Roast Lunch at the Monk’s
The Monk's Walk, Beverley 19 Highgate, Beverley, East Riding of YorkshireJoin us for a traditional Sunday roast lunch including Yorkshire pudding!
Join us for a traditional Sunday roast lunch including Yorkshire pudding!
In honour of St George’s Day, come and hear the charming and entertaining tale of The Reluctant Dragon, set to music by UK favourite John Rutter, and performed by New Paths artists. This accessible and engaging performance will appeal to all the family. Arrive from 1:45pm for St George’s Day craft activities. Audience welcome to come dressed up as characters from the story – knights, dragons, princesses, villagers, or St George! The narrator for this captivating show is the highly talented young actress, Rachel Barnes.
Vaughan Williams’ ever-popular baritone Songs of Travel explore themes of home and travel, setting the tone of longing and belonging for today’s concert. Britten’s arrangements of popular British folksongs were written from America, a homesick nostalgia for the British Isles – while Messiaen’s flute work Le Merle Noir is inspired by the blackbird’s song of his own garden, setting up a life-long fascination with birdsong and nature. Birdsong also features in Dvorak’s American Quartet, full of the folk music of his native Bohemia, but written - like his most popular symphony - “from the new world”.
Ahead of Katy Hamilton’s inspiring talk join us for supper in St. Mary’s Church Hall. A convivial occasion for festival goers before the closing events. The Friends of New Paths will be launched at this event. We extend a warm welcome to anyone who would like to become a Friend of the festival.
The music of Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann reflects and celebrates many loves in their lives. Brahms remembered his beloved mother in the Horn Trio; and his love for the clarinet playing of Richard Mühlfeld drew him out of retirement to write sonatas and chamber works. Schumann composed for the love of his beloved Clara Wieck, in his choice of Lied texts and his dedication of works such as the Piano Quintet to the capable fingers of this most talented of pianists. Katy Hamilton, whose talk last year was enormously popular, discusses some of the loves and links between the two men, and the musical century from Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben to Britten’s Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo ahead of the festival’s final concert.
Two major quintets bookend this glorious closing programme: Mozart’s sublime Quintet for Piano and Winds, one of the masterpieces of all the repertoire, and Schumann’s rapturous Quintet for Piano and Strings. In the middle of the programme we visit two masters of the English song repertoire: Benjamin Britten, in his deeply personal Michelangelo Sonnets, and Gerald Finzi, is his summing up of music and art, ‘To A Poet’.
An exhibition of exquisite linocuts by Andrew Anderson, inspired by love poetry in the Canticles, and by East Anglian country churches, displayed in Beverley Minster during the festival.
Whitacre: Sing Gently
Previn: Vocalise
Beach: Piano Quintet
Songs by Knaggs, Price, Moore & Hammerstein
The first of two talks during the festival from eminent lecturer Prof Marina Frolova-Walker
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
Beamish: Penillion
Poulenc: Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon
Barber: Cello Sonata
Britten: Folksongs
Music by Vaughan Williams, Hahn and Tann
Bach: Partita for solo violin in D minor
Mozart: Flute Quartet in D
Frances-Hoad: Invocatio
Mozart: String Quintet in G minor
Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A
Songs by Schubert, Howells, Debussy & Walton
Kreisler: Praeludium & Allegro
Weir: Atlantic Drift
McNeff: Three Pieces for Piano (*world premiere*)
Schubert: An Schwager Kronos; Wandrers Nachtlied
Britten: Winter Words
Bach: Suite for solo cello in C minor
Fauré: Dolly Suite
Copland: Duo for flute and piano
Higdon: Pale Yellow
Saint-Saëns: The Swan
Songs by Saint-Saëns and Copland
The second of Prof Marina Frolova-Walker's two talks in the festival. This afternoon's lecture explores one of the 'Big Bang' moments in music, The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky.
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Britten: Canticle IV – Journey of the Magi
Saint-Saëns: Violons dans le soir
Piazzolla: Tango
Schubert: Oblivion
Britten: Canticle II – Abraham and Isaac
Songs by Purcell and Saint-Saëns
Ravel: String Quartet in F
Chausson: Chanson perpétuelle
Franck: Piano Quintet
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Sacconi Quartet, Ailish Tynan, Martin Roscoe
What human qualities are needed to make scientific discoveries, and which to make great art? Many would point to 'imagination' and 'creativity' in the second case but not the first. Tom McLeish FRS compares creativity in science and art, and challenges the assumption that science is in any sense less creative than art.
Grieg: Six Songs Op 48
Strauss: Morgen, Die Nacht, Befreit
Stanford: La belle dame sans merci
Bingham: The shadow side of Joy Finzi
Songs from Ireland
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Ailish Tynan, Libby Burgess
As we enjoy the riches of the Beverley Chamber Music Festival, Katy Hamilton asks: how has ‘chamber’ music shifted through the centuries, and what does it look like in 2021?
Panufnik: Heartfelt
Beethoven: String Quartet in C sharp minor Op 131
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Sacconi Quartet
Haydn: Trio in A Hob XV/18
Beethoven: Trio in B flat Op 97 ‘Archduke’
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Martin Roscoe, Fenella Humphreys. Jessica Burroughs
Handel: Eternal Source of Light Divine
Gibbons: The Silver Swan
Dowland: Come, Heavy Sleep
Music by Forshaw, Marais and Purcell
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Christian Forshaw, Grace Davidson, Libby Burgess
Schubert: Shepherd on the Rock
Brahms: Trio for clarinet, cello and piano
Songs by Schubert
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Ailish Tynan, Julian Bliss, Cara Berridge, Libby Burgess
Beethoven: Sonata for violin and piano in F, ‘Spring’
Strauss: Sonata in Eb for violin and piano
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Sophie Rosa, Martin Roscoe
Schumann: Piano Quintet in Eb
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor
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Julian Bliss, Libby Burgess, Sacconi Quartet