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WELCOME<br />
to the <strong>2015</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> – a mixture of anniversaries celebrating<br />
justice, liberty and the lives of some remarkable musicians.<br />
Our starting point is 1215 with the<br />
sealing of the Magna Carta – the first<br />
time the feudal barons of England<br />
attempted to limit the powers of the King<br />
to protect their constitutional rights – a<br />
time of Robin Hood, myths, mythologies<br />
and great power struggles across the land.<br />
Our finishing point is in 18th century<br />
Europe – a cauldron of political change<br />
demanding justice and liberty for all.<br />
Between times, there are moments of<br />
sublime musical calm alongside snapshots<br />
of the 21st century – atmospheric,<br />
melancholic and intensely beautiful.<br />
Highlights of the festival include concerts<br />
featuring a variety of younger musicians<br />
including pupils from both <strong>Beverley</strong> Grammar<br />
and Girls’ High schools and workshops<br />
engaging with primary school children<br />
from across the <strong>Beverley</strong> area.<br />
Guests include The Tallis Scholars, Carole<br />
Cerasi and members of the Orchestra of the<br />
Age of Enlightenment – some of the world’s<br />
finest early music specialists. We are delighted<br />
to welcome them, and you, to the festival here<br />
in the county town of the East Riding – itself<br />
a seat of justice in the present day.<br />
Delma Tomlin MBE, <strong>Festival</strong> Director<br />
Photograph <strong>Beverley</strong> Minster by Terry Suthers<br />
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W E D N E S D A Y 2 0 M A Y<br />
Event 1<br />
Venue<br />
7.30pm<br />
Toll Gavel United Church, Toll Gavel, <strong>Beverley</strong><br />
Tickets £20.00 (concessions £18.00, students £5.00)<br />
Gir asoli<br />
Alison Bury violin Katie Heller, Alan George violas Andrew Skidmore cello<br />
Elizabeth Bradley double bass Lesley Schatzberger clarinet Sue Dent horn Alastair Mitchell bassoon<br />
Krommer Allegro moderato from Clarinet Quintet, Op. 95<br />
Mozart Horn Quintet, K. 407<br />
Beethoven Septet, Op. 20<br />
Girasoli grew out of John Eliot Gardiner’s Orchestre<br />
Révolutionnaire et Romantique which reproduced the<br />
exact [marathon] programme of an Akademie given by<br />
Beethoven in Vienna in 1800 – a concert which<br />
included his magnificent Septet. Beethoven’s<br />
revolutionary sympathies are well known as was the<br />
personal injustice of his deafness and it is fitting that<br />
this extraordinary work was chosen by Girasoli to<br />
launch Jessie’s Fund – a York-based organisation that<br />
helps children with special needs to communicate<br />
through music. Now celebrating the Fund’s 20th<br />
anniversary, the group returns to this popular work in<br />
tandem with the Mozart Horn Quintet, bringing this<br />
extraordinary music to life through the transparency<br />
and clarity of instruments of the period.<br />
“.. excellent intonation, balance, and ensemble, and a<br />
delightful freshness and vitality…an impressive<br />
demonstration.” Daily Telegraph<br />
www.jessiesfund.org.uk<br />
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Event 2 10.30am - c.11.30am<br />
Venue <strong>Beverley</strong> Guildhall, Register Square, <strong>Beverley</strong> HU17 9XX<br />
Tickets £5.00 including coffee/tea on arrival<br />
Understanding the Conductus<br />
An opportunity to engage with the artists and scholarly team to develop a fuller understanding of medieval music<br />
in general and the conductus in particular led by Mark Everist, University of Southampton. See event 3.<br />
www.conductus.ac.uk<br />
Event 3 1.00pm - c.2.00pm<br />
Venue The Quire, <strong>Beverley</strong> Minster<br />
Tickets £12.00 (concessions £10.00, students £5.00)<br />
Conductus<br />
The forgotten song of the Middle Ages<br />
Three Medieval Tenors: John Potter,<br />
Christopher O’Gorman and Rogers Covey-Crump<br />
While Notre Dame was being built in Paris, from 1163, the cathedral's plainsong was elaborated as organum, and<br />
the motet brought in words and music from the outside world. By the time <strong>Beverley</strong> Minster was being built<br />
around 1220, a third form, the conductus, was also flourishing throughout western Europe. Often polyphonic,<br />
it set Latin verse, sometimes on sacred themes, sometimes satirising corrupt clergy, and combined<br />
the metrical rhythm of the motet with the rhetorical freedom of chant.<br />
“Seriously classy performances” Gramophone<br />
www.john-potter.co.uk/conductus.php<br />
This unique synthesis of words and music has been the subject of a Southampton University<br />
research project led by Prof Mark Everist and funded by the Arts & Humanities Research<br />
Council in partnership with the <strong>NCEM</strong>, and has resulted in three CDs for Hyperion and<br />
concerts in Britain and Germany.<br />
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T H U R S D A Y 2 1 M A Y<br />
Event 4<br />
Venue<br />
Tickets<br />
7.30pm – c.9.00pm<br />
St Mary’s Church, North Bar Within, <strong>Beverley</strong><br />
£12.00 (concessions £5.00 including parents and students)<br />
James Redwood animateur, composer Cherry Forbes oboe<br />
Cecelia Bruggemeyer double bass Henrietta Wayne violin Robert Howarth keyboard<br />
with<br />
<strong>Beverley</strong> Grammar School directed by Zoe Hughes<br />
<strong>Beverley</strong> Girls’ High School directed by Sarah Ward<br />
University of York Baroque Ensemble and Chamber Choir<br />
I r age , I melt, I bur n<br />
Members of the Orchestra of the Age of<br />
Enlightenment return to <strong>Beverley</strong> for a<br />
creative composition project inspired by<br />
Handel’s masterpiece Acis and Galatea.<br />
From 18 May students from <strong>Beverley</strong> High<br />
and <strong>Beverley</strong> Grammar schools will be<br />
exploring themes from Handel through<br />
drama, composition and song. Led by<br />
composer James Redwood,<br />
supported by the University of<br />
York <strong>Music</strong> Education Group,<br />
students will become composers,<br />
performers and directors in<br />
what we hope will be an<br />
enlightening experience for all!<br />
www.oae.co.uk<br />
Supported by the Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation and the Hull & East Riding Charitable Foundation.<br />
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Event 5 1.00pm - c.2.00pm<br />
Venue Toll Gavel United Church<br />
Tickets £15.00 (concessions £13.00, students £5.00)<br />
Carole Cer asiharpsichord<br />
Por traits in Sound<br />
<strong>2015</strong> is a rich anniversary year for the harpsichord and we are delighted to welcome<br />
one of the UK’s finest harpsichordists to help us explore two exponents of the<br />
instrument – Jacque Duphly (b.1715) and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (b.1665).<br />
Born into the world where the aristocrat ruled supreme across France, musicians<br />
needed to maintain their paymasters’ patronage through carefully chosen,<br />
flattering portraits. This fascinating collection of musical dedications<br />
illuminates a world which disappeared alongside Duphly himself who died<br />
just one day after the storming of the Bastille in Paris – the Old Régime<br />
was indeed at an end!<br />
“Cerasi is a keyboard player of great flair and musical<br />
imagination.” The Guardian<br />
www.carolecerasi.com<br />
EARLY<br />
MUSIC<br />
AT THE<br />
<strong>NCEM</strong><br />
3 – 11 JULY<br />
Celebrating the music of England<br />
and France from the Battle of<br />
Agincourt to the court of Louis XIV<br />
www.ncem.co.uk/yemf<br />
10 – 14 AUGUST<br />
SUMMER<br />
SCHOOL<br />
The Sun King and the Busker;<br />
A music theatre production<br />
created for 10 – 15 year olds<br />
www.ncem.co.uk/mp<strong>2015</strong><br />
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Event 6 7.30pm<br />
Venue Toll Gavel United Church<br />
Tickets £20.00 (concessions £18.00, students £5.00)<br />
Joglaresa<br />
Belinda Sykes voice, bagpipes, director Angela Hicks voice, harp May Robertson fidel, voice<br />
Magnus Mehta, Louise Morgan voice, percussion<br />
Robbers, Rebels and Royals<br />
We are delighted to welcome these ever rebellious, highly talented and colourful musicians back to <strong>Beverley</strong> in a<br />
programme celebrating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta.<br />
Tales of Robin Hood, King John, outlaws, rebels, social justice and injustice, are all interwoven with Joglaresa's<br />
electrifying songs that challenge the supreme authority of kings, criticise the Catholic Church and highlight the<br />
lives, loves, imprisonment and taxation of ordinary folk (or barons) at the time of the Great Charter – the Magna<br />
Carta Libertatum.<br />
“irresistibly catchy tunes... compulsive rhythmic energy” The Telegraph<br />
www.joglaresa.com<br />
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Event 7<br />
Venue<br />
12.30pm – c.1.30pm<br />
St Mary’s Church<br />
Tickets £15.00 (concessions £13.00, students £5.00)<br />
Imago Mundi<br />
Clare Wilkinson voice<br />
Sofie Vanden Eynde lute, theorbo, director<br />
Moneim Adwan voice, oud<br />
Divine Madness:<br />
Souls in Exile<br />
Melancholy. Longing for the inaccessible. Liberty<br />
denied. Yearning to lose oneself in paradise. An<br />
impossible love. Justice denied.<br />
In the Renaissance era melancholy was a source of<br />
inspiration for artists who were constantly seeking<br />
equilibrium. From the darkest meanderings of their<br />
souls, within the space of a breath, their spirits were<br />
uplifted. Sufis seek out their path heavenwards aided<br />
by music and poetry. Discomfort is a source of beauty<br />
for them. In this programme, English lute song and<br />
Arabic song join hands across the miles. <strong>Music</strong> is a<br />
universal language, with the power to touch us all.<br />
“delicious“ The Telegraph<br />
www.imagomundi.be<br />
Event 8 4.00pm – c.5.00pm<br />
Venue Toll Gavel United Church<br />
Tickets £15.00 (concessions £13.00, students £5.00)<br />
Bethany Seymoursoprano<br />
Peter Seymour harpsichord<br />
Madness and<br />
torment!<br />
Madness was a<br />
recurrent<br />
preoccupation with<br />
17th century<br />
dramatists and the<br />
extreme, colourful<br />
texts inspired Purcell,<br />
Blow and their<br />
contemporaries to<br />
some of their most<br />
intense and dramatic settings, exploring the ever<br />
widening boundaries of expression and emotion. The<br />
idea of freedom from the torment of love and of lost<br />
love is a recurring theme. A few decades later, Handel<br />
wrote some of his most expressive and dramatic music<br />
during his time in Italy from 1706. His great collection<br />
of Italian cantatas often deal with topics such as<br />
freedom from betrayal and injustice as well as the loss<br />
of the heart’s liberty and life.<br />
This programme promises a dramatic and emotional<br />
experience!<br />
“Bethany Seymour’s elaborate vocal decoration<br />
superbly sung will surely place her among Europe’s<br />
leading Baroque sopranos” Yorkshire Post<br />
www.bethanyseymour.co.uk<br />
Bethany was the <strong>NCEM</strong>’s 2012<br />
BBC Performing Arts Fund <strong>Music</strong> Fellow<br />
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S A T U R D A Y 2 3 M A Y<br />
Event 9<br />
Venue<br />
Tickets<br />
7.30pm<br />
C O N C E R T B Y C A N D L E L I G H T<br />
<strong>Beverley</strong> Minster<br />
£25.00 reserved seating front central nave<br />
£20.00 unreserved seating front side aisles<br />
£15.00 (concessions £13.00, students £5.00) unreserved seating rear nave<br />
The<br />
Tallis Scholar s<br />
directed by Peter Phillips<br />
“<strong>2015</strong> marks the 80th birthday of Arvo Pärt and the 500th<br />
birthday of John Sheppard. I have always thought that Pärt’s<br />
music fits uncommonly well with some of the Renaissance<br />
masters’, and there is none more suitable than Sheppard:<br />
the same timeless atmosphere, the same ability to move in<br />
and out of silence, the same intense view of God. Media vita<br />
is Sheppard’s masterpiece - a colossal slice of polyphony<br />
encasing the Nunc dimittis, which is chanted; Pärt's Triodion has<br />
the same grandeur and depth of expression. Our programme<br />
is rounded out with two masterpieces by Tallis.” Peter Phillips<br />
5.30pm<br />
<strong>Beverley</strong> Minster<br />
Admission Free of Charge<br />
FESTIVAL<br />
EVENSONG<br />
<strong>Beverley</strong> Minster Choir<br />
directed by Robert Poyser<br />
<strong>Music</strong> by Thomas Tallis<br />
Tallis<br />
Sheppard<br />
Tallis<br />
Pärt<br />
Loquebantur variis linguis<br />
Media vita<br />
Sancte deus<br />
Nunc dimittis<br />
Pärt<br />
Sheppard<br />
Sheppard<br />
Pärt<br />
Tribute to Caesar<br />
Gaude, gaude, gaude<br />
Libera nos I and II<br />
Triodion<br />
“…The sound coming from The Tallis Scholars almost surpassed the humanly possible…” The Telegraph<br />
www.thetallischolars.co.uk<br />
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S U N D A Y 2 4 M A Y<br />
Saturday 23 May 10.00am – 3.00pm<br />
<strong>Beverley</strong> Guildhall, Register Square<br />
Tickets £15.00 (students and observers £10.00)<br />
Please book by 15 May. <strong>Music</strong> will be available via:<br />
www.ncem.co.uk/joglaresa<br />
Rebellion in<br />
Medieval <strong>Music</strong><br />
A Workshop for Voices and Instruments led<br />
by Belinda Sykes and members of Joglaresa.<br />
Medieval music has been enjoying a resurgence of<br />
interest over the last few decades partly because it can<br />
be so creative. Belinda will lead sessions that transform<br />
the most minimal of manuscript material into a<br />
performance practice accessible to audiences today.<br />
Sunday 24 May 10.30am – 4.30pm<br />
Hexagon Centre, Coltman Avenue, <strong>Beverley</strong><br />
Tickets £15.00 (students and observers £10.00)<br />
Please book by 15 May. <strong>Music</strong> will be available via:<br />
www.ncem.co.uk/TTSworkshop<br />
A Tudor Workshop<br />
A Workshop for Singers led by<br />
Patrick Craig – a member of the<br />
acclaimed ensemble The Tallis Scholars<br />
Following event 9, singers are invited to join Patrick<br />
Craig in an exploration of the glorious repertory of the<br />
Tudors alongside some thoughtful compositions from<br />
the present day. The workshop is open to all voices; a<br />
reasonable level of sight singing will be advantageous.<br />
The day will conclude with an informal performance at<br />
4.00pm open to all, free of charge.<br />
With thanks to the East Riding of Yorkshire <strong>Music</strong> Hub<br />
<strong>NCEM</strong> PATRONS<br />
Supporting innovation, excellence and creative learning<br />
Meet early music specialists and like-minded individuals through informal receptions,<br />
supper parties and concerts and have a unique opportunity to explore some of the<br />
hidden corners of <strong>Beverley</strong> and the East Riding in the company of experts and friends.<br />
If you are interested in joining us please<br />
telephone 01904 632220 or email patrons@ncem.co.uk visit www.ncem.co.uk/patrons<br />
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B O O K I N G I N F O R M A T I O N<br />
Box Office 01904 658338<br />
email: boxoffice@ncem.co.uk<br />
www.ncem.co.uk/bemf<br />
The <strong>Beverley</strong> & East Riding <strong>Early</strong> <strong>Music</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is administered by the National Centre for <strong>Early</strong> <strong>Music</strong>,<br />
St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate, York YO1 9TL<br />
Tickets are available to buy on-line, by telephone,<br />
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On-line: Visit our web site at www.ncem.co.uk/bemf and<br />
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By telephone: Please contact the box office on 01904<br />
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charge for each transaction made on-line or by telephone.<br />
This includes the postage of your tickets if time permits.<br />
By post: Write to the <strong>NCEM</strong> Box Office, St Margaret’s<br />
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should be made payable to the National Centre for <strong>Early</strong><br />
<strong>Music</strong>. Please use a ‘large’ stamp if ordering 10+ tickets.<br />
In person: A limited number of individual tickets for<br />
events 1 – 9 are available to personal visitors from the<br />
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<strong>Beverley</strong> HU17 OAB.<br />
Tickets for all events can also be purchased in person from<br />
the <strong>NCEM</strong> Box Office, St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate,<br />
York YO1 9TL Open 9.00 – 5.00 Monday to Friday.<br />
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W E D N E S D A Y 2 0 M A Y<br />
Girasoli<br />
T H U R S D A Y 2 1 M A Y<br />
John Potter, Rogers Covey-Crump, Christopher O’Gorman<br />
OAE/<strong>Beverley</strong> Girls’ High and <strong>Beverley</strong> Grammar Schools<br />
F R I D A Y 2 2 M A Y<br />
Carole Cerasi<br />
Joglaresa<br />
S A T U R D A Y 2 3 M A Y<br />
Vocal & Instrumental Workshop<br />
Clare Wilkinson, Sofie Vanden Eynde, Moneim Adwan<br />
Bethany Seymour<br />
<strong>Festival</strong> Evensong<br />
The Tallis Scholars<br />
Design | www.RedBonsai.co.uk 01759319471 Front cover image: ©De Agostini/ The British Library Board, 11067302.<br />
S U N D A Y 2 4 M A Y<br />
Choral Workshop<br />
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The National Centre for <strong>Early</strong> <strong>Music</strong>, St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate York Y01 9TL<br />
The <strong>Beverley</strong> & East Riding <strong>Early</strong> <strong>Music</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> is directed by Delma Tomlin MBE and administered by the National Centre for <strong>Early</strong> <strong>Music</strong> through the York <strong>Early</strong> <strong>Music</strong> Foundation -<br />
registered charity number 1068331. All details are correct at the time of going to press but the <strong>Festival</strong> reserves the right to make alterations to the published programme – if necessary.
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