William Alwyn Festival 2018
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Wednesday 3rd | Thursday 4th | Friday 5th | Saturday 6th
WEDNESDAY 3RD OCTOBER 2018: 10.30am – Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
Villiers String Quartet
Rachel Speirs, soprano
Alwyn
String Quartet No. 8; Four Songs
John Joubert
Remember (2018), world premiere
Leonard Bernstein
Variations on an Octatonic Scale
Alwyn
String Quartet No. 9
Dvorak
String Quartet in A flat Major, op.105
Tickets £12, unreserved
WEDNESDAY 3rd OCTOBER 2018: 3pm – Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
The Royal Academy of Music Wind Ensemble
Mozart
Serenade in E flat Major, K.375
Alwyn
Divertimento
Britten
Metamorphoses after Ovid, op.49
Alwyn
Concerto for Flute and Eight Wind Instruments
Tickets £12, unreserved
THURSDAY 4th OCTOBER 2018: 10.30am – Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
A Celebration for Sir John Manduell:
John Turner, recorders
Richard Simpson, oboe
Lesley-Jane Rogers, soprano
Members of the Villiers Quartet
Mozart
Oboe Quartet in F Major, K.370
Beethoven
String Trio in D Major, op.9 no.2
Plus: a garland of newly commissioned pieces for soprano and ensemble in memory of Sir John Manduell, settings inspired by the work of W. B. Yeats - by composers including: Sally Beamish, Gary Carpenter, Peter Dickinson, Elis Pekhonen, Jeremy Pike, Geoffrey Poole, and David Horne.
Tickets £12, unreserved
THURSDAY 4th OCTOBER 2018: 3pm – Electric Picture Palace, Southwold
Film Matinée
The Heart of England (1954) Documentary: music by Elisabeth Lutyens
Life for Ruth (1962) Feature Film: music by William Alwyn
Tickets £7, booking essential
FRIDAY 5th OCTOBER 2018: 11am – Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
Coffee Concert:
Kathryn Thomas, flute
Sarah-Jane Bradley, viola,
Lucy Wakeford, harp
Arnold Bax
Elegiac Trio
Alwyn
Naiades
David Matthews
Darkness Draws In (2006)
Joseph Jongen
Danse Lente (1917)
Christopher Wright
Soliloquy (2006)
Alwyn
Crépuscule
Debussy
Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Tickets £12, unreserved
FRIDAY 5th OCTOBER 2018: 7.30pm – Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
Nathan Williamson and friends:
Sara Trickey, violin
Sarah-Jane Bradley, viola
Charles Watt, cello
Nathan Williamson, piano
Alwyn
Rhapsody for Piano Quartet
David Matthews
Sonatina for Viola and Piano (2016), world premiere
Nathan Williamson
Cello Sonata (2018), world premiere
Schumann
Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Piano Quartet in E flat major, op.47
Tickets £12, unreserved
SATURDAY 6th OCTOBER 2018: 10.30am – Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
Tippett String Quartet
Mozart
String Quartet in C Major K. 157
Doreen Carwithen
String Quartet No. 2
Michael Tippett
String Quartet No. 2
Debussy
String Quartet in G Minor Op. 10
Tickets £12, unreserved
SATURDAY 6th OCTOBER 2018: 3pm – Upstairs Gallery, CRAFTCO, Southwold
Exbinition and talk by Artist-in-residence, Julie Carpenter
Free admission, tickets on the door
SATURDAY 6th OCTOBER 2018: 7.30pm, Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh
Jennifer Pike, violin
Petr Limonov, piano
Grazyna Bacewicz
Polish Caprice
Massenet
Meditation
Wieniawski
Legende
Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Szymanowski
Mythes, Nocturne and Tarantella
Tickets £15, unreserved