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Monday 6 JulyEvent 10 6.30pm – 7.30pmVenue St Lawrence Church, Hull RoadTickets Unreserved seating: £16 (£14 | *Under 35s £6)STEVEN DEVINE harpsichordJ.S.BACH: 48 PRELUDES & FUGUES(THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER)The festival is presenting this monumental work across four concerts.The first on 21 March – early music day. See also events 18 and 24The Well-Tempered Clavier – twobooks of preludes and fugues in allthe major and minor keys – is themost famous example of Bach’sfascination with meticulouslyordered collections of worksexploring in depth a particularcompositional method or style.Within these 48 ingenious reimaginingsof the simple pairing offree, often improvisational preludeand the more strictly controlledcontrapuntal structure that isthe fugue, he achieves incrediblevariety, taking us on a richlyexpressive journey through themajor keyboard styles and texturesof his day.book online10 TICKETS.ncem.co.uk‘Why play ALL the ‘48’? Surelythey were never designed to beplayed together?But playing the completecollection is a monumentalexperience. From the simplicity ofthe broken chords of the first Preludein Book 1 to the fiendish complexityof the B-flat minor Fugue in Book2, via the blatant virtuosity of theB flat major Prelude in Book 1, thismusic has it all. Presented over fourhour-long concerts, the 48 containsa huge variety of technical andemotional demands on the playerand a very satisfying experience forthe listener.’Steven DevineSupported byThe Queens Hotelwww.queenshotel-york.comSee also events 18 and 24>
Monday 6 JulyEvent 11 8.30pm – c.9.45pmVenue NCEM, St Margaret’s ChurchTickets Reserved seating: £20 (£18 | *Under 35s £6)Bethany Seymour sopranoHelen Charlston, Anna Huntley mezzo-sopranosMatthew Brook bass Peter Seymour harpsichordMADNESS ANDTORMENTMadness – especially when brought on by the emotionalextremes of love won and lost – fascinated many a17th-century playwright, and their colourful texts inspired suchcomposers as Henry Purcell to create some of their most intenselydramatic music. Purcell’s From Rosy Bow’rs, Let the dreadful enginesof eternal love, and Bess of Bedlam are the most famous, but thisconcert also presents lesser-known but equally disturbed songsby contemporaries such as Blow, Eccles, Weldon, Finger andDaniel Purcell.Helen Charlston ‘An exceptional interpreter’ Classical Sourceabook onlineTICKETS.ncem.co.uk 11
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