoreturnstoHelsingborg Toscana, RoyalDanishOperaorchestraandKuopio Kammerakademie NeussamRhein,Orchestradella current seasonincludedebutswiththeDeutsche Symphony andMacaoorchestras.Highlightsofthe Tonkünstler ScottishSymphony, Vienna,BBC Tasmanian Baltimore Symphony, DanishNationalSymphony, orchestras, mostrecentlytheToronto Symphony, and againtomanyoftheworld’smostsignificant as asoloistandplay/directorhaveledtoinvitationstime Poznan PhilharmonicOrchestrainPoland. Hiseminence the KristiansandSymphonyOrchestrainNorwayand In the2018/19season,HenningisArtistinResidencewith masters suchasJosefSukandEugèneYsaÿe. works intotheconcerthall–recallspiritofold arranging andimprovising–frequentlybringinghisown approach tomusic-making,whilehiscomposing, writings providefascinatinginsightsintohismulti-faceted time inanenvironmentofpeaceandbeauty. young pianistsatthecuspoftheircareersandgivethem Cooper MusicTrust wasfoundedin2015,tosupport at theUniversityofOxfordfor2012-13.TheImogen Visiting ProfessorinClassicalMusicandEducation Music atExeterUniversity. ImogenwastheHumanitas Academy ofMusicandin1999shewasmadeaDoctor she wasawardedHonoraryMembershipoftheRoyal the RoyalPhilharmonicSocietyfollowingyear. In1997 Honours in2007andwastherecipientofanawardfrom Imogen receivedaCBEintheQueen’sNewYear Equinox: 24 Postludes inAllKeysforViolinand Equinox: 24Postludes www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk teaching andeducational his performances.His playing andthebeautyof genuine qualitytohis music, aswellthe versatility andpassionfor artist isaresultofhis extraordinary reachasan Chamber Orchestra.His Arctic Philharmonic Artistic Directorofthe Henning Kraggerudis Norwegian violinist

59 Thu 16th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:32Page60 60 Thu 16th St LawrenceChurchHungerfordThursday16thMay7.30pm jury memberattheLeedsPiano Competition. Suisse RomandeunderMarin Alsop.Thisseason,heisa performed theopeningconcert withOrchestredela at theMenuhinCompetitionin Geneva,wherehealso Institute ofMusicinOslo,and in2018wasajurymember education, HenningisaProfessorattheBarrattDue in 2017receivedaFellowship. Passionate aboutmusical the RoyalNorthernCollegeofMusicinManchester, and In 2015HenningbecameInternationalChairinViolinat Hall. Wigmore Brendel andImogenCooper, includingareturnto 2018/19 season,HenningtourstheUKwithAdrian Hadland, ChristianPoltéra andJeremy Menuhin.Inthe Gimse, KathrynStott,NatalieClein,ChristianIhle Joshua Bell,LawrencePower, LeifOveAndsnes,Håvard kamara.hu festival,withartistssuchasStevenIsserlis, Concertgebouw, BerlinKonzerthaus andBudapest’s Hall,King’sPlace,Bruges taken placeatWigmore major festivalsandvenues;recentcollaborationshave Henning regularlyperformsonbothviolinandviolaat Philharmonic andinFinlandwiththeKymi Sinfonietta. performances oftheworkinPoland withthePoznan the currentseason,Henninggivesfirstever ardent advocatesforthissleepingbeautyofapiece”.In Record Reviewtocomment,“It’sdifficultimaginemore Radio3’s Orchestra andBjarteEngeset,leadingBBC recording ontheNaxoslabelwithMalmöSymphony Philharmonic orchestras,andin2017releaseda on toplaytheworkwithOsloandBergen until itsre-discoveryover100yearslater. Henningwent in 1909,theconcertowassubsequentlyconsideredlost 2016 RisørChamberMusicFestival. Originallypremiered Concerto 21st centurypremiereoftheJohanHalvorsenViolin hisever-presentWith spiritofdiscovery, Henninggavethe Australian ChamberOrchestra. again laterthatyearinanextensivenationaltourwiththe Variations forstringorchestra,whichHenningperformed Orchestra commissionedandperformedTopelius Music Festival. In2017theOstrobothnianChamber orchestra commissionedbytheTrondheim Chamber Hagen in2015andVictimaePaschali for choirand of Haydn’scelloconcertoscommissionedbyClemens 2014 bytheBrittenSinfonia,aswellcadenzasfortwo 2012 andTheLastLeaf,givenitsfirstperformancein commissioned andperformedbytheBrodskyQuartetin Henning’s outputasacomposeralsoincludesPreghiera, Gaarder narrating. Norway in2018withpianistClareHammondandJostein violin/piano versionofEquinox,whichwaspremieredin (MusicWeb International).In2017Henningcomposeda fascinating compositiontoreturnoverandagain” author JosteinGaarder, andhasbeenhailedas“a box office0845 5218218 Imogen Cooper, HenningKraggerud& Adrian Brendel with theNorwegianChamberOrchestraat

© Jack Liebeck Adrian Brendel with Birtwistlethatdeliveredthe worldpremieresofthe programmes. Herecentlyconcluded athree-yearproject Adrian alwaysseekstoinclude contemporaryworkinhis Ensemble in2014.Asatireless championofnewmusic, music andinfluencedhisdecision tojointheNash musical passionsalsoencompassesjazzandworld Peter EötvösandGyörgyKurtág. ThebreadthofAdrian’s diverse composersasThomasAdès,HarrisonBirtwistle, commissions andpioneeringcollaborationswithsuch Kagel andLigeti;ithasflourishedsincewithlandmark during histeenswhenhediscoveredworksbyKurtág, concert halls.Hisloveforcontemporarymusicarose Sparebankstiftelsen DNB. Dextra MusicaAS.Thiscompanyisfoundedby Henning playsona1744GuarneridelGesù,providedby the OleBullPrizeandSibeliusPrize. and EmanuelHurwitz.HeisarecipientoftheGriegPrize, Born inOslo1973,HenningstudiedwithCamillaWicks Jazz atBerlinPhilharmonic. This season,thetwoartistsre-joinforaperformanceat Norwegian folkmusicwithjazzpianistBuggeWesseltoft. disc entitledLastSpringwhichexploredimprovisationson Spellemann CDaward.OntheACTlabel,hereleaseda sonatas ofYsaÿe,onadiscwhichwontheprestigious Also forSimax,Henninghasrecordedthecompletesolo Seasons Between theSeasons,discfeaturesVivaldi’sTheFour world-famous authorErikFosnes Hansen.Entitled collaboration withtheArcticPhilharmonicOrchestraand On theSimaxlabel,Henning’smostrecentreleaseisa 3’s RecordReview. Radio Recommended inTheStrad,andfeaturedonBBC Week, Editor’sChoiceinClassicalMusicMagazine, Classic FM’sAlbumoftheWeek, NDRKultur’s CDofthe awarded anECHOKlassikAward aswellchosen orchestra includedHenning’sowncadenzas,andwas Concertos Nos.3,4and5withtheNorwegianChamber on theNaxoslabel.HisrecordingofMozart Henning’s eclecticdiscographyincludesmanyrecordings interspersed withHenning’sowncompositions. prestigious festivalsand them attheworld’smost artists andappearedwith partnerships withmanyfine strong andlasting music-making, hasforged European traditionof raised inthegreatCentral Adrian Brendel.Thecellist, attributes cultivatedby high amongthelistof musical versatilityrank Creative innovationand 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page61 Eastern Europe.HisannualvisittotheInternational Orchestra andmanyorchestrasthroughoutGermany Scottish NationalOrchestra,theChamber with theAcademyofStMartininFields,Royal Alasdair Beatson.Asaconcertosoloisthehasappeared Lars-Anders Tomter, AndrejBielow, KatharineGowersand with, amongothers,HenningKraggerud,LisaBatiashvili, Christian IhleHadland,whilehealsoperformsregularly Cooper, Till Fellner, Tim Horton,KitArmstrongand His duopartnersincludeAleksandarMadžar, Imogen recitalist andchambermusician. international stageiscloselyboundtohisworkasa father isavailableonPhilips.Adrian’spresencethe acclaimed recordingofBeethoven’scellosonataswithhis Quartet andwithhisfather, AlfredBrendel.Acritically Kurtág, Ferenc Rados,membersoftheAlbanBerg and Cologne,participatedinmasterclasseswith from AlexanderBaillieandFrans HelmersoninLondon attachment tochambermusic.Helaterreceivedlessons Pleeth andsoonsharedhisteacher’sprofound Born inLondon1976,AdrianstudiedcellowithWilliam speranza withtheNDRSinfonieorchesterinHamburg. latter presentedalongsideZimmermann’sCantodi Mouvements forcelloandpiano Other significantworldpremieresincludeYork Hoeller’s piano, workswhichhehasrecordedfortheECMlabel. song cycleBogenstrich St LawrenceChurchHungerfordThursday16thMay7.30pm Imogen Cooper, HenningKraggerud& Adrian Brendel the accessories fitted, variations in weather, driving styles a Figures shown are for comparability purposes; only compare fuel consumption and CO Model shownisanAll-New Focus Active XEstate 1.0T 125PS Petr registration. www.peterstirlandl 01488 683678 Hungerford, RG17 0EG 17-19 Bridge Street - Peter Stirland Ltd -Hungerford td.co.uk and nd vehicle load. *There is a new test used for fuel consumption Trio forviolin,celloand Experience theAll-New Focus Active Crossover at ol Manual with optional LED Headlights and Convenience Pack. 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The CO The figures. 2 figures shown however, are based on the outgoing test cycle and will be used to calculate vehicle tax on first el economy Mpg (l/100km) (Combined): 45.6 (6.2). *CO www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 2 emissions: 111g/km.

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Tom Millar Quartet Corn Exchange Newbury Friday 17th May 12.30pm

Young Artists Lunchtime Recital 3 Tom Millar piano Alex Munk guitar Dave Storey drums Misha Mullov-Abbado double bass

Formed while studying at the Royal Academy of Music, the Quartet features some of the most in-demand young jazz musicians in London.

Sponsored by The Headley Trust

Tom Millar Tom has performed at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Vortex, 606 Club, the London Jazz Festival, KKL Lucerne and Paul Klee Centre, Bern. He toured England and Wales with the Lyric Ensemble, performing the music of Michael Garrick; with Ollie Howell’s quintet; with Duncan Eagles’ quartet; and has recorded albums with the Tom Smith Septet and Andrew Linham Big Band. Further afield, he has played in the USA, Europe and Qatar, including a nation-wide tour with Swiss blues star Philipp Fankhauser and venerable singer Fri 17th Fri Margie Evans from Shreveport, Louisiana. He recently played for the opening residency in Quincy Jones’ first- ever jazz club, Q’s bar, at the Palazzo Versace, Dubai, Tom Millar is an Australian-born, London-based pianist, between November 2016 and January 2017, and in composer and bandleader. After reading Music at King’s February 2017 with bassist Lisa Hoppe’s Ambush at the College, Cambridge, he studied Jazz Piano and Jazzwerkstatt Festival, Bern. Composition for a Masters at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and with Django Bates in Bern, Switzerland. Tom previously ran the monthly jam session and gig at the Green Note, Camden, as well as playing a monthly His debut album with his Quartet, Unnatural Events, was duo concert there with some of his favourite singers. He launched on September 20th 2017 at the Pizza Express was also a member of Way Out West musicians’ Jazz Club, Soho, London. It came out on independent jazz collective, for which he created various different projects label Spark!, and was recorded with funding from an including a quintet with Gareth Lockrane and Fini Emerging Excellence Award (Help Musicians UK), the Jazz Bearman, and a nonet playing his compositions and Services’ Recording Support Scheme, and a successful arrangements with Jim Hart, Tim Whitehead, Tony Woods crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The Quartet plays and Laura Jurd, among others. Tom’s original music, inspired by places and people that are important to him. Tracks include the soulful ballad Park Alex Munk Hill; his setting of the proto-environmentalist poem by Alex Munk is an award-winning guitarist, composer and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Inversnaid; and rock-out grooves bandleader living in London. in The Seafarer, Power Chord Thing and Woad. It features some of the most in-demand young jazz musicians in Having established himself as one of the capital’s most in- London: Misha Mullov-Abbado, Alex Munk and Dave demand guitarists, Alex formed the group Flying Storey. Singer Alice Zawadzki features on two tracks on Machines in 2014. Centred around Alex’s unique the album. To support the release, the Quartet had a 20- compositions, the band have established a sound that is date UK tour, with the support of the Arts Council England. entirely their own, fusing emotive melodies with visceral guitar improvisation and luscious soundscapes. Flying His music has since received extensive radio airplay, Machines went on to release their debut album to critical including BBC Radio 3, Jazz FM and London Jazz Radio. acclaim in October 2016, receiving glowing reviews in the likes of Guitarist magazine, The Guardian and Jazzwise. The release was followed up by a 24-date UK tour,

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supported by Arts Council England, that culminated in a Dave is also a composer and band leader for his own trio sold-out headline performance at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz featuring multi award-winning saxophonist James Allsopp Club in April 2017. (Golden Age of Steam, Django Bates) and bass player Conor Chaplin (Dinosaur, Fabled, Flying Machines) - who As a sideman, Alex has performed at all of the major jazz released their debut album on Impossible Ark Records festivals and venues around the UK as part of the Stan with a 14-date tour around the UK. Sulzmann Big Band, Gareth Lockrane’s Grooveyard, Trish Clowes’s Tangent, Ivo Neame Quintet, Nick Smart’s Misha Mullov-Abbado Trogon and alongside artists such as Gwilym Simcock, Winner of the 2014 Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize, Misha Iain Ballamy and Hammond Organist James Taylor. He Mullov-Abbado is an in-demand bass player, composer has performed extensively with the world-renowned and arranger based in London. He is a 2017 BBC Radio 3 CBSO, including tours to the UAE as well as all over the New Generation Artist, a 2014 City of Music Foundation UK. Alex has also appeared on a number of critically- Artist and has released two albums on Edition Records as acclaimed recordings, such as Reuben Fowler’s Between a band-leader and composer; Cross-Platform Interchange Shadows, Matt Anderson’s Wildflower Sextet and Dave (2017) and New Ansonia (2015), both of which were Hamblett’s Light At Night. He is also the guitarist in Sam extremely well-received across Europe, the latter being Rapley’s Fabled, the Peter Lee Group and Tom Millar included in “Best Jazz Albums of 2015” by The Telegraph Quartet. and BBC Radio 3. As an experienced band-leader but also a versatile sideman, Misha has performed at many of Alex graduated from the Masters programme at London’s London’s top venues such as Ronnie Scott’s, the Vortex, Royal Academy of Music with distinction in 2011, where 606 Club, Pizza Express and Royal Albert Hall, as well as he was awarded the Elton John Scholarship, the Scott venues in the rest of the UK and around the world. Philbrick Jazz Scholarship and the John Baker Memorial Having won the 2014 Dankworth Prize for jazz Prize. Upon graduating from Leeds College of Music with composition, Misha is an experienced composer and first class honours in 2009, Alex was awarded the writes for various jazz groups as well as classical soloists prestigious Yamaha Jazz Scholarship and had a

and ensembles, and is influenced by a variety of jazz, 17th Fri recording of his featured on the front cover of Jazzwise classical and pop music. magazine. After graduating from Gonville and Caius College A wonderful young guitarist with a unique musical voice – Cambridge, where he studied music and composition Stan Sulzmann, acclaimed UK saxophonist with Robin Holloway and Jeremy Thurlow, Misha received a scholarship to study double bass at the Royal Academy …silkily curling phrasing and rugged rhythm changes - of Music on the prestigious Masters jazz course with John Fordham, The Guardian Jasper Høiby, Tom Herbert, Michael Janisch and Jeremy Brown. During his final year at the Academy Misha started …imaginative, soaring electric guitar expression – Adrian his group and has since been performing regularly with it, Pallant, AP Reviews with winning the Kenny Wheeler Prize in his final term leading him to record his debut album. As well as writing Munk clearly demonstrates how pleasing and versatile an for his band, Misha has been commissioned by a variety electric archtop guitar can sound in expert hands – Roger of musicians and ensembles such as Viktoria Mullova, Farbey, All About Jazz Thomas Larcher, the LSSO, the Pelleas Ensemble, the Hermes Experiment, and the North Sea Ensemble. Dave Storey Dave Storey studied Jazz Drum-kit at the Royal Academy Since leaving the Academy Misha has been performing of Music with an eclectic mix of influential drummers such with a variety of musicians such as Stan Sulzmann, as Jim Hart, Martin France, Tim Giles, Mark Sanders and Paul Clarvis, Enzo Zirilli, Sam Lee, Nessi Gomes, Alice Gene Calderazzo. Since completing his Masters he has Zawadzki, Tom Green, Tom Millar, Ralph Wyld and Liam quickly established himself on the London jazz scene Dunachie. He co-directs the Patchwork Jazz Orchestra, playing regularly at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Kansas an exciting young big band in London that plays original Smitty’s and The Vortex Jazz Club. compositions written by members of the band, that won the 2015 Peter Whittingham Award. Some of the projects that Dave plays include the Tom Barford Group, Tom Smith Septet, Tom Millar Quartet, It will not be many years before Misha becomes one of the Moostak Trio, Olli Martin Quintet and Alistair Martin world’s leading figures in music La Jornada (Mexico) Quintet. Both his composing talents and his propulsive bass- playing are currently such hot UK jazz news The Guardian

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Sheepdrove Road | Lambourn | Berkshire | RG17 7UU 01488 674747 | [email protected] | www.sheepdrove.com 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page65 Hochschule fürMusikHannsEisler, RobertasmakesareturntotheFestival. performance withMoscowStateSymphonyOrchestra.NowbasedinBerlinwherehecontinueshisstudiesatthe in 2015,whileastudentatRoyalScottishConservatoire,beforereturningtotheFestival in2016foraspellbinding Lithuanian pianistRobertasLozinskiswonthe1stPrizeandAudienceatSheepdrovePianoCompetition Robertas Lozinskis Sheepdrove EcoCentreLambournFriday 17thMay 8.00pm through whichmeansitismade tosound.’ great, universalworkofmusic remainsthesamenomatter Busoni explained:‘Bachtaughtmetorecognisethata to createanidiomaticpianoscore. skilfully deployedbetweentheplayer’stwohandsinorder addition ofnewharmoniccolours,whilethematerialis transpositions, doublingsofchordalnotesandthe original violinpartisenrichedthroughoctave the technicalpossibilitiesofpiano.Thesound the originalaspossible,whileadaptingmusictosuit Chaconne, publishedin1916,skilfullyremainsascloseto Busoni wasaleadingpianist,andhistreatmentofthe version being the one for piano by Ferruccio Busoni. has also been frequently transcribed, the most celebrated substance and mastery is often performed separately. It added this celebrated Chaconne, which because of its traditional dance movements of the in D Partita minor Bach the literature of music for the solo violin. To the four This particular work occupies an unchallenged position in leader oftheensemble. partitas forsoloviolinwerewrittenJosephSpiess,the perform. Itseemslikely, therefore,thathissonatasand well assoloandchamberitemsforhiscolleaguesto duties includedprovidingmusicforlargerensembles,as Kapellmeister toPrinceLeopoldofAnhalt-Cöthen. His from theyears1717-1723,whenhewasemployedas The majorityofBach’sinstrumentalcompositionsdate BWV1004 Chaconne, fromPartita No.2inDminor, FERRUCCIO BUSONI(1866-1924) JOHANN SEBASTIANBACH(1685-1750) Sponsored byTheSheepdroveTrust The SheepdroveRecital piano © Terry Barfoot and hisLittleSonatadatesfromaround1900. always consciousofnationaltraditionsandfolkidioms, a stringquartetandvariousworksforpiano.Hewas and include twosymphonicpoems,IntheForest young, in1911attheageofjust35.Hiscompositions before settingatVilniusfrom1907.Hediedtragically was bornatVarena andstudiedinWarsaw andLeipzig, iurlionis The LithuaniancomposerandpainterMikalojus 4. Fugue 3. Scherzo(Canon) 2. Andante 1. Allegro.Prelude Little Sonata (1875-1911) MIKALOJUS KONSTANTINAS ČIURLIONIS of sometenminutes. amid pianowritingoftheutmost virtuosityacrossaspan these stronglycharacterised approaches arejuxtaposed powerful hammeringchords, markedconfuoco,and the contrastofrelaxation.Abravura cadenzaleadsinto exciting conanimasection,whichisfollowedinturnby Andante cantabileopeningthemegiveswaytoan scene’, althoughthereisnodetailedprogramme.The Tchaikovsky’s compositionhasthesubtitle‘Russianrustic by AntonínDvořák. example ofwhichisthecelebratedpianotriothatname between melancholyandexhilaration,themostfamous title relatestoatypeofSlavonicfolkmusicthatveers 1885 bytheParisian musicpublisherFelix Mackar. The Tchaikovsky wascommissionedtowritehisDumkain Dumka, PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) P. Tchaikovsky LittleSonata Čiurlionis M.K. J.S.Bach /F.Busoni S. Rachmaninoff Godowsky L. Interval Opus 59 Elegyforthelefthandalone Dumka Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, SonataNo.2inB-flat Op.36 ChaconneinDminor www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk Op. 59 © Terry Barfoot © Terry Barfoot The Sea,

65 Fri 17th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page66 66 Fri 17th capable conductor, andacomposerpossessedofboth recognised asamajortalent:brilliantvirtuosopianist, From theearliestyearsofhiscareerRachmaninovwas 3. Allegromolto 2. Nonallegro 1. Allegroagitato Sonata No.2inBflatminor, Opus36 SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873-1943) hand side,andisamongsuchcompositions. composed soonafterthestrokewhichparalysedhisright- last compositions.Abeautifullycraftedminiature,itwas the Composed in1929anddedicatedtoGottfriedGalston, for himtoperforminpublicanylonger. until sufferingastrokewhichrestrictedtheopportunities increasingly devotedhimselftocomposingforthepiano, the Atlantic.InyearsafterFirstWorld War he time, becomingarenownedperformeronbothsidesof Godowsky wasalongthemostcelebratedvirtuosiofhis The Lithuanian-AmericanpianistandcomposerLeopold Elegy forthelefthandalone LEOPOLD GODOWSKY (1870-1938) Sheepdrove EcoCentreLambournFriday 17thMay 8.00pm box office0845 5218218 The SheepdroveRecital Elegy forthelefthandalonewasoneofGodowsky’s www.benwheelerpianos.co.uk Showroom - Little London, Hampshire Transportation • • Tuning Upright Pianos • Pianos Grand • Piano since1991. specialists © Terry Barfoot ever created. one ofthemoststunningexamplesromanticvirtuosity treated mostappropriately, sincethiscanberegardedas original version(asperformedhere)thattheconceptis texture inlinewithhislaterstyle.However, itisinthe returned tothescore,makingcutsandsimplifying including thewildlyjubilantfinale.In1931Rachmaninov typically, asamotto,returningineachmovement, The openingsubjectofthefirstmovementserves, music tosomeextentemanatesfromthis. should featureprominently, andtheexpansivenessof summer. Itisnosurprisethereforethatbell-likesonorities when hereturnedtohiscountryhomeatIvanovkathat in Romeduring1913,andthencompletedthescore alongside thechoralsymphony, keyboard style.Hecomposedmuchofthemusic but thereisnobetterexampleofRachmaninov’sopulent The SonataNo.2isarelativelylittleknowncomposition, pianist. composer andaninternationallyrenownedvirtuoso musical directoroftheBolshoiTheatre,afamous considerably, whenhehadbecomesimultaneouslythe century, allthreeoftheseparallelroleshadadvanced imagination andskill.Bythefirstdecadeof20th The Bells,whilestaying © Terry Barfoot 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page67 Scotland withProf. Fali Pavri. Previouslyhewasstudying before this,hestudiedattheRoyalConservatoireof at theHochschulefürMusik“HannsEisler”Berlinand, Since 2018RobertashasstudiedwithProf. KirillGerstein Leonskaja andothers. Hortense Cartier-Bresson, StevenOsborne,Elisabeth Philippe Cassard,StanislavPochekin, DmitriAlexeev, Michel Beroff, ChristopherElton,IvariIlja,OliverKern, Dmitri Bashkirov, NikolaiLugansky, Pascal Devoyon, renowned pianistsincludingMikhailVoskresensky, and Asia.Hewasaparticipantinmasterclasseswith Chamber andhasperformedextensivelyacrossEurope Lithuanian NationalSymphonyOrchestraandKlaipeda Symphony Orchestra,RoyalScottishNational Since 2016RobertashasplayedwiththeMoscowState Maria CanalsinBarcelona. with the4thPrizeatInternationalMusicCompetition and OrganCompetition.InMarch2018hewasawarded Čiurlionis Piano Audience PrizeattheInternationalM.K. England. InSeptember2015hewonthe1stPrizeand Audience PrizeattheSheepdrovePianoCompetitionin Europe. InMay2015hewonthe1stPrizeand more thantwentyinternationalpianocompetitionsacross Lithuanian-born RobertasLozinskisisaprize-winnerof Robertas Lozinskis Sheepdrove EcoCentreLambournFriday 17thMay 8.00pm The SheepdroveRecital international awardsandachievements. President andthePrimeMinisterofLithuaniafor funds. Hehasalsoreceivedacknowledgementsfromthe Mstislav RostropovichandRoderickF. Tuck support Robertas hasbeenarecipientofscholarshipsfrom developing theircareers. encourage andhelpyoungpianiststakeactiontowards the beginningoftheircareers.Theaimcourseisto Lithuania whichisdedicatedtoprofessionalpianistsat Piano Fest –afestivalandpianomasterclassesin He isalsothefounderandartisticdirectorofKaunas in Germany, amongothervenues. Spring Festival inEnglandandtheDuisburgPhilharmonie January 2017,andisengagedtoperformbytheNewbury recorded theirdebutCDYouth performed inHolland,Belgium,GermanyandLithuania, Hoffman. Formed inMarch2016,Trio Agorahasalready with clarinettistŽilvinasBrazauskasandcellistNatania and festivals.HeisalsoafoundingmemberofTrio Agora participated ininternationalchambermusiccompetitions As achambermusicianRobertashassuccessfully University oftheArts(UdK)withProf. ElenaLapitskaja. Academy ofMusicandTheatreattheBerlin with Prof. ZbignevasIbelgauptasattheLithuanian www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk which wasreleasedin

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The Misha Mullov-Abbado Group Misha Mullov-Abbado double bass James Davison flugelhorn Sam Rapley tenor saxophone Matthew Herd alto saxophone Liam Dunachie piano Scott Chapman drums

The Misha Mullov-Abbado Group is made up of some of the finest multi-award-winning musicians in London, and under Misha’s direction the group performs his original compositions and arrangements with a broad variety of influences.

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The Misha Mullov-Abbado Group and arranger based in London. He is a 2017 BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, a 2014 City of Music Foundation Artist and has released two albums on Edition Records as a band- leader and composer;

Fri 17th Fri Cross-Platform Interchange (2017) and New Ansonia (2015), both of which were extremely well-received across Europe, the latter being included in “Best Jazz Albums of 2015” by The The band has performed at many venues and festivals all Telegraph and BBC Radio 3. As an experienced band- around the UK such as King’s Place, the Barbican Centre, leader but also a versatile sideman, Misha has performed the Elgar Room as part of the BBC Proms Lates at many of London’s top venues such as Ronnie Scott’s, series and has toured internationally around Europe and the Vortex, 606 Club, Pizza Express and Royal Albert Hall, in Mexico. Having been signed to Edition Records the as well as venues in the rest of the UK and around the group has released its debut album New Ansonia, which world. Having won the 2014 Dankworth Prize for jazz has been included in “Best Jazz Albums 2015” of composition, Misha is an experienced composer and both The Telegraph and BBC Radio 3. The band writes for various jazz groups as well as classical soloists recently released a second album on Edition and ensembles, and is influenced by a variety of jazz, Records, Cross-Platform Interchange. classical and pop music.

The band’s repertoire is influenced by a broad spectrum After graduating from Gonville and Caius College of music in the classical, jazz and pop genres as well as Cambridge, where he studied music and composition folk traditions from around the world, particularly from with Robin Holloway and Jeremy Thurlow, Misha received South America. The music contains chorale-based and a scholarship to study double bass at the Royal Academy contemporary-classical styles that are influenced by Bach of Music on the prestigious Masters jazz course with and Brahms right through to Stravinsky and Bartok and Jasper Høiby, Tom Herbert, Michael Janisch and Jeremy beyond, and jazz musicians such as Bill Frisell. Misha’s Brown. During his final year at the Academy Misha started music is also heavily based on swing, funk and other his group and has since been performing regularly with it, groove-based styles influenced by Avishai Cohen, Ray with winning the Kenny Wheeler Prize in his final term Brown, Gareth Lockrane and Jasper Høiby, as well as leading him to record his debut album. As well as writing pop giants Stevie Wonder and Earth, Wind & Fire. for his band, Misha has been commissioned by a variety of musicians and ensembles such as Viktoria Mullova, Misha Mullov-Abbado Thomas Larcher, the LSSO, the Pelleas Ensemble, the Winner of the 2014 Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize, Misha Hermes Experiment, and the North Sea Ensemble. Mullov-Abbado is an in-demand bass player, composer

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James Davison Will Glaser. Originally from Glasgow he graduated in 2011 James studied Classical with a BA in Applied Music from the University of Trumpet at the Guildhall Strathclyde before moving to London to study at the School of Music and Royal Academy of Music for an MMus in Jazz Drama, and is currently performance, graduating in 2014. Matthew is currently studying for a Masters in continuing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music, Jazz Performance at The working towards a PhD. Royal Academy of Music, kindly supported by the Liam Dunachie Countess of Munster Liam is a pianist and Musical Trust. Alongside arranger. He studied music his studies, James at Trinity College, regularly performs with the Cambridge and Royal Philharmonic subsequently jazz piano at Orchestra and Concert Orchestra, the Syd Lawrence the Guildhall School of Orchestra and Pete Long’s ‘Jazz at the Philharmonic’ Music. As a jazz musician band. He is currently lead trumpet in the National Youth he has performed at many Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) and is a member of the Misha of London’s premier jazz Mullov-Abbado Group, the Tom Green Septet and the venues including a recent Sam Watts Band, as well as running his own dixieland performance with his own jazz band – The Dixie Strollers. trio at Ronnie Scott’s, and works regularly as a Sam Rapley sideman in a diverse range of other groups and projects. Sam is a London-based As an arranger he has been commissioned by a wide saxophonist, clarinettist range of organisations and ensembles including BBC

and composer. Sam writes Proms, City of London Sinfonia and was recently the 17th Fri and plays a diverse range pianist and co-arranger of a track by the NHS Choir which of music, drawing became UK Christmas No. 1 2015. He is currently Musical influences from jazz, Director of the UK tour of Hairspray. classical, contemporary and cinematic. An active member of the UK music Scott Chapman scene, his recent From North-West London, endeavours include Scott became involved in playing with Troykestra at big bands at a young London Jazz Festival, age, and was NYJO’s first being featured on Teotima’s debut album, Counting the call drummer at the age of Ways and writing the score for the independent film sixteen. He studied at the Duet. As well as sideman work, Sam leads his own band, Royal Academy of Fabled, who released their debut EP in March 2015. Music, during which time he won the 2013 Matthew Herd Humphrey Lyttelton award Matthew is a London- and also a Yamaha Jazz based saxophonist and Scholar prize the following composer. A keen writer year, upon graduating with and improviser Matthew a First-Class Honours degree. Working as a sideman with leads his own band, a selection of London-based contemporary jazz groups, ‘Seafarers’ as well as he also has experience in West End theatre both as a pit appearing in a number of musician and on-stage as an actor-musician. Scott is also other projects led by his a keen composer, writing for the Patchwork Jazz contemporaries, and has Orchestra among other groups. written for small and large ensembles, as well as for a selection of short films. Recently Matthew has recorded with Declan Forde’s ‘Sproggits’, the Misha Mullov-Abbado Quintet and in a duo with percussionist

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Spanish Glories of the Sixteenth Century Tenebrae Alonso Lobo Versa est in luctum Tomás Luis de Victoria Selection from Tenebrae Nigel Short conductor Responsories and Lamentations for Holy Saturday Responsory I: Amicus meus osculi me tradidit signa Responsory II: Judas mercator pessimus Lectio I: Heth. Misericordiae Domini Responsory V: Una hora non potuistis vigilare mecum Responsory XIV: O vos omnes Lectio II: Aleph. Quomodo obscuratum Responsory XVI: Astiterunt reges terrae Responsory XVIII: Sepulto Domino Lectio III: Incipit oratorio Jeremiae Prophetae Interval Fri 17th Fri Tomás Luis de Victoria Requiem Mass, 1605

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ALONSO LOBO (1555-1617) years Victoria’s junior, already represented a coming Versa est in luctum wave of musical experimentation that Victoria missed or eschewed? Did Lobo’s marginalisation cause him to Lobo was born in 1555 in Osuna, a small town 50 miles adopt a more adventurous style in order to attract east of Seville. Lobo was educated in Seville and Osuna, attention? Did Lobo even feel marginalised at all or was becoming a priest in Osuna before beginning his he happy to spend his life in the south of Spain away employment at Seville cathedral in 1591. He journeyed from the limelight? north for eight years to take a job at the cathedral in © Greg Skidmore Toledo, but returned to Seville to spend the rest of his life as director of music there. Lobo’s life could perhaps seem less cosmopolitan than Victoria’s. Lobo didn’t enjoy TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA (1548-1611) royal patronage and certainly didn’t live surrounded by Tenebrae Responsories and Lamentations luxury in a royal convent in Madrid, serving the king’s Tomás Luis de Victoria (Ávila 1548 – Madrid 1611) left his sister. As far as we know, he never spent time outside of native Spain in 1565, at the age of 17, to study in Rome. Spain. While Victoria and Lobo at least corresponded, it is He would stay there over 20 years, and publish many of likely that Lobo was viewed by his contemporaries, his most important works, including, in 1585, his perhaps as we do today, as outside of the top tier of monumental Officium Hebdomae Sanctae. musicians, stuck in the south of Spain, off the map. Lobo’s Versa est in Luctum was most likely written while When Thomé, as he called himself, arrived in the Eternal he was in Toledo (as was most of his surviving music), City the musical star was undoubtedly Palestrina perhaps before Victoria wrote his six-voice requiem, and (1525 – 1594) who at that time was Maestro de Capilla at while its emotive power is obvious, so is the difference in Santa Maria Maggiore among other positions, and later, style from that of Victoria’s requiem music; more from 1571, served at the Julian Chapel at St Peter’s. chromatic, more adventurous, more extroverted. Can we Victoria, initially supported by a student grant awarded by be certain that the influence of the great Palestrina, whom Philip II of Spain, studied at the German Seminary Victoria knew in Italy, was so great that Lobo, only seven founded only a few years previously by St Ignatius

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Loyola. His first major position was as Maestro de Capilla Commentaries of St Augustine and, for the third, from the at the Roman Seminary, taking over from Palestrina. His letters of St Paul. These were not generally set work as a composer was first noted with his 1572 polyphonically (there is a set by the Portuguese collection of motets. In 1573 he was also appointed composer Manuel Cardoso) and would have been sung Maestro de Capilla at the German seminary, and in the on a simple reciting tone. Victoria set the Responsories following year was ordained priest. that followed each of these readings, so that for each day there are three sections of the Lamentations His 1572 collection was followed in 1576 by his first book corresponding to the first nocturne, and three of masses, with other motets, Marian antiphons and Responsories each for the second and third nocturnes. Magnificats. 1581 saw another two publications, one of motets for the liturgical year and the second of The texts of the responds follow the Passion story, mixing Magnificats and Marian antiphons. 1583 saw a second phrases from the Gospels with other texts commentating book of Masses and a new anthology of motets (not all on collective suffering, thought to date from the fourth were new, the sharp commercial mind of Victoria already century. For Thursday (Feria V in Coena Domini), the first recognised opportunities in “best of” collections). In 1585 nocturne (not set) starts in the Garden of Gethsemane, another collection of motets were published, some of the second and third nocturnes consider the betrayal of which were now in their third Edition, and also the Judas and Jesus’ arrest. The Good Friday (Feria VI in collection of music for Holy week. Parasceve) nocturnes consider the trial and Via Crucis, and on Saturday (Sabatto Sancto) reflect on the death This Officium Hebdomae Sanctae contains 37 works, with and, finally, with Sepulto Domino, the entombment of music set from Palm Sunday to Easter Saturday. In Jesus. addition to the Responsories set for Thursday, Friday and Saturday included in this recording, there are also the The illumination is gradually reduced throughout the Lamentations of Jeremiah, the psalm Miserere mei and service. On the hearse, one candle is extinguished, the Benedictus (Canticle of Zachary) for the same offices, starting from the lowest level of the hearse, after each of two Passion settings, hymns, motets, the Reproaches and the fourteen (nine for Matins and five for Lauds) psalms. other music for the week. Some of the works included in The six candles on the altar are also extinguished during 17th Fri this collection appear to have been composed the recitation of the Benedictus, and the final flame significantly earlier. (representing Jesus) is placed under the altar so as to end in almost total darkness, during the Christus antiphon The office of Tenebrae (the shadows) is in fact the and final prayer. The office ends with a “great noise” combination of two offices, the early morning Matins, (strepitus in Latin) made by slamming books against the which was followed by Lauds. Later these were performed choir stalls or stamping on the floor. This is to represent together on the previous evening after Compline. This is the earthquake after the death of Christ. The “great noise” to say that the Tenebrae for Maundy Thursday would have continues until the candle is brought out from under the been sung on Wednesday – in Rome the practice was to altar to reveal the light of Christ still burning, representing have this office at around 4pm. the resurrection, and replaced in the hearse. This is the signal for the participants to leave in silence. The main feature of this office, and from whence it derives its name, is the gradual extinguishing of 15 candles Victoria set the responsories, like the Lamentations, for arranged on a triangular stand called a hearse. These four voices, mostly SATB, but for each nocturne the candles represent Christ (the highest candle), the second responsory was set for a different combination – disciples (except Judas Iscariot), and the so-called three SSAT, often also sung an octave lower by tenors and Marys (three female disciples who went to the Tomb, basses, following a Roman tradition dating from the 18th however, different traditions give distinct names). century.

The Tenebrae is divided in each day into the Matins of The Responsories have a balanced structure of three three nocturnes each of which had three psalms, a short parts: a two part respond and a versicle. After the versicle and response, Pater Noster (silent) and a reading. versicle, the second part of the respond is repeated, This was followed immediately by Lauds, made up of five giving a structure of ABCB, where A and B are the two psalms, a short versicle and response, the Benedictus parts of the respond, and C is the versicle. Victoria always canticle, the gradual text Christus factus est, Psalm 50 – writes this versicle for a reduced number of voices, and Miserere mei and a closing prayer. the respond sections for four voices. For liturgical purposes, the final responsory of each nocturne has an The readings of the first nocturne were from the Book of additional repeat of the complete respond, giving an Lamentations, which were set by Victoria but he did not ABCBAB form, however, this extra repeat is often omitted compose music for the Responsories of these readings. in concert performance. There is also an overall scheme The readings for the second nocturne were from the for the reduced voice sections: with the exception of the

www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 71 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page72 72 Fri 17th Holy Week. introspective journeythroughthethreeclimacticdaysof same timeheproducesacoherent,structuredand without everlettingthemusicoverpowerthem.At complements thetextswithhisapparentlysimplesetting, remind thelistenerofJudas’betrayal.Victoriaalways opening phraseas“JudasMercatorpessimus”(no2)to tradidit impius”(no11)hasalmostidenticalmusicforits nocturne ofThursday. Similarly, theresponsory“Iesum variation) inallthreeoftherespondsforsecond non fuisset”, example isthephrase“Bonum,Meliusillieratsinatus and whichalsobeginstheRespondsofFriday. Another populi appears firstinthesecondrespondsectionofSeniores text “Tamquam adlatronem,cumgladiisetfustibus”which St NicolasChurchNewburyFriday 17thMay7.30pm which affectsourrelationship withwhatwehear, howwe people –between‘earlymusic’ and‘notearlymusic’ exercise’. Abarrierexists–in differentplacesfor through thelens(orisitactually afilter?)ofthe‘academic protestations ofmanyperformers, itisoftenappreciated much knownas‘earlymusic’. Despitetheeffortsand masterpiece, ifthereeverwasone.However, itisstillvery truly greatachievementsinthehistoryofmusic;a perhaps evenBeethoven’sNinthSymphony , Mozart’sownRequiemMassand Matthew Passion say itsitscomfortablybesideworkslikeBach’sSt. interest in‘earlymusic’,somewouldbeboldenoughto be. For thosewhohavecometo knowitthroughan what itsoundsandfeelslike,howexpressivecan For many, itrepresents whatRenaissancepolyphonyis, written in1603andpublished1605,isamasterpiece. Tomás LuisdeVictoria’srequiemmassforsixvoices, Requiem Mass,1605 box office0845 5218218 Tenebrae famous expressive downwardscaleofthefourthusedas 12) andOvosomnes(no14),whichemploysthe appears inanalmostidenticalformCaligaverunt example thetext“Siestdolorsicutmeus”which textual phrasesoccurindifferentresponsories,for Victoria usessimilarrhythmicandmelodicdeviceswhen Dominum build upthemusicaltension,forexampleAdversus employed foreffect,sometimesusingpairsofvoicesto a particularword,andrepetitionofshortphrasesisalso terms, thereislittlemelismaticwritingexcepttohighlight treatment oftextisalmostmadrigalianattimes.Ingeneral Although Victoriadidnotcomposeanysecularmusic,his within eachset. orSST.SSA Thispatternallowsforsimplecontrasts second makesuseoftheextrasopranoline,givingeither of threeissetforSAT voices,thethirdforATB andthe very firstresponsory, whichisaduet,thefirstofeachset – thelastresponsoryofThursdaycollection, Lachrymae section ofAsiteruntreges. referring toJudas,whichappears(withslight motive byJohnDowland.Likewisethe © RupertDamerell as oneofthe (no educated ataJesuitschoolin Avila beforehisvoice well-known composersin16th-century Spain.Hewas tutelage ofBernardinodeRibera andJuanNavarro,both attended thechoirschoolat cathedralthereunderthe in Avila, 55milesnorthwestofMadrid,in1548. He six-voice requiemmass.Tomás LuisdeVictoria wasborn the historicalfactssurroundingcreationofVictoria’s Perhaps asademonstrationofthis, belowisanoutlineof for whichtherearenowords. humility, awe,andalloftheothermoreimportant feelings understood, toelicitanyresponseexceptastonishment, into history;greatmusicrefusestobelimited, music’s timelessappeal?Itdoesn’tmatterhowfarwedig sometimes forcedtoencounterthedifficultquestionof information weconsumewithsuchdelight,are regardless ofourfascinationwiththehistorical But whatmakessomeworksstandout?Whyisitthat, six-voice requiemmasstosuchwidespreadfamiliarity. enthusiasm whichhasbroughtworkssuchasVictoria’s enjoyed greatpopularity. Indeed,itispreciselythis integration ofacademicresearchintoperformanceshas historical ‘addedvalue’broughtbythecontinued raged forafewdecadesnow, in concertandondiscthe in academiccirclesthesetheoreticalargumentshave ‘historically informed’aboutthemusictheyperform.While success manyhaveachievedbyattemptingtobe This istheproblem.We areallfamiliarwiththestaggering way possible. relating toandinteractingwiththeartinmostintense understanding thecreationofhisart–inotherwords, get tobeingtheartisthimselfandthereby closer wecometo‘actuallybeingthere’,the and attempttoapproacharecreationofanothertime.The the past.Thebestwecandoisunderstandhistory’sfacts just abitofdreaming?Time definitivelyseparatesusfrom talk ofuniversality, transcendence,andtimelessnessinart acceptance ofthisideaandtheselimits.Isn’tall A trueunderstandingoftheworkthereforerequires by otherpeople,ataspecifictimeandinplace. all, theartistwasaperson,creatingarttobeexperienced artists’ lifecontributestoanunderstandingofhisart.After music, neworold.Butsurelyanunderstandingofthe audience. Thisismusic,notmodernmusicorearly understand itandcommunicatetoareceptive his ideainnotationandagreatperformerneedsonlyto its creation.Agreatcomposerneedsonlytoencapsulate exists outsidetimeandisasimpressivenowitwasat by whom,andforwhom.Thegreatnessofthethingitself forget history;whenitwaswritten,inwhatcircumstances, work ofartwhich,throughitsgreatness,forcesusto So, whatisamasterpiece?Perhaps itispreciselythat to whichweallowitexciteandoverwhelmus. expected toevaluateitsperformance,andeventheextent engage withitemotionally, howwebelieveare 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page73 fragmentary histories.Ifwewere somehowabletokneel confronted withthepractical consequences ofthese music lovers,wemustnotforget thatwearenecessarily questions likethese.However, asmodern musicians and Any attempttocontextualisegreatworksofartresultsin responsibility? spent thelastsevenyearsofhislifewithless of organistin1604,oneyearafterMaría’sdeath,and Victoria relinquishedthepostofdirectormusicforthat his Spanishprinter?Doesitmakeadifferencethat continue hissuccessfulbutstillnascentrelationshipwith was Victoriasumminguphislife’swork,orattemptingto thishis lastpublication, as a‘retirement’position?With that VictorialikelyconsideredhisjobasMaría’schaplain choirs ofallsizesandabilities?Doesithelptoremember hundreds ofotherceremoniesvarieddescriptionsby Europe, performedintheearly17th-centuryatperhaps that itwaspublishedanddisseminatedthroughout matriarch, perhapstheirfriend?Ordoesithelptorealise by 12menand4boys,mourningthelossoftheir chapel incentralMadrid,listeningtothismusicperformed barefoot, aristocraticwomensittinginamagnificent appreciation tovisualise30orsowealthy, cloistered, Victoria wrotemorethan400yearsago?Doesitaidinits Does thisinformationhelpustoappreciatethemusic his deathin1611. will whichallowedVictoriatoremainattheconventuntil obsequies oftheholyempress).Maríaleftmoneyinher imperatricis entitled have lastedalldayifnotformanydays)inapublication music hewroteforherburialobservance(whichwould the Empressdiedandin1605Victoriapublished his brothers,Agustín,whowasalsoachaplain.In1603, years!) andhewasevenjoinedattheconventbyoneof 1595 hemanagedtoexpandhismonth’sholidaythree him, andamonth’sholidayeveryyear(from1592until He alsohadapersonalservant,privatemealsservedto convent, supervising12adultsingingpriestsand4boys. endowment. Victoriabecamedirectorofmusicatthe widowed orunmarriednoblewomen,eachbringingan cloistered nunsinextraordinaryluxury;thewere of BarefootNunsSt.Clare)inMadridwith32other Monasterio delasDescalzasS.Clara(RoyalConvent sister ofKingPhilipIISpain.Maríalivedatthe he wasmadechaplaintotheDowagerEmpressMaría, but alsopublishingbooksofmassesandmotets.In1585 religious housesinRomeaswellbeneficesSpain, securing anincomefromhisassociationwithtwolarge 1575 andremainedinRomeworkingmainlyasacleric, German missionarywork.Hewasordainedapriestin Germanico, aJesuitfoundationtrainingpriestsfor singer andlaterdirectorofmusicattheCollegio broke andin1565hewassenttoRomebefirsta St NicolasChurchNewburyFriday 17thMay7.30pm Tenebrae Officium defunctorum:inobituetobsequiissacrae (The OfficeoftheDead:fordeathand Tenebrae Festival (Australia). Festival, LeipzigGewandhaus(Germany)andMelbourne Proms,EdinburghInternational venues includingtheBBC masterpieces andhasappeared atmajorfestivalsand from theRenaissancethrough tocontemporarychoral interpretations ofchoralmusic withrepertoireranging Tenebrae isrenownedforitshighly-acclaimed Isles, receivedaGrammynomination. Spheres, Tenebrae’s albumofpartsongsfromtheBritish Gramophone Awards (2013).In2018,Musicofthe London SymphonyOrchestrawasnominatedforthe and 2016),itsrecordingofFauré’s Requiem Performance MusicMagazineAwards intheBBC (2012 Tenebrae hastwicesecuredtheawardforBestChoral renowned foritspassionandprecision. Short, isoneoftheworld’sleadingvocalensembles winning choirTenebrae, underthedirectionofNigel “devastatingly beautiful”(GramophoneMagazine),award- Described as“phenomenal”(TheTimes) and – mustsurelywant;anexpressionofinexplicablebeauty. of whatVictoriaandLobo–allmusiciansartists of extraordinaryquality. Theresultisavividmanifestation dedication, passionandprecisionarematchedbymusic wonder andtimelessintheirmeaning.Theirenergy, masterpieces asworksofartwhollymysteriousintheir historical circumstance,thatwhichmarksouttrue the beautyandpowerhiddenbelowsurfaceof Tenebrae’s performanceofthismusicseekstoexpress emotions andunderstandingsofourartisticancestors? validity thatwemustseektovicariouslyexperiencethe does ourownaweandwonderatthismusiclacksuch affects usmore,ismorepowerful,‘better’art?Crucially, about thecreationofVictoria’smusicthanLobo’smeanit more beautifulorpowerful?Doesthefactweknow understanding oftheworld,wouldwethinkmusicwas have theirrelationships,livelives,experience with thenunsinMadrid1603,understandwhatitfeltto www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk © GregSkidmore with the

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© Sim Cannetty-Clarke Vocal Ensemble. Leipzig’s MDRRundfunkchorandtheDanishNational Singers, conducting appearancesincludetheBBC of programming”(FinancialTimes). Recentguest SymphonyOrchestradescribedas a“masterstroke BBC music byBernstein,StravinskyandZemlinskywiththe Chamber OrchestraofEuropeandanewrelease Nigel Short St NicolasChurchNewburyFriday 17thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 Tenebrae choir’s websiteatwww.tenebrae-choir.com abroad. To findoutmoreaboutTenebrae, pleasevisitthe London, aswellconcertsthroughouttheUKand popular HolyWeek Festival atStJohn’sSmithSquare, The 2018-19seasonseesthereturnofTenebrae’s include Mozart’sRequiem the CityofLondonFestival. Otherorchestralrecordings conducted theorchestraatSt.Paul’s Cathedralaspartof the GramophoneAwards (2013),andsincethenhehas recording ofFauré’s Requiem,whichwasnominatedfor Symphony OrchestraalongsideTenebrae inalive the ScottishEnsemble.HehasdirectedLondon Age ofEnlightenment,RoyalPhilharmonicOrchestraand Orchestra, LondonSymphonyOrchestraofthe Orchestra, EnglishConcert,LondonPhilharmonic Chamber OrchestraofEurope,English SymphonyOrchestra, Music, AuroraOrchestra,BBC To date,NigelhasconductedtheAcademyofAncient the world’sfinestvocalensembles. instrumentalists andnowenjoysareputationasoneof collaborated withinternationallyacclaimedorchestrasand and precision.Underhisdirection,Tenebrae has a virtuosicchoirthatembracedhisdedicationforpassion 1994–2000. UponleavingthegroupheformedTenebrae, and The King’sSingersfrom renowned vocalensemble Nigel wasamemberofthe A singerofgreatacclaim, world. ensembles acrossthe leading orchestrasand performance workwith recording andlive enviable reputationforhis Nigel Shorthasbuiltupan Award-winning conductor Ave Verum Corpuswiththe King’s Singers. including Alamire,ExCathedra,GallicantusandThe UK’s leadingprofessionalchoirsandvocalensembles award-winning producer, Nigelworkswithmanyofthe the BritishIsles,MusicofSpheres.AsaGramophone Performance’ forTenebrae’s albumofpartssongsfrom Grammy nominationinthecategoryof‘BestChoral Live, SignumandWarner Classics.In2018,hereceiveda Classics, DeutscheGrammophon,EMILSO many oftheworld’smajorlabelsincludingDecca Nigel hasvastrecordingexperiencehavingconductedfor late changeofvenueforthisconcert. St NicolasChurchforaccommodatingthe wishestothankallat The Festival 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page75 confidence. communications skillsaswell asbuildingtheir helping thechildrentodevelop theirteam-workingand prestigious venuesacrossthecountyandbeyond– Our choirs,orchestrasandensemblesperformat music. sing, playinstrumentsandenhancetheirlife-skillsthrough music centres,weofferchildrenofallagesthechanceto opportunity toplayaninstrument.Throughourlocal county toallowallchildrenaccessmusicandthe circumstance. We workclosely with schoolsacrossthe across Berkshire,regardlessofability, background or offering musicaleducationopportunitiestochildren Berkshire Maestrosisalong-established,localcharity or circumstance. singing orinstrumentallessonsregardlessofbackground more childreninWest Berkshirearegivenaccessto worked inpartnershipwithGreenhamTrust toensure During thattime,musiccharityBerkshireMaestroshas Bursary overthepastfiveyears. area whohavebenefitedfromtheGreenhamTrust Music A concerttocelebratetheworkofyoungmusiciansin Corn ExchangeNewburySaturday18thMay11.00am Sponsored byGreenhamTrust Megan Purcell Imogen Hillyer Takuma Burton Cole Bowers James Weeks Isaac Giaever-Enger Greenham Trust MusicBursaryCelebrationConcert ‘cello flute oboe oboe oboe tuba Paganini Strings Appleby Woodwind Buzzin’ Brass otherwise, notbeabletostudymusic.’ lessons tomanychildrenandyoungpeoplewhowould, may notqualifyforotherhelp.Thisenablesustooffer to groupsorindividualsfrommiddle-incomefamilieswho £50 perterm(subjecttoavailablefunds)maybeoffered thehelpofGreenhamTrust,With abursaryfundof continuing toofferhigh-qualitymusiceducationforall. We seektokeepourfeesaslowpossiblewhile Caversham. in Bracknell,Newbury, andWokingham Windsor and Headquartered inReading,theorganisationhascentres DirectedbySara-JaneWallbridge DirectedbyVickiStapletonand DirectedbyHelenRawstronand Victoria Benjamin Deborah Lock and JohnDeane www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk

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Festival Evensong St Mary’s Church Speen Saturday 18th May 3.30pm

Newbury Spring Festival Chorus Tom Primrose chorus master Clucas Preces and Responses Steve Bowey organ Stanford Psalm 150 – O Praise God in His Holiness

Stanford Magnificat and Nunc Dimitis in B flat

Stanford Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem

Hymn Alleluya Alleluya Hearts to heaven and voices raise Continuing the successful reintroduction of the Festival Evensong the Newbury Spring Festival Chorus, under the direction of its new chorus master Tom Primrose will be singing a traditional Evensong service at St. Mary’s Church, Speen.

Newbury Spring Festival Chorus with many illustrious soloists including Susan Bullock, Christine Brewer, Elizabeth Watts, Jonathan Lemalu, Mark Padmore and Toby Spence. In 2003 the Festival Chorus was privileged to perform the world premiere of Geoffrey Burgon’s Alleluia Psallat which was commissioned for the 25th Anniversary Festival, and performed in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen.

Tom Primrose Tom Primrose is a British conductor, accompanist and coach based in London. He is mainly

Sat 18th Sat known for his work in the field of vocal music, working with opera, song and choral repertoire.

He studied at Worcester College Oxford with Robert Saxton and the Royal Academy of Music with Michael Dussek and Malcolm Martineau, during which time he won a number of prizes for piano accompaniment.

He has strong connections with Norfolk where he co- Newbury Spring Festival Chorus was established by Mark directs Southrepps Music Festival, conducts the Eynon in his first year as Festival Director in 1999, and Symphony Chorus and Chamber Choir at the University attracts singers from all walks of life with a shared love of of East Anglia, and was formerly Assistant Organist and music who audition each year as part of the Festival’s Director of the Girls’ Choir at Norwich Cathedral. continually expanding community programme. This year we are delighted to welcome a new Chorus Master, Tom is on the music staff at Grange Festival Opera in Benjamin Cunningham. Hampshire, where he has worked as chorus-master and assistant conductor, as well as a repetiteur. He has also Since its conception the Festival Chorus has performed worked as a freelance for ENO, Polish National Opera, under the direction of a number of distinguished Korean National Opera, Opera South, and a number of conductors, including Richard Hickox, David Parry, Paul other companies. He is also Director of Music at St John’s Daniel, John Lubbock, Alexander Lazarev and Jane Notting Hill and Assistant Director of Music at St Luke’s Glover with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the City of Chelsea. London Sinfonia and English Chamber Orchestra, and

76 box office 0845 5218 218 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page77 Steve Bowey choirs havebeenbroadcastintheUKandabroad. pianist, particularlyinItalyandScandinavia,his He hasalsotouredwidelybothasaconductorand abroad. regularly onradioandtelevisionbothintheUK Edward Ballard,amongmanyothers.Hehasfeatured Bloxham, BrianO’Kane,BenBaker, EmilyGarland, Adam Temple-Smith, Eloisa-FleurThom,Jonathan Dowling, BozidarSmiljanic,HenryNeill,Timothy Morgan, Camarena, ClarePresland,JennyStafford,Richard Sarah-JaneDavies,Javier Chance, CorrineWinters, her 2014Ferrier win),JonathanMcGovern,Michael Mary Bevan,ChristinaGansch(whomheaccompaniedto his generationincludingBenJohnson,SusannaHurrell, with manyoftheleadingsingersandinstrumentalists Royal AlbertHallamongstothers.Hehascollaborated Hall,SageGatesheadandthe halls includingWigmore Tom hasperformedinmanyoftheUK’sprincipalconcert St Mary’sChurchSpeenSaturday18thMay3.30pm Festival Evensong choirs inNewburyandthesurrounding area. The CeciliaConsortandalso enjoysworkingmanyother the regularaccompanistforNewbury ChoralSocietyand and regularlygivessoloorganrecitals.Steveiscurrently Mary’s Shaw-cum-Donnington,organistatCheamSchool piano, andmusictheory. HeisDirectorofMusic atSt current musicalcommitmentsincludeteachingorgan, the Fellowship Diploma(FRCO) in January2011.His Samuel Bakerprizes.Afterfurtherstudy, hewas awarded prize forperformance,aswelltheSowerbuttsand Associate (ARCO)forwhichhewasawardedtheLimpus in Julythefollowingyeartookexaminationfor In 2006StevejoinedtheRoyalCollegeofOrganistsand choirs andWorcester CollegeOxford. Southern CathedralSingers,BerkshireMaestrosyouth Douai ChoralSociety, theDownlandChorale,RSCM regularly workedwithotherlocalchoirs,includingthe Music atStMary’sChurch,Shaw-cum-Donningtonand their MusicalDirector. From 1992,hewas Directorof accompanist oftheCromwellSingersandlaterbecame Steve wasappointed for Vodafone. In1991 moved toNewburywork Salford Universityhe engineering degreefrom After gainingan Coulsdon. Andrew’s churchesin at StFrancis andSt playing theorganregularly piano fromanearlyage, Steve studiedorganand www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk

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Russian Philharmonic Orchestra of Novosibirsk St Nicolas Church Newbury Saturday 18th May 7.30pm

Russian Philharmonic Orchestra of Novosibirsk Thomas Sanderling conductor Shostakovich Festive Overture, Op. 96 Mikhail Kazakevich piano Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

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Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 Pathetique, Op. 74

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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) recently taken Liszt’s great piano and orchestra variations Festive Overture, Opus 96 on the Dies Irae, the Todtentanz, into his own concert repertory. And a further link might perhaps have been In addition to his string quartets, symphonies and Paganini’s reputation for being possessed of daemonic concertos, Shostakovich also composed music in many powers. other genres, including ‘occasional’ pieces inspired by various formal anniversaries, which were usually related There is a brief introduction before the Paganini theme is to the October Revolution. heard as a mere suggestion, but this is enough to promote the first two of the variations, in between which For example, the Festival Overture was written in 1954 for the theme is played in full. There are twenty-four the thirty-seventh anniversary of the Revolution. It made variations in all, and solo cadenzas are used in order to an immediate impression and won the composer the project significant turning points. In variation seven, for award of ‘People’s Artist of the USSR’. instance, the piano develops the possibilities of the Dies Irae theme, while in the celebrated eighteenth variation an The tone of the overture is suitably celebratory, and extended cantilena for the piano, taken from inverting a Shostakovich claimed that his model was the Ruslan and figure from within the original Paganini theme, is then Ludmilla Overture of Glinka. The imposing fanfares of the developed with full orchestra in gloriously rich lyricism. introduction give way to the lively and distinctively

Sat 18th rhythmic music of the first theme, while for contrast there The final stages are particularly striking: the Dies Irae is a second subject whose flowing line offers the perfect returns in brass and strings, contrasted against the foil. In due course the fanfares return, generating the intervals and rhythms of the theme in piano and hectic excitement of the coda. © Terry Barfoot woodwind. Despite expectations of the full forces building to an emphatic triumph, it is the soloist who has the last word, presenting the merest fragment of the theme with SERGEI RACHMANINOV (1873-1943) marvellous Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Opus 43 The first performance of the Rhapsody on a Theme of understatement. This gesture of sardonic humour typifies Paganini took place at Baltimore on 7th November 1934, the remarkably imaginative approach Rachmaninov with Rachmaninov himself as the soloist and Leopold brought to the whole composition. Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. There © Terry Barfoot is no finer example of the composer’s art among his later works than this set of variations for piano and orchestra. PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (1840-1893) The music was designed of course as a showpiece for Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Opus 74, Pathétique Rachmaninov himself to perform. 1. Adagio - Allegro non troppo The choice of theme, from Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 for 2. Allegro con grazia solo violin, is hardly original. It has inspired countless 3. Allegro molto vivace composers, including for example Liszt and Brahms of an 4. Finale: Adagio lamentoso earlier generation, and Boris Blacher and Witold Lutoslawski of a later, and its suitability for variation Tchaikovsky conducted the first performance of his treatment is beyond doubt. In fact Rachmaninov deploys Symphony No. 6 at St. Petersburg on 28th October 1893. two themes, the other being the medieval plainchant Eight days later he was dead. The cause was officially hymn known as the Dies Irae, which was a frequent recorded as cholera, though many believe that he took source of inspiration for him. He probably chose to his own life. include it in his Paganini Rhapsody because he had

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During his last year Tchaikovsky was obsessed with death. The Allegro molto vivace third movement is a brilliant This was, however, a mood wholly in keeping with his march. The first half of the movement builds in excitement normal outlook, since he had regularly composed works in through brilliant triplets for strings and woodwind, tossed which Fate played a central part. Indeed, this was the between the sections of the orchestra. Tchaikovsky only driving force behind his last three symphonies. In the permits fragments of the theme in these early stages and Fourth and Fifth the result in each case was a somewhat there are downward scales too, a frequent device in this forced triumph, but in the Sixth it was submission. During work. Then a rising scale on the clarinet heralds the full the composition of the symphony, Tchaikovsky wrote that statement of the theme, a moment that has been keenly the work would be full of subjective feeling, so much so anticipated. However, agitated violins disturb its that I frequently shed tears. There will be numerous confidence as the march proceeds. Even the majestic innovations from the formal point of view: the finale, for climax, replete with cymbals and trumpet fanfares, results instance, is not to be a noisy Allegro but a long Adagio. only in hysterical excitement and an abrupt ending.

The unusual formal design, with the slow movement The opening of the finale is a passionate expression of placed last, is the crucial feature. The composer told his desperate emotion, the music deriving from the brother Modest that he sought ‘to exorcise and drive out descending scale that has pervaded the symphony. The the sombre demons that have so long plagued me’. But central section moves at a slightly faster Andante tempo the celebrated title was virtually an afterthought. At first and at first its melody is more gentle, once again using on the work was merely called Programme-Symphony, and a descending scale. But with a tremendous effort the though Modest’s first suggestion, Tragic, was rejected, his music builds to a huge climax which is overthrown by next, Pathétique, was accepted readily enough. In rushing scales and silence. The first theme returns, tenser translation the English ‘Pathetic’ seems uncomfortable, than ever, and the mood becomes yet more despairing and this is why the French title is to be preferred, with trombones and tuba adding to the gloom. The coda conveying a meaning closer to pathos and suffering. employs the Andante theme, but now the mood is increasingly desolate, as the music dies away against the The first movement has a dark introduction, as from the dark throbbing pulse of the double basses. depths the bassoons present the theme which will pervade the movement. The introduction falls back to After completing the Sixth Symphony, Tchaikovsky wrote: silence, and the Allegro non troppo begins with music I can tell you in all sincerity that I consider this Symphony which derives from it, now tautly rhythmic. The textures the best thing I have ever done. In any case, it is the most Sat 18th are far more complex, but the intensity subsides to allow deeply felt. And I love it as I have never loved any of my the emergence of the second subject. This rightly famous compositions. tune is played at tempo Andante, and its mood maintains © Terry Barfoot the passionate mood with slight changes of pulse every Russian Philharmonic Orchestra of few bars. When this tune eventually dies away, Novosibirsk Tchaikovsky makes his point with the direction PPPPPP. Immediately the development begins with a shattering The Russian Philharmonic (of Novosibirsk), known in tutti chord, the complete antithesis. The music is now Russia as the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, was frenetic in the extreme, with whirling fugal textures derived founded in 1956 by Arnold Kats who remained with the from the first subject. A slight relaxation in dynamics Orchestra for more than half a century. Under his brings a new theme based on a Russian Orthodox chant, leadership, the Orchestra enjoyed great success and but the intense activity returns. The development reaches acclaim as one of the leading Orchestras in Russia. a tremendous climax with a falling motif, on the Chant for the Dead, pounded forth by the brass. The return of the In 2007 Gintaras Rinkevicius became Principal Conductor second subject in recapitulation brings some solace, and Artistic Director of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic before this subsides to silence. Finally the brief coda Orchestra until Thomas Sanderling succeeded him in features a solemn brass chorale above a downward 2017. The Orchestra’s current Principal Guest Conductor pizzicato tread. is Fabio Mastrangelo.

The second movement, Allegro con grazia, brings some The Orchestra has performed in many prestigious venues relaxation. The theme is immediately played by the cellos and a great number of festivals since its inception. Its with a pizzicato accompaniment, and the woodwinds repertoire covers a wide spectrum of music genres, from share its continuation with the strings. The unusual pulse Bach scores to the contemporary compositions of the - 5/4 time - gives this melody a sense of unease, and the twenty-first century. mood becomes sorrowful in the central section, whose dark theme and throbbing pulse recall the work’s The Novosibirsk Philharmonic has performed extensively introduction. The initial theme returns, until once again across the territories of the former USSR, in Moscow and the ending is subdued. also enjoys a particularly special relationship with

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St. Petersburg, where the Orchestra has opened the Thomas Sanderling symphonic concert season there many times as well as Russian-born conductor participating in the subscription concerts. The Orchestra Thomas Sanderling is first toured internationally in 1970 and has since closely associated with the performed and has performed extensively across Europe music of Dmitry and Asia. Shostakovich. He has conducted a mixture of The Orchestra has been fortunate to work with many of orchestras worldwide, the most esteemed conductors including Valery Gergiev, generally to critical Charles Dutoit, Alexander Lazarev, Kent Nagano, acclaim, and made a Gennady Rozhdestvenskiy and Maris Jansons to name number of successful but a few. Soloists who have collaborated with the recordings. He has Orchestra in the past include Emil Gilels, David Oystrakh, developed an equally Sviatoslav Rikhter, Mstislav Rostropovich and more respected reputation in recently Yuri Bashmet, Natalia Gutman, Nikolai Luganskiy, opera, particularly for performances in the most important Mischa Mayskiy, Mikhail Pletnev, Dmitri Kvorostovskiy, operatic centres in Germany, Austria and Scandinavia. along with the next generation of performers, Boris Despite his identity with Shostakovich, his repertory is Andrianov, Veronika Dzhioeva, Denis Matsuev and Maxim broad, encompassing Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Rysanov. Wagner, and Dvorak, as well as moderns like Karl Weigl and Americans Menotti, Barber, and Tobias Picker. In its early years, the Orchestra recorded with the All- Union company called Melody. However, since 1995 the Sanderling was born in Leningrad on October 2, 1942. Orchestra has made 14 CDs with Sony Classical, Russian His father, conductor Kurt Sanderling, was forced to flee Season, Diamond lassic, Audite and Naxos. The Germany in 1936. Young Thomas studied first at the recordings for Audite and Naxos were prepared by the Leningrad Conservatory, then at the Hochschule für Musik Peter Kondrachin Studio. As resident orchestra of The in East Berlin. His first important post came at 24, when Sat 18th Sat Trans-Siberian Art Festival, this has become a significant he was appointed director of the Halle Opera. Throughout event in the Orchestra’s calendar. The Festival’s Artistic his early career, he centred his activity mostly in East Director is Vadim Repin. Berlin, often leading orchestras in Dresden and Leipzig.

In the 1970s he developed a friendship with the declining Shostakovich, who presented Sanderling with scores to his Thirteenth and Fourteenth symphonies. Sanderling later led the German premieres of those controversial works.

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As a consultant he worked on two major opera patronage of Diana Princess of Wales he ran for three festival of opera and musical theatre, which under the Director Covent of the firstGarden BOC Festival, a new of the Royal Opera House, and in 1993 he became when he was appointed Assistant to the General Director Mark’s association with Covent Garden began in 1989 mark Britain’s presidency of the EC. of the European Arts Festival, a national celebration to elements, and in 1992 he was appointed Artistic Associate establishing a cycle of annual festivals based on the four Salisbury Festival in 1987, He became Director of he ran for nine seasons. first Henley Festival, which was invited to create the began in 1983 when he association with festivals opera productions, his as an assistant on various English, and after working 1978 with a degree in Cambridge University in Mark graduated from Mikhail Kazakevich Brighton Festival and the Newbury Spring Festival, 1 television.Radio 3 and He BBC regularly performs at the Centre, and has made many live broadcasts for BBC Hall, StWigmore John’s Smith Square, the South Bank he has given numerousIn the UK, recitals at London’s Switzerland, Denmark, South Korea and the Middle East. venues and festivals in Austria, Germany, France, Russia, Mikhail has played solo and with orchestras at prestigious Rachmaninov, SchubertandSchumann. Berg, Chopin,Mahler(Kazakevich’sownarrangements), English ChamberOrchestraunderSirCharlesMackerras), versions oftheSecondandFourth concertoswiththe (the worldpremiererecordingofthecomposer’sfinal wide acclaimedrecordingsofmusicbyBach,Beethoven BMG/Conifer recordinglabel,forwhichhehasmadeworld- soon afterwardswassignedexclusivelybythe Hall(London)and 1993 hemadehisdebutatWigmore (France) fortheperformanceof20th-centurymusic.In Society (Germany)andaSpecialPrizefromSACEM where hereceivedaSpecialAward fromtheSchubert also gavenumeroussolorecitalsinGermanyandFrance, concerts withtheDortmundPhilharmonicorchestra,and (Germany), Mikhailwasengagedinplayingseveral International SchubertCompetitioninDortmund As aresultofhissensationalperformanceatthe burgeoning performing career led him to the West. conservatoire and taught there until 1992 when his Symphony and London Symphony Orchestras. Library, Barbican Centre, with Philharmonia, BBC Opera House, Royal Festival Hall, Kings Place, British London’s leading arts organisations including the Royal Wagner’s bi-centenary in association with some of the London-wide festival, Wagner 200, which celebrated Competition in 2009. In 2013 he was also Co-Director of and established the associated Sheepdrove Piano Mark became Director of Newbury Spring Festival in 1999 1997–2002 andwaspartofthenationalMillenniumFestival. healing powersofmusic,whichtookplaceinBrightonfrom festival, HealingSounds,aninternationalcelebrationofthe and psychologicaleffectsofmusic,Markfoundedanew professorial staff at the honours, Mikhail joined the graduating with the highest Immediately after Alexander Goldenweiser. legendary professor was a pupil of the teacher Isaak Katz, who famous Soviet pianist and Conservatoire with the Nizhny Novgorod’s State Kazakevich studied at Russian pianist Mikhail 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page87 Sheepdrove EcoCentreLambournSunday19thMay3.00pm Lucy Parham Presidential ExecutiveOfficeofthePresidentRussia. at theMoscowKremlinonspecialinvitationby Chamber OrchestraofEuropeandperformedasolorecital appeared atLondon’sStJohn’sSmithSquarewiththe Philharmonic OrchestraunderVladimirSpivakov. Healso under MosheAtzmonandtheRussianNational Mozart’s concertoswiththeChamberOrchestraofEurope made returntourstoDenmarkandRussia,playing at thefamousStGeorge’s,Bristol.LastseasonMikhail of Bach’s Amongst recentprojectswasaperformanceandrecording Rachmaninov. and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, playing including with the St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Sheepdrove PianoCompetitionFinal the major British orchestras and is a frequent recitalist at played throughout the UK as concerto soloist with most of Festival Hall concerto debut at the age of 16, she has Youngthe 1984 BBC Musician of the Year. Since her Royal Lucy first came to public attention as theof Piano Winner Music Magazine Schumann CO/Sanctuary) Concertos (BBC won the BBC Schumann CD (ASV). Her CD of Clara and Robert by Ravel, Fauré and Franck (RPO records) and a solo Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (RPO/EMI Gold), concertos Lucy has made numerous CD recordings including Clara Goodman) was released in May 2018. Her latest show, have all released to critical acclaim. Elégie Goodman/Juliet Stevenson) and Rêverie (Samuel West/Harriet Walter) Odyssey of Love (Henry Rachmaninoff, A Heart in Exile. The CDs of Nocturne Henry Goodman. This was followed by Elégie– premiered Hall at the London Wigmore Piano Series with Rêverie – the Life and Loves of Claude Debussy was Series Hall. at the Her Wigmore fourth programme, Frédéric Chopin - An Odyssey of Love and was released to critical acclaim. Two further evenings, evening, inspired the original concept of the words and music is touring in 2019. Beloved Clara. The CD of Beloved Clara (ASV) 48 PreludesandFugues also premiered in the London Piano Critics’ Choice of the Year . Nocturne - The Romantic Life of music of Schumann Her life-long passion for the Liszt and Debussy. Chopin, Rachmaninoff, composers as Schumann, in words and music of such recitals, but also to portraits not only to concertos and sensitivity and imagination Lucy Parham applies her Britain’s finest pianists, Acknowledged as one of ( Well Tempered Klavier) (Alex Jennings) (Henry Liszt I, John Thwaites Festivals, the major London concert halls, and on various appeared in the major British and many International performance practice) and British Chamber Music. He in the chamber music, and historically informed His research focus is on Brahms (symbolism and allusion Bostridge, Toby Spence and Louise Winter. performed with Michael Collins, Thomas Riebl, Ian Tony Britton and Tim Piggott-Smith, and he has also collaborations have included work with Simon Callow, Schidlof, Emperor and Aurea String Quartets. Theatrical Chamberwas also Music a BBC Choice of the Month), Lyapunov Piano Sextet in B flat minor for the Dutton label with the Martinu, Maggini, Dante (their recording of the MusicMonth Magazine. for BBC He has played quintets label include a Five Star Chamber Music Choice of the string of recordings with Alexander Baillie for the SOMM Ivashkin, David Cohen, Oleg Kogan, Li Wei and others. A Doumenge, Louise Hopkins, Natalie Clein, Alexander and Johannes Goritzki, and appeared with Pierre He has worked over decades with cellists Alexander Baillie Festival at West Meon. Magazine of Bridge and Howells. They have an annual Meridian, including a Five Star Choice for Classic FM have recorded the earlier twentieth century repertoire for Composer) Portraits took place at St Johns Smith Square. 2017/18 her second Sheaffer Matinée series (all 5 of her series of Kings Place Coffee Concerts (Word/Play) and in 200 Festival at King’s Place in 2010. She presented four Festival at Cadogan Hall and the Director of Schumann to be the Director of the 2006 Schumann Anniversary Radio TV.guest 3 and 4 onand BBC BBC She was invited She also appears frequently as a broadcast presenter and National de Lille. Philharmonic, Polish National Radio SO and L’Orchestre State Symphony, Sofia Philharmonic, Bergen performances. Abroad, she has toured with the Russian Orchestra with whom she has now given over 60 as Mexico and Turkey with The Royal Philharmonic Concert OrchestraBBC on their 50th anniversary, as well Hall. Shethe has Wigmore also toured the USA with the www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk and John Casken, and Sally Beamish, Steve Goss Davies, Anthony Payne, work by Sir Peter Maxwell recorded important new commissioned and Primrose have Piano Quartet. The member of the Primrose strings and as a founder collaborative work with best known for his Professor John Thwaites is

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David pioneered the concept of multi-disciplinary festivals and the Three Choirs Festival. Festival Hall, Bedford, Leicester, Canterbury, Basingstoke centre of which are orchestral residencies at the Royal unique position at the heart of British musical life, at the Under his leadership the Philharmonia has enjoyed a numerous recordings, many of which received awards. than 4600 concerts across five continents, as well as world. In the course of 29 years, David presented more most vibrant and extensive orchestral programmes in the Temirkanov, Herbert Blomstedt, he created one of the Daniele Gatti, Andris Nelsons, Paavo Jarvi, Yuri Sanderling, Valery Gergiev, James Levine, Charles Dutoit, Salonen, Sir Charles Mackerras, Vladimir Askenazy, Kurt and Gloriana). In 1994 Nikolaus Harnoncourt Pilgrim’s Progress Walton) and William Related Rocks, featuring the music of Magnus von Dohnanyi , Esa-Pekka Lorin Maazel, Christoph including Riccardo Muti, world’s greatest conductors 2016. Working with the role he held until October Philharmonia Orchestra, a Director of the appointed Managing In November 1987 he was as a pianist and organist. David Whelton was trained Birthday Honours List. Music. David was awarded the OBE in the 2015 Queen’s Music and an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Academy of David is an Honorary Member of The Royal College of Music. appointed a Member of Council of The Royal College of of the Three Choirs Festival Association. He was recently of the Klosters Music Festival, Switzerland, and a Director Special Award in 2016. David is currently Artistic Director given the first ever Association of British Orchestras member of the Otto Klemperer Film Foundation. He was Foundation, Hon Member Philharmonia Orchestra and a Concert Hall Trust, the Philharmonia Trust and US Foundation, The Garrick Trust, Anvil Arts, Wimbledon Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove; Trustee of the Hattori Farnham Youth Choir; a Director of the International Fund; Patron, Performers Together; Hon President, Chairman of the Philharmonia in Bedford Endowment David is Chairman of the Mayfield Valley Arts Trust; VR Residency at the Royal Festival Hall, London. to reach new audiences culminating in a ground-breaking Philharmonia was the first orchestra to use Virtual Reality accolades in Asia and North America. In 2016 the App of the Year by The Daily Telegraph and receiving launched aground-breaking app, The Orchestra, voted in association with Touch Press and Music Sales, attracted nearly 70,000 visitors. In 2012 the Philharmonia, Planets China, and the Universe of Sound, based on Holst’s The Stravinsky’s examples include RE-RITE: be the orchestra, based on new audiences through digital installations. Recent David pioneered the use of digital technology to reach Strauss operas. the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, where it gave a cycle of Throughout the 1990s the Philharmonia was resident at maintained a busy touring programme across the world. Under David’s stewardship the Philharmonia has the current Artistic Director, Unsuk Chin. 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Come andmeetPeter, hisgrandfather, thehunters,villainouswolfandawholezooofanimals-allbroughttolife the mostdangerousanimalofthemall... lion, donkey, andelephant,aswellfossils,anaquarium,aviary-Saint-Saëns’ littlejoke-pianists,possibly The themecontinueswithSaint-Saëns’ charmingportrayalofdifferentanimalsineachthemovementsincludinga in thestoryrepresentedbyadifferentinstrumentandsound,itisperfectintroductiontoorchestra. andtheWolfisanenduringmusicalstorybasedonoriginalnarrationbycomposer.Peter eachcharacter With andtheWolf children –namelyProkofiev’scolourfulPeter This delightfulconcert,suitableforallthefamily, willbringyoungpeopleface-to-facewithtwoofthegreatestworksfor Thomas Carroll Orpheus Sinfonia Corn ExchangeNewburySunday19thMay3.00pm Carnival oftheAnimals&Peter andtheWolf The Swan,intoa‘grandzoologicalfantasy’, a The Swanwaspublishedseparately, Saint- conductor and Saint-Saëns’ atmosphericCarnivaloftheAnimals. opposite extreme. the SylphsinBerlioz’sTheDamnation ofFaust toits Now theparodytakeswaltz tunefromtheDanceof 5. and galopfromOffenbach’sOrpheusintheUnderworld. The tortoisescrawlalong,withadaptationsofthecan-can 4. the strangeharmoniccombinations. Peter andtheWolf Peter Prokofiev Interval CarnivalfortheAnimals Saint-Saëns asses, ‘animauxvéloces’whosewildnessisreflectedin The French titleis‘hémiones’, referringtoAsiaticwild 3. This isawittyfarmyardscene. 2. personality. In ‘pride’ofplace,thelionroarsforthwithhispowerful 1. progressions hasnounderstandingofart.’ lines, harmoniouscoloursandbeautifulharmonic different. Acomposerwhoisnotfullysatisfiedbyelegant seduce theamateuraboveall;butfortrueartistitis revealing: ‘For me,artisform.Expressionandpassion is more,heleftanartisticcredowhichparticularly towards eithermodernismoremotionalturbulence.What direction ofelegance,witandsophisticationratherthan which hewasideallysuited.Hisgeniusleanedinthe after hisdeath.Yet thenatureofprojectseemsoneto Carnival oftheAnimalswasonlypublishedin1922,ayear in privateperformances,andasaresultthecomplete The Elephant Tortoises Wild Asses Wild Hens andCocks Introduction and Royal MarchoftheLion www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk

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6. Kangaroos In Peter and the Wolf Prokofiev composed the most The two pianos alternate in their phrasing, to the successful of all attempts to introduce young people to instruction ‘marsupially’. music. As such it represents a particularly significant example of how much store he placed upon proving 7. Aquarium himself an artist whose music could be of value to the This is a more extended watery scene, developing a community. beautiful melodic line. Prokofiev provided his own introduction: 8. Personages with Long Ears “Each character in this story is represented by a The first and second violin groupings represent the corresponding instrument in the orchestra: the bird by a donkeys, while indulging in a braying contest. flute, the duck by an oboe, the cat by a clarinet in a low register, the wolf by three horns, Peter by the string 9. The Cuckoo in the Depths of the Wood quartet, the shooting of the hunters by the timpani and Offstage effects were a popular feature of French opera, the bass drum. So now that you have heard the different so the cuckoo is positioned in the corridor beyond the instruments, you will be able to recognise each one of the concert room. characters in the music.”

10. Aviary Peter and the Wolf was given its first performance on the The aviary has a real lightness of touch, replete with stage of the Moscow Central Children’s Theatre on 2nd Mendelssohnian delicacy. May 1936. It was conducted and narrated by Natalia Satz, who had commissioned it. 11. Pianists © Terry Barfoot Although pianists are not animals found in captivity, Saint- Saëns believed it was ‘never too late to start’. Orpheus Sinfonia

12. Fossils Orpheus Sinfonia is one of London’s most vibrant, This relates to the composer’s own Danse macabre; but dynamic and inspiring of young orchestras. Founded in other tunes are quoted too, including a famous example 2009, it attracts the best music conservatoire graduates from Rossini’s Barber of Seville. under the artistic direction of international cellist and conductor Thomas Carroll, forming an elite group of 13. The Swan performers excelling in artistic distinction. This is one of Saint-Saëns’s best loved compositions, with a melody that is both direct and memorable. Its broad spectrum of performance and repertoire has included symphonic cycles, world premieres, operas, Sun 19th 14. Finale collaborations with Dame Felicity Lott, Tasmin Little, Jack Using quotations from the previous movements, the finale Liebeck and Heinrich Schiff, as well as performances at skilfully builds to a veritable apotheosis. music festivals including Windsor, Wimbledon, Brighton, © Terry Barfoot Barnes, Lincoln and Cambridge.

SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Resident at St George’s Hanover Square, the orchestra Peter and the Wolf: a tale for children with also gives concerts at the Royal Festival Hall, Queen narrator and orchestra, Opus 67 Elizabeth Hall, Cadogan Hall and Windsor Castle. In 1918, following the Revolution, Prokofiev left Russia, Acclaimed for the excitement and enthusiasm of its music- arriving in the United States after a difficult journey via the making, its reputation is growing fast thanks, in part, to the Trans-Siberian Railway and Jalany. He developed a new generous support of many established musicians. It has career in the West, making his home in Paris, where he featured on BBC Radio 3 and BBC World Service and has worked closely with the Russian emigré conductor Sergei released its debut CD on Signum Classics. Koussevitzky. Orpheus has continued to develop its “Beneath The Prokofiev yearned for his homeland, however, and he Score” series, which explores the character and influences returned to Russia in 1933. His rehabilitation brought a of selected composers. Orpheus Principals concerts, in distinct change of emphasis in his musical style, which which section principals perform often rarely-heard large- can broadly be summarised as moving towards romantic scale chamber works, are also now a regular feature of expressiveness and away from rhythmic astringency. This our Seasons. may have been a natural progression, but it seems hard to resist the temptation to link it to the Stalinist philosophy of Socialist Realism which prevailed in Russia at that time.

90 box office 0845 5218 218 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page91 and theLincolnCenter, NewYork. London, Konzerthaus inVienna,HerkulessaalMunich Rundfunk, invenuessuchastheRoyalAlbertHall Orchestra, ViennaChamberandtheBayerische orchestras abroadincludingtheMelbourneSymphony NationalOrchestraofWales,and BBC andwith Philharmonic, theLondonPhilharmonia including theLondonSymphonyOrchestra,Royal As aconcertosoloist,hehasperformedwithorchestras concert halls. conductinginmost ofthecountry’smajor tour oftheUK, on SignumClassics.Hehasalsorecentlycompleteda 13 andrecordedtheOrchestra’sfirstCD, nowavailable he performedalltheBeethovensymphoniesduring2012- made ArtisticDirectoroftheOrpheusSinfonia,withwhom Beethoven ChamberOrchestraand,inApril2012,was from theLondonorchestras,hefounded well asmanyorchestrasabroad.Together withprincipals Thomas Carroll alongside regularperformancesinLondon. andCambridgeFestivalsLucretia, andreturnstoWindsor Theatre’s GrimebornOperaFestival withBritten’sRapeof at Iford,CheltenhamandStoweOpera,opentheArcola centenary productionofBernstein’sCandidewithdebuts orchestra workwithIfordArtsandOperaDellaLunaona Coliseum. Morerecentpartnershipshaveseenthe orchestra attheInternationalOperaAwards intheLondon Since 2017OrpheusSinfoniahasbeentheofficial Mehuhin CompetitionattheRoyalFestival Hall. violinist JojiHattoriandinthegalaconcertfor orchestra hasalsoappearedattheTemple Churchwith opera Wanton SublimeatGrimebornFestival. The Orpheus gavetheEuropeanpremiereofTarik O’Regan’s Foundation. Elizabeth Hall,alongwithinitiativestheTim Henman and withstudentsfromFukushima, JapanatQueen Outreach workhasincludedprojectswithTrinity Hospice Corn ExchangeNewburySunday19thMay3.00pm Carnival oftheAnimals&Peter andtheWolf Brighton Philharmonic,as Sinfonia, VIVA andthe such asTheNorthern conducting orchestras in 2006,hasenjoyed in theBerlinPhilharmonie since hisconductingdebut career asacellistand, distinguished andvaried Thomas Carrollenjoysa and excitingmusicianship, inspirational performances Acclaimed forhis School ofMusic. the RoyalCollegeofMusicandYehudi Menuhin both ascellistandconductor. Heisprofessorofcelloat today’s leadingcomposers,givingmanyworldpremieres, music fromBachtoBeamishandworkedcloselywith He hasrecordedextensivelyfornumerouslabels,with wish the Newbury Spring Festival 2019 Festival Spring the Newbury wish We are pleased to support this venture this We are pleased to support “Installing and servicing high pressure water systems” water pressure high servicing and “Installing to bring world class world entertainment to bring success in their continued ability and look to forward a stunning All staff at Total All staff Pressure Ltd. Total Ltd. Pressure programme events. of Total Pressure Ltd 07971 250799 to ourarea. www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk

91 Sun 19th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page92 92 Sun 19th St Mary’sChurchKintburySunday19thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 through Wagner’s RingCycletoStrauss’Elektra Numerous operas-fromMozart’s DonGiovanni connotation thatnootherinstrument couldlayclaimto. the tromboneheldauniquely religiousandsupernatural invention inthemid-18thcentury onwards,thesoundof (“classical” music)inthat,from themoderninstrument’s special placeinthehistoryofWestern ArtMusic The instrumentofthetromboneitselfholdsrathera swanky historicaleventstoitsname. however, have along-standinghistoryandsomefairly clearly arelativelyunusualandnovelconcept.Itdoes, The solotrombonequartetasanensemblegenreis iv. Allegrovivace iii. Allegrogioco ii. Adagio i. Allegroritmico Myths andLegends ERIC EWAZEN (1954) 4Four Four LYNNBRYN E. (1954) Interval Overture to WOLFGANG AMADEUSMOZART(1756-1791) Evening prayer ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK(1854-1921) (The AnnunciationofDeath Todesverküngung RICHARD WAGNER (1813-1883) Prelude tosolocellosuiteno.2inDminor JOHANN SEBASTIANBACH(1685-1750) Aequali fortrombonetrio ANTON BRUCKNER(1824-1896) Aussee Fanfare VONFREIBURG(1908-1962) RITTER GOTTFRIED 3 Equalis LUDWIG VONBEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Sponsored byMartelizeandMissWELawrence1973CharitableSettlement James Buckletrombone Joseph Arnold Emma Bassett Michael Buchanan Studio 5 The MagicFlute trombone trombone from trombone from Hänsel andGretel Die Walküre from The Valkyrie) right and seriously! chat aswego,andcanvowtonevertakeourselvestoo music outaloneinthisconcert.We willannounceand Don’t worry, youwillneverbeleftalonetofigurethe and age. the musicthatiswrittenforbrassinstrumentsinthisday influenced styleofcompositionthatcolourssomuch combination ofjazzinfusionsandthelighter, film- enjoyable andapproachableworks,theyoffera modern compositionsfortrombonequartet.Bothreadily modern dayAmericaandBritain,twoofthegreat For thesecondhalfofconcertwedartforwardto and Bruckner. some more“serious”,sacred-inspiredworksfromBach offering avarietyofoperaticarrangements,aswell so centraltothatentiremethodofcomposition.We are the soundofnumeroustrombonesplayinginharmonyis evening, westayputintheAustro-Germanschool,where much intwodifferentstyles.For thefirsthalfof The spiritofthemusicofferedinthisconcertcomesvery today isthefirstofferingonprogramme. composing threenew‘Equalis’fortheoccasion.This, procession throughViennatotheWäringCemetery, quartet astheensembleofchoicetoleadhisfuneral Perhaps thisisthereasonBeethovenchosetrombone goings ofanynumbersupernaturalrealms. Salome - usetheinstrumenttoheraldcomingsand 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page93 and young adults. also honed their craft together for many years as children easy and natural as could be expected from those who together, so too do they share a musical partnership as friendship reserved for those who grew up into the world lessons). Just as they share all the special qualities of the name of the room in which they all had their trombone jazz, and solo playing. (The group’s title, “Studio 5”, was Hutt and, together, learnt the art of orchestral, chamber, they all studied with the great trombone pedagogue Alan one of four specialist music schools in England. At Wells studied together at Wells Cathedral School in Somerset, The four musicians - aged between 25 and 28 - met and foremost trombone competition. winner in the Munich ARD Competition, the world’s League Competition, and one is 1st and audience prize Orchestra, two are prize-winners of the Royal Overseas Show, three were formerly in the Gustav Mahler Youth another is principal trombone for a leading West End principal of the Orchestra of the English National Opera, principal of the Philharmonia Orchestra, another is are all active right across the globe. Of the four, one is the Royal Opera House to the Vienna State Opera, they Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields to the Révolutionnaire et Romantique to the Saito Kinen Festival to the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre perform is comprehensive: from the Vienna Philharmonic orchestral musicians, the list of ensembles with whom they trombone players currently working in Britain today. As “Studio 5” brings together four of the most talented Studio 5 St Mary’sChurchKintburySunday19thMay7.30pm Studio 5 Michael Buchanan plays aGetzen4147trombone. Bern, Switzerland,in2016.Michael isaGetzenartistand tutelage ofIanBousfield,atthe HochschulederKünste, completed hisMastersintrombone performanceunderthe music degreefromtheUniversity ofCambridge.He 2014 hegraduatedwith1stClassHonoursinanacademic studied withtherenownedtromboneteacherAlanHutt.In wherehe School, aspecialistmusicschoolintheUK, Michael receivedhisschooleducationatWells Cathedral Award winningSaitoKinenFestival OrchestrainJapan. personally selectedmemberofSeijiOsawa’sGrammy trombone. For thelastthreeyears hehasperformedasa numerous toursandprojectsasbothfirstsecond where heperformedover30operasandunderwent Orchestras inacontractpositionforthe2016-2017season, joined theViennaPhilharmonicandStateOpera Orchestra ofScottishOperaattheage20.In2016he before beginninghiscareerasPrincipalTrombone inthe orchestral techniqueintheGustavMahlerYouth Orchestra Equally activeasanorchestralmusician,hehonedhis Musiktage, aswellforSWRradio. Bonn, theSchwarzwaldMusicFestival, theWeingartner festivals includingtheLucerneFestival, theBeethovenFest hehasperformedrecitalsat pianist KasiaWieczorek Symphony Orchestra.Together withhisduo-partnerthe the StuttgartRadioSymphonyOrchestraandBern Bayerischen Rundfunk,theMunichChamberOrchestra, orchestras suchastheSymphonieorchesterdes As aconcertosoloistMichaelhasperformedwith take placeandisscheduledforreleaseinSeptember2019. Mendelssohn Fönderpreis,resultinginaCDproductionto him tobeawardedtherenowned2019Fanny the stageinJanuary2019.Hisfirstpublicperformanceled 2018 inordertohealaphysicalissue,Michaelreturned complete career-break fromSeptember2017toDecember Orchester Berlin-inthePhilharmonie.Afterhavinga concert -togetherwiththeDeutschesSymphonie- Vorpommern inNorthernGermanyandanofficial“debut” 2017 BMW-Publikumspreis attheFestspiele Mecklenburg- launched asolocareerthatledtoaccoladessuchasthe www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk only Britishmusician.This competition andto-datethe the historyof second tromboneplayerin Competition, onlythe International Music the 2015MunichARD prize andaudienceat he wasawardedthefirst generation. Attheageof22 trombone playersofhis considered oneofthefinest Michael Buchananis

93 Sun 19th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page94 94 Sun 19th Royal OperaHouse. the RoyalPhilharmonicOrchestraandVerdi’s London PhilharmonicOrchestra,Strauss’ St Mary’sChurchKintburySunday19thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 Emma Bassett Joe Arnold Studio 5 Wagner’s Proms, Symphony withthePhilharmoniaatBBC since 2012.MemorableconcertsincludeBruckner’s7th bass tromboneoftheOrchestraEnglishNationalOpera andhasbeen Orchestras aswellseveralaroundtheUK, orchestra. HehasperformedwithallofthemajorLondon Gustav MahlerJugendorchester, apan-Europeanyouth (Royal OperaHouse),graduatingin2012afterayearthe Hughes (LondonSymphonyOrchestra)andKeith McNicol instrument thatisplayedlikea trumpet,butsoundsatthe one oftheUK’sfewspecialist basstrumpetplayers(an Everybody’s Talking AboutJamie currently afull-timebandmember fortheWest Endshow London Philharmonicandthe RoyalPhilharmonic),andis all themajorLondonorchestras (LSO, Philharmonia, As anorchestralmusicianEmmafreelancesregularlywith degree attheRoyalAcademyofMusic,London. Music andDance,beforemovingonforapostgraduate She receivedherundergraduatedegreeatTrinity Schoolof Wells CathedralSchool,whereshe studiedwithAlanHutt. in brassbands.At16shewasawardedascholarshipto Emma wasbroughtupinCornwallandhasabackground of thegenresinstrumenthastooffer. Das Rheinegold and Die Walkure Academy ofMusicwithBob bass tromboneattheRoyal of 16,andwentontostudy Great Britainfromtheage National Youth Orchestraof Bass Trombone ofthe years. HewasPrincipal Royal OperaHouse,forten former trombonistofthe trombone withAlanHutt, Somerset wherehelearnt Cathedral Schoolin Joe wasachoristeratWells she isequallyathomeinall International JazzFestival, Scott’s fortheLondon jazz appearancesatRonnie with Adele,toherregular recent touracrossEurope Symphony Orchestratoher performing withtheLondon today. From regularly on theBritishmusicscene trombone playersworking most versatileyoung Emma Bassettisoneofthe . Particularly indemandas Don Juan with the Falstaff Falstaff with at the James Buckle Assistant Professor. pedagogue IanBousfieldtowhom healsoactsas He istutoredbyworld-renowned trombonistand playing attheHochschuleder KünsteBern,inSwitzerland. on aPerformance MasterscoursewithSpecialisminSolo First ClassHonoursinJuly2015,Jamesisnowstudying Having graduatedfromtheRoyalAcademyofMusicwith Jugendorchester andtheEuropeanUnionYouth Orchestra. former memberofboththeGustavMahler several classicalandcommercialrecordings.Heisa Sweeney Todd The LionKing, London. HeregularlyplaysinWest Endmusicalsincluding Northern Sinfonia,OrchestraofEuropeandSinfonia Opera OrchestrasaswelltheLondonSinfonietta,Royal Royal OperaHouseCoventGardenandWelsh National Philharmonic Concert,Ulster, EnglishNationalOpera, Hallé, LondonSymphony, RoyalPhilharmonic& Philharmonic,BournemouthSymphony,Concert, BBC Orchestre RevolutionnaireetRomantique,Aurora,BBC principal withtheOrchestredelaSuisseRomande, Switzerland sinceitsfoundingin2015andhasbeenguest has beenamemberoftheEuropeanPhilharmonic Philharmonia OrchestraasPrincipalBassTrombone. He world premiere.InJune2018Jamesjoinedthe three contemporaryconcertoswithorchestra,includinga chamber piecesforthebasstromboneandhasperformed passionate aboutmodernmusic,commissioningsoloand Symphonic Brass,livestreamedfromtheDuke’sHall.Heis performed infrontoftheRoyalAcademyMusic’s Piccadilly; CadoganHall;NorfolkMusicFestival andhas Music. HehasbeeninvitedtoperformrecitalsinStJames’ Drummond SharpPrizeforBrassattheRoyalAcademyof Trombone SocietyBassTrombone competitionandthe Piers Lane.JameshasalsowonfirstprizeintheBritish Orchestra andWagner’s highlights include instrument’s majorrepertoirerightacrossBritain.Recent lower pitchofthetrombone)sheperformsall Orchestra. Götterdämmerung The PhantomoftheOpera,42ndStreet, and The RiteofSpring with theRoyalScottishNational Sunset Boulevard Die Walküre Nicholas Danielandpianist Jonathan Lemalu,oboist soloists includingbaritone acclaim frominternational competition, receivinggreat Over-Seas League Gold MedaloftheRoyal brass playerevertowinthe musicians. Heistheonly exciting andgiftedyoung as oneoftheUK’smost James Buckleisemerging 25-year-old basstrombonist with theHallé and and hasappearedin 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page95 Wolfgang AmadeusMozart(1756-1791) Sponsored byTheHeadleyTrust Exchange toperformarecitalaspartoftheFestival’s Young ArtistsLunchtimeSeries. Newbury SpringFestival isdelightedtowelcomethewinnerof11thSheepdrovePianoCompetitionCorn Young ArtistsLunchtimeRecital4 Corn ExchangeNewburyMonday20thMay12.30pm Sheepdrove PianoCompetitionWinner Sunday 19thMay(seepage Sheepdrove EcoConferenceCentre,Lambournon winning pianistfollowingthecompetitionheldat Today’s recitalisagreatopportunitytohearmoreofthe by Mozart. world. Thewinningpianist’sprogrammewillfeatureworks young pianistsofthehigheststandardfromaround under fromtheeightmajorUKmusiccolleges,attracting Sheepdrove Trust, isopentocandidatesaged26and The prestigiouscompetition,foundedin2009bythe www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 85).

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www.the-vineyard.co.uk Please call us on 01635 528770 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page97 breeze. Thescene isbrokenbytheappearance ofdark streams runquietlymurmuring tothebreathofgentle The birdsgreetthearrivalofspring withhappysong,the 3. Danzapastorale:Allegro 2. Largo 1. Allegro Concerto No.1inEminor:TheSpring Invention), whichwaspublishedin1725. dell’Armonia edell’Inventione(TheTrial ofHarmonyand 8, acollectionoftwelvepiecesnamed four seasonsoftheyear. ThecycleformspartofhisOpus inspired byacollectionoffolkpoemsrepresentingthe Vivaldi’s best-known musicisthesetoffourconcertos arranged severaloftheconcertosaskeyboardpieces. contemporaries, notleastJohannSebastianBach,who in thefasterrhythmicunits.Hewasmuchadmiredbyhis the romanticturnsofphraseinslowermusic,butalso themes areatoncedistinctiveandmemorable,notonlyin relationship withgreatsubtletyandimagination.The ripieno (ensemble)andconcertino(sologroup) concertos areextraordinarilysophisticated,treatingthe became widelyknown,bothinVenice andbeyond.His to experimentandtryoutneweffects,hismusic Having hisownensembleatdisposal,Vivaldiwasable ensemble. (1658-1709), withacleardivisionbetweensoloand movement formatestablishedbyGiuseppeTorelli regular useduringhislifetime,preferringthethree- composed concertosforpracticallyeveryinstrumentin poor girlswereeducatedattheexpenseofstate.He such institutionsinVenice atwhichorphansandother Conservatory oftheOspidaledellaPietà,oneseveral Vivaldi wasemployedasMaestrodiViolinoatthe for violinandorchestra,Opus8Nos.1-4 The Four Seasons ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) Sponsored byCH-RFamily SolicitorsandDrStephenGolding Masumi Yamamoto John-Henry Baker Kate Conway Jordan Bowron Gabi Maas Ellen Bundy Christiane Eidsten-Dahl Istante The VineyardStockcrossMonday20thMay7.30pm A Taste ofItalyatTheVineyard (Autumn,Winter) (Spring,Summer) violin soloviolin ‘cello viola doublebass harpsichord soloviolin Il Cimento © Terry Barfoot The Four Seasons TheFour Vivaldi portrays thestorm,throughbroken tremolosandunison imitated onceagain.Inthefinal ripienotheorchestra for thesolosections,ineach ofwhichbirdsongis weather, thoughthereisachangeofrhythmic emphasis Vivaldi seekstodepicttheuncertainties ofthesummer The openingmovementhasanirregularshape,since and grainarelashedtothegroundduringstorm. sky lightsupwithlightningandthethunderpeals.Thefruit movement ofhisflock.Hisworstfearsprovejustified,the haunts him.Hiswearybodyisdeniedrestbytheconstant may bring.Thefearofflashinglightningandfiercethunder The shepherdweeps,forhefearswhatthenorthwind gentle breezesareunexpectedlyupsetbythenorthwind. turtledove andgoldfinchcanbeheard.Thesoft evergreen treesbegintowilt.Thesongsofthecuckoo, Men andbeastslanguishintheheatofsun;even 3. Presto 2. Adagio 1. Allegroconmolto Concerto No.2inAminor:TheSummer ripieno andthreesolosections,isacountrydance. barking oftheherdsman’sdog.Thefinale,withitsfour sounds oftheensemble,whichoccasionallyimitates gentle murmuringsofthesoloistareheardagainst the soloviolin.For thisisaforestscene,inwhichthe The Largo,however, isanexquisiteariosodominatedby the secondripienodepictsapproachofstorm. typical fashion.Thefirstsoloimitatesbirdsong,whereas The firstmovementcontrastsripienoandsolosectionsin the nymphsandshepherdstodance. side. Apastoralmusetteandabrightclearskyencourage leaves arerustlingthegoatherdsleeps,hisdogat songs. Downinthehappyflowerymeadowwhere storm haspassed,thebirdsrenewtheirharmonious clouds, andthunderlightninghavetheirsay. Whenthe Concerto4-TheWinter Concerto3-TheAutumn Concerto2-TheSummer Concerto1-TheSpring www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk © Terry Barfoot

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Allegro Concerto No.3inFmajor:TheAutumn summer daybroughtdecidedlyunpleasantweather! constant semiquavermotion.ItseemsthatVivaldi’s music isrhythmicallycompelling,dominatedbya final movementthestormbreakswithallitsfury. The unison stringssuggestthedistantrollingofthunder. Inthe like flowisfourtimesinterruptedbyaprestoinwhich best regardedasthelullbeforestorm.Butsong- scales. Dominatedbythesoloviolin,centralAdagiois The VineyardStockcrossMonday20thMay7.30pm ripieno isparticularlyexciting, withitsrunsandtremolos. reliance onvariedsonorities, in whichsensetheclosing finale. Thereisnolongerarecurring themebutrathera dominated bythesoloist,who alsotakestheleadin winter. TheLargo, however, isasong-likemovement perhaps thisisVivaldi’swayofsuggestingthechill There isnotasinglelyricalphraseinthefirstmovement; its joys. howling fromallquarterstogivebattle.Thisiswinterand on theiceagainuntilitbreaksunderfoot.To hearthewind care onice,forfearoffalling.To fallheavily, thenmoveoff fireside whentherainistoogreat.To walkslowlyandwith chatter. To moveintothequietandcontentmentof wind. To stampfrozenfeetwhenthe coldmakestheteeth To befrozenbyicysnowandknockedaboutawild 3. Allegro 2. Largo 1. Allegroconmolto Concerto No.4inFminor:TheWinter box office0845 5218218 A Taste ofItalyatTheVineyard © Terry Barfoot © Terry Barfoot © Terry Barfoot with NovantiquaRecordsin2019. by LuigiBoccheriniandMichaelHaydn,isdueforrelease CD, Haydn’s rarely-heard operaLoSpeziale. highlights includeafully-staged productionofJoseph (www.baroquestock.com). Recent Baroquestock music, communityprojectsandhome-cookedfood. featuring auniquefusionofhistoricalperformance,folk Hampstead, whereithoststheBaroquestockFestival, Istante’s creativehomeisHeathStreetBaptistChurch, 2017-2018 BREMFLive!Scheme. Aurora seriesinArezzo(Italy),andwasselectedforthe Stephen’s Festival oftheArtsinLondonandClassica range ofvenuesintheUKandabroad,includingSt Since itsformationin2016,Istantehasperformeda historical period. a uniquebreadthofrepertoire,bothintermsstyleand combining theirdiverseexperience,theyareabletooffer Consort, theHanoverBand,EuropaGalante.By Enlightenment, AcademyofAncientMusic,King’s Révolutionnaire etRomantique,OrchestraoftheAge ensembles includingEnglishBaroqueSoloists/Orchestre Individually, Istante’smembersperformwithprestigious threads. by linkingrepertoirethroughhistoricalandnarrative often heldinaninformalsetting,aimtoinspirethelistener innovative concertexperiences.Istante’sperformances, committed toreachingoutnewaudiencesthrough Istante isaversatileperiod-instrumentcollective Istante Little ThingsinOddShapes,featuringchamberworks Istante’s debut 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page99 The VineyardStockcrossMonday20thMay7.30pm Ellen Bundy Christiane Eidsten-Dahl A Taste ofItalyatTheVineyard most oftheEuropeancountries. Paris. Touring includescountrieslikeChina,Braziland Concertgebouw inAmsterdamandCitedelaMusique Hall,RoyalAlbert performed inWigmore Competition inBarokkfestfestivalTrondheim.She has Baroque OrchestraafterwinningtheYoung Artist alongside EnricoOnofriasasoloistwiththeNordic Barokkanerne andTrondheim Barokk.In2017sheplayed Music, OrchestraofTheAgeEnlightenment, Christiane performsregularlywiththeAcademyofAncient 2013 season. a placewithEuropeanUnionBaroqueOrchestraforthe of SouthbankSinfoniafrom2012andwonanauditionfor School ofMusicandDramain2010.Shewasamember London tostudywithProf. DavidTakeno atGuildhall Hall andUsherinEdinburgh. Hall,RoyalFestivalHall, RoyalOperaHouse,Wigmore Spain andperformancesinthe UKattheRoyalAlbert has takenhertoFar EastAsia,Germany, Holland and Recentwork European UnionBaroqueOrchestra (EUBO). Marsyas, TheKing’sConsort, LaSerenissimaandthe Kölner Akademie,AcademyofAncientMusic,Ensemble Gabrieli ConsortandPlayers,EarlyOperaCompany, Die Orchestra oftheAgeEnlightenment,DunedinConsort, She worksregularlywithsuchorchestrasasthe musician acrossEurope. orchestral andchamber high-demand asan 2015, Ellenhasbeenin with First-Class Honoursin from whichshegraduated the RoyalCollegeofMusic, Historical Performance at MacKenna Prizefor Since receivingthe instrument performance. specialising inperiod versatile Britishviolinist Ellen Bundyisayoungand Christiane movedto borough inNorway, scholarship fromDrammen receiving theTICON Geir IngeLotsberg.After Performing ViolinwithProf. Undergraduate Degreein after completingher of MusicinOslo,Norway from BarrattDueInstitute London. Shegraduated Norwegian violinistlivingin Christiane EidstenDahlisa Gabi Maas Jordan Bowron Carnatic violinist Vittal Ramamurthy. (Uzbekistan) and spent a month in Chennai learning with nyckelharpa at Sharq Taronalari festival in Samarkand nyckelharpa (Swedish keyed fiddle). In 2015 she played styles, particularly on Scandinavian music for violin and Gabi enjoys playing a wide-range of traditional music music gatherings held in Kabyle-owned Paris cafés. singer-poets in mountain communities and at informal musicians from the region, explored the role of village thesis, based on experiences playing with traditional on Berber music in Kabylia (North-East Algeria). Her and subsequently graduated from Oxford with a doctorate Gabi studied Modern Languages at Cambridge University, School of Music with Benedict Holland and Robin Ireland, (after NicoloAmati). plays aBaroqueviolabyJan Pawlikowski, Poland, 2013 ScottishSymphonyOrchestra.He Sinfonia andtheBBC groups includingManchester Camerata,CityofLondon Aside fromhisperiodinstrument work,Jordanplayswith the AgeofEnlightenment. 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© Andrew Mason Kate Conway The VineyardStockcrossMonday20thMay7.30pm John-Henry Baker box office0845 5218218 A Taste ofItalyatTheVineyard Chris West, NeilTarlton andvariousothers.Whileat Conservatoire ofMusicandDance wherehestudiedwith On hisreturnhewonafullscholarship toTrinityLaban where hestudiedwithDagomba andAshantidrummers. in thehealthcaresectoraswell astravellingtoGhana After finishingschoolJohn-Henry tookagapyeartowork in theNationalYouth OrchestraofGreatBritain. with CeruleoandEnsembleMolière. Valencia, and live broadcastsRadio 3’s on BBC recitals at festivals in the Lake District, Brecon and Kirkby’s 70th birthday celebrations, chamber music Hallat the with Wigmore Chelys as part of Dame Emma Jordi Savall. More recent projects include a performance Coin, Alison Crum, Vittorio Ghielmi, Paolo Pandolfo and Festival and RCM Festival of Viols, playing to Christophe masterclasses at the Greenwich International Early Music Prize for Consort Music. She has also participated in the D Day Fund Award and Sir Anthony Lewis Memorial RAM Nancy Nuttall Ensemble Prize, and was a recipient of A keen chamber musician, Kate was twice awarded the at the 2019 Baroque at the Edge festival at LSO St Luke’s. Artists Competition, and Ceruleo, who recently appeared finalists at the 2017 York Early Music International Young is a founder member of both Ensemble Molière, who were with the Chelys Consort of Viols and Musica Poetica, and Handel House Talent Scheme 2016-17. Kate also performs sizes, andgainedaplace groups ofallshapesand local orchestrasand He playedwithvarious bass attheageoftwelve. chance toswitchdouble Henry finallyhadthe John- move totheUK, eight. Following afamily him a‘cellotoplayaged and Irishparentswhogave Arequipa, Peru, toEnglish John-Henry wasbornin was selected for the Feinstein Ensemble, and Solomon’s Knot and the English Touring Opera, She has played with Jesus College, Cambridge. Honours in Classics from after gaining First-Class graduating with distinction, Royal Academy of Music, Jonathan Manson at the baroque ‘cello and viol with Kate Conway studied In Tune Masumi Yamamoto College of Music. She was later “The English Concert” her harpsichord studies with James Johnstone at Trinity Black at the Royal Academy of Music, before focusing on piano with Vanessa Latarche and harpsichord with Virginia harpsichord with Huguette Brassine. In the UK she studied Brisbane, studying piano with Leah Horwitz and the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University in Masumi graduated with a University Medal from Festival in April 2019. in Bruges. She gave a solo recital in the London Handel prize winner at the International Harpsichord Competition and currentlyliveinStAlbans. married toLydia andtheyhaveathree-year-old daughter and variousotherpercussioninstruments.John-Henryis variety ofinstruments,includingcharango,spoons,bones As wellasthedoublebass,John-Henryenjoysplayinga risographic pressandrecordingstudiointhechurch. stencil printingandrecording,runsasmall music-making John-Henryalsohasafascinationfor the lifeofchurchandlocalcommunity. Aswellas musicians andensembles,withtheaimofalsoenriching church togivedecentperformanceopportunities performs andorganisesconcertsworkswiththe Heath StreetBaptistChurch,Hampstead,wherehe John-Henry isalsothemusicoutreachco-ordinatorat particularly withtheireducationwork. continued workingregularlywiththeorchestra, Orchestra oftheAgeEnlightenment.Hehassince Nwanoku, wonaplaceontheexperienceschemeat performance, andfollowingsomestudywithChi-chi John-Henry grewmoreinterestedinhistorical It wasn’tuntilafterfinishingundergraduatestudiesthat electric guitar, bassguitaranddoublebass. ROH2, andlaterheroperaCautionaryTales, playing fortunate toworkwithErrollynWallen onheroperaYes! at performance andothers.Duringhisstudieshewas disciplines, includingimprovisation,electroacoustic Trinity LabanJohn-Henrystudiedawiderangeof on BBC Radio 3 and wason BBC a Masumi appears regularly Japan and Australia. as far afield as Malaysia, Europe, and has performed concert venues across appeared at several major since 2001. She has has been based in the UK Australia’s Gold Coast and Osaka Japan, grew up on Yamamoto was born in Harpsichordist Masumi 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page101 and is Teacher of Harpsichord at St. Paul’s Girls’ School. Director of a Baroque concert series SydenhamConcerts Griffith University in Australia. Masumi is also the Artistic Music in Singapore and Queensland Conservatorium and masterclasses at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Also a keen teacher, Masumi has given lessons the International Baroque Players and La Serenissima. such as St. James’s Baroque, Yorkshire Baroque Soloists, . She has alsoMatthew Passion performed with ensembles Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment playing Bach’s and last year toured as a continuo player with the with harpsichordists Sophie Yates and Robin Bigwood, Horniman Harpsichord Competition in April 2017 along Masumi was on the panel of judges for the Broadwood Norway. the Soloists of London in Spain and Paulus Barokk in Soloists and the Keld as well Ensemble as with in the UK, London Concertante, Solisti Divini, London Brandenburg More recently, Masumi made concerto appearances with studied with Professor Peter Seymour. completed her PhD at the University of York where she Junior Fellow with ensemble Melopoetica. 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Queen Victoria Long Gallery Englefield House Theale Tuesday 21st May 3.00pm

A Talk by A N Wilson To mark the 200th birthday of Queen Victoria, who was born on 23rd May 1819, her biographer, the distinguished author A N Wilson, will talk about her reign, focusing on her partnership with Prince Albert and their legacy.

Sponsored by Mr and Mrs Robin Aird By kind permission of the Englefield Estate

A N Wilson Andrew Norman Wilson was born in Staffordshire in 1950 A N Wilson has written and is best known as a biographer, novelist, journalist and over twenty novels, as well essayist. as historical and biographical works, He was educated at Rugby School and later attended including the universally New College, Oxford (B.A., 1972; M.A., 1976). Initially acclaimed Victoria, and drawn to the teaching profession and priesthood, He The Victorians which was a settled upon a life of writing, and published his first novel, bestseller in many The Sweets of Pimlico, in 1977. He has since published languages. over 40 works of fiction and non-fiction.

Among his many prizes are He is a regular voice on BBC radio, and an occasional the Whitbread Prize for columnist for the Daily Mail, Telegraph, London Evening Standard, Financial Times, The Times Literary

© Sam Ardley Biography and the E.M.Forster prize in America. A N Wilson is a member of Supplement, New Statesman, The Spectator and The the American Society of Arts and Literature, and a Fellow Observer. A selection of Wilson’s journalism can be found of the Royal Society of Literature. in his collection Pen Friends from Porlock (1989).

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102 box office 0845 5218 218 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page103 so awesomeitisnormallyonlycharacteristicoffarbigger double bass,saz&balalaikacreatinganauralalchemy combinesviolin,guitar,players, theBCO accordion, A smallbutimpeccablyformedorchestraofjustfour fans throughtheirinfectiousperformances. Britain, theBudapestCaféOrchestrahavewonlegionsof down theDanube!LikeUkuleleOrchestraofGreat good enoughtomakeyouwantbookthatholiday is skill andprofoundmusicianship,ashowbytheBCO surprises alongtheway-hugelyentertaining,immense Budapest cafélifeandgypsycampfires-plusafew Evoking vividimagesofTziganefiddlemaestros, featured. List andAndyStatman’sbeautifulFlatbushWaltz -areall and beautifulballads-suchasthethemetoSchindler’s Russia. Klezmer, RomanianDoinas,HungarianCzadas gypsy-flavoured musicfromacrosstheBalkansand playtraditionalfolkand Budapest CaféOrchestra(BCO) Led byjazzviolinsuperstarChristianGarrick,The Budapest CaféOrchestra such asthethemetoSchindler’sListandAndyStatman’sbeautifulFlatbushWaltz –areallfeatured. music fromacrosstheBalkansandRussia.Klezmer, RomanianDoinas,HungarianCzadasandbeautifulballads– Led byjazzviolinsuperstarChristianGarrick,TheBudapestCaféOrchestraplaytraditionalfolkandgypsy-flavoured Adrian Zolotuhin Kelly Cantlon Eddie Hession Christian Garrick Budapest CaféOrchestra Corn ExchangeNewburyTuesday 21stMay7.30pm Budapest CaféOrchestra doublebass buttonaccordion guitar, saz,balalaika,domra violin,doumbek and theVagabonds. Vagabond withnorthernsoulsensationsJimmyJames many moons.Kelly foundfameinthelate60sasa has beeninthebusinessoflayingdownlownotesfor balalaika, guitarandsaz.Veteran bass-manKelly Cantlon Zolotuhin, amasterofthestrummedstringsdomra, exports. TheSultanisplayedexpertlybyAdrian Orchestra isoneofRussia’smostenigmaticmusical Lagrene andCaroEmerald.Anothermemberofthe Marsalis,NigelKennedy,Dankworth, Wynton Bireli has playedwiththelikesofDameCleoLaine&SirJohn is oneoftheworld’smostcelebratedjazzviolinists.He Domingo, JoseCarrerasandChrisRea.ChristianGarrick career hehasaccompaniedLucianoPavarotti, Placido accordion championofGreatBritain.Inhisillustrious Accordionist exemplarEddieHessionisasupreme international soloistsrevelattheheartofproceedings. ensembles. Two ofthecountry’smostrevered www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 103 Tue 21st 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSF programme book 23/04/2019 12:33 Page 104

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Christian Garrick University and went on to become the sound engineer for I grew up in a house with four pianos, one door and a artists such as Beverley Knight and Ruby Turner, but my goldfish. My Dad is jazz pianist-composer Michael and thirst for the Gypsybeat was going unquenched. So when Mum is a singer, clarinettist and pianist. I met and heard the call from Balkan Bob arrived, I wasted no time in Stephane Grappelli aged 5 and simultaneously - on the accepting the role of Fiddler’s Labourer for the most classical side - met Oliver Messiaen at rehearsals for the wonderful nearly Balkan, fairly Gypsy orchestra in the premier of his magnum opus St Francis of Assisi. Such world. formative events have led to what is best described as a Kelly Cantlon diverse professional musical career. I first played with British jazz royals Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Pointed shoes are a must in the BCO wardrobe. In fact Dankworth aged ten but it wasn’t until later I met my first the more pointed the better. I bought my first set of proper real royal, Princess Diana, on graduating from London’s professional BCO snake-skin winkle pickers in a shoe Royal Academy Of Music in 1994. I formed the (New) shop on the isle of Jersey. Sounds crazy I know but it’s Budapest Café Orchestra in 2009 to blend music with true. I was a bit slow to realise the advantages of pointed entertainment in the most important way I could think of: shoes but after a short meeting with cousin Besnic (The to take the music seriously but not ourselves too much, in Merciless), I was convinced that life would be much order to find an effective working formula. Now in our happier and significantly longer if I showed more tenth year, BCO seems to be working, as we have now enthusiasm. So I’m still wearing them. I like to watch played some 500 concerts all around the UK and Liverpool beat Arsenal or any other team with the nerve to recorded ten albums. I also continue to work in the world make the trip. Shame about Suarez and his ill-fitting false of film and television sound recordings - the violin soloist teeth. He was only trying to fit them back into his mouth on BBC’s Poldark a recent example - and to teach jazz by using the other guy’s shoulder. My favourite jazz violin studies at the Royal College and Academy and the double bass player is Richard Davis. I first heard him on Guildhall School. an album with Elvin Jones and John Coltrane called Blacknus. Davis also recorded with Van Morrison on the Eddie Hession classic album Astral Weeks in 1968. These two records As I recall, I wanted to play the drums when I was young have been my biggest influences. On the bass guitar, for but somehow ended up with an accordion. After that, me it has to be James Jamerson, the genius Tamla there was no turning back. The accordion has taken me Motown session player. He was a classical double bass to all sorts of places around the world, from swimming player but went on to play a Fender Precision bass too. pool reception areas to lavish concert halls performing The very first ‘music’ I can remember hearing was The with Luciano Pavarotti and many others. I have played on Ying Tong Song by The Goons. My mum and dad were numerous film soundtracks including for Captain Corelli’s big fans of the radio show in the fifties and bought the Mandolin for which I even had a walk-on part as an Italian record. I was about two years old, but it’s still very clear in soldier! Being a member of the BCO gives me the my mind. opportunity to draw on all my musical abilities, from solo playing to accompaniment and to improvisation. There is never a dull moment in the BCO! A couple of benefits of travelling with the band are that I have loads of full English breakfasts and countless charity shops to browse in. If I hadn’t been a musician, I would like to have worked Tue 21st Tue in quality control for Mr Kipling. Adrian Zolotuhin One of my earliest memories is standing in the wings at The Albert Hall watching my father’s balalaika orchestra perform. I was fascinated with the sound, the lights, the spectacle, the music; I think that was the moment I fell in love with the guitar. My parents had me educated in the UK, and it was at school there that I fell in with a crowd of like-minded souls and formed a bourgeois punk band, Terminal Illness. We had many fun times touring the local village halls, unconstrained by the shackles of commercial success. By the age of sixteen I was regularly performing Russian music with my father, providing the soundtrack to the socialisation and digestion of nobility and peasantry alike. I studied Music & Sound at

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This is therefore a homage to the earlier composer, who Adam Walker also composed a series of pieces for strings entitled At the forefront of a new Lachrymae. generation of wind soloists, Adam Walker was The music has a lyrical character, combined with great appointed principal flute of sincerity of expression, and deploys a sequence of ten the London Symphony variations on the original song theme. Britten evidently Orchestra in 2009 at the held the music in high regard, since he returned to it 26 age of 21, and received the years later to make an orchestral version. Outstanding Young Artist © Terry Barfoot Award at MIDEM Classique in Cannes. In 2010 he won SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Romeo and Juliet - music from the ballet Fellowship Award and was (arr. Gilad Cohen) shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Outstanding Young Artist Award. Masks Juliet as a Young Girl An ambassador for the flute with a ferocious appetite for The Montagues and the Capulets repertoire, Adam’s interests range from the less well- The Street Awakens known French Baroque through to newly commissioned Morning Dance works. He has given world premieres of Brett Dean’s The Siduri Dances with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales Romeo and Juliet was first performed as a ballet at Brno, (2011), Kevin Puts’ Flute Concerto at the invitation of Czechoslovakia, in December 1938, but an orchestral Marin Alsop at the Cabrillo Festival (2013) and Huw suite had previously been performed at Moscow in Watkins’ Flute Concerto with the London Symphony November 1936. The first Soviet performance of the ballet Orchestra under Daniel Harding, commissioned jointly by was given at the Kirov Theatre, Leningrad, in January the LSO and BBT (2014). As a soloist Adam regularly 1940. performs with the major UK orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Romeo and Juliet was commissioned by the Leningrad London Symphony, Hallé, Bournemouth Symphony and Theatre of Opera and Ballet in 1934, soon after Prokofiev is a regular visitor to the BBC National Orchestra of had returned to his native Russia after his long period of Wales. Further afield he has performed with the Baltimore exile in the West. The example of Tchaikovsky’s ballets Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Grant Park proved an inspiration to him, while the genuinely Festival, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Mexico, Seoul symphonic nature of the score is confirmed by the fact Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonia, Malaysian that when the first performance of the ballet took place, Philharmonic, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Vienna the music had already been known for three years from Chamber Orchestra, Solistes Européens, Luxembourg no fewer than three three concert suites that he had and the RTE National Symphony Orchestra. already compiled. A committed chamber musician with a curious and Romeo and Juliet contains some of Prokofiev’s most creative approach to repertoire and programming, 2018 exciting and memorably tuneful music. The variety of saw the launch of Adam’s latest chamber music project; Tue 21st Tue opportunities offered by the story proved a great the Orsino Ensemble at the Aldeburgh Festival. Under inspiration to him, since the vividly drawn contrasts bring Adam’s leadership as Artistic Director, the Ensemble such a successful and natural musical experience to the focuses on the five outstanding wind players including concert hall. The rivalry of the Montagues and Capulets is Nicholas Daniel, Amy Harman and Matthew Hunt, who expressed by means of crashing discords and a proud are at its core with a mission to showcase the depth and and noble march theme. At the opposite extreme, the versatility of the wind chamber repertoire. Recital gently playful music characterising the young Juliet is a highlights over recent seasons have included LSO St. perfectly drawn character study., and there are some Luke’s, De Singel, Newbury Spring Festival, Musée du delightfully imaginative shorter dance movements which Louvre, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festspiele and the reveal Prokofiev’s customary vitality and wit. Utrecht, West Cork, Delft and Moritzburg Chamber Music © Terry Barfoot Festivals. Adam appears regularly at the Wigmore Hall where he has recently worked with Brett Dean, pianists Cédric Tiberghien, Angela Hewitt and James Baillieu, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani and singers Ailish Tynan and Karina Gauvin.

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© Kaupo Kikkas Timothy Ridout College ofMusicin2017. studentship. HewasappointedprofessorattheRoyal winning theHRHPrincessAlicePrizeforexemplary Michael Cox,graduatingwithdistinctionin2009and Gitte SorensenandattheRoyalAcademyofMusicwith Adam Walker studiedatChetham’sSchoolofMusicwith onNMC.Bornin1987, Wigglesworth the HalléandRyan 2018 seesthereleaseofHuwWatkins Peabody InstitutewasreleasedonNaxosin2016and Kevin FluteConcerto Puts phrasing [and]stunningvirtuosity”.Hisrecordingofthe “a superbplayer[with]muchdelicacyofnuanceinhis Schubert. TheGramophonereviewrecognizedAdamas includes worksbyPoulenc, Messiaen,Bartok,Barberand Arte Label;Vocalise Adam’s firstCDwasreleasedin2013ontheROHOpus Michael Francis. with theTampere Philharmonicunderthebatonof highlights includehisFinnishdebutperformingNielsen part intheMusicaVivaFestival inSydney. Concerto Chipping CampdenFestivals, whilstfurtherafieldhetakes the RomanRiver, OxfordLieder, NewburySpringand and MuséedeGrenoble.Festival appearancesinclude Zimmerman, andperformancesattheMuséeduLouvre Elbphilharmonie withPierreLaurentAimardandTabea in EuropehemakeshisdebutatHamburg’s Sean Shibe,ClaraMouritzandJamesNewby. Elsewhere with artistsincludingTabea Zimmerman,AgnèsClément, Hall,wherehecollaborates four appearancesatWigmore York, LosAngelesandChicago.Otherhighlightsinclude Brandenburg ConcertosfeaturingperformancesinNew 2020 seasons.Projectsthisyearincludeatourofthe various engagementswiththeSocietyacross2018– CMS Two Chamber MusicSocietyofLincolnCenter’sprestigious The 2018/19seasonseesAdamtakeuphisplaceonthe St Marys’ChurchShawTuesday 21stMay7.30pm Adam Walker Trio Southbank Centreontheinvitation ofTabea Hall), performsGeorgeBenjamin’s Viola,Violaatthe Hall, makeshisdebutinTokyoWigmore (Musashino Musicians EuropeanOrchestra (inIsrael).Hereturnsto London MozartPlayers,Sinfonia CymruandYoung programme, aspartofwhichhewillundertake takes inspirationfromsongand with MarinAlsopandthe Philharmonia Orchestra, Rheinland-Pfalz, Staatsphilharmonie soloist withtheDeutsche include appearancesas Engagements thisseason perform widelyinEurope. Timothy hasgoneonto Competition in2016, International Viola the LionelTertis Since winning1stPrizein Concerto with International ViolinSociety. c1565-75 generouslyonatemporaryloanfromBeares Timothy playsonaViolabyPeregerino diZanetto Fleming Foundation andBowerman CharitableTrust. Timothy isverygratefulforsupportfromtheAmaryllis many others. Eschenbach, SirSimonRattleandGidonKremer, among He hasparticipatedinmasterclasseswithChristoph of Mozart’sSinfoniaConcertantewithMaximVengerov. Oxford SymphonyOrchestrasandaspecialperformance Strings, EuropeanUnionChamber, ZagrebSoloistsand Solo appearancesincludetheRotterdamPhilharmonic Chamber MusicandperformedwiththeNashEnsemble. Festivals. HehasattendedIMSPrussiaCoveOpen Sommer, Schubertiade(Austria)andBeethovenBonn Schloss Elmau,theMunichGasteig,BadKissinger Europe includingtheVerbier Academy&Festival and Over thelasttwoyearsTimothy hasperformedacross Competitions. FestivalPrize atthe2015Windsor International include 1stPrizeatthe2014CecilAronowitzand2nd where hecurrentlystudieswithNobukoImai.Awards same yearjoinedtheKronbergAcademyinGermany, Young ClassicalArtistsTrust (YCAT) in2016andthe the Queen’sAward for Excellence.Hewasselectedby Academy ofMusicwithMartinOutram,graduating Born inLondon1995,Timothy studiedattheRoyal Orchester Zurich. performance oftheWalton ConcertowiththeTonhalle Berlin, aresidencywithBaden-BadenPhilharmonieand Future engagementsincludehisdebutattheKonzerthaus Kolesnikov andGaborTakács-Nagy. Helmerson, ChristianTetzlaff, IsabelleFaust, Pavel Lawrence Power, NobukoImai,Frank Dupree,Frans He collaborateswithSirAndrasSchiff, StevenIsserlis, Musikverein (Vienna),LouvreandSalleCortotinParis. Festivals (Switzerland),andundertakesprojectsatthe Sommersymfoni (Norway),BoswilandMusikdorfErnen takes partintheHeimbach(Germany),Valdres Sought afterasachambermusician,during2018Timothy acclaim. Hill releasedhisfirstCDofmusicbyVieuxtempstocritical Newbury SpringandKilkennyFestivals. In2017Champs Zimmermann, andgivesrecitalsatSaffronHall,the www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 107 Tue 21st 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSF programme book 23/04/2019 12:33 Page 108

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108 box office 0845 5218 218 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page109 Baroque era.Hewashowever veryforward-thinkingand was primarilyaninstrumental composerofthelate family, showinghis attachmenttothemall.Sammartini period isdedicatedtovarious membersofFrederick’s until hisdeathin1750.Much ofhisworkduringthis music masterforFrederick thePrinceofWales from1736 had everknown’.Hiscareerescalatedwhenhebecame gained areputationas‘thegreatest[oboist]theworld producing avoice-likesoundandwassosuccessfulhe London. HeperformedthroughoutEngland,often oboist. OriginallyfromMilan,hespenthisworkinglifein Sammartini, likehisbrother, wasanItaliancomposerand Trio SonataNo.6inDminor GIUSEPPE SAMMARTINI(1695-1750) Shakespeare’s seen asquiteclumsyandrusticisreferencedin from theNorthernItaliantownofBergamo.Thedanceis particular ‘groundbass’(repeatingharmonicsequence) also knownastheBergamask Schmelzer andJohannJakobWalther. TheBergmasca composers suchasHeinrichIgnazBiber, JohannHeinrich string composers,notablyAustro-Germanviolinist- influence canbefeltonthenextgenerationofbaroque for theviolin,whichisquiteunusualtime.His on theviolin.Uccelliniclearlyspecifiesthathismusicis exploiting theviolin’sfullrange),reflectinghisownskills writing ishighlyidiomatic(displayingfastruns,leapsand writing mainlysecularworks,manyforsoloviolin.His contributed totheriseofindependentinstrumentalmusic, 17th centurywhohelpedextendviolintechniqueand of distinguishedItalianviolinist-composers intheearly legacy indevelopingviolinrepertoire.Hebelongstoaline His lifeisnotwell-documenteddespitehispowerful Uccellini wasanItalianBaroqueviolinistandcomposer. Aria sopralaBergamasca MARCO UCCELLINI(1603/10-1680) Sponsored byTheHeadleyTrust florid andvirtuosicItalianstylewhichwassoattractivestrikingtotheEnglishcomposers. England’s mostsignificantBaroquecomposers.We beginandconcludewithmusicinhabitingthepure,unadulterated, from the17thand18thcenturieshowithelpedshapeEnglishcompositionalstyle,hearingmusicthreeof English counterparts,particularlythoseworkinginLondon.We lookattheinfluenceandlegacyof‘Italiangreats’ describesthem)ontheir Join FIGOasweexploretheimpactofvirtuosicItalian“fam’dmasters”(asPurcell From ItalytoEngland Toby Carr Jacob Garside Alice Poppleton Simone Pirri Young ArtistsLunchtimeRecital5 Corn ExchangeNewburyWednesday 22ndMay12.30pm FIGO theorbo violin ‘cello A MidsummerNight’sDream. violin – isadancebasedon – as ‘theabsolutedarlingofLondon’s society.’ extreme popularityandsuccess andhasbeenreferredto despite neverhavingbeento England,wasexperiencing times duetoitspopularity. In1730sLondonCorelli, republished inLondon,notablybyWalsh inc.1735,many movements arrangedslow, fast,slow, fast).Itwaslater (meaning achurchsonata–usuallyconsistingoffour 1681 inhisfirstopusof12Trio SonatasdaChiesa grossi tohisname.OursonatawaspublishedinRome with 48triosonatas,12violinsonatasandconcerti which hebasedhisown.Corelliwasaprolificcomposer Corelli’s music,notablyhisOp.6ConcertiGrossion reported strainedandtumultuousrelationship,studied BWV 579organfugueonhis Op.3.Handel,despitetheir J.S. BachstudiedCorelli’s workintentlyandbasedthe since founded.’HisinfluencereachedfarbeyondItaly. ‘that uponwhichallgoodschoolsfortheviolinhavebeen Burney praisedCorelli,describinghisviolinwritingas Italian 18thcenturyviolinist-composers. In1776Charles been saidthatCorelliisthepointofreferenceforall pupils includesGeminiani,LocatelliandCastrucci.Ithas Italy,sonata whatHaydnistothestringquartet.Within his modern tonalityandfunctionalharmony. Heistothetrio modern sonataandconcertoformsaswelluniting influential inEngland.Heiscelebratedfordevelopingthe Corelli, anItalianviolinistandcomposer, wasextremely Sonate daChiesaaTrè SonataPrima, ARCANGELO CORELLI(1653-1713) searching beforereturningtothefamiliar. Allegro whichbecomesincreasinglyharmonically static Largo.Thesonataconcludeswithajocundfinal exemplified here.AvivaciousAllegrofollows,beforea was startingsonataswithaslowmovement,asis within hiscompositions.OneofSammartini’ssignatures incorporated thegalantstyleandotherClassicaltraits www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk Op. 1 109 Wed 22nd 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSF programme book 23/04/2019 12:33 Page 110

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WILLIAM BOYCE (1711-1779) The writing is lush and harmonically rich despite still Trio Sonata No. 10 in E minor being clearly Purcellian and English, with expansive Italianate melodies. The first movement of his Golden Boyce was an English composer and organist born in Sonata is dominated by constant interplay between the London and a choirboy at St Paul’s Cathedral. He went on treble and bass voices. It is followed by a chromatic and to be organist at the Oxford Chapel in London, the Chapel almost lamenting Adagio based around the sighing Royal and Master of the King’s Musick. By 1758 Boyce interval of a descending second. This Adagio is had become too deaf to continue work at the Chapel punctured by the trumpet-like fugal F major Allegro. Royal and consequently dedicated himself to editing his Throughout the movement he experiments with the two own works and those of Byrd and Purcell. Boyce’s music upper voices, sometimes using them as a pair and at still has royal connections today, with his First Symphony times jubilantly exploiting their individual voices in full being played at the recent Royal Wedding in 2018. The counterpoint. A sombre Grave follows before the final Trio Sonata performed today comprises four contrasting dancing rhythmic triple time Allegro. movements. We begin with a melodic and melancholy adagio, followed by an imitative and jaunty allegro which is contrasted with an intimate and reflective largo, before ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) finishing with a playful dance movement. La Folia in D minor Vivaldi, perhaps one of the most famous Italian Baroque GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759) composers and virtuoso violinists both during his lifetime Concerto a quattro in D major and nowadays, composed more than 500 concertos, 46 operas and 90 sonatas. Born in Venice, Vivaldi became Handel, born in Halle in Germany, arrived in London in a priest aged 25 and was taught at the Ospedale della 1712 and became naturalised as a British citizen in 1727. Pieta, a home for abandoned children. Many of his He spent the majority of his working life in England. Before compositions were written for the all-female ensemble 1712 Handel was educated and worked in Hamburg and based in this home. Vivaldi’s music was vibrant and Italy, thus bringing his inherited Italian and German innovative, with flamboyantly rich harmonic contrast and contrapuntal style of composition to London. Handel knew exuberant, playful melodies. Despite never travelling far of London’s love of the Italian style and set up opera beyond Italy, Vivaldi’s music managed to penetrate companies in London to perform Italian operas for the Europe. J.S. Bach was highly influenced by Vivaldi’s nobility. In his own writing there is much evidence, both in music. Venice itself was a desirable destination for English his output and social records, that he was certainly nobility seeking cultural nourishment. Englishman Edward influenced by Corelli. This piece, composed in 1715, is in Wright wrote in 1720 ‘Tis very usual to see Priests playing four movements concluding with a lively presto. in the orchestra: the famous Vivaldi, whom they call the “Prete rosso” [red-haired priest], very well-known among HENRY PURCELL (1659-1695) us by his Concertoes, was a topping man among them.’ Golden Sonata No. 9 Z. 810 in F major Vivaldi also exploited the postal system, allowing him to Purcell is regarded by many as the greatest English disseminate his works across Europe to those enchanted composer until the 20th century, when the likes of Elgar, by their visits to Venice. He even managed to act as Vaughan-Williams, Walton and Britten appeared. Born into maestro di cappella to various European patrons, such as a musical family, Purcell managed to combine the William Capel – Third Earl of Essex, without ever crossing contemporary Italian and French into his own English the channel. Such was the demand for Vivaldi’s music in style. His ‘French’ style can be heard in pieces such as England that not only was it published, it was lucratively his Twelve Sonatas in Three Parts and his Italian in the pirated and illegally copied. La Folia, of Spanish origin, is work we are performing today. He began his musical life one of the oldest ground basses in existence and more young, writing his first composition aged nine. He than 150 composers have built compositions based on it. produced a large choral canon (being an experienced Wed 22nd Wed singer having been a chorister in the Chapel Royal as a Many thanks for attending our concert today and to the boy) as well as chamber operas such as Dido and Festival for inviting us. If you would like further information Aeneas. Purcell also had a considerable instrumental about the group or to contact us, please go to our output despite his short life. During the 1600s the public website: www.figoensemble.com concert began to emerge, whereby the audience would attend an informal chamber music performance and call FIGO out a piece they wanted to hear. It is in this setting that FIGO, who the Telegraph described as having ‘pleasing Purcell was exposed to the music of “fam’d Italian grace’, is an emerging chamber group specialising in masters” as he called them, such as Carissimi, historically informed performance. FIGO use either Monteverdi, and the instrumental masters Vitali and original or replica period instruments and our Cazzati on whose Trio Sonatas Purcell based his own. His interpretation is shaped by 17th and 18th century Golden Sonata comes from his last set of trio sonatas. performance practice and ideals. The group formed in

110 box office 0845 5218 218 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page111 Scheme 2018andisrelishingtheexperience. delighted tohavebeenselectedfortheBREMFLive of theNorth-EastEnglandisinpipeline.FIGO andatour Choir ofSt.MartinintheFieldsandSANSARA, collaborations andperformanceswithCollective31,the Radio4.FIGOisverymuchlookingforwardtofuture BBC Singers Festival whichconcludedinalivebroadcastwith Another highlighthasbeenFIGO’sresidencyatTheExon perform arecitalinher2019BreconBaroqueFestival. group ashaving‘charmandexcellence’,invitedFIGOto Festival Friends Party whereRachel,whodescribedthe perform withRachelPodger atherBreconBaroque both 2019and2020.FIGOadoredtheopportunityto have beenwelcomedbackasEnsembleinResidencefor Clifton InternationalFestival ofMusic,FIGOisthrilledto Nelson Mass.Following asuccessfulresidencyatThe (London), Saffron Hall(SaffronWalden), Gulbenkian HallandSt.GeorgeHanoverSquare (Leipzig), Wigmore City), NewEnglandConservatory (Boston),Thomaskirche such asTheRoyalAlbertHall, LincolnCenter(NewYork has hadtheprivilegetoperform atprestigiousvenues Consort, EnsembleSymphosium andmanyothers.He Réjouissance, EboracumBaroque,AllabastrinaChoir& Musica Poetica, DevonBaroque, Welsh Camerata, Arcangelo, LaNuovaMusica,DutchBaroqueOrchestra, also appearedasasoloist),EnsembleDiderot, Simone hasplayedwithIlPomo d’Oro(withwhomhe scouted byoneoftheworld’sfinestperiodorchestras. following onInstagram,throughwhichhealsogot accessible toawideraudience,hasearnedhimanactive for earlymusic,mixedwiththedesireofmakingit Simon StandageandNicoletteMoonen.Hisdeeppassion practice withleadingexpertssuchasRachelPodger, Cardiff, Simonespecialisedinhistoricalperformance and theRoyalWelsh CollegeofMusicandDramain distinction atboththeRoyalAcademyofMusicinLondon period instruments.ArecentMastersgraduatewith based violinistfromItaly, whoperformsprimarilyon Simone Pirriisacaptivatingandup-and-comingLondon- Simone Pirri Monteverdi ranging fromchamberrecitalstolargerworkssuchasthe Music. Theyhavesinceenjoyedvariousengagements 2017 havingmetasScholarsattheRoyalAcademyof Corn ExchangeNewburyWednesday 22ndMay12.30pm FIGO Vespers, Bach’s B minorMassandHaydn’s Historical Performance whereshestudiedasan Academy ofMusicwithanMA withDistinctionin live filmscore.Alicerecently graduated fromTheRoyal sessions inwhichthechildren createdandperformeda also ledthe‘Comprov’(composition andimprovisation) where shenotonlydeliveredchambermusictuitionbut entitled which shehelpedthechildrencreateasound-story historical musiciansEmilyWhiteandMoragJohnstonin Arts, workingattheHuntlySummerSchoolwithfellow dementia-friendly concertsheorganisedwithResonate outreach andeducation.Recenthighlightsincludea Scheme 2018.Alicealsoenjoysdeliveringmusic Festival 2020.FIGOareexcited being ontheBREMFLive resulted inFIGObeingbookedforTheBreconBaroque Podger atherBreconBaroqueFriends Party which extended until2020,andaperformancewithRachel which provedsuchasuccessthepositionhasbeen residency atTheCliftonInternationalFestival ofMusic whom shehasenjoyedabusysummerincluding Bursary 2018.AliceisafoundingmemberofFIGO, with is delightedtohavebeenawardedtheBelsizeBaroque and Truth, LaNuovaMusicaandMusicFor Awhile. Alice leading periodensembles,suchasInstrumentsofTime career includingforthcomingperformanceswithmany enthusiastic educator. Aliceenjoysanactivefreelance player withahistoricalperformancespecialismandan Alice, originallyfromSalisbury, isaviolinistandviola Alice Poppleton Ystradivarius andEboracumBaroque. Soloists, LaNuovaMusica,Collegium1704,FIGO, Ensemble Diderot,BreconBaroque,OxfordBach forthcoming engagementsincludeperformanceswith being thenextleaderofLondon’sBelsizeBaroque.His Scholarship 2018/2019,Simoneislookingforwardto century. HavingrecentlybeenawardedtheBelsize whom heexploreschambermusicfromthe17thand18th exciting earlymusicsextetbasedinSouthWales with early 2018SimonehasbeenpartofYstradivarius,an on theirEuropeantourreceivinggreatacclaim.Since electro cross-overbandsignedtoUniversalMusicGroup) invited tojoinSymphoniacs(aBerlin-basedclassical May 2017,afterwinninganonlineworldcontest,hewas Trust, In SettimanaMozartianaandHelpMusiciansUK. Instruments, TheGaneTrust, TheKirstenScottMemorial Munster MusicalTrust, LoanFund forMusical been arecipientoffundingawardsbyTheCountess Early MusicPrizefortwoconsecutiveyears,andhas with FIGO. HewasthewinnerofLondon’sNancyNuttall Radio Wales’ ArtsShowandperformedliveonRadio4 while healsoappearedasaguestonanepisodeofBBC which airedonGoodFriday 2017onTVchannelS4C, translatedintoWelshSebastian Bach’sSt.JohnPassion recordings includingtheworldpremierefilmofJohann Philarmonie (Cologne).Simonehastakenpartinvarious (Lisbon), Muziekgebouw(Amsterdam),Kölner Juno theSuperDogandatSuperstringsClub, www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 111 Wed 22nd 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSF programme book 23/04/2019 12:33 Page 112

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Enlightenment Scholar under the tutelage of Rachel Ensemble and String Orchestra and was principal cellist Podger, Nicolette Moonen and Jane Rogers. During her for the Festival Orchestra, Opera and Musical Theatre studies she performed at The Wigmore Hall (both violin societies’ productions. Jacob was very involved in the and viola), at St. John’s Smith Square and in the Kohn University’s New Music Ensemble and also led projects Bach Cantata Series working with directors such as Jane with the Contemporary Music Venture, focusing on new Glover and Philippe Herreweghe. In July 2017 Alice music written for period instruments. He studied ‘Cello received her Postgraduate Diploma with Distinction from and Viola da Gamba with Jonathan Manson in the The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where she Historical Performance Department of the Royal Academy was an EMI Sound Foundation Scholar. Alice studied of Music, assisted by a generous scholarship from the modern violin with Lesley Hatfield (Leader of The BBC Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, also taking National Orchestra of Wales) and Itzhak Rashkovsky and lessons with Caroline Ritchie. During his time there, Baroque violin with Rachel Podger. Favourite moments Jacob played in masterclasses with Phillipe Herreweghe, from her time at RWCMD include BBC NOW and WNO Rachel Podger, Maggie Faultless and was directed by placements, being Concert Master for Verdi’s Falstaff Ton Koopman, Laurence Cummings, Lisa Beznosiuk, under Carlo Rizzi’s baton, performing Baroque concerti Pavlo Beznosiuk and Johannes Pramsohler among such as the Bach’s Double Violin Concerto with Simone others. Jacob is an enthusiastic teacher and workshop Pirri, Valentini’s Four Violin Concerto with Rachel Podger leader, he was recently an assistant tutor at Theresa and being Principal Second Violin in Rachel Podger’s Caudle’s Baroque Week and is in the process of planning performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Alice graduated a tour of educational performances in the North East with from The University of Bristol in 2015 with a 2:1 BA his chamber group FIGO. Honours in Music, and having led the symphony, chamber and festival orchestras, was awarded the Toby Carr Ladyman Bequest Prize. Alice has an exciting year ahead A versatile musician who performs in a wide range of and is particularly looking forward to her time as an Open styles and settings, Toby Carr is a guitarist and lutenist Academy Fellow, returning to Salisbury to perform Bach’s who grew up in Hertfordshire before moving to London to Double Violin Concerto following the success of her pursue further education. Mozart’s 3rd Violin Concerto performance in 2017 and a project with the Zeitgeist Chamber Orchestra juxtaposing Toby studied classical guitar with Graham Anthony Devine Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool and Monteverdi’s music. at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where he also discovered lutes and early guitars under the Jacob Garside tutelage of David Miller. Going on to postgraduate study Jacob is a freelance cellist and viola da gamba player at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Bob with an interest and specialism in music of the 16th to Brightmore (classical guitar) and David Miller and William 18th centuries. His chamber group FIGO have had a busy Carter (historical performance) he continued onto the and rewarding summer, highlights including the MPerf course as a historical performance specialist, commencement of its three-year residency at the Clifton graduating in 2016. International Festival of Music, playing for the Exon Singers Festival in Tavistock (including a live broadcast While still active as a classical guitarist and teacher, Toby on BBC Radio 4) and orchestral performances of Bach, has developed a specialism in the performance of Handel and Haydn. He is looking forward to an upcoming Renaissance and Baroque music, particularly that of recording with the Chorus of the Clifton International seventeenth century England and Italy, performing in this Festival of Music and working on collaborations with context regularly as a soloist, accompanist and continuo groups SANSARA, Colla Voce Singers and Collective31. player. This has led to work with groups and He is co-principal cellist of the Zeitgeist Chamber organisations such as The London Philharmonic

Wed 22nd Wed Orchestra and Bellot Ensemble. Jacob regularly plays Orchestra, English Touring Opera, Glyndebourne Youth with Newcastle Baroque, The 18th Century Sinfonia, Opera and Dame Emma Kirkby’s Dowland Works, Durham Singers, Epiphoni Consort, The Bishop’s including being a founding member of emerging Consort, Erebus Ensemble and very much enjoyed ensembles Ceruleo and Lux Musicae London. playing the Gamba Solos of the St John Passion with The Royal Northern Sinfonia, last Easter. Jacob grew up in Now settled in South-East London with his harpist Washington, Tyne and Wear, where he started playing fiancée, Toby is gaining a reputation as an innovative and ‘cello aged twelve. He attended the Centre for Advanced exciting performer and educator, working with some of Training at Sage Gateshead, studying under past and the finest musicians in the business. present members of the Royal Northern Sinfonia prior to reading Music at the University of Bristol. During his time at Bristol, he took ‘cello lessons with Ioan Davies of the Fitzwilliam Quartet, conducted the University Baroque

112 box office 0845 5218 218 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:33Page113 Corn ExchangeNewburyWednesday 22ndMay7.30pm Harry thePiano Sponsored byMrandMrsDavidDinkeldein Harry thePiano Harry thePiano James BondtoShostakovichvia seamless medleyofaudiencerequestsrangingfrom TV themesofitsactormembers,andimprovisea Mozart, recreateanightattheGrouchoClubthrough spontaneously reinventMichaelJacksoninthestyleof smacking ofastonishment.Noothermusiciancan alike havelineduptoshowerhimwithpraiseoften improvising pianistsintheworld.Celebritiesandcritics have earnedhimareputationasoneofthemostgifted Harry’s extraordinarytalentandbreath-takingcreativity characterise hisshowsmake himfarmorethanthat. hard), butthesharphumour and inventivenessthat since 1950(exceptGangnam Stylewhichissimplytoo jazz standardandmusical mostofthepopcharts of tunes,includingmostthe classicalrepertoire,every his note-perfectknowledgeofliterallytensthousands Harry hasoftenbeenlikenedtoahumanjukeboxwith West SideStory . 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Harry’s showisamusicalCirqueduSoleil,withone seen intheUKsinceheydayofDudleyMoore. jazz, cabaretandclassicalinamannerthathasn’tbeen you’ve neverheardbefore,movingseamlesslybetween Quite simply, hedoesthingswiththeinstrumentthat Suzy Klein, BBC Radio3 Suzy Klein,BBC Elvis Costello Paul Golding,TheSundayTimes . LaunchingtheQueenMary2. www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk The Simpsons The 113 Wed 22nd 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSF programme book 23/04/2019 12:34 Page 114 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page115 finale, however, is the movement which remains longest in this approach with a contrasting chordal section. The the instruments in their different registers, but opposing measure theme. Haydn ensures maximum variety by using consisting of eight contrapuntal variations on an eight- The Largo third movement is also original in nature, glissandi to maintain its contour. performs apioneering role, since the first violin line uses his own. The trio is more interesting still; moreover it the succeeding generation who would make this approach character anticipates that of Beethoven, the composer of At well under four minutes the scherzo is brief, but its opportunities among the four parts of the texture. strength from its rhythmic outline, which allows abundant of great sensitivity too. This elegant cantabile derives its enough to sustain a monothematic design, yet possessed And the principal theme is a magnificent invention, strong quality which stems from its relatively restrained tempo. Haydn’s quartets. The first movement has an expressive The four movement format was by now well established in lucidity. late 18th century developed a musical style of such was quite new, and it was the main social reason why the of sound events without any metaphorical interpretation, idea that music could be followed, understood as a course scoring; and this is not merely as decorative variety. The The music. mere sales talk, but Haydn’s boast is well borne out by his had written ‘in a new and special way’. Perhaps this was patrons the opportunity to acquire these works which he and that December he wrote various letters offering Haydn composed his Opus 33 set of six quartets in 1781, 4. Finale:Presto 3. Largoesostenuto 2. Scherzo:Allegro 1. Allegromoderato The Joke String QuartetinEflatmajor, Opus33No.2 JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809) By kindpermissionoftheEnglefieldEstate Sponsored byIrwinMitchell John Myerscough Hélène Clément Ying Xue Alex Redington Doric StringQuartet Englefield HouseThealeWednesday 22ndMay7.30pm Doric StringQuartet Quartet violin in E flat allows for a quick moving variety of violin viola ’cello they wish,freetocreateaunity, anewharmoniousnote.’ voices paynoheed.Theyare independent,freetodoas outside itmayberainingand darknessfalling,butthese handle theinstrumentalparts. Onefeelsathome,for what pleasureitgivesmewhen Istartworkandbeginto more myselfinpurechambermusic.Icannotexpress committed tochambermusic.Hewrote:‘Iamalways Martin wasaprolificcomposer, whowasalways no lessinteresting. its poignantharmonicturnsanddistinctivesonorities,is within thefour-part ensemble.ThecentralAndante, with in jazzaswellunusualinstrumentalcombinations of rhythmicfeatureswhichreflectthecomposer’sinterest subtleties inabundance,theoutermovementsbeingfull some twelveminutesacrossthreemovements.Thereare smaller scalethanitsfellows,withaperformingtimeof etoe StringQuartetOp131 Beethoven Interval StringQuartetNo.3 Martinu StringQuartetOp33No.2 Haydn The threat andleavefortheUnitedStates. Second World War, when hewasforcedtofleetheNazi Policka inEasternBohemia,helivedParis untilthe Although heregularlyreturnedtohishometownof the musicalgenresfromoperatosolokeyboardmusic. produced astreamofcompositionsrangingthroughall From themid-1920sMartinwasbasedinParis, and 3. Vivo 2. Andante 1. Allegro String QuartetNo.3 BOHUSLAV MARTIN(1890-1959) be valued. none. And in music, as in life, wit is a commodity much to Haydn is possessed of a musical wit which is second to unexpectedly reappears, but there is no continuation. the music continue or will it cease? The first phrase rondo theme. Rests become as important as notes, will slow Adagio conclusion following the second return of the Presto, the music seems, however, to be heading for a distinctive title: TheJoke. Basically a lively affair at tempo the memory, and which has given the Quartet Quartet No. 3datesfrom1929.Itiscomposedona www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk © Terry Barfoot © Terry Barfoot its 115 Wed 22nd 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page116 116 Wed 22nd seven variationsonanexpressive theme,whichnaturally passage towardstheAndante fourthsection.Therefollow a recitativeattempoAllegromoderato formsabridge By wayoftransition,acadence deviceinthecharacterof music isatoncevigorousand sparkling. a recapitulationthatisfarfromregular. Thenatureofthis strict, withjustthemeresthintofasecondarythemeand of thecomposer’spersonality. Theformisfree ratherthan an AllegromoltovivaceinDmajorrevealsanotheraspect invite achangeofmoodanddirection.Nowthevitality until themelancholymelodygraduallysubsides,asifto drama asthereiscomesfromtheoccasionalsforzando, at arestrainedtempotoo:Adagiomanontroppo.Such Beethoven beginswithafreefantasiainfugalstyle,and as theclassicalinheritancemightsuppose.Rather Unusually, thereisnodramaticinitialAllegromovement whole entity. inner contrastsworkingtowardsthecohesivenessof preoccupied withunityinaveryspecialway, withthe one extendedsweep.ThismeantthattheQuartet combine hisvariedandhighlyexpressivemusicalideasin complete yetbalancedmovements,optinginsteadto abandon thetraditionalcyclicsonataformoffour the conceptasitdeveloped.To beginwith,hedecidedto Beethoven’s sketchbooksrevealthathestruggledwith composition ineveryrespect. minor. This,hisOpus131,turnedouttobeaunique StringQuartetinCsharp began toworkonhisFourteenth these ambitiousschemesaside,inDecember1825he name ofBach,oratoriosandasettingFaust. Putting completed: theTenth Symphony,anOvertureonthe creative volition.Theseincludedseveralthatwouldnotbe to moveonotherprojectsthatwereentirelyofhisown completed these-Opus127,132and quartets fromPrinceNicholasGalitsin,andhaving In 1822thecomposerreceivedarequestforthreestring depth andpowerhithertounknown. popularly knownashis‘finalperiod’heachievedarange, next phaseofitsevolution,andintheworkswhatis prepared andabletodevelopthestringquartet thoughts. Aloneamonghiscontemporaries,hewas preferred vehicleforhismostchallengingmusical For Beethoven,thestringquartetmediumwas 7. Allegro 6. Adagioquasiunpocoandante 5. Presto 4. Andantemanontroppoemoltocantabile-Piùmosso 3. Allegromoderato-Adagio 2. Allegromoltovivace 1. Adagionontroppoemoltoespressivo String QuartetinCsharpminor, Opus131 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Englefield HouseThealeWednesday 22ndMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 Doric StringQuartet 130 – heintended was Doric StringQuartet Melnikov, Daniel Müller-Schott, MarkPadmore and Cédric Halevi, AlinaIbragimova,Aleksandar Madžar, Alexander Jonathan Biss,IanBostridge, AndreasHaefliger, Chen collaborating withartistsincluding NicolasAltstaedt, Sydney, Risør, Schwetzingerand West CorkFestivals, Grafenegg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, MusicaViva Aldeburgh, CarinthischerSommer, Delft,Edinburgh, a busyfestivalscheduleandhasperformedatthe America. AlongsidemainseasonconcertstheQuartethas Washington, andnowreturnsfor annualtourstoNorth Museum inNewYork andLibraryofCongressin acclaimed AmericandebutwithrecitalsattheFrick Hall.In2010theQuartetmade itshighly Wigmore and DeSingel,Antwerp,isaregularvisitortothe Konzerthaus, Frankfurt AlteOper, HamburgLaeiszhalle Europe includingAmsterdamConcertgebouw, Vienna The Quartetperformsinleadingconcerthallsthroughout Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern inGermany. Competition inItalyandtheEnsemblePrizeat Premio Paolo BorcianiInternationalStringQuartet Chamber MusicCompetitioninJapan,2ndprizeatthe including 1stprizeatthe2008OsakaInternational YCAT in2006,theQuartetwentontowinseveralprizes critics acrosstheglobe.Selectedforrepresentationby receiving enthusiasticresponsesfromaudiencesand the leadingBritishstringquartetofitsgeneration, The DoricStringQuartethasfirmlyestablisheditselfas imaginative conclusion. flexible thanever, asthequartetmovestoitsuniquely altogether moredramatic,withthedevelopment in Csharpminor. Thetoneofthemusicbecomes The finalphaseofthequartettakesformanAllegro major. slow sixthsection,anAdagioquasiunpocoandanteinB dance. Inturnthisrhythmicmusicmovesdirectlyintothe E majorwithtwotrios,bringsthecontrastofalivelyfolk and emotions,untilthefifthsection,aPrestoscherzoin and fluentlymovethroughvariouscontrastingtreatments © Terry Barfoot 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page117 North NorfolkMusicFestivals. well asappearancesattheOxfordLieder, Two Moorsand Poznan, RisørandStorioniChamberMusicFestivals, as engagements taketheQuartettoCheltenham, Hall.FestivalMusikverein inViennaandatWigmore with ElisabethLeonskaja,includingperformancesatthe Bosch, Ferrara, HaarlemandPerugia. Theyalsotoured appearances inAalborg,Aarhus,Clermont-Ferrand, den Vancouver. Europeanrecitalengagementsincluded performances inSaltLakeCity, Philadelphia,Bostonand America foritsannualtour, thistimeincluding Concertgebouw. InApriltheQuartetreturnedtoNorth appearances attheBerlinKonzerthaus andAmsterdam Hall,aswellreturn performances attheWigmore Highlights ofthe2015/16seasonincludedfive Stenz. Scottish SymphonyOrchestraconductedbyMarkus Philharmonic attheConcertgebouwandwithBBC John Adamsconducting,withtheNetherlandsRadio the ViennaSymphonyatKonzerthaus with Orchestra. TheDorichavenowperformedthepiecewith take onJohnAdams’AbsoluteJestfor Tiberghien. AnotherrecenthighlighthasseentheQuartet Englefield HouseThealeWednesday 22ndMay7.30pm Doric StringQuartet [email protected] String Quartetand .uk .uk at theRoyalAcademyofMusicinLondon. Quartet wasappointedasTeaching QuartetinAssociation with RainerSchmidtoftheHagenQuartet.In2015 Music AcademyinBaselwheretheyworkedextensively György Kurtag. TheQuartetfurthereditsstudiesatthe Berg, Artemis,HagenandLaSalleQuartetswith Program, wheretheyworkedwithmembersoftheAlban the Paris-based ProQuartetProfessionalTraining Young ChamberMusicPlayers,theQuartetstudiedon Formed in1998atProCorda,TheNationalSchoolfor for a2015GramophoneAward. named Editor’sChoicebyGramophoneandshortlisted reviews acrosstheboard,withHaydndiscbeing by JanáčekandMartinhavebothgatheredenthusiastic recent releasesofHaydn’sOp20Quartets shortlisted fora2012GramophoneAward. Theirmost MusicMagazineandwas both GramophoneandBBC Schumann Gramophone Award. TheQuartet’sreleaseofthe Walton discs inGramophoneandwasfollowedbyaCDofthe Quartets, wasfeaturedasoneofthe2010Critic’sChoice Records. ThefirstCD, thecompleteKorngoldString the QuartethasrecordedexclusivelyforChandos chosen asEditor’sChoiceinGramophone.Since2010 Livelabelandwas critical acclaimontheWigmore In 2009theDoricStringQuartet’sfirstCDwasreleasedto String Quartets www.philipbrownviolins.co.uk String QuartetswasnamedCDoftheMonthin www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk which wasnominatedfora2011 and

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Don Black talks to Edward Seckerson The Chapel Sydmonton Court Ecchinswell Thursday 23rd May 11.30am

Don Black is perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber, and for the James Bond theme songs he co-wrote with composer John Barry: Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever and The Man with the Golden Gun.

For this special event at the private home of Andrew Lloyd Webber, writer, broadcaster and interviewer Edward Seckerson, famed for interviewing the most prominent artists in operatic and musical theatre, is in conversation with Don Black about his life and career.

By kind permission of Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber

Don Black Edward Seckerson Don Black received two Formerly Chief Classical Tony Awards for best book Music Critic of The and lyrics of a musical for Independent, Edward his work (with Christopher Seckerson is a writer, Hampton) on Sunset broadcaster, podcaster, Boulevard, which marked and musical theatre his third collaboration with obsessive. He wrote and Andrew Lloyd Webber. presented the long-running They first joined forces to BBC Radio 3 series Stage write the song cycle Tell & Screen, in which he Me On A Sunday which interviewed many of the developed to form the biggest names in the basis of the stage show business - among them Song and Dance, and they were reunited again for Julie Andrews, Angela Lansbury, Liza Minnelli, Stephen Aspects of Love. He also wrote the lyrics for the Andrew Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. During his Lloyd Webber produced Bombay Dreams. Awards include journalistic career he has written for most major music an Oscar for his song Born Free, five Academy Award publications and is still on the panel of Gramophone nominations, two Tony Awards and four Tony magazine. He appears regularly on BBC Radio 3 and 4 nominations, six Ivor Novello Awards, a Golden Globe and presented the 2007 series of the musical quiz and many platinum and gold discs. He has written a Counterpoint. On television he has commentated a quintet of James Bond theme songs: Thunderball, number of times at the Cardiff Singer of the World Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With The Golden Gun, competition. He has published books on Mahler and the Surrender from Tomorrow Never Dies and The World Is conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. Not Enough. Among his many popular songs are two U.S. number ones - Ben for Michael Jackson and To Sir With Edward conducted one of the last major interviews with Love for Lulu. He was inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Leonard Bernstein, and his audio podcast Sondheim – In Fame and recently honoured in London with a BMI Icon Good Company proved a significant contribution to award. Don also received the Order of the British Empire Sondheim’s 80th birthday year. He is still doing the in the Queens honours list. rounds of theatres all over the country with Facing The Music – a show he devised and performs with Dame Patricia Routledge, chronicling her little-known career in musical theatre, and hosts his Comparing Notes series of conversations and live performances with stars of musical theatre at Pizza Express Live Holborn. For Alex Fane Productions he has appeared with Dame Diana Rigg at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Broadway legend

Thu 23rd Patti LuPone at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. He has also devised two shows with Jason Carr – Bernstein Revealed, with Sophie-Louise Dann, and Rodgers Revealed, with Anna Francolini – which explore the life and work of Leonard Bernstein and Richard Rodgers respectively. Bernstein Revealed featured in the Bernstein 100 centenary celebrations at the Barbican and was performed elsewhere in 2018/19.

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Thibaut Garcia Donnington Priory Newbury Thursday 23rd May 7.30pm

Thibaut Garcia guitar

Barrios Mangoré La Catédral Domeniconi Variations on an Anatolian folksong Villa-Lobos Prélude No. 3 in A minor Llobet Two Catalan popular songs Tansman Inventions Albéniz Asturias Bach Chaconne BWV 1004 Giuliani Rossiniana, Set 1, Opus 119 Interval

Hailed as ‘the new face of classical guitar’ after winning every major international guitar competition within the space of just a few months, Thibaut Garcia has had the critics reaching for new superlatives, as well as comparisons with the great guitarists of the past.

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AGUSTÍN BARRIOS MANGORÉ (1885-1944) was also drawn towards the 18th century influence of La Catédral neo-classicism, particularly in his various compositions for the guitar. Subtitled Hommage à Bach, the five inventions Barrios Mangoré was a Paraguayan virtuoso guitarist and respected Andres Segovia’s request that Tansman should composer, who was among the finest performers and ‘wipe his pen clean’ of modernity in his works for the most prolific composers for the instrument. His guitar. Consequently these beautifully crafted composition La Catédral, inspired by Johann Sebastian compositions reflect the dual influence of their dedicatee Bach, is perhaps his finest creative achievement, and was and of Johann Sebastian Bach. much admired by Andrès Segovia, no less. There are © Terry Barfoot three phases: the Andante religioso and Allegro solemne were written at Montevideo in 1921, while the introductory Preludio was added at Havana in Cuba seventeen years JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) later. Chaconne, BWV 1004 © Terry Barfoot It seems likely that Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin were written around 1720 for Joseph Spiess, the HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959) leader of the ensemble at the Cöthen court where Bach Prélude No. 3 in A minor was also employed. To the four traditional dance movements of the Partita No.2 he added this celebrated Although music for the guitar forms a relatively small part Chaconne, which because of its substance and mastery of the output of the prolific Brazilian composer Villa- is often performed separately. It has also been frequently Lobos, his compositions for the instrument form one of transcribed, the most celebrated versions being those for the core areas of its modern repertoire. They were almost the piano by Ferruccio Busoni and of course the present all written for Andrès Segovia: the twelve Études expand version for the guitar. the language and technique of the instrument, while the beautiful Préludes are widely known. These five Préludes Across a span of some fourteen minutes, Bach composed have the subtitle Homenagem à Bach, and were 64 variations on the four-bar ostinato phrase that composed in 1940. © Terry Barfoot constitutes the theme. Inevitably with such a scheme, he employed all the resources of composition and style he deemed appropriate. The French and Italian styles are ALEXANDRE TANSMAN (1897-1986) heard alongside the various techniques of musical Inventions development, such as augmentation (lengthening of

Thu 23rd 1. Passepied notes), diminution, syncopated and dotted rhythms and 2. Sarabande endlessly imaginative ornamentations. © Terry Barfoot 3. Sicilienne 4. Toccata 5. Aria

Alexandre Tansman was born in Poland of Jewish descent, but he lived most of his adult life in France. His background influenced his music in various ways, but he

120 box office 0845 5218 218 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page121 transfers mosteffectivelytothe guitar. its variousapproachesandmoods, asinAsturias,and nature oftheSpanishinfluence. Thesuitemovesthrough the fivemovementsrevealclearly enoughtheleveland of severalpianopiecesinflamedbythisstyle.Thetitles his even ofmission.Itwasinthiscontextthathecomposed folk music,whilealsogivinghimarealsenseofdirection, interest inSpanishnationaltraditionsand,particular century, Felipe Pedrell. Thisinevitablyencouragedan with themostimportantSpanishmusicianof19th In hisearlytwentiesAlbénizgainedfromaperiodofstudy Liszt andinParis withPaul DukasandClaudeDebussy. years old,andlaterwentontostudyatWeimar withFranz away onashiptoSouthAmericawhenhewastwelve musical experiencetomatch.For instance,hestowed composer, buthealsotravelledwidelyanddevelopeda Albéniz isjustlyfamousasadistinctivelySpanish Asturias ISAAC ALBÉNIZ(1860-1909) compositions, wereimmortalisedbyAndrèsSegovia. Albéniz. Theseworks,alongwithLlobet’soriginal arrangements ofthegreatpianocompositionsIsaac folk songsforperformanceontheguitar, inadditionto several successfulandpopulararrangementsofCatalan who touredwidelyinEuropeandtheAmericas.Hemade first halfofthe20thcentury, andwasarenownedvirtuoso Miguel Llobetwasperhapsthegreatestguitaristof Two CatalanPopular Songs MIGUEL LLOBET (1878-1938) music an exotic ‘Eastern’ flavour. ornamentations and dance rhythms combine to give the adventurous melodic style that culminates in the more ambitious and There is a sequence of seven sections, in acharming and singer. performed by Asik Veysel, a well-known blind Turkish folk down a long narrow path) which Domeniconi had heard The song itself is Uzun ince bir yoldayim stretches between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. in Anatolia, the southern Asian area of Turkey that these variations derive directly from a folk song originating Reflecting influences from Turkish folk music and culture, Domeniconi’s most distinctive works for solo guitar. The Variations onanAnatolianFolksong CARLO DOMENICONI(b.1947) Donnington PrioryNewburyThursday23rdMay7.30pm Thibaut Garcia Suite Espagnole Anatolian Variations Finale. The harmonic inflections, in 1886,anditprovedtobethefirst of 1982 is one of Carlo ( I am travelling © Terry Barfoot © Terry Barfoot © Terry Barfoot Armida. material derivingfromOtello,L’ItalianainAlgeriand the operasofRossini,andSetNo.1,forexample,uses Rossiniana recitals agenerationlater. Hiscollectionsentitled guitar, anticipatingwhatFranz Lisztwoulddoinhispiano paraphrased adaptationsinhisperformancesonthe operatic musictoawiderpublicthroughhisown Italy andbeyond.Oneofhisenthusiasmswastobring guitar virtuosooftheearly19thcentury, bothinhisnative guitarist, cellist,singerandcomposer. Hewasaleading Giuliani wasmusicianofexceptionalanddiversetalents: Rossiniana, Set1,Opus119 GIULIANI (1781-1829) MAURO GIUSEPPESERGIOPANTALEO 01635 553 553 | [email protected] | dreweatts.com and othercollectibles.For afree noobligationappraisal: We hold regular auctions of antiques, paintings, jewellery Berkshire RG14 2JE Newbury Donnington Priory Dreweatts NEWBURY feature adaptationsofnumerousthemesfrom www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk SPRING FESTIVAL OF NEWBURY SPONSORS PROUD London SW1Y 5LU St James’s 16-17 Pall Mall Dreweatts LONDON © Terry Barfoot 121 Thu 23rd 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page122 122 Thu 23rd Donnington PrioryNewburyThursday23rdMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 orchestras. the Orchestre de Dijon-Bourgogne, and the BBC National de Montpellier, Orchestre de Cannes PACA, and especially with the Baden-Baden Orchestra, the Orchestre appearing in other concertos in the next few months, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. He will be In 2016 Thibaut made his concerto debut with the Interpretes of Toulouse. the Auditorium of the Musee d’Orsay, or the Grands the Centre de Musique de Chambre de Paris Salle Cortot, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, the Salle Bourgie at Montreal, Konzerthaus Vienna, the Concertgbouw in Amsterdam, the Toulouse d’Été, the Auditorium de Bordeaux, the Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, the Festival during the entire season. He also performs recitals at the the USA and Canada, where he gave over sixty recitals worldwide. Since September 2016 he has been on tour in Thibaut is now being invited by the greatest guitar festivals sit on their juries and to give masterclasses. of Seville, Spain, in 2013. Since then he has been asked to at Petrer, Spain, in 2014, and the International Competition America at Oklahoma City, in 2015, the José Tomas USA, competitions, in particular the Guitar Foundation of he has won the first prize in several international Ana Amalia competition in Weimar, Germany. Since then, At the age of sixteen he was awarded the First Prize at the Cros. 2015, he was named sponsee of the Academie Charles time benefiting from the guidance of Judicaël Perroy. In de Paris, in Olivier Chassain’s class, while at the same Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse of Paul Ferret. At the age of sixteen he was admitted to the the age of seven. He then won the guitar prize in the class 1994 in Toulouse, where he began learning the guitar at Thibaut Garcia, the Franco-Spanish guitarist, was born in Thibaut Garcia Thibaut Garcia Autumn 2018. His secondalbum,Tribute toJ.S. Bach,wasreleased for hisrecordingprojects,withafirstreleaseLeyendas. In 2016hesignedexclusivelywithWarner Classics/Erato Constans, LaMarcabrothers,KathrynRudge… Neuburger, AntoineMornière,BorisGrelier, Anaïs with EdgarMoreau,RaphaëlSévère,Jean-Frédéric When itcomestochambermusic,Thibauthasplayed Hall. in London’sWigmore Hewillnotablymakehisdebut and inconcertotheUK. Artist inLondon,whichleadshimtoperformrecitals NewGeneration In 2017ThibautwasappointedBBC Bagnor, NewburyRG208AE The WatermillTheatre&Restaurant, of WestBerkshire theatre intheheart West Endquality E best theatres’ ‘One ofthecountry’s VENING S TANDARD 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page123 Parry’s lines andcheekysentimentofthepoem. accompaniment matchesthecheerfulandliltingmelodic and setsaPolish textbyJerzyHarasymowicz.Aplayful Pianos greater popularitythanhisoperas.AGreenLowlandof for thevoice.However, hissongstendedtoachieve twenties, andthroughouthiscareercomposedregularly Barber achievedcompositionalfameinAmericahis not dojusticetothegrittinessofShelley’spoem.Samuel One couldarguethatthesunnymoodofmusicdoes vocal line,crownedwithasoaringhighnoteattheend. textures complimentingthebreathlessexcitementof favourite withaudiences,thesparklingpianistic Quilter’s Sponsored byTheHeadleyTrust Gavin Roberts Samantha Crawford Young ArtistsLunchtimeRecital6 Corn ExchangeNewburyFriday 24thMay12.30pm Samantha Crawford Richard Strauss withdrewtohisvillaatGarmisch- After 1935,andhavingentered hiseighthdecade, piano accompanimentthatdepicts wavesorfallingwater. an impassionedvocalline,with afamouslycascading Tyutchyev, whichproclaimsthearrival ofspring,issetto set of12Romancesop14.ThepoembyFeodor composer’s youthfulexuberance.Itcomesfromthe1894 Rachmaninov’s mostpopularsongs,showingthe (also sometimestranslatedasSpringTorrents ) isoneof piano transcription.Thetumultuoussong summer bloom.Thepiecealsoexistsasalatersolo Severyanin’s poemwhichpresentsdaisiesinperfect Romances op38(1916)andpoignantlysetsIgor comes fromoneofhismostpopularcollections,6 more deeplypersonalandpianisticoriginality. Daisies development fromanearlyTchaikovskian styletoalater early partofhiscareerandchartacompositional Most ofRachmaninov’ssongswerecomposedinthe Edwardian drawingroomsongs. arrival, themusicsimilartomanyofParry’s other nervous exhilarationasthesingerawaitsherbeloved’s its dedicateeAgnesHamiltonHartyin1909,itisasongof Christina Rossetti’spoemABirthday.Firstperformedby comes fromhisThreeSongsop45writtenin1972 My HeartisLikeaSingingBird Love’s Philosophyhasbecomeasongrecital piano soprano is asettingof Spring Waters earlier inStrauss’ life,muchofwhichhewrote forPauline. to aparticularvocalstyleredolent ofmusiccomposed soprano voice,andtheseswansongs returnonefinaltime Throughout hiscareerStrauss hadaloveaffairwiththe Schlafengehen) andSunset

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© Jeremy Hosking Samantha Crawford Corn ExchangeNewburyFriday 24thMay12.30pm box office0845 5218218 Samantha Crawford DVD (Sony). andfilmedfor television andradiofortheBBC have beenbroadcastonlivecinemarelayinEurope, Vaughan Williams’ Mendelssohn’s Requiem, Mozart’sDvořák’s l’amour etdelaMeratBarbicanMiltonCourt,Verdi’s for theCityofLondonFestival, de Chausson’s Poème George’s HanoverSquare,Wagner’s WesendonkLieder Gloucester Cathedral,Strauss’VierLetzteLiederatSt recent performancesincludeMendelssohn’sElijah Schlosstheater SchönbrunnandCadoganHall.Her Fischer, Wales MillenniumCentre,LSOSt.Luke’s, NOWunderThierry Hall underMartynBrabbins,BBC Hall,RoyalAlbertBarbican repertoire attheWigmore In concertSamanthahasalsosungabroadrangeof Martin’s Frau Fluth(DieLustigenWeiberVon), Popelka Windsor in Figaro), Micaëla(CarmenRosalindeDieFledermaus Further rolesperformedincludeContessa(LeNozzidi Screw) forGlyndebourneonTour (dir. JonathanKent). for ScottishOpera,andMissJessel(TheTurn ofthe TutteBrandenburg Sinfonia,coveredFiordiligi(CosiFan ) Garsington Opera,Dido(andAenaes)withthe Zauberflöte) andDonnaElvira(DonGiovannifor Semyon Bychkov(dir. ClausGuth),ErsteDame(Die ) forTeatroBlumenmädchen (Parsifal RealMadridunder with StuartSkeltoninconcertLondon, Freishütz) forBlackheathOpera,Sieglinde(DieWalküre) Théâtre municipaldeFontainebleau, Agathe(Der recent rolesincludethetitleroleinSuorAngelicaat Edinburgh Festival, Herother underMarkWigglesworth. ) tocriticalacclaimattheAldeburghFestivalWingrave and made herdebutintheroleofMrs.Coyle(Owen Dame KiriTe Kanawa.Ontheoperastage,Samantha International OperaticSingingCompetition,chairedby Samantha wasafinalistfortheinauguralHongKong Royal PhilharmonicSocietyChilcottAward finalist.In2018 Comedy ontheBridge. , Berg’sSiebenFrüheLiederand Paulus A SeaSymphony.Herperformances Competition andwasa Wagner SocietySinging President’s Prizeatthe won FirstPrizeandthe Singer Award. In2016she Society EmergingWagner 2017/18 NSWWagner Competition andthe Berliner InternationalMusic with Honoursatthe2017 awarded theGoldenMedal Samantha Crawfordwas British Australiansoprano Stabat Mater, at

© Felipe Tozzato Gavin Roberts and TheCityofLondonCorporation. Musical Trust, TheTait HelpMusiciansUK, MemorialTrust Mozart SingingCompetition,TheCountessofMunster Theater Kiel,TheAustralianMusicFoundation, The awards includingGesangswettbewerbSonderpreis Artist Programmes.Samanthaisarecipientofnumerous Stipendium, Britten-Pears, andGarsingtonAlvarezYoung Scholar. SheisanalumnaoftheWagner Bayreuth and DramawithDistinctionasaBaronessdeTurckheim Samantha graduatedfromtheGuildhallSchoolofMusic James’ Lincolnshire. by RobertCarsen,andRossini’sStabatMateratSt Der RingDesNibelungenatTeatro RealMadrid,directed Upcoming engagementsincludeherdebutinWagner’s www.songinthecity.org Church. Moredetails:www.gavinroberts.org & Organist andDirectorofMusic atStMaryleboneParish Master’s degreefromKing’s College London.Gavinis organ scholarship.Following this,Gavingaineda and CaiusCollege,Cambridge,wherehealsoheldthe now aProfessor. HepreviouslyreadMusicatGonville at theGuildhallSchoolofMusic&Drama,whereheis Gavin studiedpianowithAndrewWest andEugeneAsti commissions forSongintheCity. project isaCDrecordingofLondon-themedsong ASV,BBC, GuildandPrioryRecords.Hismostrecent works. Hehasplayedonnumerousrecordingsforthe accompanist, oftengivingpremiereperformancesofnew Radiobroadcastsas asoloistand regularly onBBC and thelateRichardHickox.Gavinhasappeared Boys’ Choir, andasarepetiteurforSirRogerNorrington of Singers,ConstanzaChorus,TheHanoverBand,Tiffin Singers,TheJoyfulCompany He hasplayedforTheBBC one-woman showsNovello&Sonand and actorRosamundShelley, withwhomheperformsher was thewinnerofOxfordLiederYoung ArtistPlatform, works regularlywithsopranoLucyHall,whomhe FestivalRyedale and TheOxfordLiederFestival. He Festival, TheLudlowWeekend ofEnglishSong,The Dartington International The CheltenhamFestival, City. Hehasappearedat recital seriesSonginthe Artistic Directorofthe Royal Festival Hall,andis the BarbicanHalland Hall, in recitalatWigmore He haspartneredsingers accompanist. varied careerasapiano Gavin Robertsenjoysa War Songs. 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page125 Corn ExchangeNewburyFriday 24thMay7.30pm virtuosic playing and impressive improvisation. dazzle audiences with infectious big band arrangements, mainstream, working with the top songwriters of the day to and swing music into the previously classically-dominated era in the mid-30s. Musically, Goodman catapulted jazz as the man who kick-started the beginning of the swing began to gain real popular appeal; Goodman is often cited and radio broadcasts swing music by his band in LA, his own band. In 1935, following a number of concerts It wasn’t until the mid-1930s that Benny Goodman formed playing inNewYork. 1920s wasawell-knownsessionmusicianlivingand was recruitedbybandleaderBenPollack andbythe impoverished familylivinginChicago,asateenagerhe on stagebytheageoftwelve.Bornin1909toan playing theclarinetfromayoungageandwasperforming great BennyGoodman.LikeJulian,Goodmanbegan great tunesoftheswingera,focusingonwork Our concertwilltakeyouonatripthroughsomeofthe A Tribute toBennyGoodman Sponsored byMr&MrsMarkEdwards Ed Richardson Tim Thornton Colin Oxley Neal Thornton Lewis Wright Martin Shaw Julian Bliss The JulianBlissSeptet A Tribute toBennyGoodman guitar clarinet vibraphone trumpet bass piano kit Way, Stompin’attheSavoy (Rifftide), Tonight’s setwillincludefavouritessuchasLadyBeGood a characteristicdoseoftongue-in-cheekhumour. sharing anecdotesandstoriesaboutGoodman’slifewith known tunes,Julianwilltalkyouthroughthemusic, As wetakeyouthroughsomeofBennyGoodman’sbest- modern twisttothemusic. true tothespiritandstyleoferabutbringingourown unmistakeable soundofthirtiesandfortiesswing;staying reviewers. Thiseveningwewillrecreatethe June 2012tocriticalacclaimfrombothjazzandclassical recorded in2011andreleasedonSignumRecords music. ThealbumATribute toBennyGoodman up theJulianBlissSeptettohonourandperformhis Benny Goodmanfromtheageofseven,andin2010set Julian becameenamouredwiththeperformancesof Georgia Brown,SingSing,Don’tbethat www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk and Memories ofYou. was 125 Fri 24th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page126 126 Fri 24th entertaining, enjoyableandsurprisingasever. the audiencesoftodaycontinuetofindtheseclassicsas Rhythm, EmbraceableYou and Bess,RhapsodyinBlue arrangements forthegroup,includingmusicfromPorgy Gershwin andhiscontemporaries.Asuiteoforiginal recognizable soundsofTin Pan Alleythroughmusicby most recentlyshowcasingthestoriesandinstantly- Today theSeptetperformsawideandvariedprogramme, complement therichheritageofthesegenres. mastery ofWestern classical,swingandjazzto the LatinandwiderAmericantraditions,usingtheir formative years,thegroupbegantoperformmusicfrom the foundationfortheirfuturesuccess.Following its gained widespreadcriticalandpopularacclaimlaid Goodman’s work,theSeptet’sfirstalbumandliveshow musician. Taking afresh,modernapproachto Goodman, whoseiconicmusicinspiredJulianasayoung Initially thegroupfocusedonworkofgreatBenny shows. delighting audienceswiththeirupliftingandhumorous covering anumberofpackedclubsandconcerthalls, Amsterdam, BermudaJazzFestival andtwoUStours HallinLondon,theConcertgebouw Scott’s, Wigmore venues andfestivalsaround,includingthefamousRonnie The Bandhasplayedatsomeofthemostprestigious of virtuosity. entertaining, innatelymusicalplayinganddazzlingshows the headydaysofclassicswingandjazzthroughtheir musicians intheirownright,transportlistenersbackto The membersoftheSeptet,allexceptionalsolo American andjazzmusictoaudiencesacrosstheworld. renowned forbringingthesoundofswing,Latin, The JulianBlissSeptetwasformedin2010andtodayis The JulianBlissSeptet Corn ExchangeNewburyFriday 24thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 A Tribute toBennyGoodman and and popularfavouritesIGot Lady BeGood,ensurethat Julian Bliss Carducci Quartet. tour withhisseptet,andchamberconcertsthe Shorter, withthe ArgoviaPhilharmonic,extensiveUSA highlights includeanexcitingnewconcertobyWayne composers withAmericanpianist,BradleyMoore.Recent Africa andarecitalalbumofRussianFrench inspired bythegumbootdancingofminersinSouth for clarinet&stringquartetbyDavidBruce–Gumboots Sinfonia. Thelatestchamberdiscsincludeanewpiece Mozart andNielsen’sConcertos week spotsandmediaattention,includehisrecordingof releases receivingravereviewsfromcritics,albumofthe Concertgebouw (Amsterdam)andacrosstheUSAlbum houses infestivals,RonnieScott’s(London),the Cuba, thathavegoneontobeperformedpacked Swing, BennyGoodmanandLatinmusicfromBrazil Bliss Septet,creatingprogrammesinspiredbyKingof Philharmonic Orchestra.In2010heestablishedtheJulian Philharmonic Orchestra,LondonandRoyal Orchestra ofParis andAucklandPhilharmoniatotheBBC orchestras, fromtheSaoPaolo Symphony, Chamber has appearedwithawiderangeofinternational (London) andLincolnCenter(NewYork). Asasoloist,he Mecklenburg Vorpommern, Verbier, Hall Wigmore leading festivalsandvenuesincludingGstaad, chamber musichehasplayedatmostoftheworld’s in thediversityanddistinctionofhiswork.Inrecital Meyer. Thebreadthanddepthofhisartistryarereflected University ofIndianaandinGermanyunderSabine the clarinetage4,goingontostudyinUSat Julianstartedplaying to hisinstrument.BornintheUK, substantial newaudience clarinets, andintroduceda Selmer rangeofaffordable and creatorofhisConn- players asguestlecturer generation ofyoung explorer. Hehasinspireda leader andtirelessmusical jazz artist,masterclass soloist, chambermusician, excelling asaconcerto world’s finestclarinettists, Julian Blissisoneofthe with theRoyalNorthern – 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page127 Song ofSongs2:17 Untilthedaybreakandshadowsfleeaway,II Song ofSongs1:2&15 Lethimkissmewithkissesofhismouth: I Four Songsof Love SVEN-DAVID SANDSTRÖM Choral DanceNo.2,Gloriana Not one,notbutonlytwo,twocanreach. The ripestfruithangswhere, Each needetheach: Concord, ConcordandTime, ConcordandTime plenty,With peaceandhappiness. And thisourland,andlandtoendue Our daystobless Concord, Concordishere,here Concord (1913-1976) BRITTEN BENJAMIN St Martin’sChurchEastWoodhay Friday 24thMay7.30pm Sponsored byMrandMrsPatrick Hungerford,MrandMrsToby Ward passionate devotion. and strikingharmonyofMacMillanBritten,combiningtoconjureanintimateevocativeatmosphere The programmefeaturesthestunningpolyphonyofTallis, VictoriaandClemensalongsidemorehomophonic textures renaissance withcontemporaryvoicesandarrangementsofwell-knownpopular, jazzandfolksongs. crafted programmeexploringtheeternaldualityofloveandlossthroughjuxtapositionworksbymasters After lastyear’shugelysuccessfulperformanceattheFestival, SANSARAmakeawelcomereturnwiththisspecially Britten Clemens de Victoria Steven Calve Rodgers Billy Joel Tallis James MacMillan Ed Newton-Rex Sven-David Sandström Britten Benjamin Cunningham Tom Herring SANSARA SANSARA My love is like a red, red rose OrayounghartuponthemountainsofBethor. Turn mybeloved,and bethoulikearoe Behold,thouartfairmylove,hastdove’seyes. For thyloveisbetterthanwine. Ave Rosasinespinis HymntoStCecilia Concord Adieumonesperance MyFunny Valentine Andsoitgoes Vadam etcircuibo NightSong ArtisticDirector Sonnet116 TheGallantWeaver Four SongsofLove Four Co-ArtisticDirector (1942) I neverwrit,nornomanever loved. If thisbeerroranduponmeproved, But bearsitouteventotheedge ofdoom. Love altersnotwithhisbriefhours andweeks, his bendingsickle’scompasscome; Within Love’s notTime’s fool,thoughrosylipsandcheeks Whose worth’sunknown,althoughhisheightbetaken. It isthestartoeverywanderingbark, That looksontempestsandisnevershaken; O no!itisanever-fixéd mark Or bendswiththeremovertoremove: Which alterswhenitalterationfinds, Admit impediments.Loveisnotlove Let menottothemarriageoftrueminds Sonnet 116 ED NEWTON-REX(1987) Song ofSongs8:3 Hislefthandshallbeundermyhead, IV Song ofSongs4:16 Awake, Onorthwind; andcomethousouth; III Andhisrighthandshallembraceme. Letmybelovedcomeintohisgardenandeatits Blowuponmygarden,thatthespicesthereofmay pleasant fruits. flow out. www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk William Shakespeare William 127 Fri 24th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page128 128 Fri 24th Et postmorteminaeternum: Per praegustumhicaeternum Quo nossemperdonafrui ET BENEDICTUSFRUCTUSVENTRISTUI, Et superomnesexaltatam. Coeli dicunttebeatam Hoc testaturomnistribus; BENEDICTA INMULIERIBUS: O quamdulcevasamoris. Opere triniconditoris: Verbo intecarnefacto DOMINUS TECUM:miropacto Et totiuspietatis. Vas divinaebonitatis Spiritus Sanctusdumtefecit GRATIA teperfecit PLENA: Qua praefulgescunctisdatis. Luce claradeitatis, Tu aNatoillustraris MARIA stelladictamaris, Et abomnivaepurgavit. Majestate sublimavit, Te quamPater indivinis AVE rosasinespinis, Ave Rosasinespinis THOMAS TALLIS (1505-1585) I lovemygallantWeaver. While corngrowsgreeninsummershowers, While beesdelightinopeningflowers, While birdsrejoiceinleafybowers, And giveittotheWeaver. But tomyheartI'lladdhand, To gietheladthathasland, My daddiesign'dmytocher-band, And IgiedittotheWeaver. And Iwasfear'dmyheartwadtine, They giedmeringsandribbonsfine; O, Ihadwooersaughtornine, He isagallantWeaver. There livesalad,theladforme, By monyaflowerandspreadingtree, Where Cartrinsrowin'tothesea, The GallantWeaver JAMES MACMILLAN(1959) St Martin’sChurchEastWoodhay Friday 24thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 SANSARA Robert Burns and afterdeathinperpetuity. here asaninnerforetaste, a giftforusalwaystoenjoy ISTHEFRUITOF YOURAND BLESSED WOMB, and raisedhighaboveall. The heavensacknowledgeyoutobeblessed all nationsdeclarethis. AREYOUBLESSED AMONGWOMEN: O, howsweetavesseloflove. by thedeedoftriunecreator: the wordoflifemadeflesh THE LORD ISWITHYOU inawondrousway, and totalobedience. the vesselofdivinegoodness filled youwhileitmade FULL OFGRACEtheHolySpirit through whichyoushinewitheveryvirtue. with thebrightlightofdivinity, by yoursonyouaremaderesplendent MARY, calledthestarofsea, and madefreefromallsorrow. in divinemajesty setonhigh whom theFather rosewithoutthorns, HAIL, 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page129 Yet you'remyfavoriteworkofart Unphotographable Your looksare laughable You makeme smilewithmyheart Sweet comicvalentine My funnyvalentine My Funny Valentine arr. HARRYBAKER(1997) RICHARD RODGERS(1902-1979) And you'retheonlyonewhoknows And soitgoes,andgoes And youcanhavethishearttobreak But youcanmakedecisionstoo That's ifthechoicewereminetomake So Iwouldchoosetobewithyou And you'retheonlyonewhoknows And soitgoes,andgoes It's justaswellforallI'veseen And thisiswhymyeyesareclosed And youcanhavethishearttobreak So Iwillsharethisroomwithyou Then thatwouldbemyworstmistake But ifmysilencemadeyouleave And sowillyousoonIsuppose And soitgoes,andgoes It seemsIonlyfeltthethorns And everytimeI'veheldarose My silenceismyselfdefense And stillIfeelsaidtoomuch You answeredmewithnopretense I spoketoyouincautioustones Until anewonecomesalong To healthewoundsfromloverspast A sanctuarysafeandstrong In everyheartthereisaroom And soitgoes (1949)arr. (1955) CHILCOTT BOB BILLY JOEL Amen. Clemens sume,OMaria. Conde tuosinupia, Tuae laudisgratumpensum, Hunc, Virgo,salutissensum, St Martin’sChurchEastWoodhay Friday 24thMay7.30pm SANSARA Billy Joel Amen. the gratefulobjectofyourprayers. salvation, receive intotheholyrefugeofyourheartthisperception O mercifulvirginMary, www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk Trans. TheCardinall’sMusick 129 Fri 24th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page130 130 Fri 24th et apprehenditfructuseius. Ascendit inpalmam, et quaeremuseumtecum? Quo declinavit Quo abiitdilectustuus,opulcherrimamulierum? filiae Jerusalem. Talis estdilectusmeus,etamicus electus exmilibus. Dilectus meuscandidusetrubicundus, quia sicadiurastinos? Qualis estdilectustuus, quia amorelangueo. ut annuntietisei Adiuro vos,filiaeJerusalem,siinveneritisdilectummeum, quaesivi illum,etnoninveni. quaeram quemdiligitanimamea; per vicosetplateas Vadam etcircuibocivitatem: Vadam etcircuibo TOMAS LÚISDEVICTORIA Through itsstreetsandsquares I willrisenowandgoaboutthecity I lookedforhim,butcouldnotfindhim And lookedfortheonewhommysoulloves At nightIawokealoneinmybed Night Song STEVEN CALVER (1984) St Martin’sChurchEastWoodhay Friday 24thMay7.30pm Las pardonnezlemoy! Si agranttortsuisblasmée. Et sinescaypourquoy Las vousmaveslaisse, Iusques aurevenir. Adieu maconfidence, Adieu monsouvenir, Adieu monesperance, Adieu monesperance CLEMENS NONPAPA (1510-1555) box office0845 5218218 SANSARA Each dayisValentine's Day Stay, littlevalentine,stay Not ifyoucareforme But don'tchangeahairforme Are yousmart When youopenittospeak Is yourmouthalittleweak Is yourfigurelessthanGreek Song ofSongs3:2,5:8-10,16-17,7:8 (1548-1611) After SongofSongs3:2 Music byRichardRodgers Lyrics byLorenzHart Alas forgiveme! I amsounjustlyblamed. And Idon’tknowwhy Alas, youhaveleftme, Until yourreturn. Goodbye youinwhomIcouldconfide, Goodbye mymemories, Goodbye myhope, thereof. I willgoupintothepalmtree,andtakeholdoffruit and wewillseekhimwiththee? women? Whitherisheturnedaside, Whither isthybelovedgone,Othoumostbeautifulamong O yedaughtersofJerusalem. Such ismybeloved,andhefriend, My belovediswhiteandruddy, chosenoutofthousands. adjured us? What mannerofoneisthybeloved,thatthouhastso that Ilanguishwithlove. beloved, thatyoutellhim I adjureyou,OdaughtersofJerusalem,ifyoufindmy I soughthim,andfoundhimnot. I willseekhimwhommysoulloveth: in thestreetsandsquares I willrise,andgoaboutthecity: 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page131 Restore ourfallenday;Ore-arrange. Into aworldoftruthsthatnever change: And Dreadbornwholeandnormal likeabeast From everyoutwornimageisreleased, Where Hopewithinthealtogether strange The gauchenessofheradolescentstate, Where Sorrowisherself, forgetting all O calmofspacesunafraidweight, O earwhosecreaturescannotwishtofall, Different. Loveme. I shallneverbe For anydeed. No longerneedit Dancing becauseyou All youlivedthrough, By suffering. Can nowdonothing When itknows I amdefeat Whom Icouldwrong. Whom Ibelongto, There isnocreature I cannoterr; I onlyplay. To runawayfrom, I havenoshadow I cannotgrow; Composing mortalswithimmortalfire. Translated Daughter, comedownandstartle To allmusicians,appearandinspire: Blessed Cecilia,appearinvisions The hugeflameflickeredandeasedtheirpain. And aroundthewickedinHell'sabysses Came outoftheirtranceintotimeagain, At soundssoentrancingtheangelsdancing In anoystershellontopofthesea; White asanorchidsherodequitenaked Moved todelightbythemelody, Blonde Aphroditeroseupexcited, Thundered outontheRomanair. And notestremendousfromhergreatengine Constructed anorgantoenlargeherprayer, And byocean'smarginthisinnocentvirgin Poured forthhersonginperfectcalm: Like ablackswanasdeathcameon reverentcadenceandsubtlepsalm, With In agardenshadythisholylady Hymn toStCecilia BRITTEN St Martin’sChurchEastWoodhay Friday 24thMay7.30pm SANSARA Though 'tweretenthousandmile. And Iwillcomeagain,mylove, Though 'tweretenthousandmile; Though 'tweretenthousandmile, mylove Though 'tweretenthousandmile. And Iwillcomeagain,mylove, So fairtheeweelawhile! So fairtheeweel,myonlylove! While thesandso'lifeshallrun. And Iwilllovetheestill,mydear, And rocksmeltwi'thesun; Till a'theseasgangdry, mydear Till a'theseasgang dry And Iwilllovetheestill,mydear Till a'theseasgang dry Till a'theseasgang dry, mydear Till a'theseasgang dry. And Iwilllovetheestill,mydear, Sae deepinloveamI; As fairartthou,mybonnylass, That's sweetlyplayedintune. Oh, myloveislikeamelody That's newlysprunginJune; Oh, myloveislikeared,redrose My loveislikeared,redrose arr. BRITTEN W HAuden(1907-1973) O wearyourtribulationlikearose. About thefortressoftheirinnerfoe. O trumpetsthatunguardedchildrenblow O blessthefreedomthatyouneverchose. Of convalescentsontheshoresofdeath. O flutethatthrobswiththethanksgivingbreath That whathasbeenmayneverbeagain. Long winterofourintellectualwill. O lawdrummedoutbyheartsagainstthestill O weep,child,weepawaythestain. Is drawnacrossourtremblingviolin. O crycreatedasthebowofsin Weep forthelivesyourwishesneverled. Lost innocencewhowishedyourloverdead, O weep,child,weepawaythestain, Impetuous childwiththetremendousbrain, Of dreadfulthingsyoudid:Ohangthehead, So gayagainstthegreatersilences So smallbesidetheirlargeconfusingwords, Playing amongtheruinedlanguages, O dearwhitechildrencasualasbirds, SIMON CARRINGTON www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk (1942) Robert Burns 131 Fri 24th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page132 132 Fri 24th Radio 3’sTheChoir, BreakfastandEssentialClassics. & Organ).ThedischassincebeenfeaturedonBBC (The Observer)and“breath-takinginterpretations”(Choir the group’s“perfectintonationandclean,puresound” released inFebruary 2017andreceived highpraisefor The choir’sdebutrecording,ClothsofHeaven,was composer present. Pärt’s musicatStJohn’sSmithSquare,withthe Festival, Festival, Winchester andaperformanceofArvo include theLondonACappellaFestival, Temple Winter Choir Competition,thechoir’sperformancehighlights ofthe2015LondonInternationalACappella Winners live experiences. tying thematicandtextuallinksintorichmusical-poetic choral musicoldandnewinvividnarrativeprogrammes, performances ofabroadrangerepertoire,juxtaposing The choirhasrapidlygainedareputationforcaptivating vision. together withaunifiedvoicetoexpresssharedartistic versatile groupofprofessionalmusicians,working director orconductor. Theresultisahighlyengagedand SANSARA worksasachamberensemblewithoutsingle atmospheres, communicatingwithclarityandintegrity. making, alwaysstrivingtoconjurecompelling SANSARA realisesthisthroughdirectandhonestmusic- instrument withunparalleledexpressivepotential. collective bodyofvoices,achoirisliving,breathing on theperformanceofacappellachoralmusic.As SANSARA isanaward-winningvocalensemblefocused SANSARA Schola CantorumofOxfordand inDecember2013 a ChoralScholar. WhilstatMerton,Tom waschairmanof where heachievedaFirst-Class degreein Musicandwas London. HeisagraduateofMerton College,Oxford, Tom isaprofessionalsinger andconductorbasedin Tom Herring St Martin’sChurchEastWoodhay Friday 24thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 SANSARA composer present. Competition andaconcertofArvoPärt’smusicwiththe in the2015LondonInternationalACappellaChoir performances withSANSARAatStJohn’sSmithSquare Conductinghighlightsincludeprize-winning Williams). Mark Padmore, SirJohnTomlinson andRoderick (Curlew River)andArthurJonesBillyBudd,alongside roles includeCollatinus(TheRapeofLucretia),Abbot and Benjamin Cunningham Winchester Cathedral. Winchester Smith Square,TheTemple Church,KingsPlaceand London andtheSouthofEngland, includingSt.John’s and hasconductedtheminmany concertsandvenuesin Festival. BenjaminisaCo-ArtisticDirectorofSANSARA, 2017, BenjaminwasaYoung ArtistattheNewburySpring The Queen’s,Keble andExeter CollegesinOxford.In Chichester Cathedrals,ReadingTown Hall,and,Merton, Westminster Abbey, StPaul’s, Westminster and Benjamin hasgivenanumberofrecitals,mostnotablyat year wasOrganScholarofChichesterCathedral. Music, inwhichheattainedaFirst,andduringhisgap Worcester College,Oxfordwhilst readingforadegreein choristers. BenjaminwasalsoOrganScholarof conducting services,aswellthetrainingofboy shared intheresponsibilitiesofplayingforand Matthew Passion and Truth), BachMagnificat performances ofHandelMessiah Cadogan Hall.Othersoloappearancesinclude Vesperae solennes,andFaurés Requiem.Operatic and , MozartsRequiem St JohnPassion (East AnglianAcademy),St August 2018wherehe Abbey fromJuly2016- Scholar atWestminster post, BenjaminwasOrgan to takinguphiscurrent teaching department.Prior time memberofthe Organist. Heisalsoafull- the College’sPrincipal College,andis Winchester Chapel Musicat Assistant Directorof Benjamin Cunninghamis at theLondonpremière Magnificat recording ofOliverTarney’s bass soloistonthe2015 Contrapunctus. Heisthe Tenebrae, Vox Luminisand ensembles including world-renowned vocal performed withseveral and solosinginghas Tom enjoysbothchoral chamber choirSANSARA. founded theaward-winning (Instruments ofTime and performed 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page133 Corn ExchangeNewburySaturday25thMay11.00am Russia, the USA, Canada,South KoreaRussia, theUSA, andTaiwan. Europe, audiences attheatresandfestivalsintheUK, puppet theatre.Overtheyearstheyhaveentertained creators ofhigh-quality, thoughtfulandentertaining Hand toMouthTheatre:MartinBridleandSuEatonare out wherehebelongs. restore thememoryoflostpuppetdogToby and find playing vintagemusicalinstrumentstheyeventually andJudypuppets marionettes, seasidePunch Telling stories,singingsongs,usingtintoys,hand-carved Memory Lane. teach anewdogoldtricksandsolveTheMysteryof brac marketstallwhereMrShabbyandMrsChictryto This warmandnostalgicshowisbasedaroundabric-a- memories! chance torememberforgottenfunandmakenew Another delightfromHandtoMouthTheatreanda The MysteryofMemoryLane Sponsored byTheSheepdroveTrust Su Eaton Martin Bridle Hand toMouthTheatre The MysteryofMemoryLane for hissolohandpuppetshowsinschoolsandtheatres. Little ShopofHorrors puppet theatre.HeworkedonLabyrinth recognised asahighly-skilled puppeteeranddirectorof Centre. Heisnow puppetry administratedbythePuppet was thefirstrecipientofGulbenkianbursaryfor After studyingsculptureatExeterCollegeofArt,Martin Martin Bridle They arebasedinTheNewForest. Greek islandofHydraatnightbeneaththestars! of theDemilitarisedZone,andaperformanceon California, showsinSouthKorea againstthebarbedwire been aperformancefortheanimatorsatPixarStudiosin Amongst theirnumerousnotableperformanceshave Martin. and workshopsinschools,aswellperformingwith children, andpresentshersoloshadowpuppetshows one-person exhibitions.Shehasillustratedbooksfor also trainedatExeterCollegeofArt,andhashadseveral Su isanartist,illustrator, musicianandperformer. She Su Eaton (Oz), andiswellknownintheUK www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk (Henson) and 133 Sat 25th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSF programme book 23/04/2019 12:34 Page 134

Pasadena Roof Orchestra Corn Exchange Newbury Saturday 25th May 7.30pm

50th Anniversary Tour Duncan Galloway leader

Pasadena Roof Orchestra Henderson from the early ‘30s. Of course it helps to have the right kind of period instrument and to have painstakingly researched the style. But it is the jazz spirit and passion of each member of the orchestra which brings the music alive.

But is it all nostalgic recreation? Not if nostalgia is merely a wistful, sentimental yearning for times past. For fifty years the Orchestra has vividly captured an atmosphere, a mood which is stylish and elegant, yet forceful and vivacious; but above all, life-affirming good fun!

Duncan Galloway Duncan trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. So where does the music of the Pasadena Roof Orchestra Music had always taken a fit? It isn’t ‘pop’ (though some of it was). It isn’t prominent part in his life, contemporary ‘jazz’, though its roots are in jazz and and he is best-known as dance music. It isn’t ‘classical’, yet it draws on the past for the Lead Singer and Band- its material, in particular the classic jazz repertoire from Leader of the world famous Duke Ellington (long featured on BBC Radio 3), music Pasadena Roof Orchestra, from the Great American Songbook and the likes ‘a charming English of Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, Kern, which have become gentleman with a smooth ‘standards’ in their own right, as have wonderful songs voice and easy going from Ray Noble, Hoagy Carmichael and a host of famous style’. names. Duncan has sung at many prominent Jazz festivals. He This music is as good as the twentieth century has to has performed at The Albert Hall, Berlin Philharmonie and offer. In its way, this is the classical music of the twentieth the Ambassadors Theatre in Pasadena California, and has century. Listen to the sounds that grew out of New led the Pasadena Roof Orchestra at Buckingham Palace Orleans, New York and 1920s Europe. The growling for the Royal Christmas party, where the Queen was trumpet, the muted trombone, the wailing saxophone and present. the clarinet glissando over the driving sounds of the rhythm section. The spot light sharp-focused on the Duncan toured South Korea in October 2011 with his vocalist at the microphone, crooning “Whatever hearts Quintet the ‘DGQ’ a trip which included a hugely may desire, whatever fate may send....”. You’ll hear the successful appearance at the Jarasum Island Jazz sweet side in Paddlin’ Madelin’ Home and Me & Jane in a Festival and a surprise visit to the ‘Once in a Blue Moon’ Plane. But now Cotton Club Stomp heats up the Jazz Club in Seoul. atmosphere before the supercharged sound of Cab Calloway’s Minnie the Moocher brings the house down. Since 2012 he has been co-owner and Artistic Director of the Pasadena Roof Orchestra which in 2019 is celebrating Over its fifty year history, the Orchestra has built an un- its 50th birthday. matched library of music. Some of the arrangements are note-for-note as played by Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Noble, Jack Hylton or other classic outfits of the period. Many are their own special arrangements, crafted in the style. It takes a special skill to change the attitude from a twenties ‘Charleston’ sound over to the ‘uptown swing’ of an arrangement from Duke Ellington or Fletcher Sat 25th

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Thevigouristemporarilyinterrupted bya pointed Fugue mirrorstheintensity andbustleofthe to stiranduplift.Thentheexcitementofurgently Elgarian nobilmentetune,whichhasneverlostitspower Walton’s to theperfectionandproductionofSpitfire. that hehadonlyayeartolive,gavehimselfunsparingly was sufferingfromanincurablediseaseand,knowing September 1940wasamorepersonaldrama:Mitchell Battle ofBritainandthoseblazinglytensedays was doublydramatic.Againstthebackgroundof Mitchell, thedesignerofSpitfire.Thechoicesubject , inwhichLeslieHowardstarredasR.J.First oftheFew several films,ofwhichthemostoutstandingisthatforThe During thewaryearsWalton composedthemusicfor Belshazzar’s Feast andtheSymphonyNo.1. masterpieces, includingtheViolaandViolinconcertos, international musicscene,astheresultofasuccession Few By thetimehewrotemusicforfilm Spitfire SIR Supported byFriends ofNewburySpringFestival Sponsored byTheAdrianSwireCharitableTrust andVaughan CharitableTrust. Williams Symphony. andtheSpringFestivalSophie Bevan,RoderickWilliams ChorusunitetoperformVaughan remarkable ASea Williams’ Grimes.FinallytheOrchestra, SeaInterludes,takenfromhisoperaPeter Moving tothesea,wethenhearBritten’sFour favourite aircraft. Walton’s rousingandpatrioticSpitfire the airandsea,underdirectionofMartynBrabbins,MusicDirectorEnglishNationalOpera. The BournemouthSymphonyOrchestrareturntoclosetheFestival in2019withanexcitingeveningdrawingtogether Newbury SpringFestival Chorus Roderick Williams Sophie Bevan Martyn Brabbins Bournemouth SymphonyOrchestra St NicolasChurchNewburySaturday25thMay7.30pm Bournemouth SymphonyOrchestra in 1942,Walton wasacelebratedfigureonthe WILLIAM WALTON Prelude Prelude soprano and conductor consists ofafanfarefollowedbyan baritone Fugue (1902-1983) Prelude andFugue openstheconcert-acelebrationofonenation’s The Firstofthe © Terry Barfoot the waves.Gradually themoonlightfills scene, whose bassoon, hornsandlowerstrings representtheswellof depicts theskyoverBorough, whilechordson Ellen Orford. theme paintsasympatheticportrait ofPeter’s companion church bellssummonthecongregation. Thelegatostring Sunday MorningcomesatthebeginningofActII,as fishermen areworkingontheirnets. opens onthebeachacoldgreymorningas dead apprentice,andActISceneoftheopera,which Prologue, whichtakestheformofinquestonGrimes’s Vaughan Williams Interval SeaInterludes Four Britten the drama.The descriptive oftheseaandpsychologicaltensions order forconcertpurposes,andtheirmusicisboth comment ontheaction.Theyareperformedinarevised The boat farouttosea. eventually hehasnochoicebuttodeliberatelysinkhis and hisowninnerturmoilareirreconcilable,until suffers afatalaccident.Grimes’sconflictswithsociety circumstances’, andinthecourseofactionanother already diedinwhatthecourtdescribedas‘accidental overstretch himselfandothers.Oneapprenticeofhishas ambition anddesireforindependencedrivehimto that ofafishermanatoddswiththehiscommunity, whose Crabbe’s (1754-1832)poemTheBorough.storyis prologue, withalibrettobyMotaguSlaterafterGeorge Britten’s opera 4. Storm 3. Moonlight 2. SundayMorning 1. 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Theneweditionwilladoptthis for hisownperformances,thechangehasnever publishers and,thoughAdrianBoultadoptedthepractice accordingly. However, thischangeneverreachedthe composer markedhisowncopyoftheprintedfullscore than withhornsandtrumpets.Atthesametime should beplayedwithtrombonesandtrumpetsrather he asksthatinfutureperformancestheopeningtwobars following aradioperformanceofASeaSymphony.Inthis toSirAdrianBoulton1stFebruaryWilliams 1945 preparation, aletterhascometolightwrittenbyVaughan supporting aneweditionofASeaSymphony.Duringits The Vaughan CharitableTrust Williams iscurrently The brooding naturesuggestsasenseofimpendingdisaster. Rhapsodies, studiedwithRavel, andcomposedthe edited completion in1909,hecollected hundredsoffolksongs, symphony’s six-year gestation. Betweenthenandits tentatively calledSongsoftheSea, 1903 hebegantosketchaWhitman choralwork at Cambridge.Itwasanenthusiasmthatnevercooled.In work byBertrandRussellwhiletheywereundergraduates A SeaSymphony.HehadbeenintroducedtoWhitman’s whobroughtboththeseinspirations togetherin Williams, Delius, HolstandHartyespeciallyforRalphVaughan Stanford, CharlesWood andothers pavedthewayfor was thepoetryofAmericanWalt Whitman.Settingsby examples. AnotherpreoccupationforBritishcomposers the SeaandFrank Bridge’s The Seabeingobvious (actually 1899),Debussy’s popular subjectforcomposers-Elgar’sSeaPictures In theearlyyearsof20thcentury, theseawasa 4. TheExplorers 3. Scherzo:TheWaves 2. OntheBeachatNight,Alone 1. ASongforAllSeas,Ships A SeaSymphony St NicolasChurchNewburySaturday25thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 Bournemouth SymphonyOrchestra Storm The EnglishHymnal,wrotethree Norfolk was firstperformedatSadler’sWells Theatreon interlude occursearlierintheopera,linking La mer,Stanford’sSongsof the startof © Terry Barfoot Hugh Cobbe Philosophical meditation isbanishedfromthe scherzo, many anotherVaughan symphonicmovement. Williams music returnsandthispoetic movementendsquietlylike music growsmoreecstaticuntil thebaritone’sopening ‘vast similitude’interlockingall. Atthethoughtofthis, quicker episodeasthebaritone andchoruscontemplate semi-chorus ofwomen’svoices.Hornsintroducea universes andofthefuture,hiswordsechoedby shore underthebrightstars,pondersclefof a mysticalatmosphereasthesoloist,standingon by thefullchorus.Darkandambiguousharmoniescreate borrowed fromElgar’s accompanied firstbythesemi-chorus(aninnovation The slowmovementisanocturneforthebaritone, ‘Behold thesea’themebysoloists. movement toaquietendingwithreminiscenceofthe waving over‘allsailorsandships’thatbringsthe great choralclimax.Itisthisidealofa‘pennantuniversal’ duty’. Herethemusicofintroductionunderpinsa death’ anda‘tokenofallwhowentdowndoingtheir one flagabovealltherest,‘emblemofmanelate sombre moodwithhermentionofthe‘soulman’and idea offlagsandship-signalsbutintroducesamore nations’. 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Themesfromthisintroductionrecurinvarious followed bythefullchorus’sexultant‘Beholdsea work’s wonderfulopening-thefanfareonbrass Imagine thethrillforthatfirstaudienceofhearing the leadingEnglishfigureinpost-Elgar generation. reception leftnodoubtthatVaughan wasnow Williams Concerto the otherworkwasRachmaninov’sSecondPiano symphony wasincludedinaneveningconcertwhich Unknown Regionhadbeensuchasuccessin1907.The birthday, attheLeedsFestival, whereToward the fee oftwentyguineas)on12October1910,his38th Vaughan conductedthefirstperformance (fora Williams for avoyageintoeternity. but intheothermovementsseabecomesametaphor the musicisdescriptiveofsea,particularlyTheWaves, which atthatdatehadfewifanypredecessors.Muchof symphony (forsoprano,baritone,chorusandorchestra) no longercomposingacantatabutfull-scalechoral Steersman, butdiscardedit.Heknewbynowthathewas movement forbaritoneandwomen’schoruscalledThe parts ofthefirstmovementandfinale.In1906hewrotea titled Scherzo andslowmovementofwhatwasforawhilere- Whitman settingToward theUnknownRegion.The Ocean Symphonyweresketchedfirst,followedby with thecomposerassoloist.Itsrapturous The DreamofGerontius)andlater Ninth Symphony.This 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page137 the horizon. recedes fromourhearinglikeashipdisappearingover soloists sing‘Ofarther, farthersail!’andthemusic rhythms butsoonsubsidesintoacalmermoodasthe instantly theanchor!’setsoffanoutburstofshanty-like The endofthevoyageisnear. ‘Away, Osoul!Hoist They arerejoinedbythechorus,alsoinvisionarymood. and Death’.Thisistheemotionalcoreofsymphony. a lyricalmeditationon‘silentthoughtsofTime andSpace for thereturnofsoloists,excitedatfirstbutturningto son ofGodshallcomesinginghissongs’.Thisisthecue ‘finally shallcomethepoetworthythatname,true answered bythefullchoruswithitsdeclarationthat ‘Wherefore, unsatisfiedsoul?’thesemi-chorusask,tobe us totheGardenofEdenandcreationhumankind. rondure, swimminginspace’.Nextamodalepisodetakes organ) whichconcludestheintroductorysection,‘Ovast can beheardintherapturousorchestralpassage(with specified, citingthephrase‘Thouartcallingme’which worse forit-toElgar’sGerontius section ofthesymphony. Itisheavilyindebted-andno and formless’assomehavefoundit-mostmoving The finaleisthelongest,mostambitiousand-sprawling of Beethoven’sMassinD. on thecomposer’sadmission,fromendofGloria ‘following’ aftertheorchestrahasstopped,werecribbed, last twobarsofthemovement,whenchorusshouts vessel sailing’andthewavesfollowinginitswake.The grand andbroadParryesque tunedepicting the‘great Bold PrincessRoyal,arequoted.Thetriosectionisa ship-signal, Of shipssailingtheseas,each withitsspecialflagor To-day arudebriefrecitative, Baritone And onitslimitlessheavingbreast,theships. Behold, theseaitself, See, duskyandundulating,thelongpennantsofsmoke. of port, See, thesteamerscomingandgoing,steaminginorout the greenandblue, See, wheretheirwhitesails,bellyinginthewind,speckle And onitslimitlessheavingbreast,theships; Behold, theseaitself, Chorus I. ASongforallSeas,Ships A SeaSymphony recalled andtwofolk-songs, curves’. 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Whither Omockinglife?’ That sadincessantrefrain–‘Whereforeunsatisfiedsoul? happy hearts, Questionings, baffled,formless,feverish,withnever- Wandering, yearning,withrestlessexplorations, them, Adam andEveappear, thentheirmyriadprogenyafter Down fromthegardensofAsiadescending, Now, first,itseemsmythoughtbegins tospanthee. intention, inscrutablepurpose,somehidden,prophetic With Below, themanifoldgrassandwaters, countless starsabove, Unspeakable highprocessionsofsunandmoon darkness, Alternate lightanddaytheteemingspiritual Covered alloverwithvisiblepowerandbeauty, O vastRondure,swimminginspace, Chorus IV. TheExplorers following. Following thestatelyandrapidship,inwake fragments, A motleyprocessionwithmanyafleckoffoamand frolicsome underthesun, The wakeofthesea-shipaftershepasses,flashingand yearnfully flowing Larger andsmallerwavesinthespreadofocean surface, Where thegreatvessel,sailingandtacking,displaced curves, Toward thatwhirlingcurrent,laughingandbuoyant,with Waves, undulatingwaves,liquid,uneven,emulous prying, Waves oftheoceanbubblingandgurgling,blithely Tending inceaselessflowtowardthetrackofship, necks, Below, amyriad,myriadwaveshastening,liftinguptheir After thewhite-graysailstauttotheirsparsandropes, After thesea-ship,afterwhistlingwinds, Chorus III. Scherzo:TheWaves St NicolasChurchNewburySaturday25thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 Bournemouth SymphonyOrchestra O farther, farther, farthersail! O daringjoy, butsafe!Aretheynotalltheseas ofGod? O farther, farther sail! O mybraveSoul! And wewillrisktheship,ourselvesandall. For weareboundwheremarinerhasnotyetdaredtogo, Reckless OSoul,exploring,Iwiththee,andthoume; Sail forth-steerforthedeepwatersonly! Cut thehawsers—haulout—shakeouteverysail! Away, O Soul!Hoistinstantlytheanchor! Soloists andChorus Bounding, OSoul,thoujourneyestforth; Greater thanstarsorsuns, Chorus And fillest,swellestfullthevastnessesofSpace. Thou matestTime, smilest contentatDeath, And lo,thougentlymasteresttheorbs, But thatI,turning,calltothee,OSoul,thouactualme, At Natureanditswonders,Time andSpaceDeath, Swiftly IshrivelatthethoughtofGod, Baritone them. Light ofthelight,sheddingforthuniverses,thoucentre Nameless, thefibreandbreath, O thoutranscendent! Soloists andChorus I andmysoultorangeinofthee. Bathe me,OGod,inthee,mountingto Whose airIbreathe,whoserippleshear, lavemeallover, Bear meindeedasthoughregionsinfinite, like waterflowing, Thoughts, silentthoughts,ofTime andSpaceDeath, Sailing theseseasoronthehills,walkinginnight, O Soul,thoupleasestme,Ithee, Chanting ourchantofpleasantexploration. Caroling free,singingoursongofGod, to me,OSoul), Amid thewaftingwinds,(thoupressingmetothee,Ithee Fearless forunknownshoresonwavesofecstasytosail, Joyous wetoolaunchoutontracklessseas, We tootakeship,OSoul, O wecanwaitnolonger! Soprano andBaritone Walt Whitman 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page139

© Ben Ealovega Martyn Brabbins St NicolasChurchNewburySaturday25thMay7.30pm Bournemouth SymphonyOrchestra contemporary repertoire,with overfiftyrecordingsfor Brabbins’ extensivediscography rangesfromRomanticto Holland Festival withtheNetherlandsRadioPhilharmonic. National OrchestraofWales, andconductedatthe Cheltenham Festival PromswiththeBBC andtothe BBC Edinburgh Festival. InSummer2018 hereturnedtothe Scottish Symphony, withwhomhereturnsto the Turnage’s Concerto newPercussion (and forHyperion),aFujikura premiere inNagoya,and Philharmonic at BridgewaterHall symphony withtheBBC conducts Macmillan’s Beethoven 9andtheChoralFantasy London, EdinburghandCardiffafterperformancesof conducts theSymphonyOrchestraofIndiaontourto Symphony attheBarbicanandforHyperion, his Vaughan symphoniccyclewiththeBBC Williams with thePhilharmoniaatRoyalFestival Hall,continues premiere byIainBell(allnewproductions).Heappears Salome, astagedBritten’sWar Requiem,andaworld In 2018/19atEnglishNationalOperaBrabbinsconducts music-making atthehighestlevelinUK. many yearssupportedprofessional,studentandamateur Choral SocietyalongsidehisdutiesatENO, andhasfor College ofMusicandDirectortotheHuddersfield 2007). HeiscurrentlyVisitingProfessorattheRoyal the CheltenhamInternationalFestival ofMusic(2005- Nagoya Philharmonic(2012-2016)andArtisticDirectorof Flemish Philharmonic(2009-2015),ChiefConductorofthe (1994-2005), PrincipalGuestConductoroftheRoyal ScottishSymphonyOrchestra Conductor oftheBBC Birtwistle andHarvey. HewasAssociatePrincipal including prize-winningdiscsofoperasbyKorngold, across theglobe.Hehasrecordedover120CDstodate, he hasalsoconductedhundredsofworldpremieres Symphony. KnownforhisadvocacyofBritishcomposers, Concertgebouw, DSOBerlinandTokyo Metropolitan international orchestrassuchastheRoyal the leadingBritishorchestras,andregularlyvisitstop Promsandwithmostof He isapopularfigureattheBBC Lyon, Amsterdam,Frankfurt andAntwerp. Trombone Concerto Staatsoper, andregularlyin Scala, theBayerische and morerecentlyatLa his earlydaysattheKirov busy operacareersince music, Brabbinshashada inspirational forceinBritish 2022 (sixseasons).An contract bytwoseasonsto recently extendedhis National Operawho Director oftheEnglish Martyn BrabbinsisMusic with theBBC at MumbaiNCPA. He and his4th

© Sussie Ahlburg made her Wigmore HallrecitaldebutwithSebastian made herWigmore Concertgebouw KleineZaalwith MalcolmMartineauand She isanotedrecitalistandhas performedatthe Boston. debut inMessiah illuminations Sophie Bevan Matthew Requiem, Nelson Massand and theHallé.HerconcertrepertoireincludesHaydn’s Swedish SymphonyandScottishChamberOrchestras Symphony,orchestras thatincludetheBBC Royal Bolton, SirMarkElderandCharlesMackerraswith Cummings, HarryChristophers,SirNevilleMarriner, Ivor Edward Gardner, SirAntonioPappano, Laurence Conductors shehasworkedwithincludeAndrisNelsons, Wigglesworth’s of HermioneintheworldpremiereRyan reprised attheMetropolitanOpera).Shecreatedrole Thomas Adès’TheExterminatingAngel Salzburg Festival asBeatrizintheworldpremiereof recently returnedforLadyRich(Gloriana)),atthe (Saul), Pamina attheTeatro RealMadrid(whereshe made herdebutsattheGlyndebourneFestival asMichal returned asTytania (AMidsummerNight’sDream).She first Governess(TheTurn oftheScrew)inAldeburghand in anewproductionofDerRosenkavalier.Shesangher Siegfried House, CoventGardenastheWoodbird inWagner’s gazza ladra).SophiemadeherdebutattheRoyalOpera Competition, launchinghisinternationalcareer. winning firstprizeatthe1988LeedsConductors’ conducting withIlyaMusininLeningrad,subsequently Dream. HestudiedcompositioninLondonand Disque forhisrecordingofJonathanHarvey’sWagner ConcertOrchestra(CPO)andtheGrandPrixdu BBC Cannes OperaAward forKorngold’s withthe DieKathrin Symphony(NMC),the Mask ofOrpheuswiththeBBC Tippett. HewontheGramophoneAward forBirtwistle’s Hyperion Recordsalone,notablyofElgar, Walton and and and returnedasAntigone(Oedipe)Sophie C MinorMassand and , andBritten’sLes St JohnPassion A Winter’s TaleA Winter’s Spring Symphony.ShemadeherUS with theHandel&HaydnSociety, Creation, Mozart’sandBrahms’ www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk Exsultate Jubilate,Bach’sSt Little Vixen the titleroleinTheCunning ), Télaïre (CastorandPollux Yum Yum (TheMikado), Polissena (Radamisto), Her operaticrolesinclude Bowl Award. the QueenMotherRose where shewasawarded International OperaSchool the BenjaminBritten Sophie Bevanstudiedat for ENO. (which she and Ninetta(La 139 Sat 25th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page140 140 Sat 25th

© Ben Ealovega Roderick Williams at the2013inauguralInternationalOperaAwards. South BankSkyArtsAwards andtheYoung Singeraward recipient ofTheTimes BreakthroughAward atthe2012 2012 RoyalPhilharmonicSocietyAwards andwasthe for ExceptionalYoung Talent. Shewasnominatedforthe Sophie wastherecipientof2010Critics’Circleaward return toCoventGarden. future engagementsincludeherfirstCountessanda tour ofHandel’sMessiah Strauss’ as Brahms’Requiem Garsington, Handel’sSolomon Madrid, Governess(TheTurn oftheScrew)for Semperoper, Freia (DasRheingold)forTeatro Real Melisande (PélleasetMélisande)attheDresden Recent andfutureengagementsincludeherfirst solo orchestraldisc Reger forHyperionwithMalcolmMartineauandherfirst Tanglewood Festivals. Shehasreleasedarecitaldiscof PromsandtheEdinburgh,Aldeburgh the BBC tocriticalacclaim.Sophiehasalsoappearedat Wybrew St NicolasChurchNewburySaturday25thMay7.30pm box office0845 5218218 Bournemouth SymphonyOrchestra Cheltenham, Bath,Aldeburgh andMelbourne. Proms (includingtheLastNight in2014),Edinburgh, others. Hismanyfestivalappearances includetheBBC Cecilia inRomeandBachCollegium Japanamongst Orchestral deParis, AccademiaNazionalediSanta Orchestre PhilharmoniquedeRadioFrance, Ensemble Symphonie-Orchester Berlin,RussianNationalOrchestra, Philharmonic, NewYork Philharmonic,Deutsches Orchestra. AbroadhehasworkedwiththeBerlin Sinfonia, BournemouthSymphonyandScottishChamber Royal LiverpoolPhilharmonicOrchestra,theHallé,Britten National Orchestra,thePhilharmonia,LondonSinfonietta, many otherensemblesincludingtheRoyalScottish orchestras,and Roderick hasperformedwithalltheBBC and AlexanderKnaifel. Sawer, SallyBeamish,MichaelvanderAa,RobertSaxton world premieresofoperasby, amongothers,David Vier LetzteLiederwiththePhilharmoniaanda Ah, Perfido! withClassicalOpera. Ah, Perfido! with theBergenPhilharmonic, with theBrittenSinfonia.Further houses. Hehasalsosung with allthemajorUKopera He enjoysrelationships recital. concert platformandin opera house,onthe contemporary music,inthe repertoire, fromBaroqueto and performsawide baritones ofhisgeneration the mostsoughtafter isoneof Roderick Williams at CoventGarden,aswell innovative symphonyorchestras. Heestablishedaworld- Godfrey, isoneoftheUK’smostdynamicand theBSO Radio 3.TakingBBC itsleadfromfounderSirDan extensive catalogueofrecordings andlivebroadcastson internationally withregularfestival appearances,an and extendsitsinfluenceacrossthewholeofUK serves communitiesacrosstheSouthandSouth-West scene sinceitsfoundationin1893.Aculturalbeacon,it remainsattheforefrontof UKorchestral The BSO Bournemouth SymphonyOrchestra an OBEforservicestomusicinJune2017. to performingclassicalsongrepertoire.Hewasawarded projects thatintroduceamateursingers,youngandold, dynamic andinnovativelearningparticipation Round inSheffield,presentingconcertsandleadingon and heiscurrently‘Singer-in-Residence’ forMusicinthe He wasArtisticDirectorofLeedsLieder+inApril2016 radio. Roomandlive onnational and BarbicanHalls,thePurcell composer andhashadworkspremieredattheWigmore three SchubertcyclesforChandos.Roderickisalsoa Burnside forNaxos.Future recordingplansincludethe extensive repertoireofEnglishsongwithpianistIain Berkeley andBrittenoperasforChandosan His numerousrecordingsincludeVaughan Williams, Hall. Wigmore In 2017/18heperformedallthreeSchubertCyclesatthe regularly onRadio3bothasaperformerandpresenter. Concertgebouw, theMusikverein, Viennaandappears Oxford LiederFestival, LondonSongFestival, Kings Place,LSOStLuke’s,thePerth ConcertHall, Hall, heard atvenuesandfestivalsincludingWigmore He isalsoanaccomplishedrecitalartistwhocanbe the UKandworldwide. Enlightenment aswellmanyrecitalsandconcertsin Berlin PhilharmonicOrchestra,OrchestraoftheAge Festival, Proms,MelbourneSymphonyOrchestra, BBC Baroque Chicago,NewYork Philharmonic,VirginiaArts Symphony Orchestra,CincinnatiSymphony, Musicofthe London PhilharmonicOrchestra,CityofBirmingham Kammerchor, SeoulPhilharmonic,GabrieliConsort, engagements includeconcertswiththeRias for theRoyalOperaHouse.Recentandfutureconcert Budd roles ofEugeneOneginforGarsingtonOperaandBilly Madama ButterflyfortheNederlandseReisopera,title Aa’s Garden National Opera,Toby KramerinvanderAa’sSunken production ofBritten’sWar RequiemallforEnglish ) andbaritonesoloistinthenew (Castor andPollux Charpentier’s Recent andfutureoperaengagementsincludeOrontein After LifeatMelbourneStateTheatre,Sharplessin for OperaNorth,andPapageno (DieZauberflöte ) in theNetherlands,Lyon andLondon,vander Medée, DonAlfonso(CosifanTutti), Pollux 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSFprogrammebook23/04/201912:34Page141 St NicolasChurchNewburySaturday25thMay7.30pm at the Royal Albert Hall. The BSO hastouredworldwide, at theRoyalAlbertHall.TheBSO Proms London, includingregularappearancesattheBBC appearing atvenuesinBirmingham,Cardiff, Leedsand regularly also playsthelengthandbreadthofUK, GloucestershireandHampshire.TheOrchestra Wiltshire, venues acrossCornwall,Devon,Dorset,Somerset, group, whichperformatsmallerandmoreunusual ensembles, includingKokoro, newmusic theBSO’s Torquay, toavarietyof GuildfordandWinchester Bristol, Basingstoke,Cheltenham,Brighton,Truro, at Lighthouse,Poole toBournemouth,Portsmouth, Exeter, miles –fromfullsymphonicconcertsitshomebase performances initshomeregionofover10,000square performsupwardsof140public Each yeartheBSO Alsop. Berglund, AndrewLitton,Yakov KreizbergandMarin Groves, ConstantinSilvestri,RudolfSchwarz,Paavo esteemed pastPrincipalConductorsincludingSirCharles in 2018andbeyond.Hecontinuesthefinepedigreeof has seenhimleadtheOrchestratoits125thAnniversary ChiefConductor–arolewhich Kirill KarabitsistheBSO’s relationship withStephenMcNeffandJamesMacMillan. and MarkAnthonyTurnage. hasacontinuing TheBSO Peter MaxwellDavies,RodionShchedrin,DavidMatthews includeSirMichaelTippett,BSO SirJohnTavener, Sir time. Morerecentlycomposerswhohaveworkedwiththe gave morepremièresthananyotherorchestraatthe performed alltheTchaikovsky symphoniesintheUKand Bournemouth wasalsothefirstorchestratohave Sibelius, Holst,Stravinsky, ElgarandVaughan Williams, Orchestra workwithsuchillustriousfiguresasBartók, class ensemble,andduringhistenurenotonlydidthe Bournemouth SymphonyOrchestra Orchestra visitbsolive.com For moredetailsaboutBournemouthSymphony violin concertoswasreleasedlastyear. whilst herrecordingoftheShostakovichandGlazunov which wasthetop-sellingclassicalrecordingof2012, partnered NicolaBenedettiinherCDTheSilverViolin two Walton symphoniesthissummer. also TheBSO received ravereviews.ThiswillbefollowedbyaCDofthe recording allthesymphoniesofProkofievwithKirillhas have allbeenhighlyacclaimed.Therecentproject Bartók, Weill, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky andKhachaturian ák, Bernstein, Vaughan Finzi,Howells,Dvo Williams, pioneering beginningsin1914.Recentreleasesof hasover300recordingstoitsnamesince The BSO the region. with dementiaandeighteenmusiceducationhubsacross amateur players,pioneeringworkinvolvingpeopleliving dances fortheelderly, performingalongsideenthusiastic Curriculum-based workshopsinschools,throughtotea learning andcommunityprojects,fromNational musicianstakepartinanextensiveportfolioof BSO commitmenttogivingbackthecommunity.the BSO’s Taking musicbeyondtheconcerthallliesatheartof Dublin andAmsterdamnextyear. andfutureplansincludereturntripsto Wilhelmshaven performances inHongKong, Hamburg,Bremenand Philharmonie, Berlin.Recentvisitshavealsoincluded Konzerthaus, Vienna;Rudolfinum,Prague;and New York; Concertgebouw, Amsterdam;Musikvereinand having playedatCarnegieHallandtheLincolnCenter, www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk 141 Sat 25th 2019-NSF book.qxp_NSF programme book 23/04/2019 12:34 Page 142

Education & Community Programme

Free Events for Young People and the Community The Festival is committed to music education for children and the community. In 2019 school children are invited to attend a number of performances and join in with a variety of workshops completely free of charge, with some events open to people of all ages.

26th March: 28th & 29th March: 2nd April: 14th May: Ballet Central National Youth Jazz Robertas Lozinskis Orpheus Sinfonia Schools, dance classes Orchestra Robertas gave a Piano Musicians from the and ballet companies are Ambassadors of the Masterclass to local Orpheus Sinfonia visited welcome to this free Open National Youth Jazz secondary school age three local primary schools Company Class Orchestra came to children who are studying and delivered workshops 12.00–1.00pm at the Corn Newbury to host a day- the piano ahead of his based on the Carnival of Exchange, plus an long workshop with performance for the the Animals and Peter and opportunity to talk to the secondary school pupils Festival on 17th May (see the Wolf (see p.89). students and ask them ahead of their performance p.65). questions prior to their the Festival on 18th May evening show (see p.37). (see p.83).

Free Tickets for Under 25s We are delighted to have a new scheme in place to encourage the next generation of Festival audiences. Thanks to the generous support of the Greenham Trust we are able to make tickets to certain events completely free of charge for anyone under 25 years old.

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Details of these free opportunities will be sent to all schools in advance; however places are limited and are reserved on a first come, first served basis. Please contact Jane Pickering 01635 528766 or email [email protected] for further information.

16th May: 18th May: 21st May: Budapest Young Festival Critics Sarod Maestros with Festival Evensong Café Orchestra Competition Jennifer Pike St. Mary’s Church, Speen. Local schools are invited to Becoming a Festival Critic Amaan and Ayaan Ali All are welcome to this a fun filled hour long is a great way to indulge Bangash will open their service celebrating the performance, introducing your love of live music, rehearsal to local school Festival (see p.76). the instruments of the hone your writing skills and children, giving an group and demonstrating enhance your CV or introduction to the their gypsy inspired music university application. If fascinating instruments (see p.103). you’re under 25, see a they will be performing on performance and then write that evening (see p.54). a short review telling us what you thought of it, you could win a cash prize (£100 first prize with two runner-up prizes of £50). More details are on the Festival website – newburyspringfestival.org.uk

Events that have this option are clearly marked on the relevant page, and you’ll see under the ticket pricing information the words “Free for U25” and the logo shown below . In each case there are a limited number of seats available for the performance that can be taken up and used by those under 25. Anyone under the age of 15 must be accompanied by an adult.

Events that are included in the scheme are: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Sarod Maestros with Jennifer Pike, Misha Mullov-Abbado Group, The Sheepdrove Recital, National Youth Jazz Orchestra, Lucky Stiff, Thibaut Garcia and the Julian Bliss Septet.

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Young Artists Lunchtime Recital Series The Festival makes available free tickets to children aged 16 and under for this series of six hour-long lunchtime concerts, which take place at the Corn Exchange and include a recital by the winner of the 2019 Sheepgrove Piano Competition. This is a fantastic opportunity to experience six outstanding young artists in the early stages of their international careers.

Monday 13th May: Wednesday 15th May: Friday 17th May: The Foyle-Štšura Duo The Vario Duo The Tom Millar Quartet This year’s Lunchtime Recital series Since forming nearly three years ago, Led by Australian-born jazz musician kicks off with the Foyle-Štšura Duo, a the Vario Duo (Manu Brazo and composer Tom Millar, the Quartet multi award-winning piano/violin duo, (saxophone) and Prajna Indrawati is made up of some of the UK’s best who have performed at many of the (piano) have performed more than young jazz musicians including world’s most prestigious music fifty times together across the world returning favourite Misha Mullov- venues and festivals. Today’s and, in 2018, became the BBC Abbado. The Quartet will perform performance will consist of works by Introducing Artist. Today’s Tom’s compositions inspired by the Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard performance will include pieces from people around him (see p.62). Strauss and Fritz Kreisler (see p.30). a number of genres, and include something for everyone (see p.46). © Jeremy Hosking Monday 20th May: Wednesday 22nd May: FIGO Friday 25th May: The Sheepdrove Piano Join FIGO as they explore the impact Samantha Crawford Competition Winner of virtuosic Italian masters from the This year’s final Lunchtime Recital Following the competition held at the 17th and 18th centuries on their comes from award-winning opera Sheepdrove Eco Conference Centre English counterparts, and how they singer Samantha Crawford and on Sunday 19th May, the Festival is helped shape the English pianist Gavin Roberts as they present delighted to welcome the winner of compositional style (see p.109). a programme of English and French the 11th Sheepdrove Piano songs, culminating in Richard Competition to the Corn Exchange to Strauss’ Four Last Songs (see p.123). give a special performance of specially selected works by Mozart (see p.95).

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Co-educational Cheam School, Headley, Newbury, Berkshire, RG19 8LD boarding and day [email protected] | +44 (0)1635 268242 3–13 Years www.cheamschool.com | @cheamschool.com

Celebrating continued choral success Barnardo’s Senior Choir of The Year 2018 and 2019

Music transforming yng lives An independent boarding school for girls aged 11-18 Cold Ash, Thatcham, Berkshire RG18 9JJ T: 01635 204701 www.downehouse.net

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Robertas Lozinskis flew over from Berlin especially to perform a Piano Masterclass in March 2019 in the Music Studio at Horris Hill School, Newbury. Twelve very lucky advanced pianists performed to Robertas over the two days.

Five Ambassadors from National Youth Jazz Orchestra performed a full day of “making music” with music students from St Bart’s and Trinity Schools in March.

Orpheus Sinfonia with children from St Nicolas C E Junior School. The group also visited St John’s Evangelist and The Willows C E Primary Schools in April.

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Art in Music & Open Studios

Art in Music Open Studios 2019 At the invitation of Newbury Spring Festival, selected artists attended rehearsals, concerts and events during the Festival in 2018. Isabel Carmona Andreu, Shirley Cartey, Dermot de Courcy Robinson, Fiona Cue, Kirstie Dedman, Davina Fisher, Lorna Goldsmith, Christine Highnett, Susan Hubbard, Anne Jones, Katherine Kingdon, Susan Line and Arty Pumpkin present diverse and thought-provoking responses to what they heard and saw in the Corn Exchange foyer.

Satellite Open Studios exhibitions throughout May, at Festival concert venues and other locations around West Berkshire and North Hampshire, hint at the wonderful treasures to be discovered.

Pick up a copy of the Open Studios directory at Festival events or the Corn Exchange to use as a guide to visit studios in May, and even join in the creativity yourself by enrolling on one of the free hands-on workshops it lists.

INSIGHT at 'The Base' A full list of artists participating in Open Studios 2019 can be found in the Open Studios brochure. We are so happy to welcome visitors to INSIGHT 2019 which is being held for the first time at the prestigious gallery of The Base at Greenham. This wonderful new space will be INSIGHT's future home and provides Open Studios artists with a very special platform to show their work. We feel this is where you should start your Open Studios adventure. It is our flagship exhibition and is a wide-ranging, exciting display of the work of well over a hundred artists taking part in this year's Open Studios scheme.

The exhibition, curated by Paul Forsey and Ben Hônisett, is free and runs from the 4th- 27th May. It is open daily 11.00am - 5.00pm, including weekends and Bank Holidays. On Tuesday 14th May we are offering a free talk 'An Introduction to The Base', Newbury's newest Arts Venue, by Grant Brisland, the Director of The Corn Exchange in conjunction with Newbury Spring Festival.

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