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Come June, Austrian, Palestinian, American, Czech, German, Hungarian, Slovakian, Israeli, Dutch, Danish, English and Scottish musicians will be wending their way towards the East Neuk of Fife for what we warmly anticipate will be another vintage year of music and talk. This is a very Romantic year for the festival – a time for Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. We’re delighted to be welcoming back old friends including Christian Zacharias, Pavel Haas Quartet, Calidore Quartet, Theatre of Voices and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, alongside an exciting roster of ENF debuts, not least Julian Steckel (pictured), whose phenomenal performances have already thrilled audiences and won him international recognition and awards. It is also a year of musical adventures, as we feature traditional music and jazz fusions from the Middle East and Eastern Europe by Kosmos Ensemble, award-winning klezmer band David Orlowsky Trio, and Nizar Rohana’s evocative Oud. There is always something new and something classic at ENF, and the Classic Jazz Orchestra will be swinging through music by the great names of the Golden Age of Jazz. On a sombre note, the Centenary of the Battle of the Somme falls during this year’s festival and we mark it with music from that time alongside a remarkable new piece for choirs by Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang called Memorial Ground.
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Welcome to ENF 2016
JULIAN STECKEL
magical hands ... seems to have everything in place: technical skill, sensitivity, charisma and intuition ...
downright magisterial Spiegel online
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20 AMAZING YEARS 1809-10 was a golden year: Mendelssohn, Schumann, and Chopin were born, and Liszt followed just shortly after. Between them, they wrote the greatest piano music of the Romantic age, which we will weave around the complete quartets of Mendelssohn. The quartets were written over 20 years, and what a life story they tell. The Mendelssohn of Op 12 and Op 13 was a teenager on the threshold of a brilliant career. 10 years on, his brilliance soared; the three Op 44 quartets of 1838 are among the most joyous pieces you will find anywhere in the canon. Why? Well, the Mendelssohn of Op 44 was a newly-wed and swiftly became a father. A further 10 years on and his world is brutally broken. Written in the wake of the death of his beloved sister, the last quartet, Op 80, is an anguished, heartbroken work, especially when given the kind of searing interpretation the Calidore Quartet unleashed at ENF last year. The music itself would be reason enough to be doing a Mendelssohn cycle but we have an additional reason – the Calidore Quartet.
the CALIDORE players are the epitome of confidence and finesse. They collaborate as if engaged in a series of engrossing, sympathetic and intense conversations.” Gramophone
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They played Mendelssohn in 2015 and we sensed a special affinity. It turns out that at one of their earliest encounters as a foursome they played through Op 13 and, as second violinist Ryan Meehan said, “it was as if we had played it together many times before”. The other reason is that the 20 years during which Mendelssohn wrote those quartets also saw the emergence of Schumann, Chopin and Liszt as leading pianists and composers. What an amazing time it was.
EVENTS WED 29, 7.30pm, Crail Church: Calidore Quartet & Joseph Moog THU 30, 2pm, Crail Church Hall: Music Talk 1 THU 30, 4pm, St Monans Church: Calidore Quartet FRI 1, 2pm, Crail Church Hall: Music Talk 2 FRI 1, 7.30pm, Crail Church: Calidore Quartet & Christian Zacharias SAT 2, 11.30am, Kilrenny Church: Calidore Quartet & Julian Steckel
Director Svend Brown reflects on this year’s major commission 1 July 2016 marks the centenary of the first day of The Battle of The Somme – 21 weeks of fighting in which around 1.1 million people were killed or injured. That is approximately the entire combined population of Glasgow and Edinburgh wounded or dead. In my reading about The Somme, one particularly potent image kept striking me: that of the soldiers going into battle singing to keep their spirits up. So, to mark the centenary at East Neuk Festival we have commissioned a new piece of sung music - Memorial Ground - from Pulitzer Prize winning composer, David Lang. We asked him to take this on because he is a renowned choral composer and also because he has written heartbreakingly beautiful music.
On 2 July, Lang's new work will be paired with music from 100 years ago: Parry’s Songs of Remembrance sung by the SCO Chorus under director Greg Batsleer. Parry was already an old man when war broke out in 1914, and he did not live to see its end. His songs feel very much like a farewell to the world – powerful and poignant. If you are in a Fife choir and would like your choir to take part in the premiere of Memorial Ground please contact the project via the website www.memorialground2016.com.
EVENT SAT 2, 5pm, Cambo Barn: Memorial Ground
The premiere will be given at ENF on 2 July, and that performance triggers a UK-wide singing project to inspire choirs across the land to make their own performance of Memorial Ground to mark the end of the battle 20 weeks later, during the weekend of 11-13 November 2016. If you sing in a choir or direct a choir you will be able to find out more about the piece at the website www.memorialground2016.com.
Memorial Ground is co-commissioned by East Neuk Festival and 14-18 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England and by the Department for Culture Media and Sport, with the support of Creative Scotland.
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Hand-picked and recommended by some of the world’s finest musicians, outstanding young artists from across the globe come to Fife each year for the East Neuk Festival Retreat. These professionals have already shown a special gift for the kind of music we love: duos, trios, quartets… Once here in this beautiful, peaceful place, they spend a week with wonderful teachers and coaches, working intensively on some of the greatest music ever written. Then they share it with you. This year we are delighted to present two Retreat concerts. This first event will be intimate and relaxed – a chance to hear and meet the musicians. Expect classics and masterworks in performances as fresh and vital as ever a group of exceptional young artists can give.
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Each year we challenge the musicians to tackle some of the greatest works in the repertoire, and offer them all the wisdom, insight and encouragement that only the greatest musicians can give. We are especially delighted that Schubert’s String Quintet in C lies at the heart of this year’s Retreat and will be the centrepiece of the second Retreat concert. In addition to the superb core team of coaches, Alexander Janiczek, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Ursula Smith and David Watkin, we welcome the cellist of the Alban Berg Quartet, Valentin Erben, back to Fife. He last came to the festival with the ABQ in 2007, performing in some of that quartet’s final concerts. The Alban Berg Quartet’s performances and recordings of Schubert’s String Quintet stand among the most acclaimed of all, and since they parted ways Erben has continued performing this piece, most notably with the Belcea Quartet – few can offer greater insight to these young musicians.
EVENTS TUE 28, 7.30pm, Elie Church Hall THU 30, 7.30pm, Kilrenny Church
that the Mendelssohn Octet which concluded the second ‘Retreat’ concert
couldn’t be surpassed, it’s perhaps more remarkable: here, after all, were players who had never worked together before this week... producing not only the
joy but also the subtlety of the 17-year-old Mendelssohn’s pure, undiluted genius.” David Nice, The Arts Desk
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Zacharias’ Schumann Schumann is a composer who lives absolutely at the heart of Christian Zacharias’ musical world, “one of the family”, as he would say. Zacharias has featured him in concert programmes over 5 decades and takes care to counter oft-repeated criticisms of Schumann’s music with insight and arresting performances to prove his points. He insists on returning to first principals, to re-examine what Schumann actually wrote, not merely fall in with the habits that have built up in the 160 years since his death. The result is that Zacharias’ Schumann can be like an old master restored to its original colours – absorbing, authoritative and compelling.
With the Piano Quintet and Symphony the Mendelssohn-Schumann story continues, as it was Mendelssohn who premiered them both. Indeed, it is thought that he was one big reason for the symphony’s success, as apparently Schumann himself was a terrible conductor. The symphony is as heroic a piece as the quintet is affectionate and warm.
EVENTS FRI 1, 7.30pm, Crail Church: Calidore Quartet & Christian Zacharias SAT 2, 8pm, Crail Church: Pavel Haas Quartet & Christian Zacharias SUN 3, 4pm, Cambo Barn: Festival Finale
At this year’s festival, Zacharias takes us on a Schumann journey that starts in 1838 with Kreisleriana, goes on to the Piano Quintet (1842), the Second Symphony (1845-7) and the later Phantasiestücke (1851). His first concert is especially exciting as in it you can hear, side by side, the pieces that Schumann and his great friend Mendelssohn were each working on in the Spring/Summer of 1838. Mendelssohn’s Op 44 quartet is a rush of joy and warmth: it tells no story but surely expresses the feelings of love and elation he must have felt at that time as a newlywed. In contrast, Schumann had been denied marriage to his great love Clara Wieck and had been severely rebuffed by her father. He was undeterred (they eventually married in 1840) but meanwhile pieces such as Kreisleriana of 1838 explored a complex emotional landscape, an often dark and mysterious world. The Kreisler of the title is a character of ETA Hoffmann’s, a genius composer of overwhelming poetic sensibility and someone who Schumann surely identified with.
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SATURDAY 25 JUNE
Kosmos Ensemble Family Concert 3.30pm, Crail Community Hall £10 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 60 min, no interval If you want to get your kids excited about music there is no better way than to bring them to the Kosmos Ensemble’s family concert. Harriet, Meg and Miloš are all soloists in their own right but their combined interests create the unique Kosmos mix of contemporary, world and folk styles including Celtic, Romanian, Greek and Middle-Eastern music, tango and Balkan music.
Classic Jazz Orchestra 7.30pm, Crail Community Hall £10 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 110 min with interval Music from the golden age of jazz performed by a clutch of Scotland’s finest jazz musicians under the leadership of drummer Ken Mathieson – a new show featuring, among other things, classics by the original ‘young man with a horn’: Bix Beiderbecke.
SUNDAY 26 JUNE
Kosmos Ensemble 3pm, Crail Community Hall £10 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 60 min, no interval A full-on concert from the Kosmos Ensemble, of whom The Telegraph said: “Revelatory… their wild synthesis of tango arrangements, Jewish folk songs, Leonard Bernstein riffs and improvised takes on Vaughan Williams was an unexpected gift: brilliantly done with style and spunk.”
Nizar Rohana Trio & David Orlowksy Trio Double Bill 6pm, Crail Community Hall £10 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 110 min with interval Jazz & klezmer – the perfect end to your festival Sunday. Two amazing trios in one double bill. Oud master Nizar Rohana appears with his jazz trio, featuring the phenomenal percussion and bass of Matyas Szandai and Wassim Halal to frame that delicate oud sound. Then clear the floor for klezmer, the best music for joy, grief, lament, partying, dancing – you name it! Among the finest current exponents are the award-winning David Orlowsky Trio. Amazingly – since they’ve wowed audiences at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Lucerne Festival and venues around the world – this will be their UK debut.
MONDAY 27 JUNE
The Ancient Sounds of the Oud 6pm, Dunino Church £10 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 60 min, no interval Nizar Rohana oud An hour of reflective, intimate music in the company of a master. The oud is among the most ancient instruments – the earliest pictures of it are more than 5,000 years old, and a continuous playing tradition spans the millennia throughout the Middle East. Nizar Rohana is heir to that tradition and offers a chance to sample its treasures in this solo recital.
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telepathic rapport, dazzling virtuosity, serious scholarship, and
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The Times
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TUESDAY 28 JUNE
WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE
The Retreat Concert 1
Calidore Quartet & Joseph Moog
7.30pm, Elie Church Hall £15 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 60 min, no interval
7.30pm, Crail Church £25 / £18 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 120 min with interval
The first Retreat event of 2016 will be intimate and relaxed – a chance to hear and meet the musicians. Expect classics and masterworks in performances as fresh and vital as ever a group of exceptional young artists can give. More on p6.
BEETHOVEN Eroica Variations LISZT Hexameron MENDELSSOHN Quartet Op 44 No 3
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Calidore Quartet Joseph Moog piano The Calidore Quartet launches a complete cycle of Mendelssohn quartets with a blaze of joy, his E-flat quartet, paired with spectacular pianism from Joseph Moog. Hexameron is a special highlight: 6 of the top composers of the 1830s each contribute a variation while Liszt shapes them into a show-stopping showpiece. As the reviewer wrote when Moog recently played this in Amsterdam: “…the audience went wild”. More on p4.
Pianowereld
JOSEPH MOOG
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THURSDAY 30 JUNE
Julian Steckel & Joseph Moog
Calidore Quartet
11.30am, Crail Church £15 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 70 min, no interval
4pm, St Monans Church £17 / £13 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 65 min, no interval
BEETHOVEN Fantasie Op 77 TCHAIKOVSKY Pezzo Capriccioso Op 62 TCHAIKOVSKY Andante Cantabile Op 1 No 11 TCHAIKOVSKY Valse Sentimentale RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata Op 19
MENDELSSOHN Quartet Op 13 MENDELSSOHN Quartet Op 44 No 2
Julian Steckel cello Joseph Moog piano The story behind this concert is that of cellist Anatoliy Brandukov, who premiered the Tchaikovsky cello pieces, was best man at Rachmaninov’s wedding, and had the sonata dedicated to him. He was noted for his beautiful, expressive tone and his emotional power – you can sense his presence in the music.
Music Talk 1 Mendelssohn: conservative or radical? 2pm, Crail Church Hall £7, 45 min, no interval David Watkin joins ENF Director Svend Brown to dig deep into Mendelssohn’s world and ask why it is that he is still so often misrepresented as a purveyor of pretty Victoriana. More on p4.
Teenage Mendelssohn seized on Beethoven’s late quartets with passion and their influence is felt throughout his own, not least in the two in this concert. Op 13, written in the months following Beethoven’s death, has such maturity and mastery it is hard to believe it is the work of an 18 year old. More on p4.
The Retreat Concert 2 7.30pm, Kilrenny Church £20 / £15 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds), 120 min with interval To include SCHUBERT String Quintet in C Each year we challenge the young musicians of The Retreat to tackle the greatest works in the repertoire with the benefit of all the wisdom, insight and encouragement that only the greatest musical coaches can give. Schubert’s String Quintet in C is a key work this year, under the watchful eye of Valentin Erben, cellist of the Alban Berg Quartet. More on p6. Premier, Gold and Silver PATRONS may claim 2 free tickets for this concert from the commencement of their respective priority booking periods until public booking opens on 18 Feb only - please don't miss out!
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FRIDAY 1 JULY
Joseph Moog in Recital
Music Talk 2: Calidore Quartet
11.30am, Crail Church £15 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 65 min, no interval
2pm, Crail Church Hall £7, 45 min, no interval
HAYDN Fantasie in C Hob XVII:4 TCHAIKOVSKY Grande Sonata in G Op 37 DEBUSSY L’Isle Joyeuse Joseph Moog piano Three centuries, three wonderful examples of pianism at its greatest. Tchaikovsky’s sonata was a thundering success at its premiere, a full-blooded Slavic epic of a piece. It is framed by two truly joyous works. Haydn has his tongue firmly in his cheek for his Fantasie, which is full of playful humour. Debussy’s 'Joyous Isle' opens with a simple trill then builds to the most spectacular finish that sweeps down the full length of the keyboard.
The Calidore Quartet joins Richard Wigmore to get inside Mendelssohn’s string quartets and see what makes them tick. The relationship musicians have with the music they perform is so intense, born of hours and hours of painstaking learning and practice. It brings insights and thoughts that can be revelatory to any listener, opening their ears to the music in whole new ways. Here, the Calidore Quartet gives us its inside view of the Mendelssohn quartets. More on p4.
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Pavel Haas Quartet 4pm, Kilrenny Church £17 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 60 min, no interval MARTINŮ Quartet No 3 DVOŘÁK Quartet Op 34 Dvořák’s Op 34 has all his hallmarks: that flow of memorable melody, the warm bright colours, and the hints of folk music married to a wonderfully fluent mastery of the idiom. 50 years later, Martinů wrote his third quartet in Paris, bringing an accent of Debussy and Ravel to the unmistakable folk cadences of Bohemia.
Calidore Quartet & Christian Zacharias 7.30pm, Crail Church £25 / £18 (£5 for 7-18 year olds) 105 min with interval SCHUMANN Phantasietücke, Op 111 SCHUMANN Kreisleriana MENDELSSOHN Quartet Op 44 No 1 Calidore Quartet Christian Zacharias piano Schumann and Mendelssohn were epochdefining musicians of the Romantic age, born a year apart. Schumann’s Kreisleriana and Mendelssohn’s quartet were completed a matter of months apart, so we get to hear – within a single hour – what two of the greatest musicians of their time were thinking and creating in early summer 1838. More on p7.
PAVEL HAAS QUARTET
WARMTH SONOROUSNESS INDIVIDUALITY” BBC Music Magazine
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SATURDAY 2 JULY
Calidore Quartet & Julian Steckel
Memorial Ground
11.30am, Kilrenny Church £17 (£5 for 7-18 year olds) 70 min, no interval
5pm, Cambo Barn £10 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds), 65 min, no interval NB: unreserved promenade performance
MENDELSSOHN Quartet Op 12 BACH Suite No 3 in C for solo cello, BWV 1009 MENDELSSOHN Quartet Op 80
PARRY Songs of Farewell (excerpts) DAVID LANG Memorial Ground
Calidore Quartet Julian Steckel cello A poignant close to the Calidore’s Mendelssohn cycle, which pairs his first and last published quartets: Op 12 is all youth and vitality while Op 80 is full of sorrow – powerful, silencing music. Between the quartets, we hear Mendelssohn’s beloved JS Bach’s third suite, the sunniest extrovert of all, opening with a flourish and closing with a rollicking gigue. More on p4.
Music Talk 3 What makes a great string quartet? 2pm, Crail Church Hall £7, 45 min, no interval We stand in awe of the greatest string quartets: the miracle of nigh on telepathic rapport between four individual musicians, the balance of ensemble versus personal interpretation, the life-long relationship they have to each other and to some of the greatest music ever written... We invite a national critic and a distinguished player to tell us what they think makes a great string quartet, play us some examples and open the floor to debate.
Fife Choirs SCO Chorus Greg Batsleer director Theatre of Voices Paul Hillier director Ian Dearden sound To mark the centenary of The Battle of the Somme we offer music of 1916 and 2016. Parry was in his late 60s when war broke out in 1914, and his Songs of Farewell are a profoundly moving farewell to the world. They are followed by the world premiere of David Lang’s new piece, to be performed by the SCO Chorus, singers from Fife choirs and Theatre of Voices, directed by Paul Hillier. More on p5.
Pavel Haas Quartet & Christian Zacharias 8pm, Crail Church £25 / £18 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 95 min with interval CHOPIN Mazurkas DVOŘÁK American Quartet SCHUMANN Piano Quintet Pavel Haas Quartet Christian Zacharias piano Schumann dedicated his quintet to his wife, Clara, who pronounced it “splendid, full of vigor and freshness”. Those words could characterize this entire concert, as Dvořák’s American Quartet is undeniably one of his most infectiously enjoyable pieces, especially in the hands of such masters as these. More on p7.
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SUNDAY 3 JULY
Once Upon a Time...
Festival Finale
2pm, Kilrenny Church £15 (£5 for 7-18 yr olds) 70 min, no interval
Sun 3 July, 4pm, Cambo Barn £25 / £15 (£5 for 7-18 year olds) 100 min with interval
Theatre of Voices Paul Hillier director
MENDELSSOHN Hebrides Overture SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No 1 in E-flat SCHUMANN Symphony No 2
Story telling is what this wonderful hour of music is all about. It includes sheer comedy like Cathy Berberian’s Stripsody: inspired by cartoon strips, it features a fast-moving collage of mini-scenes including a stand off between a cat and a dog, a girl impatiently waiting for her boyfriend, a police drama, Tarzan in the trees… We have also poignant tragedy: David Lang’s beautiful and moving re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl. This piece has caught the imagination of audiences worldwide and has been performed over 300 times. A family friendly concert!
Julian Steckel cello Scottish Chamber Orchestra Christian Zacharias conductor The great friendship of Mendelssohn and Schumann inspires many concerts at this year’s ENF, so we close the Festival with one of Mendelssohn’s best-loved overtures and a heroic, emotional symphony written by Schumann that was premiered by Mendelssohn. Shostakovich’s concerto is a thriller – flamboyant, full of darkness and flashes of brilliance, yet also full of heartbreaking beauty. More on p7.
THEATRE OF VOICES
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