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Supported by: presents 23rd - Sep 25th tember 2021 www.newpathsmusic.com Artistic Directors: Martin Roscoe & Libby Burgess Welcome to the 2021 festival The acclaimed Sacconi Quartet is in residence throughout the festival – performing three concerts, teaming up with other festival artists, and introducing a work they commissioned from Roxanna Panufnik inspired by a brown bear! Ailish Tynan – soprano One of the finest song singers of our time, Julian Bliss – clarinet we welcome Ailish Tynan Sacconi Quartet for three concerts across Julian Bliss the festival, including is widely recognized Two Irish music from as one of the world’s distinguished her homeland. great clarinettists: speakers he performs in two explore the concerts on Saturday, relationship celebrating particularly the late music between music Katy Hamilton and science, – speaker Praised by of Brahms. and between The Guardian for music and the ‘finely judged detail, Sophie Rosa – violin wider world, expansiveness and in enlightening lots of heart’, violinist free talks. Sophie Rosa visits the festival Martin Roscoe – piano for the first time – welcome Sophie! Tom McLeish The Roscoe – speaker Trio was formed in 2018, Fenella Humphreys our very own Christian Forshaw – violin irect tistic D ors – saxophone Martin Roscoe o-Ar joining forces C with Fenella The luminous Humphreys sonorities of soprano and Jessica and saxophone are intertwined in an Burroughs, Martin Roscoe – piano and this is their evocative late-night much anticipated meeting of old first visit to and new from this Grace Davidson Beverley. Jessica Burroughs regular partnership. – soprano – cello Libby Burgess – piano 2 Ticket information on 3 page 12 Day 1 Thurs 23rd Sept Thursday 23rd September All the lights 8pm – 9:10pm £15 of this world St Mary’s Church Thurs 23rd Sept Chanson 1pm – 2:15pm Grieg: Six Songs Op 48 £18 Strauss: Morgen, Die Nacht, Befreit perpétuelle St Mary’s Church Stanford: La belle dame sans merci Bingham: The shadow side of Joy Finzi Ravel: String Quartet in F Songs from Ireland Chausson: Chanson perpétuelle One of the finest song singers of our age, Ailish Tynan joins Franck: Piano Quintet festival co-artistic director Libby Burgess for a sumptuous programme of Grieg and Strauss. Keats’ famous ballad The acclaimed Sacconi Quartet open their La belle dame sans merci tells of the unnamed knight festival residency with Ravel’s youthful string fatally bewitched by the mysterious ‘faery’s child’, while Joy quartet. The work represented Ravel’s first Finzi’s poetry written in grief after losing her husband, the major success, and draws a joyful array of composer Gerald Finzi, is set powerfully by Judith Bingham. sonorities from the ensemble. The closing set draws on Ireland’s rich literary heritage and Chausson’s sorrowful Chanson perpétuelle features traditional songs from Ailish’s homeland. introduces award-winning soprano Ailish Tynan to the festival audience, while festival Performers: AT, LB co-artistic director Martin Roscoe joins the quartet for the impassioned Piano Quintet by Chausson’s teacher, César Franck. “Tynan lit up Sacconi Quartet the performance Performers: SQ, AT, MR and the spirit” Herald Scotland “The chemistry between “A beautiful “Great power blend of sound ... these four young players and sweetness” Ailish Tynan highly engaging” is tangible and magical” The Spectator The Times The Scotsman “Irish soprano Ailish Thurs 23rd Sept Tynan was exquisitely 3pm – 4pm Talk: The poetry and golden-toned” Libby Burgess Free St Mary’s Church Hall music of science The Scotsman What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to ‘imagination’ and ‘creativity’ in the second case but not the first. Tom McLeish compares creativity in science and art, and challenges the assumption that science is in any sense less creative than art. He draws on historical and contemporary examples to provide a broader understanding, and brings medieval philosophy and theology to bear on current questions of creativity. Finding that artists and scientists think imaginatively in visual, textual and abstract modes, he will focus on the last one, where music and mathematics make their mysteries, for this festival. Our series of musical videos inspired by the Tom McLeish FRS is a theoretical physicist whose work on soft town of Beverley is available to view for free at matter is renowned. He is Professor of Natural Philosophy at the www.newpathsmusic.com or on YouTube. University of York Tom McLeish Speaker: TM 4 Ticket information on 5 page 12 Day 2 Friday 24th Sept Friday 24th September 8pm – 9pm Archduke £15 St Mary’s Church Friday 24th Sept Talk: In camera 10:30am – 11:30am Haydn: Trio in A Hob XV/18 Free Beethoven: Trio in B flat Op 97 ‘Archduke’ – ex camera St Mary’s Church Hall Martin formed the Roscoe Trio with Fenella Humphreys and Jessica Burroughs in 2018 As we enjoy the riches of the Beverley Chamber Martin Roscoe and here they bring a programme of trios Music Festival, Katy Hamilton asks: how has from two great composers. Haydn’s good- ‘chamber’ music shifted through the centuries, natured music, written in London, sparkles and what does it look like in 2021? and dances, with elegance and infusions From Haydn’s transformation of small-venue of gypsy music: Haydn was in his sixties genres into music suitable for a large audience, to when he wrote this but the music retains Beethoven’s almost orchestral writing for small an energy and wit from his younger days. groups, to music outdoors and online, we explore Beethoven’s Archduke Trio conversely was the amazing adaptability of these intimate ensembles. written in his early forties but hints at the profundity of his later works: there is a Katy Hamilton’s talks are always a resounding timelessness and spaciousness in success in Beverley and we are delighted to its beauty, but also a grandeur and welcome her back this year. Fenella Humphreys virtuosity throughout. Katy Hamilton Speaker: KH Performers: MR, FH, JB Jessica Burroughs Friday 24th Sept 1pm – 2pm Friday 24th Sept £15 Heartfelt 10pm – 11pm Historical St Mary’s Church £10 St Mary’s Church Fiction Panufnik: Heartfelt Beethoven: String Quartet in C sharp minor Op 131 Handel: Eternal Source of Light Divine Gibbons: The Silver Swan Roxanna Panufnik’s Heartfelt was commissioned Dowland: Come, Heavy Sleep by the Sacconi Quartet in 2019 and is inspired by Music by Forshaw, Marais and Purcell the heartbeat of a brown bear, as well as drawing on Uzbek and Bulgarian music. The result is a Saxophonist Christian Forshaw’s debut album magical addition to the quartet repertoire, “a Santuary reached No 1 in the classical charts, beautiful, imaginative exploration of that vital, and explored the ecclesiastical soundworld he had beating organ” (The Observer) and “shot through known as a chorister, utilising the saxophone to with a poignancy that is infinitely touching” create the purity of high descant lines. (Seen & Heard). His latest collaboration with soprano Beethoven’s late period saw a troubled, unwell, Grace Davidson, Historical Fiction, deaf man writing music of extraordinary intensity, similarly reconfigures the music innovation and profundity: after his vast ninth Sacconi Quartet of Handel, Gibbons and Purcell symphony, premiered in 1824, he turned almost for soprano, saxophone and solely to string quartets in his last years. organ, creating a musical These late quartets were roundly dismissed by the landscape that is both audience of the day: composer Louis Spohr called contemporary and timeless. them ‘indecipherable, uncorrected horrors’. And yet A deeply atmospheric close this music has had a deep effect on generations of to the day in the beautiful composers since, and is today held to be some of surroundings of St Mary’s. Christian Forshaw the great art of all time. Performers: CF, GD, LB Performers: SQ Grace Davidson 6 Ticket information on 7 page 12 Day 3 Saturday 25th Sept Saturday 25th September 8pm – 9:15pm £18 Double time St Mary’s Church Saturday 25th Sept Echoes 11am – 12:10pm Schumann: Piano Quintet in Eb £15 Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor of spring St Mary’s Church Two great quintets draw the festival to a close, the Sacconi Quartet joined by Libby for Schumann’s Schubert: Shepherd on the Rock uplifting piano quintet and by Julian Bliss for Brahms’ Brahms: Trio for clarinet, cello and piano autumnal clarinet quintet. The yearning, soaring lines Songs by Schubert and melancholic, dark textures of the Brahms are World renowned clarinettist Julian Bliss joins us for the offset by the high-spirited, glittering writing of the last day of the festival, performing two concerts. Brahms Schumann. When Schumann met Brahms for the first time he Ailish Tynan had all but given up composing when he discovered the sound of the clarinet: the result was a clutch of late, wrote of the ‘new paths’ in the young composer’s glorious chamber works for that instrument, including the style, so it is appropriate that we give our namesake quintet (tonight) and this trio. Tempestuous and amorous composers the last word this year! by turn, the trio exploits the warm combination of clarinet, Performers: JB, LB, SQ cello and piano. Soprano Ailish Tynan presents a set of Schubert songs, “Poise, agility and alertness culminating in his joyful Shepherd on the Rock, where permeate these winning, voice and clarinet weave together as lovers look forward to infectious performances.” being reunited in spring. “Bliss is indeed Performers: AT, JB, CB, LB amongst the BBC Music Magazine Cara Berridge clarinet greats” Limelight Saturday 25th Sept “It isn’t just his technique, though 3pm – 4pm £15 Spring eternal that is astonishing enough. St Mary’s Church It’s the wit, poise and vivacity in his playing.