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Opera and Music Theatre have become more prominent at the Summer School and two staged productions feature this week. The earliest surviving music drama – Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum – was unearthed in an earlier Summer School, and is performed again this year in St Mary’s Church, Totnes, as well as a very special ‘site specific’ production of Britten’s Turn of the Screw, in and around the Dartington church tower at the old graveyard. Bach and Telemann are central with the continuation of Colin Tilney’s recitals and the Chamber Choir performing Telemann’s cantatas for the times of day at their appointed hours.
An exploration of a fascinating but neglected repertory – the wealth of Tudor and Jacobean sacred music written for private performance, rather than liturgical use. Opening with music from the Henry VIII manuscript, where intensely devotional works are found side-by-side with drinking songs, our programme charts a chronological course, interspersing music with illuminating readings, religious propaganda, laments and Jacobean domestic music.
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved
Telemann
12 solo flute fantasies
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved
Bach
Trio Sonata G Major BWV 530
Trio Sonata C minor BWV 526
Telemann
Trio Sonata E flat Major from
Tafelmusik, TWV 42:Es1
Handel
Trio Sonata op 5 no 4
Trio Sonata Saul C Major
Cello Sonata d minor
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved
Evelyn Tubb soprano
Michael Fields lute
Songs and lute solos by John Dowland.
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved
Schumann
Fugues on BACH
Bach
Passacaglia BWV 582
Schumann
Sketches op 58
5.00pm ST MARY’S CHURCH TOTNES
£8.00 unreserved
Telemann
12 Fantasies
David Gorton
Caprices
Michael Hersch
In the Snowy Margins (world première)
Tartini
4 Sonatas from the Padua Manuscript
Jim Aitchison
Fugue Refractions (after the Laocoon)
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved
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.
9.00pm STUDIO 30
Admission FREE
Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book 2
Préludes and Fugues in C, c; G, g; D, d.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved
David Staff
Evelyn Tubb
A programme to include a new work by Deirdre Gribbin, a commission supported by the Foundation for Sports & the Arts.
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved
Schumann
Liederkreis op 39
Stanford
La belle dame sans merci
My love’s an arbutus
Tom Lemmin
Grainger
The lost lady found
Willow, willow
British Waterside
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved
Butler
On the Rocks
Kurtág
Three pieces from Signs,
Games and Messages:
PilanskyJános:GérarddeNerval
Jelek II. op 5b.1
Arnyak
Butler
Siward’s River Song
Chopin
Ballade op 52 no 4 in F minor
Butler
Rumba Machine (with Fanfares)
Ireland
Ballad of London Nights
Diana Burrell
Heron
Fauré
Cello Sonata op 109 no 1 in D minor
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved
A concert of spontaneous composition.
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved
Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book 2
Préludes and Fugues in A, a; E, e; B, b.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved
Michael Fields director
Evelyn Tubb soprano
Ordo Virtutum by Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) is the oldest surviving music-drama, a vision of the Soul’s choice between innocence and experience, and the conflict between worldly temptations and the devotion of the heart.
5.00pm & 8.00pm ST MARY’S CHURCH, TOTNES
Two staged performances
£8.00 unreserved
Rameau (trans Gutman)
Concert no 5
Tchaikovsky
6 Pieces on a Single Theme op 21
Stravinsky
Serenade
Fauré
Nocturne op 104 no 11 in F# minor
Gabriel Jackson
Sonata
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved
Britten
Nick Jenkins conductor
Richard Williams director
Britten’s ghostly chamber opera performed against the backdrop of the old church tower.
Fully staged performances
8.30pm DARTINGTON HALL GRAVEYARD
£18.50 unreserved
Not included in the Summer School package.
Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book 2
Préludes and Fugues in F#, f#, C#, c#, Ab, g#.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved
Walter Reiter director
Telemann
Concerto for 3 trumpets
Concerto for 2 horns in Eb major
Bach
Orchestral Suite no 4 in D major
BWV 1069
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved
The four movements of Telemann’s Die Tageszeiten (The Times of the Day) will be performed at their appointed hour by the Chamber Choir and the Brook Street Band directed by John Hancorn.
Beethoven
Bagatelles op 119
Daniel March
All The King’s Horses
Together Again
Beethoven
Sonata in A flat major op 110
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved
Philip Glass
Cycle of all five String Quartets
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved
Britten
Nicholas Jenkins conductor
Richard Williams director
Britten’s ghostly chamber opera performed against the backdrop of the old church tower.
Fully staged performances
8.30pm DARTINGTON HALL GRAVEYARD
£18.50 unreserved
Not included in the Summer School Package
The culmination of a week long course directed by Alina Hancorn. Open to all Summer School participants who want to dance the night away.
10.30pm STUDIO 31
For Summer School participants only
Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book 2
Préludes and Fugues in Eb, eb, Bb, bb; F, f.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved
Selected students from this week’s masterclasses and Early Brass course perform in concert.
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved
James Weeks director
Handel
Alexander’s Feast HWV75
JS Bach
Magnificat BWV243
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved
Britten
Nicholas Jenkins conductor
Richard Williams director
Britten’s ghostly chamber opera performed against the backdrop of the old church tower.
Fully staged performances
8.30pm DARTINGTON HALL GRAVEYARD
£18.50 unreserved
Not included in the Summer School Package
Lewis Riley and Keith Tippet Directors
Performances by the students on the Jazz and Improvised Music course.
10.30pm STUDIO 30
For Summer School participants only
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