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Lake District
Buffet Cruises
Playing a mix of Latin rhythms,
mainstream Jazz and tasteful Pop
Saturday nights 13th June - 29th August and
Wednesday nights 8th July - 26th August 2015
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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S WELCOME
Renna Kellaway MBE, Founder & Artistic Director
photo: Malcolm G Heyes
Hear and meet artists making LDSM débuts, greet returning artists,
experience old music anew, enjoy world premières and commissions
interspersed with opera at Fellinis, jazz at Zeffirellis, and a Viola Extravaganza
in our Blackwell series!
The renowned Armonico Consort opens our Festival with Pergolesi’s
Stabat mater and Purcell’s masterpiece Dido and Aeneas. Its second concert,
Greensleeves, beckons families and all who love traditional folk melodies
from the British Isles.
Making his UK festival début, Van Cliburn prizewinner Vadim Kholodenko
plays a romantic programme with Medtner, Brahms and Schumann.
Vision and sound fuse with silent film given voice. The inspiration of
15th century French vocal music illuminates Dreyer’s masterpiece The Passion
of Joan of Arc with the Orlando Consort. Commissioned by LDSM, Luke Bedford
composes for the brilliant Apollo Saxophone Quartet who bring their own wit
and ingenuity to Meliès’s pioneering film cameos.
With chamber music at our heart, the Kuss String Quartet plays two generous
programmes, including the Brahms Quintet with one of the UK’s leading
clarinettists, Timothy Orpen.
Heralding music from Eastern Europe, Janáček and Kodály stand with Dvořák,
whose ‘folk’ spontaneity will captivate all with both of his piano quartets in the
distinguished playing of the Frith Piano Quartet while his rarely-heard Piano
Quintet No.1 makes its first LDSM performance with the LDSM Artists Ensemble
preceded by Janáček.
From northern climes, Sibelius and Nielsen celebrate 150th anniversaries.
Pro Musica teams Sibelius with Beethoven, Kodály and evergreen Schubert.
This follows a family afternoon of vivid fantasy, drama and intrigue as
Emily Hennessey reveals the Firebird of Russian folklore…
1915 World War 1 anguish and hope is embodied in music when words
fall silent. The distinguished cellist Gregor Horsch and Andrew Brownell frame
Sibelius, Kodály and Debussy with Bach and Beethoven while Benjamin Appl
and James Baillieu take us from George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad to
Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. Morning recitals bring us Roger Chase and
Andrew Dunlop playing Bliss’s great Viola Sonata; Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale
Suite features when Timothy Orpen and Andrew Brownell are joined by Levon
Chilingirian and narrator. At Zeffirellis the Tina May Jazz Quartet pays tribute
to Edith Piaf, born in 1915.
Masterclasses at Brathay Hall spotlight our Academy tutors and students.
Closing our 30th Anniversary, the candlelit Serenade Concert showcases
Academy soloists and ensembles. Abundant talent immersed in music old and
new is our passport to future decades of music, ever renewing, ever evolving.
This brings our profound thanks to all our artists, colleagues, and volunteers
who give so much to so many.
photo: Ellen Appel
Music Lovers, Friends, Artists, Colleagues,
please join us in celebrating our 30th Anniversary.
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VENUES
Lake District Summer Music’s website has lots of information on Festival venues, including venue links, maps,
directions, advice on parking, and much more. Visit www.ldsm.org.uk/venues for full details.
Below is a Venue Access Guide for all our venues.
Ambleside Parish Centre
Coronation Hall, Ulverston
6 p4
Ambleside Parish Church
2 p5,
7, 8, 11, 16, 21, 23, 29
Fellinis Cinema, Ambleside
7 p5,
8, 12, 16, 18, 22, 26
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p6, 10, 14, 20
Blackwell Arts & Crafts House,
near Bowness p6, 12, 21, 27
Grasmere Parish Church
8 p22
Brathay Hall, near Ambleside
4 p10,
14, 20, 24
Hawkshead Parish Church
9 p22
Carver Church, Windermere
5 p5,
18, 25, 26
Kendal Town Hall
10 p9,
15, 19
Kirkby Lonsdale Parish Church
11 p12
Rydal Church
12 p24
St Thomas's Church Kendal
13 p13,
17, 27
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Victoria Hall,
Grange-over-Sands p24
Zeffirellis, Ambleside
15 p13,15
(Near venue)
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SATURDAY 1 AUGUST 2015
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Armonico Consort
and Baroque Players
Christopher Monks MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Eloise Irving SOPRANO
Penelope Appleyard SOPRANO
William Towers COUNTERTENOR
Gareth John BARITONE
8pm Coronation Hall, Ulverston
BALCONY £23 FRONT STALLS £18.50 REAR STALLS £16 ALLOCATED SEATING
Pergolesi Stabat mater 39'
Purcell Dido and Aeneas 55' (concert performance)
Our 30th Anniversary Festival opens with a welcome
return to Coronation Hall with a vocal feast: two
baroque masterpieces sung by this popular ensemble.
Pergolesi's music was the most intoxicating of all of the
styles emanating from Italy in the mid-18th century. The
Stabat mater was composed at the end of Pergolesi's
all-too-brief life – he died aged 26. Often described as
the first English opera, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas was
written in 1689 for Josias Priest, a gentleman of the
theatre who ran a dancing academy for young women
in Chelsea.
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and is not available online. Additional special offers or discounts
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SUNDAY 2 AUGUST 2015
photo: N Razina
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Greensleeves
Armonico Consort
3pm Carver Church, Windermere
£16* UNRESERVED SEATING
2.30pm REFRESHMENTS
3pm CONCERT
Prokofiev’s War and Peace
from the Mariinsky
2.30pm Fellinis Cinema, Ambleside
£16 ALLOCATED SEATING
DURATION 240’
A brand-new production of Prokofiev’s epic masterpiece
filmed live in July 2014. Directed by Graham Vick with stage
design by Paul Brown, the opera is conducted by Valery
Gergiev. The production stars the exciting young Ukrainian
baritone Andrei Bondarenko as Andrei and the soprano Aida
Garifullina as Natasha. Their individual and personal stories
are overtaken by political events as Napoleon's army closes
in on Russia, making war inevitable. The opera explores the
preoccupations and concerns of the individual in a universal
context.
“…Wonderful concert in this great venue…”
Audience member 2014
After last night’s tear-jerker, the Consort
returns for an uplifting celebration of music
spanning the length and breadth of the
British Isles, featuring new arrangements of
the most beautiful folk music ever written.
This special event will be presented by a
guest narrator, William Towers, who will
entertain with anecdotes on what makes
Britain unique, well-loved and great. The
programme includes Lisa Lân, Loch Lomond
and perhaps the most famous British melody
ever written, Greensleeves, together with a
specially-commissioned arrangement by
Toby Young of the Cumbrian folksong
Horn of the Hunter.
*includes tea/coffee & biscuits
Celebrity Evening Recital
Vadym Kholodenko PIANO
8pm Ambleside Parish Church
A £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING
Medtner Three Fairy Tales 10½'
Brahms Seven Fantasies, Op.116 22'
Schumann Humoresque in B flat major, Op.20 28’
Schumann Gesänge der Frühe, Op.133 10’
Winner of the Gold Medal at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano
Competition, Ukrainian Vadym Kholodenko tonight makes his UK
festival début in this great Romantic programme including late works by
Brahms and Robert Schumann linked by Clara, wife and muse. A pianistcomposer like his lifelong friend and fellow Russian exile Rachmaninov,
Medtner composed a long series of works inspired by myths and legends.
Of the 1838 Humoresque, Schumann wrote that he had “been all week at
the piano, composing, writing, laughing and crying, all at once”.
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MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2015
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Gaelic music
Joy Dunlop VOICE
Andrew Dunlop HARP, KEYBOARD
5pm Blackwell Arts & Crafts House,
5pm near Bowness
£16 UNRESERVED SEATING
The first of this year’s ever-popular Blackwell
events in partnership with Lakeland Arts
Trust. Andrew Dunlop is well known to
LDSM audiences as a piano accompanist
(and duo partner – see Friday) but today we
see another side to his musical talents: he
is equally adept in traditional music from
his native Scotland, and this afternoon we
mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of
Blackwell’s architect Baillie Scott (1865-1945)
with a programme in which Andrew is joined
by his sister Joy, a celebrated Gaelic singer.
Music at Noon
Laura Snowden GUITAR
12noon Ambleside Parish Centre
£16* UNRESERVED SEATING
11.30am REFRESHMENTS
12noon CONCERT
Dowland Fantasias for lute 7½’
JS Bach Suite No.3 in G minor for lute, BWV995 19’
L Berkeley Sonatina, Op.52 No.1 11½’
Gerhard Fantasia 4’
De Falla Homenaje pour le tombeau de Debussy 3½’
Roussel Segovia, Op.29 2½’
Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op.70 17’
Supported by the Tillett Trust
Laura Snowden is currently a Postgraduate Scholar
at the Royal College of Music, with the support of
Julian Bream, for whom Lennox Berkeley and Britten
wrote the masterpieces to be heard today. Bach’s great
G minor Lute Suite is his own transcription of the
5th Cello Suite, which you can compare in its
performance on Wednesday.
*includes tea/coffee & biscuits
Present your Blackwell concert ticket at the Arts
& Crafts House ticket desk after 2pm and get £1
off the admission price to the House.
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MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2015
photo: Molina Visuals
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Kuss Quartet 1
7.30pm Ambleside Parish Church
A £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING
Mozart String Quartet No.19 in C major
Dissonance, K465 29’
Stravinsky Three pieces for string quartet 7’
Beethoven String Quartet in B flat major,
Op.130 with Grosse Fuge, Op.133 44’
Supported by Mrs Kate Dugdale
The Kuss Quartet of Berlin opens its Festival
residency (see also Saturday) with classical
masterpieces framing Stravinsky’s WW1
miniature. The last of Mozart’s six quartets
dedicated to Haydn gains its nickname
from its introduction, discordant to the ears
of his time. Forty years later, audiences
were equally baffled by the sheer scale
of Beethoven’s imagination in his Op.130
Quartet – so much so that he was persuaded
to write a shorter closing movement. Tonight
we hear the work in all its (original) glory.
Late Night Piano
Françoise-Green Piano Duo
9.30pm Ambleside Parish Church
£10 UNRESERVED SEATING
JS Bach Chorale Preludes arr Kurtág
Kurtág movements from Játékok for piano duet
Ligeti Selbstportrait from Three Pieces for two pianos 9’
“Játékok… an ever-expanding set of pieces, is just
one of the laboratories in which Kurtág has conducted
his experiments in the search for musical truth. It’s
a compositional journey that has often involved
reducing music to the level of the fragment, the
moment, with individual pieces or movements lasting
mere seconds, or a minute, perhaps two. Far from a
‘reduction’, Kurtág’s fragments are about musical and,
above all, expressive intensification: maximising the
effect and impact of every note, every gesture.”
Tom Service, The Guardian
Stay on and enjoy this informal 45-minute programme,
introduced by the artists, as a prelude to their duo
recital tomorrow morning.
Combination ticket for Kuss Quartet and
Late Night Piano £28
(cannot be used in conjunction with Festival Saver Deals)
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TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015
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Françoise-Green Piano Duo
11am Ambleside Parish Church
A £22 B £14 RV ALLOCATED SEATING
Mozart Sonata in D major for two pianos, K448 24½’
Stravinsky Concerto for two pianos 20’
Debussy En blanc et noir 16’
Schubert Fantasie in F minor, D940 19’
Supported by the Royal Over-Seas League
A morning of masterworks. Mozart’s only sonata for two
pianos was written while he was fending for himself after his
final break with his Salzburg employer, Archbishop Colleredo.
Stravinsky composed his ‘concerto’ (sans orchestra) in Paris
for himself and his son Soulima to perform. Debussy’s wartime
work is said to have been inspired by the shades of grey (!) in
the paintings of Velásquez; its third movement is dedicated to
Stravinsky. We go to a single keyboard for Schubert’s landmark
work of 1828, dedicated to Countess Caroline von Esterházy,
for whom he’d first become a tutor some ten years earlier.
Rossini’s The Barber of Seville
from Opéra de Paris
2.30pm Fellinis Cinema, Ambleside
£16 ALLOCATED SEATING
DURATION 191’ inc 15’ interval
Count Almaviva René Barbera tenor
Bartolo Carlo Lepore bass
Rosina Karine Deshayes mezzo-soprano
Figaro Dalibor Jenis baritone
Basilio Orlin Anastassov bass
Undoubtedly the most famous opera buffa in the
history of music, Rossini’s remarkable opera was
composed in only a few weeks. Although the
première in Rome was a resounding flop, attended
by all of Rossini’s enemies, the opera was quickly
revived, since when it has never been out of the
repertoire. With its incredible verve and youthful
cheer, this was the work that built Rossini’s brilliant
international reputation. Italian stage director
Damiano Michieletto makes his Paris Opera début in
this new production, recorded in September 2014.
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TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2015
Apollo Saxophone Quartet
8pm Kendal Town Hall
BALCONY £22 FRONT STALLS £16 REAR STALLS £10 ZONED SEATING
Lyondev arr Buckland Kaval Sviri 5’
RR Bennett Saxophone Quartet 15’
L Bedford Saxophone Quartet WORLD PREMIERE 12’
Wijeratne Visaya 6½’
Francaix Petit Quatuor 8’
Journey Across the Impossible – films by Meliès
Thompson Carnival and Greek Dance 7’
Supported by Sir John Manduell CBE
The Apollo Saxophone Quartet and LDSM share a 30th
Anniversary this year and to celebrate this milestone
we have commissioned a work to add to the remarkable
corpus the ASQ has commissioned or premiered, including
Richard Rodney Bennett’s 1994 Quartet. As part of a major
new strand in this year’s Festival (see also Friday), the
ASQ’s members will perform music they have composed to
accompany the remarkably inventive and witty silent films
of the early cinematic pioneer Georges Meliès.
6.30pm Kendal Town Hall
FREE
An introduction to tonight’s première, giving an
insight into the creative process.
photo: Ben Ealovega
The Composer Speaks:
Luke Bedford
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WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015
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Atéa Wind Quintet
Quattro Cello Quartet*
11am Ambleside Parish Centre
WITH MEMBERS OF THE
£16 UNRESERVED SEATING
Zemlinsky Humoresque 4½’
Danzi Quintet in B flat major, Op.56 No.1 12½’
Truan The Chase, for flute & clarinet 3’
Ligeti Six Bagatelles 11½’
Nielsen Serenata in vano* 8’
Arnold Three Shanties, Op.4 7’
Liadov Eight Russian Folksongs, Op.58 12’
Taffanel Quintet in G minor 18’
Humour is a thread that ties many of this morning’s
works presented by this young ensemble together
with interloping members of tomorrow’s Quartet. Danzi
consolidated the combination of instruments used in the
wind quintet in his charming compositions, as the first
to compose for this combination outside France, while
Taffanel led the French school of flute two generations
later. Nielsen’s little jewel, with its odd scoring for clarinet,
bassoon, horn, cello & double bass stemming from its
original pairing with Beethoven’s Septet, tells the story of
two gentlemen trying – and failing – to woo a fair maid,
while Arnold’s rather more rowdy sea shanties take us
back to Napoleonic times with Boney was a warrior.
Viola Masterclass
Roger Chase
2.30pm Brathay Hall, near Ambleside
£10 UNRESERVED SEATING
Supported by Mr & Mrs Martin Rayner
Roger Chase has not been seen at LDSM since 1993, due to the
teaching positions he has held in America for many years. We are
thrilled that on his return to these shores, he immediately accepted
our invitation to rejoin the ISMA tutors, with this afternoon’s
masterclass and a recital on Friday.
This year’s masterclasses will be given in the theatre studio at Brathay, a
larger venue to accommodate the ever-growing demand for these events.
Other masterclasses on Fri 7th (cello), Mon 10th (violin) and
Wed 12th (ensemble).
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WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2015
Gregor Horsch CELLO
Andrew Brownell PIANO
8pm Ambleside Parish Church
A £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING
JS Bach Suite No.5 in C minor for solo cello, BWV1011 24’
Kodály Sonata for cello and piano, Op.4 18’
Sibelius Cantique (Lætare anima mea) for cello and piano,
Op.77 No.1 6’
Debussy Sonata in D minor for cello and piano 12’
Beethoven Sonata No.3 in A major for cello and piano,
Op.69 26’
Soloist, chamber musician, teacher in high demand and
principal cello of the Royal Amsterdam Concertgebouw,
Gregor Horsch joins us once again to make music here in the
Lakes. Three of the greatest works in the cello repertoire,
spanning three centuries, are joined by two rarities: Kodály’s
lesser-known duo sonata, and, to mark both the WW1
centenary and the composer’s 150th anniversary, one of
Sibelius’ works for his cellist brother Christian. We also mark
the centenary of the composition of Debussy’s patriotic work,
which at one point he considered subtitling ‘Pierrot angry
with the moon’.
Jean Sibelius
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THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015
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Music at Noon: Kirkby Market Day Concert
Quattro Cello Quartet
12noon Kirkby Lonsdale Parish Church
£10 UNRESERVED SEATING
Mozart Overture from The Marriage of Figaro, K492 4’
Brahms Four Chorale Preludes 12’
Piazzolla La muerte del Ángel 3’
Florentz Chant de Nyandarua, Op.6 12’
JS Bach Fugue No.9 in E major, BWV878, Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 4’
Shostakovich String Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110 20’
“…Lovely setting. Superb performance…” Audience member 2014
Supported by Mr & Mrs Alan Maddocks
The beautiful Norman church of St Mary’s hosts this Quartet, here as winners of the 9th Annual Pettman/ROSL
ARTS International Scholarship for a New Zealand chamber ensemble. Its remarkable repertoire ranges from
an original work conceived in Kenya and dedicated to Karen Blixen by Messiaen pupil Jean-Louis Florentz, via
Boulanger’s pupil, the Argentinian tango composer Piazzolla, and culminating in a powerful arrangement of
Shostakovich’s best-known quartet, composed in just 3 days in 1960 while near a Dresden still in post-war ruin
and dedicated ‘to the victims of fascism and war’.
Verdi’s Aïda
from Opéra de Paris
2.30pm Fellinis Cinema,
2.30pm Ambleside
£16 ALLOCATED SEATING
DURATION 199’ inc 15’ interval
First performed at the
Khedivial Opera House in
Cairo in 1871, Verdi’s epic
masterpiece is seen here in
a new production directed
by Olivier Py and filmed
in November 2013. The
tragic story of an Egyptian
commander’s love for an
Ethiopian Princess weaves
a poignant human story
within the wider themes of
war and conflict.
LDSM Academy Artists
5pm Blackwell Arts & Crafts House, near Bowness
£16 UNRESERVED SEATING
JS Bach movts from Partita No.2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV1004 15½’
Prokofiev Sonata in C major for 2 violins, Op.56 15’
JS Bach Prelude from Suite No.3 in C major for solo cello, BWV1009 3½’
Kodály Duo for violin and cello, Op.7 25’
“…Super programme and so professionally played and presented. It is
heartening to see and hear the young musicians. Hope for lots more in
the future…” Audience member 2014
Supported by Reiver Instruments
Three members from the Manon Quartet, popular performers in last year’s
LDSM Academy concerts, return to show their strengths in solo and duo
works. The first four movements of Bach’s 2nd Partita will be completed by
a performance of the closing Chaconne here next Thursday. The climax of
this afternoon’s concert is Kodály’s 1914 Duo: trapped in Switzerland at the
outbreak of the war, he hitched a lift on a lorry back to Austria and wrote
this work out on borrowed manuscript paper.
Present your Blackwell concert ticket at the Arts & Crafts House ticket desk
after 2pm and get £1 off the admission price to the House.
book online
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THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015
Trio di Parma 1
8pm St Thomas’s Church Kendal
£18 UNRESERVED SEATING
“…Their playing was inspirational… Absolutely
stunning. Many thanks for bringing them… A superb
concert, the best performance of the Schubert [D929]
that I can remember hearing…”
Audience members 2013
photo: David Forman
Schubert Trio in B flat major Sonatensatz, D28 10’
Beethoven Piano Trio No.1 in E flat major, Op.1 No.1 30’
Brahms Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8 34’
In the first of two concerts (see also next Monday)
Festival favourites Trio di Parma return in this programme
of youthful first thoughts and Viennese connections –
a Mozartian trio started by 15-year-old Schubert the day
after his voice broke; Beethoven’s opus primus, dedicated
to Prince Lichnowsky, in whose palace Beethoven was
then living, and in whose salon the first performance was
given, in Haydn’s presence; and a work Brahms wrote
when 20 then revisited 35 years later. He wrote to Clara:
“It will not be as wild as it was, but whether or not it will
be better?”
Gwilym Simcock
Mike Walker
Piano kindly provided by
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
More jazz at Zeffirellis tomorrow night!
PIANO AND GUITAR DUO
8.30pm Zeffirellis, Ambleside
£16 UNRESERVED SEATING
We are proud to host one of only three
duo concerts being given nationwide
this summer by these jazz giants, with a
programme of their own compositions.
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FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015
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Music at Noon
Roger Chase VIOLA
Andrew Dunlop PIANO
12noon Ambleside Parish Centre
£16* UNRESERVED SEATING
11.30am REFRESHMENTS
12noon CONCERT
JS Bach/Kodály Fantasia Cromatica for solo viola 7½’
Bliss Sonata for viola and piano 28’
York Bowen Melody on the G string for viola and piano,
Op.47 4½’
Schumann Waldszenen, Op.82 Nos.1, 7 & 9 9’
Schumann Märchenbilder for viola and piano, Op.113 16’
“…York Bowen is a lovely composer. LDSM should
include his music every year!… Bliss was amazing…”
Audience members 2014
The spirit of Lionel Tertis hovers over the programming
of viola recitals, with so many works that he premiered,
commissioned or championed, but this programme has
additional ties: not only were the Bliss and York Bowen
written for him, but Roger Chase is Tertis’s former student
and he plays one of Tertis’s violas, an instrument made by
Stradivarius’s pupil, Domenico Montagnana. Schumann
is a strand of this year’s programmes, and the second
half of the programme focuses on the German Romantic
aesthetics of forests and fairytales.
See also our Viola Extravaganza next Thursday.
*includes tea/coffee & biscuits
Cello Masterclass
Gregor Horsch
2.30pm Brathay Hall, nr Ambleside
£10 UNRESERVED SEATING
Supported by Mr & Mrs Martin Rayner
Following his LDSM recital on Wed 5th,
Gregor Horsch will guide three students in
this year’s ISMA cello class through core
repertoire works. Other masterclasses on
Wed 5th (viola), Mon 10th (violin) and
Wed 12th (ensemble).
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FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2015
Piaf Tribute Concert
Tina May Jazz Quartet
8.15pm Zeffirellis, Ambleside
£16 UNRESERVED SEATING
2015 is the centenary of the birth of
Edith Piaf – who gained her Christian
name, as so many French and Belgian
girls born after October 1915, in
response to the death of Edith Cavell
in front of a German firing squad. We
mark this double anniversary with
classics including La vie en rose, Hymne
à I’amour, Milord and Non, je ne regrette
rien sung by long-time Piaf devotee Tina
May accompanied by Nikki Iles (piano),
Karen Street (accordion) and Julie
Walkington (double bass).
The second of two Jazz at Zeffirellis
events in this year’s programme – see
also last night.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Orlando Consort
8pm Kendal Town Hall
BALCONY £20 STALLS £16
A screening of Dreyer’s 1928 silent film La Passion de Jeanne
d’Arc (96’) with a live performance of 15th century sacred
and secular vocal music to amplify the powerful portrayal of
Joan’s trial and execution and provide a unique and evocative
accompaniment. The Orlando Consort brings an added
dimension to this landmark film, which regularly appears in
lists of the top ten greatest films ever made.
Introduction to the film and its music
6.30pm Kendal Town Hall
FREE
Donald Greig, baritone in the Orlando Consort, will discuss the
background to the film and the extensive research behind the
music they have chosen.
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SATURDAY 8 AUGUST 2015
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In search of Haydn
2.30pm Fellinis Cinema, Ambleside
£16 ALLOCATED SEATING
DURATION 102’
Joseph Haydn is the composer that Mozart
and Beethoven revered above all. This
biographical account of his life includes
breathtaking performances by some of the
world’s most celebrated musicians. Through
enlightening interviews with experts,
detailed extracts from Haydn’s personal
letters and beautiful location footage we gain
insight into not only Haydn’s music but the
man himself. This visual and aural feast will
be introduced by the film’s award-winning
director, Phil Grabsky, who will also lead a
Q&A after the screening, still leaving plenty
of time to enjoy the Haydn quartet which
opens tonight’s concert.
LDSM Artists Ensemble
11am Ambleside Parish Church
A £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING
Schubert Violin Sonatina No.1 in D major, D384 14½’
Janáček Sonata for violin and piano 17’
Szymanowski Notturno e Tarantella in E minor, Op.28 11’
Dvořák Piano Quintet No.1 in A major, Op.5 28’
Supported by Mr Derrick Johnson
Japan’s leading duo Kazuki Sawa and Emiko Tadenuma
celebrate centenaries and a bicentenary: their central
work is the sonata Janáček wrote “at the beginning
of the war, when we were expecting the Russians in
Moravia”. They are joined by Richard Deakin,
Roger Chase and Emma Ferrand for a work from
neighbouring Bohemia. A slow bloomer, Dvořák only
emerged as a composer in his late twenties, and many of
his earliest works are now lost. Indeed, he destroyed his
own manuscript of this 1872 Quintet, but the friend who
promoted its première had made a copy which Dvořák
returned to some 15 years later.
Joseph Haydn
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SATURDAY 8 AUGUST 2015
Kuss Quartet 2
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Timothy Orpen CLARINET *
8pm St Thomas’s Church Kendal
photo: Benjamin Harte
£18 UNRESERVED SEATING
Haydn String Quartet in E flat major
The Joke, Op.33 No.2 18’
Reger String Quartet No.4 in E flat major,
Op.109 36½’
Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor,
Op.115* 38’
Supported by Mrs Kate Dugdale
For its second concert (see also Mon 3rd)
the Kuss Quartet is joined by Tim Orpen
for the greatest of all the late works
Brahms composed for his clarinettist
friend Richard Mühlfeld. As a champion
of Reger’s music, it is appropriate that
the Kuss Quartet brings us the first-ever
performance of his music at LDSM. We
open with the Joke Quartet, so named
for its opening, with a falsetto cello
answering the violin, and deliberate stops
and starts, then its conclusion, with a
surprise ending…
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SUNDAY 9 AUGUST 2015
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Britten’s
The rape of Lucretia
Live from Glyndebourne
6pm Fellinis Cinema, Ambleside
£20 ALLOCATED SEATING
DURATION 145’ inc 30’ interval
Fiona Shaw director
Leo Hussain conductor
Lucretia Christine Rice mezzo-soprano
Male Chorus Allan Clayton tenor
Female Chorus Kate Royal soprano
Tarquinius Duncan Rock baritone
Collatinus Matthew Rose bass
Bianca Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo-soprano
Junius Michael Sumuel bass-baritone
Lucia Louise Alder soprano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Firebird: a Russian folktale
Family Event
3pm Carver Church, Windermere
£16* UNRESERVED SEATING
DURATION 60’
2.30pm REFRESHMENTS
3pm EVENT
In a dark, cold trench, two soldiers
pass the night with a story.
Young prince Ivan is the laughing
stock of his older brothers. But
now, with a golden feather in his hand, he must embark on a
challenging adventure to find the most extraordinary creature
of all. With an ancient donkey as his steed and not a penny in
his pocket, things aren’t looking good for Ivan. Being scared of
the dark isn’t helping either! But when a mysterious grey wolf
and a rather unusual princess turn up, things take a rather
different turn…
Storyteller Emily Hennessey seizes the reins on a riotous
adventure bursting with magic and marvel, wit and wonder,
big questions and even bigger giants, bringing to life one of
the most joyous and gripping traditional Russian tales.
Suitable for adults & children 8yrs +
*includes tea/coffee & biscuits
“This new production of Lucretia – the
first at Glyndebourne since Britten’s
chamber opera had its première there
in 1946 – is quite the darkest, and
possibly the most truthful, you’re likely
to see in some time” The Times
The harrowing historic tale of Lucretia
has inspired works by artists throughout
the ages. According to historians,
Lucretia was raped by Tarquinius
Sextus, son of the Etruscan King
of Rome. Her consequent suicide
spurred the revolution which toppled
the monarchy and brought about the
Roman Republic. In Ronald Duncan’s
libretto, the action is introduced and
commented upon throughout by two
contemporary observers, a Male and
Female Chorus, lending the story an
urgent, contemporary air.
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SUNDAY 9 AUGUST 2015
Pro-Musica String Trio
8pm Kendal Town Hall
BALCONY £22 FRONT STALLS £16 REAR STALLS £10 ZONED SEATING
Schubert String Trio in B flat major, D581 20’
Kodály Intermezzo 5’
Sibelius String Trio in G minor 11½’
Beethoven String Trio in E flat major, Op.3 40’
Franz Schubert
As a foretaste of the Frith Piano Quartet residency (see Tue
and Fri), its string players offer a programme with youth as
its theme – Schubert and Sibelius both wrote these trios in
their 20th year, Kodály wrote his Intermezzo when 23, and
Beethoven was 24 when he wrote his great work, modelled
on Mozart’s Divertimento K563 with the same key and sixmovement form: these two works still form the core of the
string trio repertoire to this day.
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MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015
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Timothy Orpen CLARINET
Levon Chilingirian VIOLIN*
Andrew Brownell PIANO
11am Ambleside Parish Centre
£16 UNRESERVED SEATING
Finzi Five Bagatelles, Op.23 15’
Stravinsky Three pieces for solo clarinet 7’
Bliss Pastoral 4’
Poulenc Clarinet Sonata 12’
Milhaud Suite for clarinet, violin and piano,
Op.157b* 12’
Stravinsky Soldier’s Tale Suite* 25’
“…Wonderful playing! Where else could one sit and listen to such music with an idyllic view like this?...
This was a deeply satisfying concert with superb musicians – a truly lovely and memorable occasion…”
Audience members 2013
War is the warp and Switzerland the weft of this morning: Finzi’s Five Bagatelles,
though drafted in the 1920s, were first heard in the Wartime National Gallery
Concerts in London, and Bliss wrote his Pastoral in the shadow of war while
studying with Stanford at the RCM; it was first heard in 1916. Poulenc’s
glorious Clarinet Sonata was written in 1962 in memory of Swiss composer
and fellow member of Les Six, Arthur Honegger. Stravinsky wrote his
Three pieces as (belated) thanks to the Swiss financier (and amateur clarinettist)
who funded The Soldier’s Tale, from whose music this concert suite was extracted.
This morning we restore the narrative of Swiss novelist CF Ramuz’s story by
adding verse to the music and ensuring the tale has its twist in the tail.
Violin Masterclass
Levon Chilingirian
2.30pm Brathay Hall, near Ambleside
£10 photo: Graham Topping
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UNRESERVED SEATING
“…This was remarkable – what a delight to hear Levon
Chilingirian engage in this way with the students – and the
progress they were making with him – and the trust they
placed in him were evident to everyone. A real pleasure…”
Audience member 2014
Supported by Mr & Mrs Martin Rayner
Other masterclasses on Wed 5th (viola), Fri 7th (cello) and
Wed 12th (ensemble).
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MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015
Atesh Quartet
5pm Blackwell Arts & Crafts House,
5pm near Bowness
£16 UNRESERVED SEATING
Haydn String Quartet in G major,
Op.76 No.1 21’
Janáček String Quartet No.1 in E minor
Kreutzer Sonata 18’
Beethoven String Quartet in D major,
Op.18 No.3 24’
Supported by Valerie Howe & Mary Powney
Formed last year at the Royal Northern
College of Music, the Atesh Quartet has
already won multiple prizes and awards both
collectively and individually. Its programme
embraces the first quartet from Haydn’s final
set of six – and a quartet from Beethoven’s
first set of six, composed four years later at
the dawn of the nineteenth century.
Janáček’s programmatic quartet was
inspired by Tolstoy’s novella and reflected his
identification with the subject of a heroine,
married to an unworthy husband; she has
an affair with a stronger man, resulting in
murder by the rejected husband.
Present your Blackwell concert ticket at the Arts
& Crafts House ticket desk after 2pm and get £1
off the admission price to the House.
Trio di Parma 2
8pm Ambleside Parish Church
A £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING
Mozart Piano Trio in E major, K542 19’
Sibelius Piano Trio No.4 in C major Loviisa Trio 16’
Dvořák Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65 40’
Mozart effectively created the modern piano trio by
giving the cello an independent voice. His penultimate
and arguably greatest trio, composed in 1788 just before
Symphony No.39, was a gift to a brother freemason in
gratitude for his financial support in a difficult period of
his life. Exactly 100 years later the 23-year-old Sibelius
was starting to find his feet as a composer; five years
earlier, Dvořák had taken Brahms’s F minor Piano Quintet
as his model for his own trio in the same key, but with his
signature Slavonic spirit in the second movement.
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TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015
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Grasmere Concert
LDSM Academy Artists
11am Grasmere Parish Church
£10 UNRESERVED SEATING
“…Sublime – a real treat. Lovely to hear such wonderfully
talented musicians! It lifts the soul…”
Audience members 2014
The resting place of William Wordsworth, set in the heart
of Grasmere, this church is always an inspiring location to
hear great music performed by emerging professional artists
attending our International Summer Music Academy.
Music for a
Summer Evening
LDSM Academy Artists
8pm Hawkshead Parish Church
Retiring Collection Puccini’s Tosca
from Opéra de Paris
2.30pm Fellinis Cinema, Ambleside
£16 ALLOCATED SEATING
DURATION 139’ inc 15’ interval
A singer in love, passionate, jealous and impulsive; a
romantic painter, an idealist and a defender of liberty;
a police chief with a lust for flesh, power and blood,
ready to do anything to achieve his ends. Puccini artfully
combines the ingredients of a melodrama written for
Sarah Bernhardt and comes up with what might be called
the opera of operas, a spectacle at once primitive and
decadent. In a mythical yet real Rome, from the shadows
of the church of Sant’ Andrea della Valle to the terrace
of Castello Sant’ Angelo, passions collide and tear all
apart, mingling the erotic with the sacred, love with
possession, theatre with life. Pierre Audi directs a new
production, filmed in October 2014, of this violent and
passionate work, with soprano Martina Serafin as Tosca,
tenor Marcelo Álvarez as Cavaradossi and Scarpia sung
by baritone Ludovic Tézier.
UNRESERVED SEATING
Our annual partnership with this popular
Hawkshead summer concert series presents
LDSM Academy Artists in this idyllic church
on the hill. This year’s programme will include
a string orchestra performance, led by ISMA
tutor Levon Chilingirian, of Tippett’s String
Quartet No.2 in F sharp major, a wartime
work: the second movement’s fugal theme
came to Tippett during the Munich crisis,
and the work was completed after
A child of our time.
NB Tickets cannot be booked in advance –
just turn up at the door.
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TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015
Frith Piano Quartet 1
8pm Ambleside Parish Church
A £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING
Sibelius Piano Quartet in C minor 8½’
Beethoven Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.16 23’
Schubert Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F major, D487 14’
Dvořák Piano Quartet No.1 in D major, Op.23 32’
Another Sibelius rarity to mark his 150th anniversary – a piano
quartet with two violins but no viola – and another lesserknown work by Schubert, his first work for piano and strings.
Beethoven’s Op.16 is more commonly heard in its version as
a Quintet for piano and winds, for which Beethoven’s model
was Mozart’s Eb Quintet K452. To close, the first of Dvořák’s
two piano quartets (see also next Friday), the last of three
intimate works written in spring 1875, composed in just over
2 weeks and yet not performed until 5 years later.
Antonín Dvořák
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WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 2015
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Rydal Concert
LDSM Academy Artists
11am Rydal Church
£10 UNRESERVED SEATING
“…Excellent concert in beautiful
surroundings. Exceptional talent in
very young people. Long may LDSM
continue!…” Audience member 2014
Supported by the
Stephen Bell Charitable Trust
Always one of our most captivating
venues, this historic church was where
Wordsworth and his family worshipped
when they lived at Rydal Mount from
1813 to 1850. Today, talented string
players from our International Summer
Music Academy at Brathay fill this
beautiful intimate rural church next to
Dora’s field with the poetry of music.
Ursula Smith CELLO
Emiko Tadenuma PIANO
8pm Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands
£16 Ensemble Masterclass
Frith Piano Quartet
2.30pm Brathay Hall, nr Ambleside
£10 UNRESERVED SEATING
Supported by Mr & Mrs Martin Rayner
Quite aside from their long-standing
quartet partnership, Benjamin Frith,
Robert Heard, Louise Williams and
Richard Jenkinson each have decades of
experience in other chamber ensembles.
This afternoon their experience will be
shared in this illuminating event. Other
masterclasses on Wed 5th (viola), Fri 7th
(cello) and Mon 10th (violin).
UNRESERVED SEATING
Beethoven Twelve Variations in F major on
Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, Op.66 10’
Schumann Funf Stücke im Volkston, Op.102 17’
Dvořák Waldesruhe (Silent Woods), Op.68 No.5 6’
Dvořák Polonaise in A major 8’
Kodály Capriccio for solo cello 5’
Sibelius Malinconia, Op.20 13’
Fauré Sonata No.2 in G minor for cello and piano,
Op.117 19’
For the third time in the festival, we hear Beethoven
taking Mozart as his reference: this time it is Papageno’s
song from Act II of The Magic Flute, with these variations
composed for a visit to the Berlin court of cellist King
Wilhelm II of Prussia. Despite profound deafness at the
time of its composition, Fauré’s late sonata is filled with
euphoria and a joy for life: even its slow movement,
originally a funeral march for wind band commemorating
the centenary of Napoleon’s death, is uplifting and
positive in mood. Cellists must be ever thankful for
Schumann and Dvořák’s great contributions to their
chamber and concerto repertoire.
Piano kindly provided by Grange-over-Sands & District Concert Club
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WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 2015
photo: Upstream Photography
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4-MALITY Percussion Quartet
Sarah Castle MEZZO-SOPRANO*
8pm Carver Church, Windermere
£18 UNRESERVED SEATING
Rafnsson Ykjur 9’
Reich Mallet quartet 15’
Bradley new piece* WORLD PREMIERE 15’
Marino Risk Every Moment 12’
Norman Longshore Drift 13’
Bradley In-line 9’
“…Totally engaging – made a refreshing addition
to the LDSM Festival… A brilliant quartet,
liked their friendly presentation as well as their
compositions. Tremendous… Exhilarating and
musical… A very enjoyable evening taking us into
quite unfamiliar territory. We were amazed by their
dexterity and expertise.…”
Audience members 2013
After its 2013 sell-out performance LDSM
immediately began plans for a return visit by this
great ensemble, and tonight the rafters will resonate
to marimbas, vibraphones, cymbals, tubular bells,
scaffolding pipes, tam-tams, woodblocks, cowbells,
drums of all shapes and sizes… and a Korean
snapstick!
The Composer Speaks:
Jan Bradley
6.30pm Carver Church, Windermere
FREE
4-MALITY founder member Jan Bradley
will give the background to his new work
for mezzo Sarah Castle and percussion
quartet, setting texts by three female
WW1 poets (French, German and Irish).
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THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015
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Morning Serenade
LDSM Academy Artists and Ensemble Jeunesse
11am Carver Church, Windermere
£16 UNRESERVED SEATING
“…Exquisite concert… a most enjoyable experience. The venue
is calm, intimate and completely appropriate for this kind of
performance. The young players all performed well, making a
good rapport with the sympathetic audience. We particularly
enjoyed the Jeunesse group of violinists and the range of music
that had been selected for them…” Audience members 2014
Supported by Mrs Eira Leach
A treasure trove: after ten intensive days of coaching and playing,
the Academy students give a showcase concert with masterpieces
of the chamber music repertoire alongside some pleasant surprises,
with repertoire in previous years throwing up neglected gems.
Combination ticket for this concert and tomorrow’s
Candlelight Serenade £30
(cannot be used in conjunction with Festival Saver Deals)
Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana
AND Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci
from Festival Euro Mediterraneo
2.30pm Fellinis Cinema, Ambleside
£16 ALLOCATED SEATING
DURATION 197’ inc 15’ interval
Adapted from the short story written by Giovanni Verga,
Cavalleria Rusticana is a one-act opera considered one of the
classics of verismo opera. Composed in 1888 for a publisher’s
competition, its win was crowned by success throughout
Europe and the United States. Inspired by Mascagni’s
triumph, Leoncavallo composed his verismo opera based on
the true events of an 1865 murder. The two operas were first
performed as a double-bill in 1893 at the Metropolitan Opera.
Directed by Enrico Castiglione, the cast includes Daniela
Dessì, Fabio Armilato, Giuseppina Piunti, Valdis Janons and
Maria José Trullu (Cavalleria) and Piero Giuliacci, Chiara
Taigi, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Giovanni Di Mare and Vincenzo
Taormina (I Pagliacci). Recorded live in July 2014 at Teatro
Antico di Taormina, the second-largest ancient Greek theatre
in Italy, sitting on the coast of Sicily.
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THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015
Viola Extravaganza
5pm Blackwell Arts & Crafts House,
5pm near Bowness
UNRESERVED SEATING
“…To walk on the fells, to hear the glorious
music in the sublime surroundings of
Blackwell and to emerge afterwards to the
sight of a sparkling Lake Windermere –
what more can one ask from life?!…”
Audience member 2014
ISMA tutors Yuko Inoue, Garfield Jackson,
Louise Williams and Kazuki Sawa are
joined by advanced LDSM Academy students
for this celebration of the viola, with three
of the works written shortly before WW1;
during the war Benjamin Dale was held in
a civilian camp near Berlin and his friend
York Bowen performed the Melody (see last
Friday) with Tertis in a fundraising concert for
internees.
Present your Blackwell concert ticket at the Arts
& Crafts House ticket desk after 2pm and get £1
off the admission price to the House.
Benjamin Appl BARITONE
James Baillieu PIANO
8pm St Thomas’s Church Kendal
£18 UNRESERVED SEATING
Butterworth Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad 13’
Schubert Die schöne Müllerin, D795 62’
A friend of Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth was
killed in 1916 in the Battle of the Somme, one of the ‘lads
that will die in their hundreds and never grow old’, as
Housman’s poignant Shropshire Lad poetry foretold.
Continuing in pastoral mood, Schubert’s great song cycle,
the first of its kind, tells the story of an apprentice miller’s
unrequited love for his employer’s daughter.
German baritone Benjamin Appl is a member of the
BBC New Generation Artists scheme and was mentored
by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
Piano kindly provided by
Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
photo: Kaupo Kikkas
JS Bach Chaconne from Partita No.2
in D minor, BWV1004 14’
Halvorsen arr Tertis Passacaglia on Handel’s
Harpsichord Suite No.7 in G minor 6½’
York Bowen Fantasie Quartet in E minor
for four violas, Op.41 No.1 10’
Bridge Lament for two violas 8½’
Dale Introduction and Andante for six violas,
Op.5 10½’
photo: Falk Kastell
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BOWNESS-ON-WINDERMERE
Hosting a lively season of
award-winning theatre, classical
and folk music.
Season starts in July 2015
Old Laundry, Crag Brow,
Bowness-on-Windermere, LA23 3BX
Online Booking: www.oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk
Box office: 08445 040604
The Lake District’s Premier
Cinema, Restaurants & Jazz Bar
A TWO COURSE DINNER & RESERVED CINEMA SEAT
ANY MAIN COURSE WITH ANY STARTER OR DESSERT
£19.75 AT ZEFFIRELLIS £21.75 AT FELLINIS (3D film supplement + £1.50)
www.zeffirellis.com 015394 33845
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book online
www.ldsm.org.uk
FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2015
Candlelight Serenade
LDSM Academy Artists
LDSM Academy Ensemble
Kazuki Sawa DIRECTOR
8pm Ambleside Parish Church
A £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING
“…Candlelight Serenade was, as usual, a
great performance with the individual items
showing off the staggering ability of each
student. What a wealth of talent and an
honour to have been able to enjoy it!..
A real joy…” Audience members 2014
Frith Piano Quartet 2
11am Ambleside Parish Church
A £22 B £14 RV ALLOCATED SEATING
Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.47 27’
Bridge Phantasie Piano Quartet in F sharp minor 12’
Dvořák Piano Quartet No.2 in E flat major, Op.87 34’
photo: Colin Reynolds
A divine trinity. Schumann’s work was the most ambitious
and advanced piano quartet written up to that point, the last
and greatest work of his most productive year; Mendelssohn
(who, along with Mozart, had made his own substantial
contribution to this genre) praised it. Bridge’s singlemovement Phantasie was commissioned in 1910 by
WW Cobbett, a keen amateur chamber music player and
patron of British composers. Contemporary with the Eighth
Symphony, Dvořák’s E flat Quartet was written in six weeks
after much pressure from his publisher following the success
of his earlier quartet – see Tuesday.
Supported by Mr & Mrs Harold Lefton
This is your opportunity to hear musicians
destined for great careers in this culmination
of the intense work between the ISMA Artists
and their tutors in the last twelve days.
Solos, duos and some of the greatest
chamber works of the classical repertoire
bring the festival to a close in a spectacular
fusion of sound and lighting with a
programme reflecting our themes and
anniversaries, to include Britten’s
Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, Op.10,
and Sibelius’s Romance in C major, Op.42
and Andante festivo.
A unique event not to be missed.
Combination ticket for this concert and
yesterday’s Morning Serenade £30
(cannot be used in conjunction with
Festival Saver Deals)
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SEE & DO
Embrace our Heritage and Culture
WHAT’S ON
Latest Events and Festivals to Enjoy
ENJOY
Eat, Drink, Shop, Relax
ACTIVITIES
By Foot, By Bike, By Boat
HIDDEN GEMS
Discover our Local Treasures
TRAVEL
Getting Out and About
www.exploresouthlakeland.co.uk/ldsm
Luxuriously unique hand
made furnishings
to decorate your home and
enrich your life
Visit our new boutique
open in Windermere
Discover our
workshop
www.peter-hall.co.uk
Danes Road, Staveley, Nr Kendal,
Cumbria. LA8 9PL 01539 821633
HOW TO BOOK
LDSM Patrons priority booking
Concessions
OPENS TUESDAY 26 MAY
Priority Booking is available to Patrons of LDSM.
Please return your completed Booking Form
marked PATRON, enclosing payment and a stamped
addressed envelope. LDSM Patrons are advised to
take advantage of the Priority Booking Period, by
post ONLY from 26 May – 7 June. All ticket orders
received after this period will be treated as standard
postal bookings. Patrons also receive a free copy of
the Souvenir Book if ordered during early booking.
Concessions of 50% are available to under-18s,
full-time students on production of NUS cards, and
those in receipt of JSA or ESA. Appropriate ID will
be required and concessions must be requested at
the time of booking. Please bring along your proof/
identification to the first event you attend, whereupon
you can collect your tickets. Concessions are not
available on the Festival Saver Deals (see page 4)
and apply only to ticket purchases.
Online and postal booking
Tickets for all Festival events will also be available
from Ambleside Parish Centre from Saturday 1 August
during the Festival, 10am – 4pm and at evening events
held at Ambleside Parish Church.
OPENS MONDAY 8 JUNE
To book online go to www.ldsm.org.uk. Your tickets
will be held for you to collect at the first concert you
have booked, unless you request that tickets are
posted to you in advance, for which there is a £2
transaction fee.
For postal bookings, please return your completed
Booking Form to Lake District Summer Music,
Stricklandgate House, 92 Stricklandgate, Kendal,
Cumbria LA9 4PU enclosing payment and a stamped
addressed envelope for the return of your tickets. A
£2 transaction fee will apply to all postal bookings not
accompanied by an SAE, and to online bookings if you
request that tickets are posted to you in advance.
Telephone booking
OPENS MONDAY 15 JUNE
Please call LDSM Box Office on 01539 742621. Open
Monday to Friday, 11am to 4pm. A 24hr message
service is also in operation, on the same number.
Booking in person
OPENS MONDAY 15 JUNE
Tickets will be available from the Lake District
Summer Music offices at Stricklandgate House,
92 Stricklandgate, Kendal (Monday to Friday,
10am to 4pm). Our staff will be pleased to meet
you at Stricklandgate House reception and take your
booking. Subject to availability, tickets will also be on
sale at the venue on the day of each concert from an
hour before the performance.
Ambleside Parish Centre Box Office
Refunds
Please check your tickets as soon as you receive them.
The Box Office cannot exchange tickets or refund
money. Tickets may only be returned for resale
(except those purchased as part of a Festival Saver
Deal, see page 4) if the event in question is sold out.
A £2 handling charge will be made per return.
Latecomers
LDSM reserves the right to refuse admission until
a suitable break, or the (first) interval. We regret
that babes-in-arms and children in prams cannot be
admitted to ticketed performances.
If you require a copy of our Festival Diary in
LARGE PRINT or any other format, please contact
the LDSM Box Office.
FREE 2015 Souvenir
Book worth £7
with any booking
totalling over £50
Packed with programme notes, articles
and artist biographies giving a rich
insight into the festival, an essential
purchase for any festival-goer.
If you pre-order before the festival, you
will receive a voucher to exchange for
a book during the festival.
Whilst every effort is made to ensure that the information in this brochure is correct at the time of going to press, some alterations to the programme
or artists may be necessary in exceptional circumstances. LDSM reserves the right to make any necessary alterations without prior notification.
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DONORS, SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS
Anonymous Donors
Arts Council England
Lancaster Institute for the
Contemporary Arts
Mrs Mary Powney
Mr & Mrs Martin Rayner
Stephen Bell Charitable Trust
LDSM Trust
Benefactors of LDSM
Mrs Eira Leach
Mrs Kate Dugdale
Mr & Mrs Harold Lefton
Fellinis
Lindeth Howe Country House Hotel
South Lakeland District Council
Forsyth Brothers Ltd
Mr & Mrs Alan Maddocks
Spoff’s Scholarship Fund
Grange-over-Sands &
District Concert Club
Sir John & Lady Manduell
Tillett Trust
Mrs Valerie Howe
Julius Manduell
Windermere Lake Cruises
Mr Derrick Johnson
Patrons of LDSM
Zeffirellis
Reiver Instruments
Royal Northern College of Music
Royal Over-Seas League
Patrons of
Lake District Summer Music
Launched in 1985 alongside the International Festival and Summer School
the aims of this separate charity are:
Supporting young musicians today – ensuring great artists tomorrow
To support the activities of LDSM • To raise money to provide
scholarships for students attending LDSM Summer Schools
Join today and receive priority booking, invitations to special events, advance
information on LDSM and Patron events and a free Festival Souvenir Book.
For more details contact: Malcolm Heyes Hon. Secretary
email [email protected]
web www.ldsm.org.uk/patrons
or telephone 01524 736159
Registered Charity No. 516781
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