15th–31st July 2016

Summary of events Friday 15th July 1 11am Gala Opening Coffee Concert Pickering Parish Church 2 4.30pm Ways with Words 1 St Michael’s Church, Malton 3 7.30pm A Shakespearian Tavern Milton Rooms, Malton

19 8pm Breaking the Rules St Mary’s Church, Lastingham Thursday 21st July 20 10am Pre-concert talk III St Michael le Belfrey Church, York 21 11am T.S. Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets III St Michael le Belfrey Church, York 22 7pm Triple Concert Castle Howard

Saturday 16th July 4 11am Coffee Concert St Peter’s Church, Wintringham 5 6pm Handel – Alcina Ryedale Festival Opera (with picnic interval) First of two performances Ampleforth College eatre Sunday 17th July 6 3pm Young Artist Platform I Helmsley Arts Centre 7 7pm Double Concert I Sledmere House and Church Monday 18th July 8 11am Coffee Concert St Hilda's Church, Sherburn 9 2-4pm Singing Workshop Helmsley Arts Centre 10 7pm Handel – Alcina Ryedale Festival Opera – Second of two performances Ampleforth College eatre Tuesday 19th July 11 11am Coffee Concert Pickering Parish Church 12 2-4pm Choral Workshop Pickering Parish Church 13 6pm Pre-concert talk I Long Gallery, Castle Howard 14 7pm T.S. Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets I Long Gallery, Castle Howard 15 9.30pm Late-night Candlelit Bach I All Saints’ Church, Slingsby Wednesday 20th July 16 10am Pre-concert talk II St Mary’s Church, Birdsall 17 11am T.S. Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets II St Mary’s Church, Birdsall 18 3pm Ways with Words 2 Helmsley Arts Centre

Friday 22nd July 23 11am Coffee Concert St John and All Saints’ Church, Easingwold 24 5pm Ways with Words 3 St Michael’s Church, Malton 25 8pm A Shakespearian Serenade St Peter’s Church, Norton Saturday 23rd July 26 11am Coffee Concert e Saloon, Duncombe Park 27 3pm Ways with Words 4 e Saloon, Duncombe Park 28 7pm Pre-concert talk IV e Saloon, Duncombe Park 29 8pm T.S. Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets IV e Saloon, Duncombe Park Sunday 24th July 30 3pm Young Artist Platform II Helmsley Arts Centre 31 5pm Ways with Words 5 Helmsley Arts Centre 32 7pm Quartets for the End of Time All Saints’ Church, Helmsley 33 9.30pm Late-night Candlelit Bach II St Michael’s Church, Coxwold Monday 25th July 34 11am Coffee Concert Galtres Centre, Easingwold 35 2-4pm Percussion Workshop Galtres Centre, Easingwold 36 8pm Winter Journey St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton

Tuesday 26th July 37 2pm Sir James MacMillan in conversation with Katy Hamilton St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton 38 3pm Afternoon Concert – Royal Northern Sinfonia St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton Wednesday 27th July 39 11am Young Artist Platform III St Oswald’s Church, Sowerby 40 3pm Ways with Words 6 Wintringham Village Hall 41 7pm Double Concert II Sledmere House and Church Thursday 28th July 42 11am Coffee Concert St Mary’s Church, Ebberston 43 2-4pm Guitar Workshop Helmsley Arts Centre 44 6pm Faith and Creativity Sir James MacMillan Postgate Room, Ampleforth College 45 7pm Tenebrae Ampleforth Abbey 46 9.30pm Late-night Candlelit Bach III Church of the Holy Cross, Gilling Friday 29th July 47 11am Coffee Concert All Saints’ Church, Hovingham 48 8pm Vivaldi – e Four Seasons Church of St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough Saturday 30th July 49 11am Coffee Concert e Saloon, Duncombe Park 50 7pm Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk e Saloon, Duncombe Park 51 9.30pm Late-night Candlelit Bach IV St Gregory’s Minster Sunday 31st July 52 3pm Garden Party Worsley Arms Hotel, Hovingham 53 5.30pm Festival Service All Saints’ Church, Hovingham 54 6.30pm Final Gala Concert Hovingham Hall

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

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Ryedale Festival 2016

Introduction from the Artistic Director Great music, outstanding performers, beautiful venues, scenic countryside, a unique and friendly atmosphere: welcome to the 2016 Ryedale Festival! The late music of Beethoven takes centre stage, including all of his late string quartets. These extraordinary masterpieces are heard alongside the poems they inspired T.S. Eliot to write over one hundred years later. His Four Quartets also introduce a festival theme of ‘time’ that is reflected in works such as Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, Haydn’s Clock Symphony, Handel’s Alcina, Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year, Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge, and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.   There are other threads to follow through the festival too. Sir James MacMillan is Composer in Residence and there are many opportunities to discover his music, which fuses influences including his Scottish heritage and Catholic faith into a language that is both accessible and deeply expressive. The festival also marks the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare with a series of festival events celebrating his legacy – including one recreating the sights and sounds of an Elizabethan tavern!

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Friday 15 th July The music of Bach is heard by candlelight in a series of late-night concerts; the festival also breaks new ground with six world premieres and a UK premiere. The sights of the festival are as varied as its sounds, with events including a Triple Concert at Castle Howard, two Double Concerts at Sledmere, and a series of Coffee Concerts bringing music to the many beautiful country churches of the area. Away from the music, a series of literary events Ways with Words celebrates the work of five outstanding women writers. Among many brilliant individual performers and ensembles, the Heath Quartet are in residence and the festival’s Associate Ensemble, Royal Northern Sinfonia, offer two unmissable orchestral programmes. Vocal highlights include performances by Tenebrae, Voces8 and the Marian Consort, and a new English version of Schubert’s greatest song cycle. Not many artists bring period instruments to life more vividly than Rachel Podger, Kristian Bezuidenhout and La Serenissima. On a lighter note, look out for the brilliant brass ensemble opening the festival, a terrific saxophone quartet and the irresistible exuberance of The Alehouse Boys. Young performers play a special part in the festival. A new production of Handel’s great fantasyopera Alcina brings together a cast of outstanding young singers with the players of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s Experience scheme. A series of workshops gives local musicians the chance to work with world-class visiting performers, while the Ryedale500 scheme offers tickets to help more young people explore the festival. To the many loyal audience members who return year after year, thank you for your continued support and generosity; to those who will visit for the first time, I hope you enjoy the festival’s special magic. I look forward to seeing you all there.

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11am Pickering Parish Church

Gala Opening Coffee Concert Septura Rameau – Suite from Dardanus Ravel – Trois Chansons (no. 2) Shostakovich – Quartet no. 8 (2nd Movement) Purcell – The Curious Impertinent Prokofiev – Suite The Love of Three Oranges Lassus – Lagrime di San Pietro Rachmaninov – Slava!

Seven brass players, seven pieces, seven Deadly Sins. The acclaimed brass ensemble Septura possesses the varied repertoire (and its members perhaps the relevant personal experience) to portray all seven sins: envious Rameau, greedy Ravel, wrathful Shostakovich, lustful Purcell, proud Prokofiev, slothful Lassus and finally gluttonous Rachmaninov. ‘a magnificent seven’ – The Observer ‘virtuoso playing: glossy, brilliantly articulated, audaciously coloured, technically flawless’ –  BBC Music Magazine Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

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4.30pm St Michael’s Church, Malton

Ways with Words 1

‘All the world’s a stage’ Lucy Beckett on Shakespeare I

Christopher Glynn Artistic Director

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Septura

Shakespeare trying his hand at history, comedy and tragedy, and learning his trade: the historian and novelist Lucy Beckett looks at the plays before Hamlet, at Richard III, Bottom, Richard II and Bolingbroke, Mercutio and Juliet’s Nurse, Falstaff and Prince Hal, Brutus and Cassius and more. William Shakespeare

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7.30pm Milton Rooms, Malton

Saturday 16 th July 4

11am St Peter’s Church, Wintringham

A Shakespearian Tavern

Coffee Concert

The Alehouse Boys

Fenella Humphreys (violin) Somi Kim (piano)

Bjarte Eike (director) with Martin Vander Weyer (Sir John Falstaff) ‘It must have been an incredible atmosphere in the taverns of Shakespeare’s time – overflowing with music, alcohol, sex, gossip, fights, fumes, shouting, singing, laughing, dancing… How can we recreate some of this in our soapy-clean, computerised, health-fixated society?’ asks Bjarte Eike, the ‘uproariously talented’ leader of the groundbreaking ensembles Barokksolistene and The Alehouse Boys. In a special event for the Ryedale Festival, they recreate the sights and sounds of an Elizabethan alehouse in Malton’s Milton Rooms, with music, dancing, singing and storytelling, while Martin Vander Weyer leads the Ryedale Festival Players in extracts from some of Shakespeare’s greatest tavern scenes, including those in Twelfth Night and Henry IV Part I. ‘Sensational music-making with each person adept at singing, dancing, acting and playing an instrument, often simultaneously’ – Opera Now ‘Barokksolistene are an irresistible and totally organic fusion of styles – their eclecticism underpinned by skill and a spirit of inquisitive, joyous music-making that could make sense of any amount of fusion. We’re still a few months off those best-of-the-year roundups, but Eike and his ensemble have just shot to the top of my list’ – The Arts Desk Pre-concert and interval drinks

Fenella Humphreys

Prokofiev – Three pieces from Romeo and Juliet James MacMillan – After the Tryst Franck – Violin Sonata in A major Ravel – Tzigane

Franck’s passionate sonata for violin and piano was described by the composer as ‘a voyage of the soul’ and expressing a conflict between sacred and worldly love. It lies at the centre of this recital, alongside a piece by James MacMillan inspired by William Soutar’s poem The Tryst, three pieces from Prokofiev’s famous ballet music for Romeo and Juliet, and the dazzling virtuosity of Ravel’s showpiece inspired by gypsy music and folklore. ‘Fenella Humphreys’s performance is a wonder’ – International Record Review Ampleforth Abbey

‘a breathtaking range of colour, tone and inflection…’ – The Times Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

Septura

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6pm Ampleforth College Theatre

Ryedale Festival Opera

Handel – Alcina (with picnic interval) Nina Brazier (Director) Ian Tindale (Musical Director) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Experience scheme

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The Alehouse Boys

Time stands still on the enchanted island of Alcina. She is a beautiful sorceress who seduces countless men, but soon tires of them and transforms them into rocks or wild beasts before they can grow old. When the handsome knight Ruggiero arrives on her shores it seems he will be her latest victim. But he is pursued by his betrothed Bradamante who is determined to break

Alcina’s spell – and gradually the tables are turned. Alcina falls in love with Ruggiero: the enchantress is enchanted! She has found true love, but loses her lover, who returns to the faithful Bradamante. Alcina’s spell is broken; time no longer stands still in her kingdom; all have grown older and wiser. Sung here in the first performance of a new translation by John Warrack, and bringing together a cast of outstanding young singers with the brilliant musicians of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment’s Experience scheme, this is one of Handel’s greatest masterpieces – an operatic fantasy of temptation and transformation. ‘with its unerring knack of flushing out operas that are ideally suited to their surroundings Ryedale Festival Opera has hit the target yet again…there were only nine singers, but not a weak link among them… vivacious, emotional and clear toned…a poignant and rewarding show’ – Opera magazine No bar at this performance

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Sunday 17 th July Mezzo-soprano and BBC New Generation Artist Kathryn Rudge presents songs and ballads written between 1923 and 1945 by British composers whose lives were affected by war. They include nostalgic gems by Eric Coates and Ivor Novello as well as Roger Quilter’s beautifully melodic Seven Elizabethan Lyrics and a lyrical masterpiece by Howells. ‘If you like exceptionally thoughtful music-making, this album is for you. Rudge’s voice is golden, rich, and even; her diction crystal clear, and her phrasing superb. Baillieu’s playing is warm and supportive. Outstanding performances of every piece; I loved every minute of it’ – American Record Guide

Church

Rachel Podger and Kristian Bezuidenhout Rachel Podger (violin) Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano) Mozart – Sonata for violin and piano in B flat major (K.454) Mozart – Sonata for violin and piano in D major (K.306)

‘Britain’s finest period violinist’ (BBC Music Magazine) joins forces with ‘the finest living exponent of the fortepiano’ (The Herald ) to perform two of Mozart’s greatest sonatas for violin and piano, where the musical conversations between the two instruments are in turn majestic, intimate, profound and playful. ‘There is probably no more inspirational musician working today than Podger’ – Gramophone ‘an intoxicating combination of power and grace’ – Toronto Star The grounds of Sledmere will be open from 5.30pm for concertgoers and there will be a further picnic opportunity during the 45 minute interval between performances when drinks will also be available.

Sledmere House

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3pm Helmsley Arts Centre

Young Artist Platform I Miranda Wright Singers Ian Tindale (piano) Miranda Wright has become well-known for her outstanding work with young singers, especially in the north of England. She brings several of her talented students to perform a varied programme.

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7pm Sledmere House and Church

Kathryn Rudge

Rachel Podger

Double Concert I Sledmere House and Church are the venues for two short concerts, both performed twice, the audience changing places either side of a picnic interval. House

Love’s Old Sweet Song Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano) James Baillieu (piano) Howells – King David Quilter – Seven Elizabethan Lyrics Britten – The Salley Gardens Britten – Brisk Young Widow Britten – Oliver Cromwell Eric Coates – Birdsong at Eventide Ivor Novello – We’ll gather lilacs Bridge – Thy hand in mine Bridge – Where she lies asleep Bridge – Love went a-riding

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Monday 18 th July

Tuesday 19 th July 9

2-4pm Helmsley Arts Centre

Voces8

Singing Workshop – Miranda Wright Young singers from Ryedale work with Miranda Wright in an informal public workshop. All ages and levels are welcome at this free event. To take part please email [email protected]

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Kristian Bezuidenhout

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11am St Hilda's Church, Sherburn

7pm Ampleforth College Theatre

Ryedale Festival Opera

Handel – Alcina 11

Coffee Concert

See event 5 for details

Kristian Bezuidenhout (fortepiano)

Pre-opera and interval drinks – there will not be a picnic interval at this performance

Mozart – Fantasia in C minor (K.475) Mozart – Rondo in A minor (K.511) Mozart – Piano Sonata in B flat major (K.333)

Composed when he was at the height of his powers, Mozart’s Fantasia in C minor was the first in a series of deeply-felt and tragic minor key works that culminated in the famous Requiem of his last year. There is also a melancholy air to the elegant Rondo he composed on hearing of the death of a close friend. In contrast, the final work in this programme is from happier times: lyrical, good-humoured and often playful, with a seemingly endless stream of melodic invention. ‘Bezuidenhout is a prince of the fortepiano, making it sing in melodic phrases as no other practitioner of this intractable instrument has done in my experience’ – The Times ‘perhaps the finest Mozart player around today, full stop’ – Gramophone Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am 10

Cherise Lagasse (singing Alcina)

11am Pickering Parish Church

Coffee Concert

‘The singing of Voces8 is impeccable in its quality of tone and balance. They bring a new dimension to the word ensemble with meticulous timing and tuning’ – Gramophone

Voces8

‘The slickest of the lot... fans of a cappella ought to hear this’ – CD Review, BBC Radio 3

Alec Roth – Stargazer 1. Stand and Stare 2. The Star-lit Stairs 3. Star-Struck 4. In the Train Jonathan Dove – The Passing of the Year 1. Invocation 2. The narrow bud opens her beauties to the sun 3. Answer July 4. Hot sun, cool fire 5. Ah, Sun-flower! 6. Adieu! Farewell earth’s bliss! 7. Ring out, wild bells A selection of lighter items to be announced.

The award-winning vocal ensemble Voces8 has thrilled audiences all over the world with the beauty of their sound and celebrated stage presence. Their characteristically eclectic programme includes music written specially for the group, including a moving song cycle about the passing of time by Jonathan Dove, as well as some of their irresistible arrangements of jazz and pop standards.

Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served in the Hallgarth Parish Room from 10am–10.45am

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2-4pm Pickering Parish Church

Choral Workshop – Voces8 As the flagship ensemble of the charitable music foundation VCM, Voces8 has an enviable reputation for its education work, praised by UNESCO and reaching 20,000 people annually around the world with the aim of inspiring creativity and excellence through music. Come and hear them share the secrets of their success with choirs from Ryedale School and the Helmsley Arts Centre. The workshop includes a performance of MacMillan’s ‘The Halie Speerit’s Dauncers’. ‘Voces8 is no ordinary choir. It believes in the power of music to enhance lives and is helping schools far and wide’ – The Daily Telegraph

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Wednesday 20 th July

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6pm Long Gallery, Castle Howard

‘This is the fury of the world’s dance – fierce pleasure, agony, ecstasy of love, joy, anger, passion, and suffering; lightning flashes and thunder rolls; and above the tumult the indomitable fiddler whirls us on to the abyss. Amid the clamour he smiles, for to him it is nothing but a mocking fantasy; at the end, the darkness beckons him away, and his task is done.’ Wagner’s famous description gives some idea of the awe-inspiring scope of Beethoven’s quartet op. 131, heard here alongside Eliot’s East Coker – a meditation on life, death and redemption.

Heath Quartet

Pre-concert talk I Katy Hamilton Musician and writer Katy Hamilton introduces A Meeting of Minds – a series of four concerts bringing together the extraordinary world of Beethoven’s late quartets with the poems they inspired a century later from T.S. Eliot.

‘A performance exceptional in its perception’ – The Herald Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 9.30am–10.45am

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7pm Long Gallery, Castle Howard

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A Meeting of Minds:

Ways with Words 2

T.S. Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets I

Claire Harman – 15

Jeremy Irons (reader) Heath Quartet Beethoven – Quartet no. 12 in E flat (op. 127) T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton Beethoven – Quartet no. 13 in B flat (op. 130)

In the last years of his life, the profoundly deaf Beethoven composed a series of string quartets that contain some of the most extraordinary music ever written. ‘After this, what is left for us to write?’ asked Schubert. Over 100 years later, they inspired the poet T.S. Eliot who resolved ‘I should like to get something of that into verse before I die.’ The result was Four Quartets, Eliot’s own late masterpiece, with its ‘heavenly, or at least more than human gaiety…the fruit of reconciliation and relief after immense suffering.’ In the first of a series of four concerts, the Ryedale Festival brings together the Heath Quartet and Jeremy Irons to perform these visionary final works. ‘Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past’ – Burnt Norton, T.S. Eliot Afternoon tea available at 5pm – please see Castle Howard website for details. Interval drinks will also be available. 12

3pm Helmsley Arts Centre

9.30pm All Saints’ Church, Slingsby

Late-night Candlelit Bach I

Guardian Angel Rachel Podger (violin) J.S. Bach – Partita in G minor (BWV 1013) Biber – Passacaglia in G minor The Guardian Angel J.S. Bach – Partita no. 2 in D minor (BWV 1004)

Rachel Podger’s performances and recordings have long set a benchmark for interpretation and style in baroque music. A candlelit church is the setting for two of Bach’s great Partitas for solo violin, the second of which includes the famous Chaconne. She also plays an extraordinary and hauntingly beautiful work by Biber, named after an engraving of an angel and child found on the work’s manuscript. ‘Podger’s Bach has always been special: this is indispensable’ – BBC Music Magazine ‘Podger gives an outstanding performance… most persuasively and characterising vividly each stage of Biber’s music’ – Gramophone

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10am St Mary’s Church, Birdsall

Pre-concert talk II Katy Hamilton Katy Hamilton continues her exploration of the visionary world of Beethoven’s late quartets.

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11am St Mary’s Church, Birdsall

Coffee Concert

Charlotte Brontë 200 Years On Claire Harman looks at the life and legacy of Charlotte Brontë on the 200th anniversary of her birth in 1816. Her acclaimed biography paints the author as a literary visionary, trailblazer of feminism and driving force behind the whole family. She took charge of the family’s precarious finances when her brother succumbed to opium addiction. She also travelled throughout Europe, where she met some of the most brilliant literary minds of her generation and became a bestselling female author in a world still dominated by men. Above all, she created new kinds of heroine inspired by herself and her life: fiercely intelligent women burning with hidden passions. Jeremy Irons

A Meeting of Minds: T.S. Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets II Jeremy Irons (reader) Heath Quartet T.S. Eliot – East Coker Beethoven – Quartet no. 14 in C sharp minor (op. 131) 13

Wednesday 20 th July continued Finbar Lynch

Thursday 21 st July 20

10am St Michael le Belfrey Church, York

Pre-concert talk III Katy Hamilton In the third of her talks, Katy Hamilton continues to explore Beethoven’s late works, composed while he was profoundly deaf. 21

11am St Michael le Belfrey Church, York

Coffee Concert

Castle Howard

A Meeting of Minds: 19

8pm St Mary’s Church, Lastingham

Jeremy Irons (reader) Heath Quartet

Breaking the Rules

T.S. Eliot – The Dry Salvages Beethoven – Quartet no. 15 in A minor (op. 132)

The Marian Consort

After suffering a serious illness at the age of 54, Beethoven composed his string quartet op. 132, a journey of exploration and revelation that centres on a profound slow movement entitled ‘Song of thanksgiving to God on recovery from an illness.’ Eliot’s The Dry Salvages also has a message of hope, despite being written in 1940 during the air-raids on London.

Rory McCleery (director) Finbar Lynch (Gesualdo) An exploration of the music and extraordinary life of the composer Carlo Gesualdo, who was born 450 years ago this year. Breaking the Rules is set on the final day of Gesualdo’s life, 8 September 1613, when he is alone in the chapel of his family estate in a hilltop village near Naples. He has been living at the castle as a recluse for some time and two weeks ago his only son died. Now he comes to terms with his own mortality, knowing that he faces purgatory for a multitude of sins and haunted by a vision of his first wife, Maria, whom he murdered 23 years previously. He tries intoning religious platitudes but the only thing that can free him from the vision is listening to music. The sound-track of Gesualdo’s mind includes his monumental Tenebrae Responsories and a selection of his madrigals performed by the Marian Consort. 14

T.S. Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets III

Interval drinks

‘the music’s potency and bravura were conveyed with thrilling conviction’ – The Guardian Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 9.30am–10.45am

Catrin Finch

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7pm Castle Howard

Triple Concert A special event, unique to the Ryedale Festival: the Triple Concert features three contrasting concerts in different parts of Castle Howard, each performed three times, with the audiences changing places between performances.

Performances by candlelight of the great penitential text of Psalm 51 that has inspired composers through the ages. Allegri’s famous setting, composed for the Sistine Chapel, contrasts two choirs, one singing the chant and the other an ornamented version with famously soaring high notes for soprano. Four hundred years later, James MacMillan’s beautiful setting offers another perspective, mirroring the words in all their variety and colour, with drama at one end and beauty at the other. Great Hall

Long Gallery

Catrin Finch (harp)

Phoenix Trio

Elias Parish-Alvars – Introduction, Cadenza and Rondo Gabriel Fauré – Une Chatelaine en sa Tour Paul Hindemith – Sonata for Harp James MacMillan – Motet IV (World Premiere) Carlos Salzedo – Fantasie on Lara’s Granada

Shostakovich – Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor

‘I cannot express in words all the grief I felt when I received the news of the death of Ivan Ivanovich’ wrote Shostakovich in 1944. The composer’s deep sadness at the loss of his closest friend and mentor Ivan Sollertinsky found expression in one of his most powerful chamber works, a Piano Trio, where biting irony and propulsive anger sit side-by-side with passages of profound beauty and sadness. Chapel

The Marian Consort Rory McCleery (director) Allegri – Miserere James MacMillan – Miserere

Virtuosic fantasies on Italian operatic melody, Fauré’s famous evocation of ‘The Lady of the Castle in her Tower’, an intimate sonata by Hindemith, a new piece by James MacMillan and a dazzling showpiece based on a famous Spanish tune – all performed by one of the country’s leading musicians, known as ‘The Queen of Harps’, and former Royal Harpist to HRH The Prince of Wales. ‘One of the classic concerts of the year…Magnificent’ – The Guardian Interval drinks. 15

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Saturday 23 rd July Royal Northern Sinfonia

11am St John and All Saints’ Church, Easingwold

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Coffee Concert

Coffee Concert Nick van Bloss (piano)

Joshua Ellicott (tenor) Heath Quartet Christopher Glynn (piano)

Beethoven – Sonata no. 17 in D minor The Tempest Beethoven – Diabelli Variations

Beethoven’s 32 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli is one of the most incredible feats in musical history (comparable only with Bach’s Goldberg Variations), where a commonplace tune by a third-rate composer – a ‘cobbler’s patch’ according to Beethoven – is transformed into one of the great masterpieces of Western music. It is played here by Nick van Bloss alongside an earlier work by Beethoven said to have been inspired by Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

Vaughan Williams – Songs of Travel Beethoven – An die ferne Geliebte Vaughan Williams – On Wenlock Edge

The acclaimed tenor Joshua Ellicott performs three great song cycles. In his Songs of Travel, Vaughan Williams recreates something of the spirit of Schubert’s great wayfaring cycles; it is also full of his love of the English countryside and character. An die ferne Geliebte is one of the great works of Beethoven’s last years, expressing both his joy in nature and unrequited feelings for an ‘immortal beloved’. Finally, the Heath Quartet join tenor and pianist to perform On Wenlock Edge, with its exhilarating and windswept opening, folk-influenced melodies and tolling bells – a poignant reflection on young lives lost and the passing of time.

‘Deservedly huge cheers at the end of the night went to Joshua Ellicott...musical distinction, emotional precision and a keen dramatic urgency…’ – The Boston Globe ‘Joshua Ellicott knocked us over like a bowling ball rolling down the aisle (in the midst of such consummate professionalism by all, it seems wrong to have a favourite – but I’ll confess to a silent “oh good” every time Ellicott stood up to sing)’ – The Scotsman

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8pm St Peter’s Church, Norton

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5pm St Michael’s Church, Malton

Ways with Words 3

‘Unaccommodated man’ Lucy Beckett on Shakespeare II

Joshua Ellicott

Shakespeare’s great tragedies and his journey from Hamlet to The Tempest: the historian and novelist Lucy Beckett looks at action, suffering and judgement; men and women; power and powerlessness; revenge and forgiveness.

‘a poetic, tender and vividly coloured performance that had critics clawing at superlatives’ – International Piano Magazine Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

A Shakespearian Serenade Royal Northern Sinfonia Kerem Hasan (conductor)

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

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11am The Saloon, Duncombe Park

Purcell – Suite from The Fairy Queen Walton – Henry V Suite Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music Mendelssohn – Suite from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Royal Northern Sinfonia serenades Shakespeare in a programme of music inspired by his plays. The world of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was the basis for the vibrant and colourful music of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen; it also inspired a suite by Mendelssohn, including the famous overture and Wedding March, but also other less known but equally magical movements. Walton’s imagination was fired when he provided the music for a famous film of Henry V starring Laurence Olivier, whereas lines in praise of music from The Merchant of Venice moved Vaughan Williams to compose his unique Serenade to Music. Pre-concert and interval drinks

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3pm The Saloon, Duncombe Park

Ways with Words 4

Tessa Boase – The Housekeeper’s Tale This was one of the most prestigious jobs a 19th or early 20th century working woman could wish for, and also one of the toughest – a long way from Downton Abbey fiction. An English country house housekeeper might manage 100 servants and a domestic budget equal to a small bank. She had no need of a home, or even a husband. Tessa Boase tells the extraordinary and moving stories of five women who ran Britain’s most prominent households, including an unwanted pregnancy, a forbidden love affair, a prison sentence and several cases of summary dismissal. This was not, it turns out, such a cushy job…  ‘Boase makes history sing, packing her stories with details of family life and class distinctions and the minutiae of everyday living... A great read’ – Toronto Sun 17

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3pm Helmsley Arts Centre

Young Artist Platform II

Yorkshire Young Musicians Penny Stirling (director) Duncombe Park

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7pm The Saloon, Duncombe Park

Pre-concert talk IV

A concert featuring some of the most outstanding young musicians from the North Yorkshire and Humber area, all participants in the Yorkshire Young Musicians scheme, which enables young musicians (aged 8-18) to benefit from the highest quality tuition in their local area. The programme includes a performance of MacMillan’s ‘Kiss on Wood’. and movements from Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Seasons’.

Katy Hamilton In the last of a series of talks about Beethoven and T.S. Eliot, Katy Hamilton shares her fascination with what makes their late works so special.

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8pm The Saloon, Duncombe Park

A Meeting of Minds: T.S. Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets IV Jeremy Irons (reader) Heath Quartet Beethoven – Quartet no. 16 in F major (op. 135) T.S. Eliot – Little Gidding Beethoven – Grosse Fuge (op. 133)

In his Four Quartets T.S. Eliot talked of going ‘beyond poetry as Beethoven in his later works strove to get beyond music.’ In the last of a series of four concerts, Eliot’s vision of a paradise on earth, Little Gidding, is heard alongside the music of Beethoven’s final year, from the titanic complexity of the Grand Fugue to the fathomless simplicity of the slow movement of his final quartet. Pre-concert and interval drinks 18

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5pm Helmsley Arts Centre

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A Walk through the End of Time – by Jessica Duchen Dame Harriet Walter and Guy Paul (readers) Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is not only music of genius; it is also a message of hope. Composed by Messiaen and performed by him and three fellow captives in a prisoner-of-war camp in 1941, it remains a source of wonder to this day how music of such transcendental beauty could emerge from such conditions. Harriet Walter and Guy Paul star in a reading of Jessica Duchen’s acclaimed oneact play exploring the ideas behind the music and the circumstances of its composition. Through the story of two people whose lives have been deeply affected by the Quartet, it pays tribute to the enduring power of music, love and the human spirit.

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7pm All Saints’ Church, Helmsley

Quartets for the End of Time Chilingirian Quartet Andrew Marriner (clarinet) Ian Fountain (piano) Debussy – Sonata for Violin and Piano James MacMillan – Motet III (World Premiere) Edgar Bainton – String Quartet in A minor op. 26 Olivier Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time

Levon Chilingirian leads a soul-searching candlelit concert, beginning with the violin sonata that Debussy composed in 1915 as an expression of his French spirit and heritage, but also his despair at the war. In the same year, Edgar Bainton composed a richly melodic string quartet at the Ruhleben internment camp in Germany. James MacMillan’s Motet III for solo clarinet is an adaptation of music from his work Since the Day of Preparation about the Resurrection of Christ. The concert culminates with one of the most remarkable works of the twentieth century, Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, composed and first performed in the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag VIII-A in 1941, and inspired by a verse from the Book of Revelation: ‘In homage to the Angel of the Apocalypse, who lifts his hand toward heaven, saying, “There shall be time no longer”.’ ‘Those indispensable pillars of British musical life, the Chilingirian Quartet’ – The Times

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9.30pm St Michael’s Church, Coxwold

Pre-concert and interval drinks

Late-night Candlelit Bach II

Dame Harriet Walter

Ian Tindale (organ) Bach-Vivaldi – Concerto in D minor Bach – Trio Sonata no. 4 in E minor Bach – Chorale Preludes from the Orgelbüchlein Bach – Pièce d’orgue

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Tuesday 26 th July

11am Galtres Centre, Easingwold

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Pioneers of Percussion Joby Burgess (percussion) Toru Takemitsu – Seasons Nicole Lizée – The Filthy Fifteen Linda Buckley – Ekstasis Iannis Xenakis – Psappha

‘Consistently, Burgess’s talent is to make drums sing ...The range of sounds he coaxed was wonderfully unpredictable, captivating and imbued with constant momentum’ – Bachtrack Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

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2-4pm Galtres Centre, Easingwold

Percussion Workshop – Joby Burgess Young percussionists from Ryedale work with Joby Burgess in an informal public workshop. All ages and levels are welcome at this free event. To take part please email [email protected] ‘this insanely talented British percussionist’ – Chicago Classical Music 20

St Mary’s Priory Church

Sir James MacMillan in conversation with Katy Hamilton

Coffee Concert

Pioneers of Percussion brings together pioneering solo works from the most innovative and creative composers of the 20th Century. Takemitsu’s Seasons explores our changing ecology through a delicate metallic landscape and features the aluminium harp, the legendary pure-toned instrument (created for the 1927 film Chicago) whose resonating metal rods are famously difficult to play. A new work by the brilliant ‘musical scientist’ Nicole Lizée is inspired by the glitches of outmoded and well-worn technology, including a typewriter, while Ekstasis is a piece full of melody by a young Irish composer. Finally Psappha explodes with muscular and abrasive rhythms taken from ancient Greek text.

2pm St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton

Sir James MacMillan is one of today’s most successful composers. His musical language is full of influences from his Scottish heritage, Catholic faith, social conscience and close connection with Celtic folk music, with other influences coming from the Far East, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. Works like The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, Veni, Veni Emmanuel and Seven Last Words from the Cross have been performed Roderick Williams

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8pm St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton

Winter Journey Schubert’s Winterreise in a new English version Roderick Williams (baritone) Christopher Glynn (piano) Schubert’s great song cycle of love and loss in the first performance of a new English version by Jeremy Sams. A wanderer, unlucky in love, begins a long and lonely journey through a bleak winter landscape that mirrors his own inner world. His sad story unfolds in some of the greatest songs Schubert, or any composer, ever wrote. ‘Williams has an enviable reputation, thanks to his handsome vocal quality, open-minded approach to repertoire and warm, unaffected stage persona’ – Financial Times ‘a deeply sympathetic interpreter, who lavishes as much care on the words as the notes’ – BBC Music Magazine Pre-concert and interval drinks

Sir James MacMillan

throughout the world and acclaimed for their accessibility and depth of expression. He talks to Katy Hamilton about his life and work as the festival welcomes him to Ryedale as Composer in Residence. ‘a composer so confident of his own musical language that he makes it instantly communicative to his listeners’ – The Guardian

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3pm St Mary’s Priory Church, Old Malton

Afternoon Concert

Royal Northern Sinfonia Mozart – Flute Quartet in D James MacMillan – Four Little Tributes (World Premiere) Mahler – Piano Quartet James MacMillan – Cumnock Fair

A work by Mozart containing what has been described as ‘the most beautiful accompanied flute solo that has ever been written’ and the soaring emotions of Mahler’s only surviving piece of chamber music are heard alongside two works by James MacMillan. The first is the world premiere of Four Little Tributes, composed in honour of Michael Berkeley, Peter Maxwell Davies, Sally Beamish and John Casken; the other is a fantasy on dance melodies by an 18th century composer from Ayrshire. 21

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11am St Oswald’s Church, Sowerby

Coffee Concert

Young Artist Platform III Nicholas Mogg (baritone) Jâms Coleman (piano) Schubert – Ganymed Schubert – An die Musik Schubert – Auf der Bruck Loewe – Herr Oluf Loewe – Erlkönig Loewe – Tom der Reimer Britten – O Waly, Waly Britten – The Salley Gardens Britten – The Foggy, Foggy Dew Quilter – Come away, death (Twelfth Night ) Quilter – O Mistress Mine (Twelfth Night ) Quilter – Blow, blow, thou winter wind (As You Like It )

The winners of the Oxford Lieder’s Young Artist Platform 2015 present stories in song, from the innocence and sensual awakening of Schubert’s Ganymed to Loewe’s dramatic setting of the legend of the childsnatching Erl-king. They also perform Britten’s inspired arrangements of three timeless English folksongs and three Shakespeare settings by Roger Quilter. Presented in collaboration with Oxford Lieder. Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

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3pm Wintringham Village Hall

Ways with Words 6 Daisy Dunn

Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s most erotic poet Living through the debauchery, decadence and political machinations of the crumbling Roman Republic, Catullus filled his passionate poetry with 22

emotion, wit and lurid insight into many of the Republic’s most enduring figures. His poetry tells of a life beset with love, loss and political conflict. His own scandalous love affairs brimmed with the excess, corruption and spectacle of his time. Daisy Dunn talks about her acclaimed book that rediscovers the world of Catullus’ passions, exploring his adventures at sea, private dinners, lovers’ trysts and power games – a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history, seen through the eyes of one of Rome’s greatest writers. ‘Dunn’s beautifully written biography is a superb portrait of this most human of poets who leaps to life, hating and loving as ferociously as ever, before our 21stcentury eyes’ – The Sunday Times ‘An amazing mixture of pacey biography and first-rate literary analysis. Rome’s most famous bad boy poet comes alive as never before. Stunning’ – Boris Johnson

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7pm Sledmere House and Church

Double Concert II Sledmere House and Church are the venues for two short concerts, both performed twice, the audience changing places either side of a picnic interval. House

Mozart and MacMillan Royal Northern Sinfonia

Robin Blaze

Mozart – Clarinet Quintet James MacMillan – Tuireadh

Two works for clarinet and strings. MacMillan’s Tuireadh (a Gaelic word meaning ‘lament’) is a haunting memorial to the 167 victims of the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, while Mozart’s sublime Clarinet Quintet is one of the best-loved and deeplyfelt of all his works. Church

Shakespeare on my Mind Robin Blaze (countertenor) Elizabeth Kenny (lute/theorbo) Comedies Anon – When that I was and a little tiny boy (Twelfth Night) Anon – Kemp’s Jig Morley – It was a lover and his lass (As You Like It) Holborne – The Countess of Pembroke’s Paradise Tragedies Rosseter – Fantasie Anon – The poor soul sat sighing (Othello) Anon – Tom O’Bedlam (King Lear) The King’s Men at Blackfriars Theatre Johnson – Full fathom five (The Tempest) Johnson – Where the bee sucks (The Tempest) Johnson – Lute solos Magical voices Wilson – Take O take those lips away (Measure for Measure) Johnson – Pavan Johnson – Care-charming sleep Restoration Pietro Reggio – Arise, Arise ye subterranean winds (The Tempest) John Banister – Full fathom five (The Tempest) Purcell – Theorbo solo Purcell – If music be the food of love (Twelfth Night)

Elizabeth Kenny

Rooted in seventeenth century productions and inspired by Shakespeare, this recital ranges from songs for original productions by Robert Johnson and Thomas Morley, through revivals in the 1650s that brought more highly decorated versions of the songs, and finishes with the Restoration habit of reorientating the plays towards musical spectaculars. Well-known favourites such as Ariel’s song, It was a lover and his lass, lead into the less familiar, but equally striking territory of John Wilson, John Banister and Pietro Reggio.  The grounds of Sledmere will be open from 5.30pm for concertgoers and there will be a further picnic opportunity during the 45 minute interval between performances when drinks will also be available.

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7pm Ampleforth Abbey

Tenebrae Nigel Short (director) Ryedale Festival Ensemble (trombones and solo trumpet)

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11am St Mary’s Church, Ebberston

Coffee Concert Laura Snowden and Tom Ellis (guitars) Falla – Pièces Espagnoles  Ravel – extracts from The Mother Goose Suite Stephen Dodgson – Pastourelle Colin Downs – In the Midnight Hour Mauro Giuliani – Variazioni Concertanti

Tom Ellis and Laura Snowden began performing together aged just 15 and have since emerged as an outstanding guitar duo, winning numerous national and international awards and critical praise for the haunting quality of their performances. ‘a poignant, mesmerising show....held the Wigmore Hall rapt with a performance of unassuming poise and intensity’ – The Guardian Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

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2-4pm Helmsley Arts Centre

Guitar Workshop – Laura Snowden and Tom Ellis

Bruckner – Aequale I Bruckner – Virga Jesse Bruckner – Os justi Bruckner – Tota pulchra es Brahms – Fest und Gedenksprüche Brahms – Ave Maria James MacMillan – The Gallant Weaver James MacMillan – In Splendoribus Sanctum Bruckner – Ave Maria Bruckner – Christus factus est Bruckner – Locus iste Brahms – How lovely are thy dwellings fair

Brahms – Three Motets Brahms – Geistliches Lied Bruckner – Aequale II Bruckner – Ecce sacerdos magnus

The solemn sound of four trombones introduces a magnificent programme featuring one of the world’s greatest choirs and centred on the great motets that Bruckner composed as an expression of his Catholic faith, and to echo around just such a resonant space as Ampleforth Abbey. The acclaimed voices of Tenebrae will also be heard in two of James MacMillan’s most evocative choral works. ‘the ethereal vocal purity of Tenebrae… was like heaven on earth’ – The Scotsman ‘More polished choral singing would be hard to find anywhere’ – BBC Music Magazine Pre-concert and interval drinks

Tenebrae

Young and amateur guitarists from all over Ryedale work with Laura Snowden and Tom Ellis in an informal public workshop. Come and find how to get more from your instrument and find more freedom and enjoyment in your playing. All are welcome to this free event. To take part please email [email protected] Supported by The Musicians’ Company

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6pm Postgate Room, Ampleforth College

Faith and Creativity Sir James MacMillan in conversation with Richard Shephard James MacMillan and Richard Shephard explore what place faith and mysticism have in artistic vision and how their faith has influenced their work.

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11am All Saints’ Church, Hovingham

La Serenissima

Coffee Concert Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet Grieg – Holberg Suite Jennifer Watson – Tinged James MacMillan – Intercession Django Bates – My First Scooter Paul Patterson – Diversions 1. Gusty 2. Blowing Blue 3. Sea Breeze

Late-night Candlelit Bach III

The Kaleidoscope Quartet brings together awardwinning saxophonist and composer John RittipoMoore, multifaceted musician, photographer and film-maker Ian Dingle, folk and jazz-influenced saxophonist Guy Passey, and award-winning chamber musician and soloist Sally MacTaggart. Together they demonstrate the dazzling possibilities of four saxophones, from Grieg’s famous suite ‘in olden style’, to the irrepressible high spirits (and dubious road sense) of Django Bates’s My First Scooter, the bell-like rituals of MacMillan’s Intercession, and finally Paul Patterson’s depiction of three different types of wind.

Isang Enders (cello)

‘Entirely irresistible’ – The Times

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9.30pm Church of the Holy Cross, Gilling

Bach – Cello Suite no. 1 in G Bach – Cello Suite no. 2 in D minor Bach – Cello Suite no. 6 in D major

Isang Enders is a fast-rising star of the cello world, having led the cello section of the Dresden Staatskapelle when he was only twenty, before giving it up for a solo career. A beautiful candlelit church is the setting for his performances of three of Bach’s great musical soliloquys for solo cello.

‘Their ensemble playing is transcendent... Breathtaking!’ – Jacqui Dankworth Supported by The Musicians’ Company Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served in the village hall from 10am–10.45am

8pm Church of St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough

Vivaldi – The Four Seasons La Serenissima Adrian Chandler (director)

‘Enders has a splendidly clear, penetrating tone...and a natural vigour and elan that generates great excitement’ – Gramophone

Caldara – Sinfonia in C major Vivaldi – Concerto Alla Rustica Vivaldi – Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons) Albinoni – Concerto for two oboes, strings and continuo Torelli – Sinfonia for trumpets, timpani, oboes, bassoons and strings

‘Youth has long been thought of as a considerable impediment to the artistically successful – live or recorded – performance of Bach’s Cello Suites. But Isang Enders has always done everything early ... and his uncomplicated directness is one of the many strengths of this spotless performance of these complicated pieces’ – Gramophone 26

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Surely some of the most colourful and evocative music ever composed, Vivaldi’s masterpiece The Four Seasons is performed here by La Serenissima, Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet

widely acclaimed for the theatricality and virtuosity of their performances and nominated for a Gramophone award for their recent recording. They also bring Vivaldi’s lesser-known but wonderfully characterful Alla Rustica concerto and three other magnificent pieces from 17th century Venice. ‘To become another Four Seasons recommendation takes something special, and this absolutely is. Imaginative and thrillingly dramatic playing throughout… an intensely dramatic account that will add new spice to what has for many listeners perhaps come to resemble a dreary domestic relationship’ – Gramophone ‘La Serenissima’s fresh approach grows out of The Four Seasons itself…in the perky Largo [Adrian Chandler] delivers an object lesson in how to decorate the music meaningfully’ – BBC Music Magazine Pre-concert and interval drinks 27

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11am The Saloon, Duncombe Park

Coffee Concert Pavel Kolesnikov (piano) Beethoven – Sonata no. 10 in G major Debussy – 5 Preludes (from Book 1): Voiles, La sérénade interrompue, La cathédrale engloutie, La danse de Puck, Minstrels Chopin – Nocturne in C sharp minor (op. posth) Chopin – Nocturne in F major (op. 15 no. 1) Chopin – Scherzo no. 4 in E major

Following Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov’s Wigmore Hall debut, The Daily Telegraph gave his recital a rare five-star review and called it ‘one of the most memorable of such occasions London has witnessed in a while.’ His programme includes a sparkling early sonata by Beethoven, some of Debussy’s most evocative miniatures for piano and the coruscating brilliance of Chopin’s Scherzo no. 4. ‘a great artist in the making’ – International Piano Magazine ‘Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons take on a special glow when played as tenderly as here, by Siberian-born Kolesnikov, whose Wigmore Hall debut earlier this year was much praised, and whose special affinity with this intimate, homey music makes this brightly recorded disc a delight’ – The Independent Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am

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7pm The Saloon, Duncombe Park

Leonard Elschenbroich

Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk

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9.30pm St Gregory’s Minster

Late-night Candlelit Bach IV A Well-Tempered Clavichord

Leonard Elschenbroich (cello) Alexei Grynyuk (piano)

Julian Perkins (clavichord)

Stravinsky – Suite Italienne Beethoven – Bagatelles op. 126 nos. 1-3 James MacMillan – Motet II (World Premiere) Beethoven – Sonata for cello and piano no. 4 in C major (op. 102 no. 1) Kensaku Shimizu – New piece (UK Premiere) Beethoven – Bagatelles op. 126 nos. 4-6 Beethoven – Sonata for cello and piano no. 5 in D major (op. 102 no. 2)

Beethoven’s last two cello sonatas date from his late period where he was exploring brave new worlds of sound. Full of contrasts, from the prayerful slow movement of the fourth sonata to the triumphant fugue that concludes the fifth, they are among the greatest works ever composed for cello and piano. In contrast, the Bagatelles may appear short, even trivial pieces – but this is music where Beethoven sees the world in a grain of sand. The programme is completed by Stravinsky’s carnivalesque evocation of the impish world of commedia dell’arte, the UK premiere of a new work by the fascinating Japanese

Bach – French Suite no. 1 in D minor Bach – Prelude and Fugue in B flat major Bach – Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor (The WellTempered Clavichord ) Howells – Newman’s Flights / Dyson’s Delight / Andrew’s Air / Bliss’s Ballet (from Howells’ Clavichord ) Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C major Bach – Prelude and Fugue in C minor (The Well-Tempered Clavichord ) Bach – French Suite no. 4 in E flat major

composer Kensaku Shimizu, and the world premiere of a piece for cello and piano by James MacMillan. ‘Elschenbroich’s sound had a burnished glow and radiated authority’ – The Independent ‘a performance of tremendous assurance and power… Grynyuk’s energy and Elschenbroich’s sense of poetry are joyously to the fore. Exceptional’ – The Guardian Pre-concert and interval drinks

Julian Perkins

There is perhaps no more intimate way to hear Bach than played on the clavichord – the sweet-toned and unusually expressive keyboard instrument that was reputed to have been the composer’s favourite. It is rarely heard in public in modern times but this beautiful and intimate Anglo-Saxon church is surely the perfect venue to hear Bach played on the instrument he loved. Julian Perkins performs two of the great French Suites and two pairs of Preludes and Fugues from the collection The Well-Tempered Clavichord alongside something very different: an intimate set of clavichord pieces that Herbert Howells composed to shut out the ‘crushingly noisy world.’ ‘Bach was so obliging as to sit down to his Silbermann clavichord and favourite instrument, upon which he played three or four of his choicest and most difficult compositions … whenever he had a long note to express, he absolutely contrived to produce, from his instrument, a cry of sorrow and complaint, such as can only be effected on the clavichord… After dinner he played, with little intermission, till near eleven o’clock at night. During this time, he grew so animated and possessed, that he not only played, but looked like one inspired… He said, if he were to be set to work frequently, in this manner, he should grow young again’ – Charles Burney on J. S. Bach 29

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Festival Exhibition Hovingham Hall

3pm Garden of the Worsley Arms Hotel, Hovingham

Tuesday 5 July – Friday 2 September Helmsley Arts Centre

Charlotte Trimm and friends

Garden Party Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band

The papercutter and fine artist Charlotte Trimm has won wide admiration for her work, strongly influenced by a fascination with colour and recurring forms, as well as her ‘art-induced obsessive compulsive disorder’. She curates a festival exhibition reflecting the fairy tale and fantasy world of Handel’s Alcina, featuring both her own work, such as ‘Dandelion Clock’, and that of other artists she admires.

No Yorkshire festival would be complete without a brass band performance – and Kirkbymoorside is well known as one of the county’s finest. Tickets include a cream tea.

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5.30pm All Saints’ Church, Hovingham

Festival Service The Revd. Tim Robinson Very Rev. Dom Terence Richardson OSB, Prior of Ampleforth (Preacher) Ryedale Festival Singers Sir James MacMillan (conductor) Rev. Dom Alexander McCabe OSB (conductor) A short, ecumenical service of thanksgiving for the festival, including music from the Russian Orthodox tradition and two pieces by James MacMillan. 54

6.30pm Hovingham Hall

Final Gala Concert Royal Northern Sinfonia Bradley Creswick (director/violin) Sir James MacMillan (conductor)* Beethoven – Coriolan Overture Haydn – Symphony no. 101 in D major (‘The Clock’) Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Greensleeves James MacMillan – From Ayrshire* Haydn – Symphony no. 104 in D major (‘The London’)

The spirit of Shakespeare’s play Coriolanus was the inspiration for a stormy, heroic overture by Beethoven, just as a famous English folk-tune featured in The Merry Wives of Windsor inspired a

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celebrated fantasia by Vaughan Williams and the Scottish song Ca’ the Yowes lies behind an atmospheric evocation of his native Ayrshire by James MacMillan. Two works composed by Haydn during his final stay in London – a time he considered the happiest of his life – complete a programme celebrating different aspects of the British Isles. The Clock Symphony is named after the ticking idea that opens its second movement and is animated by the composer’s usual inventive brilliance, while his joyous final symphony famously seems to make use of the London street song ‘Hot Cross Buns.’ Pre-concert and interval drinks

Festival Focus Time • Handel – Alcina (16th and 18th July) • Jonathan Dove – The Passing of the Year (19th July) • T.S. Eliot – Four Quartets (19th, 20th, 21st and 23rd July) • Vaughan Williams – On Wenlock Edge (22nd July) • Tchaikovsky – movements from ‘The Seasons’ (24th July) • Jessica Duchen – A Walk through the End of Time (24th July) • Messiaen – Quartet for the End of Time (24th July) • Takemitsu – Seasons (25th July) • Grieg – Holberg Suite (29th July) • Vivaldi – The Four Seasons (29th July) • Haydn – Clock Symphony (31st July)

Late Beethoven • The late string quartets op. 127, 130, 131, 132, 135 and Grosse Fuge op. 133 (19th, 20th, 21st and 23rd July) • An die ferne Geliebte (22nd July) • Diabelli Variations (23rd July) • Sonatas for cello and piano nos. 4 and 5 (30th July) • Bagatelles op. 126 (30th July)

The music of James MacMillan • Motets II, III and IV (World Premieres) (21st, 24th and 30th July) • Four Little Tributes (World Premiere) (26th July) • After the Tryst (16th July) • The Halie Speerit’s Dauncers (19th July) • Miserere (21st July) • Kiss on Wood (24th July) • Cumnock Fair (26th July) • Tuireadh (27th July) • The Gallant Weaver (28th July) • In Splendoribus Sanctum (28th July) 32

• Intercession (29th July) • A Radiant Dawn (31st July) • The Lamb has come for us from the House of David (31st July) • From Ayrshire (31st July)

Shakespeare400 • The Alehouse Boys – A Shakespearian Tavern (15th July) • Lucy Beckett – Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories (15th July) • Prokofiev – Three pieces from Romeo and Juliet (16th July) • Lucy Beckett – Shakespeare’s Tragedies (22nd July) • Purcell – Suite from The Fairy Queen (22nd July) • Walton – Henry V Suite (22nd July) • Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music (22nd July) • Mendelssohn – Suite from A Midsummer Night’s Dream (22nd July) • Beethoven – Sonata no. 17 in D minor The Tempest (23rd July) • Robin Blaze and Elizabeth Kenny – Shakespeare on my mind (27th July) • Quilter – Three Shakespeare Songs (27th July) • Beethoven – Overture Coriolan (31st July) • Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on Greensleeves (31st July)

Late-night Candlelit Bach • • • •

Rachel Podger (19th July) Ian Tindale (24th July) Isang Enders (28th July) Julian Perkins (30th July)

Artists in Residence • • • •

Sir James MacMillan Heath Quartet Royal Northern Sinfonia Jeremy Irons

Free Festival Workshops • • • •

Miranda Wright (singing) (18th July) Voces8 (choral) (19th July) Joby Burgess (percussion) (25th July) Laura Snowden and Tom Ellis (guitar) (28thJuly)

Ways with Words • Lucy Beckett – Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories (15th July) • Claire Harman – Charlotte Brontë 200 Years On (20th July) • Lucy Beckett – Shakespeare’s Tragedies (22nd July) • Tessa Boase – The Housekeeper’s Tale (23rd July) • Jessica Duchen – A Walk through the End of Time (24th July) • Daisy Dunn – Catullus’ Bedspread: The Life of Rome’s most erotic poet (27th July)

Pre-concert talks

Festival Premieres • James MacMillan – Motet IV (World Premiere) (21st July) • James MacMillan – Motet III (World Premiere) (24th July) • James MacMillan – Four Little Tributes (World Premiere) (26th July) • James MacMillan – Motet II (World Premiere) (30th July) • Kensaku Shimizu – New work (UK Premiere) (30th July) • John Warrack – new English translation of Handel’s Alcina (World Premiere) (16th and 18th July) • Jeremy Sams – new English version of Schubert’s Winterreise (World Premiere) (25th July)

Festival Partners Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Royal Northern Sinfonia Martin Randall Travel Ltd

Festival Charities

• Katy Hamilton – A Meeting of Minds: T.S. Eliot and Beethoven’s Late Quartets (19th, 20th, 21st and 23rd July) • Sir James MacMillan in conversation with Katy Hamilton (26th July) • Sir James MacMillan – Faith and Creativity (28th July)

Young Artists’ Platforms • Alcina – Ryedale Festival Opera and OAE Experience scheme (16th and 18th July) • Miranda Wright Singers and Ian Tindale (piano) (17th July) • Yorkshire Young Musicians (24th July) • Nicholas Mogg (baritone) and Jâms Coleman (piano) (27th July) 33

Future Dates

Finding our Venues

York Double Concert

Ryedale Easter Festival 2017

25th May 2016 at 7pm Two short contrasting concerts in York’s two great medieval halls are performed twice; the audiences changing places either side of the interval. Featuring the Heath Quartet playing Tchaikovsky’s lyrical first string quartet and an irresistible recital by one of the country’s leading musicians, Catrin Finch, known as ‘The Queen of Harps’. For full details phone the Box Office on 01751 475777.

21st–23rd April 2017 Join us for three exciting days of festival events at Easter 2017, including the launch of the 2017 Summer Festival programme at St Peter’s Church, Norton on 21st April at 7.30pm. More details on the festival website soon.

Ryedale Festival Opera on tour

Ryedale Festival 2017

Ryedale Festival Box Office The Memorial Hall, Potter Hill, Pickering, N. Yorks YO18 8AA www.ryedalefestival.com box.offi[email protected] box office 01751 475777

14th–30th July 2017 Two weeks of great music and arts in the many beautiful and historic venues of Ryedale and North Yorkshire.

Handel – Alcina 29th July 2016

Oriental Club, London (private performance) 14th September 2016

Lammermuir Festival 15th September 2016

Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius

Ampleforth

Abbey and eatre

YO62 4EN

Lastingham

St Mary’s Church

YO62 6TN

4th November 2017 8pm / York Minster

Birdsall

St Mary’s Church

YO17 9NW

Malton

Milton Rooms

YO17 7LX

St Michael’s Church

YO17 7LX

Hallé Orchestra Sir Mark Elder (conductor)

Coxwold

St Michael’s Church

YO61 4AD

Norton

St Peter’s Church

YO17 9AE

Easingwold

Galtres Centre

YO61 3AD

Old Malton

St Mary’s Priory Church

YO17 7HB

St John and All Saints’

YO61 3HH

Pickering

Parish Church

YO18 7AW

Ebberston

St Mary’s Church

YO13 9PA

Scarborough

St Martin-on-the-Hill

YO11 2BT

Gilling

Church of the Holy Cross YO62 4JQ

Sherburn

St Hilda's Church

YO17 8PP

Helmsley

Duncombe Park

YO62 5EB

Sledmere

Sledmere House

YO25 3XG

Helmsley Arts Centre

YO62 5DW

Slingsby

All Saints’ Church

YO62 4AD

All Saints’ Church

YO62 5AQ

Sowerby

St Oswald’s Church

YO7 1JG

All Saints’ Church

YO62 4LG

Wintringham

St Peter’s Church

YO17 8HU

Hovingham Hall

YO62 4LU

Wintringham

Village Hall

YO17 8HW

Worsley Arms Hotel

YO62 4LA

York

St Michael le Belfrey

YO1 7EN

St Gregory’s Minster

YO62 7TZ

Perth Concert Hall

Festival Lunch

Sir Mark Elder

25th November 2016 Forest and Vale Hotel, Pickering More details on the festival website soon.

Castle Howard

Hovingham

Chairman’s Dinner January 2017 Details to be announced.

Ryedale500 Under 25? Come and explore the festival for a great price… Ryedale500 is a festival initiative to offer 500 tickets for £1 to concert-goers under 25. These tickets are available for a wide variety of festival events, offering young people a chance to explore the festival. Please phone or email the box office for more information. Details will also be announced daily on Facebook and Twitter. • Offer applies to those aged under 25 at the time of booking • Offer limited to two tickets per person, per event 34

Kirkdale

YO60 7DA

Ryedale Festival Members and Volunteers Members: Our Members and Friends are at the heart of the Festival, providing the support which is essential to its continued success. Demand for tickets is high and grows each year and becoming a Friend or Gold/Silver Member ensures priority booking among other benefits: ▶ ▶ ▶

Free festival programme for Gold/Silver/Friend Members (£10 otherwise) Discounts for Gold and Silver Members Acknowledgement in the Souvenir Programme

▶ ▶

Soh-Fah magazine Priority Booking Periods for each type of Membership

Friends and Members subscribe various amounts – from £50 to £250 p.a (£10 for under 25s). To find out more please contact Lorna Vasey on 07828 783536 or [email protected] or visit the website www.ryedalefestival.com. Volunteers: Our willing team of volunteers provide much-needed help in a variety of areas – transport, accommodation, stewarding, hospitality, brochure distribution, programme selling, fund-raising and administration work. e festival thrives on the goodwill of our supporters and volunteers. If you’d like to get involved in volunteering, please email Gerard Simpson, Volunteer Coordinator, [email protected].

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Where to stay, where to eat in Ryedale and surrounding area Some recommendations from the festival team...

Ampleforth area e White Swan* e White Horse* e Fairfax Arms* Easingwold area e George Hotel e Bay Tree* e Fauconberg Arms Castle Howard area Crown and Cushion* Helmsley area Black Swan Hotel Feversham Arms e Feathers Hotel e Pheasant Hotel e Star Inn* e Hare Inn* Royal Oak Inn* e Plough Inn Hovingham Worsley Arms Malton area e Talbot Hotel e Old Lodge e New Malton* e Mansion House Pickering area e White Swan Inn Forest and Vale Hotel e Fox and Hounds* e Moors Inn* Lastingham Grange Scarborough area e Blue Bell* Crown Spa Hotel e Downe Arms Sledmere e Triton Inn* irsk e Golden Fleece

Phone

Postcode

Locale

01439 788239 01439 788378 01439 788212

YO62 4DT YO62 4DX YO62 4JH

Ampleforth Ampleforth Gilling East

01347 821698 01347 811394 01347 868214

YO61 3AD YO61 1JU YO61 4AD

Easingwold Stillington Coxwold

01653 618304

YO60 7DZ

Welburn

01439 770466 01439 770766 01439 770275 01439 771241 01439 770397 01845 597769 01751 431414 01751 431356

YO62 5BJ YO62 5AG YO62 5BH YO62 5JG YO62 5JE YO7 2HG YO62 7HX YO62 7RW

Helmsley Helmsley Helmsley Harome Harome Scawton Gillamoor Wombleton

01653 628234

YO62 4LA

Hovingham

01653 639096 01653 690570 01653 693998 0871 911 8000

YO17 7AJ YO17 7EG YO17 7LX YO17 6UX

Malton Malton Malton Flamingo Land

01752 472288 01751 472722 01751 431577 01751 417435 01751 417345

YO18 7AA YO18 7DL YO62 6SQ YO62 6TF YO62 6TH

Pickering Pickering Sinnington Appleton le Moors Lastingham

01944 738204 01723 357400 01723 862471

YO17 8EX YO11 2AG YO13 9QB

Weaverthorpe Scarborough Wykeham

01377 236078

YO25 2QX

Sledmere

01845 523108

YO7 1LL

irsk

YO1 6GD YO24 1AA

York York

York Grand Hotel & Spa, York 01904 380038 e Royal York Hotel 01904 653681 36

Map: http://bit.ly/18L0Hpt

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* denotes restaurant or pub with rooms

Booking Form Email: Phone: Post:

box.offi[email protected] 01751 475777 Ryedale Festival Box Office, Memorial Hall, Potter Hill, Pickering, YO18 8AA

Box Office Opening Times Monday 9.30am to 3.30pm; Tuesday - Friday 9.30am to 2.00pm; Saturday 9.30am to 12.00pm. • Please note that a £2.00 handling charge applies to all bookings. • Credit/Debit card bookings cannot be accepted by email. • Cheques should be payable to ‘Ryedale Festival’. • If acknowledgement is required of your postal booking please include a stamped SAE. • Please be sure to mark name, address and postcode clearly on all correspondence. Online Tickets for many Ryedale Festival events will be available online. Please visit www.ryedalefestival.com for more details. Please note that membership discounts cannot be used online, and online booking is not available during the priority booking period. PRIORITY BOOKING DATES (Priority Booking by post only) Gold: 8th – 14th April Silver: 15th – 21st April Friends: 22nd April – 6th May General Booking and Box Office open from 9th May Memberships To become a Festival Gold Member (£250 p.a.), Silver Member (£150 p.a.), Friend (£50 p.a.) or Under 25 Member (£10 p.a.) please add the appropriate amount to your ticket order. Subscriptions run from the 1st January – 31st December.  Please contact Membership Secretary, Lorna Vasey, on 07828 783536 / [email protected], or see the website for more details. Priority Booking Terms During the priority booking periods, Gold, Silver and Friend Members may purchase up to two tickets per event; Gold members receive a 20% discount, and Silver members a 10% discount, on one ticket per event. ere are no discounts for Friends. When booking extra tickets please note these will not be handled until the priority booking periods are complete and only if space allows. If ordering for more than one member please include all names on the form. General Booking Terms Tickets can be applied for by post before the Box Office opens on 9th May, and will be dealt with in 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 any special requirements, including Blue Badge parking, please inform the Box Office when ordering tickets, or use the Accessibility Requirements section on the Booking Form. Please note there are some venues where Ryedale Festival does not handle the parking. Returns e Festival cannot accept returns at less than one week’s notice prior to the Festival. e final date for refunds will be Friday 8th July. Before this date, a refund 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

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without prior notice. Please note especially that all actors appearing in the Festival, eg in Events 14, 17, 21, 29 and 31, are subject to availability. • Please note that many Festival venues are not designed as concert halls and some seats may have a restricted view. • Timings of concerts have been scheduled to ensure that audience members can attend both the evening concert and the subsequent late night concert comfortably where applicable. • Doors open approximately 30 minutes before advertised performance times.

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SUN 31

SAT 30

FRI 29

46

9.30pm

53 54

5.30pm 6.30pm

51

9.30pm

52

50

7pm

3pm

49

11am

48

45

7pm

8pm

44

6pm

47

43

11am

42

41

7pm

2-4pm

40

3pm

11am

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THU 28

Afternoon Concert: RNS Mozart / MacMillan

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3pm WED 27 11am

Final Gala Concert: Royal Northern Sinfonia

Festival Service

Garden Party: Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band

Late-Night Candlelit Bach IV: Julian Perkins (clavichord)

Leonard Elschenbroich/Alexei Grynyuk

Coffee Concert: Pavel Kolesnikov

La Serenissima: Four Seasons

Coffee Concert: Kaleidoscope Saxophone Quartet

Late-Night Candlelit Bach III: Isang Enders (cello)

Tenebrae

Faith and Creativity: Sir James MacMillan

Guitar Workshop: Laura Snowden/Tom Ellis

Coffee Concert: Laura Snowden/Tom Ellis

Double Concert: Robin Blaze/Royal Northern Sinfonia

Ways with Words 6: Daisy Dunn

Coffee Concert: Oxford Lieder Duo

James MacMillan in conversation

Winterreise: Roderick Williams

Percussion workshop: Joby Burgess

Coffee Concert: Joby Burgess

Late-Night Candlelit Bach II: Ian Tindale (organ)

Quartets for the End of Time (Candlelit)

Ways with Words 5: Jessica Duchen

Yorkshire Young Musicians

Beethoven/Eliot IV

Pre-concert talk IV: Katy Hamilton

Ways with Words 4: Tessa Boase

Coffee Concert: Diabelli Variations/Nick van Bloss

Shakespearian Serenade: R Northern Sinfonia

Ways with Words 3: Lucy Beckett

Coffee Concert: Joshua Ellicott/Heath Quartet

Triple Concert: Phoenix Trio/Marian Consort/Finch

Coffee Concert: Beethoven/Eliot III

Pre-concert talk III: Katy Hamilton

Breaking the Rules: The Marian Consort

Ways with Words 2: Claire Harman

Coffee Concert: Beethoven/Eliot II

Pre-concert talk II: Katy Hamilton

Late-Night Candlelit Bach I: Rachel Podger (violin)

Beethoven/Eliot I

Pre-concert talk I: Katy Hamilton

Choral Workshop: Voces8

Coffee Concert: Voces8

Handel: Alcina (without picnic interval)

Singing Workshop: Miranda Wright

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36

2pm

8pm TUE 26

35

33

9.30pm 34

32

7pm

2-4pm

31

5pm

29

8pm 30

28

7pm

3pm

27

3pm

25

8pm

26

24

11am

23

5pm

22

7pm 11am

21

11am

MON 25 11am

SUN 24

SAT 23

FRI 22

20

10am

19

8pm THU 21

18

3pm

15

9.30pm

17

14

7pm

16

13

6pm

11am

12

2-4pm

WED 20 10am

11

10

7pm 11am

9

2-4pm

TUE 19

8

Coffee Concert: Kristian Bezuidenhout

Double Concert: Rachel Podger/Kathryn Rudge

7

7pm MON 18 11am

Handel: Alcina (with picnic interval) Miranda Wright Singers

3pm

5

6pm

Coffee Concert: Fenella Humphreys/Somi Kim

A Shakespearian Tavern

Ways with words 1: Lucy Beckett

Coffee Concert: Septura

EVENT

6

SUN 17

4

3

7.30pm 11am

2

4.30pm

SAT 16

1

11am

FRI 15

No

TIME

JULY

Postgate Room, Ampleforth College

Helmsley Arts Centre

St Mary's Church, Ebberston

Sledmere House and Church

Wintringham Village Hall

St Oswald's Church, Sowerby

St Mary's Priory Church, Old Malton

St Mary's Priory Church, Old Malton

St Mary's Priory Church, Old Malton

Galtres Centre, Easingwold

Galtres Centre, Easingwold

St Michael's Church, Coxwold

All Saints' Church, Helmsley

Helmsley Arts Centre

Helmsley Arts Centre

The Saloon, Duncombe Park

The Saloon, Duncombe Park

The Saloon, Duncombe Park

£25.60 £22.40

£28.00 Rear Section

I enclose a subscription of £250, £150, £50, £10 (as applicable)

TOTAL PAYMENT

Donation

Handling charge on all orders

P A G E

P A G E

P A G E

£6.00

£7.50

£10.00

£9.00

£10.00

£7.50

£7.50

£11.00

£1.00

£6.00

£12.50

£5.00

£5.00

£7.50

£1.00

£12.50

£6.00

£5.00

£7.50

£6.00

£5.00

£12.50

£1.00

£6.00

£7.50

£13.00

£15.00

£5.00

£7.50

£18.00

£7.50

£1.00

£12.50

£5.00

£7.50

£1.00

£8.00

£12.50

£1.00

£8.00

£17.50

£6.00

£15.00

£2.50

£17.50

£7.50

£10.00

£5.00

£7.50

UNDER 25 qty

£25.20

£28.80

£2.00

TOTAL £ p

(See next page for method of payment)

£14.00

£16.00

U N N E C E S S A R Y

£10.80

£13.50

£18.00

£16.20

£18.00

£13.50

£13.50

£19.80

£1.80

2 4

£10.80

£22.50

£9.00

£9.00

£13.50

£1.80

£22.50

2 0

£10.80

£9.00

£13.50

£10.80

£9.00

£22.50

£1.80

£10.80

£13.50

£23.40

£27.00

£9.00

£13.50

£32.40

£13.50

£1.80

£22.50

£9.00

£13.50

£1.80

£14.40

£22.50

£1.80

1 1

£14.40

£31.50

1 0

£10.80

£27.00

£4.50

£31.50

£13.50

£18.00

£9.00

£13.50

SILVER MEMBER qty

P A G E

– B O O K I N G

£9.60

£12.00

£16.00

£14.40

£16.00

£12.00

£12.00

£32.00

F R E E

£12.00

£15.00

£20.00

£18.00

£20.00

£15.00

£15.00

£17.60

£1.60

– S E E

£9.60

£20.00

£8.00

£8.00

£12.00

£1.60

£20.00

– S E E

£9.60

£8.00

£12.00

£9.60

£8.00

£20.00

£1.60

£9.60

Main Section

Total ticket payment all columns

Hovingham Hall

All Saints' Church, Hovingham

Worsley Arms Hotel Garden

St Gregory's Minster

The Saloon, Duncombe Park

The Saloon, Duncombe Park

St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough

All Saints' Church, Hovingham

Holy Cross Church, Gilling

£22.00

£2.00

F R E E

£12.00

£25.00

£10.00

£10.00

£15.00

£2.00

£25.00

F R E E

£12.00

£10.00

£15.00

£12.00

£10.00

£25.00

£2.00

£12.00

£12.00

£20.80 £15.00

£24.00 £26.00

£8.00

£12.00

£28.80

£12.00

£1.60

£20.00

£8.00

£12.00

£1.60

£12.80

£20.00

£1.60

£30.00

The Saloon, Duncombe Park

Ampleforth Abbey

£12.80

£28.00

S E E

– S E E

–

£9.60

£24.00

£4.00

£28.00

£12.00

£16.00

£8.00

£12.00

GOLD MEMBER qty

Centre Nave

£10.00

£15.00

£36.00

£15.00

£2.00

£25.00

£10.00

£15.00

£2.00

£16.00

£25.00

£2.00

F R E E

£16.00

£35.00

F R E E

£12.00

£30.00

£5.00

£35.00

£15.00

£20.00

£10.00

£15.00

FULL/FRIEND qty

Side Aisles Unallocated

St Peter's Church, Norton

St Michael's Church, Malton

St John & All Saints', Easingwold

Castle Howard

St Michael le Belfrey Church, York

St Michael le Belfrey Church, York

St Mary's Church, Lastingham

Helmsley Arts Centre

St Mary's Church, Birdsall

St Mary's Church, Birdsall

All Saints' Church, Slingsby

Castle Howard

Castle Howard

Pickering Parish Church

Pickering Parish Church

Ampleforth College Theatre

Helmsley Arts Centre

St Hilda's Church, Sherburn

Sledmere House and Church

Helmsley Arts Centre

Ampleforth College Theatre

St Peter's Church, Wintringham

Milton Rooms, Malton

St Michael's Church, Malton

Pickering Parish Church

VENUE

Payment details Please enter details of your ticket order on the inside of this form, then complete the details below, remembering to include the £2.00 handling charge. Priority bookings are only accepted by post. For parties wishing to be seated together please send your booking forms in the same envelope. To aid the Box Office in identifying Friends and Members, if there are people in your party with a festival membership please list their names and postcodes in the spaces below.

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RYEDALE CARERS SUPPORT SUPPORTING THOSE WHO CARE FOR OTHERS Providing practical help: • • • • •

Sitting Service for carers Visiting service for older people living at home Carers Support Groups Songs and Scones Farmers Breakfast

Registered charity number 1076716

Accessibility Requirements The Ryedale Festival makes every effort to accommodate all our audience members. Please help us to make appropriate arrangements by informing us of any special requirements. Is there a Wheelchair User in your party? YES / NO

Any other disability?

YES / NO

Please mention any other special requirements in the space below, or if you prefer contact the Box Office directly.

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Ryedale Carers Support is delighted to be the nominated charity of the Ryedale Festival. The charity has volunteers throughout Ryedale who step in to give a few hours respite from the pressures of looking after someone full time. As well as relieving carers they also provide volunteers to befriend older people living on their own who maybe feeling lonely and isolated. For more information or if you would like to volunteer please contact Claire Hall, Annette Major or Carol Stevens on: Telephone 01751 432288 Email: [email protected]

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Send to: RYEDALE FESTIVAL BOX OFFICE, The Memorial Hall, Potter Hill, Pickering, N. Yorks YO18 8AA Tel: 01751 475777 / Email: box.offi[email protected] / www.ryedalefestival.com 43