Music Festival - Cotswold Walks

CHIPPING
8TH – 21ST
MAY 2016
CAMPDEN
International
Music
Festival
GREAT MUSIC IN THE GLORIOUS SETTING OF ST JAMES’ CHURCH
Festival Academy
Orchestra sponsored by
Cutts of Campden
in the Cotswolds
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Welcome
It gives me great pleasure to present the
programme for 2016, our 15th annual festival.
Once again we have some of the world’s
greatest musicians with us for two weeks of
glorious music. For some it is their first visit, for
others a return to one of their favourite venues.
Making their festival debuts here in a wonderful
early music programme are Trevor Pinnock,
Sophie Gent, Matthew Truscott & Jonathan
Manson. The great Austrian mezzo soprano
Angelika Kirchschlager also appears for the first
time alongside festival regular Julius Drake, and
Katherine Jenkinson & Martin Cousin make their
debut here joining Ruth Rogers in the Aquinas
trio Piano. The superb Belgian vocal ensemble
Vox Luminis arrive at the end of week one, and
the following week the Serbian pianist Aleksandar
Madzar partners Adrian Brendel in a duo recital.
Finally, the acclaimed German violinist Isabelle
Faust and harpsichordist Kristian Bezuidenhout
give us an evening of JS Bach.
In addition we see the return of many old
friends of the festival; our president Paul Lewis,
Lucy Parham, the Nash Ensemble, Imogen Cooper,
Ronan O’Hora, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Alfred Brendel,
and of course the Festival Academy Orchestra
now in its ninth year, and such an important part
of the festival. As always, the orchestra will be
conducted and led by husband and wife team,
Thomas Hull & Ruth Rogers. I hope you will agree
that we are set for another fortnight of truly worldclass concerts.
Despite ever-increasing costs we have
decided to hold ticket prices for an unprecedented
sixth year running and student tickets remain a
nominal £1.
We have, however, made a slight change to
the ‘Friends’ category. Over the years the list of
‘Friends’ has grown enormously and we now
find it increasingly hard to accommodate all
the requests for tickets for some concerts. We
considered limiting the number of tickets ‘Friends’
could purchase for any one concert but felt
that was not the route we wanted to go down.
Although the minimum donation had remained
£100 for 14 years, in practice some people were
donating £100 whilst others as much as £450.
The position in the ‘ticket queue’ was based solely
on the date the form was sent in rather than the
level of donation, which seemed slightly unfair
on those donating at a higher level. So we have
decided to instigate two levels of the Friends
category from this year onwards. We appreciate
that no system is absolutely fair but we hope you
agree that this is the best way to resolve the everincreasing demand for tickets.
If you have not signed up for one of the
schemes before I hope you will consider doing so
this year. ‘Sponsors’ & ‘Patrons’ enjoy a three-week
priority booking period, Gold Friends a two-week
priority period, and Silver Friends a one- week
priority period. Increasingly, being a member
of one of these schemes is the only sure way of
obtaining reserved seating for many concerts.
The provision of on-line booking, with a ‘select
your own seat’ facility, proved extremely popular
last year, particularly with overseas and last minute
bookings, and it will be available again for 2016.
However, after a lot of consideration, we have
again decided to keep to the traditional postal
system for the Patrons’, Friends’ & Season priority
booking periods, and for those who like to send
their General booking forms in early. As all forms
come in they are dated and put in the appropriate
folder (Patrons, Friends, Season & General) and as
each period opens they are then processed in the
order in which they were received. So please send
in your forms ASAP.
As soon as the priority bookings and early
‘General’ bookings have been processed we will
then activate the online & telephone booking
system.
I hope you will agree that the 2016 programme
is one of the most exciting to date and I look
forward to seeing many of you next May.
Charlie Bennett, November 2015
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Founded in 2002, Chipping
Campden
International
Music Festival has grown
into one of the most
anticipated events in the
UK’s musical calendar.
The 2016 programme
is as exciting and varied as
ever, and, once again, the fortnight will see the arrival
in Chipping Campden of some of the world’s most
renowned musicians.
As always, the Festival Academy Orchestra will be
in residence for week two and I am very excited about
performing all five Beethoven concertos with them and
their inspiring conductor, Thomas Hull.
In addition there is a marvellous range of solo
recitals, chamber music, and song. All this, combined
with the magnificent venue of St James1 Church with its
superb acoustic, and the enthusiastic and appreciative
audiences, makes it a priority destination for music
lovers. Little wonder then that the festival is now
attracting audiences from America, Canada, Australia,
and mainland Europe, alongside its growing UK
following. We look forward to welcoming you all in May.
Thank goodness for Chipping
Campden Music Festival! The
Festival’s involvement in music
education grows with every passing
year - which is just as well, as our
children seem to have less and less
access to music in their schools with
every passing year.
This year the Festival’s work with
young voices will see a project in six local primary schools
involving around 300 students working for an intensive
three week period. They will also be working with over 100
secondary aged students and hope to extend the work to
early years children as well. And, before and during the May
festival, tutors will be running instrumental & composition
workshops in local primary & secondary schools.
One of the most exciting developments in 2015 was the
formation of The Festival Youth Academy Orchestra. Based
on the same formula as the May festival orchestra, the youth
academy had a mentor & a secondary aged student sharing a
desk. The course ended with a wonderful concert in St James’
church. The festival hopes that, given sufficient funding being
available, the Youth Academy will become a regular feature of
their educational calendar.
Paul Lewis, Festival President
Julian Lloyd Webber, Patron of Education Programme
Weekday Lunchtime Concerts
Education and the Orchestra
1.05pm – 2.05pm. Tuesday 10th – Friday
13th & Tuesday 17th & Thursday 19th
The festival is seriously committed to music education. In addition to the lunchtime
concerts, we run workshops and coaching sessions in local schools given by experienced
practitioners. The ‘Chipping Campden Festival Academy’ orchestra, formed in 2008, has
become an extremely significant part of the festival. The Academy is formed anew every
year (although many of the professionals are regular members) and each desk has an
advanced student or recent graduate playing alongside an experienced Pro. This gives the
young artists an invaluable insight into what playing in a professional orchestra entails. For
details about applying as an advanced student or recent graduate please email Thomas Hull
- [email protected] or Charlie Bennett - [email protected]
Additionally, for a week in late August of 2015 we ran our first Festival Youth Academy
Orchestra course. This was based on the same formula as the May festival orchestra but
in this case the May Academy members returned to become mentors to secondary aged
students. At the end of the week the orchestra gave a concert in St James’ church, the
soloist for which was the acclaimed pianist Imogen Cooper. For details about applying as a
secondary school aged student for the August 2016 course, please email Charlie Bennett [email protected]
If you are involved in local pre-school, primary, or secondary education and would like
details of education workshops on offer please email Micaela Schmitz, Education Officer [email protected]
If you are a primary school teacher and would like to discuss our new young voices
project please email Jessica May - [email protected]
We also have a growing Festival chorus that meets every Wednesday and gives three concerts
a year. If you are interested in joining please email Richard Stephens - [email protected]
Given by students and recent graduates from
leading music colleges
Full details of the concerts will be put on the web
site when confirmed and emailed to all on our
database. Please make every effort to get along to
these lunchtime concerts. They are given in a relaxed
atmosphere and the quality of performances is
exceedingly high.
Tickets: £5 on the door or £3.50 per concert
if all 6 concerts are booked in advance on the
festival booking form. N.B. We are not able to
sell advanced tickets for individual lunchtime
concerts. For all students in full time education
entrance is entirely free. Schools are very
welcome to arrive unannounced but it is helpful
if we know in advance if any large groups are
coming.
Sponsored by Richard & Jane Bennett
Subsidised tickets for students
We are delighted to offer free access to students for the weekday lunchtime recitals and we
charge a nominal £1 for tickets for the evening concerts. If you know schools that may be
interested in attending do put them in touch with us.
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High Street | Chipping Campden | Gloucestershire GL55 6AG 01386 849 345 [email protected] Sunday 8th May 7.30pm St James’ Church
Reserved £25 & £20 Unreserved £15 Students £1. Ends approx 9.15pm
In conjunction with Chipping Campden Literature Festival
Nocturne - The Romantic Life of Frédéric Chopin
Lucy Parham, piano
Harriet Walter, narrator
Alex Jennings, narrator
The story of the tender, but volatile relationship
between Frederic Chopin and the novelist
George Sand is told through extracts from their
letters and diaries, juxtaposed with some of the
composer’s best-loved works.
This will be Lucy’s third visit to the festival
and regular attendees will know that means
a beautifully structured evening of words
combined with some of the most sensitive piano
playing you are likely to encounter anywhere.
Lucy works with many of the UK’s finest actors
and we are delighted that she will be joined for
this performance by Dame Harriet Walter & Alex
Jennings, two of the greatest performers of our
age.
“Lucy Parham’s trailblazing evening
concerts in which she fuses music
and words with the help of some of
our most distinguished thespians,
have become one of the must-see
events on the musical calendar.”
BBC Music Magazine
Monday 9th May 7.30pm St James’ Church
Reserved £30 & £25 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
Elisabeth Leonskaja Piano
Schubert Sonata E flat major D 568 Prokofiev Sonate Nr.4 Brahms 7 Fantasien op. 116 Schubert Sonata A minor D 784
I am particularly excited about the return of Elisabeth Leonskaja to the festival, playing repertoire
that will show to the full her magnificent pianism.
The word ‘Legendary’ is greatly overused but for once it can perhaps truly be ascribed to
Elisabeth. For decades now, she has been among the most celebrated pianists of our time and in a
world dominated by the media, Elisabeth has remained true to herself and to her music. In doing
so she is following in the footsteps of the celebrated Russian musicians of the Soviet era, such as
David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter and Emil Gilels. Her musical development was greatly influenced
by her long-term collaboration with Sviatoslav Richter, not only through teaching and giving her
advice, but also by his inviting her to play duets with him. This is guaranteed to be one the highlights of the 2016 festival.
”Elisabeth Leonskaja’s journey leads from one pinnacle to another. By
constantly excelling herself, driven by her own personal demands, by her
passion and her intelligence she has scaled the heights achieved only by
the greatest, not just of today, but of an entire epoch: those of a Clara
Haskil, a Lipatti, and of modernity to boot”.
Andre Boucourechliev - Diapason music magazine
Tuesday 10th May 7.30pm St James’ Church
Reserved £30 & £25 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
The Borodin Quartet
Ruben Aharonian violin
Sergei Lomovsky violin
Igor Naidin viola
Vladimir Balshin cello
Shostakovich Quartet No 4 in D major, op. 83 Shostakovich Quartet No 11 in F minor, Op. 122 Tchaikovsky Children’s Album Op 39 (arr. for
String Quartet by Rostislav Dubinsky) Borodin Notturno from String Quartet no.2 in D major
For seven decades, the Borodin Quartet has been celebrated for its insight and authority in the chamber music repertoire. Their particular affinity with
Russian repertoire is based on constant promotion, performances and recording of the pillars of Russian string quartet music - Borodin, Tchaikovsky
and Shostakovich, all of which feature in this concert. The Quartet’s connection with Shostakovich’s chamber music is intensely personal, since it
was stimulated by a close relationship with the composer, who personally supervised its study of each of his quartets. Widely regarded as definitive
interpretations, the Quartet’s cycles of the complete Shostakovich quartets have
been performed all over the world, in fact the idea of performing a complete
cycle of Shostakovich’s quartets originated with the Borodin Quartet. Formed in
1945 by four students from the Moscow Conservatory, over the last 70 years the
members have retained their commitment to tonal beauty, technical excellence
and penetrating musicianship. The ensemble’s cohesion and vision have survived
successive changes in personnel, thanks not least to the common legacy shared
by its members from their training at the Moscow Conservatory.
“The Borodin Quartet plays with uncommonly rich, even
tone and consoling warmth. For sheer musical presence, it
has few equals.”
The Sunday Telegraph
Wednesday 11th May 7.30pm St. James’ Church
Reserved £30 & £25 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
Trios and solos by the most fam’d masters
Trevor Pinnock harpsichord & organ
Sophie Gent & Matthew Truscott violin Jonathan Manson viola da gamba
Purcell Sonata in four parts No.9 in F major, Suite No.4 in A minor for harpsichord, Sonata in three parts No.10 in A major, Sonata in 3 parts
No.6 in C major, Sonata in three parts No.9 in C minor, Sonata in four parts No.6 in G minor Corelli Sonata (Ciacona) in G major Op.2, No.XII, Sonata in C major, Op.3, No.VIII Handel Suite in D minor for harpsichord from the second collection (HWV 436), Sonata in F major (HWV 392)
Tonight’s concert sees the, long overdue, first
festival appearance by Trevor Pinnock. Trevor
is known worldwide as a harpsichordist and
conductor who pioneered performance on
historical instruments with The English Concert,
the orchestra he founded in 1972, and led for
the next thirty years. He now divides his time
“Pinnock’s playing in these works is
fluent, modestly extrovert and funloving. It is without silly gestures or
empty rhetoric.”
BBC Music Magazine
between conducting, solo, chamber music and
educational projects. For this concert he is joined
by Sophie Gent - Professor of Baroque violin at the
Amsterdam Conservatorium, Matthew Truscott
- one of the leaders of the Orchestra of the Age
of Enlightenment, and Jonathan Manson - one
of Europe’s leading performers on both cello and
viola da gamba. For early music followers this will
be high on the list of ‘not to be missed’ concerts.
Thursday 12th May 7.30pm St. James’ Church
Reserved £30 & £25 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
Angelika Kirchschlager mezzo soprano
Julius Drake piano
Schubert Songs from plays & novels, including - Erlkönig, Gretchen im Zwinger, Morgenlied, Mignon I ‘Heiss mich nicht reden’, Ariette von
Rosamunde, Lied der Anne Lyle, Gesang an Sylvia
Austrian Mezzo Angelika Kirchschlager enjoys an international career as
one of the most important and outstanding vocal artists before the public
today, dividing her time between recitals and opera in Europe, North
America and the Far East. In 2016 she embarks on a concert tour with the
Camerata Bern to South America, and on her return she sings an orchestral
concert at the Brucknerhaus in Linz, followed by a series of recitals in
Klagenfurt, Stockholm, at the Schubertiade in Hohenems, at London’s
Wigmore Hall as well as here in Chipping Campden. She is joined by the
incomparable Julius Drake, one of the finest instrumentalists in his field,
and a regular collaborator with many of the world’s leading artists, both
in recital and on disc. The programme contains some of Schubert’s finest
songs, and this promises to be a memorable concert.
Kirchschlager’s rich resonant mezzo finds beauties Drake made the piano part sound positively
everywhere on this disc, from heights of drama to incandescent. For my money, this inspired accompanist
intimacies of reflection, and at every turn Drake is with is now the best in the business. New York Magazine.
her... Roger Nichols / BBC Music Magazine
Friday 13th May 7.30pm St. James’ Church
Reserved £30 & £25 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
The Aquinas Piano trio
Ruth Rogers Violin
Katherine Jenkinson Cello
Martin Cousin Piano
Mozart Piano Trio in B-flat major K.502 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49 Brahms Piano Trio in B major Op. 8
Ruth Rogers is well known to everyone at the festival, having led the Academy orchestra since its inception as well as appearing as a soloist with it on
numerous occasions. The other two members of the trio, Katherine Jenkinson and Martin Cousin, are, like Ruth, established solo artists in their own right.
All three players also have a vast experience of the chamber music repertoire and their Trio, launched in 2009, has quickly become one of Britain’s most
sought-after ensembles. The piano trio repertoire contains some of music’s most wonderful creations, three of which we will hear in this concert. The B
flat major trio was written in 1786 when Mozart was at the height of his powers, the same year also seeing the completion of three of his greatest piano
concertos (K488 in A major, K491 in C minor, and K503 in C major) and the sublime ‘Kegelstatt’ Trio for clarinet, viola and piano. Mendelssohn’s beautiful
D minor trio dates from 1839, and the masterful B major piano trio of Brahms closes the concert. The early Op 8 designation is slightly misleading as,
although it was written in 1854, Brahms revised the work in 1889 and this is the version the
Aquinas will play.
This dazzling young trio is rising fast. If the Aquinas Piano Trio
doesn’t go on to become one of the most admired of its generation I
really will eat my hat
The Weston Mercury
Saturday 14th May 11.00am St. James’ Church
Reserved £20 & £15 Unreserved £10 Students £1 Ends approx 1.50pm
Piano master class
Ronan O’Hora
Working with three advanced pianists
Many people still talk of the superb piano
master class given by Ronan O’Hora as part
of the 2014 festival and I’m delighted that he
has agreed to come back for 2016. Ronan is
one of the most outstanding musicians I have
encountered and, alongside a busy performing
career, he holds the posts of ‘Head of Keyboard
Studies’ and ‘Head of Advanced Performance
Studies’ at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama in London. Ronan will work with three
exceptionally talented students from the RCM,
RAM, and the GSMD. This will be a fascinating
insight into teaching at the highest level and
should be of interest to pianists and nonpianists alike. I would particularly encourage all
music teachers (not just of piano students) to
bring their pupils to this class.
“The Grieg Piano Concerto [with the RPO under James Judd] demands
imagination and great delicacy of feeling as well as bravura without
barnstorming if its eternal freshness is to be caught on record. Ronan
O’Hora …… uncannily invests this very beautiful recording with all these
virtues, and more besides, … The cadenza is superb …”
Editor’s Choice, The Gramophone Magazine
Saturday 14th May 7.30pm St. James’ Church
Reserved £35 & £30 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
Vox Luminis – Light & Shadow
Music at the time of Elizabeth I (4 Sopranos 2 Altos, 4 Tenors 2 Baritones 3 Basses)
Lionel Meinier artistic director
Thomas Tallis O nata Lux, Videte Miraculum Robert White Christe, qui lux es et dies John Sheppard In manus tuas William Byrd Ave verum
corpus Thomas Tomkins When David heard Robert Ramsey How are the Mighty Fall’n Thomas Weelkes Death hath deprived me Thomas
Tallis Hear the voice and prayer John Sheppard In Pace Thomas Morley Funeral Sentences for Queen Elizabeth I
Tonight we have another ensemble making
their debut at the festival. Vox Luminus, founded
in 2004 in Namur, Belgium, is developing a
reputation as one of the world’s finest vocal
ensembles. They are renowned for a seamless
blend of high quality individual voices, exquisite
tuning and clarity of sound. The majority of the
group met at one of the most significant centres
for early music in Europe: the Royal Conservatory
in The Hague.
Their most recent CD, released in June 2012,
created a buzz with an interpretation of
Heinrich Schütz’s Musicalische Exequien, and
received several prestigious awards such as
the Gramophone ‘Recording of the Year’, the
‘Baroque Vocal Gramophone Award’ and the
‘International Classical Music Award’.
Vox Luminis’s blend is marked by a pleasing astringency in the alto
line, and supple singing from the sopranos and baritones, Meunier
among them...over two hours of outstanding musicality and serious
musicianship. BBC Music Magazine
Sunday 15th May 7.30pm St. James’ Church
Reserved £30 & £25 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
Imogen Cooper piano
Schumann Geistervariationen, Davidsbundlertanze op 6 Wagner Elegy Liszt (from Annees de Pelerinage Italie): Sposalizio Petrarch sonnet 104
Il Penseroso Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa Wagner arr Zoltan Kocsis Tristan und Isolde, Prelude Liszt La Lugubre Gondole S200/1 Wagner arr
Liszt Tristan und Isolde, Liebestod
Imogen Cooper is without question one of the most outstanding pianists of our epoch. A musician
with integrity and insight whose formidable technique it is never used for any other purpose than to
serve the music. Little wonder then that her appearances are eagerly anticipated by our audiences.
Tonight’s beautifully thought out programme will be very special. The concert opens with the sublime
but little played Geistervariationen, the last work Schumann wrote for piano, and then the better
known Davidsbündlertänze, the theme of which is based on a mazurka by Clara Wieck. Schumann
wrote of Clara, “She was practically my sole motivation for writing the Davidsbundlertanze”. And then
a wonderful sequence of music from Wagner & Liszt, the concert closing with Liszt’s arrangement of
the sublime Liebestod.
She is an outstanding artist, one of the finest pianists now playing. Go,
listen, and wonder how many better pianists there are alive in this country,
or anywhere.
Daily Telegraph
Monday 16th May 7.30pm St. James’ Church
Reserved £30 & £25 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
Adrian Brendel cello
Aleksandar Madzar piano
Janacek Pohadka Schubert Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano D.821 Kurtag sequence of miniatures for solo cello and solo piano from
‘Jatekok’ Brahms Sonata in F major Op.99
Adrian Brendel is a regular performer at the festival and a great favourite with our audiences. This time he appears with the oustanding Serbian pianist
Aleksandar Madzar, who is making his debut in Chipping Campden. The concert opens with an early Janacek piece inspired by Vasily Zhukovsky’s
poem The Tale of Tsar Bendvei. Schubert’s Arpeggione sonata was written in
November1824 and is the only substantial composition for the Arpeggione (a sort
of bowed guitar) that remains extant today. Kurtag’s Játékok (meaning Games in
Hungarian) is an ongoing collection of “pedagogical performance pieces.”
The concert closes with Brahms’ passionate F major sonata, written in 1886 at
Hofstetten near Lake Thun in Switzerland. In an extraordinary summer there Brahms
wrote three of his greatest chamber music masterpieces, this Cello Sonata, the Violin
Sonata in A major, op. 100; and the glorious Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101.
Adrian Brendel is everything but a showman: his tone is clear and precise, leaning towards classical refinement,
always exposing an acute understanding of the composer’s intentions
Berliner Tagesspiegel
Tuesday 17th May 7.30pm St. James’ Church
Reserved £35 & £30 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra
Thomas Hull - Conductor Paul Lewis - Piano
Prokofiev Symphony No 1 in D major Op25 “Classical” Beethoven Piano Concerto No 2 in B flat major Op 19 Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3 in
C minor Op 37
Tonight sees the opening concert of 2016 from our Festival Academy orchestra, under
the baton, as always, of Thomas Hull and led by Ruth Rogers. It is also the beginning
of Paul Lewis’ cycle of all five Beethoven concertos. Paul first played here in 2003
and became our president in 2005. Since that time he has gone on to establish a
stratospheric career and is now widely regarded as one the world’s greatest pianists.
We are indeed privileged that he has agreed to present this cycle of concertos just for
Chipping Campden. The B flat concerto is actually Beethoven’s earliest piano concerto
being mostly composed between 1787 and 1789, although it did not appear in its final
form until 1798, and was not actually published until 1801. By which time Beethoven
had already composed the concerto in C major (known as No1). It is a joyous work that
clearly shows the influence of both Haydn & Mozart in Beethoven’s early works. The
legacy of Mozart can also be seen in the dramatic C minor concerto in which Beethoven
seems to pay tribute to and at the same transcend Mozart’s concerto in the same key.
“Throughout the cycle Lewis is enviably and naturally true to his own distinctive lights, his unassuming but
shining musicianship always paramount.... And so, all in all, these records take their place among the finest
Beethoven piano concerto performances” Bryce Morrison Gramophone
Wednesday 18th May 7.30pm St. James’ Church
Reserved £30 & £25 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
The Nash Ensemble
Philippa Davies flute Gareth Hulse oboe
Richard Hosford clarinet Ursula Leveaux bassoon
Richard Watkins horn Ian Brown piano
Mozart Piano Quintet in Eb K 452 Saint Saens Caprice sur des airs Danois et Russes Bizet Jeux
d’enfants arr for wind quintet Poulenc Sextet for piano and wind quintet
It is always a joy to have the Nash Ensemble back
in Chipping Campden. As ever they present a
varied and fascinating programme. Writing to
his father after its premiere in 1784 Mozart says
of the Eb trio “I myself consider it to be the best
thing I have written in my life”. The Saint-Saens
was dedicated to the Tsarina, Maria Feodorovna,
daughter of the King of Denmark, which
explains why Danish and Russian themes, are
incorporated into this delightful work.
Bizet’s Jeux d’enfants was originally written for
piano duet but works brilliantly in the wind
quintet arrangement, and the Poulenc Sextet
written in1932, revised in 1939, and premiered in
Paris in December 1940, has become one of his
most popular works.
“Is there a better-equipped, more polished, stylish, or characterful chamber music group than the Nash Ensemble
anywhere on the planet? To judge from the near-immaculate account of Schubert’s Octet with which they concluded
their Festival concert on Saturday, I doubt it.”
Michael Tumelty, Herald Scotland
Thursday 19th May 7.30pm St. James’ Church
Reserved £35 & £30 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra
Thomas Hull - Conductor Paul Lewis - Piano
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C major Op 15 Stravinsky Symphony in C Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G major Op 58
Beethoven’s magnificent piano concerto in C major was actually written after the B flat major but is
always known as No 1. Between a martial first movement and an ebullient, and at times rumbustious,
finale Beethoven places an intensely moving slow movement. The Symphony in C is from Stravinshy’s
neoclassical period. Although outwardly a traditional four-movement work, it has been described
as a “cubist portrait” of a symphony. The fourth piano concerto was completed early in 1806,
and Beethoven’s very last appearance as a concerto soloist was in its first public performance on
December 22, 1808. That first performance must have startled the listener, initially because it broke
with tradition by opening with a statement from the piano alone, and then because that is followed
by the orchestra’s quiet response in the remote key of B major. It is hard for modern audiences to
understand how this, perhaps the most perfect of all his piano concertos fell into neglect until
Mendelssohn revived it in 1836.
Lewis’s unalloyed musicianship and overall mastery are worth their weight in gold; every bar declares his calibre
and generosity of spirit.
Gramophone Magazine
Friday 20th May 7.30pm St. James’ Church
Reserved £30 & £25 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.30pm
Isabelle Faust violin
Kristian Bezuidenhout harpsichord
JS Bach Sonata for violin & continuo in G major, BWV 1021, Sonata for solo violin No.2 in A minor, BWV 1003, Sonata for violin & harpsichord in
E major, BWV 1016, Sonata for violin & harpsichord in C minor, BWV 1017, Toccata for solo harpsichord in D minor, BWV 913, Sonata for violin &
harpsichord in A major, BWV 1015
Tonight’s ‘feast’ of JS Bach features two artists
making their first appearance at the festival. At
an early age, Isabelle Faust won the prestigious
Leopold Mozart and Paganini competitions
and was soon invited to appear with the
world’s leading orchestras, including the Berlin
Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment, the Boston Symphony Orchestra
“Her sound has passion, grit and
electricity but also a disarming
warmth and
sweetness that can unveil the music’s
hidden strains of lyricism ...”
New York Times
and the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo. She is
now one of the most sought-after violinists in
the world. Isabelle is joined by the exceptional
Fortepiano & Harpsichord specialist Kristian
Bezuidenhout.
Saturday 21st May 11.30am Chipping Campden School
Unreserved £10 Ends approx 12.45pm
Alfred Brendel
‘A pianist’s alphabet’
Some of my happiest festival memories are of
Alfred performing here in Chipping Campden.
He loved being here, adored the acoustic of St
James’ church, and played for us twice during
his final season on the concert platform. I’m
delighted, therefore, that he agreed to come
back to the festival with his marvellous lecture ‘A
pianist’s alphabet’
NB Please note different venue
“Looking back at sixty years of giving concerts,
making records, and writing about matters of
my profession, I realized that I should put some
order into my thoughts and collect concepts and
catchwords in the shape of an A to Z. Aided by
this alphabet, my lecture will try to convey some
of a thinking pianist’s concerns. Next to music,
composers, instruments and the public, notions
like balance, cohesion, and cantabile should be
mentioned, and even love and humour.
One can succumb to music, as it were with
closed eyes, and simply “do” it. One can formalize
it, intellectualize, poeticise, psychologise. One
can pronounce, in sociological terms, what music
is allowed, or not allowed, to represent. One can
derive from the pieces what they are or induce
into them what they should be. The latter I have
avoided to the best of my abilities. An inclination
for facing the music consciously, and linking it to
the pleasures of language, has prevailed. “ - Alfred Brendel
The book will be on sale at the event and Alfred
is happy to sign copies afterwards
Saturday 21st May 7.00pm St. James’ Church
Reserved £35 & £30 Unreserved £20 Students £1 Ends approx 9.15pm
Chipping Campden Festival Academy Orchestra
Thomas Hull - Conductor
Paul Lewis - Piano
Schumann Symphony No1 in B flat major Op 38 ‘ The Spring’ Beethoven Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major Op 73
After hearing Mendelssohn conduct a
performance of Schubert’s C-major Symphony,
Schumann wrote to Clara Wieck, “I was totally
happy and wished only that you should be my
wife and that I also could write such symphonies.”
By 1841 both things had happened. The first
symphony was drafted in an astonishing four
NB Please note earlier start time
days and the first performance took place a
month later on 31st March 1841. This great
work is followed tonight by what is arguably
Beethoven’s best-loved piano concerto. It was
written between 1809 and 1811 in Vienna, with
the first performance on 28 November 1811in
Leipzig. Although in many ways an appropriate
title, it was the English publisher Johann Baptist
Cramer, not Beethoven, who gave the work the
epithet of Emperor. The transition from the end
of the slow movement into the brilliant and
uplifting finale is one of the most ‘spine chilling’
moments in all music. It will be a fitting close to
the 2016 festival.
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TUESDAY 3rd – Sunday 8th May 2016
Full programme out March 2016
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Patrons, Friends, Sponsors
PATRONS
This scheme may appeal mostly to businesses but
we are happy, of course, to hear from individuals
as well. Business logos (or individual’s names) will
appear in the programme and there will be a
‘Patrons and Friends’ champagne reception during
the festival. You will also be given a 3 week priority
booking period before the box office opens to the
general public. Become a Patron of this year’s festival.
- a minimum donation of £500.
FRIENDS
Over the years the list of ‘Friends’ has grown
enormously and we now find it increasingly hard to
accommodate all the requests for tickets for some
concerts. We considered limiting the number of
tickets Friends could purchase for any one concert
but felt that was not the route we wanted to go
down. Although the minimum donation had
remained £100 for 14 years, in practice some people
were donating £100 whilst others as much as £450.
The position in the ‘ticket queue’ was based solely on
the date the form was sent in rather than the level
of donation, which seemed slightly unfair on those
donating at a higher level. So we have decided to
instigate two levels of the Friends category from this
year onwards.
Gold Friends will get a two-week priority booking
period before the box office opens to the general
public, and Silver Friends a one-week priority period.
We appreciate that no system is absolutely fair but
we hope you agree that this is the best way to
resolve the ever-increasing demand for tickets. All
names will appear in the programme (unless you
wish to remain anonymous) and you will be invited
to the ‘Patrons and Friends’ Champagne reception
during the festival.
Gold Friends - a minimum donation of £300
Silver Friends - a minimum donation of £100.
SPONSORS OF AN ORCHESTRAL
CHAIR AND FRIENDS OF THE
ACADEMY ORCHESTRA
The idea of creating the ‘Chipping Campden Festival
Academy’ orchestra in 2008 was to give talented
young musicians from the UK’s conservatoires, or
recent graduates, an opportunity to work alongside
the finest professional musicians. The project has
grown each year and is now one of the most
important components of the festival. To ensure the
highest standards of quality the Academy orchestra
comprises 50% experienced orchestral musicians
and 50% of ‘Trainees’. Each string and woodwind
‘desk’ seats one professional and one ‘trainee’
together. In three concerts during the festival the
CCFA perform with soloists of international standing
and although these concerts normally sell out, the
cost of presenting them greatly exceeds the box
office take. Typically we lose about £20,000 on these
three concerts so, even with the generous support of
the Orchestra’s main sponsor, Cutts of Campden, we
still have to provide a substantial subsidy. Whilst the
festival has been happy to take on this commitment,
if we could make the orchestra more financially
viable in the future, it would release funds to expand
our educational work into other areas. In 2014 we
launched a‘sponsor a chair’scheme to help us to plan
the future with confidence. Generous donors have
already committed to sponsoring our conductor
and leader for 2016 and beyond but we are still
looking for people prepared to sponsor either a
professional player (£1,000) or an Academy member
(£450). Or you can become a ‘Friend of the Academy
Orchestra’ for a minimum donation of £100. All chair
sponsors will get a 2 week priority-booking period
for the three orchestral concerts and ‘Friends’ a one
week priority period. All will be acknowledged in the
programme unless they wish to remain anonymous.
You will also be invited to a special reception after
the Thursday orchestral concert.
Booking Information
Enquiry Line: 01386 849018
E: [email protected]
BOOKING SYSTEM
BOX OFFICE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Envelopes are dated as they come in and
filed as ‘Patrons’, ‘Friends’ ‘Season’, or ‘General’
bookings. As each booking period opens the
forms are processed in the order in which they
were received. Patrons’ and Friends’ Season
applications will be processed in the appropriate
priority period. General season tickets will be
processed just prior to other General bookings.
So, regardless of the category your form is
in please return it ASAP. The sooner we get your
form the better chance you have of getting the
tickets you want.
Forms can be posted or delivered by hand
to our permanent office on the second floor of
the Old Police Station in Chipping Campden
High Street. Hand delivered post can be left in
the Festival post box on the ground floor next
to the lift.
NB: Please do not leave forms or make
ticket enquiries at Toke’s Food & Drink (formerly
Bennetts Wines) as the staff there have no access
to information or the facility to hold booking
forms or tickets.
Because about 80% of tickets are sold during
the early postal booking periods, a physical
box office is only open during the period of the
festival itself. At this time tickets will be on sale
from our office on the second floor of the Old
Police Station. However, please note that as the
box office is dependent on volunteers there may
be times when it is not open. If this is the case
please leave booking forms in our post box next
to the lift and we will process them as soon as
possible.
At all other times please call the enquiry line
01386 849018. If we are not there please leave a
message and we will call you back.
Extra booking forms can be downloaded
from www.campdenmusicfestival.co.uk Once
priority bookings and early general bookings
have been processed we will activate an online
& telephone booking system.
Tickets will be posted to you on receipt of
payment in full. Tickets are not refundable, except
in the case of cancellation of a performance.
Whilst we make every endeavour to ensure that
the works performed are those advertised in this
brochure, artists reserve the right to alter their
advertised programme and no refunds can be
made on the basis that the artists play a different
programme from the one advertised. Tickets
are transferable with the exception that student
concession tickets can only be passed on to an
adult if the excess sum is paid to the festival.
REFUNDS POLICY
We accept tickets for resale only when
performances are completely sold out. If we
succeed in reselling tickets, an administration
charge of £5 will be made per pair of tickets.
Please contact the box office 01386 84901.
Booking Information
Enquiry Line: 01386 849018
E: [email protected]
SEATING
SEASON TICKETS
GIFT AID
R = reserved (numbered seating)
U = unreserved (un-numbered seating)
S = Student
Save up to 40% off the full prices!
We are able to claim gift aid relief on Patrons’,
Friends’, Orchestra and other donations (but not
on tickets sales). If you are able, please complete
the gift aid box on the booking form.
‘Unreserved’ means you are guaranteed a seat,
but they are not numbered. Some have a slightly
restricted view, so come early; but it is not
possible to secure them before the doors open
approx one hour before the concert.
BOOKING DATES
Patrons’ priority opens 11th Jan
Gold Friends’ priority on 18th Jan
Silver Friends’ priority on 25th Jan
Season tickets on 29th Jan
General booking on 1st Feb
Season A.
A top price seat for all concerts including all
lunchtime recitals. The full value is £486 but
these are offered at £340 A 30% discount.
Season B.
An unreserved seat for all concerts including
all lunchtime recitals. The full value is £316 but
these are offered at £189. A 40% discount.
Please notify the charity or CASC if you: Want
to cancel this declaration; Change your name
or home address; No longer pay sufficient tax
on your income and/or capital gains. If you
pay Income Tax at the higher or additional rate
and want to receive the additional tax relief
due to you, you must include all your Gift Aid
donations on your Self Assessment tax return,
or ask HM Revenue and Customs to adjust your
tax code.
Chipping Campden Music Festival Registered
Charity No 1109991
Booking
For m
Name
Address
Post Code
Tel No
e mail
I enclose a cheque for £____________ (payable to Chipping Campden Music Festival)
or debit my credit/debit card (Visa & Mastercard accepted) for the amount of £_____________
Card No _______________________________________________
Please remember to enclose a
STAMPED ADDRESSED ENVELOPE.
If applying for more than 10 tickets
please send a large SAE with 2 x 1st class
stamps.
Please return completed form to:
Charlie Bennett,
Chipping Campden Music Festival,
Old Police Station,
High Street, Chipping Campden,
Gloucestershire GL55 6HB
T: 01386 849018
E: [email protected]
Start date ___________ Exp date ____________ CSC No _______ (last 3 digits on signature strip)
Signed _________________________________________________
* Gift Aid declaration
Please treat as Gift Aid donations all qualifying gifts of money made
Today _______ in the past 4 years ________
in the future _______ Please tick all boxes you wish to apply.
I confirm I have paid or will pay an amount of Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax for each tax year (6 April to 5 April) that is at
least equal to the amount of tax that all the charities or Community Amateur Sports Clubs (CASCs) that I donate to will reclaim
on my gifts for that tax year. I understand that other taxes such as VAT and Council Tax do not qualify. I understand the charity
will reclaim 28p of tax on every £1 that I gave up to 5 April 2008 and will reclaim 25p of tax on every £1 that I give on or after
6 April 2008.
Signed _______________________________________
Booking
For m
Patron Contribution
See booking information for details
£_______
Gold Friend Contribution See booking information for details
£_______
Silver Friend Contribution See booking information for details
£_______
Orchestra Friend
£_______
See booking information for details
Orchestra Chair Sponsor See booking information for details
£_______
Season A
Incl weekday lunchtime recitals
____£340
£_______
Season B
Incl weekday lunchtime recitals
____£189
£_______
Lunchtime
Tickets for all six weekday lunchtime recitals
_____£21
£_______
Programme Book
Detailed notes for all concerts
_____£5
£_______
Life of Chopin
____£25 R
____£20 R
____£15 U
____£1 S
£_______
Elisabeth Leonskaja
____£30 R
____£25 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
10
th
Borodin Quartet
____£30 R
____£25 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
11
th
Trevor Pinnock
____£30 R
____£25 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
12
th
Kirchschlager/Drake
____£30 R
____£25 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
13
th
8
th
9th
Aquinas Trio
____£30 R
____£25 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
14th
Ronan O’Hora
____£20 R
____£15 R
____£10 U
____£1 S
£_______
14
th
Vox Luminis
____£35 R
____£30 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
15
th
Imogen Cooper
____£30 R
____£25 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
16
th
Brendel/Madzar
____£30 R
____£25 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
17th
CCFAO/Lewis
____£35 R
____£30 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
18th
Nash Ensemble
____£30 R
____£25 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
19
th
CCFAO/Lewis
____£35 R
____£30 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
20
th
Faust/Bezuidenhout
____£30 R
____£25 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
21
st
Alfred Brendel
____£10 U
____£1 S
£_______
____£35 R
____£30 R
____£20 U
____£1 S
£_______
21st
CCFAO/Lewis
£_______
TOTAL
P N
EMERGENCY EXIT
SEATING PLAN
4 UR X 1-3
4 UR Y 1-3
5 UR
5 UR
5 UR
EMERGENCY EXIT
5UR
3UR
5UR
3UR
5UR
3UR
5UR
4UR
5UR
3UR
Choir Stalls
STAGE
G
H
J
K
L
M
11-16
11-16
11-17
11-17
11-16
EMERGENCY EXIT
3UR
2UR
3UR
2UR
3UR
2UR
3UR
2UR
3UR
2UR
Tower
1-7
1-6
1-6
1-7
1-8
1-5
1-8 AA 11-18
1-8 A 11-21
1-6 B 11-16
1-6 C 11-16
1-8 D 11-18
1-8 E 11-18
1-6 F 11-16
12 UR
9 UR
ST JAMES’ CHURCH
CHIPPING CAMPDEN
7 UR
7 UR
7 UR
7 3UR 1-3
6-7 2UR 1-3
11 UR
9 UR
3UR
3UR
4UR
4UR
17-19
17-18
3UR
3UR
17-18
4 UR
3UR
5UR
3UR
Entrance and
EMERGENCY EXIT
5 UR
5 UR
5 UR
21-22 3UR
21-23 2UR
21-23 2UR
5 UR
Row AA and Choir Stalls are
unavailable for orchestral concerts
Pillar
Wheelchair space
Unreserved
Second Price Reserved
Top Price Reserved
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