North York Moors Chamber Music Festival We welcome support for this event, which is why we’ve set up The North York Moors Chamber Music Festival Trust, a charitable organisation. The aim is to generate such interest that it becomes an annual celebration so if you wish ‘Beethoven: A Legacy’ to make a donation please download a Gift Aid form (if you are a UK taxpayer) to ensure your donation goes 17-30 August 2014 further. Cheques payable to The North York Moors Chamber Music Festival Trust would be most gratefully received; please send to The NYM Chamber Music Festival, The Granary, Appleton-le-Moors, York Yo62 6tf. The accounts will www.northyorkmoorsfestival.com be made readily available as part of our annual returns to the Charity Commission. Patron Sir Peter Maxwell Davies www.northyorkmoorsfestival.com Photo Credit: Frank Harrison 56 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2014 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2014 1 introduction North York Moors “ Among the most impressive of its kind in Britain” Chamber Music Festival Michael White, the telegraph 2012 Shortlisted for a Royal Philharmonic Welcome to the sixth North York Moors time when a new Viennese school began understand why it has been essential to Society Award 2011 Chamber Music Festival – ‘Beethoven: A to emerge, widely recognised now as include works from this period. legacy’. This year we explore not just the the ‘Second Viennese School’, born out our ticket prices remain unchanged so pinnacle of great classical music but also CoNteNts of Arnold Schoenberg’s unique and as to include everyone who shares our the immeasurable influence Beethoven creative example. That began by slowly love of music, regardless of background Programme 4 wielded over so many composers shaking off the (particularly Wagnerian) or position. We do therefore rely on other North York Moors 6 throughout the past 200 years. This influences from the late Romantic vital support, however small – and as a temperamental genius spectacularly Visitor Information 7 period, evident in ravishing works like charitable organisation we can claim Gift paved his way out of the Classical era Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (featured Notes 10 Aid, so please consider this option if you and arguably invented the Romantic in the concert on August 28th) and then do kindly donate to us. Your tremendous Biographies 31 period, pushing musical and stylistic exploring the chromatic expressionism collective support has helped us to boundaries like no one before him. He Venues 45 that tore up the rule book of tonality. develop our lighting, invest in a trailer and is a giant amongst the greats, baffling Acknowledgements 55 His most devout pupils included Anton improve on many visual aspects of our audiences in his day with daring ideas Webern and Alban Berg, who helped performances, so I’d like to thank you for and musical intensity, changing the champion Schoenberg’s rigorous these generous gestures. course of music forever. philosophy within the heart of the Do spread the word and encourage So from this ‘Viennese School’ twentieth century, as artists like Francis others to join the mailing list (Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn, Mozart), Bacon, Pablo Picasso and Kandinsky ([email protected]). as it has come to be called - a truly were similarly doing. This was achieved by This festival is about passion, celebration monumental period for classical music challenging form, colour and expressing and exploration, so I hope you – Beethoven brought this ingenious the reality of the times such as the experience all three elements throughout and innovative period to a natural end brutality of politics, the human condition what promises to be an intense but through his incredibly dramatic and and violent social changes, rather than invigorating festival, celebrating the personally expressive writing. the emotional charge through passion greatness of Beethoven and his legacy. This in turn cast a powerful spell over and drama which was so predominant Enjoy! emerging composers such as Brahms in the Romantic era. It could be said that and Schumann. By the end of the 19th some of the greatest music, was written century that Romantic period of music during the last century and although Jamie Walton was also beginning to run its course at a difficult to absorb comfortably, I hope you ArtistiC DireCtor 2 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2014 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2014 3 Programme Week one Week two Sunday 17th August St Nicholas’, Beethoven String quintet in C major op 29 Monday 25th August St Helen’s & All Saints’, Beethoven String quartet in E flat major op 74 (‘Harp’) 2.00pm (note start time) Guisborough Korngold Sextet in D major op 10* 7.00pm Wykeham Berg Lyric Suite op 3* Mendelssohn Octet in E flat major op 20 Maxwell davies Naxos quartet No.6 Monday 18th August St oswald’s, Beethoven Clarinet Trio in B flat op 11 Wednesday 27th August St Mary’s, Maxwell davies ‘Voyage to Fair Isle’ for piano trio 7.00pm Lythe hummel Clarinet quartet in E flat S78* 7.00pm** (concert a Lastingham zeMlinsKy Clarinet trio in D minor op 3* Mozart Grand Quintetto (‘Gran Partita’) in B flat part-repeat of 20th August) Beethoven Piano trio in B flat major op 97 (‘Archduke’) WALTON Piano quartet in D minor Wednesday 20th August St Mary’s, Maxwell davies ‘Voyage to Fair Isle’ for piano trio 7.00pm Lastingham zeMlinsKy Clarinet trio in D minor op 3* Thursday 28th August St Stephen’s, schuBert Quartettsatz in C minor Beethoven Piano trio in D major op 70 No.1 (‘Ghost’) 7.00pm Fylingdales Beethoven String quartet in F minor op 95 (‘Serioso’)* Maxwell davies The Last Island (string sextet) schoenBerg Verklärte Nacht Friday 22nd August St Hilda’s Priory, Beethoven Piano quartet in E flat major op 16 7.00pm Sneaton Castle, Whitby Mendelssohn Piano sextet in D major op 110* schuBert Piano quintet in A major (‘Trout’) Friday 29th August St Hedda’s, Beethoven String quartet in B flat major op 130 6.00pm (note start time) Egton Bridge (with Grosse Fugue)* strauss ‘Till Eulenspiegel Einmal Anders’ Saturday 23rd August St Martin-on-the-Hill, Beethoven String quartet in E minor op 59 Maxwell davies ‘Seven Skies of Winter’ Scarborough No.2 (‘Razumovsky’) 7.00pm JanácˆeK ‘Mladi’ BrahMs Clarinet quintet in B minor op 114* schuBert String quintet in C Saturday 30th August St Hilda’s, handel Sinfonia to ‘Messiah’ HWV 56 (organ) 5.00pm (note start time) West Cliff, Whitby hindeMith Kammermusik op 24 No.1 Sunday 24th August St Hilda’s, Mozart/Bach Prelude and fugue for string trio schuMann Introduction and Allegro appassionato op 92* 3.00pm (note start time) Danby Maxwell davies String trio Beethoven Septet in E flat major op 20 schoenBerg String trio op 45 Maxwell davies An Orkney Wedding with Sunrise Beethoven String trio in D major op 9 No.2 * Interval follows * Interval follows 4 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2014 North York Moors Chamber Music Festival 2014 5 North York Moors Visitor information the North York Moors It covers an area of 1,436 km (554 moorland. These two kinds of scenery are ago the cold climate of the Ice Age car ParKing getting there By satnav square miles), and it has a population the result of differences in the underlying ameliorated and temperatures rose The churches in Danby, Lythe and St danby Yo21 2NH is a national park in of about 25,000. The North York Moors geology and each supports different above a growing point of 5.5˚C. Plant Hilda’s Priory have large car parking N54:26:51, W0:55:41 North Yorkshire. the became a National Park in 1952, through wildlife communities. There are records of life was gradually re-established and facilities. Those in Lastingham, Fylingdales, the National Parks and Access to the 12,000 archaeological sites and features animals and humans also returned. Many Guisborough, Egton Bridge and egton Bridge Yo21 1UX moors are one of the Countryside Act 1949. in the North York Moors National Park, visitors to the moors are engaged in Wykeham have local village parking. N54:26:13, W0:45:42 of which 700 are scheduled ancient outdoor pursuits, particularly walking; the At St Hilda’s West Cliff and St Martin-on- largest expanses of The North York Moors National Park fylingdales Yo22 4RN monuments. Radio carbon dating of parks have a network of rights-of-way the-Hill there are local car parks and encompasses two main types of N54:26:03, W0:32:21 heather moorland in pollen grains preserved in the moorland almost 2,300 km (1,400 miles) in length, on-street parking. landscape: green areas of pasture land peat provides a record of the actual and most of the areas of open moorland guisborough TS14 6BX the United Kingdom. and the purple and brown heather species of plants that existed at various are now open access under the toilets N54:32:12, W1:02:56 St Hilda’s West Cliff and St Hilda’s Priory periods in the past. About 10,000 years Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. lastingham Yo62 6TL have their own facilities. The churches in N54:18:16, W0:52:58 St Nicholas’ Church St Oswald’s Church Egton Bridge, Fylingdales, Lastingham, Guisborough Lythe St Hilda’s Church lythe Yo21 3RW West Cliff Guisborough, St Martin-on-the-Hill and N54:30:25, W0:41:18 St Hilda’s Church WHITBY Wykeham have village facilities. The St Hilda’s Priory Chapel Danby Sneaton Castle churches in Danby and Lythe have scarborough Yo11 2DB portable toilets. N54:16:30, W0:24:05 St Hedda’s Church Egton Bridge St Stephen’s Church refreshMents sneaton castle Yo21 3QN Fylingdales Refreshments are available for a N54:28:60, W0:38:31 suggested donation of £1 for soft drinks west cliff Yo21 3EG and £2 for a glass of red or white wine.