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York Early Music Festival 2011

Fairest Isle Exploring the dawn of a new Elizabethan era Welcome to the 2011 York Early Music Festival – described by Gramophone as the ‘mecca of early music’. This year we are celebrating the spirit of the 1951 Festival of Britain by reflecting an innovatory series of concerts of English music from the Medieval to the Baroque which the Arts Council (then of Great Britain) promoted as part of the London Season of the Arts in ’51, as well as the publication in that same year of the first volume of Musica Britannica, the ongoing series of scores that presents an authoritative national collection of British music. The Festival of Britain heralded a new dawn of hope after a period of considerable political and economic instability and inspired the beginnings of what is now a firmly established ‘early music movement’. Concerts throughout the festival reflect this theme of ‘Englishness’ with highlights including the Gabrieli Consort presenting Byrd’s magnificent Great Service in York Minster; the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists presenting Purcell’s King Arthur; and ‘A Golden Age Reviewed’, a series curated by John Bryan utilizing the skills of the Rose Consort of Viols,The Dufay Collective,The Orlando Consort and soloists Elizabeth Kenny, Mahan Esfahani and Peter Seymour. Running alongside, we decided to reflect a theme which wasn’t perhaps so obvious in 1951: the very positive benefits of new ideas brought into England

through migrant musicians and composers. Highlights include a celebration of Handel by The English Concert with soloist Lucy Crowe, and of JC Bach and Abel by Neal Peres Da Costa and Daniel Yeadon. And finally, we are delighted to commend the young artists taking part in the Competition representing America, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK and with individual artists coming from Croatia, Australia, Malaysia, Japan and Iran – and to welcome our judging panel led by violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch. We look forward to welcoming you all to this lovely city for what promises to be another fascinating festival. Delma Tomlin MBE Administrative Director

Artistic Advisors John Bryan, Lindsay Kemp, Elizabeth Kenny, Peter Seymour Front Cover Image: QUEEN ELIZABETH I, Studio of Nicholas Hilliard, Hardwick Hall, The Devonshire Collection (acquired through the National Land Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1959). ©NTPL/John Hammond.

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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 the 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, the City of York Council and highlighted members of the York Hoteliers Association. We are also pleased to acknowledge support from Stainer & Bell Ltd;The Musica Brittanica Trust; Harrowells Solicitors; Shepherd Group; the Donald and Patricia Shepherd Charitable Trust, 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, the City of York’s Arts Academy and Ken and Pat Dixon for their support of our education programme.

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Diary Dates Saturday 7 May @ NCEM

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Baroque Day presented in association with the University of York, capturing the essence of the Grand Tour in the 17th- and 18th- centuries. Thursday 26 – Sunday 29 May 2011

Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival Guests include The Tallis Scholars (Beverley Minster 26 May); Academy of Ancient Music (Beverley Minster 27 May) and The Burning Bush (Toll Gavel Methodist Church 28 May). Tickets available now, please log on to www.ncem.co.uk/bemf Friday 17 June @ NCEM

The Greatest Story Ever Told? Join us for a 21st- century response to the medieval York Mystery Plays presented in association with the University of York.

EVENT 01

Festival Lecture Series

3.30pm – 5.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church £7.50 including coffee on arrival

A Golden Age Recover’d A round table discussion looking at the Festival of Britain and its impact on early music in England 60 years on – led by John Bryan, Peter Holman, Andrew Pinnock and Nicholas Williams. In 1951 Britain was gripped by economic crisis in the aftermath of the Second World War: one positive response was a huge artistic resurgence based both on the creation of a new state-of-theart concert hall (the Royal Festival Hall) and on the glories of the nation’s past and present cultural wealth in the Festival of Britain. It saw not only the first modern revival of York’s medieval Mystery Play cycle, but also the foundation of Musica Britannica to provide authoritative editions of otherwise unavailable classics of British music. Sponsored by

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The Architecture of Faith An exhibition of photographs designed to complement the 2011 Festival drawn from the world-class collections of the National Media Museum in Bradford.This event is part of New Worlds:The Many Routes to Yorkshire which is a strand of the imove programme.

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Saturday 10 July

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7.30pm – c.9.15pm | York Minster Reserved seating front nave: £25.00 (no concessions) Reserved seating rear nave: £15.00 (concessions £13.00) Unreserved seating side aisles: £12.00 (students £6.00)

Gabrieli Consort William Whitehead chamber organ

directed by Paul McCreesh

A celebration of William Byrd’s monumental Great Service, acknowledged as the crowning point of music for the Anglican service during the 16th- century. The Great Service will be performed in full, interspersed with 20th- century and contemporary music including two new pieces by Jonathan Dove commissioned specially by the Gabrieli Consort. Dove’s sensitivity to words and desire to exploit the beauty of choral sound will ensure that his commission contrasts and complements Byrd's celebrated masterpiece. ‘Paul McCreesh was like a magician, bringing his precise mental image of the piece, with all its richness of tone colours, to life.’ Kölnische Rundschau www.gabrieli.com Supported by Commissioned with support from the PRS for Music Foundation

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By Morning Glow and Evening Shade: Byrd’s Great Service and music for morning and evening prayer

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10.00am – 4.30pm St George’s Church, Peel Street £15.00 (students £10.00) including light refreshments and music. Please book by 24 June.

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10.30am – 11.30am Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate £12.00 (concessions £10.00)

Lucy Russell violin A Workshop for Voices Peter Seymour harpsichord William Byrd: Handel Violin Sonata in Mass for Four Voices

Richard Dering: Motets for Five Voices (1617) led by Jonathan Wainwright with Andrew Passmore organ This workshop for singers (SATB) explores Latin music by William Byrd and Richard Dering.The workshop will concentrate on Byrd’s 4-part Mass (and will include some singing from facsimiles of the original printed partbooks,) but there will also be the opportunity to sing some newly edited motets by Byrd’s contemporary, Richard Dering, one of the first English composers to be influenced by early 17th- century Italian music.This workshop will explore motets from his Cantiones sacrae quinque vocum, soon to be published in a modern edition for the first time in the series Musica Britannica. Please visit www.ncem.co.uk/yemf for full details and to download an application form, or email info@ncem.co.uk Supported by www.hilton.co.uk/york

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Oswald Muffat Daniel Purcell Festing Baltzar

D major, HWV371 Airs for the Seasons Violin Sonata Chaconne Violin Sonata No. 7 in F major John come kiss me

Sonatas for violin and harpsichord by first- and second-generation immigrants to London, including the ‘Germans’ Handel, Baltzar and Festing and the Scot James Oswald, alongside a sonata by Georg Muffat, an Austrian composer of Scottish descent. www.fitzwilliamquartet.org/Lucy

5.15pm York Minster

Choral Evensong Choir of York Minster directed by Robert Sharpe Reflecting the Festival’s Fairest Isle theme and including music by York composers Philip Moore, Francis Jackson and Edward Bairstow.

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University of York Baroque Ensemble Handel’s Water Music In celebration of a composer who was undoubtedly one of London’s greatest musical imports, the University of York Baroque Ensemble performs Handel’s extrovert and festive Water Music. Written to accompany the gathering of English nobility aboard open barges on the Thames, it was reported that ‘his Majesty liked [the music] so well, that he caus’d it to be plaid over three times in going and coming’.

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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)

The English Concert

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Harry Bicket director/harpsichord Lucy Crowe soprano Joseph Crouch cello Katharina Spreckelsen oboe with

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Concerto grosso in B flat, Op.3 No.2 Cello Concerto in A minor, RV402 Cantata ‘Armida abbandonata’ Cantata ‘Alpestre monte’ Oboe Concerto in D minor 3 arias from Agrippina

Britain has welcomed many musical immigrants over the years, but surely there has been none greater or more influential than George Frideric Handel, whose music has become a vital and defining part of our national cultural heritage.The English Concert is joined by soprano Lucy Crowe in some of the Italian works Handel brought with

him on his arrival in 1710, and perform a concerto grosso from the set he published in London in 1734, as well as concertos by his Venetian contemporaries Marcello and Vivaldi. ‘Harry Bicket's performances with his period band English Concert were beautiful... wonderfully in tune with the fire, fantasy and dancing lightness of the music’ Chicago Tribune This concert is presented in association with

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1.00pm – 2.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church 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 including The King’s Singers in music from the English madrigal collection that celebrated the age of the first Elizabeth, The Triumphs of Oriana. Supported by

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EVENT 08

3.00pm – 4.00pm Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate £5.00 (Friends of the Festival free of charge)

Minster Minstrels directed by Heather Moger

The Fruits of '51 As the Festival looks back to 1951, the Minster Minstrels have been looking back further, to other '51' years: to 1551, the year of Suzato's Danserye; to 1651, the year of Playford's English Dancing Master; to 1751, the first performance of Boyce's Symphony No 4 in its original guise as an Overture to the opera The Shepherds' Lottery; and to 1851, which saw the publication of the first volume of the Bach-Gesellschaft edition. In addition they have been enjoying music from the Mulliner Book, the first modern edition of which appeared in Musica Britannica in 1951. The Minster Minstrels is run as a partnership between the NCEM and the City of York Council’s Arts Academy with support from the Mayfield Valley Arts Trust. If you are interested in joining this vibrant group of young musicians, please contact us by e-mailing education@ncem.co.uk

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Yorkshire Baroque Soloists directed by Peter Seymour Helen Neeves, Bethany Seymour, Judith Cunnold sopranos Caroline Sartin, Helena Daffern, Nancy Cole altos Joshua Ellicott, Jason Darnell tenors Matthew Brook,Tom Appleton, Rupert Reid basses Lucy Russell, Jonathan Sparey violins Alan George viola

Rachel Gray cello Pamela Thorby, Ailsa Reid recorders Anthony Robson, Cherry Forbes oboes Alastair Mitchell bassoon Crispian Steele-Perkins, Niels Tilma trumpets Elizabeth Kenny, Richard Sweeney theorbos Andrew Pinnock, Richard Jackson artistic advisers

Out of the Blue Theatre Ensemble directed by Mark Smith Henry Purcell: King Arthur Purcell’s 1691 semi-opera, also known as ‘The British Worthy’, is among his most famous compositions, containing some of his best-known and most spectacular music.The original stage play, a reworking by Dryden of the dark-age legend, inspired Purcell to compose some of his most memorable music, including the imposing Sacrifice Scene, some stirring battle music, the well-known Frost Scene with its shivering players and singers, and the song ‘Fairest Isle’, one of his most popular solo numbers (and an inspiration for this year’s festival theme).The musical ensemble is joined by members of the University of York Theatre, Film and Television Department who will present the stage play in a semi-staged performance. ‘YBC - disarmingly flexible and communicative throughout – brilliantly judged’The Gramophone

Pre-concert Talk Join us at 6.00pm in the Rymer Auditorium, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York Admission free to those attending event 09. Towards the end of his reign Charles II launched an ambitious PR campaign to celebrate the glories of the Stuart dynasty. Among the artistic results was an Arthurian semi-opera, scripted by poet laureate John Dryden, which sought to bring Charles's mythical forebear back to life on stage.The King’s unexpected death postponed the production for seven years, by which time a wholly changed political context meant that its political messages were open to misinterpretation. Whose side was Dryden on? What was he trying to say? Who in the audience would have noticed, or cared? In this talk, Purcell specialist Andrew Pinnock shares some of his recent research work on King Arthur, unpeeling layers of meaning in Dryden's text to expose the blatant propaganda purpose at its heart. Organised in association with

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EVENT 10

Festival Lecture Series

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

Editing Renaissance consort music and the case of Pavana Philippi David Smith, University of Aberdeen, and editor of Musica Britannica’s forthcoming volume of instrumental consort music by Philips and Dering, talks about the process of editing this iconic publication and the complications of reconstructing a consort version of a pavan by Philips. YE MF

EVENT 11

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Rose Consort of Viols Ibrahim Aziz, John Bryan, Alison Crum, Roy Marks, Peter Wendland viols

The Festival Consort Helen Neeves, Bethany Seymour sopranos Jason Darnell,William Knight tenors Rupert Reid bass Peter Seymour organ

From Chapel, Court and Country: Music for vocal and viol consort by Richard Dering and Peter Philips Dering and Philips were two composers whose music was not widely known in 1951, perhaps because both spent much of their careers in the Spanish Netherlands where their Roman Catholicism was not a bar to employment. Italianate flair contrasts with English contrapuntal prowess in their fantasias and dance music for viol consort and their intimate sacred chamber motets for voices and organ, performed here in recent or forthcoming volumes in the Musica Britannica series, and concluding with Dering’s vivid evocation of rural life: ‘The Country Cries’. ‘...the Rose Consort play in a sublimely unfussy, unfettered manner worthy of the music’ Gramophone www.roseconsort.co.uk

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EVENT 13

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7.30pm – 9.15pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

10.00pm – 11.00pm Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate £12.00 (concessions £10.00)

The City Musick

Rose Consort of Viols

William Lyons flute/recorder Emilia Benjamin violin Arngeir Hauksson bandora Elizabeth Kenny lute Jacob Heringman cittern Liam Byrne bass viol with Jason Darnell tenor

Walsingham’s Conceit: Music for Six Severall Instruments Late in the 16th- century the English or ‘Broken’ Consort of instruments began to excite musical palates both home and abroad. With its origins in theatre and masque, the mixed ensemble of flute, violin, lute, cittern, bandora and bass viol produced a unique sound which thrilled monarchs and groundlings alike.This concert focuses on the music of the Walsingham Consort Books, a manuscript from the household of Sir Francis Walsingham, statesman and spymaster to Elizabeth I, and includes consort dances and songs for the ‘Consort of Six’ interspersed with lute solos and songs by Dowland, Bachelor and the French lutenist Guillaume Tessier.

Daniel Edgar, Nia Lewis violins Peter Seymour organ Solemn and Sweet Delightful Ayres: Music from the 17thcentury English music room From the time of Charles I through the Commonwealth to the Restoration, English composers created a cornucopia of chamber music for strings ‘to the organ’, combining violins and viols in different permutations, and exploiting both the interwoven discourse of true chamber music with moments of virtuoso display in flamboyant divisions. We explore this rich repertory with fantasy-suites by Coprario and Jenkins, divisions by Simpson, and music by Purcell that looks both forwards and backwards to his earlier English pedigree.

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Festival Lecture Series

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

The Festival of Britain in 1951: A Northern Perspective Caterina Benincasa-Sharman, Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield, shares her research into the events taking place in the north of England during the Festival of Britain and explores some political jealousies between York as the historic county town and the emerging power of Leeds.

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3.30pm – 4.30pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

7.00pm – 8.00pm Merchant Adventurers’ Hall,York £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

Mahan Esfahani

The Dufay Collective

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Vivien Ellis voice Jon Banks harp, gittern Peter Skuce harp William Lyons flute, recorder, bagpipes, simfony Alexis Bennet vielle Emily Askew vielle, recorder, bagpipes

Toccatas, Toyes and Fancies: Virtuoso keyboard music from Elizabethan and Jacobean England 16th-century England saw an extraordinary flowering of composition for keyboard, using dances such as the pavan and galliard and improvisatory fantasias as vehicles for astounding virtuosity. Collections such as the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and the Mulliner Book (the first modern edition of which was issued as Volume 1 of Musica Britannica in 1951) present a crosssection of music by Tallis, Byrd, Bull and their European contemporaries Sweelinck and Scheidt.

Echoes of Albion: Song and Dance from Medieval England

‘he played with musicality and virtuosity of a master’ Keyboard Magazine

The Dufay Collective presents a concert reflecting the variety and beauty of English secular music from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. Included is the famous canon Sumer is icumen in and other songs, as well as new settings of surviving lyrics breathing life into sublime poetry that was always written to be sung.The instrumental textures of harp, gittern, lute, flute, vielle and simfony weave a typically English Medieval tapestry around verse and dance melody alike.

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8.30pm – 9.30pm St George’s Church, Peel Street £15.00 (concessions £13.00)

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EVENT 18

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10.00pm – 11.00pm | NCEM £15.00 (concessions £13.00) including a glass of wine on arrival!

The Orlando Consort Rose Consort Matthew Venner alto of Viols Mark Dobell, Angus Smith tenors Donald Greig baritone

The Star Transmigrates to the Stars: Sacred music from Medieval England One medieval English composer to feature in the 1951 celebrations was John Dunstaple. Here we look back to this genius, including his grand motet Veni sancte spiritus / Veni creator spiritus, and the sweet and sonorous motet Descendi in ortum meum, with its voluptuous text from the 'Song of Songs', revealing a sensuousness possibly unmatched in its day. These are framed by works by other, anonymous representatives of 15thcentury England, whose range of techniques and imagination had one Frenchman writing admiringly of an 'English countenance'.The selection includes works from the remarkable 'Old Hall' collection and some of the earliest examples of English carols.

Jacob Heringman lute The Festival Consort A Golden Age Revisited: Madrigals, anthems and instrumental music from the courts of Elizabeth I and James I

‘staggeringly beautiful’The Times

Central to the 1951 Festival of Britain series of early music concerts was an exploration of the great Elizabethan and Jacobean composers, including Byrd, Morley, Gibbons and Dowland. We revisit this rich seam, highlighting pieces from Byrd’s Psalmes, Songs, and Sonnets published in the same year as the King James Bible, 400 years ago, in the kaleidoscopic company of dances, madrigals, ballets, lute solos and viol fantasias by the cream of composers of the Golden Age.

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Festival Lecture Series

10.30am – 11.30am Bedern Hall | £7.50 including coffee on arrival

The Yorkshire Garland Revealed The Yorkshire Garland is a typical musical miscellany but with a particularly intriguing history. Now in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, it was a gift from a bricklayer’s son and one-time ragtime pianist who collected the popular music of the 17th and 18th centuries as a way of connecting with a past he had never known. This lecture by Abigail Williams, Fellow and Tutor at St Peter's College, Oxford reflects the research behind event 20. www.digitalmiscellaniesindex.org

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1.00pm – 2.00pm | St Olave’s Church, Marygate | £12.00 (concessions £10.00)

Alva Vivien Ellis voice Giles Lewin fiddle The Yorkshire Garland: Popular and traditional music from an 18th- century Yorkshire songbook Especially devised for YEMF, this concert gives us a peep through the casement into various aspects of life in 18th-century Yorkshire.These songs of tragic love, family feuds, crimes of passion, politics, horse-racing, gambling and the pleasures of the countryside, printed in York in 1788, allow us a unique snapshot of musicmaking in the home, on the streets, in the taverns, at the race-track or at the fair. A fascinating opportunity to find out how the people of Yorkshire saw themselves 200 years ago. ‘a gutsy tour-de-force’ - Sing Out Supported by Monk Bar Hotel

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7.00pm – c.8.30pm Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York Reserved seating: £15.00 (concessions £13.00, students £5.00)

9.30pm – 10.30pm St Michael le Belfrey Church, High Petergate £12.00 (concessions £10.00)

The Harp Consort

The Brabant Ensemble

Clare Salaman violin, hurdy gurdy Ian Harrison bagpipes, cornetto, shawm Steven Player guitar, dance Andrew Lawrence-King director, triple harp, psaltery

directed by Stephen Rice Henry’s Rivals

The English Dancing Master, John Playford’s great collection of country dances, is the starting point for an exploration of the rhythms that got the feet of Baroque England moving. From the Fairest Isle, we set out to sea with this brilliant ensemble, sailing with a jovial crew: the Ship’s Noise, King Orfeo, the fiddler’s wife and Prince Rupert’s dog. Back ashore, Mr Priest guides the Player’s feet in music by Dowland, Purcell, Playford and Handel. Prepare for an entertaining voyage of discovery.

The succession of King Henry VIII marked a mood of new optimism for the English not dissimilar to the post-War revival engendered by the 1951 Festival of Britain, but his reign was constantly beset by the threat of war with Francois I’s France and Spain under the Emperor Charles V. These regal rivals not only forged endlessly shifting treaties but tried to outdo each other in the splendour of their musical establishments.This programme explores the different styles of sacred music with motets and mass movements by the French Pierre Moulu and Jean Mouton, the English John Taverner and King Henry himself, and with Francisco de Penalosa and Cristobal de Morales providing a foretaste of the Spanish school that would reach its final glory in the works of Victoria.

‘One can only admire unreservedly the fantasy, the irresistibly subtle liberty with which Andrew LawrenceKing is able to give life to the music’ L’Unità Mattino, Florence

‘You will never hear a more judiciously balanced, vocally better matched, nor technically more accomplished choral group than the twelve-voice Brabant Ensemble’ ClassicsToday.com

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The Boatemen: Ballads, dances and high art music brought across the 17thcentury seas

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Thursday 14 July The Festival is delighted to present this prestigious competition welcoming ensembles from across Europe and America. Competitors are invited to York several days prior to the competition in order to settle in and make friends. Join us for two fascinating days of concerts and informal workshops in the company of violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch prior to the competition itself – which takes place on Saturday 16 July.

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10.15am – c.12 noon NCEM, St Margaret’s Church £7.50 (students £5.00) including coffee on arrival

Le Petit Concert Baroque representing France Chani Lesaulnier, Nadja Lesaulnier harpsichords

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2.30pm – c.3.45pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church £7.00 (students £5.00)

Borromini String Quartet representing the UK James Toll violin Naomi Burrell violin Sam Kennedy viola Peggy Nolan cello

Boccherini Grooves

Polonius’s words from Hamlet inspire an unusual programme of arrangements and original works for two harpsichords by WF Bach, Muffat, Telemann and Vivaldi.

Two string quartets by Luigi Boccherini, one of the most prolific and under-rated contemporaries of Haydn and Mozart.

Quadro Melante representing Croatia, Malaysia, Australia and Iran

Profeti della Quinta representing Israel and Switzerland

Georgia Browne baroque flute Bojan Čičić baroque violin Ibrahim Aziz viola da gamba Mahan Esfahani harpsichord

Doron Schleifer, David Feldman counter-tenors Dino Lüthy, Dan Dunkelblum tenors Elam Rotem bass

Telemann comes to Paris Music reflecting Telemann’s visit to France in 1737, including one of his ‘Paris’ quartets and works by Forqueray and Blavet.

Sebastian Chamber Players representing the USA Daniel S. Lee, Alexander Woods violins Ezra Seltzer cello Jeffrey Grossman harpsichord

Venetian Variations Trio sonatas and dances spanning 80 years of Venetian music, including works by Castello, Merula and Vivaldi

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Mia benigna fortuna Italian madrigals by Flemish and Italian masters from the years around 1500, including Arcadelt, Josquin, Wert and de Rore. Supported by Best Western Dean Court Hotel www.deancourt-york.co.uk

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7.30pm – 8.45pm | The Gallery, Harewood House Reserved seating: £25.00 (concessions £20.00) including a glass of wine on arrival

Daniel Yeadon cello/viola da gamba Neal Peres Da Costa harpsichord/organ

Handel Abel Abel

Sonata in C Major for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord Sonata movement in D Minor for solo viola da gamba Sonata in E Minor for viola da gamba and continuo (from Six Easy Sonatas for the viola da gamba) Handel Sonata in G Minor for viola da gamba and continuo, Op. 1 No. 6 JC Bach Keyboard Sonata in C Minor, Op. 5 No. 6 Lanzetti Sonata No. 1 in G Major for cello and continuo (from Six Solos after an Easy and Elegant Taste for the Violoncello) Geminiani Sonata in D Minor for cello and continuo, Op. 5 No. 2 18th-century England – already seen by Europeans as exotic, cultured and stylish – dangled entrepreneurial gold before the eyes of European musicians.They came in droves including Handel came for the money and stayed for the adoration (and cuisine). He was joined in concert by dazzling Italian violinist Geminiani. Virtuoso gamba-player Abel followed, and together with JC Bach, started England’s first subscription concerts. Lanzetti spent a little over a decade in London, but made the English fall in love with the bass fiddle, which they re-dubbed (in fashionable Italian) the cello. ‘spirited performances...technically flawless...interesting and compelling.’ Viola da Gamba Society of America By kind permission of Lord & Lady Harewood and the Harewood House Trust TRANSPORT TO HAREWOOD: Please see page 22

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2.30pm – c.3.45pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church £7.00 (students £5.00)

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Les Ombres representing France

Competition 2011 10.30am – c.12 noon £7.50 (students £5.00) including coffee on arrival

Den Haag Piano Quintet representing Japan and the Netherlands Kae Ogawa fortepiano Miki Takahashi violin Sonoko Asabuki viola Toru Yamamoto cello Tomoki Sumiya double bass

Katharina Heutjer violin Sylvain Sartre flute Margaux Blanchard viola da gamba Nadja Lesaulnier harpsichord Jonatan Pesek cello

Telemann at the Concert Spirituel Part I Telemann’s visit to Paris’s most famous concert season evoked in music from his ‘Paris’ quartets and by Jean-Marie Leclair.

Dussek in England The Piano Quintet in F minor by one of the most influential composer-pianists of the Classical period, Jan Ladislav Dussek.

L’Istante representing Switzerland Anaïs Chen violin Johannes Keller harpsichord

Habsburger Camerata representing the UK, the USA and Canada Matthew Lonson violin Helen Roberts cornett Nathaniel Wood sackbut Caroline Ritchie viola da gamba John McKean organ

Violin Masters A suite by the Italian violinist-composer Nicola Matteis and a sonata by his brilliant Bohemianborn contemporary Heinrich Biber. Supported by Middlethorpe Hall Hotel and Spa www.middlethorpe.com

“…con ogni sorte d'istromenti” Early 17th-century Italian chamber music from the ground where violin and cornett meet by Picchi, Cima, de Rore and Rossi.

The Sixteen Insight Day

Encantar representing Belgium

Join eminent musicologist John Milsom, music editor Sally Dunkley and members of The Sixteen at the 2011 Insight Day on Saturday 2 July at the NCEM. Tickets £25.00 including lunch.

Sarah Abrams,Wannah Organe, Kerlijne van Nevel, Soethin Baptist voices

Voces silentio Sacred music from 16th-century Italy and Flanders by Festa, Pisano, Gallus,Vento, Compère and Agricola.

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5.15pm York Minster 7.30pm – c.9.20pm | York Minster Reserved seating front nave: £25.00 Reserved seating rear nave: £15.00 (concessions £13.00) Unreserved seating side aisles: £12.00 (students £6.00)

The Sixteen

Choral Evensong Choir of York Minster directed by Robert Sharpe Reflecting the Festival’s Fairest Isle theme and including music by William Byrd.

directed by Harry Christophers Hail, Mother of the Redeemer

9.30pm Bedern Hall Friends £15.00 Guests £20.00

Victoria Salve Regina a5 Kyrie and Gloria from Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater Alma Redemptoris Mater a5 Ave maris stella Magnificat octavi toni Alma Redemptoris Mater a8 Gaude Maria Sancta Maria Congratulamini mihi Vidi speciosam Sanctus from Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater Litaniae de Beatae Mariae

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Supper Party

We welcome The Sixteen back to the Festival for their 2011 Choral Pilgrimage concert celebrating another anniversary – 400 years since the death of one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance,Tomás Luis de Victoria. Scholar, mystic, priest, singer, organist and composer, Victoria began and ended his life in Spain, and, despite spending most of his working life in Rome, always preserved his Iberian roots, giving his music a unique beauty and power in its contemplation of the divine.This programme features a sumptuous selection of the music he wrote in honour of the Virgin Mary. ‘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 This performance will be signed by Music and the Deaf – offering those who are hard of hearing an opportunity to enjoy this magnificent occasion. If you would like to know more – and take advantage of the reserved seating on offer – please contact boxoffice@nem.co.uk

The Friends are dedicated to supporting the summer Festival. Membership brings many benefits including advance booking, discounted tickets, reserved seating (wherever possible) and of course the annual supper party. To join the Friends, please contact the administrator Jillian Johnson at friends@ncem.co.uk or ring 01904 632220.

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Young Competition 2011 The York Early Music International Young Artists Competition will be presented by violinist Elizabeth Wallfisch and judged by lutenist Elizabeth Kenny; vocalist Vivien Ellis; Philip Hobbs, Linn Records; keyboard specialist Neal Peres Da Costa; Xavier Vandamme of Utrecht Early Music Festival and Christophe Mangé of Printemps des Arts de Nantes.

Borromini String Quartet Fugues Great and Small

The winner of the 2011 competition will be announced at the end of the afternoon and will receive a cheque for £1,000 as well as opportunities to work with BBC Radio 3, Linn Records and the National Centre for Early Music. In addition, the Friends of York Early Music Festival will be presenting an audience prize. To join the Friends – and get a vote – contact Jillian Johnson at friends@ncem.co.uk

A trio sonata by Roman master Arcangelo Corelli comes up against Couperin’s take on the Holy Roman Empire, L’Impériale from Les Nations.

10.15am – 5.30pm Lunch break approximately 1.00pm - 2.00pm NCEM, St Margaret’s Church £25.00 including coffee on arrival

Quadro Melante An Evening at the Concert Spirituel Telemann’s visit to the famous Parisian concert series remembered in one of his ‘Paris’ quartets and in a Conversation Galante by Guillemain.

Le Petit Concert Baroque Eternity Bach’s Concerto for two harpsichords, plus arrangements of arias from Bach’s Trauer Ode and Handel’s Rinaldo.

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A fugue from Bach’s 48 as arranged by Mozart, and Beethoven’s epic Grosse Fuge.

Sebastian Chamber Players ‘Roman City, Roman Empire’

Profeti della Quinta HaShirim Asher liShlomo Songs of love and praise by Cipriano de Rore with madrigals and Hebrew prayers by Salomone Rossi, the first composer to introduce polyphony into the synagogue.

Den Haag Piano Quintet The Forgotten Genius The Piano Quintet in E flat minor by perhaps the most brilliant pianist of the early 1800s, Jan Nepomuk Hummel.

Saturday 16 July L’Istante The Violin and the Voice Works for violin and keyboard with vocal origins by Luzzaschi and Rognoni, and a trio sonata by Corelli.

Les Ombres Telemann at the Concert Spirituel Part II Telemann’s visit to Paris’s most famous concert season evoked in music from his ‘Paris’ quartets and by Jean-Marie Leclair.

Encantar Dolci lagrime

5.30pm

16th-century sacred works from Italy, Flanders and Spain by Palestrina, Festa, Bivi, Arcadelt, Sayve, Victoria and Guerrero.

Competition Winners to be announced!

Habsburger Camerata The Legacy of the Habsburgs Ensemble sonatas by composers working under Habsburg patronage in the 17th- century, including Antonio Bertali and David Pohle.

The 2011 Competition is dedicated to the memory of two of the Festival’s most loyal Friends – Trevor and Emma Woolston. If, like the Woolston’s, you would like to leave a legacy to the Festival – and know that your money was helping to support young artists at such a vital time in their careers – please contact Delma Tomlin on legacies@ncem.co.uk

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Booking Information Booking opens on Monday 14 March to Friends of the Festival and on Monday 21 March to the general public Box Office: The National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate, York YO1 9TL To book by telephone: Please ring 01904 658338 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 surcharges apply. 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. Seating: All seats are unreserved except for topprice seats in York Minster, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, St Michael-le-Belfrey and The Gallery, Harewood House. 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 granted until the conclusion of rehearsals and tuning. We thank you for your patience. Concession prices: These are shown in brackets. They apply to people aged 60 and over, students, registered disabled and their carers. Friends of the Festival: The Friends enjoy additional discounts, priority booking, reserved seats (wherever practicable) and good company. Please ring 01904 658338 for details or email friends@ncem.co.uk

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Friends Saver Ticket: £265 (concessions £235). This applies to Events 02, 04, 05, 06, 09, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29. Friends of the Festival are invited to purchase tickets for all 22 concerts and save over 20%. Please note that all concerts must be booked at the same time and the offer is subject to availability. 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. 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. 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.The York Blind and Partially Sighted Society has installed a number of ‘talking signs’ around the City giving information on directions to buildings, public loos etc. Assistance Dogs are welcome at concerts. For detailed information, please ring 01904 632220. The NCEM is a Typetalk Approved business. Transport: Harewood House is 20 miles to the west of York. A festival coach will leave Union Terrace (see map) at 6.15pm and return to York after event 25. Coach tickets cost £6.00 and should be booked in advance.

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Thursday 14 July

Gabrieli Consort

Neal Peres Da Costa Daniel Yeadon

Saturday 9 July

The English Concert Sunday 10 July

Purcell King Arthur Monday 11 July

Rose Consort of Viols

Friday 15 July

The Sixteen Saturday 16 July

York Early Music International Young Artists Competition

Tuesday 12 July

The Dufay Collective The Orlando Consort Wednesday 13 July

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