NCEM York Early Music Festival 2020

Monday 6 July
Event 08 10.30am – c.11.30am
Venue NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
Tickets Unreserved seating: £12
including coffee & biscuits on arrival
Event 09 1.00pm – c.2.00pm
Venue St Olave’s Church, Marygate
Tickets Unreserved seating: £20
(£18 | *Under 35s £6)
DAVID OWEN NORRIS piano
INSIDE THE
COMPOSER’S HEAD
Centuries before Freud began to codify its workings,
the unconscious mind had been a favourite place for
musicians to wander. Drama required a plot and a
script; poetry a verse form; painting a subject.
Yet in music, free association has always been a
fruitful process. David Owen Norris picks apart the
idea of fantasy that runs through this year’s festival to
see what it tells us about the composers, the age they
lived in, and the nature of music itself.
‘disarming freshness, agility and intelligence’.
Gramophone
davidowennorris.com
MATTHEW
WADSWORTH lute, theorbo
ECHOES IN AIR
The lute and its larger cousin the theorbo have a long
association with fantasy, whether in the improvisatory
works of Kapsperger and Piccinini or the more formal
contrapuntal creations of Dowland and Francesco
da Milano. Matthew Wadsworth brings these strands
together, along with Echoes in Air, a new piece written
specially for him by Laura Snowden.
‘Wadsworth’s playing is sensitive and polished – his
performances are masterful’ BBC Music Magazine
matthewwadsworth.com
Supported by
www.grangehotel.co.uk
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