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17th July–2nd August 2015

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Friday 17th July1 11am

Coffee ConcertPickering Parish Church

2 8pmBrahms and the Gypsy: e Red Hedgehog TavernMilton Rooms, Malton

Saturday 18th

3 11amCoffee ConcertSt John and All Saints’ Church, Easingwold

4 2pm Strings WorkshopSt John and All Saints’ Church, Easingwold

5 6pm Lehár – e Merry WidowRyedale Festival Opera (with picnic interval) First of two performancesAmpleforth College eatre

Sunday 19th

6 7–7.30pmPre-concert talk Ie Saloon, Duncombe Park

7 8pm Haydn, Bartók and the String Quartet Ie Saloon, Duncombe Park

Monday 20th

8 10–10.30amPre-concert talk IISt Mary’s Church, Birdsall

9 11amCoffee ConcertHaydn, Bartók and the String Quartet IISt Mary’s Church, Birdsall

10 3pmMartin Bell: e End of EmpireGaltres Centre, Easingwold

11 7pmLehár – e Merry WidowRyedale Festival OperaSecond of two performancesAmpleforth College eatre

Tuesday 21st

12 10–10.30am Pre-concert talk IIIAll Saints’ Church, Hovingham

13 11am Coffee ConcertHaydn, Bartók and the String Quartet IIIAll Saints’ Church, Hovingham

14 3.30pm NYJO Jazz WorkshopMilton Rooms, Malton

15 7pmNational Youth Jazz OrchestraMilton Rooms, Malton

16 9.30pm Nocturnes by Candlelight I St Michael’s Church, Malton

Wednesday 22nd

17 11am Talk: e Rise and Fall of the Habsburg EmpireMalton Methodist Chapel

18 12.45pmFestival Lunche Talbot Hotel, Malton

19 7–7.30pmPre-concert talk IVSt Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton

20 8pmHaydn, Bartók and the String Quartet IVSt Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton

Thursday 23rd

21 11amCoffee ConcertHelmsley Arts Centre

22 7pm Triple ConcertCastle Howard

Friday 24th

23 11amCoffee ConcertJoan of Arc Hall, Botton Village

24 3pmHenry Marsh: Do No HarmHelmsley Arts Centre

25 8pmOrchestra of Opera NorthSt Peter’s Church, Norton

Saturday 25th

26 11am Coffee ConcertSt Hilda’s Church, Sherburn

27 3pm Piano WorkshopHelmsley Arts Centre

28 7.30pmRachmaninov – Vespers Ampleforth Abbey

29 9.30pm Nocturnes by Candlelight IIChurch of the Holy Cross, Gilling

Sunday 26th

30 6.45pmDame Fanny Watermanin conversatione Saloon, Duncombe Park

31 8pm Benjamin Grosvenor in recitale Saloon, Duncombe Park

Monday 27th

32 11amCoffee Concerte Saloon, Duncombe Park

33 3pmAfternoon ConcertSt Mary’s Church, Ebberston

34 6.30pmJohn Butt in conversationChurch of St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough

35 8pmDunedin ConsortChurch of St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough

Tuesday 28th

36 11amCoffee ConcertSt Mary’s Church, Lastingham

37 2pmWind WorkshopSt Mary’s Church, Lastingham

38 3.30pmCharlotte Green: e News is ReadHelmsley Arts Centre

39 7pmDouble Concert ISledmere House and Church

Wednesday 29th

40 11amCoffee ConcertSt Michael’s Church, Coxwold

Thursday 30th

41 11amCoffee ConcertSt John the Evangelist’s Church, Welburn

42 7pmDouble Concert IISledmere House and Church

Friday 31st

43 11amCoffee ConcertChurch of St Michael le Belfrey, York

44 6pmAny Other Business – Martin Vander Weyer and friendsHelmsley Arts Centre

45 8pm An Evening with Michael Berkeleye Saloon, Duncombe Park

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Coffee ConcertSt Mary’s Church, irsk

47 8pme Beautiful Maid of the Mill All Saints’ Church, Helmsley

48 9.30pmNocturnes by Candlelight IIIAll Saints’ Church, Helmsley

Sunday 2nd

49 3pmGarden PartyGarden of the Worsley Arms Hotel, Hovingham

50 6pm Festival Service All Saints’ Church, Hovingham

51 7pmFinal Gala ConcertHovingham Hall

Summary of events

N.B. Doors will be opened 30 minutes before performances.

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11amPickering Parish Church

Coffee ConcertSir Thomas Allen (baritone)Rowan Pierce (soprano)Nick Pritchard (tenor)Charlotte Barbour-Condini (recorder)Fitzwilliam QuartetAdam Summerhayes (violin)David Gordon (harpsichord)Malcolm Creese (double bass)Asaf Sirkis (percussion)

Purcell – Fantasia no. 7

Marcus Bartram-Stevens – Double on Purcell’s Fantasia

no. 7 (World Premiere)

David Gordon – Romanesque (World Premiere)

Bach – Coffee Cantata

Friday 17th July

After opening with one of the extraordinary worksfor viol consort that so excited Purcell’s musicalimagination, and a contemporary piece inspired byit, the Ryedale Festival, famous for its CoffeeConcerts, presents the world premiere of a newcoffee-inspired work by David Gordon. It featuresrecorder soloist (and BBC Young Musician of theYear finalist) Charlotte Barbour-Condini and anarray of percussion instruments from the maincoffee-growing countries. Finally, Sir omas Allenheads the cast for one of the most comic andquirky pieces ever to come from the pen of J.S.Bach: a mini-opera about a coffee-addicted girl andher father who longs to find her a respectablehusband, heard here in the first performance of anew translation by John Warrack, with the moral‘drinking coffee is natural!’Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

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Introductionfrom the Artistic Director

Welcome to the 2015 Ryedale Festival – two weeksof inspiring performances in the many beautiful andhistoric venues in and around Ryedale, NorthYorkshire. Right from the opening night (when werecreate the sights and sounds of Brahms’s favouritetavern!), there’s a Hungarian flavour to theprogramme, with a complete cycle of Bartók’s stringquartets alongside an equally great set by Haydn, anew production of Lehár’s The Merry Widow, and acelebration of Brahms’s Hungarian-inspired works.

A 100th anniversary performance of Rachmaninov’sAll Night Vigil in Ampleforth Abbey introduces aparallel theme of ‘night music’, including a completecycle of Chopin’s Nocturnes over three candlelitconcerts and night-inspired works by Bartók,Schoenberg, Mozart, Tallis, Byrd, Britten and others.

Chamber music is at the heart of the programme,with festival residences from the Heath and DoricQuartets, and the Lendvai Trio. A new piececelebrating coffee (and an old one satirising it) opensthe festival’s famous series of Coffee Concerts, manyof them featuring outstanding young musicians.Orchestral highlights include the Orchestra ofOpera North playing Mahler and the RoyalNorthern Sinfonia performing at Hovingham Hall,while the Dunedin Consort bring an all-Bachprogramme to Scarborough and the National YouthJazz Orchestra promises an unmissable evening inMalton. Vocal highlights include performances bytop choirs Ex Cathedra and Stile Antico, while anew English version of one of Schubert’s greatestsong cycles is heard for the first time in Helmsley.

The ink will still be drying on eleven new works(nine world premieres, two English premieres),including two by festival composer MichaelBerkeley. To complete the picture, there is theunique Triple Concert at Castle Howard and DoubleConcerts at Sledmere, a series of literary events Wayswith Words, a festival exhibition, a series of freefestival workshops for young and amateurmusicians, and a new initiative Ryedale500 to helpmore young people explore the festival.

It promises to be an exciting summer in Ryedaleand the festival looks forward to welcoming friendsold and new to enjoy it. I hope you can join us andlook forward to seeing you there.

Christopher GlynnArtistic Director

Ryedale Festival 2015

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Sir Thomas Allen Charlotte Barbour-Condini

8pmMilton Rooms, Malton

Brahms and theGypsy: The RedHedgehog TavernZRI Ensemble

Ben Harlan (clarinet)Max Baillie (violin)Matthew Sharp (cello)Jon Banks (accordion)Iris Pissardie (santouri)

Brahms – Clarinet Quintet AllegroHungarian traditional melody – Tigeneascau Carpathian traditional melody – Kolomeyke Traditional Klezmer melody – Hora mit tsibiles

(Hora with Onions) Ukrainian trad. – Sarba Maracini

Brahms – Clarinet Quintet AdagioKlezmer melody – Der Gasn Nign (The Street Tune)

Brahms – Clarinet Quintet AndantinoRomanian trad. – Dance from KorondKlezmer melody – Der Goldene Khasene

(The Golden Wedding)Carpathian wedding improvisation – Doina

Brahms – Hungarian Dance no. 1

Moldavian trad.– Nikolaev Bulgar Brahms – Clarinet Quintet Finale

Malton’s Milton Rooms are transformed into theViennese tavern Zum Roten Igel ! is was the famousRed Hedgehog Tavern where Brahms loved to drinkand let his hair down while gypsy bands playedHungarian and Jewish folk music. e world-classmusicians of ZRI combine classical refinement withtavern grit and gypsy flair in their own version ofBrahms’s Clarinet Quintet – one of his lastcompositions, full of his melancholic, unfulfilled lovefor Clara Schumann. Its folk influences aremagnified with a new instrumentation, includingsantouri (hammered cimbalom-type instrument)

and accordion, and the movements are interleavedwith improvisations on the folk music of MiddleEurope. ere is sure to be a party atmosphere andtickets include Hungarian delicacies at the interval.

‘ZRI played with consummate virtuosity, magic andpassion. e emotional charge of Brahmsilluminated by the gypsy spirit was a greatcombination’ – Royal Albert Hall

Pre-concert and interval drinks

11amSt John and All Saints’ Church, Easingwold

Coffee ConcertPhoenix TrioJonathan Stone (violin)Marie Macleod (cello)Sholto Kynoch (piano)

Haydn – Piano Trio in G major ‘The Gypsy Rondo’Brahms – Piano Trio no. 1 in B major

ree outstanding musicians present one of thebest-loved of all Haydn’s chamber works,nicknamed Gypsy Rondo after its high-spiritedfinale in the Hungarian style. It is followed by oneof the most dramatic and expansive of all pianotrios, full of passionate, folk-influenced melodiesthat mark it out as one of the finest works by theyoung Brahms.

‘three consummate musicians’ – Oxford Times

‘powerfully eloquent’ – e Guardian

Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

2pmSt John and All Saints’ Church, Easingwold

Strings WorkshopMatthew Sharp

Young and amateur players of all stringedinstruments are invited to an informal publicworkshop with top cellist Matthew Sharp. Comeand find out how to get more from yourinstrument and find more freedom andenjoyment in playing. All ages and levels are welcome at this free event. Open-door to thepublic with unreserved seating. To take part, orfind out more, please email Robert Heath:[email protected].

‘a stunning cellist, unique communicator and, Ibelieve, one of the most exciting musicians of hisgeneration’ – Mark Antony Turnage

‘an extraordinary cellist – virtuosic, charismatic,brimming with verve and poetry’ – e Times

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ZRI Ensemble

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7–7.30pmThe Saloon, Duncombe Park

Pre-concert talk IKaty Hamilton

Musician and writer Katy Hamilton shares herknowledge and enthusiasm for two of the greatestsets of string quartets ever composed. Haydn wasboth inventor and ‘father’ of the string quartetand his op. 76 set, composed for a Hungarianpatron, show him at the height of his powers.More than 200 years later, another Hungarian,Béla Bartók, began his own set of six quartets - amusical adventure that would span his creativelife and result in some of the greatest music of the20th century. Join us to find out what makesthese works so special. is is a free event.

‘I never before received such pleasure frominstrumental music: they are full of invention, fire,good taste and new effects and seem the product, notof a sublime genius who has written so much and sowell already, but one of highly cultivated talents,who had expended none of his fire before’ – CharlesBurney on Haydn’s op. 76

8pmThe Saloon, Duncombe Park

Haydn, Bartók andthe String Quartet IDoric QuartetHeath Quartet

Haydn – String Quartet in G major (op. 76, no. 1)

Bartók – String Quartet no. 1

Haydn – String Quartet in D minor The Fifths (op. 76, no. 2)Bartók – String Quartet no. 2

e brilliant Heath and Doric Quartets are inresidence for a festival series featuring two of thegreatest sets of string quartets ever composed. Forboth Haydn and Bartók, the string quartet was alifelong exploration, a medium where their creativespirits found fullest expression. e first two worksof Haydn’s last great set of quartets, full of ingeniouseffects and expressive power, are heard herealongside Bartók’s 1st quartet – a sad, passionatework lamenting the loss of his first love – and themore peaceful, folk-inspired 2nd quartet hecompleted a few years later. Hungarian inspireddelicacies will be served at the interval.

‘Haydn and the Doric are a perfect match …Unequivocally, these were performances of terrificpanache and perception, seeming to get right under theskin of Haydn’s creative genius’ – Sunday TelegraphPre-concert and interval drinks

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6pmAmpleforth College Theatre

Ryedale Festival OperaLehár – The MerryWidow(with picnic interval)

Kerem Hasan (conductor)Nina Brazier (director)

Franz Lehár’s Merry Widow has held audiencesspellbound ever since its premiere in 1905. Sunghere by a cast of outstanding young singers, in thefirst performance of a new English translation byJohn Warrack, it tells the story of Hanna Glawari,a rich and sophisticated widow who captivates allof Paris, and whose wealth could save her near-bankrupt little country of Pontevedro – if onlyshe does not marry a foreigner! e diplomatsthat surround her are desperate to keep hermoney in the country by persuading her to marryCount Danilo. He’s an old flame, just waiting tobe re-lit, but also a proud man who still enjoyshis bachelor lifestyle and the easygoing ladies he finds at Maxim’s nightclub. In a sub-plot, the

charming Frenchman Camille de Rosillon doeshis best to seduce the ambassador’s wifeValencienne, who is bored enough to be temptedbut too ‘respectable’ to succumb. Meanwhile, theirrepressible Hanna flirts, charms and dances herway through the farcical events surrounding herand the conflict between political duty andromantic intrigue brings out the best in Lehár: awinning streak of intimate waltzes, flirtatiouspolkas, exuberant can-cans and catchy melodies.

‘Ryedale Festival Opera is an object lesson to ourlarge opera companies as to how much can beachieved from so little…on the proverbial shoestringbudget, Ryedale Festival each year offers an operaticproduction of the highest quality’ – Yorkshire Post

‘Evenings like this are too good to miss’ – OperaMagazine

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Doric Quartet

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The Merry Widow

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10–10.30amSt Mary’s Church, Birdsall

Pre-concert talk IIKaty Hamilton

Katy Hamilton continues her exploration of thestring quartets of Bartók and Haydn. is is a freeevent.

3pmGaltres Centre, Easingwold

Martin Bell: TheEnd of EmpireFormer BBC war reporter and independent MP,Martin Bell talks about his time as a soldier in theBritish army in Cyprus in the late 1950s. e Endof Empire is a powerfully personal account of theviolent process of decolonization, drawing onrecently discovered letters he had written homeduring the conflict. Known to many as ‘the manin the white suit’, he also talks about his days asBBC foreign correspondent in some of thebloodiest conflicts of recent years and his four-yearterm as an anti-sleaze independent MP – years hedescribes as ‘the most shocking of my life’.

7pmAmpleforth College Theatre

Ryedale Festival OperaLehár – The MerryWidowKerem Hasan (conductor)Nina Brazier (director)

See event 5 for detailsPre-opera and interval drinks – there will not be a picnicinterval at this performance

10–10.30amAll Saints’ Church, Hovingham

Pre-concert talk IIIKaty Hamilton

In the third of her talks, Katy Hamilton uncoversthe stories behind two more masterpieces of thestring quartet repertoire. is is a free event.

11amAll Saints’ Church, Hovingham

Coffee ConcertHaydn, Bartók andthe String Quartet IIIDoric QuartetHeath Quartet

Haydn – String Quartet in B flat major (op. 76, no. 4)

The SunriseBartók – String Quartet no. 4

What better way to start the day than with Haydn’sSunrise quartet – so-called after the theme that arcsacross its opening bars? e five movements ofBartók’s powerful and colourful 4th quartet alsoform an arch-shape, with exuberant dance-likemovements and quicksilver scherzi framing theatmospheric nocturne that lies at its centre. Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 9.30am-10.45am

3.30pmMilton Rooms, Malton

NYJO Jazz WorkshopYoung jazz players from Ryedale School andacross the region join the acclaimed leaders of theNational Youth Jazz Orchestra to develop theirskills in an afternoon of musical exploration. Allages and abilities are welcome at this free event.Open-door to the public with unreserved seating.To take part, or find out more, please email RobertHeath: [email protected].

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St Mary’s Church, Birdsall

All Saints’ Church, Hovingham

11amSt Mary’s Church, Birdsall

Coffee ConcertHaydn, Bartók andthe String Quartet IIDoric QuartetHeath Quartet

Haydn – String Quartet in C major (op. 76, no. 3) TheEmperor


National feeling runs strong in both these stringquartets. One of Haydn’s boldest and brightestworks, the Emperor quartet was nicknamed after itsuse of the Austrian National Anthem, while Bartók’skaleidoscopic 3rd quartet is full of the influence ofHungarian folk music and special instrumentaleffects.

Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 9.30am–10.45am

7pmMilton Rooms, Malton

National Youth JazzOrchestraNYJO is famous as a showcase for the country’sbest young jazz musicians and for its unique,swinging big-band sound. Malton will surely beswinging too, as they play big band classicsalongside new compositions and arrangements.

‘eir combination of youthful intensity andpinpoint accuracy can be quite overwhelming … theplaying, both solo and ensemble, makes itoutstanding by any standards’ – e Observer

‘As conductor, Armstrong capered ecstatically in frontof a youth band professional enough to nail the mostcomplex section-playing, with a string of giftedsoloists (some of them still at secondary school)delivering almost languidly trenchant improvisations’– e GuardianPre-concert and interval drinks

11amMalton Methodist Chapel

The Rise and Fall ofthe Habsburg EmpireA talk by Lucy BeckettHistorian and novelist Lucy Beckett sets the scenefor the festival’s Austro-Hungarian theme with a talkabout the history of the great Habsburg dynasty.Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

12.45pmThe Talbot Hotel, Malton

Festival LunchAll are welcome for an informal lunch at theTalbot Hotel, Malton.

7-7.30pmSt Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton

Pre-concert talk IVKaty Hamilton

e last in a series of talks by Katy Hamilton,where she shares her fascination with the stringquartets of Haydn and Bartók and talks about what makes these works so special. is isa free event.

8pmSt Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton

Haydn, Bartók andthe String Quartet IVDoric QuartetHeath Quartet

Haydn – String Quartet in D major (op. 76, no. 5) LargoBartók – String Quartet no. 5

Haydn – String Quartet in E flat major (op. 76, no. 6)


e final concert in this series features starkcontrasts. Two late quartets by Haydn are full ofplayful humour but also have profound slowmovements. Bartók’s 5th quartet, once memorablydescribed as ‘like no other quartet’, features twoprofound slow movements evoking the sights andsounds of the night – as well as episodes ofgrotesque humour and demonic energy. e seriesends with the deep sadness and nostalgia of Bartók’s6th and final quartet, composed just before theoutbreak of World War II. Hungarian inspireddelicacies will be served at the interval.

‘e Heath gave us all the wit and mercurialinventiveness you’d expect … with a really engaging senseof interplay … And it’s nice to see four musicians whoutterly dispel the idea that classical music is somehowbackward-looking or fogey-ish’ – GramophonePre-concert and interval drinks

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9.30pmSt Michael’s Church, Malton

Nocturnesby Candlelight ICharles Owen (piano)

Chopin – Three Nocturnes (op. 9)

Chopin – Three Nocturnes (op. 15)

Chopin – Two Nocturnes (op. posth.)

Ravel – Gaspard de la nuitOndineLe gibetScarbo

e first in a festival series of three candlelit concertsfeaturing the complete Nocturnes of Chopin,alongside other piano works inspired by the night.e first eight of Chopin’s ‘night songs’ weave anintoxicating and nostalgic sound world, wheresoaring dream-like melodies are set against darkershadows. Charles Owen follows them with adevilishly virtuosic masterpiece for piano by Ravel,one of the most difficult piano pieces ever composed,but also one of the most evocative: a night-inspiredtriptych, depicting a seductive water-nymph, anightmarish vision of a hanged man in the desert,and a goblin darting about at dead of night.

‘Charles Owen is out of the best school of Britishpianism – bright, sensitive, unaffected, and withplaying informed by brainwork’ – e Irish Times

Charles Owen, Katya Apekisheva

11amHelmsley Arts Centre

Coffee ConcertYorkshire Young MusiciansPenny Stirling (director)Benjamin Powell (piano)

Come and hear some of the most talented youngmusicians in the Yorkshire and Humber area(aged 8-18), participants in the Yorkshire YoungMusicians scheme which enables youngmusicians to benefit from the highest qualitytuition in their locality.Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

7pmCastle Howard

Triple ConcertA special event, unique to the Ryedale Festival:the Triple Concert features three contrastingconcerts in different areas of the house, eachperformed three times, with the audiencesrotating between performances.

Long Gallery

PetrushkaKatya ApekishevaCharles Owen

Stravinsky – Petrushka

Petrushka is a puppet, the Slavic version of MrPunch: a naughty trickster who beats his wife, argueswith authority, challenges the devil, and delights hisaudience. e comedy and tragedy of the characterStravinsky described as ‘the immortal and unhappyhero of every fair in all countries’ shine through inone of his greatest ballet scores, heard here in thecomposer’s own version for piano duet and playedby two of the country’s leading pianists.

Chapel

In Pace: Music for ComplineStile Antico

Byrd – I Laid Me Downe to Rest

Sheppard – Libera Nos I and II

Mundy – O Lord, the Maker of all Thing

Plainsong – Miserere mihi

Tallis – Miserere nostri

Byrd – Miserere mihi

Sheppard – The Lord’s Prayer

Tallis – Te Lucis ante Terminum (festal tone)

Taverner – Ave Dei patris filia

As the darkness folded around the pillars of theirchurches, mediaeval worshippers gathered for theservice of Compline, commending themselves toGod’s protection through the long watches of thenight. It was an occasion that inspired the greatEnglish composers to some of their most intimateand uplifting music. is magical programmeranges from exquisitely simple hymns tobreathtakingly complex webs of polyphony,

culminating in John Taverner’s thrilling votiveantiphon, Ave Dei patris filia, and is performedby one of the world’s finest vocal ensembles.

‘An ensemble of breathtaking freshness, vitality andbalance’ – New York Times

‘Perhaps the most ravishing sound I heard this year’– e New Yorker

Great Hall

Transfigured NightPsappha

Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht

A man and woman are walking through a moonlitforest. She confesses a dark secret: she is pregnantwith the child of another man. e acceptance andforgiveness of her new lover, who is prepared toaccept the child as his own, find expression in apassionate masterpiece for string sextet that hasremained Schoenberg’s most popular work.Interval drinks

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3pmHelmsley Arts Centre

Do No Harm:Stories of Life, Deathand Brain SurgeryHenry Marsh

Henry Marsh, Consultant Neurosurgeon atAtkinson Morley’s / St George’s Hospital inLondon, gives an astonishingly candid insight intothe life and work of a modern neurosurgeon – itstriumphs and disasters. How does it feel to holdsomeone’s life in your hands, to cut into the stuffthat creates thought, feeling and reason? How doyou live with the consequences of performing apotentially life-saving operation when it all goeswrong? If you believe that brain surgery is a preciseand exquisite craft, practised by calm and detachedsurgeons, think again. Henry Marsh reveals thefierce joy of operating, the profoundly movingtriumphs, the harrowing disasters, the hauntingregrets and the moments of black humour thatcharacterise a brain surgeon’s life.

8pmSt Peter’s Church, Norton

Orchestra ofOpera NorthRichard Farnes (conductor)

Bartók – Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

Mahler – Symphony no. 4 in G major

Richard Farnes conducts the musicians of OperaNorth in one of Bartók’s most popular and originalworks, where the driving rhythms and diabolicalenergy of Hungarian and Bulgarian folk music giveway to passages of great calm and beauty, especiallythe famous ‘night music’ section. It is followed byperhaps the most magical of all Mahler’ssymphonies: a musical depiction of the worldthrough the innocent eyes of a child, beginningwith sleigh bells and ending in heaven.

‘…Opera North back on top form, with theconductor undoubtedly the star of the show: howlong before Richard Farnes is recognised as anational treasure?’ – Daily Telegraph

‘Richard Farnes’s conducting is sensational in itssweep, detail and understanding’ – e GuardianPre-concert and interval drinks

11amSt Hilda’s Church, Sherburn

Coffee ConcertPolyhymnia

Schumann – Zigeunerleben

Dvořák – Gypsy SongsSchubert – Mignon songsSchubert – Mignon und der Harfner

Liszt – Die Drei Ziegeuner

Wolf – Die Zigeunerin

Brahms – Ziegeunerlieder

A stay in Budapest inspired one of the best ofBrahms’s many Hungarian-inspired works – theZiegeunerlieder (‘Gypsy Songs’) for vocalensemble. A group of outstanding young singersjoins festival director Christopher Glynn for theseand other musical depictions of gypsy life – fiery,passionate, playful and always colourful.

Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am


Piano WorkshopCharles Owen

Young and amateur pianists are invited to comeand work with top pianist Charles Owen in aninformal public workshop. Come and find outhow to get more from your instrument and findmore freedom and enjoyment in playing. All agesand levels are welcome at this free event. Open-door to the public with unreserved seating. Totake part, or find out more, please email RobertHeath: [email protected].

‘Owen is an intelligent and insightful player witha technique to allow him to essay even the mostdifficult of music and present it clearly to us; thereare insufficient superlatives to praise him’ – eGlasgow Herald

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11amJoan of Arc Hall, Botton Village

Coffee ConcertAeðelfrìthMichael Berkeley – Champagne Fanfare (UK Premiere)

Nick Walkley – Jórvíkekkoer (World Premiere)

Byrd – Earl of Oxford’s March

Timothy Jackson – Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis

Michael Berkeley – Music from Chaucer

Simon Dobson – Joan’s Vision of St Michael (World Premiere)

Torstein Aagaard-Nielsen – Eirik the Viking

Holst (arr. Wick) – A Moorside Suite

Aeðelfrìth is a brass ensemble-based arts project,named after an ancient King of Northumbria andexploring connections between Anglian, Celtic andNordic cultures. eir programme has a mediaevalflavour, with a couple of Viking invasions thrownin! After a sparkling fanfare by Michael Berkeley,they play a new piece reminiscing Yorkshire underViking rule – a ‘call to arms’ featuring a pair ofDanish Lurs! ere are also pieces inspired byTallis and Chaucer, a new piece by Simon Dobsonto celebrate the special atmosphere of Botton’s Joanof Arc Hall and Holst’s famous evocation of thenorthern moorland landscapes of England.Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

7.30pmAmpleforth Abbey

Rachmaninov –Vespers Ex CathedraJeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

A centenary performance by an acclaimed choirof the work Rachmaninov loved above all hisothers – the Vespers (also known as the All NightVigil, and first performed in 1915). e solemn,serene beauty of this music which is rooted in hisdeep Orthodox faith gave him ‘an hour of themost complete satisfaction’. is work alwayscreates an unmistakable atmosphere and thisperformance by candlelight in Ampleforth Abbeywill surely be no exception.

‘Birmingham’s jewel in the crown – as theiracclaimed Proms appearance demonstrated – isJeffrey Skidmore’s Ex Cathedra…top-notch quality’– e Independent

‘a phenomenal feat of musicianship’ – e NewYorker

‘beyond praise…an unforgettable concert of memorablemusic superbly performed’ – Seen and HeardNo interval. Pre-concert and post-concert drinks

9.30pmChurch of the Holy Cross, Gilling

Nocturnesby Candlelight IIFinghin Collins (piano)

John Field – Two Nocturnes

Chopin – Two Nocturnes (op. 27)

Schumann – Des Abends


Schumann – In der Nacht


Schumann – Traumes Wirren

Acclaimed Irish pianist Finghin Collins beginswith two pieces by his compatriot John Field –the composer credited with inventing theNocturne. He follows them with three sets ofnocturnes by Chopin, interspersed with threevivid night-time evocations by Schumann.

‘He didn’t play as though trying to prove something, butrather as though recounting some little story he haduncovered in each one. is was transcendent playing… spellbinding stuff that reached deep’ – Irish Times

‘Of Finghin Collins as soloist, little needs to be saidthat has not been said before: he is exceptionallyfluent, exceptionally intelligent, exceptionallysensitive, responding to every possible nuance’ –International Record Review

6.45pmThe Saloon, Duncombe Park

Dame Fanny Watermanin conversation withRichard Shephard

A celebration of one of Yorkshire’s great musicalfigures. At the age of 96, Dame Fanny Watermanis perhaps the world’s best known piano teacher.Her books have introduced over 2 millionchildren to the piano and the international pianocompetition she founded in Leeds over 50 yearsago is famous for bringing ‘global talent to God’sown county’ by discovering and launching thecareers of many great pianists. She joins thedistinguished composer Richard Shephard to talkabout her life and work.


Benjamin Grosvenorin recitalBenjamin Grosvenor (piano)

Mendelssohn – Two Preludes and Fugues

Chopin – Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor (Funeral March)Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin

Liszt – Venezia e Napoli

Since being named BBC Young Musician of theYear 2004 at the age of 11, Benjamin Grosvenorhas widely been seen as one of the mostremarkably talented pianists to have emerged onthe international stage. His programmeencompasses works by Mendelssohn and Ravel,as well as Chopin’s 2nd Sonata, with its famous‘funeral march’ and a final movement describedby Rubinstein as ‘wind howling aroundgravestones’, before he ends with a dazzling piecethat Liszt composed to celebrate his favouriteItalian cities.

‘Benjamin Grosvenor may well be the mostremarkable young pianist of our time …performance after performance of surpassingbrilliance and character’ – Gramophone

‘ere is something of the conjuror and the magicianabout Grosvenor. His stage demeanour is quiet andhumble, his technique is effortless and flawless, hisrhythmic energy and flexibility are a constant sourceof delight, the range of colours he produces and hisdynamic range are possibly without parallel, and thisis done with an unassuming modesty that reveals somuch about his talent: he does not seek to amaze,and he does not need to’ – International RecordReview


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11amThe Saloon, Duncombe Park

Coffee ConcertCharles Owen (piano)

Bach – Goldberg Variations

‘Composed for connoisseurs, for the refreshmentof their spirits’ said Bach of his thirty variationson a simple tune, a musical Everest, full ofvirtuosity and incredible invention, and playedhere by one of the outstanding British pianists ofhis generation.

‘Charles Owen’s pellucid articulation, a bright andshining sound, absolutely no pedal, and anexuberant delight in these colourful works. Houdini-like technical challenges … as Bach pianism goes,this was as exciting as it gets’ – e IndependentCoffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

3pmSt Mary’s Church, Ebberston

Afternoon ConcertFenella Humphreys (violin)

Sally Beamish – New Work (English Premiere)

Bach – Chaconne (from Partita no. 2 in D minor)

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – New Work (English Premiere)

Bach – Partita no. 3 in E major

e beautiful church of St Mary’s Ebberston isthe setting for two of Bach’s greatest solo violinworks alongside two new Bach-inspired works bytwo of the country’s foremost composers. eyare played by a violinist variously described in thepress as ‘alluring’, ‘unforgettable’ and ‘a wonder’.

‘Fenella Humphreys’ performance is a wonder’ –International Record Review

‘Fenella Humphreys captures the music’s wistfulcantabile to perfection, producing a golden tone inall registers with the utmost sensitivity to where everyphrase is moving’ – e Strad

6.30pmChurch of St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough

Discovering Bach:John Butt in conversatione award-winning conductor, keyboard playerand renowned Bach expert John Butt introducesthe concertos of J.S. Bach and answers questionsfrom the audience about Bach and his music.is is a free event.

‘Butt is an unlikely podium hero. Holed up at theUniversity of Glasgow, he spends his days unravellingthe notational mysteries of baroque scores ... But, puthim on a podium, and Butt forgets his boffin dayjob and conducts his musicians with head-bangingferal might’ – e Guardian

8pmChurch of St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough

Dunedin ConsortJohn Butt (director)Cecilia Bernardini (violin)Huw Daniel (violin)Alexandra Bellamy (oboe)

J.S. Bach – Sinfonia to Cantata 21 Ich hatte viel

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J.S. Bach – Concerto for oboe and violin in C minor

J.S. Bach – Violin Concerto in E major

J.S. Bach – Violin Concerto in A minor

J.S. Bach – Concerto for two violins in D minor (DoubleConcerto)

Bach was most famous as an organist and keyboardplayer, but was also a fine violinist. After a livelyoverture, the Dunedin Consort presents two of hissolo violin concertos, with their wealth of inventivedetail, alongside a colourful and joyful concerto forviolin and oboe. e programme culminates inone of Bach’s greatest masterpieces - the DoubleConcerto for two violins, with its famous andsublime slow movement.

‘One of the finest available Bach performances’ –e Independent

‘Sheer magic’ – BBC Music Magazine

‘a sparkling and scintillating performance…wheresome violinists sound as though they’re engaged in aphysical and intellectual tussle with the music,Bernardini made light and weightless music thatflowed in every movement …It was an absolutethrill to listen to and a delight to hear’ – e Herald

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11amSt Mary’s Church, Lastingham

Coffee ConcertJoseph Shiner (clarinet)Frederick Brown (piano)

John Ireland – Fantasy-Sonata for clarinet and piano

Debussy – Beau Soir

Freya Waley-Cohen – Nocturne (World Premiere)

Fauré – Clair de lune

Brahms – Sonata for clarinet and piano in E flat major

Weiner – Peregi Verbunk

Two outstanding young musicians perform aprogramme including one of John Ireland’s mostpersonal works, a late sonata by Brahms and adazzling Hungarian showpiece. At the centre ofthe programme are three pieces inspired by night,including the world premiere of a new nocturneby Freya Waley-Cohen.

Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45amin Lastingham Village Hall

2pmSt Mary’s Church, Lastingham

Wind WorkshopJoseph Shiner

Young and amateur wind players are invited tocome and work with top clarinettist JosephShiner in an informal public workshop. Comeand find out how to get more from yourinstrument and find more freedom andenjoyment in playing. All ages and levels arewelcome at this free event. Open-door to thepublic with unreserved seating. To take part, orfind out more, please email Robert Heath:[email protected].

3.30pmHelmsley Arts Centre

Charlotte Green: The News is ReadFor 27 years, newsreader Charlotte Green’s rich,velvety voice was a staple on the radio and a treatfor millions of listeners. Charlotte joined theBBC in 1978 and became one of the regularreaders on the Today programme, where herbulletins covered everything from the fall of theBerlin Wall to 9/11. After leaving Radio 4 in2013, Charlotte joined Classic FM, where shenow presents an arts and culture programme. Shetalks about her life, giving us the story behind thevoice, extracts from her entertaining andtouching autobiography, some hilariousanecdotes of her career, and a peek at the invisibleworld of radio.

7pmSledmere House and Church

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A Matter of Patter

Richard Suart (baritone)Bryan Evans (piano)

A light-hearted celebration of operetta and the artof the patter song, of which Richard Suart is onethe world’s greatest exponents. Featuring songs byGilbert and Sullivan, Tom Lehrer, Flanders andSwann and Noel Coward, all spiced withanecdotes, dialogue and general patter – as youmight expect!

‘Richard Suart… patters astoundingly and isgleefully funny as Major-General Stanley’ – eGuardian

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Beethoven – Septet

GirasoliAlison Bury (violin)Katie Heller (viola) Andrew Skidmore (cello)Elizabeth Bradley (double bass)Lesley Schatzberger (clarinet)Susan Dent (horn)Alastair Mitchell (bassoon)

Beethoven’s sparkling Septet has always been oneof his most celebrated works. Full of melodiccharm, witty interplay between instruments andingenious effects, this is Beethoven at his mostconvivial, played by a group of celebratedmusicians who have come together to mark the20th anniversary of festival charity Jessie’s Fund.The grounds of Sledmere will be open from 5.30pm forconcert-goers and there will be a further picnic opportunityduring the 45 minute interval between performances whendrinks will also be available.

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11amSt Michael’s Church, Coxwold

Coffee ConcertLendvai Trio

Beethoven – Serenade in D major (op. 8)

Michael Berkeley – String Trio

Ryedale welcomes the superb Lendvai Trio for athree-day residency. ey begin with an earlywork by Beethoven, where lively dances to delightthe composer’s patron sit alongside slowermovements that are full of poetry. It is followedby another early work (for which the composerstill has a ‘soft spot’) by festival composer inresidence Michael Berkeley.

‘e Lendvai Trio has a deep well of energy… thiswas persuasive playing, technically of the highestorder’ – e Strad

‘e string trio repertoire tends to be an unopenedbox of surprises, even to string players themselves …played with great wit and finesse by the LendvaiString Trio. is is their first disc. What a fine debut’– e Observer

Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am-10.45am.

11amSt John the Evangelist’s Church, Welburn

Coffee ConcertAlec Frank-Gemmill (horn)Simon Smith (piano)

Beethoven – Sonata in F major for horn and piano

Kirchner – Tre Poemi

Schumann – Adagio and Allegro

R. Strauss – Mondscheinmusik aus Capriccio

At 28 years old, BBC New Generation Artist AlecFrank-Gemmill is already considered one of the

foremost exponents of the horn as a soloinstrument. He joins pianist Simon Smith for atypically wide-ranging programme.

‘A phenomenon with a tone of golden purity,wraparound warmth and ecstatic afterglow’ –Financial Times

‘what a great player is Frank-Gemmill.Extraordinary: the haunting horn strands of themusic have never been more tellingly in safe hands’– e HeraldCoffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am-10.45am.

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Double Concert IIChurch

Lendvai TrioMozart – Divertimento in E flat major

Aged 31, at the height of his powers but alsovirtually penniless, Mozart turned to the unusualcombination of three string instruments andproduced one of his greatest masterpieces. AlfredEinstein called it ‘one of his noblest works...something special in the way of art, invention,

and good spirits... Each instrument is first amongequals, every note is significant, every note acontribution to spiritual and sensuous fulfilmentin sound’.

‘their well-considered performances show affection forthe music, revelling in its warmth and flashes ofhumour, a resounding success’ – BBC Music Magazine

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4 Girls 4 HarpsEleanor Turner, Harriet Adie, Keziah Thomas,Elizabeth Scorah (harps)

Handel – La Réjouissance (Music for the Royal Fireworks) Harriet Adie – Sun, Moon and Stars – A Middle-Eastern Sky

Ravel – Three pieces from ‘Ma mère l’Oye’ (Mother Goose)

Pavane de la Belle au bois dormant Laideronnette, Impératrice des pagodes Les entretiens de la Belle et de la Bête

Paul Patterson – Mosquitoes (World Premiere)

Monica Stadler – African Reflections

Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre

4 Girls 4 Harps have delighted audiences throughoutEurope with their dynamic performances andinnovative repertoire. Inspired by the sights andsounds of the night, their programme includes theworld premiere of a piece by Paul Patterson depictingone of night’s less welcome visitors!

‘Sparkingly energetic…ensemble is watertight andthere is a real rhythmic élan to the playing whichkeeps you listening’ – BBC Music Magazine

The grounds of Sledmere will be open from 5.30pm forconcert-goers and there will be a further picnic opportunityduring the 45 minute interval between performances whendrinks will also be available.

11amChurch of St Michael le Belfrey, York

Coffee ConcertLendvai TrioAlec Frank-Gemmill (horn)Christopher Glynn (piano)

Mozart – Horn Quintet in E flat major

Mozart – Piano Quartet in G minor

Two very different works by Mozart. e LendvaiTrio join forces with Alec Frank-Gemmill for hisHorn Quintet, a good-natured piece, full ofvirtuosity and with a magical central movement.In contrast his Piano Quartet in G minor isalmost operatic in its scope and richness, a truemasterpiece from the same year as e Marriageof Figaro.Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am-10.45am.


Any Other Business –Martin Vander Weyerand friendsMartin Vander Weyer reads excerpts from his newbook Any Other Business and talks about his life,alongside musical and poetic contributions fromfriends and colleagues. A Spectator columnistdescribed by Boris Johnson as ‘the most oracularand entertaining business commentator inLondon’, Martin is also a poet, playwright,amateur actor, former banker, intrepid traveller,ardent Francophile, music lover and proudYorkshireman – aspects of his life that are allreflected in this anthology which he describes as‘a kind of autobiographical jigsaw puzzle’.

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An Evening withMichael BerkeleyFenella Humphreys (violin)Adrian Brendel (cello)Ruby Hughes (soprano)Christopher Glynn (piano)Ryedale Festival Ensemble

Mozart – Adagio and Fugue

Lennox Berkeley – Andantino

Bridge – Go not, happy day

Britten – The Salley Gardens

Michael Berkeley – Three songs for children

Michael Berkeley – Veilleuse

Michael Berkeley – At a Solemn Wake (World Premiere)

Poulenc – La Grenouillère

Michael Berkeley – Echo: Homage à Poulenc

Michael Berkeley – Rilke Sonnet no. 2

Fauré – Piano Quartet in C minor

An evening of music and conversation with thecomposer and broadcaster Michael Berkeley –one of the country’s best known musical figures.e son of the composer Lennox Berkeley,godson of Benjamin Britten, and a chorister atWestminster Cathedral, he has also been artisticdirector of several festivals, presenter of BBCRadio 3’s Private Passions and, since 2012, anindependent peer in the House of Lords. He talksabout his life in music and introducesperformances of some of his own ‘privatepassions’, including one of Fauré’s mostmagnificent works. e concert also includes theworld premiere of a new piece for cello and pianocommissioned for the Ryedale Festival.

Pre-concert and interval drinks 11amSt Mary’s Church, Thirsk

Coffee ConcertX24 and EXtraCHORdWilliam Brooks and Jessica Burggraf(conductors)

Barber – Agnus Dei (Adagio for Strings)Buchenberg – Veni, Dilecta MiBritten – Hymn to St CeciliaByrd – O quam suavis estFrank Martin – Mass for Double Choir

is concert begins and ends with two greatsettings of the Agnus Dei: Samuel Barber’s is anarrangement for voices of his own famous Adagiofor strings, while Swiss composer Frank Martin’ssetting concludes his inspired mass for doublechoir – one of the 20th century’s greatestliturgical works and also a piece that thecomposer regarded as his own personal offeringto God. It also features one of Britten and Auden’shappiest collaborations – a motet in praise of thepatron saint of music. Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am-10.45am.

8pmAll Saints’ Church, Helmsley

The Beautiful Maidof the Mill Toby Spence (tenor)Christopher Glynn (piano)

Schubert - The Beautiful Maid of the Mill

(Die schöne Mullerin – in a new English version by JeremySams)

Schubert’s great song cycle Die schöne Mullerin isheard here in the world premiere of a new Englishversion by Jeremy Sams, sung by the internationallyrenowned tenor Toby Spence. Its twenty songs tellthe story of a young wanderer who follows a streamto a mill. He finds work there, and falls in love withthe miller’s daughter. But when she rejects him hefinds himself alone, wandering again, with thestream his only companion.

‘Toby Spence’s appreciation of poetic form andexpression was evident from the first phrase…everyword was clear, even those lines which werearticulated almost as a whisper. He vibrantly liftedwords from the page, and sang with affectingemotional commitment’ – Opera Today

‘one of the great British tenors of his generation’ –Opera Now

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Nocturnesby Candlelight IIIKatya Apekisheva (piano)




Beethoven – Sonata no. 14 in C# minor (Moonlight Sonata)

For the last in our series celebrating night musicfor piano, Russian pianist Katya Apekisheva playsthe late Chopin Nocturnes alongside a sonata byBeethoven, nicknamed Moonlight after itsatmospheric opening movement.

‘A profoundly gifted artist who has already achievedartistic greatness’ – Gramophone

‘Astute colours and brilliant technique’ – e Times

‘Her power and temperament remind me of MarthaArgerich’ – Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Moscow

Pre-concert drinks

3pmGarden of the Worsley Arms Hotel,Hovingham

Garden PartyKirkbymoorside Brass Band

No Yorkshire festival would be complete withouta brass band performance – and Kirkbymoorsideis well known as one of the county’s finest. Wewelcome them in this their 200th anniversaryyear. Tickets include a cream tea.

6pmAll Saints’ Church, Hovingham

Festival Service The Revd. Tim RobinsonThe Rt. Revd. James Jones (Preacher)

A short, ecumenical service of thanksgiving forthe festival, with words and music reflecting on atheme of ‘e Imagination of our Hearts’.

7pmHovingham Hall

Final Gala ConcertRoyal Northern SinfoniaToby Spence (tenor)Steven Hudson (oboe)Peter Francomb (horn)Bradley Creswick (director)

Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Michael Berkeley – Oboe Concerto

Britten – Serenade for tenor, horn and strings

Mozart – Paris Symphony no. 31 in D major

ree works with very different night-timeassociations: Mozart’s evening divertissement Einekleine Nachtmusik ended up as one of his mostcelebrated works. Michael Berkeley’s OboeConcerto remembers the composer’s godfather,Benjamin Britten, in a movement recalling thelines ‘Let us sleep now’ from his War Requiem.Britten’s own fascination with the night is heardin his Serenade – haunting settings of six greatnocturnal poems with an eloquent part for solohorn. e concert ends with the musicalfireworks of one of Mozart’s most extrovertsymphonies.

‘the Serenade…got the performance of a lifetimefrom tenor Toby…Crystalline, witty and full oftender, mysterious emotion, this was a reading thatbrought out every nuance and every bit of majestyin the score’ – San Francisco Chronicle

‘ere’s no better chamber orchestra in Britain’ –e Guardian


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Ryedale FestivalExhibition

Gerard CollettGerard Collett is fast developing an internationalreputation for his street and social documentaryphotography. He has been recently exhibited in thePall Mall Gallery in London, the Soho ArthouseGallery in New York, and in Los Angeles at the LosAngeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA). He isthe 2014 winner of the international iPhonePhotography Awards in its highly competitiveNews/Events category, securing furthernominations in other categories. He is a passionateadvocate of the analogue process and in additionto mobile photography and digital, he uses Leicarangefinder cameras in the tradition of HenriCartier-Bresson and Garry Winogrand, two of hismajor influences. In this year’s MobilePhotography Awards, he has received threecommendations, two in its Photojournalismcategory. His innovative work with the iPhone hasattracted the attention of numerous publications,including an in-depth interview with MacUserMagazine which ran a four-page spread of hisphotographs, establishing him as an exciting newvoice within iPhoneography and photojournalism.

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Austro-Hungarianmusic• Bartók – String Quartets (19th – 22nd July)• Haydn – String Quartets op. 76 (19th –

22nd July)• Lehár – e Merry Widow (18th and 20th July)• Brahms and the Gypsy – e Red Hedgehog

Tavern (17th July)• Brahms – Ziegeunerlieder (25th July)• Bartók – Music for Strings, Percussion and

Celesta (24th July)• Lucy Beckett – e Rise and Fall of the

Habsburg Empire (22nd July)

Night music• Chopin – Complete Nocturnes (21st and

25th July, 1st August)• Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht (23rd July)• Stile Antico – Music for Compline (23rd July)• Holst – Nocturne from Moorside Suite (24th

July)• Bartók – Music for Strings, Percussion and

Celesta (24th July)• Rachmaninov – 100th anniversary

performance of Vespers (25th July)• Freya Waley-Cohen – Nocturne (28th July)

• Harriet Adie – Sun, Moon and Stars (30thJuly)

• Paul Patterson – Mosquitoes (30th July)• Mozart – Eine kleine Nachtmusik (2nd August)• Britten – Serenade for tenor, horn and strings

(2nd August)

Michael Berkeley –composer in residence• Champagne Fanfare (24th July)• Music from Chaucer (24th July)• String Trio (29th July)• At a Solemn Wake (World Premiere – 31st July)• Veilleuse (31st July)• ree songs for children (31st July) • Echo: Homage à Poulenc (31st July)• Rilke Sonnet no. 2 (31st July)• Oboe Concerto (2nd August)

Free Workshops• Strings Workshop with Matthew Sharp

(18th July)• Jazz Workshop with NYJO (21st July)• Piano Workshop with Charles Owen (25th

July)• Wind Workshop with Joseph Shiner (28th July)

Festival Premieres• David Gordon – Romanesque for recorder

and string quartet (17th July)• Marcus Bartram-Stevens – Double on

Purcell’s Fantasia No 7 (17th July)• Michael Berkeley – Champagne Fanfare

(24th July)• Nick Walkley – Jórvíkekkoer (24th July)• Simon Dobson – Joan’s Vision of St Michael

(24th July) • Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – new work

(27th July)• Sally Beamish – new work (27th July)• Freya Waley-Cohen – Nocturne for clarinet

and piano (28th July)• Paul Patterson – Mosquitoes (30th July)• Michael Berkeley – At a Solemn Wake

(31st July)• Jeremy Sams – e Beautiful Maid of the

Mill (1st August)

Ways with Words –festival talks and literary events • Katy Hamilton – Haydn, Bartók and the

String Quartet (19th – 22nd July)• Martin Bell – e End of Empire (20th July)

• Lucy Beckett – e Rise and Fall of theHabsburg Empire (22nd July)

• Henry Marsh – Do No Harm (24th July)• Dame Fanny Waterman in conversation

(26th July)• John Butt – Discovering Bach (27th July)• Charlotte Green – e News is Read (28th July)• Martin Vander Weyer – Any Other Business

(31st July)

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General Booking TermsTickets can be applied for by post before the Box Office opens on the 18th May, and will be dealt within order of receipt when general booking begins.

Accessibility Some of our venues have limited access for wheelchair users and those with restricted mobility. If you have anyspecial requirements, please inform the Box Office when ordering tickets, or use the Accessibility Requirementssection on the Booking Form.

Returns e Festival cannot accept returns at less than one week’s notice prior to the event. Before this date, arefund will be paid (less a 10% handling charge) for any ticket returned and subsequently resold.

• In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the Festival reserves the right to change artists,programmes and venues without prior notice.

• Please note that many Festival venues are not designed as concert halls and some seats may havea restricted view.

• Doors open 30 minutes before advertised performance times.

Booking Form

Ampleforth Abbey and eatre YO62 4EN

Birdsall St Mary’s Church YO17 9NW

Botton Village Joan of Arc Hall YO21 2NJ

Castle Howard YO60 7DA

Coxwold St Michael’s Church YO61 4AD

Easingwold Galtres Centre YO61 3AD

St John and All Saints’ YO61 3HH

Ebberston St Mary’s Church YO13 9PA

Gilling Church of the Holy Cross YO62 4JQ

Helmsley Duncombe Park YO62 5EB

Helmsley Arts Centre YO62 5DW

All Saints’ Church YO62 5AQ

Hovingham All Saints’ Church YO62 4LG

Hovingham Hall YO62 4LU

Worsley Arms Hotel YO62 4LA

Ryedale FestivalBox OfficeThe Memorial Hall, Potter Hill, Pickering, N. Yorks YO18 [email protected] office 01751 475777

Finding our Venues

Lastingham St Mary’s Church YO62 6TN

Malton Methodist Chapel YO17 7LL

Milton Rooms YO17 7LX

St Michael’s Church YO17 7LX

e Talbot Hotel YO17 7AJ

Norton St Peter’s Church YO17 9AE

Old Malton St Mary’s Priory Church YO17 7HB

Pickering Parish Church YO18 7AW

Scarborough St Martin-on-the-Hill YO11 2BT

Sherburn St Hilda’s Church YO17 8PP

Sledmere Sledmere House YO25 3XG

irsk St Mary’s Church YO7 1PR

Welburn St John the Evangelist YO60 7EQ

York St Michael le Belfrey YO1 7EN

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FRI 1

711am

1Coffee Cantata / R

omanesque / S

ir Thom

as Allen

Pickering Parish Church

£16.00

£12.80

£14.40

£8.00

JULY

8pm

2The Red Hedgehog Tavern

Milton Rooms, Malton

£18.00

£14.40

£16.20

£9.00

SAT 18

11am

3Coffee Concert – Phoenix Trio / Haydn and Brahms

St John and All Saints', Easingw

old

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

2pm

4Strings Workshop – Matthew

Sharp

St John and All Saints', Easingw

old

Free

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Free

6pm

5The Merry Widow

(with picnic interval)

Ampleforth College Theatre

£35.00

£28.00

£31.50

£17.50

SUN 19

7pm

6Pre-concert talk I

The Saloon, Duncombe Park

Free

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Free

8pm

7Haydn, Bartók and the String Qu

artet I


£16.00

£12.80

£14.40

£8.00

MON

20

10am

8Pre-concert talk II

St Mary's Church, Birdsall

Free

BOOKIN

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ECESSARY

Free

11am

9Haydn, Bartók, and the String Qu

artet II

St Mary's Church, Birdsall

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

3pm

10Martin Bell – The End of Empire

Galtres Centre, Easingw

old

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

7pm

11The Merry Widow

(without picnic interval)

Ampleforth College Theatre

£35.00

£28.00

£31.50

£17.50

TUES

21

10am

12Pre-concert talk III

All Saints' Church, Hovingham

Free

BOOKIN

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Free

11am


artet III


£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

3.30pm

14Jazz Workshop –NY

JOMilton Rooms, Malton

Free

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1Free

7pm

15Na

tional Youth Jazz Orchestra

Milton Rooms, Malton

£20.00

£16.00

£18.00

£10.00

9.30pm

16Nocturnes by Candlelight I – Charles Ow

en

St Michael's Church, Malton

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

WED

22

11am

17Lucy Beckett – The Rise and Fall of the Habsburg Em

pire

Methodist Chapel, Malton

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

12.45pm

18Festival Lunch

Talbot Hotel, M

alton

£25.00

NO

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UN

TS

7pm

19Pre-concert talk IV

St Mary's Priory Church, Old Malton

Free

BOOKIN

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Free

8pm


artet IV

St Mary's Priory Church, Old Malton

£16.00

£12.80

£14.40

£8.00

THU 23

11am

21Coffee Concert – Yorkshire Young Musicians

Helmsley Arts Centre

£10.00

£8.00

£9.00

£5.00

7pm

22Triple Concert – Petrushka / Compline / Transfigured Night

Castle How

ard

£36.00

£28.80

£32.40

£18.00

FRI 2

411am

23Brass ensemble – Aeðelfrith

Joan of Arc Hall, Botton

£15.00

£12.00

£13.50

£7.50

3pm

24Henry Marsh – Do No Harm


£10.00

£8.00

£9.00

£5.00

8pm

25Orchestra of O

pera North – Bartók and Mahler

St Peter's Church, Norton Cen

tre Nave

£30.00

£24.00

£27.00

£15.00

Side

Aisles Un

allocated

£28.00

£22.40

£25.20

£14.00

SAT 25

11am

26Coffee Concert – Ziegeunerlieder / Polyhym

nia

St Hilda's Church, Sherburn

£15.00

£12.00

£13.50

£7.50

3pm

27Piano Workshop – Charles Ow

enHelmsley Arts Centre

Free

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7Free

7.30pm

28Rachmaninov – Vespers / Ex Cathedra

Ampleforth Abbey

£20.00

£16.00

£18.00

£10.00

9.30pm

29Nocturnes by Candlelight II – Finghin Collins

Holy Cross Church, Gilling

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

SUN 26

6.45pm

30Dame Fanny Waterman and Richard Shephard


£7.00

£5.60

£6.30

£3.50

8pm

31Benjam

in Grosvenor in recital


£28.00

£22.40

£25.20

£14.00

MON

27

11am

32Coffee Concert – Goldberg Variations / Charles Ow

enThe Saloon, Duncombe Park

£14.00

£11.20

£12.60

£7.00

3pm

33Afternoon Concert – Fenella Hum

phreys

St Mary's Church, Ebberston

£10.00

£8.00

£9.00

£5.00

6.30pm

34Discovering Bach – John Butt in conversation

St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough

Free

BOOKIN

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ECESSARY

Free

8pm

35Du

nedin Consort – Bach Concertos

St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough

£20.00

£16.00

£18.00

£10.00

TUES

28

11am

36Coffee Concert – Joseph Shiner and Frederick Brow

n St Mary's Church, Lastingham

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

2pm

37Wind Workshop – Joseph Shiner

St Mary’s Church, Lastingham

Free

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2Free

3.30pm

38Charlotte Green – The New

s is Read


£15.00

£12.00

£13.50

£7.50

7pm

39Double Concert I – A Matter of Patter / Beethoven – Septet

Sledmere House and Church

£30.00

£24.00

£27.00

£15.00

WED

29

11am

40Coffee Concert – Lendvai Trio

St Michael's Church, Coxwold

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

THU 30

11am

41Cofffee Concert – Alec Frank-Gem

mill and Simon Smith

St John the Evangelist, Welburn

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

7pm

42Double Concert II – Lendvai Trio / 4 Girls 4 Harps

Sledmere House and Church

£25.00

£20.00

£22.50

£12.50

FRI 3

111am

43Coffee Concert – Lendvai Trio, A. Frank-Gem

mill, C. Glynn

St Michael le Belfrey Church, York

£15.00

£12.00

£13.50

£7.50

6pm

44Martin Vander W

eyer and Friends


£10.00

£8.00

£9.00

£5.00

8pm

45An Evening with Michael Berkeley


£25.00

£20.00

£22.50

£12.50

SAT 1

11am

46Coffee Concert – X24 and EXtraCH

ORd

St M

ary's Church, Thirsk

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

AUGU

ST8pm

47The Beautiful Maid of the Mill – T. Spence and C. Glynn

All Saints' Church, Helmsley

£18.00

£14.40

£16.20

£9.00

9.30pm

48Nocturnes by Candlelight III – Katya Apekisheva

All Saints' Church, Helmsley

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

SUN 2

3pm

49Garden Party – Kirkbymoorside Brass Band

Worsley Arm

s Hotel Garden, Hovingham

£12.00

£9.60

£10.80

£6.00

6pm

50Festival Service


Free

BOOKIN

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Free

7pm

51Final Gala Concert – Royal Northern Sinfonia / T. Spence

Hovingham Hall M

ain Se

ction

£30.00

£24.00

£27.00

£15.00

Rear Sectio

n£26.00

£20.80

£23.40

£13.00

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