Summer School Week One Concerts

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24 July – 30 July

Early music has long been a focus of the Summer School, with the creation of our period training orchestra, specialist classes and vocal ensembles and the acquisition of a fine collection of instruments – notably the chest of viols, and harpsichords made by Colin Booth. This week Colin Tilney commences his complete cycle of Bach’s 48 Préludes and Fugues and the Choir sing Striggio’s long lost 40 part mass. Interleaved between period performances are recitals by Stephen Kovacevich and the Barbirolli Quartet, Indian music, jazz and a new work from Orlando Gough.

Saturday 24 July

Lagrime Mie

Emma Kirkby – soprano
David Miller and friends – lute/theorbo
English and Italian Laments including works by Dowland, Coperario, Purcell, Carissimi, Kapsperger, Monteverdi and Strozzi.
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Sunday 25 July

Nicholas Clapton – voice Jonathan Watts – piano

Schumann
Widmung
Erstes Grün
Stille Tränen
Schöne Wiege meiner Leiden
Liszt
Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam
Die Lorelei
S’il est un charmant gazon
Oh! quand je dors
Mahler
Liebst du um Schönheit
Ich ging mit Lust
Hans und Grethe
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Martino Tirimo – piano

Chopin
Polonaise in G minor op posth
Variations in E sur un air national allemande ‘Der Schweizerbub’ op posth
2 Nocturnes in C minor and F sharp minor op 48
Allegro de Concert in A op 46
Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat op 61
Valse melancolique in F sharp minor op posth.
3 Mazurkas, in A minor, A flat and F sharp minor op 59
Scherzo no 4 in E op 54
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Demystifying Indian Music

Improvisation featuring tutors on the Indian music course.
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Monday 26 July

Jill Kemp – recorder h2. Jonathan Watts – piano

JS Bach
Sonata in E minor
(transp G minor) BWV 1034
Albinoni
Sonata in G
Olav Anton Thommessen
The Blockbird
Castello
Sonata Prima
Telemann
Sonata in C TWV 41:C5
Edmund Rubbra
Meditazioni sopra ‘Coeurs Desoles’
Ernst Krähmer
Variations Brillantes op 18
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

One morning in May

The Dufay Collective
A concert of English music from the 12th to the 17th centuries, tracing the roots of traditional song and dance music that formed the basis of the English Folk revival. Westron Wynd, Miri it is, Sumer is icumen in, and newly set texts from the beautiful Harley MS are interspersed with instrumental dances. The second half features ballads and dances heard in the streets and taverns of renaissance London.
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Lewis Riley Quartet

Ben Waghorn – saxes and flute
Lewis Riley – piano
John Richards – bass
Ben Clark – drums
Playing a mixture of originals by Waghorn and Riley as well as a few well chosen jazz standards.
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Colin Tilney – clavichord

Commencing a cycle of Bach’s complete 48 Préludes & Fugues.
Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book 1
Préludes and Fugues in C major and c minor; F, f; B flat, b flat.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved

Tuesday 27 July

Clearing the Sky of Clouds

Rose Consort of Viols
Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks, Susanne Heinrich
Clare Wilkinson mezzo soprano
Gail Hennessy baroque oboe
Music from the Privy Chamber of King Henry VIII to the domestic consorts of Stuart England, featuring songs, dances and fantasias by Philip van Wilder, William Byrd, Robert Parsons and Thomas Tomkins, and pieces by Summer School’s Artistic Director from 2011, John Woolrich.
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Stephen Kovacevich – piano

With the Barbirolli Quartet
Schubert
Piano Sonata in Bb D960
Brahms
Piano Quintet in F minor op 34
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Gail Hennessy – baroque oboe

With Nicolette Moonen – baroque violin
Jenny Ward Clarke – baroque cello
David Wright – harpsichord
JS (or CPE) Bach
Fantasia on Jesu, meine Lebens Leben
Leclair
Sonata op 5 no 6 “Le Tombeau”
Roderick Williams
Enough
d’Anglebert
Tombeau de Monsieur de Chambonnieres
CPE Bach
Trio in D minor
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Colin Tilney – clavichord

Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book 1
Préludes and Fugues in Eb, d#; Ab, g#; C#, c#.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved

Wednesday 28 July

Demystifying Indian Music

Improvised performance featuring tutors on the Indian music course.
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

I Fagiolini

An intense evening of late Renaissance/early Baroque masterworks. Monteverdi madrigals from 1603 sit alongside the powerful messenger scene from L’Orfeo (only four years later) as well as one of I Fagiolini’s very favourite but rarely done works, ‘Rimanti in pace’. A madrigal cycle from his mentor in Mantua, Giaches de Wert and moments of perfection from extrovert contemporaries, Gesualdo and Weelkes.
Monteverdi
Orfeo: Prologue and Messenger scene
Madrigals from books III and IV
Lamento dell ninfa
Gesualdo
Moro, lasso / Tristis est anima mea
De Wert
Qual musico gentil
Weelkes
Lament on the death of Henry Noel
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Keith Tippett and Julie Tippetts

A concert of spontaneous composition.
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Colin Tilney – clavichord

Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book 1
Préludes and Fugues in F#, f#; B, b; E, e.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved

Thursday 29 July

New work by Orlando Gough

Commission supported by the Foundation for Sports & the Arts.
4.00pm DARTINGTON HALL GARDENS
Admission FREE

Barbirolli Quartet

Haydn
String Quartet op 54 no 3
in E major
Woolrich
In the Stones
Mendelssohn
Quartet op 80 no 6 in F minor
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 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 Dardanus.
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Colin Tilney – clavichord

Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book 1
Préludes and Fugues in A, a; D, d; G, g.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved

Friday 30 July

Gamelan

The culmination of this week’s gamelan course.
3.30pm TEACHING STUDIOS/OUTDOORS
Admission FREE

From the Masterclasses

Selected students from this week’s masterclasses will perform in concert.
5.00pm GREAT HALL
Admission FREE

Summer School Choir and Dartington Baroque Orchestra

Robert Hollingworth director
Church and State: Music as power from the High Renaissance
In 1566, diplomat/composer Alessandro Striggio took a uniquely grand musical gift from the Medici family in Florence to the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor: a mass for 40 voices. Designed to elicit a new title for Duke Cosimo de Medici the ploy did not work, but as a piece of music as politics, it is almost without equal. Here it receives its first performance outside the BBC Proms in a new edition. Likewise, the other works in the programme all have a political connection and are all grand statements of the High Renaissance.
Andrea Gabrieli
Felici d’Adria
Orlandus Lassus
Quod vulgo memorant
Samuel Scheidt
Duo Seraphim
Alessandro Striggio
Ecce beatam lucem
Missa Ecco si beato giorno
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Jazz

Performances by the students on the Jazz and Improvised Music course, directed by Lewis Riley and Keith Tippett.
10.30pm STUDIO 30
For Summer School participants only