Carlisle International Summer Festival
- July 2008
Main Festival sponsors:
Saturday 12th July
12.45pm
Standing Stones - Ascendance Rep Dance Company
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IA major new
dance work choreographed by Jacky Lansley, celebrates
the timeless continuity of Cathedrals and the
magnificence of their architectural landscapes
through dance, image and live music using movements
from Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet played by
members of the Cornish Sinfonia.
Tickets: £6 unreserved
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7.30pm Opening
Concert in the Sands Centre
Schubert Mass in A flat major D678
Great C major Symphony D944
Emma Harper Soprano, Heather Burns Alto, Andrew Dickinson
Tenor,
James Birchall Bass, Festival Chorus · Carlisle
Cathedral Youth Choir
Northern Sinfonia conducted by John Robinson
The acclaimed Northern Sinfonia makes
a welcome return to this year’s Festival, under
the direction of Carlisle Cathedral’s John Robinson.
They will perform Schubert’s Great C Major Symphony,
and his greatest and most personal Mass with singers
drawn from many of our region’s best choirs, joined
by top soloists and the Carlisle Cathedral Youth Choir.
Tickets: £20 and £16 available
from the Sands Centre only.
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Sunday 13th July
9.00pm
Candlelit Concert - Schütz Schwanengesang
Genuinely conceived as his ‘Swan
Song’, Der Schwanengesang was completed by Heinrich
Schütz a year before his death, aged 87, in 1672.This
performance marks the debut of Voices of the North,
a new ensemble of professional singers directed by Jolyon
Dodgson.
Tickets: £12 and £8
Monday 14th July
10.00am
to 12 noon West African Drumming Workshop and Performance
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I100 local
school children will spend the morning working
with Zozo Shuaibu and Sam Maitland, two professional
musicians from Nigeria, culminating in a public
performance at 11.30 am.
Tickets for concert: £4
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7.30pm D’Arcy
Trinkwon organ - Messiaen
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Of South American
and French descent, D’Arcy is respected
as a world class virtuoso renowned for his dedication
to the organ as a concert instrument and in 2004
was nominated ‘Man of the Year’ by
the American Biographical Institute. His all Messiaen
programme includes the complete L'Ascension and
extracts from La Nativité du Seigneur.
Tickets: £10
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9.15pm Linda
Ormiston, James Nicol and John Scrimger
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In the Tithe
Barn
This popular late evening cabaret returns with
songs from shows and excerpts from musicals,
aced with their infectious brand of humour to
make for a wonderfully entertaining evening.
Tickets: £8
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Tuesday 15th July
12.45pm
Findhorn Trio - Brahms and Berkeley - Neil Mantle horn
Roderick Long violin Gillian Gray piano
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Based in Edinburgh,
this unusual combination performs the magnificent
Trio by Brahms together with Lennox Berkeley’s
accessible and beautifully crafted Variations.
Tickets: £6
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7.30pm Red
Priest - Pirates of the Baroque
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“Stolen
masterworks and forgotten musical jewels performed
with swashbuckling virtuosity” Red Priest
is one of the major success stories on the international
early music scene today. Named after the flame-haired
priest, Antonio Vivaldi, this extraordinary English
ensemble has redefined the art of baroque music
performance, combining the fruits of extensive
research with virtuosity, creative re-composition,
heart-on-sleeve emotion and compelling stagecraft.
Tickets: £16 and £10
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Wednesday 16th July
3.00pm Illustrated
Talk on Vaughan Williams - Andrew Seivewright
In the Fratry
The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams topped a recent
Classic FM listeners’ poll. This delights Andrew
Seivewright who, like many of his generation, developed
a great love of this characteristically English composer’s
work, and was much influenced by his music.This lecture
is richly illustrated with recorded excerpts of Vaughan
Williams’ most beautiful compositions.
Tickets: £4
7.30pm Nicky
Spence & Julia Cobby
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Brit nominee
Nicky Spence will be joined by one of the top
accompanists in the country, Julia Cobby. Their
entertaining programme will be a journey through
some of Classical music's most popular gems in
both song and opera, which is sure to include
some of Britain's very own Vaughan Williams, whose
50th anniversary is being celebrated this year.
Tickets: £18 and £12 |
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10.00pm
Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer
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In the Tithe
Barn
Currently taking the folk world by storm,Vicki’s
unique style of playing the Scottish smallpipes
is both spellbindingly beautiful and haunting,
and is perfectly complemented by Jonny’s
brilliantly inventive and driving guitar playing.
Tickets: £8
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Thursday 17th July
12.45pm
Ed Pendrous cello Stella Pendrous piano - Bach and Brahms
This brother and sister duo will perform
Bach’s Sonata in G for viola da gamba and Brahms’
E minor Sonata for cello and piano.
Tickets: £6
7.30pm
Octanphonie - Mozart in Prague
Three years after their first appearance
this exciting young wind ensemble return to the Festival
with an all Mozart programme including the “Prague”
Symphony and the famous Serenade in B flat for 13 wind
instruments.
Tickets: £16 and £10
Friday 18th July
12.45 pm
Abbey Singers
In St. Cuthbert's Church
This renowned chamber choir takes a 20th century view
of Elizabethan England in a secular programme including
Vaughan Williams’ In Windsor Forest and John Rutter’s
Birthday Madrigals.
Tickets: £6
7.30pm Shri
Purbayan Chatterjee Indian Sitar, Subhankar Banerjee
Tabla
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Purbayan’s
international career began at the tender age of
five with an appearance at the India Festival
in Basel. At 14 he received the President of India
Award for the best instrumentalist in the country,
and ever since has continued to dazzle audiences
around the world with his astonishing virtuosity.
Tickets: £16 and £10
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10.00pm
David Briggs - Live Improvisation to Phantom of the
Opera
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With a busy
touring schedule that takes him all over the world,
David Briggs is one of the foremost concert organists
of his generation, with a particular emphasis
on the art of improvisation. He has performed
his live improvisations to silent movies in several
Cathedrals to great acclaim. Here in Carlisle
he will accompany a showing of the legendary 1925
“Phantom” starring Lon Chaney.
Tickets: £10 |
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Saturday 19th July
12.45pm
Vaughan Williams and English Song - Stephen Anthony
Brown tenor Paul Jeanes piano
Stephen Anthony Brown created a sensation
in Carlisle a few years ago when he deputised at less
than 24 hours notice for the indisposed Evangelist in
Bach’s St. John Passion. His programme of English
Song will include works by Ivor Gurney, Hubert Parry,
Sterndale Bennett and Vaughan Williams.
Tickets: £6
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7.30pm Festival
Finale - London Adventist Chorale
Formed in 1981 this unique choir has taken
its own brand of spirituals, classical part-songs and
traditional and contemporary gospel to concert houses
around the globe. Under their dynamic conductor, Ken
Burton, the Chorale has won numerous prizes and awards,
including Sainsbury’s Choir of the Year. This
will be its second visit to Carlisle.
Tickets £20 and £16
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