beverley early music festival 2014 brochure.pdf

Box Office 01904 658338www.ncem.co.uk/bemf

21 – 25 May 2014

Early Music Festival

& East Riding

Early Music Festival | Box Office 01904 658338 | www.ncem.co.uk/bemf

We are delighted to host some of the world’s finestearly music specialists in Beverley this year. Guestsinclude the internationally acclaimed keyboardspecialist Andreas Staier - joining us prior to aWigmore Hall/BBC Radio 3 recording; soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, honoured for her voice ofcrystalline purity working with lutenist David Milleron a programme embracing Dowland, Purcell andSchubert; the wild, wacky and utterly brilliant vocalteam that is Robert Hollingworth’s I Fagiolini

presenting their Venetian Carnival complete withmasks and musical jokes and for the first time, PhilipCave’s choral group Magnificat - a group famousacross the world for the brilliance of its recordingsand fascination with 16th and 17th centuries.

We hope that you enjoy this musical feast and lookforward to welcoming you.

Thank you! Delma Tomlin MBE, Festival Director

& East Riding

Welcome to the 2014 Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival

presented by the National Centre for Early Music with financial support

from the East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Arts Council England.

Become A PATRON

NCEM Patrons enjoy specially organised rehearsals,supper parties and opportunities to meet with like-minded individuals. In 2013, NCEM Patrons werejoined by East Riding historians Drs David and SusanNeave for a series of illustrative walks and talks andwere particularly pleased to support a substantialeducation programme led by players from theOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment working with

young people from Beverley Grammar and Girls’ HighSchools. To see the film of this wonderful project,please log on to www.ncem.co.uk/bemf

If you would like to join us in 2014, to supportthe festival in Beverley and enjoy additionalactivities organised around the festivalprogramme, please contact us [email protected] Thank you

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Wednesday 21 May

Event 1 7.30pm Venue Toll Gavel United Church, Toll Gavel, Beverley Tickets £20.00 (concessions £18.00)

Elin Manahan Thomas soprano

David Miller lute, theorbo, 19th century guitar

If Music be the Food of LoveSongs by Dowland, Purcell and Schubert, accompanied by lute,theorbo and 19th century guitar, with instrumental works byDowland, Robert de Visée and Johann Kaspar Mertz.

A programme highlighting the most significant periods in musicalhistory when singing to the accompaniment of pluckedinstruments flourished - works by three of the greatest songcomposers of all time!

“What mostly matters here … is the intense singing of ElinManahan Thomas and the exquisite lute playing by DavidMiller … theirs is a winning combination.” Fanfare USA

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Festival Saver TicketBuy a festival saver ticket for events 1 - 7 with top price seats for events 2 & 7and save nearly 20%

Full price £110, concession £100

Early Music Concerts in YorkSaturday 8 February

Early Lieder DayCelebrating the life and music of CPE Bach withsoprano Mhairi Lawson and bass Matthew Brook.

Saturday 15 March

Bach, Mozart & Haydn3.00pm Revolutionary Drawing Room7.00pm St Matthew PassionEmail [email protected] for Double Discount Offer

Friday 21 March

European Day of Early MusicSupported by UNESCO

Saturday 3 May

Baroque DayWith harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani, Compangniad’Istrumenti and the University of York BaroqueEnsemble

Information and tickets from: NCEM, St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate, York YO1 9TLwww.ncem.co.uk

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Thursday 22 May

Event 2 7.30pm Venue St Mary’s Church, North Bar Within, Beverley Tickets Central nave: £20.00 (concessions £18.00)

Side aisles: £15.00 (concessions £13.00; students £5.00)

The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments Steven Player dancer, actor, musician

Clare Salaman director, nyckelharpa, hurdy-gurdy, Hardanger violin

Jeremy Avis voice, percussion, bandoraAlison McGillivray bass viol, lyra d’amore

Ian Harrison pipe & tabor, voice, dulcian, shawm, recorder, pipes

Keith McGowan harps, flutes, curtals, rackets, pipes

Nine Daies WonderWith dance, songs and instrumental music, TheSociety explore an outrageous Elizabethanpublicity stunt - Will Kemp's famous dancefrom London to Norwich in 1600.

We think of the publicity stunt as peculiar to our age but the antics of Will Kemp, a shameless self-publicist and one of the leading actors inShakespeare’s company, prove otherwise. In 1600 he dancedhis way from London to Norwich in nine days, entertaining anadoring public en route. The Society of Strange and AncientInstruments, with dancer, Steven Player, celebrate Will Kemp’saccount of the journey, ‘Nine Daies Wonder’, with raucous dance tunesand more refined music of the Elizabethan age. They will breathe newlife into this celebrated event, which remains awe-inspiring 400 yearson, and still has the power to delight, baffle and amuse.

“A Renaissance Fred Astaire... Steven Player was worth the price of admission by himself” Adelaide Review

“One of our finest exponents of early music. They enchant andamaze in equal measure.” The Musician

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Friday 23 May

Event 3 1.00pm – c.2.00pm Venue Quire, Beverley Minster Tickets £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

Leah Stuttard gothic bray harp, voiceAgnethe Christensen voice, bells, gusli, kanklés Oluf Strangeson’s Joust: Fleeing horses, duels, cold winter, midsummer and beautiful womenThis concert will be like a scrapbook full of music and poetry from Northern climes around 1500 with rustic songs,virtuosic instrumental music, nursery rhymes, lullabies, lively dances and serene hymns to the Blessed Virgin. Theinspiration for the concert is a unique medieval Danish ballad, Oluf Strangesøns dystrit – Oluf Strangeson’s Joust.

"Christensen was superb" Seattle Times."dazzling fingerwork" Early Music Today

www.leahstuttard.co.uk/agnethe-leah

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Friday 23 May

Event 4 7.30pmVenue Toll Gavel United ChurchTickets £25.00 (concessions £20.00; students £5.00)

I Fagiolini directed by Robert Hollingworth

Anna Crookes soprano Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano

William Purefoy counter-tenor Matthew Long, Nicholas Hurndall Smith tenorsEamonn Dougan baritone Charles Gibbs basswith Lynda Sayce theorbo, guitar Catherine Pierron harpsichord

Carnevale VenezianoFrom Monteverdi to Monty PythonVenice at Carnival: the town doubled in size for weeksof misrule from St Stephen’s Day until Shrove Tuesday.The best musicians and commedia dell’arte groups wereon first-name terms with princes, performing on thestreet but also in ticketed entertainments. I Fagiolini re-create an evening of such masques and musicalmayhem: political caricatures; a trip down a canal viasupposed Benedictine monk Adriano Banchieri;Gabrieli’s lament calling on the lagoon’s seafood tobewail the death of Willaert, and excerpts from Vecchi’speerless madrigal comedy L’Amfiparnaso (Twin Peaks)introducing us to masked commedia charactersPantalone, the Dottore, the Spanish captain and more.

Banchieri Barca di Venezia per Padova 1605 (excerpts)Vecchi L’Amfiparnaso 1597 (excerpts)Croce Mascarate

and music by Willaert, Monteverdi and Andrea Gabrieli

“Both singing and actingrose to the occasionmagnificently” DailyTelegraph

“evocatively breathesthe air of the streets and squares ofRenaissance Venice”Gramophone


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Saturday 24 May

Event 5 1.00pm – c.2.00pm Venue St Mary’s Church Tickets £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

Pellingmans’ SarabandSusanna Pell viols Jacob Heringman lute with Faye Newton soprano

Twenty Waies upon the Bels‘Rounds and Grounds’Pellingmans' Saraband presents another bonanza of delightful 16th and 17th–century division music interspersedwith lute songs composed on ground basses, and a colourful selection of rounds by Thomas Ravenscroftperformed by special guest singers. This varied and vibrant programme also features music by Thomas Campion,John Johnson, and Nicholas Lanier.

“This is division music at its most sublime, played with deceptive and consummate ease.” North East Early Music Forum

“Faye Newton's pure, vibrato-light soprano suggests Emma Kirkby with rougedcheeks!” The Times

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Saturday 24 May

Event 6 3.30pm – c4.30pmVenue Toll Gavel United ChurchTickets £15.00 (concessions £13.00; students £5.00)

Andreas Staier harpsichordFrom Bach to France

d'Anglebert from "Pièces de Clavecin, Première Suite" G-Dur (1689)

J.S.Bach from der Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080

Couperin from "L'Art de toucher Le Clavecin" (1716)

J.S. Bach from "Clavier-Übung .. op. 1" (1731): Partita 4 D-Dur, BWV 828

Undoubtedly one of the most prominent harpsichord and fortepianoperformers in the world, Andreas Staier’s indisputable musical masteryhas made its mark on the interpretation of baroque, classical andromantic repertoire. As a soloist, Andreas Staier has performed acrossthe world and he regularly collaborates with artists such as Anne Sofievon Otter, Pedro Memelsdorff and tenor Christoph Prégardien. His extensive discography is testament to his fame and we are delighted to be able to welcome this master musicianto the 2014 festival.

“Staier surely comes close to an idealsynthesis of historical awareness andcharisma … superb … “ InternationalRecord Review – March 2013

Supported by Middlethorpe Hall Hotel and Spawww.middlethorpe.com


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Saturday 24 May CONCERT BY C ANDLE L IGHT

Event 7 7.30pmVenue Beverley MinsterTickets £25.00 reserved seating front central nave

£20.00 unreserved seating front side aisles£15.00 (concessions £13.00) unreserved seating rear nave

Magnificat directed by Philip Cave Amy Haworth, Emma Walshe sopranos Sally Dunkley, Caroline Trevor altosSimon Wall, Benedict Hymas tenors William Dawes, Giles Underwood basses

The Tudors at Prayer Henry VIII, Mary, and Elizabeth I dominated the political, social and religious life of England during the 16thcentury. They all valued music deeply, and it formed an important part of their daily lives, both public and private;each monarch had a profound impact on the form and function of sacred music. Magnificat performs aprogramme of some of the most ineffable and sublime music of the age, offering music that may haveaccompanied their Highnesses' more introspective moments.

“Magnificat’s cast list is about as good as it gets …” BBC Music Magazine “The sound these singers make is exquisite..” The Sunday Times

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Festival guests include:Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI

The SixteenOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Ensemble Gilles BinchoisMaria Cristina KiehrThe Cardinall’s Musick

Tickets on sale from 3 Marchwww.ncem.co.uk/yemf

THURSDAY 10 – SATURDAY 19 JULY

2014

Sunday 25 May

Event 8 10.00am - 4:30pmVenue Hexagon Centre, Coltman Avenue, BeverleyTickets £15.00 (students & observers £10.00)

including music. Please book by 16 May to allow for provision of music.www.ncem.co.uk/tudorworkshop

A Tudor workshop for singers with Philip CaveA peaceful night and a perfect end:Music for ComplineFollowing Event 7 singers are invited to join Philip Cave toexplore the glorious repertory of the Tudor Church. Musicstudied will include Byrd’s ‘Lamentations’ and music forCompline by Tallis, White and Sheppard. The workshop isopen to all voices; a reasonable level of sight singing willbe advantageous. The day will conclude with an informalperformance at 4.00pm open to all, free of charge.

With thanks to the East Riding of Yorkshire Music Hub

Date Saturday 24 MayTime 5.00pm Venue Beverley Minster

Admission free of charge

Festival Evensong Beverley Minster Choir directed by Robert Poyser Music by William Byrd


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Booking information

The National Centre for Early MusicSt Margaret’s ChurchWalmgate, York YO1 9TL

In person: The NCEM box office is open Monday –Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm.

On-line: Visit our web site at www.ncem.co.uk/bemfand use the secure on-line booking service. By telephone: Please contact the box office on 01904658338.

There is a non-refundable £1.00 administration chargefor each transaction made on-line or by telephone. Thisincludes the postage of your tickets if time permits.

By post: Write to the NCEM Box Office, St Margaret’sChurch, Walmgate, York YO1 9TL enclosing an SAE.Cheques should be made payable to the National Centrefor Early Music.

Seating: Seats are unreserved except where indicated.

Reservations: Tickets must be paid for within threeworking days of reservation and at least 24 hours priorto the performance. Any remaining tickets will be soldat the venue immediately prior to the performance.

Concession prices: The price shown in brackets is theconcession price for those aged 65 and over, registereddisabled and a companion, and the unemployed.

Refunds: We regret that refunds can only be given if the concert is sold out and we are able to sell on the ticket. Please note that there will be a 10%administration charge.

General enquiries: Please ring 01904 632220 forgeneral information.

Group bookings: Buy nine tickets for any one concertand receive one further ticket free! All tickets must bebooked in advance at the same time.

Accessible facilities: The Festival offers a warmwelcome to everyone. The NCEM website

www.ncem.co.uk is accessible to the partially sightedand assistance dogs are welcome at concerts. For detailed information, please ring 01904 632220. The NCEM is a Typetalk Approved business.

General enquiries: To book accommodation pleasetelephone Tourist Information on 01482 391672, email [email protected] or log on towww.visithullandeastyorkshire.com/places-to-stay

Box Office 01904 658338email: [email protected]/bemf

Buy Your Festival Tickets Here Too! Tickets for these individual concerts available on the door from 7.00pmalongside a selection of 2014 Early Music Festival tickets.

East Riding Concert Series7.30pm Toll Gavel United ChurchSat 18 January London Theatre VoicesThurs 6 February Tango 5Thurs 20 March Orchestra of the SwanThurs 10 April Richard Durrant

Gift VouchersThese can be purchased from the Box Office in amounts of £5 and £10.

Stay In TouchTo stay in touch email us [email protected] or sign up at www.ncem.co.uk


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21 – 25 May 2014

Early Music Festival

& East Riding

Wednesday 21 MayElin Manahan Thomas and David Miller

Thursday 22 MayThe Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments

Friday 23 MayLeah Stuttard and Agnethe Christensen

I Fagiolini directed by Robert Hollingworth

Saturday 24 MayPellingmans’ Saraband

Andreas StaierFestival Evensong

Magnificat directed by Philip Cave

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The Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival is directed by Delma Tomlin MBE and administered by the National Centre for Early Music through the York Early Music Foundation -registered charity number 1068331. All details are correct at the time of going to press but the Festival reserves the right to make alterations to the published programme – if necessary.

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