Dartington Summer School Week Five Concerts, 20 - 27 August 2011

The music of Schumann and Brahms runs through Week 5. The Australian conductor Brad Cohen directs the Summer School Choir in Brahms’ A German Requiem alongside choral songs by Schumann. Another focus is on the music of the Irish composer Gerald Barry, including much of his piano music, played by Noriko Kawai, and both of his piano quartets. More new music, in the shape of a new piece by Dominic Muldowney, has been specially commissioned by the Summer School for the saxophone player John Harle. There is a rich range of other music from early, with Stile Antico, to Beethoven with the Barbirolli Quartet. Alexander Janiczek, Lowri Blake and Ian Brown perform piano trios and Richard
Edgar-Wilson gives a programme including songs for tenor, horn and piano by Schubert and Britten.

Saturday 20 August

Alexander Janiczek, violin Ian Brown, piano

7.45pm, Great Hall
Bach, Keyboard Partita no 6 in E minor
Messiaen, Thème et Variations
Webern, Four pieces op 7
Brahms, Sonata no 3 in D minor op 108
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Sunday 21 August

In Conversation With Ana Maria Pacheco

5.15pm, Great Hall
David Francis talks to Ana Maria Pacheco about her life and work.
£8.00 unreserved

Barbirolli Quartet

7.45pm, Great Hall
Mozart, Quartet in C major K465 ‘Dissonance’
Szymanowski, Quartet no 2 op 56
Beethoven, Quartet in E minor op 59/2 ‘Razumovsky’
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Sequences and Games

10.00pm, Great Hall
Paul Archibald, trumpet
Graham Lee, trombone
Julian Warburton, percussion
Noriko Kawai, piano
Zoë Martlew, cello
Gerald Barry, Trumpeter
Richard Baker, Gaming
Berio, Sequenza X for trumpet
Xenakis, Rebonds
Berio, Sequenza V for trombone
£5.00 unreserved

Monday 22 August

Juliet Edwards, piano John Flinders, piano

5.15pm, Great Hall
A programme to include:
Bach, Chorale Prelude (arr. Kurtag)
Brahms, Variations on the St. Anthony Chorale
Gerald Barry, Five Chorales
£8.00 unreserved

Zero Carbon Britain: A Vision for 2030

5.15pm, Ship Studio
A talk by Peter Harper.
£8.00 unreserved

Stile Antico

7.45pm, Great Hall
Cornysh, Woefully arrayed
Gibbons, Hosanna to the Son of David
Tallis, O sacrum convivium
Sheppard, I give you a new commandment
Lassus, In monte Oliveti
Tallis, Salvator mundi
Victoria, O vos omnes
Morales, O Crux, ave
Lassus, Vide homo
Taverner, Dum transisset Sabbatum
Gombert, Tulerunt Dominum meum
Guerrero, Maria Magdalene
Gibbons, I am the Resurrection
Crecquillon, Congratulamini mihi
L’Héritier, Surrexit pastor bonus
Byrd, In resurrectione tua
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Composers Ensemble

10.00pm, Great Hall
Noriko Kawai, piano
Daniel Pioro, violin
Eniko Magya,r viola
Zoë Martlew, cello
Mahler, Piano Quartet
Gerald Barry, Piano Quartet no 1
Richard Strauss, Ständchen, Liebesliedchen, Arabischer Tanz
Gerald Barry, Piano Quartet no 2
£5.00 unreserved

Tuesday 23 August

In Conversation With Gerald Barry

5.15pm, Great Hall
Richard Baker talks to Gerald Barry about his life and work.
£8.00 unreserved

Richard Edgar-Wilson, tenor Andrew West, piano with John Flinders, piano & Stephen Stirling, horn

7.45pm, Great Hall
Schubert,
An dem Mond
Der Einsame
Alinde
An die Laute
Schubert, Auf dem Strom
Eschmann, Three songs from op 34
Durch sonnige Gründe, am murmelnden Bach
Es ist schon spät geworden
Irrlicht (Romanze)
John Woolrich, A Singing Sky
Britten, First and Second Lute Songs from ‘Gloriana’
Britten, Now sleeps the crimson petal
Folksongs arr. Britten,
The foggy, foggy dew
Down by the Salley Gardens
O waly, waly
Oliver Cromwell

John Harle, saxophone Steve Lodder, piano

10.00pm, Great Hall
Debussy, Syrinx
Dowland, Flow my Teares
Bartók, Three Folksongs from the Csik District
Richard Rodney Bennett, Four Country Dances
Dominic Muldowney, new piece
Schulhoff, Sonata
£5.00 unreserved

Wednesday 24 August

Joan Rodgers, soprano Andrew West, piano

5.15pm, Great Hall
Glinka, I remember that wonderful moment 1840
Confession 1840
Adele 1849
I am here Inez 1834
Mussorgsky, The Nursery
Mahler, Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht?
Rheinlegendchen
Das Irdische Leben
Scheiden und meiden
Wolf, Gesegnet sei das Grun
Mein Liebster ist so klein
Mein Liebster singt am Haus
Wie lange schon war immer mein Verlangen
Du denkst mit einem Fadchen mich zu fangen
Wer rief dich denn?
Wohl kenn ich euren Stand
Wir haben beide lange Zeit geschwiegen
Ich hab in Penna
£8.00 unreserved

Dartington Festival Orchestra

7.45pm, Great Hall
John Carewe, conductor
Brahms, Tragic Overture
Strauss, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Beethoven, Egmont Overture
Schumann, Symphony no 3 in Eb major ‘Rhenish’
This concert will also feature students on the Advanced Conducting Course.
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Noriko Kawaipiano

10.00pm, Great Hall
Gerald Barry, 1998 for Piano Solo
Handel, Suite
Gerald Barry Swinging Tripes and Trillibubkins
Handel, Suite
Gerald Barry, Au Milieu
£5.00 unreserved

Thursday 25 August

Chamber Choir

5.15pm, Great Hall
Jeremy Walker, director
John Flinders, piano
Juliet Edwards*, piano
Brahms, from Liebeslieder-Walzer, op 52*
Wenn So Lind Dein Auge
Vögelein Durchrauchst Die Luft
Sieh, Wie Ist Die Welle Klar
Nachtigall, Sie Singt So Schön
Schubert, Des Tages Weihe, D 763
Mendelssohn, Sechs Lieder, op 41 Im Walde
Schumann, Bei Schenkung Eines Flügels
Brahms, Fünf Gesänge, op 104
Nachtwache 1
Nachtwache 2
Letztes Glück
Verlorene Jugend
Im Herbs
Wolf, Im Stillen Friedhof
Berio, E Si Fussi Pisci
Brahms, from Neue Liebeslieder- Waltzer, op 65*
Verzicht, O Herz, Auf Rettung
Weiche Graser Im Revier
Schwarzer Wald
Nun, Ihr Musen, Genug!
£8.00 unreserved

Alexander Janiczek, violin Lowri Blake, cello Ian Brown, piano

7.45pm, Great Hall
Beethoven, Trio in G major op 1/2
Haydn, Trio in F# minor H15/26
Mendelssohn, Trio in D minor op 49
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Berio’s voice theatre

10.00pm, Ship Studio
A performance by students studying with Linda Hirst.
Berio, Sequenza III
Berio, Cries of London
Berio, A-Ronne
£5.00 unreserved

Friday 26 August

Brass and Percussion Ensemble

4.00pm, Studio 31
Julian Warburton, conductor
Peter Wiegold, conductor
Gabrieli, Sonata pian e forte
Tippett, Fanfare no 1
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Fanfare
Cage, First Construction in Metal
Copland, Ceremonial Fanfare
Cage, Amores
Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
Louis Andriessen, Workers Union
FREE

Advanced Composition

5.15pm, Great Hall
Daniel Pioro, violin
Eniko Magyar, viola
Zoë Martlew, cello
Noriko Kawai, piano
Performance of works by students on the Advanced Composition Course.
£8.00 unreserved

Summer School Choir and Dartington Festival Orchestra

7.45pm, Great Hall
Brad Cohen, conductor
Schumann, Four Double Choruses op 141
Brahms, A German Requiem
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Salsa ball

10.00pm, Studio 6
The culmination of this week’s Salsa course for everyone to enjoy the last night of this year’s Summer School.
Summer School participants only

Summer School Week Four Concerts, 13 - 19 August 2011

James Weeks and the Chamber Choir perform two important works – Birtwistle’s The Fields of Sorrow and Feldman’s Voices and Instruments – which were commissioned in the early seventies by William Glock for the Summer School Choir. There’s also a miniature
retrospective of music by Oliver Knussen including a performance of his recent Requiem conducted by the composer himself. Chamber music isn’t neglected: there are recitals
by Nicholas Daniel, the Finzi Quartet and the Gallimaufry Quintet. Stephen Kovacevich returns for an evening of chamber music by Brahms and Beethoven. There’s also a chance to hear Benjamin Britten’s late masterpiece, his suite on English Folk Tunes A time there was…, conducted by Steuart Bedford, who gave the world premiere in 1975.

Saturday 13 August

Geneviève Laurenceau, violin Gemma Rosefield, cello Stephen Kovacevich, piano

7.45pm, Great Hall
Brahms, Violin Sonata no 2 in A major op 100
Beethoven, Cello Sonata no 5 in D major op 102/2
Brahms, Piano Trio no 3 in C minor op 101
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Sunday 14 August

Beethoven and the Piano

5.15pm, Great Hall
A talk by Misha Donat.
£8.00 unreserved

Gallimaufry Ensemble with Huw Watkins, piano

7.45pm, Great Hall
Peter Wiegold, Prelude 3 (first performance of revised version)
Ligeti, Bagatelles
Oliver Knussen, Three Little Fantasies
Berio, Opus No Zoo
Mozart, Quintet for piano and wind K452
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Helen Reid, piano

10.00pm, Great Hall
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Précis
Fauré, Nocturne
Oliver Knussen, Sonya’s Lullaby
Richard Baker, Breaking the Ground
Satie, Nocturne no 2
Peter Wiegold, Honfleur
Philip Cashian, Cortège
Debussy, L’isle joyeuse
£5.00 unreserved)

Monday 15 August

Spoken Tunes: poems by Alice Oswald

5.15pm, Great Hall
Celebrated Devon based poet Alice Oswald gives a reading of her work.
£8.00 unreserved

Finzi Quartet

7.45pm, Great Hall
Haydn, String Quartet in D minor op 76/2
Ravel, String Quartet in F major
Beethoven, String Quartet no 11 in F minor op 95 ‘Serioso’
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Kate Lukas, flute David Campbell, clarinet Huw Watkins ,piano

10.00pm, Great Hall
Debussy, Syrinx
Berio, Lied
Debussy, Première Rhapsodie
Carter, Esprit Doux/Esprit Rude
Stravinsky, 3 Pieces
Maderna, Dialodia
Huw Watkins, Two Chorales
Helen Grime, Ceremonie
Gerald Barry, Low
£5.00 unreserved

Due to the unexpected and very sad death of Duncan Prescott, who was due to perform in this concert, the programme will be revised, and the concert given in his memory.

Tuesday 16 August

In Conversation With Oliver Knussen

5.15pm, Great Hall
Oliver Knussen talks about his life and works.
£8.00 unreserved

Nicholas Daniel, oboe Huw Watkins, piano

7.45pm, Great Hall
with
David Campbell, clarinet
Bach, Sonata in A major
Lutosławski, Epitaph
Helen Grime, Three Miniatures (First performance)
Oliver Knussen, Elegiac Arabesques for cor anglais and clarinet 
Schumann, Three Romances
Berio, Sequenza VII
Bach, Sonata in Eb major
Huw Watkins, Romances
Louis Andriessen, Forget me not
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Juliet Fraser, soprano Juliet Edwards, piano John Flinders, piano

10.00pm, Great Hall
Mozart Andante with 5 variations in G major, K 501
Wolf
Im Frühling
Der Musikant
Verschwiegene Liebe
Nachtzauber
Wolfgang Rihm, Drei Hölderlin- Gedichte
Enno Poppe, Wespe
Stravinsky, The Owl and the Pussycat
Debussy, Petite Suite
£5.00 unreserved

Wednesday 17 August

Dartington Festival Orchestra

7.45pm, Great Hall
Steuart Bedford, conductor
Mendelssohn, Overture A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Britten, Suite on English Folk Tunes: ‘A time there was…’
Ravel, Mother Goose Suite
Mozart, Symphony no 41 in C major K551, ‘Jupiter’
This concert will also feature students on the Advanced Conducting Course.
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Piano Masterclass Concert

10.00pm, Great Hall
A performance by students studying with Stephen Kovacevich this week.
£5.00 unreserved

Thursday 18 August

Student Chamber Music Performance

5.15pm, Studio 3
A programme to include the following works which were commissioned as part of the
Schubert Ensemble’s Chamber Music 2000 project – in which contemporary composers were commissioned to write for student ensembles.
Gerald Barry, The Pond
Philip Cashian, Music for the Night Sky
Pavel Novák, The Year of a Bird
Peter Sculthorpe, From the River
Gerald Barry, Snow is White
FREE

Chamber Choir and Wind Ensemble

7.45pm, Great Hall
James Weeks, conductor
Oliver Knussen, conductor
Nicholas Daniel, oboe
Huw Watkins, piano
Juliet Fraser, soprano
Wind tutors, students and players from the Dartington Festival Orchestra
Feldman, Voices and Instruments
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, An Interrupted Endless Melody
Holst, The Fields of Sorrow, and other canons for voices
Sir Harrison Birtwistle, The Fields of Sorrow
Oliver Knussen, Ophelia’s Last Dance
Brahms, Ophelia Songs
Oliver Knussen, Requiem
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Wind Band

10.00pm, Great Hall
Stephen Dummer, conductor
David Campbell, clarinet
Grainger, Molly on the Shore
Rimsky Korsakov, Clarinet Concerto
Hindemith, Symphony in Bb major for concert band
£5.00 unreserved

Friday 19 August

Tea Dance

4.00pm, Great Lawn
Take off your dancing shoes and come and dance on the lawn to the Tea Dance Band performing waltzes, tangos and quick steps.
FREE

Summer School Choir and Dartington Festival Orchestra

7.45pm, Great Hall
Charles Peeble,s conductor
Bruckner, Locus iste
Bruckner, Os Justi
Bruckner, Christus factus est
Bruckner, Virga Jesse
Britten, Russian Funeral
Scarlatti/Shostakovich, 2 Sonatas
Bruckner, Mass in E minor
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved

Gospel Choir

10.00pm, Great Hall
Finale performance of this week’s course directed by Carol Pemberton.
Summer School participants only

Dartington Summer School Week Three Concerts, 06 - 12 August 2011

Strings loom large this week. Two fine string quartets, the Benyounes and Callino quartets, each give concerts before combining forces at the end of the week for the Mendelssohn Octet. The cellist Rohan de Saram plays music Luciano Beri wrote specially for him – before which he will demonstrate on the Kandayan drum the Sri Lankan rhythms which inspired Berio. There will also be recitals by violinist Markus Daunert and violist Paul Silverthorne, and we also welcome the younger generation: Hungarian violist Eniko Magyar plays Berlioz’s Harold in Italy conducted by Sian Edwards. Not everything is for strings: James Oxley sings Schubert’s Winterreise, Daniel Adni plays Schumann, Chopin and Liszt, and John Lubbock conducts the Choir in Mozart’s great Requiem.

Saturday 06 August


Benyounes Quartet


7.45pm, Great Hall
Mozart, String Quartet in G major K387
Britten, Three Divertimenti
Beethoven, String Quartet no 14 in C# minor op 131
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Sunday 07 August


Daniel Adni, piano


5.15pm, Great Hall
Schumann, Faschingsschwank aus Wien op 26
Chopin, Nocturne in C# minor op posth
Liszt, Mephisto Waltz
Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody no 11
£8.00 unreserved


James Oxley, tenor Catherine Edwards, piano


7.45pm, Great Hall
Schubert, Winterreise
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Shradhanjali


10.00pm, Great Hall
Sanju Sahai, tabla
Jaymini Sahai, kathak dance
Debipriya Sircar, sitar and vocal
An extravagant high energy and enchanting collaboration of traditional Indian Music and Kathak dance. This concert brings together a combination of solo performances and interactive dialogue between musician and dancer, taking the audience on a spiritual journey. Indian Classical Music and Kathak Dance in its most pure and enriching form.
£5.00 unreserved


Monday 08 August


Beethoven and the String Quartet


5.15pm, Great Hall
A talk by Misha Donat.
£8.00 unreserved


Callino Quartet


7.45pm, Great Hall
Haydn, Quartet no 66 in G major op 77/1
Janáček, Quartet no 1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Mendelssohn, Quartet no 2 in A minor op 13
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Paul Silverthorne, viola Catherine Edwards, piano


10.00pm, Great Hall
Schumann, Märchenbilder op 113
Shostakovich, Viola Sonata op 147
Brahms, Viola Sonata in F minor op 120/1
Prokofiev, Four Pieces from ‘Romeo and Juliet’
£5.00 unreserved


Tuesday 09 August


Markus Däunert, violin Daniel Adni, piano


5.15pm, Great Hall
Markus Däunert, violin
Daniel Adni, piano
Janáček, Violin Sonata
Shostakovich, Violin Sonata op 134
£8.00 unreserved


Rohan de Saram, cello


7.45pm, Great Hall
Bach, Suite no 3 in C major
Sciarrino, Ai Limiti Della Notte
Xenakis, Kottos
Locatelli, Laborinto Armonico
Kodály, Finale of the Solo Cello Sonata op 8
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Capriccio


10.00pm, Studio 3
Benyounes Quartet
Callino Quartet
Graham Mitchell, double bass
Richard Strauss, Prelude to Capriccio
John Woolrich, Capriccio
£5.00 unreserved


Arbolito del Querer


10.00pm, Great Hall
Flora de la Música Popular Argentina
Jasmine, roses, wild flowers, grasses and trees… Laura Hansen and Carlos Morera explore the wealth of Argentine music – in tango and other folkloric forms – that reflects a love of nature, especially the flora of their country.
£5.00 unreserved

Wednesday 10 August

Indian Music


5.15pm, Great Hall
Pandit Vishwa Prakash, composer and vocalist
Sanju Sahai, tabla
Jaymini Sahai, kathak dance
Debipriya Sircar, vocal and sitar
This concert will start with a tabla solo which will take you on a spiritual journey to the banks of Benares, the Holy City, where this form of artistry was born. The second part of the concert will be a rendition of Rabindranath Tagore’s “Brahma Vishnu Siva”. Bringing together poetry, storytelling, dance and music as a medium to present Tagore’s
work, this piece by Pandit Vishwa Prakesh has been specially commissioned by the Summer School to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Tagore.
£8.00 unreserved


Dartington Festival Orchestra


7.45pm, Great Hall
with The Dartington Community Choir
Sian Edward,s conductor
Eniko Magyar, viola
Beethoven, Overture Leonora no 3
Tippett, Ritual Dances from ‘The Midsummer Marriage’
Berlioz, Harold in Italy
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Cello Ensemble


10.00pm, Great Hall
with Adrian Bradbury & Rohan de Saram
Berio, Korot
Pierre Boulez, Anthèmes 1 Kandayan drumming
Berio, Sequenza XIV
Pierre Boulez, Messagesquisse
£5.00 unreserved


Keith Tippett piano


10.00pm, Studio 3
A concert of improvised music.
£5.00 unreserved

Thursday 11 August

Singing for the Brain


5.15pm, Great Hall
A talk about this project, working with people with dementia and their carers, in which Dartington’s Social Justice Department has been closely involved.
£8.00 unreserved


String Orchestra


7.45pm, Great Hall
Leo Hussain, conductor
Eniko Magya,r viola
Tippett, Little Music
John Woolrich, Ulysses Awakes
Purcell, Chacony
Holst, St Paul’s Suite
Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
Elgar, Introduction and Allegro
£14 reserved /£8 unreserved


Songs from the Musicals


10.00pm, Studio 30
Robert Purvis, director
Finale of this week’s course.
Summer School participants only

Friday 12 August

Chamber Choir


5.15pm, Great Hall
Leo Hussain, conductor
Britten, Hymn to St Cecilia
Tippett, Four Songs of the British Isles
Vaughan Williams, Mass in G minor
£8.00 unreserved


Summer School Choir and Dartington Festival Orchestra


7.45pm, Great Hall
John Lubbock, conductor
Callino Quartet
Benyounes Quartet
Mendelssohn, Octet
Mozart, Requiem
£18.50 reserved /£14 unreserved


Tango Ball


10.00pm, Studio 6
The climax of a week-long course directed by Laura Hansen & Carlos Morera.
Summer School participants only

Exeter Guitar Festival 2011

Concerts at the Exeguitarfestival 2011

More details at www.Exeguitarfestival.com

Best wishes

Steve Gordon

Saturday 13 August 7.30pm VIDA Guitar Quartet - Phoenix Arts Centre

Sunday 14 August 7.30pm Stephen Gordon - Friends Meeting House

Tuesday 16 August 1.30pm David Cottam - Exeter Central Library

Wednesday 17 August 8.00pm Mandolinquents - Phoenix Arts Centre

Thursday 18 August 1.30pm Alison Smith - Exeter Central Library

Friday 19 August 7.30 Summer School ensemble concert - Friends Meeting House
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Week 2 of the Dartington Summer School

 Week 2

Opera and song dominate Week 2. All Sir Michael Tippett's song cycles, and some 

of Tippett's realisations of songs by Henry Purcell, are sung by the tenor Robert

Murray. There's a portrait concert of choral music by the French composer Betsy 

Jolas sung, alongside early French music, by Ex Cathedra. Jeffrey Skidmore also 

leads the Summer School Choir in an all-Bach programme and there's still more Bach

from the Brook Street Band, Carole Cerasi and Jill Kemp. In addition, we present

 a fully-staged production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in the Barn Theatre. Meanwhile,

two  pianists give recitals: Martino Tirimo, and Huw Watkins, who makes his Dartington

debut with a programme of Ravel, Schumann, Helen Grime and his own music. The City

Musick, too, makes its first Dartington appearance.

Sat 30
 7.45pm: Robert Murray & Huw Watkins, Great Hall

Sun 31
5.15pm: The Lives and Times of the Waits, Great Hall
7.45pm: Martino Tirimo, Great Hall
10.00pm: Brook Street Band, Great Hall

Mon 01
5.15pm: The Miraculous Circumstance Barn Theatre
7.45pm: Topping Tooters of the Town, Great Hall
10.00pm: Huw Watkins, Great Hall
10.00pm: Lewis Riley Quartet, Studio 30

Tue 02
11.00am: SHOWCASE CONCERT SERIES (FREE): Early Brass Ensemble*

- Elizabethan Market, Totnes Market Square

5.15pm: In Conversation With Betsy Jolas, Great Hall
7.45pm: Carole Cerasi, Great Hall
10.00pm: Jill Kemp & Jonathan Watts, Great Hall

Wed 03
7.45pm: Ex Cathedra, Great Hall
10.00pm: Dido and Aeneas, Barn Theatre
10.00pm: Keith Tippett & Julie Tippetts, Great Hall

Thu 04
1.10pm: SHOWCASE CONCERT SERIES (FREE): Early Music Ensemble*

- Bogan House, Totnes

5.15pm: Bach Today, Great Hall
7.45pm: Chamber Choir, Great Hall
10.00pm: Dido and Aeneas, Barn Theatre

Fri 05
5.15pm: Student Performance, Great Hall
7.45pm: Summer School Choir, Great Hall
10.00pm: Jazz, Studio 30

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