©Kiril Kozlov
©Sophie Zhai
Saturday 23 September 7pm
The Goods Shed Arts Centre, Tetbury
Kristīne Balanas, violin
Roberts Balanas, violin
Siqian Li, piano
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Violin Sonata No 35 in A major K526
Maurice Ravel (arr Roberts Balanas):
Bolero for violin and electronics
Dmitri Shostakovich:
Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Violin Sonata No 21 in E minor K304
Pink Floyd: Interstellar Overdrive
Thursday 28 September 3pm
The Goods Shed Arts Centre, Tetbury
Brian David
When Robert and Clara met Felix and Fanny
(and Frédéric)
Robert and Clara Schumann were close friends of Felix Mendelssohn and his sister, Fanny and all four were composers and performers. Brian David (our long-term programme-note writer) examines the complex dynamics of this friendship and those within the wider circle, which included a rather ambiguous and often misinterpreted relationship between Robert Schumann and Frédéric Chopin.
©Ronald Knapp
Friday 29 September 7pm
St Marys' Church, Tetbury
The Doric String Quartet
Alex Redington, violin
Ying Xue, violin
Hélène Clément, viola
John Myerscough, cello
Programme
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Opus 50 No 2
Béla Bartók: String Quartet No 2
Edward Elgar: String Quartet in E minor Opus 83
How Beethoven became the soundtrack
of a playground
The multi-talented Crispin Woodhead, Chief Executive of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Co-founder of ‘Arcangelo’, former organ scholar, linguist, teacher, university lecturer, agent, entrepreneur and visionary thinker around classical music, talks about a pioneering musical adventure that is helping to shape the audience of the future.
Saturday 30 September 3pm
The Goods Shed Arts Centre, Tetbury
Crispin Woodhead
Saturday 30 September 6.30pm
St Marys' Church, Tetbury
Steven Isserlis, cello
Connie Shih, piano
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach: Gamba Sonata No 1
Emánuel Moór: Largo
Pablo Casals: Pastoral
Édouard Lalo: Sonata
Enrique Granados (arr Cassadó):
Intermezzo from ‘Goyescas’
Pablo Casals: Morceau de concours
Gaspar Cassadó: Requiebros
Johannes Brahms: Sonata in F major Opus 99
©Satoshi Aoyagi
©Bo Huang
©Chris O'Donovan
Sunday 1 October 5pm
St Marys' Church, Tetbury
Tenebrae
conducted by Nigel Short
Programme
Robert White: Christe qui lux es III
William Byrd: Mass for four voices
Thomas Tallis: O sacrum convivium
Thomas Tallis: Sancte Deus
Thomas Tallis: Miserere nostri
Thomas Tallis: Loquebantur
Robert White: Christe qui lux es IV
William Mundy: Vox Patris caelestis
Robert White: Exaudiat te Dominus
“People are taught to have too much respect for music. They should be taught to love it instead“, said Stravinsky. If anyone broadcasting today could be said to have fostered a love of music, it is Donald Macleod, host of Radio 3’s Composer of the Week since 1999, and a loyal friend of the Tetbury Music Festival.
We are grateful to welcome Donald back to Tetbury to engage the Festival performers in conversation for a few minutes at each concert, so that we can hear from them their thoughts and insights on the music they have chosen to perform.