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