Summer School Week Two Concerts - 01 August to 07 August

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Christmas comes early to Dartington! The last time we tackled Bach’s Christmas Oratorio it was with ‘modern instruments’. It is a measure of how things have developed that we can now perform the work on period instruments with an advanced student orchestra.

It’s not all Bach – we welcome the Carducci String Quartet for the first time at Summer School – and our old friends Mikhail Kazakovich, and Stile Antico; a vocal ensemble which numbers amongst its members various former Summer School students.

The Jazz course runs into its second week with a plethora of concerts and you can also take to the floor with the Jive Ball.

Saturday 01 August 8.15pm GREAT HALL £18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Carducci String Quartet
Matthew Denton violin
Michelle Fleming violin
Eoin Schmidt-Martin viola
Emma Denton cello
Haydn String Quartet op 33 no 2 in Eb ‘Joke’
Moeran String Quartet no 2 in Eb
Franck String Quartet in D

Sunday 02 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved Stile Antico In Paradisum

A programme exploring the responses of Renaissance composers facing mortality. From the motet Dufay wrote to be performed at his deathbed to Sheppard’s mighty Media Vita, written for Nicholas Ludford’s funeral, this is a fascinating musical journey including music by Lobo, Josquin and Byrd, and plainchant from the Requiem service.

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

On Second Thoughts
Lowri Blake cello
Carl Vine
Inner World
Bach Bourrées I and II and Gigue from Suite in C major BWV 1009
Telemann Fantasie in A minor
(arr. Lowri Blake from 12 Fantasies for flute)
Bach
Courante and Gigue from Suite in G major BWV 1007
Imogen Holst
The Fall of the Leaf
Bach
Sarabande and Gigue from Suite in D minor BWV 1008
Carl Vine
Inner World revisited

Monday 03 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved Leigh O’Hara piano Schumann Kinderszenen op 15 Howard Skempton

A selection of piano miniatures Schubert Four Impromptus D899

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved
The Journey of Love through Life

Evelyn Tubb soprano
Michael Fields classical guitar
Clive Pollard piano

A Romantic view of women’s lives and loves, including Schumann’s Frauenliebe und
Leben, and works by Paisiello, Gluck, Fauré, Martini, Sor, Mozart, Schubert and Villa-Lobos.

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.

Tuesday 04 August 5.00pm ST JOHN’S, TOTNES £8.00 unreserved David Titterington organ

Works by Tunder,
Scheidemann & Bach’s
Partita Sopra Sei gegrusset,
Jesu gutig.

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved
Mikhail Kazakevich piano
Bach
Selection of Preludes and Fugues from the Well-Tempered Klavier
Busoni
Selection from ‘Fantastia Contrappuntistica’
Honegger
Prelude, Arioso and Fughetta
Bach arr. Rachmaninov
Gavotte
Bach arr. Ziloti
Prelude in B minor
Mahler arr. Kazakevich
The Cuckoo, the Nightingale, and the Donkey (from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’)
There is a glowing dagger (from ‘Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen’)
Wagner arr. Liszt
Liebestod from ‘Tristan und Isolde’
Dukas arr Garban
L’Apprenti Sorcier

Wednesday 05 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved The Shock of the New: Music by Byrd, Gibbons, Philips and Frescobaldi

Colin Booth harpsichord & virginals
Byrd
Fantasia for My Lady Neville
(from My Lady Neville’s Booke)
Gibbons
Ground in A minor
Fantasia of Foure Parts
Frescobaldi
Toccata Settima (Book I)
Ricercar Terzo
Canzona Prima
Philips
Amarylli
Pavana Doloroso
Pavan and Galliard Passamezzo

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

From Chamber to Chapel
David Wright harpsichord & organ
Richard Campbell viola da gamba
Walter Reiter baroque violin
Helen Ashby soprano
Kate Ashby soprano

A recital of the most intimate chamber music from the court of Louis XIV, the centrepiece being “Leçon de tenebre”.

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Lewis Riley Quartet

Kevin Figes saxophones/flute
Lewis Riley piano
John Richards bass
Ben Clark drums

A mixture of jazz standards, contemporary and original compositions.

Thursday 06 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

Two hundred years & six cities

Early Brass and friends take a two hundred year journey to six great musical centres. Starting in Venice and ending in Leipzig, be prepared for some surprising detours en route!

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Carducci String Quartet
Haydn String Quartet op 50 no 6
‘The Frog’ Huang Ruo
String Quartet no 2 ‘The Flag Project’ for String Quartet and Four Pairs of Tibetan Finger-Cymbals (UK première)

10.30pm
STUDIO 31
For Summer School participants only

Jive Ball

The culmination of a weeklong course directed by Alina Hancorn. Open to all Summer School participants who want to dance the night away.

Friday 07 August 5.00pm & 8.15pm GREAT HALL £18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Summer School Choir
Dartington Baroque Orchestra
Bach Christmas Oratorio
John Hancorn director
Stile Antico soloists

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is one of three oratorios for major feasts written towards the end of Bach’s career. It comprises six parts, each being intended for performance on particular days of the Christmas period, from Christmas Day to Epiphany.

There will be an extended interval at 6.30pm. The work will continue at 8.15pm. This concert is dedicated to the memory of Ewen Balfour.

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.