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| Wednesday 3-Jul-13 11:00am |
 Pittville Pump Room, CheltenhamSchubert, Mozart and Dvorak from the Belceas Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Wednesday 3-Jul-13 11:00am Schubert, Mozart and Dvorak from the Belceas It is a great pleasure to welcome the Belcea Quartet back to Cheltenham for the opening concert of the 69th Music Festival. Cheltenham performances by the Belceas a decade or more ago played a large part in establishing the quartet, now indisputably one of the world’s most acclaimed chamber ensembles. After music by Schubert and Mozart for three and four, much-admired Austrian pianist Till Fellner makes up a five for Dvorak’s beloved, bountifully melodic quintet. | ||
| Wednesday 3-Jul-13 04:00pm |
Tewkesbury Abbey Noye's Fludde Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury GL20 5RZ, United Kingdom Wednesday 3-Jul-13 04:00pm Noye's Fludde | ||
| Wednesday 3-Jul-13 06:00pm |
Cheltenham College Chapel Festival Choral Evensong Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Cheltenham College Chapel, Cheltenham, United Kingdom Wednesday 3-Jul-13 06:00pm Festival Choral Evensong Image credit: Anna Lythgoe Programme not known Price type: Free | ||
| Wednesday 3-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Cheltenham Town Hall Mark Kermode: Film Music Live with the CBSO Cheltenham Music Festival |
Oldfield, Film music from The Exorcist: Theme (arr. Ziegler) |
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| Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham GL50 1QA, United Kingdom Wednesday 3-Jul-13 07:30pm Mark Kermode: Film Music Live with the CBSO Put one of world’s great orchestras on stage alongside the UK’s most authoritative and compelling film critic, and a hugely entertaining Festival opening night beckons . In the first performance of a specially-curated national tour, Mark Kermode joins the CBSO to talk about his favourite films and his favourite film scores. Oldfield, Mike (b. 1953), Film music from The Exorcist: Theme (arr. Ziegler) | ||
| Thursday 4-Jul-13 11:00am |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham The Rite of Spring on Two Pianos Cheltenham Music Festival |
Fujikura, Three Miniatures for two pianos (World Première) |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Thursday 4-Jul-13 11:00am The Rite of Spring on Two Pianos Described in The Times as ‘precision-tooled piano duettists’, Tong and Hasegawa return to Cheltenham for the visual and sonorous spectacle of two 9 foot Steinways side-by-side in the Pump Room. 100 years since it was first performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Stravinsky’s still-extraordinary and influential The Rite of Spring has a centenary performance in its two-piano version. And in complete contrast will be the delicate concision of Dai Fujikura’s brand-new miniatures, commissioned by Cheltenham and the Tong-Hasegawa duo.
Britten and Poulenc first met in London in 1945, when they were the soloists in Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos. They remained good friends until the Frenchman’s death in 1963, Britten writing in 1964 that he ‘was too innocent to be insincere...incapable of being anything but himself - a delightful friend and a lovable musician.’ Fujikura, Dai (b. 1977), Three Miniatures for two pianos (World Première) | ||
| Thursday 4-Jul-13 06:00pm |
Tewkesbury Abbey Noye's Fludde at Tewkesbury Abbey Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury GL20 5RZ, United Kingdom Thursday 4-Jul-13 06:00pm Noye's Fludde at Tewkesbury Abbey Britten created Noye’s Fludde – regarded by many as still the most inspired and most inspiring piece of music for young people – simply because he passionately believed in bringing children and adults, amateurs and professionals together for community music-making. And he was good at it – at writing satisfying roles for highly trained professional soloists alongside parts for recorder ensembles, handbell ringers and beginner violinists. Making Noye’s Fludde doable for everyone, but at the same time something of substance and sophistication, was just one aspect of Britten’s genius.
This special Cheltenham Music Festival production will bring together over 200 local schoolchildren – singing, acting, playing, making costumes. Gloucestershire Youth Players’ founder Edward Derbyshire will direct, and the set and costumes will be designed by children’s author and illustrator James Mayhew. | ||
| Thursday 4-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre BCMG Presents a Radio Play Double Bill Cheltenham Music Festival |
Sawer, The Lighthouse Keepers (World Première) |
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| Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham GL50 3EP, United Kingdom Thursday 4-Jul-13 07:00pm BCMG Presents a Radio Play Double Bill A fifty-metre high lighthouse, six miles out to sea, a storm raging outside, and a secret revealed between father and son just as a ship approaches the rocks…
BCMG presents two works, one new, one established, both ‘plays for radio’, one on-stage, one off-stage.
Following in the footsteps of David Sawer’s widely acclaimed Rumpelstiltskin, The Lighthouse Keepers is a claustrophobic tale based on a French play of 1905. It premieres alongside Samuel Beckett andMorton Feldman’s Words and Music, where Joe (Words) and Bob (Music), struggle to formulate expressions on themes such as love and age under the command of the mysterious Croak. Sawer, David (b. 1961), The Lighthouse Keepers (World Première) | ||
| Friday 5-Jul-13 11:00am |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Schumann, Fauré and the Matthews Brothers Cheltenham Music Festival |
Matthews C., Nowhere to hide (World Première) Matthews D., Piano work |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Friday 5-Jul-13 11:00am Schumann, Fauré and the Matthews Brothers Alongside Schumann’s beloved chamber work, the Schubert Ensemble presents a less widely-performed piano quartet by Fauré. The Adagio’s beautifully elegiac quality hints at the turbulence of the 30-something Fauré’s love life at this time, but elsewhere it is kaleidoscopically fresh and ardent.
Bookended by these two substantial romantic piano quartets are two new pieces by the Matthews brothers, Colin and David, their music making a welcome return to Cheltenham after a decade. Matthews, Colin (b. 1946), Nowhere to hide (World Première) Matthews, David (b. 1943), Piano work | ||
| Friday 5-Jul-13 03:30pm |
St Swithin's Church, Quenington, Cheltenham Solo Guitar at Quenington Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| St Swithin's Church, Quenington, Cheltenham, Cheltenham, United Kingdom Friday 5-Jul-13 03:30pm Solo Guitar at Quenington The last guitarist we programmed at Quenington (Milos Karadaglic in 2010) has gone on to become a chart-topping, Gramophone and ClassicalBRIT award winning superstar! Here we present another promising young guitarist with an enticingly varied programme. Already tipped as a 'future star' by Geoff Brown of The Times, Manus is an engaging speaker and a player with a sparkling, colourful touch. | ||
| Friday 5-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Cheltenham Town Hall The Swingle Singers - Beatbox to Beatles and Bach Again Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham GL50 1QA, United Kingdom Friday 5-Jul-13 07:00pm The Swingle Singers - Beatbox to Beatles and Bach Again For five decades the unmistakable sound of ‘Swingle singing’- virtuosic vocal agility and trademark
blend combined with high-level entertainment - has thrilled audiences around the globe. Pushing the boundaries of what is possible with the human voice, their dazzling vocal percussion effects have to be heard to be believed.
Now, as the group celebrates their 50th Anniversary in 2013, the current line-up of young and talented voices represents the group's transformation from pioneering classical/ jazz crossover artists to
contemporary vocal super-group with a celebratory programme to match.
The programme includes celebrated tracks such as the first track ‘D minor Fugue’ on the original album Jazz Sebastian Bach and Debussy’s ‘Clair De Lune’, .alongside newer, equally stunning arrangements of music by the likes of The Beatles and – right up to date – Mumford & Sons. | ||
| Friday 5-Jul-13 09:45pm |
Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre La Voix Humaine - A One-Act Opera Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham GL50 3EP, United Kingdom Friday 5-Jul-13 09:45pm La Voix Humaine - A One-Act Opera Sarah Gabriel’s fascinating, unorthodox career has taken her from being a political speech-writer to playing Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady at Paris’ Chatelet, a collaboration with Rambert Dance Company and her first feature film, Brigitte Rouan’s BAFTA nominated Tu honoreras ta mere.
Edward Dick is one of the UK’s most exciting young directors in the field of theatre, opera and film. Training initially with Cheek by Jowl, credits include Shakespeare for the Sydney Theatre Company and Shakespeare’s Globe, and opera productions for ROH2, Aldeburgh and Garsington. | ||
| Saturday 6-Jul-13 11:00am |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Schubert & Britten Songs Cheltenham Music Festival |
Britten, Winter Words for soprano or tenor and piano, Op.52 (Version Première - arrangement for mezzo-soprano) |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Saturday 6-Jul-13 11:00am Schubert & Britten Songs Life at the Outset and Life Towards the End. In this recital, two Britten cycles – one relating to childhood and the other about life’s experience – balance beautifully with Mussorgsky’s own take on nursery songs and some reflections on life-lived by Schubert. Imogen Cooper, a longstanding favourite with Cheltenham audiences, joins one of the world’s most esteemed singers of her generation, Dutch mezzo Christianne Stotijn, Her one-time teacher, Janet Baker, has passed on to her a score of Winter Words given to her especially by Benjamin Britten, and to be heard for the first time in this concert from a mezzo. Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976), Winter Words for soprano or tenor and piano, Op.52 (Version Première - arrangement for mezzo-soprano) | ||
| Saturday 6-Jul-13 02:00pm |
Cheltenham Town Hall The Young Person's (painted) Guide to the Orchestra Cheltenham Music Festival |
Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34 (Features author and illustrator James Mayehw) |
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| Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham GL50 1QA, United Kingdom Saturday 6-Jul-13 02:00pm The Young Person's (painted) Guide to the Orchestra Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra shows off all the colours and sounds of a modern orchestra instrument by instrument. This special performance features James Mayhew describing and painting the special characters of flutes, violins, trumpets, drums and more. What a magnificent riot of sound and colour when the whole orchestra plays the final part together and James paints them into one big picture – all projected onto a big screen! Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976), The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, Op.34 (Features author and illustrator James Mayehw) | ||
| Saturday 6-Jul-13 05:30pm |
Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre Greek Piano Odyssey Cheltenham Music Festival |
Hesketh, Horae (pro Clara) (Complete Set Première) |
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| Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham GL50 3EP, United Kingdom Saturday 6-Jul-13 05:30pm Greek Piano Odyssey Critically acclaimed young pianist Clare Hammond presents a programme inspired by Ancient Greek Mythology. Symanowski's Me[acute]topes chart Odysseus's trials as he resists the Sirens, spurns the affections of the Nymph Calypso and meets Princess Nausicca on the isle of Scherie, while Satie's Gnossiennes evoke the Minoan Palace in Creta and the defeat of the Minotaur. Woven throughout these tableaus are a set of 12 minatures from Kenneth Hesketh--written for Clare and premiered here in their entirety--which depict the twelve goddesses of the Horae (the Hours) who personify the time between sunrise and sunset. A vivid and enchanting programme. Hesketh, Kenneth (b. 1968), Horae (pro Clara) (Complete Set Première) | ||
| Saturday 6-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Cheltenham Town Hall A Britten Double Bill & Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham GL50 1QA, United Kingdom Saturday 6-Jul-13 07:30pm A Britten Double Bill & Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony Chetham’s, in Manchester, is one of the world’s finest specialist music schools—and so it may easily lay claim to having the best school orchestra in the world. In this concert, they bring together two composers who, for the final decade and a half of their lives at least, became great friends and musical confederates. Years before they did meet, in 1959, they wrote these three very different pieces—two of which at least, Shostakovich’s 5th symphony from 1937 and Britten’s Young Person’s Guide from 1946, have become firm fixtures of the orchestral repertory. Britten’s Violin Concerto, premiered in New York in 1940, is performed here by the hugely-talented 16 year-old, Callum Smart—a Chetham’s student and winner of the strings category of BBC Young Musician in 2010. | ||
| Sunday 7-Jul-13 11:00am |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Lawrence Power plays Elgar & Britten Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Sunday 7-Jul-13 11:00am Lawrence Power plays Elgar & Britten Quite a few violinists have turned their hand to playing the viola—Menuhin and Kennedy for starters—but not usually in the same concert. And few violists of note have gone the other way. But here, one of the world’s finest viola players switches instruments and clefs in the interval and emerges as a violin virtuoso in the second half. Alongside contrasting works by Britten and Elgar, Lawrence Powers’ programme begins with a late-romantic, virtuosic work by York Bowen—like Britten, a fine viola player as well as a pianist. The 20th century’s first viola virtuoso, Lionel Tertis, premiered this Phantasy at the Wigmore Hall in December 1918. | ||
| Sunday 7-Jul-13 11:00am |
Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre James Mayhew's Painted Firebird Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham GL50 3EP, United Kingdom Sunday 7-Jul-13 11:00am James Mayhew's Painted Firebird James Mayhew tells and paints the story of Prince Ivan's adventure with the mysterious Firebird. A tale of monsters, a terrible sorcerer, a magical kingdom, and thirteen beautiful princesses! As Russian pianist Nikolai Ponomarev performs movements from Stravinsky's own piano transcription of his immortal ballet, James' pictures will appear before your eyes. | ||
| Sunday 7-Jul-13 06:00pm |
Cheltenham Town Hall Orchestrapaedia Cheltenham Music Festival |
Panufnik, Orchestrapaedia (Guide to the Orchestra) Matthews D., Double Concerto for violin, viola and string orchestra (World Première) |
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| Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham GL50 1QA, United Kingdom Sunday 7-Jul-13 06:00pm Orchestrapaedia Framed by a Mozart concerto and a Beethoven symphony, two brand new works form this debut concert in Cheltenham by the Welsh Sinfonia. After his recital in the morning, Lawrence Power is joined by violinist Anthony Marwood for Mozart’s beloved duo concerto, and David Matthews’ new work for the same pairing.
Inspired by Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (heard on Saturday 6 July, event M13) Orchestrapaedia is a brand new piece by Roxanna Panufnik that celebrates an orchestra’s diverse character. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791), Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola in E flat major, K364 (K320d) Panufnik, Roxanna (b. 1968), Orchestrapaedia (Guide to the Orchestra) | ||
| Monday 8-Jul-13 11:00am |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Beethoven & Britten from the Carducci Quartet Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Monday 8-Jul-13 11:00am Beethoven & Britten from the Carducci Quartet After highly successful appearances in the last two festivals, the Carduccis return to Cheltenham for a mini-residency – performing in Noye’s Fludde, giving children’s concerts and finishing with this Pittville recital. Alongside one of the quartets Beethoven dedicated in 1806 to the Russian ambassador to Vienna, Count Rasumovsky, the Carduccis begin our sequence, in adjacent concerts, of Britten’s three string quartets. The first of these remarkable chamber works was premiered in Los Angeles in September 1941, just a few months before Britten’s return to war-ravaged Britain. Also in the programme is a new work, influenced by Britten’s chamber music, by the latest winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s composition prize, David Onac. Önaç, David, String Quartet no. 6 (Première) | ||
| Tuesday 9-Jul-13 11:00am |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Schubert's String Quintet & Britten - Radio 3 New Generation Artists Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Tuesday 9-Jul-13 11:00am Schubert's String Quintet & Britten - Radio 3 New Generation Artists As well as being Part 2 of our Britten Quartet sequence, this is the first of three concerts featuring the latest crop of outstanding musicians on the BBC Radio 3 New Generations Artists scheme. The Signum Quartet is already forging a path far beyond its native Germany as one of the finest young ensembles, and won the Audience Prize in the 2009 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Hugely talented Leonard Elschenbroich is also from Germany, but at the age of ten he took up a scholarship at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Britain, and London remains the base for his burgeoning international career. | ||
| Tuesday 9-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Beethoven & Britten from the Elias Quartet Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Tuesday 9-Jul-13 07:30pm Beethoven & Britten from the Elias Quartet We welcome back the evermore assured Elias Quartet to complete the Britten quartet series with a performance of his last completed work, Written soon after his final opera, Death in Venice, it is subtitled La Serenissima, and has a poignant sense of summation. According to John Bridcut, in his superb new ‘pocket guide’ Essential Britten (Faber), the middle movement ‘contains the most utterly beautiful – and fascinating – sounds That Britten ever wrote.’ Partnering this is another late work, one of Beethoven’s final pieces, and part of an extraordinary chamber music canon which the Elias Quartet are exploring comprehensively in the coming years. | ||
| Wednesday 10-Jul-13 11:00am |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Beethoven, Bach & Brahms Cheltenham Music Festival |
Holt, Escaramuza for Clarinet and Piano (Première) |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Wednesday 10-Jul-13 11:00am Beethoven, Bach & Brahms | ||
| Wednesday 10-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Tewkesbury Abbey The Tallis Scholars at Tewkesbury Abbey Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury GL20 5RZ, United Kingdom Wednesday 10-Jul-13 07:30pm The Tallis Scholars at Tewkesbury Abbey The Tallis Scholars are one of the most globally successful and enduring exponents of a capella choral music, and are celebrating their 40th birthday in 2013. Their director Peter Philips has chosen this programme as a ‘best of...’ sequence of pieces held most dear to him and his elite singers. Alongside English gems by Tallis and Byrd are soaring splendours from Rome—a mass by Palestrina and Allegri’s Miserere—and works by two of choral music’s most popular living composers, Arvo Pärt and Eric Whitacre. | ||
| Thursday 11-Jul-13 11:00am |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Mozart's Clarinet Quintet - Radio 3 New Generation Artists Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Thursday 11-Jul-13 11:00am Mozart's Clarinet Quintet - Radio 3 New Generation Artists Illes, Marton (b. 1975), New work for String Quartet | ||
| Thursday 11-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Nicola Benedetti and her Trio Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Thursday 11-Jul-13 07:00pm Nicola Benedetti and her Trio | ||
| Friday 12-Jul-13 11:00am |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Boris Giltburg Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Friday 12-Jul-13 11:00am Boris Giltburg While 'the Waltz' provides a tantalising sub-theme to this programme, linking the glittering virtuosity of Rachmaninov's early work to Ravel's and Liszt's own dizzying showpieces and the opening waltz of Schubert's Papillons (a suite of miniatures intended to represent a masked ball), the waltz in the third movement of Prokofiev's energetic Sonata belies a darker, military theme. One of what are often nicknamed Prokofiev's 'War Sonatas', scattering arpeggios and the striking of a fist on the keys evoke gunshots and explosions before giving way to a beautiful, yet interrupted and fragmented Allegretto. A concert of darkness and light, executed with Giltburg's trademark sensitivity and verve. | ||
| Friday 12-Jul-13 07:30pm |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Felicity Lott & The Royal Holloway Choir Cheltenham Music Festival |
Pitts, They Shall Awake (Première) Berkeley, Echo: Homage a Francis Poulenc; Her Secret Jackson, New work for choir and soprano |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Friday 12-Jul-13 07:30pm Felicity Lott & The Royal Holloway Choir Pitts, Antony (b. 1969), They Shall Awake (Première) Berkeley, Michael (b. 1948), Echo: Homage a Francis Poulenc; Her Secret Jackson, Gabriel (b. 1962), New work for choir and soprano | ||
| Friday 12-Jul-13 09:30pm |
Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre Kuniko plays Pärt and Reich Cheltenham Music Festival |
Pärt, Spiegel im Spiegel (arr. Kuniko) Pärt, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (arr. Kuniko) Reich, New York Counterpoint (arr. Kuniko) Works by Davies |
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| Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham GL50 3EP, United Kingdom Friday 12-Jul-13 09:30pm Kuniko plays Pärt and Reich Kuniko Kato released her 2011 album of Steve Reich arrangements to huge critical acclaim and the praise of the composer himself. Her latest project, due for release in May, takes one more of Reich's counterpoints and a selection of some of the best known works from the meditative minimalist Arvo Part. Tracks from the aptly titled new CD, 'Ultimate Minimalism', will be performed live by Kuniko using a visually stunning array of electronic loops and speakers that allow her to duet with the melodies and patterns she has just played. Her performance is powerful, balletic and truly enthralling to watch. Beautiful, intricate, captivating arrangements of some of the most earthy, heartfelt music that minimalism has to offer. Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935), Spiegel im Spiegel (arr. Kuniko) Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935), Fratres (arr. Kuniko) Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935), Für Alina (arr. Kuniko) Pärt, Arvo (b. 1935), Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (arr. Kuniko) Reich, Steve (b. 1936), New York Counterpoint (arr. Kuniko) Works by Davies, Hywel | ||
| Saturday 13-Jul-13 11:00am |
Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham Mozart & Beethoven for Piano & Winds Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham, Cheltenham GL52 3JE, United Kingdom Saturday 13-Jul-13 11:00am Mozart & Beethoven for Piano & Winds The London Conchord Ensemble is a collective of the highest calibre soloists and principals of orchestras such as the BBC Symphony and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Performances and recordings since their Wigmore Hall debut a decade ago have been widely praised for their precision, sophistication and spirit. Alongside the pair of classical Viennese works, their programme here features Barber’s wind quintet from the 1950s and Poulenc’s most substantial chamber work, a typically suave, melodic work finished just before the outbreak of World War Two.
Rumbustious and playful, Francis Poulenc is deemed a lesser figure among the greats of 20th-century music but it’s a mistake to underestimate him. His work is no mere froth; there’s a smoky, autumnal sadness to his harmonic writing, a lingering regret beneath the joie de vivre, particularly in the intimacy of his chamber music. The London Conchord Ensemble understand this completely, working their magic in the bittersweet sonatas…and romping through ensemble works large and small.
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| Saturday 13-Jul-13 11:00am |
Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre Worbey and Farrell Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham GL50 3EP, United Kingdom Saturday 13-Jul-13 11:00am Worbey and Farrell To call Worbey and Farrell a comedy piano duo is only to tell half the story. Their shows are hilarious, but they're also fast-paced, captivating and illuminating (where else will you discoverhow a piano can sound like Doctor Who's TARDIS?). A unique, entertaining piano act, their revolutionary, seamlessly choreographed treatment of the traditional piano duet pushes the boundaries of the instrument using it to illuminate music of every style, from classical to popular, while you can see their dexterity up close when they project a video of their hands live onto the big screen. This is definitely a show for all ages that is sure to put a smile on your face and teach you some surprising piano facts along the way! | ||
| Saturday 13-Jul-13 07:00pm |
Gloucester Cathedral Fauré's Requiem & Poulenc in Gloucester Cathedral Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, United Kingdom Saturday 13-Jul-13 07:00pm Fauré's Requiem & Poulenc in Gloucester Cathedral Image credit: Becky Matthews | ||
| Saturday 13-Jul-13 08:00pm |
Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre Paprika - Gypsy Balkan Fire Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Cheltenham Ladies College: Parabola Arts Centre, Bayshill Road, Cheltenham GL50 3EP, United Kingdom Saturday 13-Jul-13 08:00pm Paprika - Gypsy Balkan Fire This electrifying sextet--hailing from Romania, Serbia and the UK--fuse together Eastern European, Balkan, Gypsy and Classial music in a whirlwind performance of frenzied virtuosity. Foot-tapping rhythmns and fiery melodies infuse two fast-paced, high-energy sets from this exciting young group. Specialising in bringing rare or lost traditional Balkan music back to life, both the curious listener and the well-versed affictionado are sure to enjoy a host of surprises and fast-paced entertainment in this late-night show. | ||
| Sunday 14-Jul-13 11:00am |
Cheltenham College Chapel Virtuoso A Cappella at Cheltenham College Chapel Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Cheltenham College Chapel, Cheltenham, United Kingdom Sunday 14-Jul-13 11:00am Virtuoso A Cappella at Cheltenham College Chapel | ||
| Sunday 14-Jul-13 06:00pm |
Cheltenham Town Hall Festival Finale - Tenor, Horn & Strings Cheltenham Music Festival |
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| Cheltenham Town Hall, Cheltenham GL50 1QA, United Kingdom Sunday 14-Jul-13 06:00pm Festival Finale - Tenor, Horn & Strings | ||
