Saturday 24 September 7pm
The Goods Shed Arts Centre, Tetbury
Manu Brazo, saxophone
Prajna Indrawati, piano
Programme
Claude Debussy: Beau Soir
Ralph Martino: A Gershwin Fantasy
Ralph Vaughan Williams:
Six Studies in English Folk Song
Donato Lovreglio: La Traviata Fantasy
Manuel de Falla: Siete Canciones Populares
Eugene Bozza: Aria
Pedro Iturralde: Pequena Czardas
©Charlie Hopkinson
Thursday 29 September 3.30pm
The Goods Shed Arts Centre, Tetbury
Sarah Dunant
Grandeur and Intimacy: the rebirth
of creativity in Renaissance Italy
Cultural commentator, broadcaster and writer Sarah Dunant is the author of five novels set in Renaissance Italy. Praised by the press for combining ‘flawless scholarship with beguiling storytelling’, she is a sought-after lecturer at home and abroad. In this lecture she will bring her characteristic insight to the new ways of thinking that sparked unprecedented innovation in art, music and science in 15th-century Europe, at the dawn of the Renaissance.
©Alberto Molina
Thursday 29 September 7pm
St Marys' Church, Tetbury
La Fonte Musica
'Dufay in Italy'
Francesca Cassinari, soprano
Alena Dantcheva, soprano
Elena Carzaniga, alto
Gianluca Ferrarini, tenor
Massimo Altieri, tenor
Efix Puleo, fiddle
Teodoro Baù, fiddle
Ermes Giussani, trombone
Claire McIntyre, trombone
Federica Bianchi, gothic organ
Michele Pasotti, lute and direction
Programme
Guillaume Dufay (1397–1474) was held in as high regard as Brunelleschi in architecture, Donatello in sculpture and Masaccio in painting. The Franco-Flemish composer imposed his graceful melodies onto the more complex textures of Italy and created a style that would influence composers far into the Renaissance Period. These graceful motets and chansons reflect the new clarity of line and quest for perfect proportion being sought in other artistic disciplines.
©MoonChild
Friday 30 September 7pm
St Marys' Church, Tetbury
"The Consone Quartet are a young string quartet with a really big future. They play with perfect intonation, tremendous attack, and impeccable historical style." Sir Roger Norrington
The Consone String Quartet
Agata Daraškaite, violin
Magdalena Loth-Hill, violin
Elitsa Bogdanova, viola
George Ross, 'cello
Programme
Joseph Haydn:
String Quartet in E Flat Opus 33 No 2 “The Joke”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
String Quartet No19 in C major “Dissonance"
Felix Mendelssohn:
String Quartet in E Minor Opus 44 No 2
Saturday 1 October 3.30pm
The Goods Shed Arts Centre, Tetbury
Professor Natasha Loges
Like the human voice:
the world of clarinet chamber music
We are delighted to welcome back Natasha Loges, Professor of Musicology at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg, following her lieder lecture at the Festival in 2017. Her many books on the music of this period include Brahms and His Poets, Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall, Brahms in Context, Musical Salon Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century and German Song Onstage.
Natasha broadcasts regularly and speaks at leading festivals and venues including the Southbank Centre, Wigmore Hall, the Oxford Lieder Festival, Leeds Lieder and Liedfestival Zeist.
©Conn-Selmer
Saturday 1 October 6.30pm
St Marys' Church, Tetbury
Julian Bliss, clarinet
Charles Owen, piano
Programme
Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Opus 70
Tiberiu Olah: Sonata for Solo Clarinet
Carl Maria von Weber:
Grand Duo Concertant in E Flat Opus 48
Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie
Johannes Brahms: Sonata No 1 in F minor
Sunday 2 October 3pm
The Goods Shed Arts Centre, Tetbury
Brian David
When Joseph met Wolfgang
and Edward met William
Haydn and Mozart were close friends, whereas Elgar and Walton’s opinions of each other are open to interpretation. Brian David (our long-term programme-note writer) looks at the relationships between the four composers featured in the concert that follows. He reveals Haydn’s hidden tribute to Mozart on his younger colleague’s early death, and proposes a solution to Elgar’s famous ‘Enigma’ that involves Haydn, a composer Elgar greatly admired.
