York Early Music Festival 2013

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Front Cover Image: Allegory of Rome by Francesco di Stefano Illustration for the manuscript ''De Secundo Bello Punico Poema''

by Silius Italicus. c.1448 © The State Hermitage Museum /photo by Vladimir Terebenin, Leonard Kheifets, Yuri Molodkovets

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2013 The Eternal City The 2013 Festival theme focuses on the unrivalled musical heritage of Rome - The Eternal City - from the time of the medieval Popes, through the Renaissance polyphony of Palestrina to the exuberant baroque of Handel’s visit to Rome in the early 18th century.

Central to this rich theme is a celebration of the life and work of the violinist and composer Arcangelo Corelli. Corelli devoted his entire career to Rome, but exercised an unparalleled international influence in his lifetime. By the time of his death 300 years ago in 1713 he was acknowledged as a truly European phenomenon - as a performer, teacher and 'creator' of the Italian trio sonata and the concerto grosso - forms imitated or adapted by composers throughout Europe.

Another anniversary to be celebrated in 2013 is the 450th of the birth of John Dowland, a composer and world-famous lutenist who intended to study in Rome, but whose career took him to France, Germany and Denmark. His music is performed here by some of today’s finest international performers on lutes, viols and voices.

Artistic Advisors

The Festival culminates with the 2013 International Young Artists Competition on 13 July featuring musicians from around Europe and beyond.

The 29 events that make up the Festival include concerts, illustrated lectures and workshops from the earliest chant, found in medieval libraries across Europe, to Handel's glorious music for Vespers from his triumphant stay in Rome in 1707. Presented in some of York’s most beautiful historic venues, the Festival is a treasure trove of musical offerings.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Delma Tomlin MBE Administrative Director

John Bryan, Lindsay Kemp, Elizabeth Kenny, Peter Seymour

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Thank you!

York Early Music Festival is grateful to the many individuals and organisations that continue to support its activities – not least the many loyal and supportive audience members and in particular the Friends of the Festival.

Thanks are due to Arts Council England, Yorkshire; our media partner BBC Radio 3; and our sister organisation the National Centre for Early Music as well as tourism partners Welcome to Yorkshire. We particularly commend our partner hotels in York – The Queens, Hotel du Vin, Dean Court, Middlethorpe Hall, Lady Anne Middleton, Monk Bar, Novotel, Grange and Holiday Inn. We are also pleased to welcome a new partnership with York Minster.

We are pleased to acknowledge support from the City of York Council; Harrowells Solicitors; JWP Creers; Shepherd Group; the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society; SHM Foundation; the University of York; the Dean & Chapter, York and the many individuals who support us anonymously each year. We would also like to thank the Mayfield Valley Arts Trust, Youth Music, York Arts Academy and the NCEM Patrons for their support.

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

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The NCEM Patrons Scheme is celebrating its first anniversary this summer with a series of specially organised events designed to give Patrons greater access to our work – through open rehearsals, opportunities to meet with artists and like-minded individuals, receptions and supper parties.

The NCEM is dependent on your support to continue its ambitious programme of festivals, educational activities and concerts - so please do join us. Contact us for information at support@ncem.co.uk, or check out www.ncem.co.uk/patrons

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5.30pm – c.6.30pm Bedern Hall, Bedern | £7.50 including a glass of wine on arrival

Handel in Rome Handel’s journeys around Italy in his early twenties nourished the fledgling composer. Most of his time was spent in Rome, where a succession of connections with powerful patrons led to the creation of his first masterpieces in many of the essential genres of the day including pastoral cantatas, oratorios and church music. David Vickers examines how Handel’s Roman activities prepared the foundations upon which his illustrious career was built.

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7.30pm – c.9.30pm York Minster Reserved seating front nave: £25.00 Reserved seating rear nave: £18.00 (concessions £15.00) Unreserved seating side aisles: £12.00 (students £5.00) Admission through West Door

Mhairi Lawson, Bethany Seymour sopranos Yorkshire Bach Choir Yorkshire Baroque Soloists Lucy Russell leader Peter Seymour conductor

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A Roman Arcadian Celebration Italy at the start of the 18th century was the place to digest the latest compositional forms and performance styles, so it comes as no surprise that in 1706 the 21-year-old Handel’s insatiable passion for learning took him from Germany to Rome. There he met, performed with and no doubt learnt from musicians such as Corelli, Pasquini, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, and quite possibly Caldara too, as well as making influential friends at the aristocratic arts clubs that were the Arcadian Academies.

Our opening concert presents extracts from music Handel provided for a Carmelite Vespers service for the feast of the Madonna del Carmine in July 1707 including the famous Dixit Dominus, along with another of the latest fashions of the time – a Corelli concerto grosso – and spectacular motets both large and small.

This concert is dedicated to the memory of Sir Marcus Worsley President of York Early Music Festival 1981 to 1999.

Bethany Seymour is supported by the BBC Arts Performing Fund.

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Saturday JulyJuly Saturday6 10 A series of events marking the 450th anniversary of the birth of one of England’s greatest lutenists and song-composers, John Dowland.

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‘Behold a wonder here’

Jakob Lindberg lute

Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny chairs a discussion with Roger Savage, John Bryan, Michael Gale and Christopher Goodwin of the UK Lute Society, exploring Dowland’s role at the centre of European music in the late renaissance, his significance then and now, and what his music has to offer to the 21st–century.

‘Whose heavenly touch upon the lute doth ravish human sense’

Dowland’s music for solo lute ranges from light, frivolous pieces such as Lady Hunsdon's Puffe and Mrs. Winter's Jump to sublime works of profound melancholy such as Lachrimae and Farewell. Jakob Lindberg presents an anthology of this extraordinarily varied repertoire, playing it on a rare surviving instrument from Dowland’s lifetime – a lute by Sixtus Rauwolf, made in Augsburg around 1590. “...there are certain musicians who maintain an almost inhuman track record of unblemished excellence in their field, one such is the Swedish lutenist Jakob Lindberg”. In Tune www.musicamano.com

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3.30pm – c.4.30pm St Olave’s Church, Marygate £17.00 (concessions £15.00)

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Iestyn Davies countertenor Thomas Dunford lute The Art of Melancholy

Through many of Dowland’s songs there runs a deep vein of melancholy that speaks beyond the fashions of the time. In the past, such melancholy was often linked to manic states or periods of creativity, but by also embracing Dowland’s output as a vent of personal experience and expression we can immediately engage in a dialogue with him and both his poetry and music may be richer for it. This recital, placing his songs amongst those of contemporaries such as Robert Johnston, Thomas Campion and John Danyel, throws open a window on the famous quotation from Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), that melancholy is ‘known to few, unknown to fewer’.

“Iestyn Davies’s performance was, as usual with that amazing singer, beautiful and compelling beyond words”. The Independent www.iestyndavies.com Supported by

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7.30pm – c.9.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York Reserved seating: £25.00 (concessions £20.00, students £5.00)

Rose Consort of Viols Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland with

Grace Davidson soprano Claire Wilkinson alto Nicholas Todd tenor Timothy Scott Whiteley bass Jacob Heringman lute

‘Teares of Sorrowe and Gladnesse’ Music from one of Dowland’s most extraordinary creations, his intense collection of Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares figured in seaven Passionate Pavans, set in the context of works by musicians whom he knew at the Danish court, including vocal and instrumental pieces by Mogens Pederson and Melchior Borchgrevinck, and music by other continental composers such as Marenzio and Lassus who inspired him. The concert features some of Dowland’s greatest ayres and lute solos, together with devotional songs, solo songs with viols, and his incomparable dance music. “...the Rose Consort play in a sublimely unfussy, unfettered manner worthy of the music.” Gramophone www.roseconsort.co.uk

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Sunday 7 July Saturday 7 July YE MF

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1.00pm – 2.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: admission is free to those attending the Festival, but please do book a ticket in advance to avoid disappointment. Limited to two tickets per person.

BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show Join us for a live broadcast of the popular Early Music Show, presented by Catherine Bott with special guests from the Festival including Fabio Bonizzoni.

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3.00pm – c.4.00pm Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate £10.00 (Festival Friends free, students £5.00)

Minster Minstrels civis romanus sum Heather Moger director

Great characters of Roman history and mythology have long been a source of inspiration. Some were great heroes, others rather less admirable, but all were as susceptible to human passions and weaknesses as the rest of us. The Minster Minstrels festival programme enlists music bringing us closer to some of these famous figures, from Nero’s queen Poppea (Monteverdi) to the goddess Diana (Weelkes), and from emperor Dioclesian (Purcell) to general Scipione (Handel). Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 also finds its way in; its prominent role for horns is thought by some to evoke a triumphal march for Caesar – or maybe it was Nero.

Minster Minstrels is the Festival’s young people’s instrumental ensemble – run as a partnership between the NCEM and the City of York Arts Academy with support from the Mayfield Valley Arts Trust.

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7.00pm – c.9.00pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York Reserved seating: £25.00 (concessions £20.00, students £5.00)

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10.00pm – c.11.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: £17.00 (concessions £15.00)

Paul O’Dette lute

Dowland’s Grand Tour

Musica Antiqua Roma directed by Riccardo Minasi Riccardo Minasi, Zefira Valova violins Lea Rahel Bader cello Simone Vallerotonda theorbo Maxim Emelyanychev harpsichord, cornett

Approaching Corelli Arcangelo Corelli is one of the great figures in Rome’s musical history, seen in his time as ‘Orpheus of our age’ and the composer of exemplary instrumental chamber works which offered undisputed archetypes of classical elegance, refinement and formal clarity. Yet these models, which played a major part in defining the musical language of the 18th century, did not spring from nowhere; in this concert Riccardo Minasi and his ensemble examine the vibrant milieu which formed the background to Corelli’s achievements, performing works by some of his brilliant but less well-known Roman predecessors and contemporaries. “this is top-league stuff." Gramophone

Dowland was intensely interested in the music of his contemporaries, both in England and on the continent. An apprenticeship spent in Paris was later followed by a grand tour of Europe during which he came into contact with important composers, singers and lutenists whose music he borrowed and imitated in his own works. Paul O’Dette’s programme traces Dowland's travels, presenting the music he might have heard on his trip including works by John Johnson, Jacques Polonais, Gregory Huwet, Melchior Neusidler, Simone Molinaro and Dowland himself.

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Monday 8 July YE MF

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

‘The divine Arc Angelo’

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1.00pm – c.2.15pm St Michael le Belfrey Church, High Petergate £12.00 (concessions £10.00, students £5.00)

University of York Chamber Choir & University Baroque Ensemble Nia Lewis, Dan Edgar, Tim Smedley directors Peter Seymour conductor

A peaceful celebration Handel Te Deum and Jubilate for the Peace of Utrecht Biber Battalia

Corelli’s remarkable reputation and influence appear to be at odds with his slender published output.

John Bryan, Professor of Music at the University of Huddersfield, considers some of the myths that have grown up around this leading figure in the heady musical atmosphere of baroque Rome, and investigates what we really know about Corelli’s career as violinist, composer and musical ‘fixer’ for competing cardinals and princelings.

Handel’s Te Deum and Jubilate for the Peace of Utrecht were his first public church compositions for England, written in 1713 for a thanksgiving service in St Paul’s Cathedral to celebrate a recently signed peace treaty. Composed for large forces, it foreshadows the grand choral style of later English works such as Messiah and the Coronation Anthems.

Heinrich Biber’s instrumental music has a very individual voice and sonority; his ‘suite’ of movements Battalia, composed in 1673, is typical programmatic music of the time, its effects ranging from an alarming cacophony of drunken soldiers to slap-pizzicato musket shots!

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Monday 8 July 3.30pm – c.5.00pm Bedern Hall, Bedern Friends £15.00 Guests £20.00

Afternoon Tea Party The Friends of the Festival’s first afternoon tea party - with sandwiches, cakes, gallons of tea and specially devised musical interludes!

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7.00pm – c.9.00pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York Reserved seating: £25.00 (concessions £20.00, students £5.00)

La Risonanza directed by Fabio Bonizzoni with

Yetzabel Arias Fernandez soprano Elena Biscuola alto

Voicing Corelli Vocal pieces by Corelli? Yes, that’s right! Although Corelli’s music was known and admired throughout Europe, the fact that his published output was both small and restricted entirely to instrumental music was a cause of frustration for many. To remedy the situation, steps had to be taken. Fabio Bonizzoni’s award-winning ensemble returns to York following their appearance here in 2009 with a unique programme of vocal duets on sacred texts ingeniously adapted from Corelli’s trio sonatas by his contemporary admirer Antonio Tonelli, interspersing them with examples of the real thing and a secular duet by Handel, written in London but recalling his own youthful days in Rome.

“Fabio Bonizzoni is recognized as one of the 10 World's Handelians”.

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Ensemble Medusa directed by Patrizia Bovi Patrizia Bovi voice, harp Crawford Young lute, viola da mano Leah Stuttard gothic harp Gabriele Miracle dulcimer, percussions

Lucrezia …. the daughter of the Pope 1480-1519 The Borgia name has now become synonymous with treachery and corruption. Lucrezia was the daughter of Alexander Borgia, born before he became Pope Alexander VI, and sister of Cesare, one of the most bloodthirsty men of his time. She remained a strong woman with a passion for the arts surrounded by artists of the highest order in every discipline: musicians, painters, sculptors, writers, poets.

Ensemble Medusa has brought together music which reflects her life from the papal court in Rome to Naples and finally to

the Este court in Ferrara, where she was a grand patron of composers such as frottolist Bartolomeo Tromboncino. “whipping the audience into a hand-clapping, foot stomping frenzy” Early Music Today

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1.30pm – c.2.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York £5.00 (Friends, students and children free of charge)

Youths, Lutes & Ukes:

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4.00pm – c.5.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

Fabio Bonizzoni harpsichord

Music from Shakespeare to the blues - for a gang of strummers.

200 young ukulele players from York schools join members of the Theatre of the Ayre and The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain in an entertaining showcase of chord patterns, dances and songs. The concert marks the culmination of a whole term’s project led by members of both ensembles and local ukulele teachers. The programme connects two Robert Johnsons (the bluesman and Shakespeare's lute player), celebrating the sound of massed plucked instruments across the centuries.

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Fabio Bonizzoni celebrates the genius of Girolamo Frescobaldi, organist of St Peter’s in Rome and one of the most significant and admired keyboard composers of the early Baroque. Frescobaldi’s compositions are set alongside works by two 17thcentury keyboard giants, Froberger and Louis Couperin, as well as pieces from the Iberian peninsula by Cabezón and Carreira, and one of Bach’s brilliant early toccatas.

“Others have tried...but few have succeeded like Fabio Bonizzoni.. It's a benchmark disc, fusing intellectual rigour with soulful expression.”

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7.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York Reserved seating: £25.00 (concessions £20.00, students £5.00)

Lutes ‘n’ Ukes

Theatre of the Ayre vs The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Elizabeth Kenny, Jacob Heringman, David Miller, Clara Sanabras lutes George Hinchliffe, Nick Browning, Hester Goodman, David Bowie ukes

The Devil at the Crossroads: Robert Johnson(s)

Gatherings of plucked instruments have delighted, amazed and irritated in equal measure for centuries. The vogue for ‘twangling instruments’ in the masquing halls of 17th-century England and the ukulele boom at whose apex sits The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain were just waiting to be connected… and the realisation that one of Anne Boleyn’s court musicians, Shakespeare’s lute player, and one of the most inspired blues singer-guitarists of the last century were all called Robert Johnson and share a common plucked chordal language, set us off on a journey of the Johnsons. Fantasy, myth, and a dose of the neglected history of plucked instruments – a unique collaboration!

“A crack-squad of top instrumentalists.” Gramophone “Most people have to die before they become immortal.

These ukulele superstars have no such worries.”

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Wednesday 10 July YEMF is delighted to celebrate the 125th birthday of the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society by inviting Festival audiences to enjoy three public events organised as part of the PMMS’ anniversary conference.

PMMS Conference 1 11.30am – c.12.15pm Bedern Hall, Bedern £7.50 including coffee on arrival

CON CE RT BY CANDLE LIGH T PMMS Conference 3 9.30pm – c.10.00pm The Chapel, Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, Fossgate £8.00 (concessions £5.00)

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John Potter, Christopher O’Gorman tenors

Toledan chant and its relation to northern Iberian Old Hispanic chant

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Emma Hornby (University of Bristol) and Rebecca Maloy (University of Colorado at Boulder) present preliminary findings from their major EU-funded project on the liturgy known as the Old Hispanic Office. In this lecture, they explore the relationship between Toledan chant and the traditions found in northern Iberia.

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PMMS Conference 2 3.30pm – c.4.30pm Bedern Hall, Bedern £7.50 including tea on arrival

Latin Song from the 12th & 13th Centuries

Roger Bowers (University of Cambridge) explores the evidence of music-making in London and Westminster, home to over 150 places of worship, on the eve of the Reformation.

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A short programme exploring the subtle artistic repertory of conductus in the evocative medieval surroundings of the 14thcentury chapel of the York Merchant Adventurers’ Company performed by artists who have long been leading exponents of medieval song.

This performance marks an on-going collaboration between the University of Southampton, the NCEM and Hyperion Records and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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1.00pm – c.2.00pm St Olave’s Church, Marygate £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

Mark Tucker tenor Paula Chateauneuf Songs of Religious and Erotic Passion from Rome

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A concert exploring the mingling of the spiritual and the sensual in Roman music of the 17th century, when composers gave free reign to a bold, visceral style and the language of erotic passion intertwined with fervent outpourings of religious devotion. The programme includes passionate vocal ground-bass variations by Frescobaldi, Mazzocchi’s extraordinarily chromatic Lagrime amare (a lament of Mary Magdalene), and the ravishingly sensual Vidi ondegiar questi infecondi campi from a manuscript associated with the great Roman musical patron Cardinal Montalto. Also featured is a ‘fire and brimstone’ cantata by Carissimi, Luigi Rossi’s pop-style tune for a brooding lover, and the recently discovered Ancidetemi pur for chitarrone by Kapsberger.

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7.30pm – c.8.45pm The Quire of York Minster £20.00 (concessions £17.00, students £5.00) Admission through West Door

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University of York Chamber Choir Vespers for St Hildegard Stevie Wishart composed and directed by

A creative re-imagining of a choral evensong, traditionally known as Vespers and sung at dusk, devised in honour of a truly remarkable woman – Hildegard of Bingen - the 12th-century composer, nun and visionary who was made a Saint and Doctor of the Catholic Church in 2012.

Performed in St Peter’s Rome in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI in October, the piece will be given its first concert performance in St Peter’s York - the largest Gothic Cathedral north of the Alps. The music, for voices and medieval instruments including harp, organ and bells, is based on the Benedictine service of Vespers and consists of psalms, antiphons and canticles, interweaving plainchant, polyphony and some of Hildegard's own melodies. “…exquisite monodic harmonies…” The Independent

“the diminutive Paula Chateauneuf and the brilliant tenor Mark Tucker [worked together] in a revelatory exploration.. a wonderfully fertile interpretation”.

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Thursday 11 July

Young International

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The Festival is delighted to present once again this prestigious competition, which this year welcomes talented ensembles from the UK, across Europe, and musicians from as far afield as Israel and Japan. All the competitors are invited to York several days prior to the competition in order to settle in and make friends, as well as to give a non-competitive showcase performance at the National Centre for Early Music. Join us for these two fascinating days of concerts and informal workshops in the company of animateur Richard Jackson.

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10.15am NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating £7.50 (students £5.00)

2.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: £7.50 (students £5.00)

Ensemble Daimonion (Switzerland)

Ensemble Versailles

Anaïs Chen violin Andrea Inghisciano cornett Daniel Rosin cello Soma Salat Zakarias viola da gamba Josep María Martí theorbo Maria González harpsichord, organ

Discorsi delle Comete Part I Chamber music by Picchi, Selma y Salaverde, Stradella and Cesare

Duo Domenico (UK) Birth of the Violoncello Part I

Jonathan Rees, Vladimir Waltham cellos

Cello duos by Ortiz, Gabrielli and Barrière

Seldom Sene (Netherlands) Stephanie Brandt, Ruth Dyson, Eva Gemeinhardt, Hester Groenleer, María Martínez Ayerza recorders

(Germany) Valeria Norkina flute Alexey Fokin violin Kentaro Nakata viola da gamba Sofya Gandilyan harpsichord

Pearls of the French Baroque Trio sonatas by Leclair and Couperin

On Air (Germany) Marie-Therese Reith, Simon Böckenhoff, Robert Herden oboes, oboes d’amore, oboes da caccia, bass oboes Luise Manske bassoon

Les Nations – War and Peace

Music for oboe band by Lully, Krieger, Käfer and Telemann Supported by

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7.30pm – c.9.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York £25.00 (concessions £20.00, students £5.00)

Wieland Kuijken

Asako Morikawa viols Terence Charlston harpsichord Virtuoso Viol

Dates for your diary Saturday 4 May

12.30pm, 3.00pm, 7.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church

University of York Baroque Day www.Yorkconcerts.co.uk

Wednesday 22 – Sunday 26 May

Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival Artists include: Trevor Pinnock; Members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Gallicantus; The Carnival Band with Vivien Ellis and Le Jardin Secret. Workshops for singers, illustrated lectures, walks and talks. www.ncem.co.uk/bemf

Saturday 29 June

When the French viol player André Maugars played in Rome in 1635 his virtuosity surprised all who heard him since the instrument was no longer popular in Italy. Returning to Paris he began a tradition of great French player-composers for the instrument, which reached a peak of perfection in the hands of St. Colombe and his pupil, Marin Marais. Marais' playing apparently had an airy tone and refined graceful style: he played 'like an angel' in comparison with the 'devilish' Forqueray, whose music flashed with Italianate flamboyance. As elsewhere in Europe the polished sonata style of Corelli worked its magic in Paris: Couperin in particular shows his understanding of the Roman's achievement. Today's programme explores some of the highlights of French virtuoso viol music, and is performed by one of the world's greatest players of the instrument.

10.30am – c.3.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church £25.00 including lunch

The Sixteen Insight Day Join leading musicologists John Milsom and Sally Dunkley and members of The Sixteen as they uncover the rich musical history behind the 2013 Choral Pilgrimage repertoire.

Friday 6 – Saturday 14 December

York Early Music Christmas Festival Highlights include The Sixteen presenting Britten’s ‘Ceremony of Carols’ (Thursday 12 December) with artists including Brecon Baroque; L’Aventurra and The York Waits. www.ncem.co.uk/xmas

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Friday 12 July

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Friends Saver Ticket

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Friends Saver Ticket

10.15am NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: £7.50 (students £5.00)

2.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: £7.50 (students £5.00)

Der Musikalische Garten (Germany)

Les Mélomanes (UK)

German Echeverri Chamorro violin Karoline Echeverri violin Annekatrin Beller cello Daniela Niedhammer harpsichord

Balletto der Dame Works for 2 violins and continuo

by Erlebach and Anon

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

Witty Winds – the emancipation of the wind quintet Wind quintets by Lickl, Reicha and Cambini

Duo 1702 (Denmark) Louis Hjorth Hansen recorder Katrine I. Kristiansen organ

Signor Bernabei and the Germans Music for recorder and organ by Quantz, Bach and Pandolfi Mealli

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Ayelet Karni recorder, oboe Stephen Pedder violin Kathleen Ross cello, viola da gamba Ran Orenstein harpsichord

In Stile Moderno: Sonatas from 17th-century Italy Chamber works by Merula, Marini, Turini, Rossi and Uccellini

Repicco (UK) Kinga Ujszazsi violin Jadran Duncumb theorbo, lute

L’assassino e l’assassinato Music for violin and lute by Pandolfi Mealli and Albertini

Supported by

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7.30pm – c.9.15pm York Minster Reserved seating front nave: £25.00 Reserved seating rear nave: £18.00 (concessions £15.00) Unreserved seating side aisles: £12.00 (students £5.00) Admission through West Door

Friends Saver Ticket

The Sixteen Harry Christophers director The Queen of Heaven

The Sixteen returns to York with a programme focusing on a Mass – Missa Regina Caeli – by one of the most famous of all composers to have made their careers in Rome, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. Seen by many in his own time and since as a paragon of flawless and elegant Renaissance polyphony, he was employed by a number of leading Roman religious institutions, including the Sistine Chapel. Alongside the Mass and other exquisite works by Palestrina are the famous Allegri Miserere – once one of the Sistine Chapel’s most jealously guarded secrets – and three motets by the leading contemporary Scottish composer James MacMillan. “the choral sounds were wonderfully clear and unfailingly precise … Christopher’s group can be just as impressively extrovert as they had been austerely restrained.” The Guardian Promoted in association with The Sixteen www.thesixteen.com Sponsored by

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Saturday 13 July

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10.15am – 5.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Reserved seating: £25.00 International

Chamber music by Picchi, Palestrina, Böddecker and Castello

The York Early Music International Young Artists Competition will be presented by animateur Richard Jackson and judged by conductor Laurence Cummings; festival director Bart Demuyt; Philip Hobbs of Linn Records; viol specialist Wieland Kuijken and composer/medievalist Stevie Wishart.

The winners of the 2013 competition will be announced at the end of the afternoon and will receive a cheque for £1,000, a CD recording contract from Linn Records and opportunities to work with BBC Radio 3 and the National Centre for Early Music. In addition we will be awarding the first York European Union Baroque Orchestra Development Trust Prize for the most promising young instrumentalist(s) and the Friends of York Early Music Festival Audience Prize. To join the Friends – and get a vote – contact Jillian Johnson at friends@ncem.co.uk

Der Musikalische Garten (Germany) …à 2 Violin. Verstimbt

Works for 2 violins and continuo by Anon and Biber

Duo 1702 (Denmark)

Signor Biancucci and the Danes Music for recorder and organ by Raehs, Scheibe and Pandolfi Mealli

Duo Domenico (UK)

Birth of the Violoncello Part II

Cello duos by Jacchini, Boccherini and Gabrielli

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Ensemble Daimonion (Switzerland)

Discorsi delle Comete Part II

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Ensemble Versailles Impressions de Paris (Germany)

Trio sonatas by Leclair and Couperin

Les Mélomanes (UK) Masters of the Dance

Chamber works by Marais and Telemann

On Air (Germany)

Lamento – Farewell and Eternity Music for oboe band by Paisible, Telemann, Croft, Bach and Purcell

Repicco (UK)

Dances of Passion and Pleasure Music for violin and lute by Castaldi and Bach

Seldom Sene (Netherlands) Taracea

Music for recorder ensemble by Tallis, Boismortier, Vásquez, Cabezón and Holborne

Thalia Ensemble Grand Finale – the masters’ last wish (Netherlands)

Wind quintets by Danzi and Reicha

Saturday 13 July YE MF

EVENT 27

7.30pm York Minster Reserved seating front nave: £25.00 Reserved seating rear nave: £18.00 (concessions £15.00) Unreserved seating side aisles: £12.00 (students £5.00) Admission through West Door

The Choir of York Minster Robert Sharpe director David Pipe assistant director

Rome in York Minster A glorious musical journey from Rome to York, featuring the works of Palestrina and Victoria and bringing to life one of the treasures of York Minster’s historic collection. This evening’s programme places the mass movements from Palestrina’s famous Missa Papae Marcelli alongside Victoria motets and plainsong from the York Missal, manuscripts of which are held in the Minster Library. York Minster Choir lead us into this opulent sound world, ideally suited to the Minster's spacious acoustic, by performing in the nave.

This programme has been designed to celebrate the opening of new ground-breaking interactive displays in the Undercroft, ‘Revealing York Minster: A heroic, human and historic journey’, where visitors will be transported on a 2000–year journey from York Minster’s Roman foundations to the modern day. www.yorkminster.org

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Booking Information Booking opens on Monday 11 March to Friends of the Festival and on Monday 18 March to the general public

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

By telephone: Please contact the box office on (01904) 658338. Tickets can be booked by Visa, Mastercard, Access and Maestro. Please note that a surcharge of £1.00 will apply per transaction.

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.

In person: The box office is open Monday – Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm, except Bank Holidays.

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.

Entry to venues: Please note that, due to limited turnaround time during the Festival, entry to performances will not be permitted until the conclusion of rehearsals and tuning. We thank you for your patience.

Concession prices: These are shown in brackets.

They apply to those aged 60 and above, students and registered disabled and their carers.

Friends of the Festival

Friends of the Festival: The Friends enjoy additional discounts, priority booking, reserved tickets (wherever practicable) and good company.

Please ring 01904 658338 for details or email friends@ncem.co.uk

Friends of the Festival Saver Ticket: £285.00 (concessions £245.00).

Save over 20% by purchasing your Friends’ Saver Ticket covering events 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26. Please note that all concerts must be booked at the same time and the offer is subject to availability.

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Dowland Discount Saver: £65.00 (concessions £55.00). Buy tickets for events 3, 4, 5, 6 & 10 and save over 20%

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: Special savings can be made for those bringing a group of 10 or more, in which case we offer an additional seat free.

Photography/Recording: Please note that the use of cameras/recording equipment is prohibited.

Accessible facilities: The Festival offers a warm welcome to everyone. The NCEM website www.ncem.co.uk is accessible to the partially sighted and the NCEM has the benefit of an RNIB Braille map of York available on request from the box office. Assistance Dogs are welcome at concerts. For detailed information, please ring 01904 632220. The NCEM is a Typetalk Approved business.

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

Ring 01904 550099 or email info@visityork.org

Gift Vouchers These can be purchased from the Box Office in amounts of £5 and £10.

Map of Venues 1

National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate YO1 9TL

5 St Michael le Belfrey Church, High Petergate YO1 7HH

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall, Fossgate YO1 9XD

6 York Minster Nave & Quire YO1 7JN

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Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate YO1 8NQ

7 St Olave’s Church, Marygate YO30 7BH

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F R I DAY 5 – S AT U R DAY 1 3 J U LY

2013

Friday 5 July

Monday 8 July

Thursday 11 July

Yorkshire Bach Choir

La Risonanza Ensemble Medusa

Wieland Kuijken & Friends

Jakob Lindberg Iestyn Davies & Thomas Dunford Rose Consort of Viols & Friends Sunday 7 July

Early Music Show Musica Antiqua Roma Paul O’Dette

Tuesday 9 July

Fabio Bonizzoni Lutes ‘n’ Ukes Wednesday 10 July

Mark Tucker & Paula Chateauneuf Sinfonye

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The Sixteen Saturday 13 July

2013 International Young Artists Competition The Choir of York Minster

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