York Early Music Christmas Festival

2–11 December 2010

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Thursday 2 December

Friday 3 December

Stile Antico

Emma Kirkby

Event 1 5.30pm – 6.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Tickets £3.00 including light refreshments

Event 3 7.30pm – c.9.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York YO10 5DD Tickets £25.00 (concessions £20.00,students £6.00)

FESTIVAL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PRIVATE VIEW

FLORILEGIUM

Artist Alfred Hackett reveals his exhibition of work from the 2010 summer festival.

Organised in association with Kentmere House Gallery Event 2 7.30pm – c.9.00pm Chapter House,York Minster YO1 7JN Tickets £25.00 (concessions £20.00) CONCERT BY CANDELIGHT

STILE ANTICO PUER NATUS EST: TUDOR MUSIC AT CHRISTMAS

Ashley Solomon flute, director Bojan Cicic, Jean Paterson violins Malgorzata Ziemkiewicz viola Jennifer Morsches cello Judith Evans bass James Johnstone organ/harpsichord David Miller archlute

Emma Kirkby soprano Sally Bruce Payne alto Vivaldi Pergolesi Pergolesi Pergolesi Pergolesi

Salve Regina for soprano RV 617 in F major Flute Concerto in G Salve Regina in F minor for alto Flute Concerto in D Stabat Mater for soprano and alto

‘Dame Emma Kirkby amazed with her undiminished bell-like soprano, wonderfully accompanied by the excellent ensemble Florilegium.’ Wiener Zeitung

This programme is centred around Thomas Tallis’ magnificent 7-part mass based on the Christmas plainsong Puer natus - a boy is born – celebrating not only the Advent season, but also the apparent pregnancy of Queen Mary. The mass is interspersed with liturgical settings for the season from the perfect miniatures of William Byrd’s propers for the fourth Sunday of Advent to Robert White’s extended Magnificat and John Sheppard's extraordinary Verbum Caro.

Promoted in association with www.florilegium.org.uk

‘absolutely ravishing performances’ Classics Today www.stileantico.co.uk Florilegium

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Saturday 4 December

Rose Consort of Viols

Yorkshire Bach Choir

Event 4 1.00pm – c.2.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Tickets £12.00 (concessions £10.00, students £6.00)

Event 5 7.00pm – c.10.30pm St Michael le Belfrey Church, High Petergate,York YO1 7HH Tickets £20.00 (concessions £18.00) Student stand-by tickets £5.00

ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS Ibi Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland viols

Clare Wilkinson mezzo soprano University of Huddersfield Chamber Choir directed by John Bryan

PEACE ON EARTH: GOOD WILL TOWARDS MEN Christmas music from Tudor and Stuart England, including celebratory anthems, songs and carols by Bull, Ravenscroft and Peerson; contemplative Latin motets and sections of the mass ordinary by Parsons and Byrd; interspersed with elegant fantasias and courtly dances for viols by Tallis and Holborne.

‘Clare Wilkinson's pure voice emerges from the mists of time … beautifully articulating the text. … the Rose’s play in a sublimely unfussy, unfettered manner worthy of the music.’

Gramophone Magazine Promoted in association with

YORKSHIRE BACH CHOIR YORKSHIRE BAROQUE SOLOISTS directed by Peter Seymour Yvonne Seymour, Wendy Goodson, Bethany Seymour sopranos Joshua Ellicott tenor Stephen Varcoe bass

HANDEL SAUL One of Handel’s most vividly dramatic oratorios set out in operatic style in three acts, Saul focuses on the first king of Israel’s relationship with his eventual successor, David; one which turns from admiration to envy and hatred, ultimately leading to the downfall of the monarch. Saul includes the famous Dead March and some of the composer's most theatrical choral pieces.

Promoted in association with YBC www.yorkshirebachchoir.org.uk

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Young

CALL FOR APPLICANTS! The closing date for applications is Friday 21 January 2011 Full details from www.ncem.co.uk/youngartists

Competition2011 2010

Sunday 5 December

Ensemble Meridiana

Event 6 1.00pm – c.2.15pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Tickets £12.00 (concessions £10.00, students £6.00)

Event 7 7.30pm – c.9.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Tickets £25.00 (concessions £20.00)

ENSEMBLE MERIDIANA

THE BURNING BUSH

Sabine Stoffer violin Sarah Humphrys oboe, recorder Dominique Tinguely recorder, bassoon Tore Eketorp viola da gamba Chrstian Kijos harpsichord

Lucie Skeaping vocals, violin Ben Harlan clarinets Roderick Skeaping violin, rebec Robin Jeffrey oud, laouto, darabukka, guitar Jon Banks kanun, cymbalom, accordion Robert Levy double bass

TASTES OF EUROPE

A NIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN: EARLY AND TRADITIONAL JEWISH MUSIC

Highly acclaimed winners of the 2009 York Early Music International Young Artists Competition, Ensemble Meridiana make a welcome return to the NCEM with a programme of Telemann interwoven with a suitably seasonal thread of musical entertainments by Corelli and Corrette.

‘Ensemble Meridiana appeared as a new star on the festival sky.’ Pressemitteilung Arolser BarockFestspiele Supported by the Fidelio Charitable Trust and Linn Records www.ensemblemeridiana.com

Exhuberance, defiance, celebration and ribald wit all come together on the emotional rollercoaster ride that is a Burning Bush performance. Foot-tapping klezmer, songs of the ghetto, Hassidic melodies and haunting ballads of the old Judeo-Spanish world - with an exotic array of instruments this multi-talented sextet presents music that’s impossible to resist whatever your background. An evening of colour, hope and joy.

‘A terrific listening experience it catches the life-blood of living’ Ambrience, Australia www.theburningbush.co.uk

BUY A FESTIVAL PASS AND SAVE 20% Buy a ticket for 11 events (ie. all events except event 5) for just £150.00! A concessionary price saver is available for £125.00.

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The Burning Bush

Monday 6 December

I Fagiolini

Tuesday 7 December

The York Waits

Event 8 7.30pm – c.9.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Tickets £20.00 (concessions £17.00)

Event 9 7.30pm – c.9.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Tickets £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

I FAGIOLINI

THE YORK WAITS

directed by Robert Hollingworth

Deborah Catterall voice

I FAGIOLINI’S CHRISTMAS DINNER

NOWELL!!

TYDNGES TREW

I Fagiolini bring their characteristic elan and humour to a beautifully varied meal of Christmas music. As amuse-bouche, Swiss bell-ringing, a primo piatto of great Christmas motets by Palestrina, Victoria and one of Byrd’s most effervescent works. A Spanish salad presents a Christmas drama in which the Devil challenges Adam and Christ to a joust and after such a rich polyphonic diet, an aural sorbet by Hildegard of Bingen restores the taste buds. Poulenc and Warlock provide the coffee and mints.

Inspired by the famous medieval York Mystery Plays, The York Waits tell the story of Christmas from the Nativity through to the visitations of the Shepherds and the Magi using a wide variety of shawms, sackbut, crumhorns, lute, rebec, gittern, recorders, hurdy gurdy and bagpipes.

‘The Waits created a wonderful variety of sound textures’ York Press www.theyorkwaits.org.uk

‘For all the humour, the programme worked beautifully because of the deadly serious musicianship that is I Fagiolini's gold standard’ The Guardian www.ifagiolini.com

2010

Thursday 9 December

Friday 10 December

Eclipse

Joglaresa

Event 10 7.30pm – c.9.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Tickets £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

Event 11 7.30pm – c.9.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church Tickets £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

ECLIPSE

JOGLARESA

Joy Smith harps, hammered dulcimer Layil Barr recorders, viol Andres Ticino percussion Ulises Diaz-Ropero conde flamenco singer Mariona Castells flamenco, contemporary dance

Belinda Sykes voice, director Jeremy Avis voice Mick Sands voice, bodhran, flute Jean Kelly cláirseach, voice Jim O'Toole fiddles, voice Tim Garside dulcimer, percussion, voice

CHRISTMAS FIESTA! Seasonal celebrations from the Hispanic traditions join together for a feast for the senses, evoking the atmosphere of a gypsy encampment with exhilarating flamencos, lyrical ensemble pieces and the swirling passionate tarantella - brimming with kaleidoscopic moods and colours. ‘sensational … the rapport and interaction – and enjoyment – was infectious .. what a way to start Christmas’ Clitheroe Music Society www.eclipse-baroquefusion.com

IN HOARY WINTER’S NIGHT An effervescent Anglo-Irish collaboration of ancient and spellbinding Christmas songs ringing with echoes of winter pagan festivities from across the centuries. Well-known carols such as The Coventry Carol are mixed together with many lesser-known songs such as The Falcon Carol, As I in Hoary Winter’s Night and Lordings Listen to Our Lay. ‘Thrilling and haunting’ The Times www.joglaresa.com

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY 2011 8 – 16 July

27 – 29 May & East Riding Early Music Festival

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Saturday 11 December

Booking Information National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret’s Church,Walmgate, York YO1 9TL

www.ncem.co.uk 01904 658338 EUBO

Event 12 7.30pm – c.9.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York,YO10 5DD Tickets £20.00 (concessions £17.00, students £6.00)

Credit/Debit card: Please note that surcharges apply when booking with Visa, Access, Mastercard and Maestro.

Cheques: Please make cheques payable to the National Centre for Early Music and enclose an SAE if posting.

EUROPEAN UNION BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

Reservations: Tickets must be paid for within three working days of reservation and at least 24 hours prior to the performance.

Lars Ulrik Mortensen director Huw Daniel concert master

MALADIES AND MELODIES Zelenka

“Hipocondrie” a 7 concertanti in A

Locatelli

Concerto Grosso in f minor, Op 1 No 8

Albinoni

Concerto for 2 oboes in F, Op 9 No 3

Biber

“Battalia”

Charpentier Suite from “Le malade imaginaire” Vivaldi

Concerto for strings in g minor, RV157

Muffat

Concerto Grosso III in B flat “Convalescentia”

We are delighted to welcome the EUBO back to York for what promises to be an extraordinarily virtuosic mix of talents – joining together instrumentalists from across the European community with some of the Baroque’s finest showpieces including Biber’s vivid pictures of a fearsome battle and Charpentier’s slightly ‘over the top’ concerns about a mind infected by hypochondria.

‘Mortensen was on terrific form, directing the EUBO from the keyboard. He dazzled us with his energy, virtuosity and rythmic verve.’ Financial Times

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

Refunds and concessions: Concession prices are shown in brackets and apply to over 60’s and registered disabled and their carers. Student tickets are as indicated. We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded.

Access: We offer a warm welcome to the disabled. The NCEM is fully accessible to wheelchair users, with suitable toilets and designated car parking spaces. It is also fitted with an induction loop and we have an RNIB Braille map of York available on request. If you have any special needs, please let us know when booking your tickets. The NCEM is a Typetalk Approved business.

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2–11 December 2010

Front and back cover : Workshop of Albrecht Dürer, The Virgin and Child ('The Madonna with the Iris') © The National Gallery, London. Bought through The Art Fund, 1945

at a glance Thursday 2 December

STILE ANTICO Friday 3 December

FLORILEGIUM Saturday 4 December

ROSE CONSORT OF VIOLS YORKSHIRE BACH CHOIR Sunday 5 December

ENSEMBLE MERIDIANA THE BURNING BUSH Monday 6 December

I FAGIOLINI Tuesday 7 December

THE YORK WAITS Thursday 9 December

ECLIPSE Friday 10 December

JOGLARESA Saturday 11 December

EUROPEAN UNION BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

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The York Early Music Christmas Festival is directed by Delma Tomlin MBE and 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 NCEM reserves the right to amend the published programme if necessary.

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