York Early Music Festival 2014

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2014 Age of Enlightenment

The 2014 Festival is a wealth of intermingled themes.

One is the music of Spain, starting with the warmth and colour of medieval music from around the Mediterranean as presented by Jordi Savall’s Hespèrion XXI, then travelling to cooler climes alongside Catherine of Aragon in the company of the Rose Consort of Viols, glancing back to her home to celebrate mass with one of the Aragonese Court’s favourite musicians with the French-based Ensemble Gilles Binchois, before moving on to the music of the Spanish Golden Age with Andrew Carwood’s Cardinall’s Musick.

Intertwined with this glorious Catholic colour we are celebrating a very different tradition as epitomized by the German Protestant, CPE Bach, alongside a host of

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other anniversaries – all too good to miss! Top of our list is Bach’s oratorio Du Göttlicher - rarely heard but astonishingly beautiful - followed by celebrations of Jomelli, Locatelli and Leclair as presented by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.

The Festival culminates in a celebration of youth – highlighting the winners of the 2013 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition and three exceptional violinists who are supported by the Netherlands based Jumpstart Jr. Foundation.

We look forward to welcoming you to this celebration of talent across the ages!

Delma Tomlin MBE Administrative Director

John Bryan, Lindsay Kemp, Elizabeth Kenny, Peter Seymour

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1.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Unreserved seating: £3.00, Under 16 free of charge

The English Spanish Girl With the help of members of the National Centre for Early Music’s Learning and Participation team, pupils of Lord Deramore’s Primary School perform a specially adapted version of Miguel de Cervantes’s tale of pirates, intrigue, adventure, and (of course) true love, with vocal and instrumental music from 16th-century England and Spain.

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Hespèrion XXI Pierre Hamon flute, gaita Dimitri Psonis santur, moresca Yurdal Tokan oud Hakan Gungor kanun David Mayoral percussion Jordi Savall rebab lira and direction

Kalenda Maya: Folias and Dances from Palace and Desert East meets West in this colourful evocation of medieval music from all around the Mediterranean.

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Spain was a melting pot, where Christian, Jewish and Islamic cultures co-existed, where Provençal troubadours and Arabic musicians could meet and exchange ideas. Manuscripts associated with the Castilian court of Alfonso X 'the Wise' show illustrations of musicians playing instruments that look remarkably similar to those still played in North Africa, the Middle East and around the Adriatic today, and this has inspired Jordi Savall to gather together a group of musicians from east and west to recreate the lost sounds of medieval Spain, Provence and Italy in the context of traditional musics from Armenia, Persia and Turkey.

“Savall is to the gamba what Federer is to the tennis racquet: a magician. Time and again, his lightning fingers hypnotised his sell-out audience” York Press www.alia-vox.com

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10.30am – c.11.30am Bedern Hall, Bedern £7.50 including coffee on arrival

2.00pm – c.3.00pm St Olave’s Church, Marygate £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

‘Fantastical and far-fetched’

Rose Consort of Viols

An introduction to the mind of CPE Bach

That bedazzled assessment of the music of JS Bach’s second and most talented son Carl Philipp Emanuel seems no less appropriate now than when it was made in the 18th century, making it all the more of a pity that so few people really know it today. York Early Music Festival Artistic Adviser, Lindsay Kemp, and flautist Jennifer Cohen offer the chance to get acquainted with one of the most important composers of the 18th century ahead of encounters in Events 7, 9, 19 and 26.

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12noon – c. 5.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Tickets: £25.00 including refreshments and a light lunch or £20.00 if booked with event 6.

The Sixteen Insight Day Whether or not you are new to the Choral Pilgrimage repertoire, or want to expand your existing knowledge, our Insight Day provides a fascinating exploration into the stories behind the music.

Join Sally Dunkley and musicologist Professor John Milsom for talks, debates and discussion Discover the rich history behind the Choral Pilgrimage repertoire Experience at first-hand intimate performances from a consort of The Sixteen singers Promoted in association with The Sixteen 04

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John Bryan, Alison Crum, Andrew Kerr, Roy Marks viols with Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano

Mynstrelles with Straunge Sounds: the first viols in England When Catherine of Aragon arrived in England in 1501 to marry Prince Arthur, she brought with her the musical culture of her parents, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. Five years later Philip the Fair of Burgundy was shipwrecked on the English coast en route to Spain, and his minstrels also entertained the Tudor court. The two events speeded the development of the early viol consort in England, celebrated in this programme of music from the Spanish songbook of Catherine's parents, pieces associated with Philip and his musicians, and works both English and continental preserved in Tudor manuscripts. “.. the Rose Consort play in a sublimely unfussy, unfettered manner worthy of the music” Gramophone www.roseconsort.co.uk The Rose Consort will be using a special set of viols modelled on those depicted in a painting by Lorenzo Costa of 1497.

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7.30pm York Minster Reserved seating front nave: £30.00 Reserved seating rear nave: £22.00 (concessions £20.00) Unreserved seating side aisles: £15.00 (students £5.00)

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The Sixteen directed by Harry Christophers Voice of the Turtle Dove

The Sixteen revisit the golden age of Renaissance polyphony with a stunning programme of gems by three of the finest English Tudor composers. William Mundy’s monumental Vox patris caelestis is a setting of a text from the Song of Songs and revels in the pictorial imagery of phrases such as ‘Arise, my love, my fair one’ and ‘the voice of the turtle dove’. John Sheppard was Mundy’s elder by about 15 years – his setting of the sacred prose of Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria is perhaps only surpassed by the sublime Libera nos I. But the most extraordinary music of all comes from the earliest of the trio, Richard Davy. Davy died in 1507, and the fact that his music survived the Reformation is, says Harry Christophers, ‘nothing short of a miracle’.

His remarkable O Domine caeli terraeque was reportedly written in just one day.

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9.45pm Bedern Hall, Bedern, off Goodramgate Friends £17.00, Guests £22.00

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11.00am – c.12 noon NCEM Reserved seating: £15.00 (concessions £13.00, students £5.00) Bethany Seymour soprano Catrin Woodruff soprano Nancy Cole alto James Gilchrist tenor Matthew Brook bass Peter Seymour fortepiano

Songs of the Soul:

Lieder from Berlin

by CPE Bach, JF Reichardt and CF Zelter While it is with Schubert and Vienna that the early song repertory is most associated today, it was in Prussia that this expressive and exciting form was first established towards the end of the 18th century. Responding to poetry by the likes of Goethe and Schiller, composers such as CPE Bach, Johann Friedrich Reichardt and Carl Friedrich Zelter (later the teacher of Mendelssohn) forged a vigorously expressive Seelenlied (‘Song of the Soul’) characterised by rich melodic decoration and harmonic adventure and aided by the novel tonal and dynamic possibilities of the emerging fortepiano.

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Amarillis Héloïse Gaillard flute, baroque oboe Alice Piérot violin Isabelle Saint Yves viola de gamba Violaine Cochard harpsichord

Sur les pas d'Orphée

with Maïlys de Villoutreys soprano

One of the greatest French composers of the 18th century – the opera giant and controversial theorist JeanPhilippe Rameau – died in feisty old age 250 years ago this year. Amarillis, International Young Artists Competition winners here in York in 1995, celebrate this major figure in a programme that sets two of his colourful and vivacious Pièces de clavecin en concerts alongside his early cantata Orphée, which they also contrast with Louis-Nicolas Clérambault’s ravishing earlier treatment of the same well-known story. “the brilliant soprano, Maïlys de Villoutreys exuded confidence - equally exceptional were Héloïse Gaillard, Violaine Cochard and Alice Piérot - the auditorium reverberating with unabated claps” Hindustan Times www.amarillis.fr

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7.30pm – c.9.30pm Please note that there is no interval in this concert St Michael le Belfrey Church, Petergate Reserved seating central nave £25.00 (concessions £20.00) Unreserved seating side aisles and balcony £17.00 (concessions £15.00, students £5.00)

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Yorkshire Baroque Soloists Bethany Seymour soprano Catrin Woodruff soprano Nancy Cole alto James Gilchrist tenor Matthew Brook bass Peter Seymour conductor

CPE Bach: Du Göttlicher A Passion Cantata

CPE Bach is known today mainly for his symphonies, concertos and keyboard works, but he was also a prolific composer of choral music. His final twenty years in particular were distinguished by a series of elevating oratorios on sacred subjects that are among the most important Protestant vocal works of the second half of the 18th century, and an important link between the oratorios of Handel and Haydn. The Passion cantata Du Göttlicher – also known as Die letzten Leiden des Erlösers, and heard here in a rare performance – is one of the best and most individual of them, a dramatic and expressive sharing of Christ’s last sufferings in which Bach’s original and characterful genius shines out in every bar. “…we were treated to a gutsy, full-bodied performance … simply delightful, wonderful playing” York Press www.yorkshirebachchoir.org.uk/ybs.shtml

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2.00pm – 3.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: Free to those attending other events in the Festival but please do book tickets in advance to avoid disappointment. Limited to two tickets per person.

Early Music Show Join us for a live broadcast of this popular show, presented by Lucie Skeaping

YEMF Lifetime Achievement Award

Immediately following the EMS broadcast, the Festival will present its fifth biennial Lifetime Achievement Award to Andrew Parrott.

He has also published the results of his research into historical performance in ways that speak directly to performers as well as to those with more academic interests, and his The Essential Bach Choir (2000) provides detailed evidence for the ways in which Bach’s music was performed in his own lifetime. While the focus of Andrew’s musical interests is at the ‘early’ end of the spectrum, he has also been highly successful in directing performances of later symphonic and operatic works, as well as contemporary music.

The York Early Music Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award honours major figures who have made a significant difference to the world of early music and has been presented every other year since its inauguration in 2006. The previous winners have been the Kuijken brothers (2006); Dame Emma Kirkby (2008); James Bowman (2010) and Jordi Savall (2012).

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photo of Andrew Parrott by Dan Porges to follow from Shona/Ralph

Andrew Parrott was involved in the first ever York Early Music Week in 1977 when his performance with his Taverner Consort of the 14th-century Machaut Mass in York Minster was a revelation. His most recent recording, of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, is similarly important in questioning conventional approaches to performing repertory we think we know, shedding new light through a detailed investigation of original source materials and inspiring his hand-picked team of singers and players to join him in his recreative projects. Andrew’s career has seen him involved with ground-breaking early music ensembles such as Musica Reservata and the New York Collegium, as well as more ‘mainstream’ musical forces including the London Mozart Players.

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4.30pm – c.5.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: £10.00 (Festival Friends and NCEM Patrons free, students & family members £5.00)

6.30pm (please note starting time) Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York Reserved seating: £25.00 (concessions £20.00, students £5.00)

Minster Minstrels Anniversary Concert

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

To Everything a Time Heather Moger director

As the 2014 Festival enjoys a bumper crop of composer anniversaries, the Minster Minstrels join in, celebrating 10 years since the ensemble was formed.

From English madrigals and consort music to Italian intermedii, we offer musical reflections on the whole gamut of time: the span of human life, the seasons of the year, the periods of the day and from one hour to the next.

The Minster Minstrels is run as a partnership between the NCEM and the City of York’s Arts Academy with support from the Mayfield Valley Arts Trust. Look out for news about this vibrant group on www.ncem.co.uk/minsterminstrels

Of Births and Deaths, Angels and Devils Kati Debretzeni director/violin

2014 brings anniversaries for four of the most respected musicians of the18th century. CPE Bach and Nicolò Jomelli, one of the stars of the Neapolitan opera scene, were both born in 1714.

And two virtuoso violinists – Frenchman Jean-Marie Leclair and the Italian Pietro Locatelli both died 250 years ago. One awestruck listener who heard the last two play dubbed them the ‘angel’ and ‘devil’ of the violin respectively, but their contrasting roles tonight are taken by just one player – OAE leader Kati Debretzeni, shortly to take up a position as one of our Festival Artistic Advisers. The concert opens with a richly-scored overture by a composer who originally edged out JS Bach in the auditions for the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig.

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10.30am – c.11.30am Bedern Hall, Bedern £7.50 including coffee on arrival

7.30pm The Quire of York Minster £25.00 (concessions £20.00, students £5.00)

The Ubiquitous Countertenor:

Ensemble Gilles Binchois

Falsetto, fact and fiction Andrew Parrott invites you to consider how the critical reappraisal of 'early' music as it may originally have been performed has tended to focus on its instruments. Vocal matters have been treated much less rigorously – and not least the (now central) place of the countertenor, which has mostly been taken on trust. There is much to unlearn!

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2.00pm – c.3.00pm Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate £15.00 (concessions £13.00, students £5.00)

David Owen Norris narrator and pianist

Charles Burney: Musical Tourist

Anne-Marie Lablaude soprano David Sagastume alto Stephan van Dyck tenor Dominique Vellard tenor and direction Emmanuel Vistorky bass with

Les Sacqueboutiers Jean-Pierre Canihac cornett Philippe Canguilhem shawm Daniel Lasalle sackbut Laurent Lechenadec dulcian

Nunca fué pena mayor: A Mass and Motets by Francisco de Peñalosa Holder of positions at three of the most important musical institutions of the early 16th century – the Aragonese royal chapel, Seville Cathedral and the papal chapel of Leo X – Francisco da Peñalosa was one of the illustrious composers of the Spanish Golden Age, as well as one of the most prolific.

Ensemble Gilles Binchois make a welcome return to York to bring us his Missa Nunca fué pena mayor, based on one of the most widely disseminated Castilian-texted secular songs of the period, setting it amongst a selection of his motets to show his wide-ranging skills as a composer. www.gillesbinchois.com www.les-sacqueboutiers.com

Burney’s experience of the musical world was second to none, and luckily, he wrote it all down.

David Owen Norris uses Burney’s books, letters, diaries and memoirs to paint a picture of the age, and of the man who first defined the Classical Style.

Gilles Binchois is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Communication and regional council of Bourgogne, and by the City of Dijon. Les Sacqueboutiers is supported by the Midi Pyrénées Region Council, the Haute-Garonne General Council and the Toulouse City Council.

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2.00pm – c.3.00pm All Saints’ Church, North Street £12.00 (concessions £10.00, students £5.00)

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SHOWCASE

Duo Domenico Boccherini’s Influences

Jonathan Rees,Vladimir Waltham cellos

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Nonsuch Dance Company

The Dance of the Deadly Sins

Equipped with cellos and a generous selection of bows, winners of the 2013 Friends of York Early Music Festival International Young Artists Competition prize Duo Domenico return with the Italian cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini, placing his compositions against the backdrop of the influences that formed him – from Italian cello virtuosi to the Viennese opera and ballets of Gluck and Salieri – and of the musical developments he himself influenced in Spain and across Europe. www.duodomenico.co.uk Supported by

A newly devised dance theatre experience based on the 16th-century dance play from Seville by Diego Sanchez de Badajoz. The story follows Adam, the first man created, as he meets seven dancing girls representing the Seven Deadly Sins. Lurking behind gravestones, loitering in doorways and parading on the lawns and pathways while you take your seats, each one will then emerge using historical dance to charm and disarm him. Will he succumb, or will he heed the words of wisdom spoken by the Good Shepherd?

Are you interested in historical dance and taking part in this performance? We are running workshops for dancers and musicians in June – log on to www.ncem.co.uk/nonsuch for information.

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9.30pm – c.10.15pm The Chapel, Merchant Adventurers’ Hall £12.00 (concessions £10.00)

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Jacob Heringman & Ariel Abramovich vihuelas de mano Cifras imaginarias

In 1547, Enríquez de Valderrábano published numerous duos (mostly arrangements of vocal polyphony) for vihuelas de mano of various sizes. Ariel Abramovich and Jacob Heringman have followed Valderrábano's lead, creating a programme of their own polyphonic arrangements for two vihuelas. Intimate and ravishingly beautiful, the delicately-textured clarity of counterpoint comes to the fore in this programme of settings of Josquin, Verdelot, Willaert, Crecquillon and others, performed on tenor and bass vihuelas.

“It is impossible not to marvel at the dexterity of Heringman's fingerwork and very easy to be convinced by his inspired phrasing and winning sense of spontaneity“ Music Week www.heringman.com

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7.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: £20.00 (concessions £17.00)

University of York Baroque Ensemble Baroque Celebrations

Daniel Edgar, Tim Smedley directors

The ever-popular University of York Baroque Ensemble appears once more at the Festival to celebrate the anniversaries of three Baroque composers. Carl Philip Emanuel, born 300 years ago, is represented by one of his explosively inventive string symphonies; widely travelled virtuoso violinist, Pietro Locatelli, who died in 1764, is featured in an elegant sinfonia and concerto grosso; and Frenchman Jean-Philippe Rameau, another who died in 1764, is heard in a suite of typically colourful dances from his operas.

María Cristina Kiehr soprano

Ariel Abramovich lute, vihuela Andad pasiones, andad

Although it is known that songs were sung to the accompaniment of the vihuela, or Spanish lute, in 15th-century Spain, no written examples survive.

Ariel Abramovich’s painstakingly made reconstructions peel back the courtly layers from two of the most sophisticated Spanish Renaissance polyphonic manuscripts – the Cancionero de Palacio and the Segovia Manuscript – to reveal the beauty of the solo songs lying within.

“María Cristina Kiehr is clearly inspired by the musical invention here. Her voice is deceptive, at once cuttingly clean, yet subtly responsive to every emotional nuance” BBC Music Magazine “Ariel Abramovich's fluent and delicately executed renditions of the fantasias are very attractive indeed” Goldberg www.arielabramovich.com www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Kiehr-MariaCristina.htm Supported by Novotel www.accor.com

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11.00am – 12.15pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Unreserved seating: £5.00

Jordi Savall and the Borgias In a Festival first, we are delighted to screen two films by directors from Catalonia – the home also of Jordi Savall. In this documentary he talks for the first time on film about his music and work, and the year-long process of creating a major musical project on the notorious Borgia family. This historical and artistic backdrop draws viewers into the world of early music and reflects Jordi Savall as director, researcher and performer. (Música Savall – Història Borja, dir Maria Gorgues & Miquel Bruns, Spain 2010, subtitled) With thanks to TV3 -Televisió de Catalunya

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2.00pm – 3.45pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Unreserved seating: £5.00

The Silence before Bach Drama and documentary-style filmmaking blend with the surreal in a passionate look at the legacy of JS Bach. From Bach teaching his son, to a truck driver playing the composer’s music on his harmonica, a Bach impersonator leading tourists through Leipzig, and Felix Mendelssohn’s curious discovery of the St Matthew Passion, this visually and aurally arresting film takes a playful look at a classical composer who continues to inspire and influence Western culture. (Die Stille vor Bach, dir.

Pere Portabella, Spain 2007, subtitled)

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5.30pm – c.6.15pm Bedern Hall, Bedern £7.50 including a glass of wine on arrival

When Spain ruled the world In the 16th century, through a mixture of canny marriages and thrusting commercial enterprise, Spain ruled the known world. This pre-concert talk

by Andrew Carwood considers the rise of Spain and its rulers but focuses on the large output of wonderful sacred music, considering both its origins and its impact on society.

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7.30pm The Quire of York Minster £25.00 (concessions £20.00, students £5.00)

The Cardinall’s Musick Spain, Defender of the Faith: Masterpieces from the greatest Empire of the 16th century Andrew Carwood director

At its height Spain was the most powerful, the most influential and the richest country in 16th-century Europe, the primary defenders of the Catholic faith in the post-Reformation world, with territories in the New World and a powerful set of alliances in Europe. Not only that, the music produced by Spanish composers at this time – colourful, expressive and intense – is some of the finest ever penned. At the head of this group sits the great Tomàs Luis de Victoria, and his music is at the heart of this programme, which includes his magnificent Missa Salve regina, several fine motets and a thrilling Magnificat, set alongside works by his contemporaries and compatriots Guerrero, Esquivel and Lobo.

Victoria Victoria Victoria

Missa Salve regina Alma redemptoris mater [a 5] Ne timeas Maria

Propers for the Annunciation plainsong Victoria Guerrero Victoria Esquivel Lobo Victoria

Salve regina [a 8] Alma redemptoris mater Vadam et circuibo civitatem Surge propera Virgo divino nimium Magnificat primi toni

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2.00pm – c.3.15pm St Olave’s Church, Marygate £12.00 (concessions £10.00, students £5.00)

SHOWCASE

Ensemble Thalia Belén Nieto Galán flute Sarah Assmann oboe Diederik Ornée clarinet Hylke Rozema horn José Rodrigues Gomes bassoon

A strictly sentimental art

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Wind Quintet in G major, Op.88 No.3 Adagio in D minor Wind Quintet in B flat major, Op.100 No.6

Bohemian-born Anton Reicha was a prolific and wide-ranging composer, a theorist and a friend of Haydn and Beethoven, but it is for his attractive and skilfully wrought chamber music for winds that he is known today. His crucial role in the development of the wind quintet in particular is celebrated in this prize concert by the latest ensemble to join the

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7.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: £20.00 (concessions £17.00, students £5.00)

Forma Antiqua Concerto Zapico: Fandangos, Folias and Passacaglias Daniel Zapico theorbo Pablo Zapico baroque guitar Aarón Zapico harpsichord

The three Zapico brothers have a ball in a scintillating mix of their own transcriptions and originals of dances and other pieces for harpsichord, guitar and theorbo from 16th-, 17th- and 18thcentury Italy and Spain, by the likes of Kapsberger, Scarlatti and Santiago de Murcia.

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A unique event showcasing three fine young violinists - Cecilia Bernardini, Bojan Cicic and Huw Daniel -and three superb old instruments. The Jumpstart Jr. Foundation was founded in The Netherlands in 2006 as the custodian of a unique collection of historical string instruments, which it lends to specially selected young players already recognised as being well on the way to becoming leading lights in the field of historical performance. The programme also offers them career-related coaching and access to an extensive international network of opportunities. This is your chance to see and hear the future! www.jumpstartjr.org YE MF

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10.30am – c.11.15am | Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate £7.50

Bojan Cicic violin Sei solo a violino The title of JS Bach’s violin sonatas and partitas may have a double meaning at its heart. As well as meaning ‘Six solos’, in Italian Sei solo could also mean ‘you are alone’, given the proximity of the death of Bach’s first wife to the date of these compositions. For a baroque violinist, there is no greater reward than bringing these notes on the page to life.

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12.00 noon – c.12.45pm | Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate £7.50

Huw Daniel violin Harmony of Nations with

Kristin Deeken violin Lucy Scotchmer cello Raphaël Collignon harpsichord

Bach Trio sonatas

Huw Daniel and Harmony of Nations play a reconstruction for two violins and continuo of two of JS Bach’s organ sonatas – the G major, BWV 530 and C major, BWV 529. The sonata in G major, BWV 1039, originally written for two flutes and continuo, is presented in a transcription for two violins and continuo.

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2.30pm – c.3.20pm | NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: £7.50

Cecilia Bernardini violin

Keiko Shichijo fortepiano Mozart and Beethoven Sonatas from Vienna In Op.12 No.1, his first violin sonata, Beethoven continued where Mozart had left off in K.454 fourteen years earlier. Both written in Vienna, these masterpieces are clearly set within the classical tradition, but with an increasing drive to expand, dramatise and equalise the roles of the fortepiano and the violin.

Mozart Violin sonata in B flat major, K. 454 Beethoven Violin Sonata in D major, Op.12 no. 1

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Cecilia Bernardini, Bojan Cicic, Huw Daniel violins Harmony of Nations

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Kristin Deeken violin Linda Hannah-Andersson violin Jordan Bowron viola Lucy Scotchmer cello Kate Aldridge double bass Raphaël Collignon harpsichord

Concerto a Tre

The three Jumpstart Jr. violinists join forces to perform a feast of virtuosic pieces for three violins and continuo.

They are joined by Harmony of Nations to perform a reconstruction of Bach’s triple violin concerto in D major BWV 1064R – a rare chance to hear a well-known piece as Bach might have originally intended it, and a fitting climax to our day!

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Dates for your Diary

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Elin Manahan Thomas and David Miller Society of Strange & Ancient Instruments Leah Stuttard and Agnethe Christensen

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Guest artists include: La Serenissima directed by Adrian Chandler Joglaresa The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Stile Antico Highlights include Handel's Messiah presented by the Yorkshire Bach Choir and our first TOTS concert!

Tickets available from July 2014

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T H E Y O R K M Y S T E R Y P L AY S 2 0 1 4 The Mystery Plays will be performed on wagons in the streets of York on Sunday 13 and Sunday 20 July.

For information on York Mystery Plays please log on to www.yorkmysteryplays.org

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National Centre for Early Music

York Early Music Festival gratefully acknowledges support from a wide variety of individuals and organisations that have been able to support us in 2014. As always, we are also grateful to the many loyal and supportive audience members who return to York each year, and in particular the Friends of the Festival and the ever-growing band of NCEM Patrons.

Thanks are due to Arts Council England, Yorkshire; our media partner BBC Radio 3 who are broadcasting three concerts live from the 2014 Festival as well as recording for the ‘Early Music Show’; our sister organisation the National Centre for Early Music as well as our regional tourism partners Welcome to Yorkshire and VisitYork.

We would like to commend our partner hotels in York – the Queens, Dean Court, Middlethorpe Hall, Monk Bar, Novotel and Grange - all of whom offer an excellent range of hotel rooms – see www.ncem.co.uk/hotels We are pleased to acknowledge support from the City of York Council; Harrowells Solicitors; JWP Creers; the Shepherd Building Group; the Instituto Cervantes Manchester; Embassy of Spain; TV3 – Televisio de Catalunya; Jumpstart Jr Foundation; the University of York; the Dean & Chapter, York and the many individuals who support anonymously. We are also delighted to acknowledge support from the Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, Youth Music and York Arts Academy.

The 2013 York Early Music Festival was presented with support from the Culture Programme of the European Union.

York Early Music Festival is a member of REMA, the European Early Music Network.

With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union

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Booki ng Inform ation Booking opens on Monday 24 February to Friends of the Festival and NCEM Patrons and on Monday 3 March to the general public.

How to book

In person: The NCEM box office is open Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm.

Accessible facilities: The Festival offers a warm welcome to everyone. The NCEM website www.ncem.co.uk is accessible to the partially sighted and assistance dogs are welcome at concerts.

For detailed information, please ring 01904 632220.

The NCEM is a Typetalk Approved business.

By telephone: Please contact the box office on 01904 658338.

Visitor Information

On-line: Visit our web site at www.ncem.co.uk/yemf and use the secure on-line booking service.

There is a non-refundable £1.00 administration charge for each transaction made on-line or by telephone. This includes the postage of your tickets if time permits.

By post: Write to the NCEM Box Office, St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate, York YO1 9TL enclosing an SAE. Cheques should be made payable to the National Centre for Early Music.

Please use a ‘large’ stamp if ordering 10+ tickets.

Seating: Seats are unreserved except where indicated.

Reservations: Tickets must be paid for within three working days of reservation and at least 24 hours prior to the performance. Any remaining tickets will be sold at the venue immediately prior to the performance.

Concession prices: The price shown in brackets is the concession price for those aged 65 and over, registered disabled and a companion, the unemployed and for those holding a valid Instituto Cervantes Library Card.

Refunds: We regret that refunds can only be given if the concert is sold out and we are able to sell on the ticket. Please note that there will be a 10% administration charge.

General enquiries: Please ring 01904 632220 for general information.

Group bookings: Buy nine tickets for any one concert and receive one further ticket free! All tickets must be booked in advance and at the same time.

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The York Visitor Information Centre offers help with accommodation and general information about the City.

Ring 01904 550099 or email info@visityork.org

Friends of the Festival The Friends enjoy additional discounts, priority booking, reserved tickets (where practical) and good company. Please email friends@ncem.co.uk for information.

Friends Saver Ticket: £285.00 (concessions £245.00) Save over 15% by purchasing your Friends Saver Ticket covering events 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26 and Jumpstart Day. This includes Front Nave seating for event 6 and reserved seating where available.

Saturday 12 July Saver Ticket: Buy tickets for events 7, 8 & 9 for just £45.00 (concessions £37.00) and save nearly 20%

JUMPSTART JR. DAY SAVER TICKET £25.00 (Festival Friends and NCEM Patrons £20.00).

Buy tickets for all four Jumpstart concerts on Saturday 19 July.

Please note that all concerts must be booked at the same time and that offers are subject to availability.

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The York Early Music Festival is administered by the National Centre for Early Music through the York Early Music Foundation – registered charity number 1068331. All details are correct at the time of going to press but the Festival reserves the right to make alterations to the published programme if necessary.

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