Summer School Week One Concerts - 25 July to 31 July

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May we? Mais oui! A French flavour permeates much of this year’s Summer School, particularly in week one – with the high baroque of the Court of Louis XIV – The Sun King. A new music theatre project gets under way as Opera Engine develops Jacko’s Hour.

We welcome both the Barbirolli Quartet and the vocal ensemble La Nuova Musica for the first time at Summer School, and are also delighted to have the monks from Tashi Lhumpo Monastery with us, together with many old friends.

Saturday 25 July 8.15pm GREAT HALL £18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

John Lill piano
Haydn Sonata no 52 in Eb
Schumann Carnaval de Vienne op 26
Prokofiev Toccata op 11
Brahms Three Intermezzi op 117
Beethoven Sonata in F minor op 57 ‘Appassionata’

Sunday 26 July

3.45pm
BARN THEATRE
Admission FREE

Heretical thoughts:
Vocal traditions under the spotlight
Falsetto: Fact and fiction
Andrew Parrott lecture

5.00pm
GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Nicholas Clapton countertenor
Jonathan Watts harpsichord
Jenny Ward Clarke baroque cello

A programme of cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, and songs and harpsichord music by Purcell, including Incassum Lesbia.

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

The Power of Compassion

A Tibetan monastery is filled with the sound of Buddhist texts, long horns, Tantric
trumpets, bells, cymbals and drums. Eight monks, from the Tashi Lhunpo
Monastery, India present masked dance and music from this uniquely mysterious and endangered culture.

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Barbirolli Quartet
Rakhi Singh violin
Katie Stillman violin
Ella Brinch viola
Ashok Klouda cello
Britten String Quartet no 2 in C op 36
Janácek String Quartet no 1

Monday 27 July

3.45pm
BARN THEATRE
Admission FREE

Heretical thoughts:
Vocal traditions under the spotlight
Boys versus women: Andrew Parrott lecture

5.00pm
GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Jill Kemp recorder
Annabel Thwaite harpsichord
Chédeville Sonata in A
Bowen Sonata op 121
Van Eyck
Wat Zalmen op den
Avond Doen
Handel
Sonata in F
Ryohei Hirose Meditation
Sarasate
Zigeunerweisen
op 20 (arr. Kemp)

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

From Teares to Turnips

Emma Kirkby soprano
Rose Consort of Viols
David Miller lute
and surprise guests

A sweep across London’s varied musical scene four hundred years ago, with songs, instrumental dances and fantasias ranging from the darkest melancholy of Dowland to the street scenes of Gibbons’ “Cries of London”.

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Stephen Preston
baroque flute
Poulenc
Un Joueur de flûte berce les ruines

Michel de la Barre
Suite no 2 in G op 4
Charles Koechlin
3 pieces from Les Chants de
Nectaire 3rd Series op 200
Plus works by Bach, Telemann, Thow and Tromlitz.

Tuesday 28 July

3.45pm
BARN THEATRE
Admission FREE

Heretical thoughts:
Vocal traditions under the spotlight
The ‘choir’: What’s in a word?
Andrew Parrott lecture

5.00pm
GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Colin Booth
harpsichord
Uncle and nephew: music by Louis and François Couperin
François Couperin
Prélude in F (L’Art de Toucher le Claveçin)
Ordre IV La Marche des Gris-Vêtus
Les Bacchanales
La Pateline
Le Réveille-matin
Louis Couperin
Suite in C

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

La Nuova Musica with Joe McHardy organ
David Miller theorbo
Jenny Ward Clarke baroque cello
Monteverdi
Extracts from Orfeo Carissimi
Jepthe
Rameau
Laboravi Clamans
Charpentier
Sacrificium Abrahae H402
John Blow
Act III from Venus and Adonis

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Keith Tippett piano
Julie Tippetts voice/percussion

A concert of spontaneous composition. The architecture will be complete when the last notes have decayed.

Wednesday 29 July 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

Les Musiciens du Roi
David Miller lute, theorbo & baroque guitar

Music from the Courts of Louis XIII and Louis XIV by René Mesangeau, Ennemond Gaultier, Francesco Corbetta & Robert de Visée.

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Barbirolli Quartet
Haydn String Quartet op 77 no 1 in G
Beethoven String Quartet op 95 no 11 in F minor ‘Serioso’
Brahms String Quartet op 51 no 1 in C minor

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Angel or Devil?

Ibi Aziz bass viol
Alison Crum bass viol
Andrew Kerr bass viol
Roy Marks theorbo
John Bryan harpsichord

Members of the Rose Consort of Viols. The myth behind the two so-called viol rivals at the Court of the Sun King – Marin Marais and JBA Forqueray.

Thursday 30 July 5.00pm GREAT HALL Admission FREE

From the Masterclasses
Selected students from this week’s masterclasses will perform in concert.

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Baroque Dance & Baroque Orchestra
Nicolette Moonen & Jenny Ward Clarke musical directors
Sarah Cremer dance director

The baroque orchestra will play and dance to the instrumental music from Rameau’s Naïs.

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Lewis Riley Quintet
Dave Holdsworth trumpet/flugelhorn
Kevin Figes saxophones/flute
Lewis Riley piano John Richards bass
Ben Clark drums

Playing a mixture of jazz standards, contemporary and original compositions.

Friday 31 July 5.00pm TEACHING STUDIO/OUTDOORS Admission FREE

African Drumming
A colourful culmination of this week’s course.

5.00pm
STUDIO 31
£8.00 unreserved

Opera Engine “Jacko’s Hour”

Dynamic new company, Opera Engine’s pilot production has been in development this week at Dartington, thanks to funding from Arts Council England. A retelling of the classic Western, High Noon, set in present-day Leeds, Jacko’s Hour is presented as a workshop performance of scenes and extracts.

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Summer School Choir
Dartington Baroque Orchestra
Andrew Parrott director
Charpentier
Te Deum
Gilles
Requiem

Charpentier’s grand polyphonic motet Te Deum is deservedly amongst his best-loved works. It is joined here by Gilles’ famous Requiem, which was performed for the first time at his own funeral and later sung at various eminent funerals including that of composer, Jean-Philippe Rameau.

10.30pm
STUDIO 30
For Summer School participants only

Jazz Performances by the students on the Jazz and Improvised
Music course, directed by Lewis Riley and Keith Tippett.