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Britain will be at the heart of things this summer, the focus of global attention. We have celebrated a Royal Diamond Jubilee before, and we have hosted the Olympics too – twice. But for the two to happen in the same year is a remarkable thing, an historical one-off that we can all share in. It so happens that the Cheltenham Music Festival falls nicely between the Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics. So this year, it seems absolutely right to fly the flag for British music in all its glorious variety – from Tallis’ Spem in alium in Tewkesbury Abbey to an orchestral tribute to London, featuring music by Elgar, Holst and Vaughan Williams. We will salute the Queen with a concert of Royal Musical Treasures, while British Musical Explorers focuses on homegrown music inspired by far-flung cultures – countries of Commonwealth and Olympic nationhood.
Two composers whose anniversaries we’ll be marking this year – Claude Debussy and Frederick Delius – were both born 150 years ago in 1862. Debussy died in 1918 – so we’ve created a festival-within-afestival that will immerse you in the years of World War One, Debussy’s final years. Listen to the music, hear the news, discover the literature, art and architecture. The 1918 concert in this series Time Capsule: 1914–18 brings together for the first time in many years two of our country’s most celebrated musicians, Nigel Kennedy and Steven Isserlis. They are joined in this 2012 Festival line-up by many other illustrious artists, including pianists Benjamin Grosvenor and Melvyn Tan, mezzo Sarah Connolly, guitarist Miloš and my direct predecessor Martyn Brabbins, conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
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MORE THAN THE MUSIC... Here are three ways to enhance your Music Festival experience with good food and drink.
FREE TEA & COFFEE AT THE PUMP ROOM
Included in the ticket prices for all morning concerts at the Pittville Pump Room will be free tea and coffee. Weather permitting, this will be served on the Colonnade and queuing will be much reduced.
Just a short drive from the Pittville Pump Room and town centre is the extravagantly beautiful Ellenborough Park hotel. Enjoy a post-concert lunch there (two courses and a glass of wine) for only £16. See page 21 for more information.
DINING AT HOTEL DU VIN
SPECIAL LUNCH AT ELLENBOROUGH PARK
Indulge in a special pre- or post-concert meal at Hotel du Vin’s elegant and informal restaurant. Festival goers can enjoy a main, dessert and glass of wine for £25 when making a dining reservation. See page 32 for more details.
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FESTIVAL OVERVIEW FLYING THE FLAG Great British Music at Cheltenham in 2012 Whether or not Britain rules the waves in the final Olympic medal tally, there is plenty of world-beating music from these Isles to enjoy in Cheltenham this July.
CONCERTS AT PITTVILLE PUMP ROOM It’s 50 years since the Cheltenham Music Festival started putting concerts on in the architecturally and acoustically stunning surroundings of the Pittville Pump Room.
Royal Musical Treasures for the Diamond Jubilee – majestic, ceremonial music by Elgar, Handel, Parry and Walton M34 8 July
Wed 4 July, 6pm Thu 5 July, 11am Fri 6 July, 10am Sun 8 July, 11am Sun 8 July, 3pm Sun 8 July, 8.30pm Mon 9 July, 11am Tue 10 July, 11am Wed 11 July, 11am Wed 11 July, 7pm Thu 12 July, 11am Fri 13 July, 11am Sun 15 July, 11am
Thomas Tallis’ 40-part Spem in alium in Tewkesbury Abbey from a ‘super-sized’ line-up of I Fagiolini M39 9 July The glories of English song James Gilchrist sings Britten, Finzi and Tippett M3 4 July and a new musical play about Ivor Gurney M62 & M67 13 & 14 July A London Marathon Saluting the Olympic city with orchestral gems by Elgar, Holst, Ireland and Vaughan Williams M74 15 July
British Musical Explorers
Miloš/Carducci Quartet Nash Ensemble Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Melvyn Tan Florilegium Castalian Quartet Grosvenor/Escher Quartet Prince Consort The 1914 Concert The 1915 Concert The 1916 Concert The 1917 Concert Songs from the Exotic
And don’t forget: included in your ticket price for all the 11am concerts is free tea or coffee.
Cheltenham 2012 focuses especially on British composers for whom the rest of the world has been an inspiration – its music, its languages, its religions.
SOUNDING THE NEW You’ll be hearing these for the first time in Cheltenham this July: Alexander Goehr Horn Trio M4 5 July
Holst in India with Savitri, Rig Veda settings and Vedic songs M70 & M72 14 and 15 July
Choral works by Judith Bingham, Lauri Supponen, Einojuhani Rautavaara (UK premiere), John Tavener & Hugh Wood M9 5 July
Delius in Baghdad with his incidental music to Flecker’s Hassan M26 7 July Charlie Barber’s score for Salomé M16 6 July Edward Rushton’s new opera Babur in London M22 7 July
Liz Lane choral work M57 12 July
David Fanshawe’s African Sanctus M57 12 July
Hannah Kendall Shard M74 15 July
Svara Kanti M71 14 July
Other living composers’ works featured this year include:
Songs of the Exotic, a journeying recital M72 15 July
Charlie Barber, Michael Berkeley, Diana Burrell, Jonathan Dove, Graham Fitkin, Jonathan Harvey, Stephen Hough, Peter Maxwell Davies, Michael Nyman, Roxanna Panufnik, Tarik O’Regan, Richard Rodney Bennett, Edward Rushton, Rhian Samuel, Giles Swayne, Steve Reich and Judith Weir.
And related works by Giles Swayne, John Tavener, Jonathan Harvey and Bob Chilcott M9, M18, M36 5, 7, 8 July
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TIME CAPSULE: 1914–18 This three-day sequence of concerts and associated events isn’t some kind of premature WW1 anniversary feature; it’s more about the fact that Debussy died in 1918, and that he wrote some major chamber works in the years just prior to that.
TWO 150TH BIRTHDAYS Claude Debussy and Frederick Delius were both born 150 years ago in 1862. Cheltenham marks their unique contributions to the musical world with the following performances:
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The idea of a total immersion in a concentrated period of time comes from violinist and guest curator Katharine Gowers. ‘So much changed between 1914–18,’ Katharine says. ‘It’s often suggested that the modern world began with the end of the war in 1918. Musically speaking, it’s a fascinating era. Romanticism has its last gasp alongside forward-looking modernity, and Debussy is at the heart of those cross-currents.’
The Essential Debussy with pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet M10 6 July La Mer M15 6 July Danses Sacrée et Profane, Prélude à l’aprèsmidi d’un faune M26 7 July An Anniversary Tribute from The Classic Buskers M38 10 July Sonatas for flute/viola/harp and cello M49 11 July En blanc et noir M56 12 July Violin Sonata M60 13 July Percussions Claviers de Lyon M65 14 July
As well as Debussy’s music from this period, key works performed between 11–13 July include: Ravel Piano Trio (1914) & Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914–17) Janáˇcek Violin Sonata (1914) Szymanowski Mythes (1915) Rachmaninov Vespers (1915) & Etudes Tableaux Op.39 (1916) Fauré Cello Sonata (1917) Bartók String Quartet No 2 (1917)
Ken Russell Delius film M8a 5 July On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Summer Night on the River M8 6 July Paris: The Song of a Great City M15 6 July Hassan M26 7 July In the Garden of the Seraglio M72 15 July
Stravinsky The Soldier’s Tale (1918) Elgar Piano Quintet (1918) Katharine Gowers is joined by a stellar cast of performers, including violinists Nigel Kennedy and Henning Kraggerud, violist Lars Anders Tomter, cellists Steven Isserlis and Adrian Brendel, pianists Christian Ihle-Hadland, Charles Owen and Connie Shih, clarinettist Matthew Hunt, flautist Emily Beynon, harpist Catherine Beynon, the Escher Quartet and Ex Cathedra choir.
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The third year of our partnership with The Royal Norwegian Embassy brings yet more outstanding music-making from Norway. Violinist Henning Kraggerud, violist Lars Anders Tomter and pianist Christian Ihle Hadland will all play significant roles in the Time Capsule: 1914-18 concerts. And the Trondheim Soloists make their Cheltenham debut on Saturday 14 July in music by Holst and Tavener.
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Journalist and broadcaster Julia Somerville will read a news bulletin for each year’s concert. A series of talks on the art and architecture, literature, politics, science and technology of the 1914–18 period will accompany the concerts in the afternoons of Wednesday 11, Thursday 12 and Friday 13 July. Further information will be available at cheltenhamfestivals.com/music
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FESTIVAL EVENSONG
TRANSITIONS PRESENTS BEFORE LIFE AND AFTER
Cheltenham College Chamber Choir Alex Ffinch Director
James Gilchrist Tenor Anna Tilbrook Piano Netia Jones Video artist
M1 5pm (ends approx. 5.45pm) Cheltenham College Chapel FREE
M3 9pm (ends approx. 10.15pm) Parabola Arts Centre £20 Members 10% off (concession Discover Pass offer applies) Britten Winter Words 21’ Tippett A Boyhood’s End 13’ Finzi A Young Man’s Exhortation 26’ Ireland Rhapsody 7’ A unique collaboration featuring the poems of Thomas Hardy and WH Hudson – set by Britten, Finzi and Tippett – about the loss of innocence, fleeting experience, life, death and the vast, unforgiving expanse of time. Filmmaker Netia Jones has placed these songs in the long and silent night passed by a nightwatchman (Gilchrist) in an abandoned station building, where time stretches into the darkness and the lonely guard is left to his thoughts and memories.
‘James Gilchrist is now unsurpassed among lyric tenors in sweetness and technical security, and for his musical intelligence.’ The Independent
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MILOŠ & THE CARDUCCIS
‘Bringing integrity and intelligence to the task of bringing video into classical music.’ The Times
Miloš Karadaglic Guitar Carducci Quartet M2 6pm (ends approx. 8pm) Pittville Pump Room £30 £25 £20 Members 10% off Programme to include: Solo guitar works from Spain and South America by Sor, Barrios and Villa-Lobos Haydn Quartet in B flat, Op.76, No 4 (Sunrise) 24’ Boccherini Guitar Quintet No 4 (Fandango) 25’ The first concert of the 2012 Festival brings together two great successes from the 2011 Festival – guitar sensation Miloš and the evermore-acclaimed Carduccis. Miloš performs music from his latest album, before joining the others for one of the hugely appealing quintets by Haydn’s Italian contemporary Luigi Boccherini. The Carduccis are the Quartet-in-Residence and the Head of Strings at Dean Close School
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THE NASH ENSEMBLE Ian Brown piano Richard Watkins horn Marianne Thorsen violin Philip Dukes viola Paul Watkins cello M4 11am (ends approx. 1pm) Pittville Pump Room £26 £21 £15 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply) Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor K 478 27’ Alexander Goehr Horn Trio (premiere) 15’ Frank Bridge Phantasy Piano Quartet 10’ Brahms Horn Trio in Eb Op.40 30’
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RUTH WALL: THE GIRL WITH THREE HARPS
Two venerable British composers, both 80 this year, hear brand new pieces of theirs on this first Thursday of the Festival. Hugh Wood features in the BBC Singers’ concert later on; but here, the hugely distinguished members of the Nash Ensemble premiere a new work by Alexander Goehr for the combination that Brahms first wrote for in 1865 – horn, violin and piano.
M6 6pm (ends approx. 7pm) Parabola Arts Centre £12.50 including Hotel du Vin drink voucher Members 10% off (concession Discover Pass offer applies)
Programme to include: Steve Reich Piano Phase Graham Fitkin Close Hold Astor Piazzolla Chanson de la naissance and traditional Gaelic tunes
Supported by Clive Coates & Ann Murray With the friendly support of
For those who caught Fitkin in 2011, this is a chance to see more of harpist Ruth Wall’s enchanting playing. With her fascinating explanations and varied programme, discover the unique, buzzing, bright sounds of the Renaissance Bray harp, the delicate beauty of medieval wire strung harp, and the soulfulness of Scottish lever harp.
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CIVIC SOCIETY WALK GLOUCESTERSHIRE YOUTH ORCHESTRA
M5 4pm Cheltenham Town Hall Steps, FREE (finish 5.30pm at Parabola Arts Centre)
Roger Jones leads a stroll around fashionable Montpellier, recalling some of the famous people associated with the area and Cheltenham’s rich history.
Glyn Oxley Conductor M8 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.30pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £10 (£8 U18) unreserved Members 10% off
DELIUS: SONG OF SUMMER
Butterworth The Banks of Green Willow 7’ Delius On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring 7’ Delius Summer Night on the River 5’ Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge 22’ Concerto tba with Gloucestershire Young Musician 2012 winner
M8a 5.30pm (ends approx. 6.45pm) Cheltenham Town Hall, Pillar Room FREE to M8 (GYO) ticket holders, ticket required Ken Russell’s film traces the last five years of Delius’ life through the eyes of a young composer, Eric Fenby, who helped the blind, paralysed composer set down the unfinished scores he could hear in his head.
Supported by The Delius Trust
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premiere, birthday tributes to Hugh Wood at 80 and Judith Bingham at 60, and – with Sanskrit Buddhist prayer, Senegalese song and Tibetan mysticism – a definite nod towards our British Musical Explorers focus.
BBC SINGERS David Hill Conductor M9 8pm (ends approx. 10pm) Cheltenham College Chapel, £15 unreserved
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Hugh Wood From the Pisan Cantos LXXXI (premiere) 10’ Lauri Supponen new work (premiere) 10’ Jonathan Harvey Marahi 11’ Judith Bingham new work (premiere) 10’ Giles Swayne Magnificat I 4’ John Tavener Unto the End of the World (premiere) 11’ Einojuhani Rautavaara Mass (UK premiere) 25’
Rautavaara sponsored by Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3
COMPOSERS IN CONVERSATION M7 7pm (ends 7.45pm) Cheltenham College Lecture Theatre FREE, ticket required
Here is a programme of contemporary choral riches which celebrates, among other things, age and experience – the combined age of Harvey, Rautavaara, Tavener and Wood alone is over 300! There are four world premieres, a UK
A selection of tonight’s composers talk with Christopher Cook.
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Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
THE ESSENTIAL DEBUSSY Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Piano M10 10am (ends approx. 1.30pm) Pittville Pump Room £28 £24 £18 including free tea/coffee and croissant voucher Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)
A real treat for Debussy lovers and piano fans! After giving us a taste of his charm and enthusiasm in 2011, Jean-Efflam returns to guide the audience through his ‘essential’ Debussy. This three-part, two-interval concert gives you a chance to enjoy coffee and croissants between Jean-Efflam’s outstanding performances and colourful descriptions of this great French composer.
Programme to include: Images book 1 Préludes book 1 (selection) Préludes book 2 Estampes Clair de Lune Ile joyeuse Etudes
Supported by Graham & Eileen Lockwood Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3
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SALOMÉ A SOUND AFFAIRS PRODUCTION The classic 1923 movie complete with a live score by Charlie Barber M16 10pm (ends approx. 11.15pm) Parabola Arts Centre £15 Members 10% off (concession Discover Pass offer applies) Opulent, extravagant, decadent – Salomé is a visual feast furnished by lavish Art Nouveau designs inspired by artist Aubrey Beardsley and an unforgettable performance by the tempestuous actress Alla Nazimova in the title role.
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ORCHESTRA OF THE MUSIC MAKERS
Inspired by traditional Arabic ensembles, Charlie Barber’s new score makes an equally dramatic impact. Performed by musicians playing from two towers flanking each side of the giant silver screen, this is a riveting blend of music and spectacle – quite unlike anything else.
Melvyn Tan Piano Chan Tze Law Conductor
‘a hothouse orchid of decadent passion’ Photoplay Magazine 1923
M15 7pm (ends approx. 9pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £42 £35 £22 £12 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)
‘an evocative soundscape that mirrors the exotic costumes and Salomé’s erotic allure’ The Guardian 2011
Delius Paris: The Song of a Great City 23’ Debussy (arr.) Pagodes 6’ Ravel Piano Concerto in G major 23’ Holst Beni Mora – Oriental Suite 15’ Debussy La Mer 25’ Delius in Paris, Holst in Algiers, Debussy in Indonesia and at sea. This Anglo-French programme brings together the 150th birthdays of Delius and Debussy with a certain exoticism and the jazzy panache of Ravel’s (two-handed) concerto. Singapore-born pianist Melvyn Tan performs the Ravel with an orchestra of young Singaporeans, making their European debut this summer. The Orchestra of the Music Makers has an average age of 22, and has been praised widely in its five-year existence for its spirit of adventure and visceral excitement in performance. Supported by The Delius Trust
MASTERWORKS: LA MER M14 5pm (ends approx. 6.15pm) Town Hall Pillar Room, FREE, ticket required Michael Berkeley, the BBC Philharmonic and conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier collaborated in 2002 on a fine BBC film that investigates the origins of Debussy’s masterpiece, and its background of marital infidelity and public scandal.
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READY, STEADY… SING!
MUSICAL ATHLETES
M17 10am (ends approx. 10.50am) Cheltenham Town Hall, Drawing Room £5 (accompanying adults free) Suitable for ages 3+
M21 2pm (ends approx. 3.15pm) M23 4pm (ends approx. 5.15pm) Cheltenham Town Hall Drawing Room £6 each Members 10% off (book all 4 events for £20)
A fun, song-filled workout for the little ones with Rachel Bowen. Turn to page 34 for full details.
WELLENSIAN CONSORT
Just what does it take in the human engineering of the body to sing or play a musical instrument? What kinds of stresses and strains are caused by the 100s and 1000s of hours of practice? And if there are injuries or physical breakdowns, what are the solutions? 2pm M21: Heads, Shoulders, Knees and… A look at the musculo-skeletal aspects of the musical body, to include personal testimony from performers who have been to hell and back. What went wrong, and how did they fix it? 4pm M23: Ear, Nose and Throat Hearing loss, voice injuries and how to breathe properly. What do healthy and unhealthy larynxes look like in action?
Christopher Finch Conductor M18 11am (ends approx. 12noon) Deerhurst Priory £12 Members 10% off Tippett Five Spirituals (A Child of Our Time) 15’ Ronald Corp Dhammapada (extracts) 10’ Giles Swayne Missa Tiburtina 10’ Music by Purcell and Taverner In the lofty spaces of Deerhurst’s magnificent Saxon church, this all-British programme is sung by one of the UK’s finest chamber choirs. Formed by alumni of Wells Cathedral School to celebrate the 1100th anniversary of the school in 2009, the Wellensian Consort won the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition in November 2010.
See page 33 for more information.
SINBAD THE SAILOR AND SCHEHERAZADE
THE OPERA GROUP PRESENTS BABUR IN LONDON
with James Mayhew illustrator as Sinbad the Sailor Orchestra of the Music Makers Chan Tze Law conductor
Edward Rushton Music Jeet Thayil Words John Fulljames Director
M19 12 noon (ends approx. 1pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £8 Members 10% off Suitable for ages 6+
M22 4.30pm (ends approx. 6.30pm) Parabola Arts Centre £25 Members 10% off (concession Discover Pass offer applies) Suitable for ages 14+
Storytelling, live painting and sumptuous orchestral music combine. Turn to page 34 for full details.
A haunting, beautiful story of lives and love cut short by anger, persecution and revenge, Edward Rushton’s new work explores the complexities of faith and multiculturalism in modern day society. The Opera Group last came to Cheltenham with their acclaimed production The Lion’s Face in 2010. Babur premieres in Switzerland in March and subsequently tours in Britain and India.
MIDSUMMER FIESTA! M20 12 noon - 10pm, Montpellier Gardens, FREE
BABUR: PRE-CONCERT TALK
World’s Largest Tea Dance at 2pm, Music, Marketplace, Funfair, Children’s Area, Food and Drink, Classic Cars, Havea-go sports showcase. A great funday for all the family.
M22a 3pm (ends approx. 4pm) Parabola Arts Centre FREE to M23 ticket holders
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HASSAN Southbank Sinfonia Wellensian Consort Narrator tba Neil Thomson Conductor M26 8pm (ends approx. 10pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £25 £20 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply) Debussy Danses Sacrée et Profane 10’ Debussy (arr. Adriano) Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune 10’ Delius Complete incidental music to James Elroy Flecker’s ‘Hassan’ 60’ James Elroy Flecker, the son of Dean Close School’s first Headmaster, never lived to enjoy the success of a long-running London production of his play Hassan in 1923; he died of TB in 1915. Flecker’s fascination for the Orient – he worked for the Consular Service in the Middle East from 1910 – resulted in witty and colourful reworkings of old Turkish tales, set in ancient Baghdad. Delius’ incidental music for this exotic romance was composed in 1920, for chamber orchestra and chorus. With titles such as ‘The War Song of the Saracens’, ‘Chorus of Beggars and Dancing Girls’, and ‘The Song of the Muezzin at Sunset’, it is music of great variety and melodic appeal. In this performance, a narrative précis of Flecker’s play will accompany Delius’ score. Supported by The Delius Trust
TALK: ORIENTALISM M25 6.45pm (ends 7.30pm) Cheltenham Town Hall Drawing Room £6 Members 10% off Christine Riding was the curator of Tate Britain’s outstanding 2008 exhibition on British Orientalist painting, The Lure of the East. Here, prior to the performance of Delius’ music for the Baghdad romance Hassan, she discusses Orientalism in art within a wide cultural context. Arthur Melville, An Arab Interior, Scottish National Gallery
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SUNDAY 8 JULY
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CIVIC SOCIETY WALK M29 1pm, finishing at Pittville Pump Room by 2.30pm Cheltenham Town Hall, FREE Join Roger Woodley of the Cheltenham Civic Society for an expert tour of the town’s history and architecture. With a nod to this year’s festival themes, the walk will touch on Cheltenham’s international links and wartime stories.
MELVYN TAN Melvyn Tan Piano M27 11am (ends approx. 1pm) Pittville Pump Room £28 £24 £18 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)
MUSICAL ATHLETES
J.S. Bach English suite No 2 in A minor 24’ Judith’s Variations 11 short reflections on ‘Bist du bei mir’ 22’ Schumann Fantasiestücke, Op.12 25’ Chopin 3 Mazurkas, Op.59 10’ Chopin Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor 10’
M30 2pm (ends approx. 3.15pm) M32 4.15pm (ends approx. 5.30pm) Parabola Arts Centre £6 Members 10% off (book all 4 events for £20)
Melvyn Tan’s recital includes a series of short reflections on Bach’s beloved Bist du bei mir composed for Judith Serota, for many years the Director of the Spitalfields Festival. All of the Festival’s Artistic Directors during her tenure (except the non-composer Richard Hickox) contributed – including Michael Berkeley, Jonathan Dove, Diana Burrell and Judith Weir. Other composers include Tarik O’Regan, Richard Rodney Bennett and Peter Maxwell Davies.
Part 2 of our exploration of how the musical body works – and when it doesn’t work, how to fix it. 2pm M30: My body is a temple? A lot of musicians shun conventional medical treatments in favour of ‘alternative’ or complementary therapies. This session investigates how Alexander Technique, Mindfulness, Pilates and the like can get musicians into peak mental and physical condition. 4.15pm M32: Fear and Fearlessness
WHEN YESTERDAY WE MET… STORYTELLING IN SONG
Aaron Williamon, Professor of Performance Science at the Royal College of Music, leads a session that will include an analysis with pianist Melvyn Tan of physiological measures (monitoring of heart rate, skin conductance etc) taken during today’s solo recital (M27). Do elite sportspeople have anything to teach musicians about optimal physical and mental preparation? What role do beta-blockers, alcohol and other substances play in controlling performance nerves?
Sophie Daneman Soprano Philip Smith Baritone Dominic Harlan Piano M28 11.30am (ends approx. 12.30pm) Parabola Arts Centre £7 Members 10% off Suitable for ages 8+
See page 33 for more information on Musical Athletes.
From fairy tales and Greek myths to tales of the extraordinary and the everyday, songs have always been a wonderful way of telling stories. Pianist and presenter Dominic Harlan is joined by two superb young singers for a stunningly original, interactive concert that needs to be seen to be believed. Celebrated tenor Ian Bostridge took his children to one of Harlan’s concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall recently, and proclaimed it ‘an unmitigated triumph of the imagination’. ‘Harlan is irrepressibly enthusiastic…a terrifically engaging pianist, actor and communicator…terrific fun, and not just for kids.’ The Singer
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Arakaendar Bolivia Choir
BOLIVIAN BAROQUE
CASTALIAN QUARTET
Florilegium Arakaendar Bolivia Choir Ashley Solomon Director
M36 8.30pm (ends approx. 9.40pm) Pittville Pump Room £15 unreserved Members 10% off (50% concessions apply) Hugh Wood String Quartet No 1 19’ Michael Nyman String Quartet No 2 22’ Giles Swayne String Quartet No 3 20’
M31 3pm (ends approx. 5pm) Pittville Pump Room £26 £21 £15 Members 10% off
Hot on the heels of Hugh Wood’s brand new Ezra Pound settings from the BBC Singers, the outstanding young UKbased quartet, the Castalian, brings to Cheltenham a piece that the 80 year-old composer first heard 50 years ago in the 1962 Cheltenham Music Festival. Then, two works united by dance: for Nyman, the particular rhythms of the South Indian Bharata Natyam shape a work written for the dancer Shobana Jeyasingh, while Swayne weaves the lilt of Waltzing Matilda through this rarely-heard quartet.
Music from the Missions Sacred and secular music by Araujo, Balbi, Bassani, Brentner and Zipoli This is a unique collaboration between top baroque specialists Florilegium and a specially-formed choir from Bolivia, making their debut UK tour. Since 2002, music by the Chiquitos and Moxos Indians has emerged from recently discovered archives. An intoxicating blend of European baroque and indigenous music, this is a special chance to see wonderfully preserved musical history brought vividly to life.
Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3
‘The sound is captivating – fresh-toned and inexhaustibly animated… The music is totally absorbing from beginning to end.’ BBC Music Magazine ‘These are gossamer light and radiantly clear voices, singing with delicacy, a wonderfully springy sense of rhythm and true joy.’ Richard Morrison, The Times
Rehearsal residency in France supported by Peter & Veronica Lofthouse
COMPOSER IN CONVERSATION M35 7.30pm (ends approx. 8.15pm) Pittville Pump Room, Oval Room FREE to ticket holders for M36
POST-CONCERT TALK Giles Swayne discusses his third string quartet ahead of tonight’s performance.
M33 5pm (ends approx. 5.45pm) Pittville Pump Room, FREE to ticket holders Immediately after the concert director Ashley Solomon will be joined onstage by Polish Jesuit priest Dr Piotr Nawrot (who discovered this enormous treasure trove of music) to answer questions from the audience. Please note that there will be a five-minute break between the performance and talk.
Castalian Quartet
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SUNDAY 8 JULY
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ROYAL MUSICAL TREASURES FOR THE DIAMOND JUBILEE Performers to include: Flowers Brass Band Paul Holland Conductor Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum Benjamin Nicholas Conductor Cheltenham Bach Choir Stephen Jackson Conductor Narrator tba M34 6pm (ends approx. 8.15pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £28 £23 £16 £12 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply) Programme to include: Byrd O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth Walton Coronation marches: Crown Imperial & Orb and Sceptre Walton Coronation Te Deum Parry I was glad Handel Zadok the Priest Handel Royal Fireworks Music Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Elgar Nimrod and music from the 2012 Choirbook for the Queen This concert celebrates the wonderful, uplifting musical riches that have been created for royal occasions over the centuries – from William Byrd’s touching prayer for the first Queen Elizabeth to music specially written for 2012’s Diamond Jubilee, from Handel’s majestic Zadok the Priest (a mainstay of every coronation since George II’s in 1727) to William Walton’s stirring marches for George VI and Elizabeth II. Supported by The Oldham Foundation Presented in association with the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire
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MONDAY 9 JULY
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THE CLASSIC BUSKERS Michael Copley Multi-instrumentalist Ian Moore Piano Accordion M38 6pm (ends approx. 7pm) Parabola Arts Centre £12.50 including Hotel du Vin drink voucher Members 10% off (concession Discover Pass offer applies)
Hang onto your berets as the Buskers whisk you through a light-hearted tour of French musical treasures including Debussy favourites and familiar tunes from Ravel, Lully, Bizet and Offenbach.
Benjamin Grosvenor
GROSVENOR & THE ESCHERS
I FAGIOLINI
Benjamin Grosvenor Piano Escher Quartet
Robert Hollingworth Director
M37 11am (ends approx. 1pm) Pittville Pump Room £26 £21 £15 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)
M39 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.30pm) Tewkesbury Abbey £32 £28 £24 £16 Members 10% off Programme to include: Striggio Ecce beatam lucem Tallis Spem in alium Striggio Missa ‘Ecco sì beato giorno’ Giovanni Gabrieli Magnificat
Mendelssohn String Quartet No 3 in D, Op.44/1 Ravel Gaspard de la nuit Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34 ‘A shy 19-year-old from Southend seems destined to become one of the great pianists of the 21st century. Indeed, if you were to listen blind to Benjamin Grosvenor’s debut album of works by Chopin, Liszt and Ravel, you might think that he already belongs in this category.’
Awe-inspiring sounds in an equally magnificent space... this is a live re-creation of I Fagiolini’s award-winning, chart-topping recording of Striggio’s newly-discovered 40 part mass. This will be a spectacular, sonically-enveloping, shiver-down-the-spine experience, with 60+ voices and 20 renaissance instruments re-creating in surround-sound the splendour of not only Striggio’s mass, but Tallis’s Spem in alium and music by Gabrieli written four centuries ago for St Mark’s Venice.
This is what the Daily Telegraph had to say of Grosvenor in their Top 10 Britons of the Year round-up in January 2012. Come and judge for yourselves, when he plays solo Ravel and teams up for Brahms with fellow BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists, the USA’s Escher Quartet. Supported by Sir Michael & Lady McWilliam and Sir Peter & Lady Marychurch
‘A timeless, soaring, out-of-this-world experience, that wraps you in a magical soundworld. The surprise hit of the year.’ The Sun 2011
Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3
Supported by Diana Woolley I Fagiolini’s Striggio Tour is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
I Fagiolini
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TUESDAY 10 JULY
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LOVE SONGS FROM THE PRINCE CONSORT Katherine Broderick Soprano Jennifer Johnston Mezzo-soprano Andrew Staples Tenor Jacques Imbrailo Baritone Alasdair Hogarth, Philip Fowke Piano
Taking their name punningly from the Prince Consort Road – the location of the Royal College of Music in London – The Prince Consort is a Songmaker’s Almanac for the 21st century. Alongside the love songs of Brahms and Schumann, these outstandingly talented singers also perform a new collection of contemporary love songs by pianist (and, increasingly, composer) Stephen Hough. This is a programme bursting with passion, rapture and the sheer magic and madness of falling in love.
M40 11am (ends approx. 1pm) Pittville Pump Room £26 £21 £15 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)
Supported by the Alan Cadbury Trust and Patricia Routledge CBE
Brahms Liebeslieder Op.52 24’ Stephen Hough Other Love Songs 20’ Schumann Spanische Liebeslieder Op.138 21’ Brahms Neue Liebeslieder Op.65 23’
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PHILIP LANGRIDGE MENTORING SCHEME SHOWCASE Philip Higham Cello Alexandra Dariescu Piano Kathryn Rudge Mezzo-soprano Helen Sherman Mezzo-soprano M44 7.30pm (ends approx. 9.30pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £25 £20 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply) Henning Kraggerud
Schubert Sonata in A minor, D.821, Arpeggione 20’ Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen 16’ Chopin Preludes, Op.28, Nos 16-24 17’ Paul Constantinescu Toccata 4’ Duparc Au pays ou se fait la guerre 5’ Britten Cabaret Songs 15’
YSAYE’S SOLO SONATAS Henning Kraggerud Violin M42 3.30pm (ends approx. 4.40pm) St Swithin’s Church, Quenington £12 Members 10% off
The Philip Langridge Mentoring Scheme was established by the Royal Philharmonic Society and Young Classical Artists Trust in memory of the great British tenor Philip Langridge and pairs the UK’s finest young performers with leading musicians, such as Steven Isserlis and Imogen Cooper. In an exciting opportunity to see its debut public platform, we showcase some of the musicians who are benefiting from the scheme.
Ysaÿe Sonatas for solo violin, Op.27 Norway’s enormously gifted and charismatic violinist Henning Kraggerud shows off his virtuosic solo skills before he joins our 1914–18 supergroups. Belgian composerviolinist Eugène Ysaÿe’s solo sonatas offer a dazzling display of flair and brilliance.
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
The Quenington Sculpture Garden is open this year. Tea (£1) and cake (£2) will be served in the gardens (free entry to concertgoers) after the concert. Donations to Cobalt Trust welcome. Supported by Quenington Sculpture Trust
KEN RUSSELL: A VERY ENGLISH GENIUS M43 6pm (ends approx. 7pm) Parabola Arts Centre £12.50 including Hotel du Vin drink voucher Members 10% off (concession Discover Pass offer applies)
Humphrey Burton, a longtime friend and BBC colleague who produced the famous Elgar film for Monitor, discusses the life and work of an original and occasionally outrageous film director whose creativity was inspired by a love of music – particularly the English composers of the early twentieth century.
Ken Russell
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE YOUNG MUSICIANS SHOWCASE
TIME CAPSULE: 1914–18 See page 5 for more details on this series.
Alex Kirk Piano Julia Liang Violin Winner of the 2012 GYM Competition
THE 1914 CONCERT
M48 5.30pm (ends approx. 6.30pm) Parabola Arts Centre £12.50 including Hotel du Vin drink voucher
Henning Kraggerud Violin Katharine Gowers Violin Adrian Brendel Cello Christian Ihle Hadland Piano
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M45 11am (ends approx. 12.50pm) Pittville Pump Room £28 £24 £18 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply) Janᡠcek Violin Sonata 18’ Webern Three pieces for cello and piano 3’ Kodaly Duo for violin and cello 25’ Joplin Magnetic Rag 4’ Ravel Piano Trio 28’
TANGO & KLEZMER Fugata Quintet and She’Koyokh
Supported by Elizabeth Jacobs
M50 7pm (ends approx. 9pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £20 £15 Members 10% off
Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3
This is the night where the Music Festival lets its hair down. With sultry sophistication, the Fugata Quintet recreates the classic line-up of Argentinian tango master Astor Piazzolla’s own quintet. She’Koyokh is an equally stylish octet, partying their way through Eastern European Jewish, Balkan and Gypsy music with exhilarating abandon. Go online to hear some samples.
THE 1915 CONCERTS Henning Kraggerud Violin Lars Anders Tomter Viola Steven Isserlis Cello Catherine Beynon Harp Emily Beynon Flute Matthew Hunt Clarinet Christian Ihle Hadland Piano Connie Shih Piano Escher Quartet
M49 7pm (ends approx. 9pm) Pittville Pump Room £28 £24 £18 Members 10% off
She’koyokh
Debussy Sonata for flute, viola, harp 16’ Szymanowski Mythes 20’ Debussy Sonata for cello and piano 12’ Bartok Romanian Dances 5’ Reger Clarinet Quintet 37’
RACHMANINOV’S VESPERS A CANDLELIT PERFORMANCE Ex Cathedra Choir Jeffrey Skidmore Conductor
Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
M51 9.30pm (ends approx. 10.40pm) Cheltenham College Chapel £18 Members 10% off Rachmaninov All Night Vigil (Vespers) 60’
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M52 THE 1916 CONCERT M58 THE BATTLE OF THE ANCRE
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TIME CAPSULE: 1914–18
See page 5 for more details on this series.
THE 1916 CONCERT
CIVIC SOCIETY WALK
Katharine Gowers Violin Lars Anders Tomter Viola Catherine Beynon Harp Emily Beynon Flute Adrian Brendel Cello Christian Ihle Hadland, Connie Shih Piano
M54 3pm Cheltenham Town Hall (finishing at Hotel du Vin at 4.30pm) FREE, ticket required
M52 11am (ends approx. 12.50pm) Pittville Pump Room £28 £24 £18 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)
Charles Owen Piano Katya Apekisheva Piano Reader tba Margot van Bers Streeter Historian
WW1 PIANO AND POETRY
Schoenberg Piano Quintet, ‘The Iron Brigade’ 5’ Rebecca Clarke Lullaby & Grotesque for viola and cello 3’ Bax Elegaic Trio for flute, viola and harp 10’ Bridge Two Old English Songs for quartet 8’ Bliss Pastoral for clarinet & piano 5’ Busoni Albumblatt for flute & piano 3’ Rachmaninov Etudes Tableaux Op.39 40’
M56 7pm (ends approx. 8.45pm) Parabola Arts Centre £15 Members 10% off (concession Discover Pass offer applies) War poetry readings & WW1 piano music Debussy En blanc et noir 18’ Debussy Pièce pour le Vêtement du Blessé 2’ Stravinsky Souvenir d’une Marche Boche 2’ Granados Marche Militaire 4’ Bridge Lament for Solo Piano 5’ Bridge Three Improvisations for piano left hand 9’ Ravel Tombeau de Couperin 25’
Supported by Neil & Ann Parrack In recognition of The Leonora Society Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3
This programme brings together a selection of World War One poems and prose with contemporaneous, wartimerelated piano pieces – from Granados’ military march to the tributes of Ravel and Debussy to fallen friends, and Bridge’s lament in memory of the victims of the sinking of the Lusitania.
THE BATTLE OF THE ANCRE SCREENING WITH LIVE PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT John Sweeney Piano M58 9.30pm (ends approx. 10.45pm) Parabola Arts Centre £10 Members 10% off (concession Discover Pass offer applies) This is a special screening of one of the great WW1 documentary films, The Battle of the Ancre and the Advance of the Tanks. Showing the latter stage of the Battle of the Somme, it features here with the original music selection from screenings in 1917. In partnership with the Imperial War Museum
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David Fanshawe recording the Luto tribe in 1973
AFRICAN SANCTUS A new work from Liz Lane, who worked closely with Fanshawe until his death in 2010, pays tribute to his travels and this powerful, unique and uplifting celebration of musical diversity.
Bournemouth Symphony Chorus Cheltenham & Tewkesbury Youth Choirs Gavin Carr Conductor Backbeat Percussion Ensemble Maureen Brathwaite Soprano
With the friendly support of
M57 7pm (ends approx. 8.30pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £22 £16 £12 £9 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply) Trad. African music for mbiras and djembes Liz Lane Spirit of Africa (premiere) 10’ David Fanshawe African Sanctus 60’
EXPLORING AFRICAN SANCTUS M57a 8.40pm (10 minutes after M57 ends) Cheltenham Town Hall Drawing Room FREE, ticket required
African Sanctus is a dazzling fusion of traditional African and Western choral music. David Fanshawe was a pioneer and passionate advocate not only for the then-fledgling field of ethnomusicology – exploring musics from around the world – but also for the people and cultures that created them. The 40-year-old African Sanctus is an enduring, beautiful and momentous testament to a heartfelt and humble fascination with the myriad sounds of African traditions, featuring recordings made during an expedition through the continent.
Liz Lane delivers a talk devised by David Fanshawe, explaining the work’s genesis and David’s expeditions with plenty of photos, field recordings, a ‘spirit cap’ and Latigo Oteng’s harp. There will be an opportunity for the audience to ask questions about any of the music heard in the evening’s performance.
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A SOLDIER AND A MAKER BY IAIN BURNSIDE
Iain Burnside director Giuseppe and Emma Belli designers Victoria Newlyn movement
Three-quarters of a century after his death Ivor Gurney is now celebrated as a poet and a composer. This Gloucester-born tailor’s son preferred the term ‘maker’. He was many things beside: soldier, cricketer, crack shot, cake eater, nightwalker, wit, faithful if exasperating friend and, for the last 15 years of his life, asylum inmate.
M62 Fri 13 Jul 5pm (ends approx. 7.15pm) M67 Sat 14 Jul 3pm (ends approx. 5.15pm) Parabola Arts Centre £20 Members 10% off (concession Discover Pass offer
Interweaving new material with Gurney’s own music, poems and letters, Iain Burnside has created a unique piece of music theatre. His talented cast combines 16 singers, 2 pianists and an actor, all from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
A new play based on songs, poems and letters of Ivor Gurney
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TIME CAPSULE: 1914–18
See page 5 for more details on this series. Nigel Kennedy
Steven Isserlis
THE 1917 CONCERT
THE 1918 CONCERT
Katharine Gowers Violin Steven Isserlis Cello Connie Shih, Charles Owen Piano Escher Quartet
Nigel Kennedy Violin Katharine Gowers Violin Lars Anders Tomter Viola Steven Isserlis Cello Matthew Hunt Clarinet Connie Shih Piano Escher Quartet
M60 11am (ends approx. 12.50am) Pittville Pump Room £28 £24 £18 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)
M63 8pm (ends approx. 9.50pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £35 £28 £20 £12 Members 10% off
Fauré Sonata No 1 for cello and piano 22’ Ireland Piano Trio No 2 in E 13’ Debussy Sonata for violin and piano 15’ Bartók String Quartet No 2 25’
Stravinsky Soldier’s Tale suite for piano, clarinet and violin 15’ Bruch String Quintet in A minor 25’ Elgar Piano Quintet 35’
Supported by Mary Mackenzie, Richard Walton and Friends Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3
This concert is the climax of our Time Capsule: 1914–18 series. It brings together not only such contrastingly great pieces as Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale and Elgar’s Piano Quintet, but also the huge talents of Nigel Kennedy and Steven Isserlis on stage together for the first time in many years. Supported by The Patrons of Cheltenham Festivals
Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3
Escher Quartet
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Percussions Claviers de Lyon
PERCUSSIONS CLAVIERS DE LYON
CIVIC SOCIETY WALK M66 1.30pm Cheltenham Town Hall (finishing at St Paul’s Church at 2.30pm) FREE, ticket required
M65 12noon (ends approx. 2pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £20 £15 Members 10% off
Join Roger Woodley for an expert tour of the town’s history and architecture, ending at the Pittville Pump Room’s architectural sibling (and the most recent addition to the festival’s venues) in time for Bach’s B minor mass.
Debussy (arr. Gérard Lecointe) Suite Bergamasque 15’ Debussy (arr. Gérard Lecointe) 5 Préludes 20’ Gérard Lecointe Après Masques 13’ Debussy (arr. Gérard Lecointe) Nocturnes 10’ François Narboni Rigodon 15’ Debussy as you’ve never head him before – brilliant arrangements that bring to the fore the percussive qualities of Indonesian Gamelan that so inspired Debussy’s exotic flavours. Arranged here for tuned percussion by the artistic director of this dynamic, riveting French percussion ensemble, these transcriptions are remarkable, and their delivery subtle, engrossing and wonderfully vibrant.
BACH’S B MINOR MASS
A SOLDIER AND A MAKER
J.S. Bach Mass in B minor, BWV 232
M67 3pm (ends approx. 5.15pm) Parabola Arts Centre £20 Members 10% off (concession Discover Pass offer applies)
In the beautiful architectural sibling of the Pittville Pump Room, 100 singers and instrumentalists from Utrecht University in the Netherlands perform Bach’s monumental setting of the Mass.
See page 26 for details of this special Ivor Gurney event.
Supported by the Aquarius Group
The Utrecht Student Choir and Orchestra M68 3pm (ends approx. 5.40pm) St Paul’s Church, Cheltenham £15 Members 10% off
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ANGLO-INDIAN NIGHT SAVITRI
Sarah Connolly
Sarah Connolly Mezzo-soprano Allan Clayton Tenor Benedict Nelson Bass-baritone Trondheim Soloists Savitri Singers M70 7pm (ends approx. 9pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £30 £25 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply) Programme to include: John Tavener Dhyana 5’ Roxanna Panufnik Tibetan Winter 5’ Holst Rig Veda songs, set No 3 12’ Holst Savitri 35’
SVARA KANTI
Richly varied aspects of the Indian subcontinent feature in these pieces from three very different British composers. Tavener and Panufnik use the lyrical qualities of a solo violin in Dhyana (Sanskrit for ‘meditation’) and a re-working of an ancient Tibetan song. Holst’s fascination with Indian culture and his grasp of Sanskrit produced both his Rig Veda choral settings and the remarkable one-act opera Savitri - an episode from the ancient epic The Mahabharata whose beauty is both spare and intense.
Simon Thacker Classical guitar Jyotsna Srikanth Carnatic violin Sarvar Sabri Tabla Japjit Kaur Voice
Supported by Diana Woolley
This new Indian/Western group brings together virtuoso Indian and Western musicians to create powerful and inspiring new music. Merging dazzling Indian classical traditions, evocative ancient Indian folk music and the finest film songs (from the Golden Age to Oscar winner AR Rahman) with Western classical and jazz sounds, this is sure to be a very special end to our Anglo-Indian evening.
M71 9.30pm (ends approx. 10.45pm) Parabola Arts Centre £15 Members 10% off (concession Discover Pass offer applies)
Interval canapés kindly provided by
BRITISH MUSICAL EXPLORERS
Svara Kanti’s current tour is supported by Creative Scotland, Gem Arts and The Hope Scott Trust.
M69 5.45pm (ends at 6.30pm) Cheltenham Town Hall Drawing Room £6 Members 10% off
“The virtuosity of Thacker is matched by sizzling sounds from Jyotsna Srikanth’s Indian violin and Sarvar Sabri’s tabla playing”. Classical Music Magazine
Writer/broadcaster Stephen Johnson brings his customary enthusiasm and dazzling breadth of knowledge to the subject of the festival’s British Musical Explorers strand – from Holst in India and Algeria and Delius in Baghdad to the equally far-reaching interests of John Foulds, John Tavener, David Fanshawe and Jonathan Harvey.
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SONGS OF THE EXOTIC Ruby Hughes Soprano Jennifer Johnston Mezzo-soprano Benedict Nelson Baritone Joseph Middleton Piano
For centuries Westerners have had their imagination stirred by the lure of the East and the exotic, no more so than the British. This programme is not so much a true depiction of the East, as an idealised Western postcard of what the East was like through British eyes.
M72 11am (ends approx. 12.50pm) Pittville Pump Room £26 £21 £15 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply)
Beginning in England, a boat ride to Bengal sees our intrepid travellers’ first taste of the East. During the interval the boat docks in south-east Asia. A tour of China and Japan ensues before the long journey back to their ‘own country’.
Songs of travel – the intrepid explorer India Love Songs Eastern Attraction: Japan and China Songs of the Exotic Homeward Bound Selected songs by: Armstrong Gibbs, Bantock, Purcell/Britten, Delius, Elgar, Holst, Ireland, Quilter, Rhian Samuel, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, Warlock & Judith Weir
Recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3
PLUCK: MUSICAL ARSON! M73 3pm (ends approx. 4.15pm) Parabola Arts Centre £7 Members 10% off Suitable for ages 7+ What happens when great music falls into the hands of talented idiots? You get the world’s most musically challenged string trio – PLUCK! Pluck is the group of three hilarious musicians who compete, ridicule, argue and seduce their way through Bach to The Beatles. A unique combination of comedy and superb musicianship, enjoy Pluck’s melodic buffoonery as they wreak havoc between harmonies – bring the family and join them for an afternoon of totally unpredictable musical arson!
‘Gloriously funny’ The Scotsman ‘Classical music for all shoe sizes’ Sunday Times ‘…a mix of sweet music and complete mayhem…’ Time Out
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Martyn Brabbins
A LONDON MARATHON FINALE CONCERT
OK. So if the idea of marathon feels a bit daunting, think of this concert instead as a banquet of London’s musical riches laid before you. The word Cockaigne’s origins are all about gluttony and plenty, but Elgar’s portrait fluently evokes multiple characters of London, from cockney street-cries and church bells to Salvation Army bands.
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins Conductor Steven Isserlis Cello
Westminster chimes also feature in Vaughan Williams’ extended homage to the capital, premiered in the same venue (Queen’s Hall) as Cockaigne, the Ireland, and Elgar’s beloved Cello Concerto. The main theme of Ireland’s London Overture engagingly mimics a bus conductor’s call for Piccadilly Circus, while Holst’s Hammersmith combines the bustling of street markets with an altogether darker, superbly atmospheric portrait of the Thames.
M74 5pm (ends approx. 8pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £42 £35 £22 £12 Members 10% off (50% concessions apply) Elgar Cockaigne (In London Town) 13’ Hannah Kendall Shard (premiere) 5’ Holst Hammersmith 15’ Ireland A London Overture 13’ Elgar Cello Concerto 30’ Vaughan Williams A London Symphony 45’
Hannah Kendall’s new work, Shard, is inspired by London’s latest dramatic addition to its skyline. Supported by Celia & Andrew Curran
There will be two intervals in this concert
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MUSICAL ATHLETES MATCH FIT – OR ON THE BENCH? The world of music making is highly competitive – it involves a rigorous schedule, late hours, fierce concentration, vast injections of adrenalin, a great deal of solitary practice and the overcoming of performance ‘nerves’. All of these elements put huge demands on the bodies and minds of musicians, singers and conductors; they are the sort of demands that we more readily associate with sportsmen and women. Musicians suffer surprisingly high levels of illness and injury directly attributable to their profession. If they can’t work, they can’t earn. Musical Athletes looks at the human engineering of the musical body – how it works, how it sometimes doesn’t work, and the different ways it can be fixed.
SATURDAY 7 JULY (SEE PAGE 12) 2pm M21 Heads, Shoulders, Knees and... 4pm M23 Ear, Nose and Throat LabOratory is an exciting project funded by the Wellcome Trust which brings bio-medical science to life across all four Cheltenham Festivals.
SUNDAY 8 JULY (SEE PAGE 14) 2pm M30 My body is a temple? 4.15pm M32 Fear and Fearlessness
For future LabOratory events please visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/laboratory
Event partipicants include: Howard Bird, Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology, University of Leeds Christopher Cullen Mindfulness teacher at Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Oxford University Ian Macdonald, Voice Therapist and Teaching Fellow in Performing Arts Medicine, University College London Karen O’Connor, Performance Coach, Birmingham Performing Arts Consultancy Ray Tallis (chair) Physician, philosopher and novelist Melvyn Tan, Pianist David Wasley, Senior Lecturer in Exercise and Health Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University Alan Watson, Senior Lecturer in Anatomy and Neuroscience, Cardiff University Aaron Williamon, Professor of Performance Science, Royal College of Music Penny Wright, Honorary Physician and Medical Director, BAPAM Christopher Wynn Parry MBE, Consultant in Rheumatology and Rehabilitation Medicine and Senior physician, BAPAM
We are grateful to our LabOratory Think Tank and to the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine for their support. BAPAM is a unique medical charity dedicated to the healthcare of musicians and all performing artists – running free advisory clinics nationwide as well as supplying independent medical advisors to major British orchestras. www.bapam.org.uk
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Thu 14 June, at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival:
MUSIC TECHNOLOGY AND THE VOICE How do you make a musical instrument speak? How can you use Auto-Tune to make President Obama sing? In a special performance full of singing and scientific demonstrations, beat-boxing tenor Greg Tassell joins scientist Wendy Sadler to show how musicians are mixing technology with the richness of the voice to create new sounds.
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FAMILY EVENTS
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READY, STEADY…SING! M17 Saturday 7 July, 10am (ends approx. 10.40am) Cheltenham Town Hall, Drawing Room £5 (accompanying adults free) Members 10% off Suitable for ages 3+
with James Mayhew illustrator as Sinbad the Sailor Orchestra of the Music Makers Chan Tze Law conductor
Rachel Bowen, director of the Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Youth Choirs, gives the little ones a musical workout of action songs and pre-Olympic warm-ups.
PLUCK: MUSICAL ARSON!
M19 Saturday 7 July, 12 noon (ends approx. 1pm) Cheltenham Town Hall £8 Members 10% off Suitable for ages 6+
M73 Sunday 15 July, 3pm (ends approx. 4.15pm) Parabola Arts Centre £7 Members 10% off Suitable for ages 7+
Sinbad the Sailor (illustrator James Mayhew) tells the tale of the beautiful princess Scheherezade and 1001 Nights of stories. Sinbad will paint his way through Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp and other fantastic tales while our resident orchestra accompanies him with Rimsky Korsakov’s magical score.
What happens when great music falls into the hands of talented idiots? You get the world’s most musically challenged string trio – PLUCK! Pluck is the group of three hilarious musicians who compete, ridicule, argue and seduce their way through Bach to The Beatles. A unique combination of comedy and superb musicianship, enjoy Pluck’s melodic buffoonery as they wreak havoc between harmonies – bring the family and join them for an afternoon of totally unpredictable musical arson!
WHEN YESTERDAY WE MET… STORYTELLING IN SONG
‘Gloriously funny’ The Scotsman
Sophie Daneman Soprano Philip Smith Baritone Dominic Harlan Piano
‘Classical music for all shoe sizes’ Sunday Times ‘…a mix of sweet music and complete mayhem…’ Time Out
M28 Sunday 8 July, 11.30pm (ends approx. 12.30pm) Parabola Arts Centre £7 Members 10% off Suitable for ages 8+ From fairy tales and Greek myths to tales of the extraordinary and the everyday, songs have always been a wonderful way of telling stories. Pianist and presenter Dominic Harlan is joined by two superb young singers for a stunningly original, interactive concert that needs to be seen to be believed. Celebrated tenor Ian Bostridge took his children to one of Harlan’s concerts at London’s Wigmore Hall recently, and proclaimed it ‘an unmitigated triumph of the imagination’. ‘Harlan is irrepressibly enthusiastic…a terrifically engaging pianist, actor and communicator… terrific fun, and not just for kids.’ The Singer
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EDUCATION
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Away from the Festival’s concert venues, our education team works hard to take music to as many young people as possible before and during the Festival. More information about all our Festival education programmes can be found at cheltenhamfestivals.com/education or by calling 01242 775822/91.
MUSICAL EXPLORERS WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOLS
BANDWAGON Monday 9 July – Thursday 12 July
As part of our British Musical Explorers focus this year, composer and educator Liz Lane will be offering school workshops exploring traditional African Music through song and percussion, as well as exploring the amazing African adventure of musical explorer David Fanshawe.
An unexpected, fun and apparently spontaneous flashmobstyle group surprise Gloucestershire primary school children and provide a vibrant, exciting experience of classical music. A pop-up ensemble of young, talented multi-genre musicians from the local area are led by animateur Jessica Maryon-Davies, composer Hannah Kendall and percussionist Sacha Johnson as they give many children their first experience of seeing and hearing an ensemble play live. More details at cheltenhamfestivals.com/bandwagon
Please contact our education team about available dates and costs, or look online.
BANDWAGON CONCERT FOR SCHOOLS M59 Friday 13 July 10.30am Cheltenham Town Hall £2 (school bookings only) The last day of the Bandwagon project sees them leading a concert for schools, packed full of audience participation and special guests. ‘Thank you to all for a great concert – a new experience for our pupils. Much enjoyed by all, and hopefully to be repeated’ Teacher at 2011 Concert for Schools
MAKING MUSIC WITH THE OMM
followed by HAVE-A-GO SESSIONS and MEET THE GAMELAN
Orchestra of the Music Makers Chan Tze Law Conductor M11 Friday 6 July 10.30am Cheltenham Town Hall
After last year’s hugely popular have-a-go sessions, Gloucestershire Music Service will be giving children a chance to try out a whole range of instruments, with the help of our Bandwagon students and volunteers.
An exclusive activity morning for schools and pupils of Gloucestershire Music service, who will have the chance to hear this top-class Singapore orchestra in rehearsal and try out some instruments for themselves.
And new this year, a chance to see the Festival’s very own Indonesian Gamelan, which is available to book for school workshops all year round. For more information, visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/gamelan
FREE FOR SCHOOLS Education Partners The Steel Charitable Trust
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Cheltenham Music Festival is committed to making music accessible to all, and again we are offering free tickets to accompanied school groups for all concerts. This is a fantastic opportunity for pupils to experience the thrill of live music. Please note that tickets are limited, subject to availability, and allocated on a first-come, first-serve basis Free for Schools booking opens on 1 May 2012.
EXHIBITIONS
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All of the exhibitions taking place in association with this year’s Festival are free, and open to the public one hour prior to an event taking place at the exhibition venue and 30 minutes after its conclusion.
PARABOLA ARTS CENTRE
APSE, PITTVILLE PUMP ROOM
Peter D. Granville-Edmunds Flow Mixed-media abstract painting
Robert Goldsmith For the love of it: Pencil sketches and watercolours
Peter is a local artist with an international reputation – his work featured at the prestigious Biennale dell’Arte, in Florence, last year and is owned by collectors around the world. These emotionally charged abstract paintings have been especially made for Music12 and are spontaneous, in-the-moment responses to a selection of the music being performed this year.
This is the third year Robert has been resident at Pittville Pump Room, capturing the intensity of rehearsal and performance in real time with his rapid-fire sketches. He will be showing work in progress, along with worked-up pieces, from previous years in this up-close-and-personal view of the Festival.
SPA WELL, TOWN HALL COS Members’ Exhibition Artists from Cheltenham Open Studios transform the Spa Well into a mini exhibition space to showcase a selection of the visual art being created locally.
HOLST BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM Gustav Holst: an Englishman Abroad How foreign cultures influenced and inspired the composer Jackie Morris A Winter’s Tale In support of the Musicians Benevolent Fund
A special exhibition to reflect the Festival’s British Musical Explorers theme.
For each of the last 13 years, Jackie Morris has been commissioned by the Musicians Benevolent Fund (www.helpmusicians.org.uk) to design a Christmas card to help the organisation raise funds. See the story unfold as we host the complete collection of original watercolours.
Holst Birthplace Museum, 4 Clarence Road, Cheltenham GL52 2AY Tuesday 3 July - Saturday 25 August Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am-4pm (for additional opening times during the Music Festival, visit www.holstmuseum.org.uk) Tel: 01242 524846
Hugh Turvey, Artist in Residence at the British Institute of Radiology Trip The Light Fantastic Xograms
Letters, books, texts and music manuscripts showing how Gustav Holst responded in words and in music to his travels in Algiers and his fascination with Indian philosophies.
X-ray is a ‘fantastic’ light allowing us to see where we otherwise could not. And it is what is unseen and hidden that Hugh Turvey is intrigued by, making transparent what is not. These images are some of the artist’s first in an exploration of the in-between, hidden spaces in musical instruments, vital to the creation of wavelength, resonance, movement, sound. Elizabeth Jacobs Black and White Photography After her Music10 exhibition at Pittville Pump Room last year, we’re giving Parabola audiences the opportunity to enjoy Elizabeth Jacobs’ ‘access all areas’ view of Music11.
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FESTIVAL PLUS
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Your guide to other events taking place in and around Cheltenham over the Festival period...
FROM TALLIS TO PURCELL AND BACK: A MUSICAL PALINDROME The Cappella Singers Philip Colls Conductor with Cornett and Sackbuts (Adrian Woodward Leader) and Mark Coldrick Percussion
Sat 30 June, 7.30pm Holy Trinity Church, Amberley, Stroud, GL5 5JG £12 A programme of ceremonial music by Tallis, Byrd and Philips: and music by Morley and Purcell for the Funeral of Queen Mary. Further details: 01452 501 752 or 01453 823 643, www.cappellasingers.co.uk
TIVOLI PIANO TRIO Yoko Arai Piano Peter Stacey Violin Nella Hunkins Cello Wednesday 4 July, 7.30pm Council Room, Cheltenham Ladies’ College £10 (available on the door) Mendelssohn Piano Trio in D minor, Op.99 Brahms Piano Trio in C, Op.49
SUMMER CONCERT (IN AID OF SUE RYDER, LECKHAMPTON COURT HOSPICE)
Musica Vera Oliver Mason conductor Sat 7 July, 7.30pm St Peter’s Church, Church Road, Leckhampton, Cheltenham GL53 0QJ £9, U16 FREE A variety of music for a Summer evening ranging from the amusing to the quite moving. Further details: www.freewebs.com/musicavera
PARK HOUSE CONCERT SERIES Tra Nguyen piano Sun 8 July, 3pm Park House, Thirlestaine Road, Cheltenham, GL53 7AS FREE (retiring collection) Schubert Sonata in A, D.664 Schumann 3 Romances, Op.28 Arvo Pärt Fur Alina Brahms Sonata in F minor
A SCHUBERTIADE Thu 12 July, 3pm Park House, Thirlestaine Road, Cheltenham, GL53 7AS FREE (retiring collection), refreshments available Karadys Duo Carol Hubel Allen Viola Alan MacLean Piano with Louise Vale Violin
MUSIC FOR A SUMMER’S EVENING Cheltenham Symphony Orchestra April Frederik Soprano* Sat 14 July, 7.30pm Bredon Village Hall Sun 15 July, 7.30pm Toddington Village Hall All tickets £14 (£7 students, children free) Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Berlioz Nuits d’été * Bizet Symphony in C Delius Summer Night on the River Full season and more information: www.cheltenhamsymphonyorchestra.info
Further details: 07811 203874
ART AT THE GARDENS GALLERY THE GARDENS GALLERY, MONTPELLIER GARDENS, CHELTENHAM GL50 1UW Open 10am–5pm daily FREE entry
SUBLIME SIGHT
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Wednesday 4 July - Tuesday 10 July
Wednesday 11 July - Tuesday 17 July
Selected new works by Rita Thorn, Jeanette Faulkner Clarke and Melanie Thorn in various medias including oil paint, acrylics and inks. The collection will include work depicting Mediterranean seascapes, landscapes of Provence and ethereal figurative ink paintings. The exhibition will display an eclectic mix of styles and subject matters.
A showcase of the collaborative works of www.gradgallery.co.uk members, displaying a wide selection of illustration genres, graphic design and photographic work. From children’s book illustration to editorial work and fashion photography, this diverse mix of style and media will harmoniously intrigue the likes of all.
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PLACES TO STAY & EAT
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The George Hotel Cheltenham’s leading independent hotel. Prime town centre location. Just a few minutes walk to the Town Hall and all festival sites. 31 stylish bedrooms, free parking and Wifi. Home to award winning Monty’s Brasserie, one of Cheltenham’s most popular restaurants.
Monty’s Bar & Brasserie One of Cheltenham’s most popular award winning restaurants. Prime location, few minutes walk to the Town Hall and festival sites. Monty’s is lively, offering stunning contemporary food, with an emphasis on seafood. Its informal and vibrant atmosphere make it a great place for lunch or dinner. Early festival dining and lunch 2 courses £12.50, 3 courses £15.00.
The George Hotel, 41-49 St Georges Road, Cheltenham, GL50 3DZ t: 01242 235751 www.stayatthegeorge.co.uk
Monty’s Bar & Brasserie, 41 St Georges Rd, Cheltenham, GL50 3DZ t: 01242 227678 www.montysbraz.co.uk
Queen’s Hotel The Mercure Cheltenham Queen’s Hotel is situated at the top of the tree lined Promenade. Our beautifully appointed rooms provide the setting and we promise a personal service with the guarantee of bespoke, quality hospitality. Mercure Cheltenham Queen’s Hotel, The Promenade, Cheltenham, GL50 1NN t: 01242 514754 www.mercure.com Beaumont House Within walking distance of the beautiful Montpellier Gardens, boutique shops and award winning restaurants, Beaumont House is a Five Star Luxury Guest House ideally located to offer tranquillity and accessibility for anyone seeking an alternative to the average hotel experience. Beaumont House, 56 Shurdington Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL53 0JE, Tel: +44 [0] 1242 223311 Fax: +44 [0] 1242 520044 www.bhhotel.co.uk - with secure online booking facility Follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@bhguesthouse) for our latest offers and last minute rates. The Curry Corner Freshly ground spices are fused with best quality local produce, creating voluptuous flavours. Booking recommended, private dining available. • Gordon Ramsay’s The F Word Best Local Restaurant, Finalist • WINNER Gold Taste of the West Award 2011 • Restaurant of the Year World Food Awards 2011, Finalist • WINNER Restaurant of the Year Cotswold Life • RICK STEIN “Great Food” • MICHAEL PALIN “the best curry from pole to pole” • GORDON RAMSAY “better flavours than in India” • SIR RICHARD BRANSON “The most amazing food” • JAMIE CULLUM “the best reason to come to Cheltenham”
The Wheatsheaf 01451 860 244 www.cotswoldswheatsheaf.com
‘While it may appear to be a pub with rooms, The Wheatsheaf has a brilliant, eccentric, incredibly British blast of theatre to it..’ Tatler Travel Guide 2012
The Curry Corner, 133 Fairview Road, Cheltenham, GL52 2EX 01242 528449 www.thecurrycorner.com
The Tavern - opening March 2012 Bar and restaurant in Cheltenham with award winning chefs. 01242 221 212 www.thetaverncheltenham.com
Festival Special: £20 3 course lunch or complimentary glass of wine with dinner. T&Cs apply. Quote ‘Festival Special’ when booking.
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PLACES TO STAY & EAT
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Spice Lodge - Pan Asian Cuisine Montpellier Drive, Cheltenham, GL50 1TY t: 01242 226300 www.spicelodge.com ‘Best Curry House in the South West’ British Curry Awards 2011. Luxurious surroundings, outstanding food, great service - and just a five minute walk from the Festival.
Traditional Indian Food Punjabi Style 81 The Prom - Bar & Restaurant Cheltenham’s newest Indian restaurant invites you to enjoy the finest Indian cuisine in Gloucestershire. Situated in the heart of The Promenade, 81 The Prom brings you high quality, authentic Punjabi Indian food at a reasonable price. Enjoy lunch with a free glass of wine; and get 10% discount on your evening meals when you bring a ticket from the current day’s event at the Cheltenham Music Festival. 81 The Prom - Bar & Restaurant, 81 The Promenade, Cheltenham, GL50 1PJ t: 01242 255776 e: 81theprom@gmail.com www.81theprom.co.uk
Jamie’s Italian The Jamie’s Italian menu is driven by what you’d find ordinary people eating over in Italy. Fantastic, rustic dishes, using recipes that have been tried, tested and loved! The restaurant sits in one of Cheltenham’s finest buildings oozing Regency charm. One lucky party will win their meal on Jamie every day during the Cheltenham Festival - just quote FESTIVAL when booking to be in the chance of winning. Ts & Cs - Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. No cash alternative is available. Reservations booked must be within the Cheltenham Festvial weeks. One party will win a meal on Jamie each day and will be told upon arrival. Meal on Jamie will be to a maximum of £100. Jamie’s Italian, County Court Road, Cheltenham, GL50 1HB t: 01242 500193 www.jamieoliver.com/italian/cheltenham
Montpellier Wine Bar Take a break between festival events and enjoy locally sourced fresh food, excellent wines and cask ales in the comfortable surroundings of our ground floor bar, intimate lower ground floor restaurant or south facing terrace for al fresco dining. The Daffodil With the country’s most dramatic dining room, The Daffodil offers a full a la carte menu, a ‘Dailies’ menu and a fully licensed bar in the breathtaking surroundings of a 1920’s cinema.
Montpellier Wine Bar, Bayshill Lodge, Montpellier Street, Cheltenham, GL50 1SY t: 01242 527774 www.montpellierwinebar.com
The Daffodil, 18-20 Suffolk Parade, Cheltenham, GL50 2AE t: 01242 700055 www.thedaffodil.com
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BOOKING INFORMATION
KEY DATES 27 FEBRUARY Members' priority booking (online and in person at Regent Arcade) opens from 10.30am
BOOK IN BOX OFFICE THREE WAYS… INFORMATION Pre-festival (27 February - 4 July) Online at
cheltenhamfestivals.com 29 FEBRUARY Members' priority booking by telephone from 10.30am 5 MARCH Public booking (online only) from 10.30am 7 MARCH Public booking (online, by telephone and in person) from 10.30am
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Don’t have a computer? Visit your local library, where PCs are available on request. Membership discounts are for Full Members’ sole use and do not apply to Associate Members. Membership discounts may not be used in conjunction with any other offer or concession. For full booking terms and conditions visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/terms-conditions Catering Vouchers - Vouchers for drinks at Hotel du Vin can be redeemed against beer, house wine or a soft drink on the day of the concert they are issued against. Concert tickets will not be accepted if drink vouchers are mislaid. - Coffee and Croissant vouchers can only be used during the intervals of the Jean-Efflam Bavouzet concert.
Concessions, Group Bookings and Package Deals - Concessions subject to limited availability. - Registered disabled bookers may request a free ticket for a support worker or personal assistant at the time of booking. - Concessions apply to U25, full-time students and registered unemployed. Proof of eligibility is required. - Groups: free ticket for every 10 tickets purchased. - Events included in package deals must be booked simultaneously to qualify for discount.
Special Offers - Book for all four Musical Athletes talks for £20 - Discover Pass: If you are aged 25 or under, each event at Parabola Arts Centre will cost £10 if you book for 4 or more events over the course of the festival. Applies to one ticket per event. If multiple tickets are required, these will be charged at full price unless also qualifying for a Discover Pass discount.
SUPPORT US Did you know that Cheltenham Festivals is a charity? Only just over 40% of our income comes from ticket sales so we rely on our Patrons, members, sponsors and other supporters to put on the Cheltenham Festivals.
Please help us to • Attract the finest musicians from around the world to Cheltenham • Add bite and buzz to Cheltenham life • Involve the wider community through our education and outreach programme
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No donation is too small and will help to ensure Cheltenham Festivals’ future development.
Please make a donation today by calling the Box Office on 0844 880 8094 or when booking your tickets online.
SEATING PLANS SELECT YOUR OWN SEAT ONLINE Our online booking service now allows you easily to book multiple events and select your own seat. For information about your booking experience, visit cheltenhamfestivals.com/ booking-online
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PATRONS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Have you considered becoming a Patron? Benefits include: • Dedicated Patron booking line • Invitations to special events at each Festival • Opportunities to meet the Festival Directors, performers and speakers • Public acknowledgement of your patronage if you wish Patronage starts from £800 a year and Life Patronage is £25,000. To find out more please contact Arlene McGlynn, Patrons Manager, call 01242 775857, email arlene.mcglynn@ cheltenhamfestivals.com or cheltenhamfestivals.com/patrons. We would like to thank our current Patrons for their generous support:
Life Patron Mark and Sue Blanchfield Peter and Anne Bond Charles Fisher David and John Hall Graham and Eileen Lockwood Fiona McLeod The McWilliam family in loving memory of Ruth McWilliam Mark and Elizabeth Philip-Sørensen Fiona and David Symondson The Walker Family
Platinum Patron Jennifer Bryant-Pearson Dominic Collier in memory of Karen Hood Michael and Angela Cronk Colin Doak Mr and Mrs George Dowty Jeremy and Germaine Hitchins Jonathan and Cassinha Hitchins Stephen and Tania Hitchins Simon and Emma Keswick Howard and Jay Milton The Oldham Foundation Peter Stormonth Darling Charitable Trust Adrian and Lizzie Portlock Ludmila and Hodson Thornber Peter and Alison Yiangou
Gold Patron Anonymous Jack and Dora Black Stephen and Victoria Bond Eleanor Budge Charlie Chan Martin and Tania Chisholm Clive Coates and Ann Murray Stuart and Gillian Corbyn Janet and Jean-François Cristau
Michael and Felicia Crystal Wallace and Morag Dobbin Peter and Sue Elliott Simone Hindmarch-Bye Lord and Lady Hoffmann Elizabeth Jacobs Sir Peter and Lady Marychurch Sir Michael and Lady McWilliam Janet and Charles Middleton The Helena Oldacre Trust Mr & Mrs P Roberts Sharon and Toby Roberts John and Susan Singer Esther and Peter Smedvig Giles and Michelle Thorley Steve and Eugenia Winwood
Festival Patron Kate Adie Margaret Austen Mark and Maria Bentley James and Angela Brown David and Jane Bruce Jonathan and Daphne Carr Robert Cawthorne and Catherine White Simon Collings Mr and Mrs Andrew and Jacqueline Coyle James Fleming Kate Fleming John Foster Jean Gouldsmith Skinner Maurice Gran Professor A C Grayling Huw and Nicki Gwynn-Jones Mike and Sally Hatcher Margaret Headen Marianne Hinton Stephen Hodge Anthony Hoffman and Dr Christine Facer Hoffman Richard and Peta Hoyle Keith Jago Emma Logan Lady Elaine Marriott Juliet and Jamie McKelvie Mark McKergow and Jenny Clarke Professor Keith Millar and Professor Margaret Reid Mary and Timothy Mitchell Professor Angela Newing Jonjo and Jacqui O’Neill Robert Padgett Sir David and Lady Pepper Leslie Perrin Maggie Phillips Hugh Poole-Warren Jonathon Porritt Patricia Routledge CBE Khal and Zoe Rudin Lavinia Sidgwick Phil and Jennifer Stapleton Meredithe Stuart-Smith Sharon Studer and Graham Beckett Jonathan and Gail Taylor Brian Watson Arthur and Ann Webb Professor Lord Winston Anne Wood Michael and Jacqueline Woof
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Acknowledgements We are delighted to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester as Joint Patrons of the 2012 Cheltenham Festivals Cheltenham Festivals Board Peter Bond - Chairman Susan Blanchfield Lewis Carnie Jonathan Carr Dominic Collier Christopher Cook Peter Elliot Prof. Russell Foster Diane Savory Prof. Averil MacDonald Dr Gill Samuels CBE Chief Executive Donna Renney Festival Chairman Christopher Cook Festival Director Meurig Bowen Festival Manager Alexis Paterson Development Officer Harriet Persey Festival Intern Sophia Scott Contact If you have any specific comments about any aspect of the Festival, please write to Meurig Bowen Music Festival Director Cheltenham Festivals, 109 Bath Road Cheltenham, GL53 7LS With many thanks to all the staff at Cheltenham Festivals, those at each venue and the Festival volunteers, all of whom help make the Festival happen. The 68th Cheltenham Music Festival is presented by Cheltenham Festivals, a company limited by guarantee. Registered Office 28 Imperial Square, Cheltenham, GL50 1RH Reg. No. 456573 Charity No. 251765 Vat. Reg. No. 100114013 Music Festival London Advisory Group Jonathan Freeman-Attwood Sally Groves Rosemary Johnson Stephen Johnson David Owen Norris David Sigall Harriet Smith Photography Credits Anders Bergersen, Ariane Mestre, Becky Matthews, Eoin Carey, Henry Fair, John Batten, Judith Croasdell, Laurie Lewis, Paul Mitchell, Peter Warren, Rankin, Richard Ecclestone, Robert Romik, Sasha Gusov, Satoshi Aoyagi, Todorovic and Karwinska, Volker Beushausen, Wolf Marloh
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Stagecoach run regular services locally and to nearby towns and villages – for route maps and timetables, visit www.stagecoachbus.com/cheltenham
VENUES AND CAR PARKS
National Express operate coaches between many major cities and Cheltenham Spa’s Royal Well bus station (GL50 3PD). See www.nationalexpress.com for more details.
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If you’d prefer to use Cheltenham’s Park & Ride service, these are located at Arle Court (GL51 6SY, near M5 Junction 11) and Cheltenham Racecourse (GL50 4SH). Parking is free, and the service runs every few minutes into the Town Centre; but please note that times vary on Sundays. For more details on Park & Ride, visit www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/ cheltenhamparkandride
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If you are bringing your car into the town centre, please be considerate to residents when parking. Car parks are situated in various locations around Cheltenham – some are shown on the Cheltenham map opposite.
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Cheltenham Town Hall GL50 1QA
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Pittville Pump Room GL52 3JE Parabola Arts Centre GL50 3AA
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Tewkesbury Abbey GL20 3RX Cheltenham College Chapel GL53 7LD St Paul’s, Cheltenham GL50 4EZ Deerhurst Priory GL19 4BX Quenington Church GL7 5BN
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Cover illustration by Alex Beeching