2015 Festival of Music and Art Programme
Monday 17th August
Ranagri
7pm St Mary's Church
How often do you hear a sound that’s completely new, which has great energy and immediately makes you want to dance? I’ll be following Ranagri around, I hope they don’t mind...’ Katie Derham, presenter BBC Proms and Radio 3.
Using flutes, ethnic whistles, electric harp, bodhran, guitar,bouzouki and vocals, Ranagri fuse worldwide folk musicwith contemporary songwriting, enhanced by instrumentalvirtuosity, vibrant rhythms and haunting melodies, all interlaced with vivid storytelling.
Donal Rogers vocals and guitar
Eliza Marshall flutes/ethnic whistles
Jean Kelly harp
Tad Sargent bodhran and bouzouki
Late Night Recital
9.45pm St Mary's Church
Craig Ogden Claire Bradshaw
Mezzo-soprano Claire Bradshaw joins classical guitarist Craig Ogden and David Juritz for a late night serenade. Music by Purcell, Jerome Kern, Rodrigo and Harper.
Tuesday 18th August
Lunchtime concert at Norburton Hall
The brilliant young clarinettist Anna Hashimoto plays Brahms’ mellifluous sonata for clarinet in Eb major and her own arrangement of Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue and Concert Fantasy on Verdi’s ‘Rigoletto’ by Luigi Bassi.
Anna Hashimoto clarinet
Daniel King-Smith piano
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An evening of jazz with Tina May and David Gordon
7pm St Mary's Church
The Great American Songbook with a twist.
‘Deliciously sensuous’ Edinburgh Evening News ‘One of the best jazz vocalists anywhere today’ The Observer. Tina May takes us to Berlin, Paris and Broadway in the company of George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Johnny Mercer.
Tina May singer
David Gordon keyboard
Karen Sharp saxophone
Paul Cavaciuti drums
Late Night Recital
9.45pm St Mary's Church
After their 2014 debut at Carnegie Hall, this incomparable husband and wife duo are back in Burton Bradstock to play virtuoso duets for violin and viola.
Natalia Lomeiko violin
Yuri Zhislin viola
Wednesday 19th August
1pm St Mary’s Church
An hour of music for flute, clarinet and harp with The Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite and a classic harp showpiece, Salzedo’s Chanson dans la nuit.
Eluned Pierce harp
Michael Cox flute
Anna Hashimoto clarinet
Chamber Concert
7pm St Mary's Church
Festival Players
A fantasy, dances and songs for flute, harp and strings followed by Schubert’s great string quintet in C major.
Gabriel Fauré Fantaisie Op.79
Claude Debussy Danses Sacrée et Profane
Guy Ropartz Prélude, Marine et Chanson
Franz Schubert String Quintet in C major
Festival Players
Eluned Pierce harp
Michael Cox flute
David Juritz, Natalia Lomeiko, Alexandra Lomeiko violins
Yuri Zhislin viola
Adrian Bradbury, Rebecca Knight cello
Late Night Concert
9.45pm St Mary's Church
Two of our festival favourites play music by Schubert and Stravinsky.
Anna Hashimoto clarinet
Miloš Milivojevic accordion
Thursday 20th August
Orchestral Concert
7pm St Mary's Church
Earth, Wind, Fire and Water - The Elements in Music
An evening starting with Chaos! Canteloube’s love of the Auvergne landscape inspired his ravishing and poignant settings of the region’s folk songs. Haydn used his 59th symphony as incidental music to a play, The Conflagration. Vivaldi’s brief but unforgettable aria Sileant Zephyri depicts the hushed winds at the Crucifixion.
Jean-Féry Rebel Chaos from Les élémens
Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 59 in A major, ‘The Fire’
Joseph Canteloube Chants d’Auvergne
Antonio Vivaldi Sileant Zephyri
Georg Frideric Handel Water Music Suite in F major
Festival Players
With Claire Bradshaw mezzo-soprano
Late Night Recital
9.45pm St Mary's Church
A late night with David Gordon
Musical surprises from the irrepressible David Gordon and friends.
David Gordon harpsichord
Friday 21st August
Gala Concert
7pm St Mary's Church
Last night fun and games with all our musicians.
A dazzling accordion concerto by Molique, a stormy flute in Vivaldi’s Tempesta di Mare and a steamy cello tango by Bragato. Some soothing Dvorák, unexpected frolicking in Frolov, Handel on harp, Mozart at the harpsichord and Sibelius at his most charming.
Georg Frideric Handel Harp Concerto
José Bragato Milontan
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto in D major
Antonín Dvorák Two Bagatelles Op. 47
William Lovelady Concerto for guitar and violin
Bernhard Molique Concerto for accordion
Humphrey Searle/T. S. Eliot Two Practical Cats
Igor Frolov Divertimento
Antonio Vivaldi Tempesta di Mare
Jean Sibelius Suite Caracteristique for harp and strings
Festival Players
Including Michael Cox flute
Anna Hashimoto clarinet
Craig Ogden guitar
Eluned Pierce harp
David Juritz, Natalia Lomeiko, Bridget Pearse, Jane Margeson violins
Yuri Zhislin, Rachel Byrt violas
Adrian Bradbury, Rebecca Knight cellos
Miloš Milivojevic accordion
David Gordon harpsichord