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31 July – 06 August

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.

Saturday 31 July

Stile Antico

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

Sunday 01 August

Stephen Preston – baroque flute

Telemann
12 solo flute fantasies
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Brook Street Band

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

Go Nightly Cares

Evelyn Tubb soprano
Michael Fields lute
Songs and lute solos by John Dowland.
10.30pm GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Monday 02 August

David Titterington – organ

Schumann
Fugues on BACH
Bach
Passacaglia BWV 582
Schumann
Sketches op 58
5.00pm ST MARY’S CHURCH TOTNES
£8.00 unreserved

Peter Sheppard Skærved – violin

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

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.
9.00pm STUDIO 30
Admission FREE

Colin Tilney – clavichord

Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book 2
Préludes and Fugues in C, c; G, g; D, d.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved

Smith Quartet

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

Tuesday 03 August

Stephen Varcoe – voice Clive Pollard – piano

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

Lowri Blake – cello Martin Butler – piano

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

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 2
Préludes and Fugues in A, a; E, e; B, b.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved

Wednesday 04 August

Ordo Virtutum Hildegard of Bingen

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

Stephen Gutman – piano

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

Turn of the Screw

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.

Colin Tilney clavichord

Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book 2
Préludes and Fugues in F#, f#, C#, c#, Ab, g#.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved

Baroque Orchestra

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

Thursday 05 August

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.

Leigh O’Hara – piano

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

Smith Quartet

Philip Glass
Cycle of all five String Quartets
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Turn of the Screw

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

Jive Ball

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

Colin Tilney – clavichord

Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book 2
Préludes and Fugues in Eb, eb, Bb, bb; F, f.
10.30pm SHIP STUDIO
£5.00 unreserved

Friday 06 August

Early Brass and masterclass concert

Selected students from this week’s masterclasses and Early Brass course perform in concert.
5.00pm GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

Summer School Choir and Dartington Baroque Orchestra

James Weeks director
Handel
Alexander’s Feast HWV75
JS Bach
Magnificat BWV243
8.15pm GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Turn of the Screw

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

Jazz

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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