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York Early Music Festival 2011
Fairest Isle
Exploring the dawn of a new Elizabethan era
Welcome to the 2011 York Early Music Festival – described by Gramophone as the
‘mecca of early music’. This year we are celebrating the spirit of the 1951 Festival of
Britain by reflecting an innovatory series of concerts of English music from the
Medieval to the Baroque which the Arts Council (then of Great Britain) promoted as
part of the London Season of the Arts in ’51, as well as the publication in that same
year of the first volume of Musica Britannica, the ongoing series of scores that
presents an authoritative national collection of British music.
The Festival of Britain heralded a new dawn of hope
after a period of considerable political and economic
instability and inspired the beginnings of what is now
a firmly established ‘early music movement’.
Concerts throughout the festival reflect this theme
of ‘Englishness’ with highlights including the Gabrieli
Consort presenting Byrd’s magnificent Great Service
in York Minster; the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists
presenting Purcell’s King Arthur; and ‘A Golden Age
Reviewed’, a series curated by John Bryan utilizing
the skills of the Rose Consort of Viols,The Dufay
Collective,The Orlando Consort and soloists
Elizabeth Kenny, Mahan Esfahani and Peter Seymour.
Running alongside, we decided to reflect a theme
which wasn’t perhaps so obvious in 1951: the very
positive benefits of new ideas brought into England
through migrant musicians and composers. Highlights
include a celebration of Handel by The English
Concert with soloist Lucy Crowe, and of JC Bach
and Abel by Neal Peres Da Costa and Daniel Yeadon.
And finally, we are delighted to commend the young
artists taking part in the Competition representing
America, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK
and with individual artists coming from Croatia,
Australia, Malaysia, Japan and Iran – and to welcome
our judging panel led by violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch.
We look forward to welcoming you all to this lovely
city for what promises to be another fascinating festival.
Delma Tomlin MBE
Administrative Director
Artistic Advisors
John Bryan, Lindsay Kemp, Elizabeth Kenny, Peter Seymour
Front Cover Image: QUEEN ELIZABETH I, Studio of Nicholas Hilliard, Hardwick Hall,
The Devonshire Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred
to the National Trust in 1959). ©NTPL/John Hammond.
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Thank you!
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 and
in particular the Friends of the Festival!
Thanks are due to the Arts Council England,Yorkshire; our media partner BBC Radio 3; and our sister
organisation the National Centre for Early Music as well as tourism partners Welcome to Yorkshire, the
City of York Council and highlighted members of the York Hoteliers Association.
We are also pleased to acknowledge support from Stainer & Bell Ltd;The Musica Brittanica Trust; Harrowells
Solicitors; Shepherd Group; the Donald and Patricia Shepherd Charitable Trust, the University of York;
the Dean & Chapter,York and the many individuals who support us anonymously each year.
We would also like to thank the Mayfield Valley Arts Trust,Youth Music, the City of York’s Arts Academy
and Ken and Pat Dixon for their support of our education programme.
SUPPORT US!
The NCEM runs a vibrant education programme
which includes two highly prestigious early music
competitions – the NCEM Composers Award and the
York Early Music International Young Artists
Competition – and the Minster Minstrels, York’s
Early Music Ensemble for Young People.
In order to continue to support these initiatives and
to develop our work focusing on disadvantaged
young people – and particularly those with special
needs – we need your help and support. Together
we can make a difference!
If you feel able to offer us a donation please contact us at the NCEM,
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Diary Dates
Saturday 7 May @ NCEM
Friday 8 July
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Baroque Day
presented in association with the University of York,
capturing the essence of the Grand Tour in the
17th- and 18th- centuries.
Thursday 26 – Sunday 29 May 2011
Beverley & East Riding
Early Music Festival
Guests include The Tallis Scholars (Beverley Minster
26 May); Academy of Ancient Music (Beverley
Minster 27 May) and The Burning Bush (Toll Gavel
Methodist Church 28 May). Tickets available now,
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Friday 17 June @ NCEM
The Greatest Story
Ever Told?
Join us for a 21st- century response to the medieval
York Mystery Plays presented in association with the
University of York.
EVENT 01
Festival Lecture Series
3.30pm – 5.00pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
£7.50 including coffee on arrival
A Golden Age
Recover’d
A round table discussion looking at the Festival of
Britain and its impact on early music in England 60
years on – led by John Bryan, Peter Holman,
Andrew Pinnock and Nicholas Williams.
In 1951 Britain was gripped by economic crisis in
the aftermath of the Second World War: one
positive response was a huge artistic resurgence
based both on the creation of a new state-of-theart concert hall (the Royal Festival Hall) and on
the glories of the nation’s past and present
cultural wealth in the Festival of Britain. It saw not
only the first modern revival of York’s medieval
Mystery Play cycle, but also the foundation of
Musica Britannica to provide authoritative editions
of otherwise unavailable classics of British music.
Sponsored by
Friday 8 – Saturday 16 July @ NCEM
The Architecture of Faith
An exhibition of photographs designed to
complement the 2011 Festival drawn from the
world-class collections of the National Media
Museum in Bradford.This event is part of New
Worlds:The Many Routes to Yorkshire which is a
strand of the imove programme.
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WORLDS
imove is a new and imaginative celebration of human
movement, bringing together the best creative talent
from the region to produce a programme of events
designed to inspire the public in the run up to the
London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
imove is funded by Legacy Trust UK,Yorkshire Forward
and Arts Council England.
Find us at www.imoveand.com
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Saturday 10 July
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7.30pm – c.9.15pm | York Minster
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Gabrieli Consort
William Whitehead chamber organ
directed by Paul McCreesh
A celebration of William Byrd’s monumental Great Service, acknowledged as the crowning point of music
for the Anglican service during the 16th- century. The Great Service will be performed in full, interspersed
with 20th- century and contemporary music including two new pieces by Jonathan Dove commissioned
specially by the Gabrieli Consort. Dove’s sensitivity to words and desire to exploit the beauty of choral
sound will ensure that his commission contrasts and complements Byrd's celebrated masterpiece.
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By Morning Glow and Evening Shade:
Byrd’s Great Service and music for morning and evening prayer
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Saturday 9 July
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EVENT 03
10.00am – 4.30pm
St George’s Church, Peel Street
£15.00 (students £10.00) including light
refreshments and music. Please book by 24 June.
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EVENT 04
10.30am – 11.30am
Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate
£12.00 (concessions £10.00)
Lucy Russell violin
A Workshop for Voices
Peter Seymour harpsichord
William Byrd:
Handel
Violin Sonata in
Mass for Four Voices
Richard Dering:
Motets for Five Voices (1617)
led by Jonathan Wainwright
with Andrew Passmore organ
This workshop for singers (SATB) explores Latin
music by William Byrd and Richard Dering.The
workshop will concentrate on Byrd’s 4-part Mass
(and will include some singing from facsimiles of the
original printed partbooks,) but there will also be
the opportunity to sing some newly edited motets
by Byrd’s contemporary, Richard Dering, one of the
first English composers to be influenced by early
17th- century Italian music.This workshop will
explore motets from his Cantiones sacrae quinque
vocum, soon to be published in a modern edition
for the first time in the series Musica Britannica.
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Oswald
Muffat
Daniel Purcell
Festing
Baltzar
D major, HWV371
Airs for the Seasons
Violin Sonata
Chaconne
Violin Sonata No. 7 in F major
John come kiss me
Sonatas for violin and harpsichord by first- and
second-generation immigrants to London, including
the ‘Germans’ Handel, Baltzar and Festing and the
Scot James Oswald, alongside a sonata by Georg
Muffat, an Austrian composer of Scottish descent.
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5.15pm York Minster
Choral Evensong
Choir of York Minster
directed by Robert Sharpe
Reflecting the Festival’s Fairest Isle theme and
including music by York composers Philip Moore,
Francis Jackson and Edward Bairstow.
Saturday 9 July
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University of York Baroque Ensemble
Handel’s Water Music
In celebration of a composer who was undoubtedly one of London’s greatest musical imports, the
University of York Baroque Ensemble performs Handel’s extrovert and festive Water Music. Written to
accompany the gathering of English nobility aboard open barges on the Thames, it was reported that ‘his
Majesty liked [the music] so well, that he caus’d it to be plaid over three times in going and coming’.
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The English Concert
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Harry Bicket director/harpsichord Lucy Crowe soprano
Joseph Crouch cello Katharina Spreckelsen oboe
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Vivaldi
Handel
Handel
Marcello
Handel
Concerto grosso in B flat, Op.3 No.2
Cello Concerto in A minor, RV402
Cantata ‘Armida abbandonata’
Cantata ‘Alpestre monte’
Oboe Concerto in D minor
3 arias from Agrippina
Britain has welcomed many musical immigrants
over the years, but surely there has been none
greater or more influential than George Frideric
Handel, whose music has become a vital and
defining part of our national cultural heritage.The
English Concert is joined by soprano Lucy Crowe
in some of the Italian works Handel brought with
him on his arrival in 1710, and perform a concerto
grosso from the set he published in London in
1734, as well as concertos by his Venetian
contemporaries Marcello and Vivaldi.
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Sunday 10 July
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1.00pm – 2.00pm
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 Early
Music Show
Join us for a live broadcast of the popular Early
Music Show, presented by Catherine Bott with
special guests including The King’s Singers in music
from the English madrigal collection that celebrated
the age of the first Elizabeth, The Triumphs of Oriana.
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EVENT 08
3.00pm – 4.00pm
Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate
£5.00 (Friends of the Festival free of charge)
Minster Minstrels
directed by Heather Moger
The Fruits of '51
As the Festival looks back to 1951, the Minster
Minstrels have been looking back further, to other
'51' years: to 1551, the year of Suzato's Danserye;
to 1651, the year of Playford's English Dancing
Master; to 1751, the first performance of Boyce's
Symphony No 4 in its original guise as an
Overture to the opera The Shepherds' Lottery; and
to 1851, which saw the publication of the first
volume of the Bach-Gesellschaft edition. In
addition they have been enjoying music from the
Mulliner Book, the first modern edition of which
appeared in Musica Britannica in 1951.
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 vibrant group of young musicians,
please contact us by e-mailing
[email protected]
Sunday 10 July
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EVENT 09
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7.00pm – c.10.00pm
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
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Yorkshire Baroque Soloists
directed by Peter Seymour
Helen Neeves, Bethany Seymour,
Judith Cunnold sopranos
Caroline Sartin, Helena Daffern, Nancy Cole altos
Joshua Ellicott, Jason Darnell tenors
Matthew Brook,Tom Appleton,
Rupert Reid basses
Lucy Russell, Jonathan Sparey violins
Alan George viola
Rachel Gray cello
Pamela Thorby, Ailsa Reid recorders
Anthony Robson, Cherry Forbes oboes
Alastair Mitchell bassoon
Crispian Steele-Perkins, Niels Tilma trumpets
Elizabeth Kenny, Richard Sweeney theorbos
Andrew Pinnock, Richard Jackson artistic advisers
Out of the Blue Theatre Ensemble
directed by Mark Smith
Henry Purcell: King Arthur
Purcell’s 1691 semi-opera, also known as ‘The British Worthy’, is among his most famous compositions,
containing some of his best-known and most spectacular music.The original stage play, a reworking by
Dryden of the dark-age legend, inspired Purcell to compose some of his most memorable music, including
the imposing Sacrifice Scene, some stirring battle music, the well-known Frost Scene with its shivering
players and singers, and the song ‘Fairest Isle’, one of his most popular solo numbers (and an inspiration for
this year’s festival theme).The musical ensemble is joined by members of the University of York Theatre,
Film and Television Department who will present the stage play in a semi-staged performance.
‘YBC - disarmingly flexible and communicative throughout – brilliantly judged’The Gramophone
Pre-concert Talk
Join us at 6.00pm in the Rymer Auditorium, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
Admission free to those attending event 09.
Towards the end of his reign Charles II launched an ambitious PR campaign to celebrate the glories of
the Stuart dynasty. Among the artistic results was an Arthurian semi-opera, scripted by poet laureate John
Dryden, which sought to bring Charles's mythical forebear back to life on stage.The King’s unexpected
death postponed the production for seven years, by which time a wholly changed political context meant
that its political messages were open to misinterpretation. Whose side was Dryden on? What was he
trying to say? Who in the audience would have noticed, or cared? In this talk, Purcell specialist Andrew
Pinnock shares some of his recent research work on King Arthur, unpeeling layers of meaning in Dryden's
text to expose the blatant propaganda purpose at its heart.
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Monday 11 July
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EVENT 10
Festival Lecture Series
10.30am – 11.30am | Bedern Hall, Bedern | £7.50 including coffee on arrival
Editing Renaissance consort music
and the case of Pavana Philippi
David Smith, University of Aberdeen, and editor of Musica Britannica’s forthcoming volume of
instrumental consort music by Philips and Dering, talks about the process of editing this iconic publication
and the complications of reconstructing a consort version of a pavan by Philips.
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Rose Consort of Viols
Ibrahim Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland viols
The Festival Consort
Helen Neeves, Bethany Seymour sopranos Jason Darnell,William Knight tenors
Rupert Reid bass Peter Seymour organ
From Chapel, Court and Country:
Music for vocal and viol consort by Richard Dering
and Peter Philips
Dering and Philips were two composers whose music was not widely known in 1951, perhaps because both
spent much of their careers in the Spanish Netherlands where their Roman Catholicism was not a bar to
employment. Italianate flair contrasts with English contrapuntal prowess in their fantasias and dance music for
viol consort and their intimate sacred chamber motets for voices and organ, performed here in recent or
forthcoming volumes in the Musica Britannica series, and concluding with Dering’s vivid evocation of rural life:
‘The Country Cries’.
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Monday 11 July
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EVENT 12
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EVENT 13
Friends Saver Ticket
7.30pm – 9.15pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
£15.00 (concessions £13.00)
10.00pm – 11.00pm
Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate
£12.00 (concessions £10.00)
The City Musick
Rose Consort
of Viols
William Lyons flute/recorder
Emilia Benjamin violin
Arngeir Hauksson bandora
Elizabeth Kenny lute
Jacob Heringman cittern
Liam Byrne bass viol
with Jason Darnell tenor
Walsingham’s Conceit:
Music for Six Severall
Instruments
Late in the 16th- century the English or ‘Broken’
Consort of instruments began to excite musical
palates both home and abroad. With its origins in
theatre and masque, the mixed ensemble of flute,
violin, lute, cittern, bandora and bass viol produced
a unique sound which thrilled monarchs and
groundlings alike.This concert focuses on the
music of the Walsingham Consort Books, a
manuscript from the household of Sir Francis
Walsingham, statesman and spymaster to Elizabeth
I, and includes consort dances and songs for the
‘Consort of Six’ interspersed with lute solos and
songs by Dowland, Bachelor and the French
lutenist Guillaume Tessier.
Daniel Edgar, Nia Lewis violins
Peter Seymour organ
Solemn and Sweet Delightful
Ayres: Music from the 17thcentury English music room
From the time of Charles I through the
Commonwealth to the Restoration, English
composers created a cornucopia of chamber
music for strings ‘to the organ’, combining violins
and viols in different permutations, and exploiting
both the interwoven discourse of true chamber
music with moments of virtuoso display in
flamboyant divisions. We explore this rich
repertory with fantasy-suites by Coprario and
Jenkins, divisions by Simpson, and music by Purcell
that looks both forwards and backwards to his
earlier English pedigree.
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Tuesday 12 July
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Festival Lecture Series
10.30am – 11.30am | Bedern Hall, Bedern | £7.50 including coffee on arrival
The Festival of Britain in 1951: A Northern Perspective
Caterina Benincasa-Sharman, Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of
Huddersfield, shares her research into the events taking place in the north of England during the Festival of
Britain and explores some political jealousies between York as the historic county town and the emerging
power of Leeds.
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3.30pm – 4.30pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
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7.00pm – 8.00pm
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall,York
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Mahan Esfahani
The Dufay Collective
harpsichord/virginals
Vivien Ellis voice Jon Banks harp, gittern
Peter Skuce harp William Lyons flute, recorder,
bagpipes, simfony Alexis Bennet vielle
Emily Askew vielle, recorder, bagpipes
Toccatas, Toyes and Fancies:
Virtuoso keyboard music
from Elizabethan and
Jacobean England
16th-century England saw an extraordinary
flowering of composition for keyboard, using
dances such as the pavan and galliard and
improvisatory fantasias as vehicles for astounding
virtuosity. Collections such as the Fitzwilliam
Virginal Book and the Mulliner Book (the first
modern edition of which was issued as Volume 1
of Musica Britannica in 1951) present a crosssection of music by Tallis, Byrd, Bull and their
European contemporaries Sweelinck and Scheidt.
Echoes of Albion:
Song and Dance from
Medieval England
‘he played with musicality and virtuosity of a master’
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The Dufay Collective presents a concert reflecting
the variety and beauty of English secular music
from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. Included is
the famous canon Sumer is icumen in and other
songs, as well as new settings of surviving lyrics
breathing life into sublime poetry that was always
written to be sung.The instrumental textures of
harp, gittern, lute, flute, vielle and simfony weave a
typically English Medieval tapestry around verse
and dance melody alike.
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EVENT 17
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8.30pm – 9.30pm
St George’s Church, Peel Street
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EVENT 18
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10.00pm – 11.00pm | NCEM
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The Orlando Consort Rose Consort
Matthew Venner alto
of Viols
Mark Dobell, Angus Smith tenors
Donald Greig baritone
The Star Transmigrates to
the Stars: Sacred music from
Medieval England
One medieval English composer to feature in the
1951 celebrations was John Dunstaple. Here we
look back to this genius, including his grand motet
Veni sancte spiritus / Veni creator spiritus, and the
sweet and sonorous motet Descendi in ortum
meum, with its voluptuous text from the 'Song of
Songs', revealing a sensuousness possibly
unmatched in its day. These are framed by works
by other, anonymous representatives of 15thcentury England, whose range of techniques and
imagination had one Frenchman writing admiringly
of an 'English countenance'.The selection includes
works from the remarkable 'Old Hall' collection
and some of the earliest examples of English carols.
Jacob Heringman lute
The Festival Consort
A Golden Age Revisited:
Madrigals, anthems and
instrumental music from
the courts of Elizabeth I
and James I
‘staggeringly beautiful’The Times
Central to the 1951 Festival of Britain series of
early music concerts was an exploration of the
great Elizabethan and Jacobean composers,
including Byrd, Morley, Gibbons and Dowland.
We revisit this rich seam, highlighting pieces from
Byrd’s Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets published in the
same year as the King James Bible, 400 years ago,
in the kaleidoscopic company of dances, madrigals,
ballets, lute solos and viol fantasias by the cream
of composers of the Golden Age.
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Wednesday 13 July
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Festival Lecture Series
10.30am – 11.30am Bedern Hall | £7.50 including coffee on arrival
The Yorkshire Garland Revealed
The Yorkshire Garland is a typical musical miscellany but with a particularly intriguing history. Now in the
Bodleian Library in Oxford, it was a gift from a bricklayer’s son and one-time ragtime pianist who collected
the popular music of the 17th and 18th centuries as a way of connecting with a past he had never known.
This lecture by Abigail Williams, Fellow and Tutor at St Peter's College, Oxford reflects the research behind
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1.00pm – 2.00pm | St Olave’s Church, Marygate | £12.00 (concessions £10.00)
Alva Vivien Ellis voice Giles Lewin fiddle
The Yorkshire Garland: Popular and traditional music from
an 18th- century Yorkshire songbook
Especially devised for YEMF, this concert gives us a peep through the casement into various aspects of life in
18th-century Yorkshire.These songs of tragic love, family feuds, crimes of passion, politics, horse-racing,
gambling and the pleasures of the countryside, printed in York in 1788, allow us a unique snapshot of musicmaking in the home, on the streets, in the taverns, at the race-track or at the fair. A fascinating opportunity
to find out how the people of Yorkshire saw
themselves 200 years ago.
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EVENT 22
7.00pm – c.8.30pm
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
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(concessions £13.00, students £5.00)
9.30pm – 10.30pm
St Michael le Belfrey Church,
High Petergate
£12.00 (concessions £10.00)
The Harp Consort
The Brabant
Ensemble
Clare Salaman violin, hurdy gurdy
Ian Harrison bagpipes, cornetto, shawm
Steven Player guitar, dance
Andrew Lawrence-King director, triple harp, psaltery
directed by Stephen Rice
Henry’s Rivals
The English Dancing Master, John Playford’s great
collection of country dances, is the starting point
for an exploration of the rhythms that got the feet
of Baroque England moving. From the Fairest Isle,
we set out to sea with this brilliant ensemble, sailing
with a jovial crew: the Ship’s Noise, King Orfeo, the
fiddler’s wife and Prince Rupert’s dog. Back ashore,
Mr Priest guides the Player’s feet in music by
Dowland, Purcell, Playford and Handel. Prepare for
an entertaining voyage of discovery.
The succession of King Henry VIII marked a mood
of new optimism for the English not dissimilar to
the post-War revival engendered by the 1951
Festival of Britain, but his reign was constantly beset
by the threat of war with Francois I’s France and
Spain under the Emperor Charles V. These regal
rivals not only forged endlessly shifting treaties but
tried to outdo each other in the splendour of their
musical establishments.This programme explores
the different styles of sacred music with motets and
mass movements by the French Pierre Moulu and
Jean Mouton, the English John Taverner and King
Henry himself, and with Francisco de Penalosa and
Cristobal de Morales providing a foretaste of the
Spanish school that would reach its final glory in
the works of Victoria.
‘One can only admire unreservedly the fantasy, the
irresistibly subtle liberty with which Andrew LawrenceKing is able to give life to the music’ L’Unità Mattino,
Florence
‘You will never hear a more judiciously balanced,
vocally better matched, nor technically more
accomplished choral group than the twelve-voice
Brabant Ensemble’ ClassicsToday.com
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Supported by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council
Supported by The Queens Hotel
www.queenshotel-york.com
www.brabantensemble.com
The Boatemen: Ballads,
dances and high art music
brought across the 17thcentury seas
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Thursday 14 July
The Festival is delighted to present this prestigious competition
welcoming ensembles from across Europe and America. Competitors
are invited to York several days prior to the competition in order to
settle in and make friends. Join us for two fascinating days of concerts
and informal workshops in the company of violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch
prior to the competition itself – which takes place on Saturday 16 July.
Competition 2011
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Friends Saver Ticket
10.15am – c.12 noon
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
£7.50 (students £5.00) including coffee on arrival
Le Petit Concert Baroque
representing France
Chani Lesaulnier, Nadja Lesaulnier harpsichords
Though this be madness, yet there
is method in it
EVENT 24
Friends Saver Ticket
2.30pm – c.3.45pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
£7.00 (students £5.00)
Borromini String Quartet
representing the UK
James Toll violin Naomi Burrell violin
Sam Kennedy viola Peggy Nolan cello
Boccherini Grooves
Polonius’s words from Hamlet inspire an unusual
programme of arrangements and original works
for two harpsichords by WF Bach, Muffat,
Telemann and Vivaldi.
Two string quartets by Luigi Boccherini, one of the
most prolific and under-rated contemporaries of
Haydn and Mozart.
Quadro Melante
representing Croatia, Malaysia,
Australia and Iran
Profeti della Quinta
representing Israel and
Switzerland
Georgia Browne baroque flute
Bojan Čičić baroque violin
Ibrahim Aziz viola da gamba
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
Doron Schleifer, David Feldman counter-tenors
Dino Lüthy, Dan Dunkelblum tenors
Elam Rotem bass
Telemann comes to Paris
Music reflecting Telemann’s visit to France in 1737,
including one of his ‘Paris’ quartets and works by
Forqueray and Blavet.
Sebastian Chamber Players
representing the USA
Daniel S. Lee, Alexander Woods violins
Ezra Seltzer cello Jeffrey Grossman harpsichord
Venetian Variations
Trio sonatas and dances spanning 80 years of
Venetian music, including works by Castello,
Merula and Vivaldi
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Mia benigna fortuna
Italian madrigals by Flemish and Italian masters
from the years around 1500, including Arcadelt,
Josquin, Wert and de Rore.
Supported by
Best Western Dean Court Hotel
www.deancourt-york.co.uk
Image: Holbein,The Ambassadors (detail) c The National Gallery, London
Young
Thursday 14 July
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Friends Saver Ticket
7.30pm – 8.45pm | The Gallery, Harewood House
Reserved seating: £25.00 (concessions £20.00) including a glass of wine on arrival
Daniel Yeadon cello/viola da gamba
Neal Peres Da Costa harpsichord/organ
Handel
Abel
Abel
Sonata in C Major for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord
Sonata movement in D Minor for solo viola da gamba
Sonata in E Minor for viola da gamba and continuo
(from Six Easy Sonatas for the viola da gamba)
Handel
Sonata in G Minor for viola da gamba and continuo, Op. 1 No. 6
JC Bach
Keyboard Sonata in C Minor, Op. 5 No. 6
Lanzetti
Sonata No. 1 in G Major for cello and continuo
(from Six Solos after an Easy and Elegant Taste for the Violoncello)
Geminiani Sonata in D Minor for cello and continuo, Op. 5 No. 2
18th-century England – already seen by Europeans as exotic, cultured and stylish – dangled entrepreneurial
gold before the eyes of European musicians.They came in droves including Handel came for the money and
stayed for the adoration (and cuisine). He was joined in concert by dazzling Italian violinist Geminiani.
Virtuoso gamba-player Abel followed, and together with JC Bach, started England’s first subscription concerts.
Lanzetti spent a little over a decade in London, but made the English fall in love with the bass fiddle, which
they re-dubbed (in fashionable Italian) the cello.
‘spirited performances...technically flawless...interesting and compelling.’ Viola da Gamba Society of America
By kind permission of Lord & Lady Harewood and the Harewood House Trust
TRANSPORT TO HAREWOOD: Please see page 22
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Friday 15 July
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EVENT 27
Friends Saver Ticket
2.30pm – c.3.45pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
£7.00 (students £5.00)
Young
Les Ombres
representing France
Competition 2011
10.30am – c.12 noon
£7.50 (students £5.00) including coffee on arrival
Den Haag Piano Quintet
representing Japan and
the Netherlands
Kae Ogawa fortepiano Miki Takahashi violin
Sonoko Asabuki viola Toru Yamamoto cello
Tomoki Sumiya double bass
Katharina Heutjer violin
Sylvain Sartre flute
Margaux Blanchard viola da gamba
Nadja Lesaulnier harpsichord Jonatan Pesek cello
Telemann at the Concert Spirituel
Part I
Telemann’s visit to Paris’s most famous concert
season evoked in music from his ‘Paris’ quartets
and by Jean-Marie Leclair.
Dussek in England
The Piano Quintet in F minor by one of the most
influential composer-pianists of the Classical
period, Jan Ladislav Dussek.
L’Istante
representing Switzerland
Anaïs Chen violin Johannes Keller harpsichord
Habsburger Camerata
representing the UK, the USA
and Canada
Matthew Lonson violin Helen Roberts cornett
Nathaniel Wood sackbut
Caroline Ritchie viola da gamba
John McKean organ
Violin Masters
A suite by the Italian violinist-composer Nicola
Matteis and a sonata by his brilliant Bohemianborn contemporary Heinrich Biber.
Supported by
Middlethorpe Hall Hotel and Spa
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“…con ogni sorte d'istromenti”
Early 17th-century Italian chamber music from the
ground where violin and cornett meet by Picchi,
Cima, de Rore and Rossi.
The Sixteen
Insight Day
Encantar
representing Belgium
Join eminent musicologist John Milsom, music
editor Sally Dunkley and members of The Sixteen
at the 2011 Insight Day on Saturday 2 July at the
NCEM. Tickets £25.00 including lunch.
Sarah Abrams,Wannah Organe,
Kerlijne van Nevel, Soethin Baptist voices
Voces silentio
Sacred music from 16th-century Italy and Flanders
by Festa, Pisano, Gallus,Vento, Compère and
Agricola.
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Friday 15 July
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EVENT 28
Friends Saver Ticket
5.15pm York Minster
7.30pm – c.9.20pm | York Minster
Reserved seating front nave: £25.00
Reserved seating rear nave: £15.00 (concessions £13.00)
Unreserved seating side aisles: £12.00 (students £6.00)
The Sixteen
Choral Evensong
Choir of York Minster
directed by Robert Sharpe
Reflecting the Festival’s Fairest Isle
theme and including music by
William Byrd.
directed by Harry Christophers
Hail, Mother of the Redeemer
9.30pm Bedern Hall
Friends £15.00 Guests £20.00
Victoria
Salve Regina a5
Kyrie and Gloria from Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater
Alma Redemptoris Mater a5
Ave maris stella
Magnificat octavi toni
Alma Redemptoris Mater a8
Gaude Maria
Sancta Maria
Congratulamini mihi
Vidi speciosam
Sanctus from Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater
Litaniae de Beatae Mariae
FRIENDS
Supper Party
We welcome The Sixteen back to the Festival for their 2011
Choral Pilgrimage concert celebrating another anniversary –
400 years since the death of one of the greatest composers
of the Renaissance,Tomás Luis de Victoria. Scholar, mystic,
priest, singer, organist and composer, Victoria began and
ended his life in Spain, and, despite spending most of his
working life in Rome, always preserved his Iberian roots, giving
his music a unique beauty and power in its contemplation of
the divine.This programme features a sumptuous selection of
the music he wrote in honour of the Virgin Mary.
‘the choral sounds were wonderfully clear and unfailingly precise
… Christopher’s group can be just as impressively extrovert as
they had been austerely restrained’ The Guardian
Promoted in association with The Sixteen
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This performance will be signed by Music and
the Deaf – offering those who are hard of hearing an
opportunity to enjoy this magnificent occasion.
If you would like to know more – and take advantage of the reserved seating
on offer – please contact [email protected]
The Friends are dedicated to
supporting the summer Festival.
Membership brings many benefits
including advance booking, 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 632220.
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Saturday 16 July
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Friends Saver Ticket
Young
Competition 2011
The York Early Music International Young Artists
Competition will be presented by violinist
Elizabeth Wallfisch and judged by lutenist Elizabeth
Kenny; vocalist Vivien Ellis; Philip Hobbs, Linn
Records; keyboard specialist Neal Peres Da Costa;
Xavier Vandamme of Utrecht Early Music Festival
and Christophe Mangé of Printemps des Arts de
Nantes.
Borromini String Quartet
Fugues Great and Small
The winner of the 2011 competition will be
announced at the end of the afternoon and will
receive a cheque for £1,000 as well as
opportunities to work with BBC Radio 3, Linn
Records and the National Centre for Early Music.
In addition, the Friends of York Early Music Festival
will be presenting an audience prize. To join the
Friends – and get a vote – contact Jillian Johnson
at [email protected]
A trio sonata by Roman master Arcangelo Corelli
comes up against Couperin’s take on the Holy
Roman Empire, L’Impériale from Les Nations.
10.15am – 5.30pm
Lunch break approximately 1.00pm - 2.00pm
NCEM, St Margaret’s Church
£25.00 including coffee on arrival
Quadro Melante
An Evening at the Concert
Spirituel
Telemann’s visit to the famous Parisian concert
series remembered in one of his ‘Paris’ quartets
and in a Conversation Galante by Guillemain.
Le Petit Concert Baroque
Eternity
Bach’s Concerto for two harpsichords, plus
arrangements of arias from Bach’s Trauer Ode and
Handel’s Rinaldo.
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A fugue from Bach’s 48 as arranged by Mozart,
and Beethoven’s epic Grosse Fuge.
Sebastian Chamber Players
‘Roman City, Roman Empire’
Profeti della Quinta
HaShirim Asher liShlomo
Songs of love and praise by Cipriano de Rore
with madrigals and Hebrew prayers by Salomone
Rossi, the first composer to introduce polyphony
into the synagogue.
Den Haag Piano Quintet
The Forgotten Genius
The Piano Quintet in E flat minor by perhaps the
most brilliant pianist of the early 1800s,
Jan Nepomuk Hummel.
Saturday 16 July
L’Istante
The Violin and the Voice
Works for violin and keyboard with vocal origins
by Luzzaschi and Rognoni, and a trio sonata by
Corelli.
Les Ombres
Telemann at the Concert Spirituel
Part II
Telemann’s visit to Paris’s most famous concert
season evoked in music from his ‘Paris’ quartets
and by Jean-Marie Leclair.
Encantar
Dolci lagrime
5.30pm
16th-century sacred works from Italy, Flanders and
Spain by Palestrina, Festa, Bivi, Arcadelt, Sayve,
Victoria and Guerrero.
Competition
Winners to be
announced!
Habsburger Camerata
The Legacy of the Habsburgs
Ensemble sonatas by composers working under
Habsburg patronage in the 17th- century, including
Antonio Bertali and David Pohle.
The 2011 Competition is dedicated to the
memory of two of the Festival’s most loyal
Friends – Trevor and Emma Woolston.
If, like the Woolston’s, you would like to leave a
legacy to the Festival – and know that your
money was helping to support young artists at
such a vital time in their careers – please contact
Delma Tomlin on [email protected]
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Booking Information
Booking opens on Monday 14 March to Friends of the Festival
and on Monday 21 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,York YO1 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, Sir Jack Lyons Concert
Hall, St Michael-le-Belfrey 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 people aged 60 and over, students,
registered disabled and their carers.
Friends of the Festival: The Friends enjoy
additional discounts, priority booking, reserved
seats (wherever practicable) and good company.
Please ring 01904 658338 for details or email
[email protected]
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Friends Saver Ticket: £265 (concessions £235).
This applies to Events 02, 04, 05, 06, 09, 11, 12, 13,
15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and
29. Friends of the Festival are invited to purchase
tickets for all 22 concerts and save over 20%.
Please note that all concerts must be booked at
the same time and the offer is subject to
availability.
Refunds: We regret that refunds can only be given
if the concert is sold out and we are able to sell
on the ticket. Please note that there will be a 10%
administration charge.
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 (see map) at 6.15pm and return to York
after event 25. Coach tickets cost £6.00 and
should be booked in advance.
Visitor Information
The York Visitor Information Centre
offers help with accommodation
and general information about the
City. Tel: 01904 550099 or
email [email protected]
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10 St George’s Church, Peel Street,YO1 9PZ
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8 - 1 6 J U LY 2 0 1 1
Friday 8 July
Thursday 14 July
Gabrieli Consort
Neal Peres Da Costa
Daniel Yeadon
Saturday 9 July
The English Concert
Sunday 10 July
Purcell King Arthur
Monday 11 July
Rose Consort of Viols
Friday 15 July
The Sixteen
Saturday 16 July
York Early Music
International Young
Artists Competition
Tuesday 12 July
The Dufay Collective
The Orlando Consort
Wednesday 13 July
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