TWO MOORS
Dartmoor 5-9 Oct
Exmoor 13-16 Oct
FESTIVAL 2022
Chamber music, Lieder, recitals and talks in and around Dartmoor & Exmoor National Parks
Exploring the theme of “Friendship” www.twomoorsfestival.co.uk
Patron: HRH The Countess of Wessex GCVO
DARTMOOR 5th-9th OCTOBER Online booking: www.twomoorsfestival.co.uk
“From Pub to Pulpit” Ralph Vaughan Williams 150th Anniversary WEDNESDAY 5th OCTOBER 7.30pm
Exeter Cathedral, EX1 1HS
Ticket Price £15 with workshop £10 concert only Broomdasher – A Cappella Folk Group Coracle – Folk/Classical instrumental trio St Peter’s Singers – Exeter Cathedral Chamber Choir "From Pub to Pulpit" is an imaginative and rousing concert which brings to life the musical journey of folk songs Vaughan Williams collected as a young man before ‘borrowing’ the tunes for hymn arrangements in The English Hymnal still in use today. Preceded by the Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor. Workshop at 5pm for those who would like to take part in the singing (venue TBC).
“Re-Wilding The Waste Land” THURSDAY 6th OCTOBER 7.30pm
St Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock, PL19 8AU Ticket Price £15/£25/£30 I Fagiolini Robert Hollingworth – Director Jessica Walker – Narrator Marsh, Vaughan Williams, Leighton, Rajasekar, Byrd, Victoria, Rowarth
“Sublime music from I Fagiolini.” THE TIMES
“Re-Wilding The Waste Land” is I Fagiolini’s creative response to T.S. Eliot’s ground-breaking poem “The Waste Land” (100th anniversary in 2022), mixing music for voices with the poem and mindful of David Attenborough’s ‘witness statement’ plea to Re-Wild: musical desolation flowers into a subtly positive outpouring of old and new music. The programme intersperses reading with Renaissance music, choral works from Eliot’s time and new commissions.
400th Anniversary of Matthew Locke FRIDAY 7th OCTOBER 7.30pm
Exeter Cathedral Quire, EX1 1HS Ticket Price £20 Includes pre-concert talk from James Mustard – Canon Precentor, Exeter Cathedral Fretwork Exeter Cathedral Choir Purcell, Locke, Gibbons 2022 is the 400th anniversary of Matthew Locke, a chorister at Exeter Cathedral and one of the great English composers before he ceded the title to his pupil, Henry Purcell. Locke wrote some of the most distinguished and intensely idiosyncratic music in an age “Fretwork is the finest viol consort of eccentric individualism.
on the planet.” THE LONDON EVENING STANDARD
At the Schumanns’ SATURDAY 8th OCTOBER-
Great Fulford, Dunsford, Near Exeter, EX6 7AJ
DARTMOOR 5th- 9th OCTOBER
We re-imagine the home of Clara and Robert Schumann, a centre for so many great thinkers of their day, at Great Fulford, recreating the ‘salon’ concerts that Clara herself might have programmed. ‘Coffee with Clara’ in the morning followed by ‘Clara’s Chamber Salon’ in the evening which includes supper in-between two concerts.
Coffee with Clara
11am Ticket Price £20 to include tea/coffee/cake
Tamsin Waley-Cohen – Violin Nathaniel Boyd – Cello Elisabeth Brauss – Piano Laura Tunbridge – Introduction Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, Mendelssohn Laura Tunbridge introduces us to the world of the Schumanns followed by a concert focusing on the Schumanns’ friendship with Mendelssohn, with the late C Minor Trio as the centrepiece.
“The maturity and sophistication of her (Elisabeth’s) thoughtful interpretations would be the pride of any pianist twice her age.” GRAMOPHONE
Clara’s Chamber Salon
5pm Ticket Price £90 to include two concerts and supper with wine “The stunning young contralto Jess Dandy . . . offered sumptuous tone and beautiful legato. She’s a name to watch.” THE TIMES
Brahms and the Schumanns Jess Dandy – Contralto James Baillieu – Piano Nathaniel Boyd – Cello Ann Beilby – Viola
Jess Dandy returns to the Festival to explore the beautiful songs of Brahms and the Schumanns, including the rarely heard songs with viola, punctuated by Brahms’ homage to J.S.Bach, his Cello Sonata No.1 in E Minor, Op.38.
“Baritone Appl delivers a vivid, gritty Winterreise.” NEW YORK CLASSICAL REVIEW
“Winterreise” Albion Quartet Benjamin Appl – Baritone James Baillieu – Piano Robert Schumann and Schubert Two of the finest compositions of 19th Century chamber music in one concert. Schumann’s revolutionary Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op.44 and Schubert’s epic song cycle “Winterreise” which traces a journey of heartbreak and despair through the snow.
Online booking: www.twomoorsfestival.co.uk
Robert Schumann, Brahms, Clara Schumann
Family Concert SUNDAY 9th OCTOBER 11.15am
St Michael the Archangel Church, Chag ford, TQ13 8BN Ticket Price £10 Child £5 Join the Albion quartet for this interactive and relaxed family concert, including works by Schubert and Beethoven. Children will be encouraged to take part in musical games and imaginations will be set alight as we learn about why we need music and how it makes us feel such strong emotions.
DARTMOOR 5th- 9th OCTOBER
Suitable for all ages, recommended for 0-9.
“The playing, by the excellent Albion, is masterly in its vividness, freedom and sensitivity.” SUNDAY TIMES
Albion Quartet & Hannah Roberts - ‘Devotion’ SUNDAY 9th OCTOBER 3pm
St Michael the Archangel Church, Chag ford, TQ13 8BN Ticket Price £12/£18/£25 Albion Quartet Hannah Roberts – Cello Beethoven and Schubert The Albion Quartet present two of the greatest masterpieces of the repertoire, Beethoven’s late quartet Op.132 and Schubert’s Cello Quintet. Pre-concert talk from Laura Tunbridge on Beethoven’s Friendships 2pm Endecott House, Chagford, TQ13 8AJ Ticket Price £10
“They (The Albion Quartet) could hardly have chosen a better second cellist than Hannah Roberts: she blended superbly right from the start, while making her presence felt, the perfect combination. The proof here lay in the way all five voices jointly swelled and subsided, as if breathing together.” CHARLES HUTCH PRESS
EXMOOR 13th-16th OCTOBER Kindly sponsored by Rathbone Investment Management
Online booking: www.twomoorsfestival.co.uk
National Opera Studio Gala Evening THURSDAY 13th OCTOBER 7.30pm
St Andrew’s Church, Wiveliscombe TA4 2LR Ticket Price £12/£18/£25 National Opera Studio’s 2021/2022 Young Artists Aleksandra Chernenko – Soprano Inna Husieva – Soprano Philip Clieve – Tenor Jolyon Loy – Baritone Elli Welsh – Piano Bellini, Bizet, Mozart, Strauss Hear the opera stars of tomorrow in this concert celebrating the friendships of all kinds in many of the best loved operas from across the repertoire.
“The evening was a credit to the National Opera Studio with some very talented singers ready for a great career ahead.” OPERA NOW MAGAZINE
Film: ‘Cave Meditation’ - Jess Dandy FRIDAY 14th OCTOBER 4pm
Dulverton Town Hall, Dulverton, TA22 9EX Ticket Price £10
EXMOOR 13th- 16th OCTOBER
An immersive and meditative experience from the deeply thoughtful contralto Jess Dandy, Cave Meditation is a film that explores the healing power of sound through placing the voice in unusual and stunning natural acoustics. As we well know here on the Moors, places and landscapes have personalities. During Lockdown, Jess and her team searched out places with stunning natural acoustics, including the abandoned quarry where this film was made, named Cathedral Cavern, which in turn inspired them to create this meditative project, connecting beauty of sound with nature’s most stunning spaces.
Orsino Ensemble ‘Dedications’ FRIDAY 14th OCTOBER 7.30pm
“…all-star playing of the highest level.”
All Saints’ Church, Dulverton, TA22 9BU
THE GUARDIAN
Ticket Price £15/£25/£30 Orsino Ensemble Tamsin Waley-Cohen – Violin Beethoven, Haas, Dvořák, Janáček The Orsino Ensemble bring the gorgeous Beethoven Wind Quintet and tracing the lineage of the great Czech composers from Dvořák to Janáček and the unjustly lesser-known Pavel Haas who was killed during the Holocaust. Pre-concert talk from Katy Hamilton tracing the friendships and mentorship of the great Czech composers from Dvořák to Janáček and Pavel Haas, as well as discussing Beethoven’s youthful Wind Quintet. 6.30pm All Saints’ Church, Dulverton, TA22 9BU Ticket Price £10
40th Anniversary of War Horse SATURDAY 15th OCTOBER 11am
St George’s Church, Dunster, TA24 6SH Ticket Price £15 Child £10 Michael Morpurgo – Narrator Ben Murray – Accordion and Voice Suitable for all ages, recommended for 9+.
“The simple stage set offered an effective background for the tale to take place and I found the show beautiful, heart-rending and poignant - just like the book and play.” EASTERN DAILY PRESS
Young Musicians’ Competition Winners SATURDAY 15th OCTOBER 1.30pm
Dunster Tithe Barn, Dunster, TA24 6RY Ticket Price £15 Emmaline Feast-Michael – Cello Jemima Price – Voice Cole Craggs – Trumpet Annie Banks – Flute This concert showcases the most exciting young musical talents in the South West, performed by the four winners of the Two Moors Festival Young Musicians’ Competition. Previous winners go on to significant professional careers, so don’t miss the opportunity to see the young stars of the future!
Online booking: www.twomoorsfestival.co.uk
The legendary author, Michael Morpurgo joins us with the star of War Horse from the National Theatre, Ben Murray, for an unmissable re-telling of his landmark smash hit play.
Consone Quartet – ‘Mozart and Haydn’ SATURDAY 15th OCTOBER 5pm
St George’s Church, Dunster, TA24 6SH Ticket Price £12/£18/£25
EXMOOR 13th- 16th OCTOBER
Haydn and Mozart string quartets
“...this is a musical, emotional, stylistic and technical bullseye.” THE STRAD
Hear Mozart’s famous “Dissonance” quartet set alongside one of the Haydn Op.33 quartets that inspired Mozart to dedicate his masterful set of six late works to his teacher, mentor and friend “Papa” Haydn, the father of the string quartet. The Consone Quartet are BBC New Generation Artists and offer the rare insight of playing these works on period instruments.
Alice Zawadski – Late Night Jazz SATURDAY 15th OCTOBER 8pm
Dunster Tithe Barn, Dunster, TA24 6RY Ticket Price £10 Join Alice for an atmospheric set from this multi-instrumentalist star of the jazz world. Alice regularly appears at London Jazz Festival and Ronnie Scott’s, bringing songs that explore our human connections to each other and the world around us.
“An awestruck hymn to nature that masters all manner of styles.” THE GUARDIAN
“Dichterliebe” and Mendelssohn String Quartets SUNDAY 16th OCTOBER 3pm
All Saints’ Church, Dulverton TA22 9BU Ticket Price £12/£18/£25 Consone Quartet Anna Dennis – Soprano
“A delectable soprano and a serene, eversentient presence.” THE TIMES
In a stunning arrangement of “Dichterliebe” for string quartet, bringing great luminosity to Schumann’s Ode to Love, and originally dedicated to a soprano singer, the Consone Quartet are joined by Anna Dennis, known for her searchingly intelligent interpretations. Appropriately, celebrating the close friendship between the Schumanns and the Mendelssohns, the song cycle will be flanked by Mendelssohn quartets.
Pre-concert talk ‘Why Period Instruments?’ from Tamsin Waley-Cohen and members of the Consone Quartet 2pm All Saints’ Church, Dulverton TA22 9BU Ticket Price £10
Online booking: www.twomoorsfestival.co.uk Box office: +44 (0)1392 665 938
Booking Information Tickets go on sale in mid-June
Online bookings: The full programme can be found on our website and tickets can be booked online 24 hours per day: www.twomoorsfestival.co.uk
Booking Office: By phone: +44 (0)1392 665 938 In person: Exeter Tickets Corn Exchange, 89 Fore Street, Exeter, EX4 3HX Opening hours: Monday-Friday: 10am – 4pm If the event is showing as “Sold Out”, there may be tickets available on the door. Please call the Festival Office on 01772 439062 Programme and venues are subject to change so please check website – www.twomoorsfestival.co.uk
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