york early music festival 2014

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THURSDAY 10 – SATURDAY 19 JULY

2014

Age of Enlightenment

John Bryan, Lindsay Kemp, Elizabeth Kenny, Peter Seymour

Artistic Advisers

The 2014 Festival is a wealth of intermingled themes.One is the music of Spain, starting with the warmthand colour of medieval music from around theMediterranean as presented by Jordi Savall’s HespèrionXXI, then travelling to cooler climes alongsideCatherine of Aragon in the company of the RoseConsort of Viols, glancing back to her home tocelebrate mass with one of the Aragonese Court’sfavourite musicians with the French-based EnsembleGilles Binchois, before moving on to the music of theSpanish Golden Age with Andrew Carwood’sCardinall’s Musick.

Intertwined with this glorious Catholic colour we arecelebrating a very different tradition as epitomized bythe German Protestant, CPE Bach, alongside a host of

other anniversaries – all too good to miss! Top of ourlist is Bach’s oratorio Du Göttlicher - rarely heard butastonishingly beautiful - followed by celebrations ofJomelli, Locatelli and Leclair as presented by theOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

The Festival culminates in a celebration of youth –highlighting the winners of the 2013 York Early MusicInternational Young Artists Competition and threeexceptional violinists who are supported by theNetherlands based Jumpstart Jr. Foundation.

We look forward to welcoming you to this celebrationof talent across the ages!

Delma Tomlin MBEAdministrative Director

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1.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s ChurchUnreserved seating: £3.00, Under 16 free of charge

The EnglishSpanish GirlWith the help of members of the National Centrefor Early Music’s Learning and Participation team,pupils of Lord Deramore’s Primary School perform a specially adapted version of Miguel de Cervantes’stale of pirates, intrigue, adventure, and (of course)true love, with vocal and instrumental music from16th-century England and Spain.

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7.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of YorkReserved seating: £28.00 (concessions £25.00, students £5.00)

Hespèrion XXIPierre Hamon flute, gaitaDimitri Psonis santur, morescaYurdal Tokan oudHakan Gungor kanunDavid Mayoral percussionJordi Savall rebab lira and direction

Kalenda Maya: Folias andDances from Palace andDesert East meets West in this colourful evocation ofmedieval music from all around the Mediterranean.In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Spain was amelting pot, where Christian, Jewish and Islamiccultures co-existed, where Provençal troubadoursand Arabic musicians could meet and exchangeideas. Manuscripts associated with the Castiliancourt of Alfonso X 'the Wise' show illustrations ofmusicians playing instruments that look remarkablysimilar to those still played in North Africa, theMiddle East and around the Adriatic today, and thishas inspired Jordi Savall to gather together a groupof musicians from east and west to recreate the lostsounds of medieval Spain, Provence and Italy in thecontext of traditional musics from Armenia, Persiaand Turkey.

“Savall is to the gamba what Federer is to thetennis racquet: a magician. Time and again, hislightning fingers hypnotised his sell-outaudience” York Press

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Thursday 10 July

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Friday 11 July

10.30am – c.11.30am Bedern Hall, Bedern £7.50 including coffee on arrival

‘Fantastical and far-fetched’ An introduction to the mind of CPE BachThat bedazzled assessment of the music of JS Bach’ssecond and most talented son Carl Philipp Emanuelseems no less appropriate now than when it wasmade in the 18th century, making it all the more ofa pity that so few people really know it today. YorkEarly Music Festival Artistic Adviser, Lindsay Kemp,and flautist Jennifer Cohen offer the chance to getacquainted with one of the most importantcomposers of the 18th century ahead of encountersin Events 7, 9, 19 and 26.


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12noon – c. 5.00pmNCEM, St Margaret’s Church Tickets: £25.00 including refreshments and a lightlunch or £20.00 if booked with event 6.

The Sixteen Insight Day Whether or not you are new to the ChoralPilgrimage repertoire, or want to expand yourexisting knowledge, our Insight Day provides afascinating exploration into the stories behind themusic.

Join Sally Dunkley and musicologistProfessor John Milsom for talks, debates and discussion

Discover the rich history behind the Choral Pilgrimage repertoire

Experience at first-hand intimateperformances from a consort of The Sixteen singers

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2.00pm – c.3.00pm St Olave’s Church, Marygate £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

Rose Consort of Viols John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks violswith Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano

Mynstrelles with Straunge Sounds: the first viols in England When Catherine of Aragon arrived in England in1501 to marry Prince Arthur, she brought with herthe musical culture of her parents, Ferdinand andIsabella of Spain. Five years later Philip the Fair ofBurgundy was shipwrecked on the English coast enroute to Spain, and his minstrels also entertainedthe Tudor court. The two events speeded thedevelopment of the early viol consort in England,celebrated in this programme of music from theSpanish songbook of Catherine's parents, piecesassociated with Philip and his musicians, and worksboth English and continental preserved in Tudormanuscripts.

“.. the Rose Consort play in a sublimely unfussy,unfettered manner worthy of the music”Gramophone

www.roseconsort.co.uk The Rose Consort will be using a special set of violsmodelled on those depicted in a painting by Lorenzo Costa of 1497.

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7.30pm York Minster Reserved seating front nave: £30.00Reserved seating rear nave: £22.00 (concessions £20.00)Unreserved seating side aisles: £15.00 (students £5.00)

The Sixteen directed by Harry Christophers Voice of the Turtle DoveThe Sixteen revisit the golden age of Renaissance polyphony with a stunning programme of gems by three of the finest English Tudor composers. William Mundy’s monumental Vox patris caelestis is a setting of a textfrom the Song of Songs and revels in the pictorial imagery of phrases such as ‘Arise, my love, my fair one’ and ‘the voice of the turtle dove’. John Sheppard was Mundy’s elder by about 15 years – his setting of thesacred prose of Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria is perhaps only surpassed by the sublime Libera nos I. But themost extraordinary music of all comes from the earliest of the trio, Richard Davy. Davy died in 1507, and the fact that his music survived the Reformation is, says Harry Christophers, ‘nothing short of a miracle’. His remarkable O Domine caeli terraeque was reportedly written in just one day.

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9.45pm Bedern Hall, Bedern, off Goodramgate Friends £17.00, Guests £22.00

Friends SupperThe Friends are dedicated to supporting the summer festival. Membership brings many benefitsincluding advanced booking, discounted tickets, reserved seating where possible and opportunities tomeet with fellow Friends and early music artists.

To join the Friends, please contact the Administrator Jillian Johnson at [email protected] or visitwww.ncem.co.uk/friends

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Friday 11 July

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11.00am – c.12 noon NCEM Reserved seating: £15.00 (concessions £13.00, students £5.00)

Bethany Seymour sopranoCatrin Woodruff sopranoNancy Cole altoJames Gilchrist tenorMatthew Brook bassPeter Seymour fortepiano

Songs of the Soul:Lieder from Berlin by CPE Bach, JF Reichardt and CF ZelterWhile it is with Schubert and Viennathat the early song repertory is mostassociated today, it was in Prussia thatthis expressive and exciting form wasfirst established towards the end of the18th century. Responding to poetry bythe likes of Goethe and Schiller,composers such as CPE Bach, JohannFriedrich Reichardt and Carl FriedrichZelter (later the teacher of Mendelssohn)forged a vigorously expressive Seelenlied(‘Song of the Soul’) characterised by richmelodic decoration andharmonic adventure andaided by the noveltonal and dynamicpossibilities of theemerging fortepiano.

3.00pm – c.4.00pm St Olave’s Church, Marygate £15.00 (concessions £13.00, students £5.00)

Amarillis Héloïse Gaillard flute, baroque oboe Alice Piérot violinIsabelle Saint Yves viola de gambaViolaine Cochard harpsichord

with Maïlys de Villoutreys soprano

Sur les pas d'Orphée One of the greatest Frenchcomposers of the 18th century– the opera giant andcontroversial theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau – died infeisty old age 250 years agothis year. Amarillis, InternationalYoung Artists Competitionwinners here in York in 1995,celebrate this major figure in a

programme that sets two of his colourful and vivacious Pièces declavecin en concerts alongside his early cantata Orphée, whichthey also contrast with Louis-Nicolas Clérambault’s ravishingearlier treatment of the same well-known story.

“the brilliant soprano, Maïlys de Villoutreys exudedconfidence - equally exceptional were Héloïse Gaillard,Violaine Cochard and Alice Piérot - the auditoriumreverberating with unabated claps” Hindustan Times

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Saturday 12 July

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Saturday 12 July

7.30pm – c.9.30pm Please note that there is no interval in this concertSt Michael le Belfrey Church, Petergate Reserved seating central nave £25.00 (concessions £20.00)Unreserved seating side aisles and balcony £17.00 (concessions £15.00, students £5.00)

Yorkshire Baroque SoloistsBethany Seymour soprano Catrin Woodruff soprano Nancy Cole altoJames Gilchrist tenor Matthew Brook bass Peter Seymour conductor

CPE Bach: Du Göttlicher A Passion Cantata

CPE Bach is known today mainly for his symphonies, concertos and keyboard works, but he was also a prolificcomposer of choral music. His final twenty years in particular were distinguished by a series of elevatingoratorios on sacred subjects that are among the most important Protestant vocal works of the second half ofthe 18th century, and an important link between the oratorios of Handel and Haydn. The Passion cantata Du Göttlicher – also known as Die letzten Leiden des Erlösers, and heard here in a rare performance – is oneof the best and most individual of them, a dramatic and expressive sharing of Christ’s last sufferings in whichBach’s original and characterful genius shines out in every bar.

“…we were treated to a gutsy, full-bodied performance … simply delightful, wonderful playing” York Press

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Sunday 13 July

2.00pm – 3.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: Free to those attending other events in the Festival but please do book tickets inadvance to avoid disappointment. Limited to two tickets per person.

Early Music Show Join us for a live broadcast of this popular show, presented by Lucie Skeaping


YEMF Lifetime Achievement Award Immediately following the EMS broadcast, the Festival willpresent its fifth biennial Lifetime Achievement Award toAndrew Parrott.

Andrew Parrott was involved in the first ever York Early Music Week in 1977 when his performance withhis Taverner Consort of the 14th-century Machaut Mass in York Minster was a revelation. His mostrecent recording, of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, is similarly important in questioning conventionalapproaches to performing repertory we think we know, shedding new light through a detailedinvestigation of original source materials and inspiring his hand-picked team of singers andplayers to join him in his recreative projects. Andrew’s career has seen him involved withground-breaking early music ensembles such as Musica Reservata and the New York Collegium, as well as more‘mainstream’ musical forces including the London Mozart Players.

He has also published the results of his research intohistorical performance in ways that speak directly toperformers as well as to those with more academic interests,and his The Essential Bach Choir (2000) provides detailedevidence for the ways in which Bach’s music was performed inhis own lifetime. While the focus of Andrew’s musical interests isat the ‘early’ end of the spectrum, he has also been highly successful in directingperformances of later symphonic and operaticworks, as well as contemporary music.

The York Early Music Festival’s Lifetime AchievementAward honours major figures who have made asignificant difference to the world of early music and hasbeen presented every other year since its inauguration in2006. The previous winners have been the Kuijken brothers(2006); Dame Emma Kirkby (2008); James Bowman (2010) andJordi Savall (2012).

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4.30pm – c.5.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s ChurchReserved seating: £10.00 (Festival Friends and NCEM Patrons free,students & family members £5.00)

Minster MinstrelsAnniversaryConcert Heather Moger director

To Everything a TimeAs the 2014 Festival enjoys a bumper crop ofcomposer anniversaries, the Minster Minstrels join in,celebrating 10 years since the ensemble was formed.From English madrigals and consort music to Italianintermedii, we offer musical reflections on thewhole gamut of time: the span of human life, theseasons of the year, the periods of the day and fromone hour to the next.

The Minster Minstrels is run as a partnership betweenthe NCEM and the City of York’s Arts Academy withsupport from the Mayfield Valley Arts Trust. Look outfor news about this vibrant group onwww.ncem.co.uk/minsterminstrels

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6.30pm (please note starting time)Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York Reserved seating: £25.00 (concessions £20.00, students £5.00)

Orchestra of the Ageof EnlightenmentKati Debretzeni director/violin

Of Births and Deaths,Angels and Devils2014 brings anniversaries for four of the mostrespected musicians of the18th century. CPE Bachand Nicolò Jomelli, one of the stars of theNeapolitan opera scene, were both born in 1714.And two virtuoso violinists – Frenchman Jean-MarieLeclair and the Italian Pietro Locatelli both died 250years ago. One awestruck listener who heard the lasttwo play dubbed them the ‘angel’ and ‘devil’ of theviolin respectively, but their contrasting rolestonight are taken by just one player – OAE leaderKati Debretzeni, shortly to take up a position as oneof our Festival Artistic Advisers. The concert openswith a richly-scored overture by a composer whooriginally edged out JS Bach in the auditions for thepost of Thomaskantor in Leipzig.

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Monday 14 July

10.30am – c.11.30am Bedern Hall, Bedern£7.50 including coffee on arrival

The UbiquitousCountertenor:Falsetto, fact and fictionAndrew Parrott invites you to consider how thecritical reappraisal of 'early' music as it mayoriginally have been performed has tended to focuson its instruments. Vocal matters have been treatedmuch less rigorously – and not least the (nowcentral) place of the countertenor, which has mostlybeen taken on trust. There is much to unlearn!

2.00pm – c.3.00pm Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate £15.00 (concessions £13.00, students £5.00)

David Owen Norris narrator and pianist

Charles Burney: Musical Tourist

Burney’s experience of the musical world wassecond to none, and luckily, he wrote it all down.David Owen Norris uses Burney’s books, letters,diaries and memoirs to paint a picture of the age,and of the man who first defined the Classical Style.

“Someone needs to sign this man up for a serieson why we love the music we love – right now!”Sunday Times

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7.30pm The Quire of York Minster £25.00 (concessions £20.00, students £5.00)

Ensemble GillesBinchois Anne-Marie Lablaude soprano David Sagastume altoStephan van Dyck tenor Dominique Vellard tenor and direction Emmanuel Vistorky bass

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Les SacqueboutiersJean-Pierre Canihac cornettPhilippe Canguilhem shawmDaniel Lasalle sackbutLaurent Lechenadec dulcian

Nunca fué pena mayor: A Mass and Motets byFrancisco de Peñalosa Holder of positions at three of the most importantmusical institutions of the early 16th century – theAragonese royal chapel, Seville Cathedral and thepapal chapel of Leo X – Francisco da Peñalosa wasone of the illustrious composers of the SpanishGolden Age, as well as one of the most prolific.Ensemble Gilles Binchois make a welcome return toYork to bring us his Missa Nunca fué pena mayor,based on one of the most widely disseminatedCastilian-texted secular songs of the period, settingit amongst a selection of his motets to show hiswide-ranging skills as a composer.

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Gilles Binchois is supported by the Ministry ofCulture and Communication and regional councilof Bourgogne, and by the City of Dijon. LesSacqueboutiers is supported by the Midi PyrénéesRegion Council, the Haute-Garonne GeneralCouncil and the Toulouse City Council.


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Tuesday 15 July

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2.00pm – c.3.00pm All Saints’ Church, North Street £12.00 (concessions £10.00, students £5.00)

Duo Domenico Jonathan Rees,Vladimir Waltham cellos

Boccherini’s InfluencesEquipped with cellos and a generous selection ofbows, winners of the 2013 Friends of York EarlyMusic Festival International Young ArtistsCompetition prize Duo Domenico return with theItalian cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini, placinghis compositions against the backdrop of theinfluences that formed him – from Italian cellovirtuosi to the Viennese opera and ballets of Gluckand Salieri – and of the musical developments hehimself influenced in Spain and across Europe.

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7.00pm – c.9.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Unreserved seating: £15.00 (concessions £13.00,students £5.00)

Nonsuch Dance Company The Dance of the Deadly Sins

A newly devised dance theatre experience based on the16th-century dance play from Seville by Diego Sanchezde Badajoz. The story follows Adam, the first mancreated, as he meets seven dancing girls representingthe Seven Deadly Sins. Lurking behind gravestones,loitering in doorways and parading on the lawns andpathways while you take your seats, each one will thenemerge using historical dance to charm and disarmhim. Will he succumb, or will he heed the words ofwisdom spoken by the Good Shepherd?

Are you interested in historical dance and takingpart in this performance? We are running workshopsfor dancers and musicians in June – log on to www.ncem.co.uk/nonsuch for information.

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Tuesday 15 July


9.30pm – c.10.15pm The Chapel, Merchant Adventurers’ Hall £12.00 (concessions £10.00)

Jacob Heringman & Ariel Abramovich vihuelas de manoCifras imaginariasIn 1547, Enríquez de Valderrábano published numerous duos (mostly arrangements of vocal polyphony) forvihuelas de mano of various sizes. Ariel Abramovich and Jacob Heringman have followed Valderrábano's lead,creating a programme of their own polyphonic arrangements for two vihuelas. Intimate and ravishinglybeautiful, the delicately-textured clarity of counterpoint comes to the fore in this programme of settings ofJosquin, Verdelot, Willaert, Crecquillon and others, performed on tenor and bass vihuelas.

“It is impossible not to marvel at the dexterityof Heringman's fingerwork and very easy to be convinced by his inspired phrasing andwinning sense of spontaneity“ Music Week

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2.00pm - c.3.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s ChurchReserved seating: £12.00 (concessions £10.00,students £5.00)

University of YorkBaroque EnsembleDaniel Edgar, Tim Smedley directors

Baroque CelebrationsThe ever-popular University of York BaroqueEnsemble appears once more at the Festival tocelebrate the anniversaries of three Baroquecomposers. Carl Philip Emanuel, born 300 years ago,is represented by one of his explosively inventivestring symphonies; widely travelled virtuosoviolinist, Pietro Locatelli, who died in 1764, isfeatured in an elegant sinfonia and concerto grosso;and Frenchman Jean-Philippe Rameau, another whodied in 1764, is heard in a suite of typically colourfuldances from his operas.

7.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s ChurchReserved seating: £20.00 (concessions £17.00)

María Cristina Kiehrsoprano

Ariel Abramovich lute, vihuela

Andad pasiones, andadAlthough it is known that songs were sung to theaccompaniment of the vihuela, or Spanish lute, in15th-century Spain, no written examples survive.Ariel Abramovich’s painstakingly madereconstructions peel back the courtly layers fromtwo of the most sophisticated Spanish Renaissancepolyphonic manuscripts – the Cancionero de Palacioand the Segovia Manuscript – to reveal the beautyof the solo songs lying within.

“María Cristina Kiehr is clearly inspired by themusical invention here. Her voice is deceptive, atonce cuttingly clean, yet subtly responsive toevery emotional nuance” BBC Music Magazine

“Ariel Abramovich's fluent and delicatelyexecuted renditions of the fantasias are very attractive indeed” Goldberg

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Thursday 17 July


5.30pm – c.6.15pm Bedern Hall, Bedern £7.50 including a glass of wine on arrival

When Spain ruledthe worldIn the 16th century, through a mixture of cannymarriages and thrusting commercial enterprise,Spain ruled the known world. This pre-concert talkby Andrew Carwood considers the rise of Spain andits rulers but focuses on the large output ofwonderful sacred music, considering both its originsand its impact on society.

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11.00am – 12.15pmNCEM, St Margaret’s ChurchUnreserved seating: £5.00

Jordi Savall and the BorgiasIn a Festival first, we are delighted to screen twofilms by directors from Catalonia – the home also ofJordi Savall. In this documentary he talks for thefirst time on film about his music and work, and theyear-long process of creating a major musicalproject on the notorious Borgia family. Thishistorical and artistic backdrop draws viewers intothe world of early music and reflects Jordi Savall asdirector, researcher and performer. (Música Savall –Història Borja, dir Maria Gorgues & Miquel Bruns,Spain 2010, subtitled)

With thanks to TV3 -Televisió de Catalunya

2.00pm – 3.45pm NCEM, St Margaret’s ChurchUnreserved seating: £5.00

The Silence before BachDrama and documentary-style filmmakingblend with the surreal in a passionate look atthe legacy of JS Bach. From Bach teachinghis son, to a truck driver playing thecomposer’s music on his harmonica, a Bachimpersonator leading tourists throughLeipzig, and Felix Mendelssohn’s curiousdiscovery of the St Matthew Passion, thisvisually and aurally arresting film takes aplayful look at a classical composer whocontinues to inspire and influenceWestern culture. (Die Stille vor Bach, dir.Pere Portabella, Spain 2007, subtitled)

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Thursday 17 July



7.30pm The Quire of York Minster£25.00 (concessions £20.00, students £5.00)

The Cardinall’s MusickAndrew Carwood director

Spain, Defender of the Faith: Masterpieces from thegreatest Empire of the 16th centuryAt its height Spain was the most powerful, the most influential and the richest country in 16th-centuryEurope, the primary defenders of the Catholic faith in the post-Reformation world, with territories in the NewWorld and a powerful set of alliances in Europe. Not only that, the music produced by Spanish composers atthis time – colourful, expressive and intense – is some of the finest ever penned. At the head of this group sitsthe great Tomàs Luis de Victoria, and his music is at the heart of this programme, which includes hismagnificent Missa Salve regina, several fine motets and a thrilling Magnificat, set alongside works by hiscontemporaries and compatriots Guerrero, Esquivel and Lobo.

Victoria Missa Salve regina Victoria Alma redemptoris mater [a 5] Victoria Ne timeas Maria

Propers for the Annunciation plainsong

Victoria Salve regina [a 8] Guerrero Alma redemptoris mater Victoria Vadam et circuibo civitatem Esquivel Surge propera Lobo Virgo divino nimium Victoria Magnificat primi toni

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Friday 18 July


2.00pm – c.3.15pm St Olave’s Church, Marygate £12.00 (concessions £10.00, students £5.00)

Ensemble Thalia Belén Nieto Galán flute Sarah Assmann oboe Diederik Ornée clarinetHylke Rozema horn José Rodrigues Gomes bassoon

A strictly sentimental art

Reicha Wind Quintet in G major, Op.88 No.3Reicha Adagio in D minorReicha Wind Quintet in B flat major, Op.100 No.6

Bohemian-born Anton Reicha was a prolific andwide-ranging composer, a theorist and a friend ofHaydn and Beethoven, but it is for his attractive andskilfully wrought chamber music for winds that he isknown today. His crucial role in the development ofthe wind quintet in particular is celebrated in thisprize concert by the latest ensemble to join the

distinguished ranks of winners of our biennialInternational Young Artists Competition.

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Information about the 2015 IYAC will be availablefrom September 2014. Please check out the websitewww.ncem.co.uk/youngartists2015

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Friday 18 July



7.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s ChurchReserved seating: £20.00 (concessions £17.00, students £5.00)

Forma Antiqua Daniel Zapico theorbo Pablo Zapico baroque guitar Aarón Zapico harpsichord

Concerto Zapico: Fandangos, Folias and PassacagliasThe three Zapico brothers have a ball in ascintillating mix of their own transcriptions andoriginals of dances and other pieces for harpsichord,guitar and theorbo from 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century Italy and Spain, by the likes of Kapsberger,Scarlatti and Santiago de Murcia.

“The brothers Zapico were my most exciting Early Music discovery of last year: they play with tremendous virtuosity, expressiveness andwit. It's great news that they'll be in York thissummer.” Catherine Bott

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Saturday 19 July


10.30am – c.11.15am | Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate£7.50

Bojan violin

Sei solo a violinoThe title of JS Bach’s violin sonatas and partitas may have a doublemeaning at its heart. As well as meaning ‘Six solos’, in Italian Sei solocould also mean ‘you are alone’, given the proximity of the death ofBach’s first wife to the date of these compositions. For a baroqueviolinist, there is no greater reward than bringing these notes on thepage to life.

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12.00 noon – c.12.45pm | Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate £7.50

Huw Daniel violinwith

Harmony of NationsKristin Deeken violin Lucy Scotchmer celloRaphaël Collignon harpsichord

Bach Trio sonatasHuw Daniel and Harmony of Nations play a reconstruction for twoviolins and continuo of two of JS Bach’s organ sonatas – the G major,BWV 530 and C major, BWV 529. The sonata in G major, BWV 1039,originally written for two flutes and continuo, is presented in atranscription for two violins and continuo.



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Saturday 19 July



5.00pm – c.5.45pm | NCEM, St Margaret’s ChurchReserved seating: £7.50

Cecilia Bernardini, Bojan , Huw Daniel violinswith

Harmony of NationsKristin Deeken violinLinda Hannah-Andersson violinJordan Bowron viola Lucy Scotchmer celloKate Aldridge double bass Raphaël Collignon harpsichord

Concerto a TreThe three Jumpstart Jr. violinists join forces to perform afeast of virtuosic pieces for three violins and continuo.They are joined by Harmony of Nations to perform areconstruction of Bach’s triple violin concerto in D majorBWV 1064R – a rare chance to hear a well-known pieceas Bach might have originally intended it, and a fittingclimax to our day!

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Cecilia Bernardini violinKeiko Shichijo fortepiano

Mozart and Beethoven Sonatas from Vienna In Op.12 No.1, his first violin sonata, Beethoven continued where Mozart hadleft off in K.454 fourteen years earlier. Both written in Vienna, thesemasterpieces are clearly set within the classical tradition, but with anincreasing drive to expand, dramatise and equalise the roles of thefortepiano and the violin.

Mozart Violin sonata in B flat major, K. 454BeethovenViolin Sonata in D major, Op.12 no. 1


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Highlights include Handel's Messiah presented bythe Yorkshire Bach Choir and

our first TOTS concert!

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The Mystery Plays will be performed on wagons in the streets of York on Sunday 13 and Sunday 20 July.

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Society of Strange & Ancient Instruments

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Thanks are due to Arts Council England, Yorkshire; our media partner BBC Radio 3 who are broadcasting threeconcerts live from the 2014 Festival as well as recording for the ‘Early Music Show’; our sister organisation theNational Centre for Early Music as well as our regional tourism partners Welcome to Yorkshire and VisitYork.

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We are pleased to acknowledge support from the City of York Council; Harrowells Solicitors; JWP Creers; theShepherd Building Group; the Instituto Cervantes Manchester; Embassy of Spain; TV3 – Televisio de Catalunya;Jumpstart Jr Foundation; the University of York; the Dean & Chapter, York and the many individuals who support

anonymously. We are also delighted to acknowledge support from the Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, Youth Music and York Arts Academy.

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