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
The sonority of one of the UK’s finest brass ensembles, combined with the exquisite acoustic of St Mary’s Church, make for a winning combination to raise the curtain on the festival. Spend rush-hour in the company of the winners of the Inaugural Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition, in a programme of Gallic-American delights. Rameau: […]
Evocative songs from around the British Isles, featuring national treasure Roderick Williams – hailed by the Daily Telegraph as “our greatest living baritone”. A formidable wordsmith, Roderick’s warm personality and “rich, burnished baritone” (New York Times) have captivated audiences around the world. He joins Libby Burgess, praised by the Observer for her “warm, sensitive pianism”. […]
An all-star collective of some of the country’s finest string players is assembled for the festival, and in this coffee concert we showcase two of them. Schubert’s soulful ‘Arpeggione’ Sonata holds a unique place in the chamber music repertoire; it is paired with James MacMillan’s haunting and dramatic Cello Sonata No 1, infused with the […]
A former winner of BBC Young Musician, and one of the great pianists of his generation, Martin James Bartlett makes his debut in Beverley, with a delightful programme centred around Mozart’s Rondo ‘alla Turca’. Baroque transcriptions collide with romantic classics for this matinee performance. Bach (arr. Kempff): Wachet auf Bach: Siciliano Handel: Chaconne in G […]
Written in the aftermath of war, the string quartets by Grażyna Bacewicz and Benjamin Britten featured in this concert are works of biting drama and brilliance. While the Vivo last movement of the Bacewicz fizzes with virtuosity and charm, the monumental Chacony which closes the Britten is a homage to Henry Purcell. Our elite string […]