Leicester International Music Festival Classical Chamber Music at its finest Thursday 17 - Saturday 19 September 2015 at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery Artistic Director: Nicholas Daniel
and the French Connection www.musicfestival.co.uk
Festival Booking Information
Reception for friends and sponsors
Tickets for all events at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery can be booked:
A private Reception for Festival Friends and Sponsors will be held after the Saturday Evening Concert. If you would like to join us, join the Friends and help to keep Classical Chamber Music alive in Leicester.
on-line (24hr): www.musicfestival.co.uk by phone 11am - 4pm: 0116 225 4920 or in person from the New Walk Museum Shop, 53 New Walk, Leicester LE1 6TP 11am - 4pm VISA, Mastercard, Delta and Switch cards accepted.
Tickets Evening concerts: £20 Lunchtime Concerts and Coffee Concert: £10
Special offers Buy tickets for all 6 concerts: £80 Buy tickets for all 3 evening concerts: £55 Buy tickets for both the Lunchtime Concerts and the Coffee Concert: £27
Enquiries Visit our website www.musicfestival.co.uk or email limf@live.co.uk
Accommodation The Belmont Hotel, a short walk from the main Festival venue, is offering a special deal for the duration of the Festival. Ring 0116 254 4773 to book, quoting Leicester International Music Festival.
New Walk Museum Café Open daily 10am - 4pm. Evening opening from 6pm until 7.15pm from Thursday 17th to Saturday 19th September.
Evening Concerts Tickets for Phoenix film event can be booked: by phone 0116 242 2800 www.phoenix.org.uk Phoenix Square, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE11TG
All evening concerts last approximately 2 hours. Lunctime concerts and the Coffee Concert last approximately 1 hour.
Access at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
Young Persons’ Free Tickets With the support of the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, the Festival is able to offer a limited number of free tickets to young people aged between 8 and 25 inclusive for all concerts. Tickets should be booked in the normal way and holders of free tickets will also need to sign in at the special CAVATINA desk at the concert. This offer will be very popular, so please be sure to book early!
Friends of the Festival Friends of the Festival receive 20% discount on ALL Festival tickets. Annual subscription £30 (double) £20 (single). Pick up a leaflet at New Walk Museum or apply online at www.musicfestival.co.uk/jointhefriends
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Leicester International Music Festival is a Registered Charity Number 702670 Company registered in England: No. 02380796
NB Note: For all these events, artists, repertoire, times and venues may be subject to change
Audience
Artistic Director, Nicholas Daniel writes
2014 family concert
I've long wanted to programme a Festival around indisputably one of the greatest examples of human achievement, Ludwig van Beethoven. Our 2015 Festival has a major survey of the huge variety and colour in his Chamber Music in only 3 days and in 6 concerts. I have placed him alongside great Romantic masterpieces by French/Belgian composers who would have been the first to acknowledge their debt to him. In many ways the huge waves of Romantic release found in the French works are a direct result of the explosive genius in Beethoven, which he always balanced with great Classical sensibility; they took all the restraints off that Beethoven maintained and the contrast is fascinating and satisfying. The concerts will be performed by a dream team of master performers, including 3 great pianists, brought together by us and working for a week in Leicester and playing all the concerts for a deeply attentive audience in the exquisite Victorian Art Gallery at Leicester’s New Walk Museum, a venue and an event that we all treasure.
Nicholas Daniel Artistic Director
© Leicester City Council
The Venue New Walk Museum & Art Gallery The New Walk Museum & Art Gallery is situated along New Walk, a leafy footpath leading from Leicester city centre to Victoria Park. Laid out in the early 18th Century as a pedestrian alleyway, New Walk is unique in English urban planning. The Museum was originally built as a school but later in 1849 converted into a museum. Nicholas Pevsner described the entrance as a ‘dignified, somewhat heavy four-column portico of giant Tuscan columns’. The centrepiece of the Museum’s possessions is a significant collection of Victorian Art housed in the splendid newly refurbished main gallery. New Walk Museum also has an important collection of German Expressionist paintings and a unique display of Picasso ceramics gifted to the Museum by the late Lord Attenborough. The Victorian Art Gallery’s excellent acoustic and wonderful Steinway Grand Piano has, over many years, hosted some of the UK’s finest classical chamber musicians. An annual season of Lunchtime Concerts has just completed 72 years and the more recent Leicester International Music Festival is now in its 27th year. The Festival attracts musicians from all over Europe and is now one of the UK’s leading festivals of classical chamber music. The Festival’s Artistic Director, Nicholas Daniel, is one of the most sought-after virtuoso oboists in the world. He received the UK’s highest award for music, the Queens Medal for Music, in January 2012. BBC Music Magazine has repeatedly hailed the Festival as
“one of the 20 ‘unmissable’ events in September”.
Art & Music The Festival has always liked to forge links with other art forms and, now we are back in the gloriously refurbished Art Gallery at New Walk Museum, we have the opportunity to get to know some of Leicester Arts & Museum Service’s splendid collection of Victorian art. On the Thursday and Friday evenings of the Festival there will be pre-pre-concert talks from 6pm to 6.20 pm by Simon Lake, Curator of Fine Art, to introduce the concert audience to some of the art work that surrounds them. Simon will walk us around the gallery and discuss works by selected artists, including Degas and Leighton.
Thursday 17th September The depiction of the classical hero in contrast to the troubled creative soul. Friday 18th September Nature wild and tamed; harnessing the changing moods of nature through art.
These free events are open to all concert-goers and there is no need to book.
Marina Chiche violin
Giovanni Guzzo violin
Philip Dukes viola
Guy Johnston cello
Lynda Houghton double bass
Nicholas Daniel oboe
James Turnbull oboe
Thursday 17th September Event 1 Thursday 17th September New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
1pm - 2pm
Lunchtime Concert
and the French Connection
Beethoven: Variations on "See the conqu'ring hero comes" from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus for Cello and Piano (1796) WoO45 12’ Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.1 in D Op.12 20’ Milhaud: La Création du Monde arr. for Piano Quintet 20’ Tickets: £10 / Young Persons 8 to 25 FREE
Monday 14th September Pre Festival Event Monday 14th September
6.30pm
Festival Film
In Search of Beethoven A film by Phil Grabsky
“One of the finest movies about a musician I’ve ever seen” Observer Superb... an ideal introduction to the man and his music” Telegraph www.phoenix.org.uk Box Office: 0116 242 2800. Phoenix Square, 4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG
Event 2 Thursday 17th September 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm (approx) New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 6.00 pm - 6.20 pm Art Talk FREE 6.45 pm - 7.15 pm Pre-Concert Talk FREE
Evening Concert Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.4 in A minor Op.23 22’ Beethoven: Variations on La Ci Darem for 2 Oboes and Cor Anglais WoO28 10’ Beethoven: String Trio No.2 in D major Op.9 No.2 21’ INTERVAL
César Franck: Piano Quintet 40’ Tickets: £20 / Young Persons 8 to 25 FREE
See inside cover for booking information.
Book online (24hr) www.musicfestival.co.uk or by phone (11am-4pm) 0116 225 4920
Jennifer Brittlebank cor anglais
Chen Halevi clarinet
Amy Harman bassoon
Martin Owen horn
Friday 18th September Event 3 Friday 18th September 1pm - 2pm New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
Katya Apekisheva piano
Tom Poster piano
Charles Owen piano
Saturday 19th September Event 5 Saturday 19th September 11am - 12noon New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
Lunchtime Concert
Coffee Concert
Beethoven: Trio for 2 Oboes and Cor Anglais Op.87 12’ Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G minor Op.5 No.2 20’ Franck: Violin Sonata 30’
Beethoven: Horn Sonata Op.17 15’ Beethoven: Piano and Wind Quintet Op.16 25’ Fauré: Clarinet Trio Op.120 25’
Tickets: £10 / Young Persons 8 to 25 FREE
Coffee and homemade cakes will be available for purchase from the Museum café. Tickets: £10 / Young Persons 8 to 25 FREE
Event 4 Friday 18th September 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm (approx) New Walk Museum & Art Gallery 6.00 pm - 6.20 pm Art Talk FREE 6.45 pm - 7.15 pm Pre-Concert Talk FREE
Evening Concert
Event 6 Saturday 19th September New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
7.30 pm - 9.30 pm (approx)
6.45 pm Pre-Concert Talk FREE
Festival Finale
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A major Op.12 No.2 16’ Loeffleur: 2 Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola Vieuxtemps: Viola Sonata in Bb Op.36 22’ and Piano 22’ Beethoven: Cello Sonata in C major Op.102 No.1 16’ Beethoven: Trio for Clarinet, Bassoon INTERVAL and Piano Op.11 21’ Beethoven: Violin Sonata in G major A Fauré Soirée: Op.30 No.3 19’ Fauré: Berceuse for Violin and Piano Op.16 3’ 30” Fauré: Romance for Violin and Piano Op.28 5’ 30” INTERVAL Fauré: Pièce for Oboe and Piano 3’ 30” Beethoven: Septet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, Fauré: Après un Rêve Viola and Piano 4’ violin, viola, cello, double bass Op.20 42’ Fauré: Romance for Cello and Piano Op.69 3’ 30” Fauré: Piano Quartet No.1 30’ Tickets: £20 / Young Persons 8 to 25 FREE Tickets: £20 / Young Persons 8 to 25 FREE
Post-Concert Reception for Friends and Sponsors
Book online (24hr) www.musicfestival.co.uk or by phone (11am-4pm) 0116 225 4920
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Principal Sponsors Leicester City Council Personal Sponsors Louise Smith, Neil Roberts Friends of the Leicester International Music Festival Supporting Trusts and Foundations CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust The Alan and Jean Gayton Charitable Trust T.S. Shipman Trust, The Helen Jean Cope Charity Friends of Leicester and Leicestershire Museums Corporate Sponsors Clements Limited, Tarratt, The Friends of New Walk, Glynis Wright & Co Sponsors-in-kind Glebe Garden Centre (Countesthorpe) Limited, The Belmont Hotel, Rowleys Partnership Ltd and, not least, all the staff at the New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
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Festival Board Members: Peter Baker (Chair), Angela Finch, Chris Jones, Gary Lee, Dr Lutz Luithlen, Chris Marshall, Alysoun Morgan, Kevin Rush, Keith Stubbs , Catherine Watt, Alec Templeman (Company Secretary) Patrons: Thea Musgrave CBE, James MacMillan CBE Paul McCreesh, Lars Tharp
Lunchtime Concerts 2015/16 at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
Thursday 1 October 2015
1-2pm
Rachel Podger baroque violin Bach: Partita in G minor BWV 1013 (arranged from Flute Partita in A minor) Tartini: Giuseppe: Sonata in B minor, No.13, B:h1 Biber: Passacaglia in G minor for solo violin from the Mystery Sonatas "The Guardian Angel" Bach: Partita for solo violin No.2 D minor
Thursday 15 October 2015
1-2pm
Philip Dukes viola Anna Tilbrook piano Schumann: Adagio and Allegro Britten: Lachrymae Brahms: Sonata in E flat, Op.120 No.2
Thursday 21 January 2016
1-2pm
Vienna-Mozart Trio 1-2pm
Escher String Quartet Mendelssohn: Quartet No.4 in E minor Op. 44, No.2 Brahms: Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No.2
Thursday 29 October 2015
Thursday 7 January 2016
1-2pm
Leonore Piano Trio Lalo: Piano Trio Op. 26 No.3 Beethoven: Piano Trio in E flat major, Op. 1 No.1
Mozart: Divertimento à 3 in B flat major (piano trio no.1), KV 254, comp. 1776 F. Mendelssohn: Piano trio no.1 in D minor, Op. 49
Thursday 4 February 2016
1-2pm
Allegri String Quartet Schubert: "Quartettsatz” D703 Roth: String Quartet No.3 Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 in B flat Op. 67
Thursday 18 February 2016 Thursday 12 November 2015
1-2pm
Michael Collins clarinet Michael McHale piano Burgmüller: Duo in E flat für Klarinette und Klavier Op.15 Debussy: Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano Brahms: Clarinet Sonata No.1 Poulenc: Clarinet Sonata
Thursday 26 November 2015
Magnus Johnston violin Tom Hankey viola Guy Johnston cello Tom Poster piano Schubert: Adagio and Rondo Concertante for piano quartet, D. 487 Fauré: Piano Quartet No.2 in G minor, Op. 45
1-2pm
Thursday 3 March 2016
Natalie Clein cello
1-2pm
Noam Greenberg piano
Bach Suites: No.2 in D minor No.6 in D major
Thursday 10 December 2015
1-2pm
Aronowitz Ensemble:
1-2pm
Bach: Partita No.1 B flat Major Brahms: Two Rhapsodies Op.79 Bartok: Out of Doors Suite Chopin: Ballade No.4 F minor
Fauré Piano Quartet
Thursday 17 March 2016
Mozart: Klavierquartett g-Moll KV 478 Strauss: Piano Quartet Op. 13
Dame Emma Kirkby soprano Jacob Lindberg lute
1-2pm
Creation, Metamorphosis, Heroines, Lyric poets, Venus and Cupid
For further information see www.musicfestival.co.uk Box Office opens 1st June 2015 Friends and mailing list members receive priority booking