2011 Grimsby St Hughs Festival
Grimsby Minster
Concert one - Friday 23rd September 2011 at 7.30pm
Benjamin Frith - Piano.
Tickets £10/£8
| Programme | |
|---|---|
| Mozart | Fantasie in C minor K475 |
| David Power | Eight Miniatures |
| William Rhys Meek | Echium Vulgare - (first performance) |
| William Rhys Meek | Dust Devil |
| John Ireland | Ballad of London Nights |
| Malcolm Arnold | Variations on a Ukrainian Folk Song |
| Mozart | Piano Sonata in C minor K457 |
Festival favourite Benjamin Frith returns with a typically attractive and varied programme centered around two Mozart works in C minor. The C minor Piano Sonata is a surprisingly bright and joyful work despite being in a minor key. Mozart’s C minor Fantasy was written just a few months after the Sonata and is a looser and more improvIsational piece. Some people believe Mozart wrote them with a view to them being performed together. The recital also includes John Ireland’s beautiful Ballad of London Nights and music by the lighter and ever tuneful Malcolm Arnold. The recital is also a chance to hear work by two local composers.
Concert Two - Saturday 24th September at 1pm
The Bridge Duo.
All Tickets £5
| Programme | |
|---|---|
| Mozart | Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor K304 |
| Michael Nyman | Miserere Paraphrase for Violin and Piano |
| David Power | Platinum 1 and 2 |
| York Bowen | Sonata No. 2 in F Major for viola and Pian |
The Festival continues with a delightfully intimate recital by the Bridge Duo comprising music for violin and viola with piano. Opening with Mozart’s Violin Sonata in E minor and then moving onto music by Michael Nyman, a composer best know for film scores such as The Piano and The Draughtsman’s Contract. At this point the violin is replaced by the darker and more mellow tones of the viola for music by local composer David Power and York Bowen. The latter is one of the finest British composers of the first half of the twentieth century and his music is making a considerable and very well deserved come-back at the moment.
All tickets £5
Concert Three Saturday 24th september at 7.30pm
The Delta Saxophone quartet.
Tickets £10/£8
| Programme | |
|---|---|
| L. Bourgois - trans Caudwell | Tutta la Terra Canti a Dion (1547) |
| Marcello Pusceddu | Tom |
| Michael Nyman | Songs for Tony 1 and 4 |
| Steve Martland | A Short Story |
| Terry Riley | Pipes of Medb |
| Mike Westbrook | Throw (from the Serpent's Hit) |
| David Bowie - arranged D. Power | Three Berlin Instrumentals (first performance of this arrangement) |
| Soft Machine - arranged Brady | Aubade |
| Soft Machine - arranged Caudwell | Facelift |
| Soft Machine - arranged Revel |
Floating World |
The Saturday evening concert is given by the Delta Saxophone Quartet and is aimed at those new to classical music as well as those curious to know how classical music is developing in the 21st century. Central to this concert are Philip Glass and Michael Nyman. They are both perhaps better known as film composers – Glass’s film scores include Dracula, Notes on a Scandal and the Hours while Nyman’s include The Piano, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover and The Draftsman’s Contract. Here we get a chance to hear some of their music played live. This concert also includes arrangements of songs and instrumentals by rock musicians Soft Machine and David Bowie. The Delta are one of the UK’s very finest saxophone quartets and wowed audiences at the Grimsby St Hughs Festival in 2009. Their return visit is sure to be a stunner and not to be missed.
Concert Four - Sunday 25th September at 7.30pm.
Sinfonia Viva String Orchestra conducted by Benedict Holland.
All Tickets £14
| Programme | |
|---|---|
| Mozart | Eine Kleine Nachtmusik |
| Malcolm Arnold | Five Pieces for Violin and Strings |
| Greig | Holberg Suite |
| Anna Meredith | Songs for the M8 |
| Peter Warlock | Capriol Suite |
| Tchaikovsky | Serenade for Strings |
The Festival will be headlined by the Sinfonia Viva String orchestra directed by Benedict Holland in what may well be the only professional orchestral concert in NE Lincolnshire in 2011. The programme includes one of Mozart’s most popular pieces – Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (a Little Night Music). Also in the concert is Grieg’s Holberg Suite which has been described as ‘a miniature masterpiece’ and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade fro Strings. The concert also includes Songs for the M8 by Anna Meredith. Meredith, described by the Times as, ‘ Young, female, and more likely to be found clubbing in Camberwell than in the hallowed hush of the Wigmore Hall, Anna Meredith smashes every popular preconception of a classical composer.’ All to be beautifully played by the wonderful Sinfonia Viva String Orchestra in what promises to be one of the musical highlights in NE Lincolnshire in 2011.