York Early Music Festival Brochure 2010 Archive Brochure

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Musical
Marriages
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Welcome
Welcome to the 2010 York Early Music Festival – Britain's largest festival of early
music. This year we’re taking the theme of Musical Marriages as the inspiration for a
host of concerts, lectures and workshops designed to celebrate marriage in all senses of
the word, from grand ceremonial occasions to intimate pieces written for composers'
spouses. And we’ll also be reflecting on the ‘marriages’ of different musical styles and
genres from the Renaissance to the High Baroque.
The 30-or-so events that make up the 2010 Festival
offer many musical jewels – not least Monteverdi’s
1610 Vespers publication, a 400-year-old masterpiece
which we have chosen to celebrate in particular
detail across three concerts. To mark the 200th
anniversary of Schumann’s birth we present both
Frauenliebe und -leben and Myrthen with soprano
Barbara Schlick and tenor James Gilchrist
accompanied by Peter Seymour. Guest artists from
overseas also include lutenist Hopkinson Smith,
Musica Fiata, La Capella Ducale and Ensemble
Lucidarium, and of course we are delighted to
welcome many UK-based musicians including The
Sixteen, London Baroque and Fretwork.
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We are particularly pleased to welcome members
of the European Early Music Network, who are
celebrating their own marriage of festivals across
Europe for their 10th-anniversary conference; and
to commend performances of the York Mystery Plays
presented by the Guilds of the City – a remarkable
marriage of theatre, music, church and community
which has survived since the Middle Ages.
And finally, we should like to say thank you and
goodbye to Robert Hollingworth as a member of
the artistic advisory team, and to welcome
Elizabeth Kenny, who is joining us to help plan the
2011 Festival. She also appears this year as director
of John Blow’s masterpiece Venus and Adonis.
We look forward to welcoming you all to the
wonderful City of York – the most perfect
example of architectural brilliance – and a
marriage of styles acclaimed across the world.
Delma Tomlin MBE
Administrative Director
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Front Cover Image: Harewood House Trust Marriage Chest: ‘The Reconciliation of the
Romans and the Sabines’ around 1480 The Master of Marradi (active c. 1475-1513)
Reproduced by kind permission of the Earl and Countess of Harewood and the Trustees of the Harewood House Trust.
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The Festival is delighted to
announce its own marriage of
ideas in which we join together
with the NCEM, the National
Media Museum, Bradford Council, Museums and
Galleries, the Northern School of Contemporary
Dance, Harewood House and Alchemy.
WORLDS
This innovatory programme looks at the
extraordinary mix that is modern day Yorkshire –
marrying individuals from across the world with
the traditional heritage of the region and linking
music, movement and media together in the leadup to the 2012 Olympics.
Artistic Advisors
John Bryan, Robert Hollingworth, Lindsay Kemp, Peter Seymour
Thank you!
The York Early Music Festival is grateful to the many individuals and organisations that continue to
support its activities – not least the many loyal and supportive audience members!
Thanks are particularly due to the Arts Council England,Yorkshire – for revenue funding and for
the recent Sustain Award - and to partner organisation, the National Centre for Early Music,
celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2010.
We are also delighted to acknowledge support from the City of York Council; BBC Radio 3; the
Friends of the YEMF; Harrowells Solicitors; the Shepherd Building Group; Fidelio Charitable Trust;
Yorkshire Forward; Legacy Trust UK; the Sylvia and Colin Shepherd Charitable Trust; the Donald
and Patricia Shepherd Charitable Trust; John Marvin; the University of York; the Dean & Chapter,
York and highlighted members of the York Hoteliers Association – who along with a number of
very kind anonymous donors help to keep us afloat each year.
We are also pleased to thank the Mayfield Valley Arts Trust,Youth Music and the City of York’s
Arts Academy for their continued support of our education programme.
Peter Phillips
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Friday 9 July
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EVENT 01
EVENT 02
2.30pm – c4.30pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
Admission is free to members of the public
attending the Festival but please do book a
ticket in advance to avoid disappointment.
5.30pm – c6.20pm
C4C Chapel,York St John University,
Lord Mayor’s Walk.
£5.00
In 2010 the European Early Music Network
REMA (Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne)
celebrates its 10th anniversary. With over 60
member festivals from across 21 European states
and with membership growing year on year,
REMA is thriving – but is there still an ‘early music
movement’ as such or is ‘historically informed
performance practice’ so well accepted that there
is no longer any need for a ‘movement’ at all?
work? Who was the music written for? Does it
have any connection with the Virgin Mary?
Demythologising
Early Music: The
the Vespers
End of a Movement? Is Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespers actually a single
Join us for a discussion chaired by Professor John
Bryan (University of Huddersfield) with guest
speakers Graham Dixon (Managing Editor, BBC
Radio 3); Robert Hollingworth (Singer and
Director of I Fagiolini); Chiara Banchini
(Educationalist and Director of Ensemble 415);
Frans de Ruiter (President, European House of
Culture) and Philippe Beaussant
(Musicologist and Founder of the Centre
de Musique Baroque de Versailles).
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Graham Dixon looks at the strange history of one
of the most magnificent, but also most
misunderstood, works in the history of music.
Friday 9 July
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EVENT 03
Saturday 10 July
Friends Saver Ticket
7.30pm – c9.10pm York Minster
Reserved seating front nave: £25.00 (no concessions)
Reserved seating rear nave: £15.00 (concessions £13.00)
Unreserved seating side aisles: £12.00 (students £6.00)
Judith Cunnold, Helen Neeves, Bethany Seymour sopranos
Jason Darnell, Joshua Ellicott, Immo Schröder tenors
Rupert Reid, Stephen Varcoe basses
Yorkshire Bach Choir
with Monastic Cantors from
Ampleforth Abbey
Lucy Russell, Daniel Edgar, Nia Lewis violins
Duncan Druce viola Rachel Gray,Tim Smedley ‘cellos
Elizabeth Kenny, David Miller chittarones
Pamela Thorby, Ailsa Reid recorders
Roland Wilson, Arno Paduch, Jamie Savan cornetts
Barrie Webb, Sue Addison, Stephen Saunders sackbuts
Peter Seymour, Robert Patterson organs
Peter Seymour director
Monteverdi: Vespro della
Beata Vergine – Concert 1
Vespers: Psalms & Hymns
We start our exploration of Monteverdi’s great
sacred masterpiece in the magnificent central
Nave of York Minster – the largest Gothic
cathedral north of the Alps. Presented in the
context of a liturgical sequence, with
plainchant sung by the monks of Ampleforth
Abbey and instrumental pieces taken
from Cima's 1610 Sonatas, this first
concert presents the five choral
psalms, the glowing hymn Ave maris
stella and the larger of Monteverdi’s
two settings of the Magnificat, in
seven parts.
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Concert By Candlelight
10.00pm – c11.20pm
Chapter House,York Minster
£20.00 (concessions £17.00)
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Judith Cunnold, Helen Neeves,
Bethany Seymour sopranos
Jason Darnell, Joshua Ellicott,
Immo Schröder tenors
Rupert Reid, Stephen Varcoe basses
Lucy Russell, Daniel Edgar, Nia Lewis violins
Pamela Thorby, Ailsa Reid recorders
Peter Seymour organ, director
Monteverdi:Vespro della
Beata Vergine – Concert 2
Vespers: Sacred Concertos
Join us in the more intimate confines of the
Chapter House as we present the solo vocal
concertos from the 1610 Vespers collection.These
are often performed as part of the Vespers
sequence but were more probably written for
private devotions at the Gonzaga family's chapel
at Mantua.This concert will also include
Monteverdi's second Magnificat setting, for six
voices and continuo.
‘an unbeatable combination of resilience and stamina
... exhilarating’ York Press
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'The performance (by YBC) proved
that there can be no such thing as too
much fine choral singing' The Guardian
The Festival is pleased to present Monteverdi’s 1610 publication Vespro della Beata Vergine in its complete
form – the Vespers music itself, the solo sacred ‘concertos’ (or motets), and the Mass In illo tempore – over
three separate but interlinked performances – marked in this brochure as Events 03, 04 and 13.
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Saturday 10 July
North East Early Music
Forum Workshop
directed by Andrew Griffiths
10.00am for 10.30am - 4.30 pm
St George’s (RC) Church, Peel Street
The Sonority of
La Serenissima
A day exploring
Monteverdi’s Vespers
of 1610
In a year that sees many opportunities to hear the
remarkable collection of pieces that has come to
be known as ‘Monteverdi’s Vespers’, here is an
opportunity to explore and discover the marvels
of this work at first hand – by performing it.
Andrew Griffiths began his studies as a Quirister
and Scholar at Winchester College, and gained a
Choral Exhibition at Gonville and Caius College,
Cambridge, where he held a Choral Exhibition. He
now sings with the hugely successful vocal consort
Stile Antico.
The workshop is open to all singers, and players of
both modern and period instruments. (Wind &
brass players may wish to check suitability before
applying for a place). Pitch will therefore be at
A=440. Singers who wish to be considered for
solos should indicate this on the application form.
Participant places must be booked in advance
(by 19 June to allow for full provision of music
and parts): visit www.neemf.org.uk for full details
and to download the application form.
Alternatively email [email protected] or
phone 07979 866303 for further details.
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1.00pm – c2.15pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
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disappointment. Limited to two tickets per
person.
BBC Radio 3
Early Music Show
Join us for a live broadcast of the popular Early
Music Show presented by Catherine Bott, with
guests including I Fagiolini with director Robert
Hollingworth, Barbara Schlick, James Bowman, Peter
Seymour, Roland Wilson and David Miller.
York Early Music Festival
Lifetime Achievement Award
Following on directly after the broadcast, Catherine
Bott will be presenting the third YEMF Lifetime
Achievement Award to
James Bowman – who has
been one of the world’s
leading counter tenors for
over forty years with a career
spanning opera, oratorio,
contemporary, solo recitals
and a whole host of
recordings made with all the
major record labels under
such directors as Britten, Harnoncourt, Mackerras,
Leppard, Hogwood, Brüggen and Pinnock. Join us for
a light-hearted celebration of this musical genius.
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Saturday 10 July
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EVENT 06
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7.30pm – c8.40pm
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
Reserved seating: £20.00 (concessions £17.00, students £5.00)
I Fagiolini
directed by Robert Hollingworth
L’Amfiparnaso
In this madrigal comedy, written just before the first opera,Vecchi brings alive the characters of commedia
dell’arte: mean-hearted old Pantalone; the verbose Doctor (speaking minestrone); the over-amorous
Spanish Captain and the ever-hungry servants – the zanni. Its originality lay in the marriage of the
‘Twin Peaks’ of comedy and great music: alongside the slapstick (the show
features an actual slapstick),Vecchi writes bittersweet madrigals for the lovers
worthy of Monteverdi.The performance will be staged using 16th-century
Venetian masks and the fabulous original dialects will be retained, but
to recreate the original’s wonderful wordplay, each scene is set up
with English introductions: ‘Don’t despair, they do sing prettily: just
lie back and think of Italy’.
‘I Fagiolini turn a silk purse into one beaded in gold… A highly
enjoyable production which celebrates the immediacy, relevance and
enjoyment to be found in a 400-year-old musical.’ Gramophone
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Pre-Concert Talk
Staging a 400-year-old comedy with unfamiliar characters, untranslatable jokes and obsolete cultural
references in a piece which Vecchi implied should not be staged anyway, creates problems. Join us at
6.30pm in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall as the performers explain how and why they have done
this, what liberties they have and haven’t taken, and what they regard as intrinsic to the piece. With
live musical examples. Admission is free to those attending Event 06.
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EVENT 07
Friends Saver Ticket
1.00pm – c3.00pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
£15.00 (concessions £13.00)
Barbara Schlick soprano
James Gilchrist tenor
Peter Seymour fortepiano
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5.00pm – c6.00pm
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, Fossgate
£5.00 (Friends of York Early Music Festival free
of charge)
A Festival
of Marriage
To mark the 200th anniversary of Schumann’s
birth, we present performances of two remarkable
song-cycles Frauenliebe und -leben and Myrthen Robert’s wedding gift to his wife Clara - given by
two of the world's finest Lieder singers.
The admired German soprano Barbara Schlick has
worked with early music directors across Europe
throughout her career and her interpretations are
comprehensively documented through CD and radio
recordings. We are particularly thrilled that we have
this rare opportunity to hear her celebrating the work
of Schumann.
“James Gilchrist is unsurpassed among lyric tenors in
sweetness and technical security, and for his musical
intelligence”The Independent
Pre-Concert Talk
Join us at 12 noon at the NCEM as Peter Seymour
illustrates and explains some of the ideas, images and
hidden ciphers – many of them secret messages
from husband to wife – in Schumann’s songs.
Admission is free to those attending Event 07.
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The Minster Minstrels,York’s early music ensemble
for young people, directed by Ailsa Reid and
Andrew Passmore, explore music that was
associated with marriage from the 14th-century
to the 18th, including English opera, Florentine
intermedii and Scottish folksongs.
The Minster Minstrels is run as a partnership
between the NCEM and the City of York
Council’s Arts Academy with support from the
Mayfield Valley Arts Trust. If you are interested
in joining this dynamic young group, please
contact us for further information by e mailing
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Sunday 11 July
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EVENT 09
Friends Saver Ticket
7.30pm – c9.30pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
£15.00 (concessions £13.00)
London Baroque
Ingrid Seifert violin Charles Medlam bass viol Terence Charlston harpsichord
Mariage à la mode
Rameau
Pièces de Clavecin en
concert No.2 in G major
Mondonville Pieces de Clavecin avec
violin Op.3 1734
Leclair
Sonata No. 8 à Trois
in D major (Livre II)
Marais
Le Noeud d’Amour
Forqueray
La Leclair
Rameau
Pièces de Clavecin en
concert No. 5 in D minor
The 18th-century Parisian music scene was a tightknit web of husband-and-wife teams, mini-dynasties
and close working friendships. London Baroque
treads an intricate course through this maze as
Rameau honours Mondonville's wife, Jean-Baptiste
Forqueray's niece and Marin Marais’ son, with
Leclair (a witness to Forqueray's second marriage)
also in attendance. The result may look like a soap
opera, but it's all in the best possible French taste!
‘London Baroque is more than equal to the expressive
and technical challenges of Rameau's music; the poise,
delicacy and sheer enjoyment they communicate is a
constant delight. ‘ BBC music magazine
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Monday 12 July
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EVENT 10
Friends Saver Ticket
12.00 noon – c1.00pm
Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate
£12.00 (concessions £10.00, students £5.00)
Compagnia
d’Istrumenti
Ailsa Reid recorders
Daniel Edgar, Nia Lewis violins
Tim Smedley cello
Peter Seymour harpsichord
A Stylish Marriage
In his 1729 autobiography,Telemann boasts that his
‘accomplishment with respect to musical style is well
known’: this programme showcases his gift for
marrying the contrasting national traits of the
Baroque into a cohesive and eclectic language,
integrating the poise and grace of French dance, the
lyricism and expression of Italianate music and the
energetic, folk-influenced Polish style.
‘Inspired and talented players’ BBC Radio 3
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EVENT 11
2.00pm – c2.45pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
Admission is free to those attending the Festival, but
please do book a ticket in advance to avoid
disappointment. Limited to two tickets per person.
Around the World
with Francis Drake:
A Musical Circumnavigation
Francis Drake was a musical man who took four viol
players with him on his travels (see Event 15). Join Francis
Pretty, one of Drakes ‘Gentlemen at Arms’, as he recounts
his voyage around the world with the great mariner.
Working alongside musicians from the National Centre
for Early Music, children from Lord Deramore’s Primary
School relive his dramatic adventures with songs and
instrumental music of Elizabethan England, and from many
of the lands he visited.
The NCEM produces a number of learning resources for
Key Stage 2 teachers – particularly focusing on the Tudor
era – for details, please log on to www.ncem.co.uk
Monday 12 July
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EVENT 12
Friends Saver Ticket
7.30pm – c8.40pm
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
Reserved seating: £20.00 (concessions £17.00,
students £5.00)
Ensemble
Lucidarium
Bruna Gondoni, Marco Bendoni dancers
Gloria Moretti, Enrico Fink voice
VivaBiancaLuna Biffi voice and viola d’arco
Avery Gosfield, Marco Ferrari wind
Francis Biggi colascione, cetra, lute
Massimiliano Dragoni hammer dulcimer, percussion
Elisabetta Benfenati Renaissance guitar
Kehi Kinnor:
Celebrating a Jewish
Wedding in the Renaissance
Marriage has been a cause for celebration at
practically every era in every culture. Accounts
of marriages and dancing, payment records for
musicians and the many examples of wedding
songs that have come down to us in Renaissance
sources prove the importance that marriage, and
its celebration, had in the Jewish community,
reflecting both the universal nature of life-cycle
observances and the substantial role they play in
Jewish life and thought – not least as a source of
income for musicians!
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Concert By Candlelight
Friends Saver Ticket
10.00pm – c11.00pm
St George’s Church, Peel Street
£12.00 (concessions £10.00, students £5.00)
University of York
Chamber Choir
Robert Hollingworth director
Roland Wilson, Arno Paduch cornetts
Sebastian Krause, Cas Gevers,
Peter Sommer trombones
Monteverdi: Vespro della
Beata Vergine – Concert 3
Monteverdi: In illo tempore
Gombert: In illo tempore
Although known as the ‘1610 Vespers’, Monteverdi
actually billed the collection as ‘A mass for six
voices, with some vespers psalms’. The mass was
Monteverdi’s way of showing his skill in the old
style of counterpoint and was based on ten
themes from a Gombert motet. It is written
neither in the new seconda prattica style nor as a
true recreation of the older prima prattica. It is
rather an affectionate look backwards with a
strong eye for what might be well received in
conservative ecclesiastical circles.
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‘The Ensemble Lucidarium have an exceptionally
varied and colourful set of textures and timbres from
which to draw and arrange their instrumental and
vocal performances … the playing and singing is
wonderfully alive and full of adoration and devotional
feeling, as well as respect and reverence for the
music.’ Hi-fi+ Classical and Audiophile Music Review
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The Jewish community were not visible in York by
the Renaissance. Join us later in the Festival (Event
20) for Sarah Rees Jones’ explanation of why this
vibrant group were effectively expelled from the
City in the Middle Ages.
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Tuesday 13 July
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EVENT 14
Friends Saver Ticket
12.00 noon - c1.00pm
All Saints Church, North Street
£12.00 (concessions £10.00)
Fermate il Passo
A dramatic recital by VivaBiancaLuna Biffi viola d’arco, voice
The early Renaissance Italian frottola is arguably the musical form that led eventually to the birth of Italian
opera. In this performance, a series of frottole in three ‘acts’ describe different moments of the day – sunset,
night and morning – as metaphors of love-moods: falling in love, love-torment and the victory of love over
troubles.The Prologue and the Epilogue provide the voice of cynical reality: life is short and love is uncertain.
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Young
Competition
2011
Image: Holbein,The Ambassadors (detail) c The National Gallery, London
CALL FOR APPLICANTS!
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If you are a young early music ensemble aged
between 17 and 35, focusing on historically
informed performance practice – and you want
to make your name on an international stage the York Early Music International Young Artists
Competition is a must for you.
Previous winners of the competition - and the
associated Friends Prize - have included
Stile Antico, Florilegium, Le Jardin Secret, I
Fagiolini and in 2009, Ensemble Meridiana
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Tuesday 13 July
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EVENT 15
Friends Saver Ticket
8.00pm – c9.15pm | The Gallery, Harewood House
Reserved seating: £20.00 (concessions £17.00) including a glass of wine on arrival
Fretwork
Wendy Gillespie, Susanna Pell, Asako Morikawa, Richard Boothby, Richard Campbell, Richard Tunnicliffe viols
The World Encompassed: Sir Francis Drake’s
Circumnavigation of the Globe 1577-80
When Drake set sail from Plymouth on 15 November 1577, he took with him four viol players: Simon
Wood,Thomas Meckes, Richard Clarke & “George”. The viols played music to accompany Drake’s private
worship and they entertained him while he ate; he also used the music to impress the natives. Fretwork
has commissioned composer Orlando Gough to use these scant facts to create a journey in sound that
charts Drake’s remarkable feat. Music from the 16th century by Parsons,Taverner and Tye is woven
seamlessly into a through-composed piece of music inspired by this significant cultural exchange.
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TRANSPORT TO HAREWOOD
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The NCEM is working with Harewood House as part of the New Worlds
programme to marry music together with some of the artefacts from this
magnificent collection. Join us before the concert for a special curator’s
presentation of Harewood’s 'Woman in Miniatures' exhibition – scheduled to
open to the public on 22 August – to gain an insight looking at how women were positioned within the
political, social and domestic structures of the British Empire in England and India in the 19th century –
some 300 years after Frances Drake circumnavigated the world.
WORLDS
To view the miniatures in comfort, we ask that you book a free time-ticket in advance of arrival.Tickets
are available to concert goers only with a limited number of tickets available per viewing – book for
7.00pm; 7.10pm; 7.20pm; 7.30pm or 7.40pm.
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Wednesday 14 July
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EVENT 16
Friends Saver Ticket
1.00pm – c2.00pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
£10.00 (concessions £8.00, students £5.00)
University of York Baroque Ensemble
and Chamber Choir
Three Weddings and a Birthday
The popular University ensemble presents music from Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, a
colourful musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.This performance will
feature a masque entertainment of songs and dances, celebrating no fewer than three marriages,
as well as Oberon’s birthday.
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Wednesday 14 July | 9.30pm Bedern Hall, Bedern | Friends £15.00 Guests £20.00
The Friends are dedicated to supporting the summer Festival. Membership brings many benefits including
advance bookings, discounted tickets, reserved seating (wherever possible) and of course the annual supper party.
To join the Friends, please contact the administrator, Jillian Johnson, at: [email protected] or ring 01904 658338
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Wednesday 14 July
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EVENT 17
Friends Saver Ticket
7.30pm – c9.15pm | Chapter House,York Minster | £20.00 (concessions £17.00)
La Capella Ducale
Monika Mauch, Constanze Backes sopranos Markus Brutscher, Julian Podger tenors Harry van der Kamp bass
with
Musica Fiata,Köln
Roland Wilson, Arno Paduch cornetts Anette Sichelschmidt violin, viola Adrian Rovatkay dulcian
Sebastian Krause, Cas Gevers, Peter Sommer trombones Axel Wolf chitarrone Christoph Anselm Noll organ
Roland Wilson director
Wedding Motets and Songs of Love
During the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), even composers of the calibre of Schütz, Scheidt and Schein had few
opportunities to publish their works. High-society weddings provided possibilities not only to perform works,
but also to get them printed at their patrons’ expense. Some of these are works performed here,
complemented by erotic motets on texts from the Song of Songs by Schütz, taken from his Symphoniae Sacrae I,
written shortly after the death of his wife.
‘Excellent singing and playing’The Observer
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Thursday 15 July
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EVENT 18
Friends Saver Ticket
EVENT 19
10.30am – c11.30am
Bedern Hall, Bedern
£7.50 including coffee on arrival
1.00pm – c2.00pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
£15.00 (concessions £13.00)
A Marriage of
Musical Methods
Hopkinson Smith
John Bryan, Professor of Music at the University
of Huddersfield, investigates the writings of Georg
Muffat (1653–1704), to see what a well-travelled
baroque musician can tell us of his attempts to
marry the best of French and Italian styles, and his
advice on how to perform this music in good
taste. See Event 21.
lute and vihuela
Milano: Milan
Italian Franceso da Milano and Spaniard Luys Milan
were the two greatest lute virtuosi of their age,
each publishing important collections of their
music in 1536. These books bore witness to a
remarkable marriage of two apparently opposing
musical styles – improvisatory freedom and strict
counterpoint – and giving birth to the flamboyant
form of the fantasia.
‘without doubt the finest lute player in the world
today’ San Francisco Chronicle
‘the supreme ‘poet’ of the lute.’ Gramophone
www.hopkinsonsmith.com
Supported by Pavilion Hotel
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Thursday 15 July
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EVENT 20
5.00pm – c6.00pm
Bedern Hall, Bedern
£7.50 including a glass of wine on arrival
York and its Jewish
community in the 12th
and 13th centuries
Sarah Rees Jones, Senior Lecturer in History at
the University of York, looks at York between the
1170s and 1290 when the City was the home of
one of the largest and most important Jewish
communities of medieval England.These were
times of great change: of invasion, destruction and
civil conflict but also eventually of political
innovation, economic recovery and growth.The
story of York’s Jewish community reflects these
uncertain and difficult times.
Sunday 11 & Sunday 18 July
York Mystery Plays
12 plays from the famous York Cycle will be
performed on wagons moving through the City
streets - organised by the guilds of the City and
accompanied by musicians from across the UK - a
vivid spectacle of colour and sound. Performances
start at Noon and will finish around 6.00pm.
Contact the Visitor Information Centre on
01904 550099 for tickets.
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EVENT 21
Friends Saver Ticket
7.30pm – c9.30pm
St Michael le Belfrey Church, High Petergate
Reserved seating front nave £20.00
(no concessions)
Unreserved seating side aisles and balcony
£17.00 (concessions £15.00)
The Bach Players
Nicolette Moonen, Rodolfo Richter violins
Rachel Isserlis, Rachel Stott violas
Kinga Gáborjáni viola da gamba, bass violin
Silas Standage harpsichord
Jakob Lindberg theorbo
Friend or Foe?:
Italy versus France
Programme to include:
Lully
Ouverture & Chaconne from
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Rebel
Tombeau de Mr. de Lully
Muffat Blanditiae from Florilegium secundum
Corelli Trio Sonata, Op. 2 No. 12
Couperin L’Apothéose de Corelli
Muffat
Sonata No. 2 from Armonico Tributo
The two main musical languages from the years
around 1700 – French and Italian – court each
other in this programme of baroque chamber
music at its most eloquent. Frenchmen Rebel and
Couperin pay tribute to the competing styles'
great representatives, Lully and Corelli, while Georg
Muffat sets out in a typical spirit of reconciliation
to celebrate both sides of the musical argument.
‘The Bach Players, a London-based collective formed
in 1996, reach the music’s emotional heart with
tremendous conviction’ Classic FM Magazine
www.thebachplayers.org.uk
Supported by Holiday Inn
www.holidayinn.co.uk
Artist In Residence
Alfred Hackett, an artist who specialises in painting musicians, has been invited by Kentmere House
Gallery to act as artist in residence during this year's Festival. His paintings will go on show at the
National Centre for Early Music in December. Preview Thursday 2 December at 5.30pm
www.kentmerehouse.co.uk
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Friday 16 July
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EVENT 22
12 noon – c1.00pm
Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate
£12.00 (concessions £10.00)
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
The first early keyboard specialist to be a member of BBC Radio 3's New
Generation Artists scheme performs music from the heart of the harpsichord
repertoire, ranging from works by Froberger and Louis Couperin – two of the 17th
century's subtlest masters – to one of the great ‘English Suites” of Bach. In between
comes one of Johann Kuhnau’s extraordinary 'Biblical Sonatas', often cited as
among the earliest examples of representational programme music.
‘...nothing could have prepared me for the brilliance and artistry of
Mahan Esfahani, who, despite his young age, played with the musicality
and virtuosity of a master .. not a single phrase lacked purpose or
direction.’ Keyboard Magazine
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EVENT 23
3.30pm – c5.00pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
Admission is free to those attending the Festival, but please
do book a ticket in advance to avoid disappointment.
Limited to two tickets per person.
BBC Radio 3
Discovering Music
As an introduction to this evening's concert in York Minster,
Catherine Bott presents an edition of BBC Radio 3’s popular
“Discovering Music” in conversation with Harry Christophers.
Together with members of The Sixteen, they explore the
background and musical ideas behind three of the pieces in
this evening’s programme:Thomas Tallis’ Miserere Nostri; William
Byrd’s Infelix ego and John Sheppard’s monumental Media vita
in morte sumus.The programme will be recorded for future
broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Supported by The Queen’s Hotel
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Friday 16 July
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EVENT 24
7.30pm – c9.20pm
The Nave,York Minster
Reserved seating front nave: £25.00 (no concessions)
Reserved seating rear nave: £15.00 (concessions £13.00)
Unreserved seating side aisles: £12.00 (students £6.00)
The Sixteen
directed by Harry Christophers
The Choral Pilgrimage 2010
Supported by
Ceremony & Devotion Music for the Tudors
www.harrowells.co.uk
Plainsong processional
William Byrd
Thomas Tallis
John Sheppard
John Sheppard
William Byrd
Thomas Tallis
Thomas Tallis
William Byrd
Veni creator spiritus
Laudibus in sanctis
Jesu Salvator saeculi, Verbum Patris
Media vita in morte sumus
Sacris solemniis iuncta sint gaudia
Haec dies
Iam Christus astra ascenderat
Miserere nostri
Infelix ego
Music both celebratory and introspective by three extraordinary Tudor musicians who lived through
decades of religious turmoil in 16th-century England and expressed their devotion to the Catholic faith in
very different, but entirely compatible ways. This is music written for the glory of God, and here married
to one of the world’s finest acoustics.
www.the-sixteen.org.uk
‘the choral sounds were wonderfully clear and unfailingly precise … Christophers’ group can be just as
impressively extrovert as they had been austerely restrained’ The Guardian
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Saturday 17 July
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EVENT 25
10.30am – c3.30pm | NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
£20.00 (no concessions) including lunch. Please note that advance booking is essential
The Sixteen
Insight Day
Join musicologist John Milsom, music editor Sally Dunkley and members of The Sixteen as they explore the
music of the 2010 Choral Pilgrimage – the musical masters of the Tudor world, Byrd,Tallis and Sheppard.
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EVENT 26
Friends Saver Ticket
7.30pm – c9.30pm | St Michael le Belfrey Church, High Petergate
Reserved seating front nave £20.00 (no concessions)
Unreserved seating side aisles and balcony
£17.00 (concessions £15.00)
Theatre of The Ayre
Sophie Daneman Venus
Giles Underwood Adonis
Rachel Podger, Clare Salaman violins Alphonso Leal del Ojo viola
Pamela Thorby, Catherine Latham, Merlin Harrison recorders
Allison McGillivray viol, bass violin Elizabeth Kenny, David Miller theorbos, guitars
James Johnstone harpsichord
Elizabeth Kenny director
Cupid, and Little Cupids, selected from the Minster Minstrels Vocal Ensemble
Programme to include:
Instrumental music by Robert de Visée and Marc-Antione Charpentier
Ayres from Michel Lambert's Livre d'Airs de Cour
John Blow’s Venus and Adonis
John Blow’s Venus and Adonis is not a good advertisement for marriage. Charles II’s mistress
Mary Davies, as Venus, advises Cupid that the best way to keep a man is to ‘use him very ill’.
Cupid was played by their daughter Lady Mary Tudor, fourteen at the time. Davies later
married recorder virtuoso James Paisible. And yet anyone who has heard Venus’ searing
howl of anguish on learning of Adonis’ death is left with a deeply troubling sense that
great cynicism and love go hand in hand. That stroke of genius is Blow’s.
‘..audience and performers were wreathed in smiles during the brilliantly
devised masques and antimasques of English songs and
instrumental music of the 17th century.’ The Times
Recorded for broadcast by BBC Radio 3
as part of a major series of opera
programmes starting May 2010
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Dates for your diary
Friday 28 – Sunday 30 May
Beverley & East Riding
Early Music Festival
Guest artists include the Orchestra of the Age of
Enlightenment;The York Waits; Stile Antico and the
Dunedin Consort & Players.
new
WORLDS
They Will Always
Be Together
Friday 25 June
Catherine Bott &
Shirley Collins
The NCEM is working with the National Media
Museum as part of the New Worlds programme to
marry together music and media.
A Woman’s Life
and Loves in Song.
For over 150 years, photography has been used to
commemorate and celebrate marriage or partnership.
For many of us, our wedding photographs are among
our most treasured possessions.The exhibition at the
NCEM – which runs throughout the 2010 Festival brings together a fascinating selection of weddingrelated photographs from the world-class collection of
the National Media Museum, Bradford.
Thursday 2 – Saturday 11 December
York Early Music
Christmas Festival
Guest artists to include Florilegium with Emma
Kirkby,The Burning Bush, Stile Antico, I Fagiolini and
the European Union Baroque Orchestra.
The movement of South Asian communities to Bradford
forged a ‘marriage’ of cultures which is explored by both
the Cartwright Hall Art Gallery and the Northern School
of Contemporary Dance in programmes throughout 2010.
Look out for a new exhibition entitled The Sacrament of
Marriage at Cartwright Hall running from 9 July – 5
September 2010 which brings together their collection of
textiles, jewellery and paintings and provides glimpses of
how this benign infiltration transformed the identity of
the region for ever. Join us in the autumn for a
performance at the National Centre for Early Music by
the Northern School of Contemporary Dance Third Year
BPA (Hons) students who will join with University of York
MA and Phd students to take part in a collaborative
music and choreography project also based on the
Sacrament of Marriage.
New Worlds is part of the imove programme,
funded by Legacy Trust UK,Arts Council England
and Yorkshire Forward.
The NCEM has a new website
The new website now offers
reserved seating at selected venues
as well as tickets for all festival events.
You can also use the quick links to go to the early
music, teaching and learning resources sections.
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Booking Information
Booking opens on Monday 22 March to Friends of the Festival
and on Monday 29 March to the general public
Box Office:
The National Centre for Early Music,
St Margaret’s Church,
Walmgate,
York YO1 9TL
To book by telephone:
Please ring 01904 658338
On-Line: Visit our web site at www.ncem.co.uk
and use the secure on-line booking service.
By Telephone: Please contact the box office on
(01904) 658338.Tickets can be booked by Visa,
Mastercard, Access and Maestro. Please note that
surcharges apply.
By post: Write to the NCEM Box Office, St
Margaret’s Church, Walmgate,YorkYO1 9TL
enclosing an SAE. Cheques should be made
payable to the National Centre for Early Music.
In person: The box office is open Monday –
Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm.
Seating: All seats are unreserved except for topprice seats in York Minster, St Michael le Belfrey
Church, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall and The
Gallery, Harewood House.
Reservations: Tickets must be paid for within
three working days of reservation and at least 24
hours prior to the performance. Any remaining
tickets will be sold at the venue immediately prior
to the performance.
Entry to Venues: Please note that, due to limited
turnaround time during the Festival, entry to
performances will not be granted until the
conclusion of rehearsals and tuning. We thank you
for your patience.
Concession prices: These are shown in brackets.
They apply to over 60’s and registered disabled
and their carers. Students and young people’s
tickets are shown as applicable.
Friends of the Festival: The Friends enjoy
additional discounts, priority booking, reserved
tickets (wherever practicable) and good company.
Please ring 01904 658338 for details or email
[email protected]
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Friends of the Festival Saver Ticket: This applies
to Events 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19,
21, 22, 24 and 26. Friends of the Festival are
welcome to buy tickets for these 17 concerts
subject to availability and save money with a
reduced cost of £255 (concessions £225). All 17
concerts must be booked at the same time to
take advantage of this offer. Please note that the
Saver Ticket is not available to buy online.
Refunds: We regret that refunds can only be given
if the concert is sold out and we are able to
re-sell the ticket.
General enquiries: Please ring 01904 632220 for
general information.
Party bookings: Special savings can be made for
those bringing a party of 10 or more, in which
case we offer an additional seat free.
Photography/Recording: Please note that the use
of cameras/recording equipment is prohibited.
Accessible facilities: The Festival offers a
warm welcome to everyone.The NCEM
website www.ncem.co.uk is accessible to the
partially sighted and the NCEM has the benefit of
an RNIB Braille map of York available on request
from the box office.The York Blind and Partially
Sighted Society has installed a number of ‘talking
signs’ around the City giving information on
directions to buildings, public loos etc. Assistance
Dogs are welcome at concerts. For detailed
information, please ring 01904 632220.
The NCEM is a Typetalk Approved business.
Transport: Harewood House is 20 miles to the
west of York. A festival coach will leave Union
Terrace Coach Park (see map) at 6.15pm and
return to York after event 15. Coach tickets cost
£5.00 and should be booked in advance.
Visitor Information
The York Visitor Information
Centre offers help with
accommodation and general
information about the City.
Ring 01904 550099 or
email [email protected]
Map of Venues
1 National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate YO1 9TL
7 Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate YO1 8NQ
2 C4C Chapel,York St John University YO31 7EX
8 All Saints Church, North Street YO1 6JD
3 York Minster YO1 7JN
9 Harewood House, Harewood LS17 9LG
4 St George’s Church, Peel Street YO1 9PZ
10 Bedern Hall, Bedern YO1 7AL
5 Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall YO10 5DD
11 St Michael le Belfrey Church YO1 7HH
6 Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, Fossgate YO1 9XD
12 Union Terrace Coach Park,YO31 7ES
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Festival Highlights
Friday 9 July
Wednesday 14 July
Yorkshire Bach Choir
Monteverdi 1610 Vespers
Saturday 10 July
University of York Baroque
Ensemble
La Capella Ducale
& Musica Fiata
Early Music Show
I Fagiolini
Thursday 15 July
Sunday 11 July
Hopkinson Smith
The Bach Players
Barbara Schlick
& James Gilchrist
London Baroque
Friday 16 July
Mahan Esfahani
The Sixteen
Monday 12 July
Compagnia d’Istrumenti
Ensemble Lucidarium
Tuesday 13 July
Saturday 17 July
The Sixteen Insight Day
Theatre of the Ayre
VivaBiancaLuna Biffi
Fretwork
The York Early Music Festival is administered by the National Centre for Early Music through the York Early Music Foundation registered charity number 1068331.
All details are correct at the time of going to the press but YEMF reserves the right to amend the published programme if necessary.
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