FRIDAY 26 August
19:30 THE ROMANTIC GERMAN Milton Abbey Church
Schubert – Psalm 23, Liszt – Pater Noster and Brahms – Requiem
Liszt – Pater Noster and Sonnetto 104 del Petrarca (piano solos)
Festival Singers | Excelsior | Duncan Honeybourne & Graham Scott: piano
David Everett: conductor
Tickets – £14 reserved, £12 unreserved & £7 unreserved side aisles with limited vision
Our opening concert features some beautiful Romantic music from Germany. The highlight of the concert will be Brahms’ magnificent Requiem, performed in the version the composer wrote for choir, soloists and 2 pianists. 2011 is the bicentenary of the birth of Liszt, and we will be performing 3 pieces by him, 1 choral and 2 piano solos (performed by Duncan) as a tribute. Schubert’s beautiful setting of Psalm 23, scored for 4-part women’s choir completes the programme.
SATURDAY 27 August
11:00 YOUNG ARTIST RECITAL St James Church, Milton Abbas
Violin Sonata in E minor – Elgar, Piece en forme de Habanera – Ravel,
Consolation – Liszt, arr. Nathan Milstein
Philippa Goodall: violin | Duncan Honeybourne: piano
Tickets – £7 unreserved
19:30 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC New Barn Theatre, Milton Abbey School
Tainted Love, I Put A Spell On You, S’Wonderful, Here Comes The Rain Again & Don’t Explain and other great classics and original music.
The Juliet Kelly Trio: Juliet Kelly: vocals | George Moore: piano | Dave Manington: bass
Tickets – £14 reserved & £12 unreserved
Juliet Kelly is a rising star on the London, UK and international jazz scene. A real Jazz Diva, her gigs are a great mix of jazz and pop classics with her own original material. She’s got gigs all over the country and is leading a very busy life, as her April blog illustrates, ‘March was one of the busiest months I’ve had for a long time! I had gigs in London, Oxford, the West Country (St Austell, Bristol and Bath) and Ipswich. Then there were three radio shows for BBC Cornwall, Devon and Ipswich. Finally, I jetted off to sunny Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for 2 weekends of gigs in the fabulous Alexis where I had 4 very succesful nights and did my best to work my way through many of their famous puddings! Updates on the final gigs of the tour are on my blog here. I’ll also be updating shortly with photos from Malaysia.’ You can read more about Juliet and what she’s up do here.
SUNDAY 28 August
19:30 SUNDAY NIGHT CONCERT Milton Abbey Church
Pergolesi – Magnificat, Charpentier – Te Deum, Lotti – Credo in F,
Mozart – Eine kleine nachtmusik, ? – Esther fragments
Festival Singers | Excelsior | Wessex Chamber Orchestra
David Everett: conductor
Tickets – £14 reserved, £12 unreserved & £7 unreserved side aisles with limited vision
This programme is a feast of delectable music. In addition to some very popular pieces we are performing some less familiar and in the case of the Esther fragments, totally unknown music.
Lotti is most famous for his 8 part Crucifixus. What is less well known is that this is part of a complete Mass, of which we will be performing the Credo. The opening of the Charpentier will be instantly recognisable to those fans of Eurovision as it is the anthem of the European Broadcasting Union.
A friend of David Everett’s is an instrument repairer. A number of years ago he took a 17th century Venetian lute apart to repair only to find that a previous repairer had used pages of manuscript to cover a crack. It is the music on that Manuscript, by an unnamed composer, which you will hear in the concert.
22:00 Candlelit Concert St Catherine’s Chapel
Monteverdi – Exulta Filia
J S Bach – Sonata No. 1 in G minor BWV 1001
Holst – Four Songs for Voice and Violin, op 35
Christina Scott: violin | Sarah Palfreman-Kay: soprano
Tickets – £7 unreserved
Following last year’s sell-out late night concert we are working on the ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’ approach. The path to the medieval chapel will again be lit by flares, whilst the chapel itself will be ablaze with candlelight.
Christina and Sarah have put together a beautiful programme: Sarah will open the short concert will a solo rendition of Monteverdi’s serene motet. Normally accompanied by continuo, Monteverdi’s melodies work equally well unaccompanied. Christina’s solo contribution is the much loved Sonata No. 1 in G minor, in which Bach’s mastery of the instrument is clearly demonstrated. The 2 musicians join in the rarely heard 4 Songs by Holst. These meditative short songs will bring the concert to a sublime close.
