Summer School Week Three Concerts - 08 August to 14 August

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The French flavour continues this week – with the choir taking on Gounod’s lush and expansive Messe Solennelle together with Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloë. We welcome the brilliant young violinist Chloë Hanslip – last with us as a student.

There are a number of new works – including the world première of Benjamin Lees’ Piano Trio no 3, and works commissioned by Summer School for Stephen Gutman.

The ever popular world of Tango is brought to life, by Laura Hansen and Carlos Morera, with Jonny Gee – who also gives a Jazz night with friends.

Saturday 08 August

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Chloë Hanslip violin
Olivia Canolle piano
Ravel
Violin Sonata
Chausson
Poème
Franck
Violin Sonata in A
Ravel
Tzigane

Sunday 09 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

Exaudi & James Weeks
Cage
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
A Flower In a Landscape
Ear for EAR
Four2
James Weeks
Mala punica (first complete performance)

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Stephen Gutman piano
Rameau
La Dauphine
L’entretien des Muses
Fauré
Barcarolle no 4
Nocturne no 6
Les Enfants de Rameau
Variations on Rameau’s Le
Lardon by Anderson, Butler and Wiegold (Summer School commission)
Berlioz arr. Liszt
Symphonie Fantastique

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Neil Jenkins tenor
Mark Fielding piano
Haydn in Love in London

A lecture-recital exploring Haydn’s relationship with two women he encountered on arriving in London, both of whom had a significant impact on his music.

Monday 10 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

Trio D’Art
Paul Archibald trumpet
John Kenny trombone
Helen Reid piano
David Robertson Trio (world première)
Somei Satoh
Hikari
Daniel Schnyder
Sub Zero
Jean-Michel Damase Trio

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Duke Quartet
Louisa Fuller violin
Rick Koster violin
John Metcalfe viola
Sophie Harris cello
Murray Schaffer
String Quartet no 5
Kevin Volans
Hunting Gathering
John Tavener
Hidden Treasure

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Canciones y Tangos
Intimate versions of standards from Argentina
Laura Hansen voice and percussion
Carlos Morera piano and bandoneón
with special guests

Tuesday 11 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

Alan Hacker clarinet
Olivia Canolle piano
Traditional
Greek Melodies
Satie
Gnossienne no 5
Debussy
Première Rhapsodie
Milhaud
Duo Concertant
Devienne
Adagio
Cahuzac
Pastorale Cevenole
18c Japanese
A Bell Ringing in the Empty Sky

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Arman Piano Trio
Deniz Gelenbe piano
Constantin Bogdanas violin
Dorel Fodoreanu cello
Beethoven
Piano Trio op 1 no 3 in C minor
Benjamin Lees
Piano Trio no 3 (world première)
Chausson
Piano Trio in G minor

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Rivka Golani viola
Mark Fielding piano
Enescu
Konzertstück for viola and piano
Jongen
Allegro Appassionato
for viola and piano
Schubert
‘Arpeggione’ sonata

Wednesday 12 August 5.00pm ST MARY’S, TOTNES £8.00 unreserved

David Titterington organ
Henry Smart
Postlude in D
Mendelssohn
Prelude & Fugue in D minor
SSWesley
Larghetto in F# minor
Elgar
Sonata no 2

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Dartington Festival Orchestra
Diego Masson conductor
Karine Georgian cello
Shostakovich
Cello Concerto no 2 op 126
Dvorák
Symphony no 8 in G op 88

10.30pm
ROUND HOUSE
Admission FREE

Jonny Gee & Friends

Double bassist Jonny Gee and pianist John Turville take a night off from tango to present an evening’s boundary-crossing jazz. From swing to salsa, bebop to the blues, funk to free-impro – expect the unexpected. Exposing the secret jazz talents of Dartington’s course tutors and their metaphorical jazz hats.

Thursday 13 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

Anna Noakes flute
Rivka Golani viola
Sefa Steer harp
Debussy
Trio
Jolivet
Trio
Damase
Sonata no 1
Duos for flute & harp
Malcolm Arnold
Duo for flute and viola

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Daniel Adni piano
Debussy
Suite ‘Pour le Piano’
Cathedrale Engloutie from
Preludes Book 1
Chopin
Scherzo no 1 op 20 in B minor
Ballade no 3 op 47 in Ab
Scherzo no 3 op 39 in C# minor
Debussy
Sonata for cello & piano
Martinu
Sonatine for clarinet and piano
La Revue de Cuisine

10.30pm
STUDIO 3
£5.00 unreserved

Gerard McChrystal saxophone
Steve Dummer clarinet
Juliet Edwards & Jonathan Watts piano
Adrian Williams
Ballet Imaginaire
Fernande Decruck
Sonata in C# minor
Gerald Busby
Alto
Paganini
Moto Perpetuo
John Mayer
Raga Music
Steve Dummer
Bread – a Master Baker’s Guide
Matthew Hindson
Nintendo Music
Fitkin
Hard Fairy

Friday 14 August 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

Summer School Choir Dartington Festival
Orchestra
Brian Kay director
Diego Masson conductor
Neil Jenkins tenor
Exaudi
Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé suites I & II
Gounod
Messe Solennelle

Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé is widely regarded as one of the greatest of the composers works, containing some of the most passionate and extraordinary harmonies of musical impressionism. The work tells the story of the love between the goatherd Daphnis and the shepherdess Chloé, based on the romance by the early Greek writer Longus. Sometimes claimed to be ‘the most beautiful setting of the Mass ever composed’, Gounod’s ‘Solemn Mass of St Cecilia’ abundantly combines graceful melody and moving harmonisation.

10.30pm
STUDIO 6

For Summer School participants only

Tango Ball
The culmination of a weeklong course directed by Laura Hansen and Carlos Morera.