2019-20 Season Introduction

At every Dunedin Consort performance, we want our audiences to hear things differently.

Whether you join us in the grand surroundings of the Royal Albert Hall or in the intimacy of Glasgow University Chapel, in a primary school in Midlothian or in Dundee’s magnificent new V&A Museum, our aim remains the same: to help you to hear familiar masterpieces afresh, to find the new in the familiar, the exquisite in the everyday. We also hope you will embrace new music with the same eagerness and curiosity. You’ll still findthe cornerstones of the repertoire across our 2019-20 season, including Handel’s Messiah in December, and Bach’s Matthew Passion in Holy Week. But there is plenty more to discover along the way too. From Tomás Luis de Victoria and Thomas Tallis, to Cecilia McDowall and James MacMillan, each has its place in a programme that explores the dialogue between the old and the new. Other highlights include our appearance at the BBC Proms, with a programme featuring four new commissions written to complement Bach’s magnificent Partners Orchestral Suites – a throwback to the ‘Bach Nights’ Henry Wood himself hosted more than a century ago. In August, we present a series of seven concerts at the Dunedin Consort acknowledges with grateful thanks Edinburgh International Festival, before taking up residence at Lammermuir the support of Creative Scotland, Dunard Fund Festival in September, presenting Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Bach’s complete and the Binks Trust, who very generously support Brandenburg Concertos across four concerts, alongside concerto grossi by Handel. our programme. In March, we join forces with our friends at Scottish Ensemble to perform James MacMillan’s powerful account of the passion story, Seven Last Words from the Cross. And in June, we journey north to the Highlands, with an intimate programme of Purcell songs featuring soprano Mhairi Lawson. We welcome guest directors Nicholas Mulroy, who directs our choral tour in November, and Kristian Bezuidenhout, who returns to lead our Matthew Passion performances in April. And we’ll be bringing our music to more people than ever before, with the expansion of our learning programme in Scotland (see pages 25–27) and tours that take us across Scotland and around the globe. We hope you will join us along the way, to share in this magnificent music and to experience the thrill in discovering it anew.

John Butt Music Director Jo Buckley Chief Executive EDINBURGH 13 August 2019, 5.30 pm INTERNATIONAL St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh Aapo Häkkinen & Mahan Esfahani FESTIVAL harpsichords

15 August 2019, 5.30 pm Bach Keyboard St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh Concertos Mahan Esfahani harpsichord In this glittering and comprehensive 16 August 2019, 5.30 pm portrait, Dunedin Consort is joined St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh by eight of the world’s most renowned harpsichordists to present Bach’s Masato Suzuki harpsichord complete keyboard concertos across a series of six concerts. 19 August 2019, 5.30 pm St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh The series begins in the intimate Christine Schornsheim & setting of St Cecilia’s Hall, with its Andreas Staier harpsichords world-leading collection of keyboard instruments, before moving on to The 20 August 2019, 5.30 pm Queen’s Hall for a magnificent finale, St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh which brings four harpsichordists Richard Egarr & Diego Ares together on the same stage. harpsichords

22 August 2019, 11 am The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh John Butt, Richard Egarr, Diego Ares & Thomas Foster harpsichords

Tickets: St Cecilia’s Hall £27 The Queens Hall £11–£35

Sarah Bevan–Baker, violin Calton Hill, Edinburgh 5 EDINBURGH 24 August 2019, 11 am Drawing the Edinburgh International INTERNATIONAL The Queens Hall, Edinburgh Festival’s Queen’s Hall series to a gloriously theatrical close, we J.S. BACH FESTIVAL perform two of Bach’s larger-than- Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde, life cantatas – the closest he ever bwv 201 came to writing opera, featuring the Zerreißet, zersprenget, zertrümmert die Bach biggest orchestra he ever assembled. Gruft, bwv 205

Tickets: £11–£35 Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde Cantatas depicts a bitterly fought song contest John Butt Director between Apollo and Pan representing ‘high’ and ‘low’ art, in a satirical work Sophie Junker soprano of biting wit and dashing invention. Jess Dandy alto In Zerreißt, zersprenget, zertrümmert Samuel Boden tenor die Gruft, the goddess Athene begs Nicholas Mulroy tenor Aeolus, the god of wind, not to Dominic Barberi bass spoil the celebrations for Leipzig’s Matthew Brook bass favourite professor, featuring some of Bach’s most opulent, joyful music.

Stephen Farr, harpsichord Calgary Bay, Isle of Mull 7 BBC PROMS With new commissions by “Ensemble brilliance at its most Stuart MacRae, Nico Muhly, inventive and scintillating” Ailie Robertson and THE TIMES Stevie Wishart Bach Night Dunedin Consort returns to the J.S. Bach: BBC Proms for Bach Night, in Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4 homage to the themed composer John Butt Director nights that Henry Wood, founder of the Proms, hosted more than a 11 September 2019, 7.30 pm century ago. Bach’s four Orchestral Royal Albert Hall, London (Prom 71) Suites – each a collection of dances, dazzling in their colours, textures and Tickets: £7.50–£41 dexterity – are interpolated with four new co-commissions from Stuart MacRae, Nico Muhly, Ailie Robertson and Stevie Wishart. Join us in the grandeur of the Royal Albert Hall, as we reimagine Bach’s dances as he might have composed them today.

Alex Bellamy & Frances Norbury, oboes Callanish Stones, Isle of Lewis 9 LAMMERMUIR 16 September 2019, 1 pm FESTIVAL Perth Concert Hall ‘‘A typically dazzling performance 17 September 2019, 3 pm of Bach at his most ravishing. Crichton Collegiate Church, Pathhead The second Orchestral Suite and the fourth Brandenburg The Art of the HANDEL Concerto, conveyed by just eight Concerto Grosso Op. 6, Nos. 5 & 6 players, emerged with all the Concerto: VIVALDI detail meticulously clear” Vivaldi, Handel, Bach Concerto for Violin Op. 8, No. 7 Concerto for Violin Op. 8, No. 3, ‘Autumn’ THE INDEPENDENT John Butt Director J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 As Lammermuir Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2019, 19 September 2019, 3 pm Dunedin Consort takes centre Prestongrange Church, Prestonpans stage as its Ensemble in Residence. Spanning the festival from the first HANDEL night to the last, we present a series Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 4 of four concerts exploring the art of & Op. 8, No. 11 the Baroque concerto. From Vivaldi’s VIVALDI dazzling Four Seasons, through Concerto for Violin Op. 8, No. 1, ‘Spring’ Handel’s concerto grossi for full Concerto for Oboe Op. 8, No. 12 orchestra, to the might of Bach’s J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concertos, we revel Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in the extraordinary virtuosity and sheer joy of these intricate Baroque 22 September 2019, 7:45 pm masterpieces. St Mary’s Church, Haddington J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concerto Nos. 2 & 4 13 September 2019, 8 pm VIVALDI St Mary’s Church, Haddington Concerto for Violin Op. 8, No. 4, ‘Winter’ Concerto for Violin Op. 8, Nos. 10 & 11 J.S. BACH Concerto for Oboe Op. 8, No. 9 Orchestral Suites Nos. 1 & 2 HANDEL Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 Concerto Grosso Op. 6, Nos. 9 & 10 VIVALDI Violin Concerto Op. 8, No. 2, ‘Summer’ Violin Concerto Op. 8, No. 6 Tickets: £15.75-£26.25

Cecilia Bernardini, violin 11 CHORAL TOUR This autumn, we return to Dunedin’s roots to present another series of performances given by our a Requiem cappella consort, Scotland’s foremost professional vocal ensemble. Directed Aeternam by Nicholas Mulroy, one of Dunedin’s core singers, the programme is Music of Loss centred around sixteenth-century and Consolation Spanish composer Tomás Luis de Victoria’s hauntingly beautiful Nicholas Mulroy Director Requiem, and includes music by his contemporaries Alonso Lobo TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA and Orlando Gibbons. Works by Officium Defunctorum living composers James MacMillan, ALONSO LOBO Roderick Williams and Cecilia Versa est in luctum McDowall complete the programme, JAMES MACMILLAN offering contemporary reflections on A Child’s Prayer the inescapable and intrinsic themes CECILIA MCDOWALL that define our human existence. Standing as I do before God RODERICK WILLIAMS O Saviour of the World

14 November 2019, 7.30 pm St Machar’s Cathedral, Aberdeen 15 November 2019, 7.30 pm University Chapel, Glasgow 16 November 2019, 7.30 pm Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh + Pre-concert talk with Jo Buckley, 6.30pm

Open rehearsal: 13 November, 6-9pm, Edinburgh

Tickets: £5–£22 Nicholas Mulroy University of Glasgow 13 Messiah ‘‘An interpretation of Handel’s Messiah that makes the listener John Butt Director aware of both the work’s musical Rachel Redmond soprano and liturgical sophistication is a special thing, yet that is what Jess Dandy alto the Dunedin Consort routinely Nicholas Mulroy tenor achieves” THE HERALD Roland Wood bass

6 December 2019, 5pm Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Bogota 7 December 2019, 11am Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Bogota

14 December 2019, 6.30pm Westmorland Town Hall, Kendal 16 December 2019, 7pm The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh It’s no surprise that Handel’s Messiah + Children’s Messiah at 4pm continues to draw audiences back year after year. Put simply, there is nothing 17 December 2019, 7pm quite like it. Although the Hallelujah St Mary’s Cathedral, Glasgow chorus has become its best-known + Children’s Messiah at 4pm excerpt, Handel wrote every note to impress and astound his listeners. Tickets: £5-£25 Its choruses are as grand as anything Handel ever composed, the solo writing profoundly moving, the drama powerful and compelling. Performed ‘the Dunedin way’ as Handel would have first heard it, with a small orchestra, a team of twelve singers Children’s Messiah performances and soloists who step out from the generously sponsored by chorus, there are few more uplifting ways to celebrate the festive season. Huw Daniel, violin Tickets: £5-£25 Aberdeen lighthouse 15 29 January 2020, 7pm Annenberg Center, Philadelphia Bach: ‘‘For all the debates on historically 30 January 2020, 7pm informed performaance, the most The Brandenburgs Library of Congress, Washington persuasive aspect of this concert John Butt Director was the sheer sense of joy” Meg Bragle alto THE TIMES J.S. BACH 18 January 2020, 7.30pm Orchestral Suite in B Minor, bwv 1067 The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh Cantata Widerstehe doch der Sünde, + Pre-concert talk with John Butt bwv 54 & Kate Molleson at 6:30pm Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, bwv 1049 1 February 2020, 7.30pm Cantata Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Auditorio Nacional de España, Madrid Seelenlust, bwv 170 Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, bwv 1050 J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 Tickets (Edinburgh, Perth, Glasgow): Open rehearsal: £5-£25 17 January 2020, 2-5pm, Edinburgh So named because they were dedicated to the Margrave of Brandenburg, 20 January 2020, 1pm Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos Perth Concert Hall contain some of the most sumptuous 21 January 2020, 1pm and virtuosic instrumental writing in University of Glasgow Chapel all of his output. Each is composed for a different line-up, from the intimacy J.S. BACH of concertos 3 and 6, composed Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, bwv 1049 for strings alone, to the bombastic Trio Sonata in G major for Flute & splendour of Nos. 1 and 2, with their Violin, BWV 1038 blazing trumpet and horns. Join Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, bwv 1050 us as we explore these astonishing TELEMANN instrumental jewels, presented in their Concerto for Flute & Recorder entirety (in Edinburgh and Madrid), twv 52:e1 alongside two of Bach’s best-loved alto cantatas with soloist Meg Bragle (in Philadelphia and Washington), and with our wind soloists taking centre stage (in Perth and Glasgow). Jonathan Manson, cello Forth Rail Bridge, South Queensferry 17 CARLO GESUALDO Seven Last O crux benedicta ERKKI-SVEN TÜÜR Words from L’ombra della croce JAMES MACMILLAN the Cross Seven Last Words from the Cross with Scottish Ensemble Open rehearsal: 25 March 2020, 2-5pm Glasgow John Butt Director In a Dunedin Consort first, we 26 March 2020, 8pm team up with our friends at Inverness Cathedral Scottish Ensemble to perform 27 March 2020, 8pm James MacMillan’s searing setting Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh of the dying words of Jesus Christ. Premiered by Scottish Ensemble 28 March 2020, 7.30pm 25 years ago, it has since acquired Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow a central place in the repertoire, 29 March 2020, 8pm connecting with audiences the world V&A Museum, Dundee over through its astonishing emotional 31 March 2020, 7.30pm power. Whatever your beliefs, hearing Milton Court, London Seven Last Words from the Cross is a transformative experience, one that lingers long after the final note sounds. Juxtaposing moments of aching intensity, heart-rending beauty and raw, keening desolation, this is music that is at once both intensely personal and magnificently universal.

Tickets: £5-£17 (under 16s go free with a paying adult)

John Butt, Director Scottish Ensemble 19 Each year we perform Bach’s Matthew Matthew Passion in the days leading up to Easter, and each year we discover its riches anew. This extraordinary Passion retelling of the Passion story has the power to move and inspire us like no Kristian Bezuidenhout other, presenting a journey that is by Director turns heartrending and uplifting from the opening chorus to the last. 9 April 2020, 7pm This year, we welcome back Kristian Perth Concert Hall Bezuidenhout, a central figure in 10 April 2020, 7pm the field of historically informed The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh performance, to direct Dunedin Consort in our revelatory one-per- part interpretation.

Open rehearsal: 8 April 2020, 2-5pm, Edinburgh

Tickets: £5-£25

Bill Hunt, double bass BenTickets Lawers £?–£? 21 Purcell: Songes & Ayres

John Butt Director Mhairi Lawson Soprano

4 June 2020, 7.30pm St John’s Church, Dumfries 5 June 2020, 7.30pm Universal Hall, Findhorn 6 June 2020, 7.30pm St John’s Cathedral, Oban 7 June 2020, 4pm St Cecilia’s Hall, Edinburgh

Soprano Mhairi Lawson joins us for an intimate programme of song, a genre that Purcell firmly made his own. With his flair for drama and extraordinary gift for bringing words to life, Purcell poured many of his most creative ideas into his songs – each of them miniature masterpieces, equally as captivating as anything he would compose for the stage. They are paired here with some of his most exquisite and intricately wrought instrumental works, shining examples of Baroque dialogue at its most eloquent.

Tickets: £5-£22 Graham O’Sullivan, flute Tickets £5–£22 Isle of Staffa 23 Iestyn Davies LEARNING AND Voice Clinics PARTICIPATION John Butt Director Our Voice Clinics are aimed at singers looking to brush up their skills and 8 July 2020, 6.30pm Choral Workshops hone their technique. York Early Music Festival Open to all singers of any age, 25 July 2020, 7.30pm We’re thrilled to be bringing back whether enthusiastic amateurs Wigmore Hall, London our much-loved choral workshops or budding students, our Voice this season. Led by our professional Clinics allow each singer a half-hour singers, the workshops offer a Programme to include: session with one of our soloists to unique opportunity to explore rarely J.S. BACH build confidence, work on technical performed repertory and sharpen Widerstehe doch der Sünde, bwv 54 challenges and receive targeted one- your ensemble-singing skills. This Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, to-one coaching. bwv 170 year’s sessions focus on Handel’s oratorio Samson. Recently recorded For more information visit: Widely celebrated as one of the by Dunedin, it’s a truly thrilling work dunedin-consort.org.uk/voice-clinic greatest countertenors of his and contains some of Handel’s most generation, Iestyn Davies rejoins exhilarating choral writing. Dunedin Consort in 2020 for two Open rehearsals performances of Bach’s most intimate While some experience with reading music is helpful, the workshops are church cantatas. From the elegant If you have ever wondered what poetry of Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte open to anyone interested in honing their skills. goes into making Dunedin Consort Seelenlust, bwv 170, to the startling performances so special, why not join intensity of Widerstehe doch der Sünde, For more information visit: us at one of our open rehearsals? bwv 54, these cantatas are some of Hear for yourself how the music is Bach’s finest. And with Davies and dunedin-consort.org.uk/ choral-workshops pieced together, and discover the Dunedin reunited for the first time intricate processes that create the since 2017, what better way could intangible ‘Dunedin magic’ you hear in there be to see out the season? the concert hall. These are held across the season, but places are limited and Tickets: £6-£50 must be booked in advance.

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25 Schools Workshops Bridging the Gap Young Listeners

Every year, we take our music Bridging the Gap is our platform for We believe in inspiring the next outside the concert hall and into early-career musicians, designed generation and opening up young ears the community, offering inspiring, to help nurture young talent. to the wonders of this extraordinary participatory workshops to children The scheme aids singers and music. As well as our Children’s in Scotland’s primary schools, instrumentalists in consolidating Messiah events in December, tickets where access to first-class music- existing skills and acquiring new for under 18s and for students in full- making really does have the power to ones, as they begin their journey time education are available for just transform lives. Thanks to support on the path from student to fully £5 for all our self-promoted concerts. from Baillie Gifford, our education fledged professional. Selected by open Please see the individual events pages programme now reaches more audition each year, up to four young for restrictions. than 750 children each year. Over a musicians will perform alongside and two-month period, we work closely be mentored by Dunedin’s regular with schools, children, teachers and cast of performers. The scheme offers parents to explore the invaluable a unique opportunity to tour with our Subscription Series – and often intangible – means by internationally renowned musicians which music brings people together, and to gain from their expertise. This We want you to come back and hear igniting creative sparks and inspiring initiative is part of our commitment us again and again … and again! A the next generation. to fostering the next generation of 20% discount is available for our professional musicians in Scotland. Edinburgh concert series when For more information visit: booking for four or more events. dunedin-consort.org.uk/ For more information visit: schools-workshops dunedin-consort.org.uk/ Please book online at bridging-the-gap thequeenshall.net or call 0131 668 2019 for more details.

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