Kirklees concert season 2014 15

Invitation to Dream

Kirklees Concert Season 2014-15

Gordon Stewart’s organ and lunchtime chamber concerts continue to delight large audiences with the breadth and accessibility of the music and the artists on show. His opening organ concert will showcase Huddersfield Town Hall’s mighty 1860 Father Willis organ perfectly, and also features the Brass Ensemble of Opera North.

As ever our resident ensemble, the Orchestra of Opera North, and Borough Organist Gordon Stewart are at the heart of the season. We have invited back some of our most popular conductors and soloists to join us alongside some very exciting new faces. A highlight will be the performance of Mozart’s Requiem – a masterpiece that will also showcase the Chorus of Opera North.

Our proud partnership with Classic FM, the UK’s biggest classical music radio station, continues to grow. You’ll find four ‘Recommended

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Invitation to Dream

Welcome

to our new season of orchestral, organ and chamber concerts in which we present a stunning season of music that will fill the beautiful Town Halls of Huddersfield and Dewsbury.

This is still a groundbreaking partnership between Kirklees Council and Opera North and shows off the commitment of both organisations to classical music, even in these difficult financial times. We appreciate that pockets are not as deep as they were, and we have taken the decision to freeze our ticket prices. Please take advantage of our popular ‘Kids for a Quid’ offer, under 26s at £4 and further concessions from £6 per concert.

We hope you’ll join us as often as possible in our ‘Invitation to Dream’ year ahead for world-class music-making on your doorstep.

Richard Farnes Music Director, Opera North

Cllr David Sheard Leader of the Council

This year we’re continuing our popular ‘Kids for a Quid’ offer where under 16s can enjoy any concert for £1 when accompanied by an adult. Bring along your family and enjoy the concert season together.

Orchestral Concerts Huddersfield and Dewsbury

Kirklees Concert Season 2014-15

Talking Music Join us for some lively discussion about each performance.

Before most of our concerts this year we’ll be ‘Talking Music’ with some of our soloists, conductors and members of the orchestra. Please see individual concerts for start times.

Lunchtime Concerts Huddersfield and Dewsbury Come along to our popular lunchtime organ and chamber concerts – there are some real treats in store. Priced at only £5, these occasions are a simply delightful way to spend an afternoon.

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Friday 26 September 2014 7.30pm Dewsbury Town Hall

Orchestra of Opera North Classical Greats Haydn Symphony No.104 ‘London’ Mozart Clarinet Concerto, K622 Sibelius Symphony No. 3 in C Eugene Tzigane Conductor Colin Honour Clarinet ‘Talking Music’ starts at 6.40pm

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The Kirklees Concert Season opens with masterpieces by two of the greatest exponents of the classical style, together with a symphony by a 20th-century master. Haydn is widely acknowledged as the Father of the Symphony, and it’s impossible to imagine the great works of Mozart, Beethoven and all who came after him without his example. But Haydn’s symphonies are also wonders in their own right, brimming with invention, humour, drama and surprises; this is some of the most sheerly enjoyable music you will ever hear. Like Haydn’s ‘London’ symphony, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is a work that came late in its composer’s career. Tailor-made for Mozart’s friend, the clarinettist Anton Stadler, it is one of the best-loved pieces of all time, its enduring popularity boosted by its use in films such as Out of Africa.

The opening concert of the season in Huddersfield also features a masterpiece of Mozart’s final year, 1791. The Requiem was Mozart’s very last work, left unfinished at the time of his death aged just 35. All sorts of myths have sprung up over the years surrounding the commissioning and composition of the work, but however intriguing the mysteries, the actuality of this most human of Requiems in all its beauty and terror remains a wonder to behold when encountered live. The joint forces of the Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North are conducted by maestro Jac van Steen in a programme that also features Sibelius’s Fourth Symphony and the Prelude to Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. All in all, a very special start to the Huddersfield season.

Thursday 2 October 2014 7.30pm Huddersfield Town Hall

Orchestra of Opera North Chorus of Opera North Mozart Requiem Wagner Lohengrin Prelude to Act I Sibelius Symphony No.4 in A minor Mozart Requiem Jac van Steen Conductor ‘Talking Music’ starts at 6.40pm

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Sunday 26 October 2014 3pm Huddersfield Town Hall (Note time)

Royal Northern Sinfonia The Gruffalo René Aubrey The Gruffalo live orchestra and film The Gruffalo’s Child live orchestra and film Terry Davies Conductor

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Join us as we venture into the deep dark wood with the acclaimed animated films based on the books The Gruffalo and its delightful successor The Gruffalo’s Child

by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

This enchanting double bill is shown on the big screen accompanied live by the Royal Northern Sinfonia. Rene Aubrey’s beautiful scores make for a perfect introduction to the orchestra, so this performance is the ideal opportunity to introduce the delights of live orchestral music to younger family members and friends. Now, can the cunning and resourceful little mouse outsmart that hungry Gruffalo? …

In the first of two consecutive appearances in this year’s Kirklees Season, Opera North’s Music Director conducts three groundbreaking works. The music of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók is especially close to Richard Farnes’s heart.

Premièred in 1939, Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto is widely regarded as one of the greatest orchestral works of the 20th century: rhapsodic, mysterious and superbly scored, it is extraordinarily atmospheric.

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is famous for its ferocious rhythmic drive – Wagner wrote of it ‘All tumult, all yearning, and storming of the heart’ and dubbed it ‘the apotheosis of the dance’. Wagner’s own overture to his opera The Flying Dutchman – his first true masterpiece – opens the concert, and is a taste of things to come: Opera North will give complete performances of the opera in the summer of 2015.

Thursday 6 November 2014 7.30pm Huddersfield Town Hall

Orchestra of Opera North Storming of the Heart Wagner Der fliegende Holländer Overture Bartók Violin Concerto No.2 Beethoven Symphony No.7 in A Richard Farnes Conductor Ning Feng Violin

‘Talking Music’ starts at 6.40pm

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Thursday 4 December 2014 7.30pm Huddersfield Town Hall

Orchestra of Opera North Scaling the Heights Brahms Violin Concerto Debussy La Mer Ravel La Valse Richard Farnes Conductor Jack Liebeck Violin ‘Talking Music’ starts at 6.40pm

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Brahms’s D major Concerto is one of the peaks of the violin repertoire. The rugged grandeur of the massive first movement gives way to the melting lyricism of the second, whilst the finale is flavoured with vigorous Hungarian folk rhythms, a tribute to the man for whom the work was written, the Hungarian virtuoso Joseph Joachim. Following in Joachim’s footsteps this evening is one of the most compelling young violinists on the concert platform today, Jack Liebeck. The concert is completed by two masterworks of French orchestral tone painting – La Valse, Ravel’s tribute to the waltz, its touches of parody shot through with a surprising romanticism, and Debussy’s impressionistic evocation of the sea, La Mer.

The annual Dewsbury Christmas concert has become a popular fixture in the calendar in recent years, and with good reason: this special time of year has inspired many of the greatest composers to write some of their finest music. This year, as well as enjoying music by Bach and Mendelssohn, you’ll bask in the glow of some exquisite arrangements of Christmas carols by the English composer John Rutter, whose own music is often strongly associated with the festive period. You’ll also have the opportunity to add your voice to the Chorus of Opera North in favourite carols, ensuring that your Christmas season gets off to a truly joyous start.

Thursday 11 December 2014 7.30pm Dewsbury Town Hall

Orchestra of Opera North Chorus of Opera North A Joyous Christmas Concert includes: J S Bach Christmas Oratorio Part I Hess Christmas Overture Mendelssohn Christus Shaw How Far is it to Bethlehem arr. Rutter The Twelve Days of Christmas Shepherd’s Pipe Carol Once in Royal David’s City O Little Town of Bethlehem Anthony Kraus Conductor ‘Talking Music’ starts at 6.40pm Page 8

Monday 29 December 2014 3pm Huddersfield Town Hall (Note time)

Orchestra of Opera North Viennese Whirl Concert includes: Johann Strauss II Die Fledermaus Overture

LehĂĄr The Land of Smiles: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz

Kreisler Viennese Rhapsody

Johann Strauss II On the Beautiful Blue Danube

Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld Overture

Tobias Ringborg Conductor/Violin

Josef Strauss Jockey Polka

Michael Weinius Tenor/Conductor

Johann & Josef Strauss Pizzicato Polka

Mark Forrest Presenter

Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Waltzes Be swept off your feet and into the New Year by this afternoon of Viennese classics. One of the season’s highlights for many, do book early as this everpopular concert regularly sells out.

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Mozart had a special relationship with the city of Prague – his opera The Marriage of Figaro was a triumph there and led to the commission for Don Giovanni. His Symphony No.38 was premièred in the city in January 1787 – hence its nickname.

It’s a work full of operatic touches – the drama of Don Giovanni rubbing shoulders with the high spirits and nobility of The Magic Flute. Schumann’s symphonies were regarded by the more discerning of his contemporaries as being the most original and important after Beethoven’s.

The ‘Rhenish’ Symphony is perhaps the most popular of the four, and its opening movement rides an adrenalin surge of energy. Between these two masterly symphonies comes Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, dramatic and fiendishly difficult for the soloist. Expect fireworks this evening from the Serbian pianist Aleksander Madzar …

Friday 23 January 2015 7.30pm Huddersfield Town Hall

Orchestra of Opera North From Prague to the Rhine Mozart Symphony no.38, K504 ‘Prague’ Prokofiev Piano Concerto no. 2 Schumann Symphony No.3 in E ‘Rhenish’

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Aleksander Markovic Conductor Aleksander Madzar Piano ‘Talking Music’ starts at 6.40pm

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Saturday 7 February 2015 7.30pm Dewsbury Town Hall

Orchestra of Opera North Festive Grandeur Brahms Tragic Overture Shostakovich Piano Concerto no.2 Pärt Fratres Mozart Symphony No.41, K551 ‘Jupiter’ Alexandre Bloch Conductor Ian Buckle Piano ‘Talking Music’ starts at 6.40pm

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Dmitri Shostakovich may be best known for his intensely serious symphonies and string quartets, but there was a lighter, more carefree side to his musical personality, and it is given free rein in the predominantly cheerful Second Piano Concerto. The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has, for the past few years, been the most frequently performed contemporary composer in the world, a fact which comes as no surprise when you hear a piece as beautiful as his Fratres. This evening’s concert closes with Mozart’s last symphony, the ‘Jupiter’. The composer could hardly have known, when he put pen to manuscript paper in the summer of 1788, that this would be his last essay in the form, but it’s hard to imagine a more fitting climax to his symphonic career than this grand and festive work.

Some of the best-loved (and some of the best) orchestral music of the 20th and 21st centuries has been composed for the silver screen. This season’s Classic FM at the Movies programme pays tributes to such masters of the genre as Danny Elfman and Howard Shore, as well as celebrating the enormous contribution that the great classical composers have made to so many of our favourite films. This concert is the perfect way to share with all the family the power and the glory of wonderful orchestral music played live – so do book soon for what is bound to be one of the most popular dates in the season!

Sunday 1 March 2015 3pm Huddersfield Town Hall (Note time)

Orchestra of Opera North Classic FM at the Movies Concert includes: Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra [2001: A Space Odyssey] Wagner Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries [Apocalypse Now] Danny Elfman Batman: Suite Mahler Symphony no.5: Adagietto [Death in Venice, Lorenzo’s Oil] Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: Suite Dukas The Sorcerer’s Apprentice [Fantasia] Oliver von Dohnányi Conductor Nick Bailey Presenter ‘Talking Music’ starts at 2.10pm

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Thursday 16 April 2015 7.30pm Huddersfield Town Hall

Orchestra of Opera North Invitation to the Dance Gershwin An American in Paris Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1 Ravel Mother Goose (Complete) Stravinsky The Firebird (1919) Kees Bakels Conductor Federico Colli Piano ‘Talking Music’ starts at 6.40pm

Three works with strong associations with dance dominate this evening’s concert. Gershwin’s musical love letter to Paris, written in 1928, was not originally intended to be danced, but it is now indelibly linked with images of Leslie Caron and Gene Kelly dancing against the backdrop of the City of Romance in the 1951 film An American in Paris. Stravinsky’s Firebird took a journey in the opposite direction, from ballet score to orchestral suite.

Premièred in 1910 by the Ballets Russes, the ballet was an immediate sensation with audiences and critics, and the 1919 orchestral suite heard here demonstrates Stravinsky’s total mastery of orchestral colour. In his Mother Goose suite, Ravel weaves together several French fairy tales, including Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast and Tom Thumb, to make music that is a delight for adults and children alike.

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Join us for an afternoon of popular classics in the intimate surroundings of Dewsbury Town Hall.

Tchaikovsky’s music for the ballet The Nutcracker and Prokofiev’s musical tale Peter and the Wolf have inspired a love of classical music in generation after generation of children, and such is the enduring quality of these scores that they are also enjoyed and enjoyed again by all those – young and old – who know and love them well.

Peter and the Wolf will be followed this afternoon by Wolf Tracks, or The Wolf and Peter, a delightful sequel to Prokofiev’s original by the French composer JeanPascal Beintus, and the concert is presented and narrated by Huddersfieldborn BBC Radio Leeds personality Liz Green.

Saturday 18 April 2015 4pm Dewsbury Town Hall (Note time)

Orchestra of Opera North Popular Classics for all the family Tchaikovsky Nutcracker: excerpts Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf Jean-Pascal Beintus Wolf Tracks Justin Doyle Conductor Liz Green Narrator and Presenter

‘Talking Music’ starts at 3.10pm

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Friday 22 May 2015 7.30pm Huddersfield Town Hall

BBC Philharmonic Invitation to Dream Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto No.1 Brahms Symphony No.2 in D Andrew Gourlay Conductor Guy Johnston Cello ‘Talking Music’ starts at 6.40pm

Brahms struggled mightily to compose his First Symphony, so weighed down was he by the expectation that he was Beethoven’s natural successor. His Second Symphony came much more quickly and is a far more relaxed work than the heroic First. Brahms jokingly wrote to his publisher that the Second Symphony ‘is so melancholy that you’ll be unable to bear it’, but it is a joke that contains a germ of truth, for although this is a predominantly warm and lyrical work, it is shot through with moments of agitation and melancholy before reaching its triumphant conclusion.

The prodigiously talented Guy Johnston makes a welcome return to the Kirklees Season for the first time in four years in one of the great Romantic cello concertos, and the concert opens with a perennial favourite, Tchaikovsky’s lovely Serenade for Strings.

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Organ Concerts Huddersfield Town Hall Mondays 1pm Our popular lunchtime organ and chamber concert series returns with a fantastically talented line-up. As ever, these concerts are very well priced at only £5 each (£3.50 for concessions). Regular lunchtime concert goers comment how wonderfully friendly and sociable these daytime events are, and with competitively priced lunches available from 11.30am, ticket holders can enjoy a bite to eat and chat prior to sitting back and enjoying the uplifting musical programmes on offer. With friendly banter from the likes of Borough Organist Dr Gordon Stewart and other season performers, the audience gets an insight into the music, as well as a few entertaining personal anecdotes.

Season tickets are available for all 16 concerts for just £37.50 Beat the queue - Book online at www.kirkleestownhalls.co.uk

Monday 22 September 2014 Gordon Stewart with the Brass Ensemble of Opera North In this gala opening concert Borough Organist Gordon Stewart is joined by the entire brass section of the Orchestra of Opera North in a programme which includes music by Thalben-Ball, Bach, and Gigout. As we mark the centenary of the start of World War One, of special interest will be the seldom heard Poème Héroique for organ and brass, written by Marcel Dupré in 1936 for a service in Verdun rededicating the cathedral on the 20th anniversary of the horrific battle which ruined the church in 1916. Organ solos will include Bach’s Sinfonia to Cantata 29 and Dupré’s Prelude and Fugue in G Minor.

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Mondays 1pm Monday 6 October 2014 Gordon Stewart Gordon Stewart’s first solo recital of the season is one of transcriptions. Although the art of transcribing for the organ goes back to the earliest days of organ playing, it flourished in the 19th and early 20th centuries when the great town hall organs were being built and transcriptions were used to let orchestral music be heard in parts of the country where there were no orchestras. The most famous arrangers of that period were W T Best and Edwin Lemare, both of whom appear in this programme.

Handel arr Best Overture The Occasional Oratorio Stanley arr Wall Toccata for the flutes Handel arr Dupré Organ Concerto The Cuckoo and the Nightingale Vivaldi arr Bach Concerto in A minor (first movement) Mendelssohn arr Bossert Prelude and Fugue in F Minor Saint-Saëns arr Lemare Danse Macabre Saint-Saëns arr Lemare Softly Awakes my heart (Samson and Delilah) Whitlock arr Gower March for the Phoebe Page 17

Monday 20 October 2014 Ben Morris (Cambridge)

Ben Morris is one of the most talented organists of his generation. His programme opens with William Walton’s exciting Spitfire Prelude, then takes us on a journey through the works of several of the most important composers for the organ, with Liszt’s magnificent tribute to J S Bach as its grand finale.

Walton Spitfire Prelude Bach Trio on Herr Jesu Christ Mozart Fantasia in F Minor K608 Reger Benedictus

Vierne Allegro vivace (Symphonie 1) Elgar Chanson de Matin Liszt Prelude and Fugue on BACH

Book online at www.kirkleestownhalls.co.uk Monday 3 November 2014 Gordon Stewart Andrew Carter has become a real friend of the Town Hall organ concerts, so to help celebrate his 75th birthday, Gordon Stewart has included three of his pieces in this programme. The Festal Fanfare was written for the opening of the restored organ at Bridlington Priory, the Aria for a Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, USA and the Three Variants earlier this year to celebrate the centenary of a Binns organ in Derbyshire. New to the Town Hall series are John Bertalot’s variations for pedals and an exciting Toccata by Enrico Bossi.

Carter Festal Fanfare and Processional Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor Carter Three Variants on an Eriskay Love Lilt Bertalot Pedal Variations on Regent’s Square Carter Aria Goss Custard Chelsea Fayre Bossi Toccata di Concerto

Monday 17 November 2014 Sophie-Véronique CaucheferChoplin (S Sulpice, Paris) For any lover of organ music, a visit to hear the five-manual CavailléColl organ in the great Paris church of Saint Sulpice is always a thrill.

One of the regular organists there is Sophie-Véronique CaucheferChoplin, recognised as one of the finest organists and improvisers in France. To end her wonderfully varied programme she will improvise on a theme suggested at an earlier concert by an audience member. Expect fireworks!

Bach Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist Mendelssohn Sonata 6 Franck Chorale in A minor Mulet Rosace Mulet Tu es Petra Cauchefer- Choplin Improvisation on a submitted theme

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Mondays 1pm Monday 1 December 2014 Gordon Stewart Noel Rawsthorne is a real friend of the Huddersfield concerts and a CD of his organ works was recorded by Gordon Stewart on the Father Willis organ. On Christmas Eve Noel will be 85, so today’s concert includes two of his largest work for the organ, the Fantasie on Wachet Auf! dedicated to his successor as organist at Liverpool Cathedral, Ian Tracey, and his Dance Suite which is dedicated to Gordon Stewart.

Carter Toccata on Veni Emmanuel Rawsthorne Prelude on This is the truth Rawsthorne Fantasie on Wachet Auf! Bach Nun komm der Heiden Heiland Daquin Noel in G Grand Jeu et duo Bovet Noel de Moulins Rawsthorne Dance Suite

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Monday 15 December 2014 University of Huddersfield Brass Band The annual appearance of the University of Huddersfield Brass Band is a Christmas highlight for many Kirklees concert-goers. Here they are again under their charismatic conductor Phillip McCann in a new programme for Christmas, including carols for all to sing.

Monday 22 December 2014 Gordon Stewart with Huddersfield Young Singers and Flute Salad Many of the audience say their Christmas really begins with this lunchtime concert. Gordon Stewart is again joined by the 80 voices of the Huddersfield Young Singers and the Derbyshirebased ensemble, Flute Salad, who made such an impact three years ago. The programme will be a mix of Christmas music old and new, with organ music by Bach, Callahan and Cockroft and carols for audience, choir and organ.

Monday 12 January 2015 The Art of the Improviser Gordon Stewart with George King (piano) Gordon Stewart is again joined by piano virtuoso George King in a format which was extremely popular last season. From organ works by Bach, Vierne and Gardonyi, George will take themes and create new pieces on the Town Hall’s Steinway piano. George’s compositions have won prizes in the UK and the USA, and he has played venues as varied as Carnegie Hall in New York and Ronnie Scott’s in London.

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Book online at www.kirkleestownhalls.co.uk Monday 26 January 2015 Jos van der Kooy (Haarlem, The Netherlands) Jos van der Kooy is City Organist in Haarlem in the Netherlands, where he plays what many consider to be the most beautiful organ in the world in the Saint Bavokerk. Built by Christian Müller in 1738, it looks as beautiful as it sounds.

He opens his concert with a work by his predecessor there, Piet Kee, who has played many times at Huddersfield University. He finishes his concert with an improvisation on a theme suggested by an audience member at an earlier concert.

Piet Kee Fantasia on Wachet auf!

Ireland Elegaic Romance Vierne Feux Follets Reger Fantasie and Fugue D Minor Jos van der Kooy Improvisation on a submitted theme Page 21

Monday 9 February 2015 Gordon Stewart Gordon Stewart surrounds César Franck’s large-scale Choral, one of the composer’s last works, with pieces using the quieter stops of the Father Willis organ. Bach’s Trio Sonatas were written for his son Wilhelm Friedemann, and Vaughan Williams’s prelude on Rhosymedre is a Town Hall favourite. Ending the programme are three pieces by a little-known Parisian organist, Augustin Barié, considered by Vierne to be one of the most talented organists in France at that time.

Cocker Tuba Tune Buxtehude Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C Bach Trio Sonata 6 Franck Chorale in B Minor Vaughan Williams Rhosymedre Barié March, Lamento and Toccata

Mondays 1pm Monday 16 February 2015 John Scott Whiteley

Monday 2 March 2015 Gordon Stewart

John Scott Whiteley played the organ at York Minster for over 35 years.

Recognised as one of Britain’s finest organists, he plays an enormous repertoire which includes the complete works of both Bach and Jongen. For this concert he has put together a programme full of variety.

Many will have seen his wonderful Bach series on BBC television and will look forward to his interpretation of the virtuosic Prelude and Fugue in D.

Jongen Toccata Jongen Papillons noirs Bach Prelude and Fugue in D Best Scherzo in A minor Noble Revery Noble An Elizabethan Idyll Dupré Variations on a Noël

Gordon Stewart opens this concert with an exciting arrangement of a piece which became well-known when used as the signature-tune for BBC’s Going for a Song. After two pieces by Bach come three new pieces by Frederick Stocken, whose previous works include a symphony premièred at the Royal Albert Hall by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Robert Cockroft’s Scherzetto finds him at his most amusing, and Denis Bédard’s Toccata is a tour de force for the pedals!

Respighi Festive March from The Birds Bach Trio on Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr Bach Prelude and Fugue in G Stocken Archangels Franck Pastorale Cockroft Scherzetto Bédard Festive Toccata

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Monday 9 March 2015 Freddie James (Cambridge) Freddie James studied in Amsterdam and Cambridge and has been awarded prizes by the Royal College of Organists, the W T Best Trust and the Worshipful Company of Musicians. For this, his first Huddersfield appearance, he has chosen works by several of the giants of organ composition, all beautifully suited to the Father Willis organ. To end he plays the magnificent Triumphal March by the Hull-born Alfred Hollins.

Buxtehude Praeludium in G minor Widor Andante sostenuto (Symphonie Gothique) Mendelssohn Sonata 2 Alain Première Fantasie Mozart Fantasia in F minor K594 Hollins Triumphal March

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Monday 23 March 2015 Gordon Stewart with Tom Osborne (trumpet) and Rachel Mosley (soprano) Tom Osborne and Rachel Mosley have been Huddersfield regulars for several years. Tom is the Hallé Orchestra’s co-principal trumpeter and Rachel is a member of the chorus of Opera North.

They have put together a wonderful programme which stretches from the glory of the Baroque via Petr Eben to another of Tom’s virtuoso cornet pieces.

A perfect lunchtime programme.

Handel Eternal Source of Life Divine Handel Let the bright seraphim Stanley Voluntary in D Minor Vivaldi Concerto in D for trumpet and organ Eben Song of the Beggar with the Hurdy-Gurdy Eben The Song of Ruth Eben Moto Ostinato Bohme Russian Dance

Monday 13 April 2015 Gordon Stewart Gordon Stewart ends the season with a typically varied programme which includes music from France, Germany, England and Italy. Pedal solos abound in the Bach and the Bonnet, and the Pachelbel and Festing allow the quiet stops of the Father Willis organ to be featured. No doubt the Widor Toccata will end the series on full organ with the magnificent 32’ Contra Bombarde very much in evidence!

Salomé Allegro Symphonique Pachelbel Chaconne in F minor Bach Toccata in F Festing Suite in E Bonnet Variations de concert Cochereau Berceuse à la mémoire de Louis Vierne Bossi Giga Widor Toccata in F (Symphonie 5)

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Chamber Concerts Dewsbury Town Hall Wednesdays 12.30pm Dewsbury Town Hall Lunchtime Concert Information Tickets: £5 (£3.50 concessions) available from Dewsbury Town Hall Box Office. Season tickets are available for all 8 concerts for just £20. For full information please see the venue details on pages 29 & 30. All Dewsbury Lunchtime Concerts start at 12.30pm.

Lunch is served in the main hall from 11.30am.

Beat the queue - Book online at www.kirkleestownhalls.co.uk

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Wednesday 8 October 2014 Apollo5 Opening the Dewsbury lunchtime concert with an a capella vocal group has become something of a tradition. This year we welcome one of the finest; London-based Apollo5. With a richly varied repertoire, and a great sense of fun, they are the perfect group to continue the tradition!

Wednesdays 12.30pm Wednesday 12 November 2014 David Fearn (Baritone) with Jo Ramadan (Piano) David Fearn is a prize-winning student from Halifax studying in London. His programme for Dewsbury stretches from the world of song, through opera to the great musicals of the 20th century.

A programme which certainly goes under the title “something for everyone”.

Wednesday 10 December 2014 The University of Huddersfield Brass Band For many of the Dewsbury audience Christmas starts when they come to hear the wonderful University of Huddersfield Brass Band. Here they are again in concert, directed by the charismatic Phillip McCann, with lots of new pieces to welcome in the Festive Season, and carols for all to sing.

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Dewsbury Town Hall Wednesdays 12.30pm Wednesday 21 January 2015 George King (Piano)

Wednesday 11 February 2015 David Greed and Friends

George King is unique amongst British pianists in that he is recognised as a classical concert pianist but is also an internationally admired jazz pianist. This will be his fourth appearance in the series and he really is back by public demand.

There will certainly be fireworks in Brahms and Rachmaninov and the usual King invention in an improvisation on a popular melody.

David Greed, leader of the Orchestra of Opera North, is joined by some of the north of England’s finest chamber musicians in a programme which includes perhaps the finest of all Romantic chamber works, the Schumann Piano Quintet.

Paired with this is Mozart’s beautiful G Minor Piano Quartet. For any lover of chamber music this will be a concert not to be missed.

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Wednesday 11 March 2015 Lisa Osborne (Oboe) with Paul Janes (Piano) When Lisa Osborne played in a concert with soprano Rachel Mosley last season several audience members asked if she could be invited back to play a solo concert.

Here she is with the brilliant Paul Janes in a programme which includes classics for oboe and piano by Bach and Schumann, and piano solos by Ravel and Debussy.

By special request the programme also includes Gabriel’s Oboe by Ennio Morricone.

Book online at www.kirkleestownhalls.co.uk Wednesday 15 April 2015 Craig Ogden (Guitar) Any listener to Classic FM will know the playing of Craig Ogden; he is their most played guitarist. His last Dewsbury visit was described by many of the regulars as the highlight of the season. Apart from his engaging personality, brilliant technique and musicality, it is his range of repertoire which makes his concerts so enjoyable.

Wednesday 13 May 2015 Mike Escreet and Heather Bills (Double Bass and Cello) Former principal members of the Hallé and BBC Philharmonic orchestras set aside their rivalry and come together to present a varied and entertaining programme of duos for cello and double bass. The programme includes Rossini’s light and witty duo along with earlier and later works. This unusual combination brings the series to an exciting end.

Don’t miss two of the North’s finest musicians together in concert.

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Huddersfield orchestral prices and discounts A B C Seating Area Single Ticket £24.00 £21.50 £18.00 Concessions £21.00 £18.50 £15.50 – – £4.00 Under 26s Viennese Whirl concert £14.00 £14.00 £14.00 £1.00 £1.00 Under 16s £1.00 Season Subscription £141.00 £126.00 £105.00

D £12.00 £10.00 £4.00 £14.00 £1.00 £69.00

stage E £10.00 £8.50 £4.00 £14.00 £1.00 £57.00

F £8.00 £7.00 £4.00 £14.00 £1.00 £45.00

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C

Please note - orchestral subscription tickets are not transferable between venues.

Please note that the Viennese Whirl on the 29 December is not included in the season subscription and has a ticket price of £14.00 all areas, £4.00 for under 26s, £1.00 for under 16s with no further concessions.

A £19.00 £16.50 – £1.00 £55.50

F

D

B

Concessions are available to Kirklees Passport holders, senior citizens, under 26s, unwaged, disabled and Stagepass holders. Please note that there are no concessions on subscription tickets.

Seating Area Single Ticket Concessions Under 26s Under 16s Season Subscription

F

C

F

D EB C

Band A - Balcony

C D

Band C - Stalls

Band B - Balcony Band D - Stalls Band E - Stalls

Venue information Huddersfield Town Hall Location: Ramsden Street, Huddersfield HD1 2TA Entrance Corporation Street for access to box office, stalls and Old Court Room.

Princess Street for access to balcony and gallery.

Box Office The box office will open one hour prior to the start of each concert for collection of pre-booked tickets and ‘on the door’ sales.

Dewsbury Town Hall Location: Wakefield Old Road, Dewsbury WF12 8DG Entrance Ground floor access to the box office and stairs/lift to the concert hall is at the front of the town hall.

Box Office Opening hours: Monday – Friday 9.30am – 5pm. From 6.15pm on concert nights for collection of pre-booked tickets and ‘on the door’ sales.

Facilities at Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town Halls Talking Music: For an extra insight into the music and an opportunity to meet some of the performers, there is a free talk before the concerts at 6.40pm (unless otherwise stated) in the main hall. Please ensure that you purchase your concert ticket before going into the hall.

Travel and Parking All venues are located within walking distance of the rail and bus stations.

Parking is available in local car parks, as well as limited free parking on surrounding streets during the evening. For further details of car parks please visit www.kirkleestownhalls.co.uk Induction Loop System Both town halls have induction loops in the concert halls.

Wheelchair Access A number of wheelchair positions are available in the stalls only. Access is via the level access Corporation Street entrance at Huddersfield and the level access entrance at Dewsbury. A steward will be available to assist you. Please make it clear when booking that you require a wheelchair

space. Wheelchair spaces are sold at the concessionary rate; one accompanying carer may claim a free seat.

Refreshments Bar and catering facilities are available from 6.30pm.

You may wish to pre-order your interval drinks at the bar to beat the rush!

How to Book You can book your ticket in person, by phone or online as follows: Holmfirth Information Centre, tel: 01484 222444 Huddersfield Visitor Information Centre, tel: 01484 223200 Dewsbury Box Office, tel: 01924 324501 Book online at www.kirkleestownhalls.co.uk

Single tickets for all concerts go on sale from Friday 1 August 2014 The information contained in this booklet was correct at the time of printing. However, Kirklees Council and Opera North reserve the right to alter the programme without prior notice.

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