2018 Festival

A typically all-embracing programme from the ever-innovative and adventurous virtuoso, celebrating birds, ground basses and chaconnes.

Rameau – Le Rappel des oiseaux

Daquin – Le Coucou

Couperin – Le Rossignol-en-amour

Janáček – The Barn Owl has not flown away! (from On an Overgrown Path)

Messiaen – Le Rouge-gorge (Petites esquisses d’oiseaux)

Sir Harrison Birtwistle – Oockooing Bird

Couperin – Les Fauvétes plaintives

Messiaen – Le Merle noir (Petites esquisses d’oiseaux)

Hossein Alizâdeh – Call of the Birds

Couperin – Les Coucous Bénévoles, sous des dominos jaunes

Poglietti – Aria bizarre del Rossignolo: Imitatione del medesimo ucello

Rameau  – La Poule

INTERVAL

Byrd – Hughe Ashton’s Ground

Philip Glass – Prophecies (from Koyaanisqatsi)

Philip Glass – Knee Play No. 4 (from Einstein on the Beach)

Purcell – Ground in C minor

Liszt – Prelude on Bach’s ‘Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen’

Pachelbel – Chaconne in F minor

Sofia Gubaidulina – Chaconne

The highly regarded German recorder virtuoso mixes Telemann’s brilliant Solo Fantasias with complementary pieces specially commissioned from Colin Matthews, Laura Bowler and Fumiko Miyachi.

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Sonata in C Major (TWV41:C2, Der Getreue Music-Meister)

From: Der Getreue Music-Meister
Cantabile  – Allegro – Grave  – Vivace

Michel Blavet (1700-1768)
Sonata seconda – from: Troisième livre de sonates (Paris, 1740)

Andante e spicato – Allegro

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Aria “Kränkt micht nicht, ihr nassen Augen!” – from: Flavius Bertaridus, TWV 21:27*

Colin Mathews

Meditation (2017)

World premiere, commissioned by the City Music Foundation, London
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Fantasia per il Flauto senza Basso No. 12

Grave/Allegro/Grave/Allegro/Dolce/Allegro – Presto

Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1651)
Toccata

Laura Bowler

TV Man (2017)

Commissioned by the City Music Foundation, London

Johann Hieronymus Kapsberger (1580-1651)
Toccata

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Sinfonia, Adagio – from: BWV 156*

Sinfonia, Presto – from: BWV 35*

Fumiko Miyachi

Air (2017)

World premiere, commissioned by the City Music Foundation, London

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Fantasia per il Flauto senza Basso No. 5

Presto/Largo/Presto/Largo – Allegro – Allegro

George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)

“Sorge nel petto” – from: Rinaldo, HWV 7*

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767)

Aria, Allegro “Fa pur Guerra” – from: Flavius Bertaridus, TWV 21:27*

*Music arranged for recorder and basso continuo by Tabea Debus

Charismatic viol virtuoso Paolo Pandolfo gives a solo recital embracing fantasies and popular dance-tunes of the 16th century, brushes with Bach, Telemann and the French Baroque, and Paolo’s own captivating 21st-century improvisations.

A long-awaited first London performance for Clare Norburn’s acclaimed concert-drama exploring the last agonies of the 17th-century composer Carlo Gesualdo, who, having jealously murdered his wife and her lover, poured his pain into deeply and unconventionally expressive music of torture and regret.

An inspirational meeting exploring the sounds shared by European Baroque and traditional Middle-Eastern musical worlds, as two highly talented improvising musicians juxtapose 16th-and 17th-century masters with Persian compositions of sublime virtuosity.

The irrepressible percussion duo leads a Baroque-based family participation event – fun for all!

A new collaboration between two of Norway’s most open-minded and exciting artists: Baroque violinist Bjarte Eike (known for his ‘alehouse sessions’ with his own group Barokksolistene) and Jon Balke, jazz pianist, composer and founder of the innovative Magnetic North Orchestra.