Summer School Week Four Concerts - 15 August to 21 August

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We begin a two week residency by the distinguished Japanese composer Somei Satoh. We are delighted to welcome Sir Charles Mackerras to conduct Haydn’s Creation. Sir Charles was last at Summer School in 1965.

The Henschel Quartet return after their huge impact in 2008, together with the Japanese viola player Kazuki Sawa – for the recently discovered string quintet by Max Bruch. In a lighter vein, Herbie Flowers once again convenes the Dartington Light Orchestra.

Saturday 15 August 8.15pm GREAT HALL £18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Henschel Quartet & Kazuki Sawa viola
Christoph Henschel violin
Markus Henschel violin
Monika Henschel viola
Mathias Beyer-Karlshøj cello
Haydn
String Quartet in G op 76 no 1
Bruch
String Quintet
Somei Satoh
Toward the Night
Mendelssohn
String Quartet op 80 in F minor

This concert is dedicated to Gavin Henderson in his 25th year as Artistic Director.

Sunday 16 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

Ya-ou Xie piano
Haydn
Fantasia in C
George Crumb
Selection of 24 Fantasy Pieces from Makrokosmos Book I & II.
Debussy
Etudes
Plus music by Somei Satoh

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

William Howard piano
Pavel Novak
24 Preludes and Fugues

Book One
Preludes and Fugues 1-6
(Old Testament: From the Creation of Heaven and Earth to King David)

Book Two
Preludes and Fugues 7-12
(Old Testament: From Job to Isaiah)

Book Three
Preludes and Fugues 13-18
(New Testament: “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” Gospel of St. John I:14)

Book Four
Fugues and Postludes 19-24
(New Testament: Landscapes of the Lamb)

Monday 17 August 5.00pm GREAT HALL £8.00 unreserved

MelindaMaxwell oboe
Laurence Perkins bassoon
John Flinders piano

Gerald Busby
Crook Wing Butt Longjoint Bell
Edwin York Bowen
Barcarolle from Second Suite for Piano
Olov Franzen
Il Dimenticato (world première)
Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Richard Edgar Wilson tenor
Lynda Coffin flute
Melinda Maxwell oboe
Anna Tilbrook piano
Poulenc
Sonata for flute and piano
Huw Watkins
Three Auden Songs
Britten
Six Metamorphoses After Ovid
Vaughan Williams
Ten Blake Songs
Somei Satoh
Chin-Kon-Ka
Judith Weir
Scotch Minstrelsy

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Geneviève Laurenceau violin
Jonathan Watts piano

Prokofiev
Mélodies
Beffa
Élégie
Enesco
Sonata no 2

Tuesday 18 August 5.00pm STUDIO 3 £8.00 unreserved

Catherine Laws piano
Frank Denyer piano

Hanns Eisler
Overture to The Mother
Igor Stravinsky
Sonata for two pianos
Lona Kozik
Relent 1
Claude Debussy
En Blanc et Noir
Jo Kondo arr. Denyer
An Elder’s Hocket

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Dartington Festival Orchestra
Diego Masson conductor
Melinda Maxwell oboe
Janet Hilton clarinet
Laurence Perkins bassoon
Sue Dent horn
Somei Satoh
Kisetsu
Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante for Winds
Haydn
Symphony no 104 in D,
‘London’

Wednesday 19 August 3.30 pm GREAT LAWN, DARTINGTON Admission FREE

Tea Dance

The Dartington Festival Light Orchestra plays for your dancing pleasure. Quicksteps, foxtrots, samba, cha-cha, the tango, a ladies invitation waltz and the gay Gordons. Plus the famed Jive Competition with fabulous prizes.

5.00pm
GREAT HALL
£8.00 unreserved

John Flinders piano
Juliet Edwards piano
Somei Satoh
Cosmic Womb
Hindemith
Sonata for piano for four hands
Schubert
Fantasie in F minor op 103 D 940

This concert is dedicated to the memory of the former Summer School photographer, Catharine Scudamore.

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Henschel Quartet & Kazuki Sawa viola
Haydn String Quartet op 64 no 5
‘The Lark’ Mendelssohn
String Quartet op 44 no 2 in E minor
Brahms String Quintet op 111 in G

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Gemma Rosefield cello
Anna Tilbrook piano

A concert of music for cello and piano including works by Mendelssohn and Martinu.

Thursday 20 August 5.00pm STUDIO 31 £8.00 unreserved

Dartington Festival Light Orchestra

Herbie Flowers hosts a joyful programme of light music for all the family, given by the Dartington Festival Light Orchestra. Works by Coates, Tomlinson, Bernstein and Gershwin. Bring teddy as we are sure to do ‘Teddy bear’s Picnic’.

8.15pm
GREAT HALL
£18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Stephen Kovacevich piano
Geneviève Laurenceau & Kazuki Sawa violin
Krzysztof Chorzelski Viola
Gemma Rosefield cello

Brahms
Violin Sonata no 1 in G
Brahms
Cello Sonata no 1 in E minor
Brahms
Piano Quintet op 34 in F minor

This concert is supported by the Friends of the Summer School.

10.30pm
GREAT HALL
£5.00 unreserved

Chamber Choir
Jonathan Tilbrook director
Purcell
My Heart is Inditing
Vaughan Williams
Mass in G minor

Friday 21 August 5.00pm & 8.15pm GREAT HALL £18.50 reserved/£14 unreserved

Summer School Choir
Dartington Festival Orchestra
Haydn The Creation
Sir Charles Mackerras director
Helena Dix soprano
Richard Edgar-Wilson tenor
Stephan Loges baritone

Originally inspired by the oratorios of Handel, and considered by many to be Haydn’s masterpiece, The Creation depicts the making of the world as described in the Book of Genesis. The text is taken from Genesis itself, the Biblical book of Psalms, and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Haydn said that: “I was never so devout as when I was at work on The Creation; I fell on my knees each day and begged God to give me the strength to finish the work”. There will be an extended interval at 6.30pm. The Creation will continue at 8.15pm.

10.30pm
STUDIO 31

For Summer School paticipants only

Grand Viennese Ball
Dartington Festival Light Orchestra
Herbie Flowers director

Waltz, polka and galop the night away. A glorious conclusion to this popular course. Costumes optional but highly desirable.