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2ND – 8TH MAY
Sunday 2nd May 2021 / 3pmOnline from Helmsley Arts Centre
SPRING SONATAMichael Collins clarinet Michael McHale piano
Beethoven Spring SonataWidor Introduction and RondoPoulenc Sonata
The great clarinet and piano duo playBeethoven’s Spring Sonata, a virtuososhowpiece by Widor, and the spellbindingsonata that Poulenc composed for BennyGoodman.
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Seven days of great music from beautiful Yorkshire locations, interleaved withspecially-created wildlife filmography, and shared by the Ryedale Festival in its40th anniversary year with viewers throughout the world.
What place do music and nature have in our lives after a year of lockdown? Solace,escape and hope are at the heart of this online-only Spring Festival, as seven inspiringperformances are filmed and shared across a week, in collaboration with CastleHoward, the Yorkshire Arboretum and award-winning filmmaker Cain Scrimgeour,whose stunning camerawork will capture spring's arrival in Yorkshire.
RYEDALE FESTIVALONLINE: SPRING 2021SPRING ARRIVES, MUSIC RETURNS
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Michael Collins
Michael McHale
Pavel KolesnikovSamson Tsoy piano duet
Brahms 16 WaltzesSchubert Divertissement à la hongroise
Two of the brightest stars on the Britishpiano scene perform entrancing waltzesby Brahms and Schubert’s gypsy-inspiredmasterpiece for piano duet.
Monday 3rd May 2021 / 8pmOnline from the Long Gallery at Castle Howard
BRAHMS AND SCHUBERT
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Tuesday 4th May 2021 / 11amOnline from the Great Hall at Castle Howard
NOW IS THE MONTH OF MAYING
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Fair Oriana
Fraser Wilson Now is the month of Maying John Dowland Come away, come sweet love Tobais Hume Fain Would I Change that Note John Dowland O Sweet Woods Thomas Ravenscroft A round of three
country dances Fraser Wilson Come live with me, and be my
love Robert Jones In Sherwood Lived Stout Robin
Hood Thomas Morley O Mistress Mine John Dowland Sir John Smith his Almaine Trad Follow the Heron Home / Spencer the
Rover John Bennett All Creatures Now Are Merry
MindedThomas Morley Go ye my canzonets / Sweet
Nymph / Fire and Lightning / Now is themonth of Maying
Imagination, innovation and intimacy arehallmarks of this vocal duo, joined hereby lutenist Sam Brown and guitarist TomGamble. Their entrancing programmemixes renaissance and baroque repertoirewith flavours of folk, medieval andcontemporary music.
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Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy
Fair Oriana
Wednesday 5th May 2021/ 8pmOnline from the Long Gallery at Castle Howard
NATURE IS RETURNING
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Helen Charlston mezzo-sopranoChristopher Glynn piano
Brahms An eine Äolsharfe Brahms Ständchen Copland Nature, the gentlest motherFinzi Oh Fair to SeeFinzi As I lay in the early sunJoshua Borin Nature is Returning Nathan James Dearden the way we goBrahms FeldeinsamkeitBrahms Die MainachtSchumann Frühlingsnacht
The fast-rising mezzo with a ‘warmlydistinctive tone’ (The Telegraph) performsspring-inspired songs by Brahms,Copland, Finzi and Schumann alongsideextracts from the much-praised IsolationSongbook she commissioned in 2020 toreflect lockdown lives in music.
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Castle Howard
Helen Charlston
Thursday 6th May 2021 / 1pmOnline from St Mary’s Church, Ebberston
THE BEAUTY OF THE NORTH
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Maxwell QuartetHaydn String Quartet in C major op.74, no.1 Trad. Coilsfield House / Drunk at night, dry
in the morningTrad.The Beauty of the North / Miss Dumbreck Anna Meredith A Short Tribute to Teenage
Fanclub Trad. Griogal Cridhe Gregor’s LamentTrad. Fear a’ Bhàta / Da full rigged ship / Da
new rigged ship
With their trademark joie de vivre andability to effortlessly blend styles andgenres, the Maxwell Quartet perform oneof Haydn’s most sparkling quartetsalongside folk music from their nativeScotland and a tribute by Anna Meredithto the grungy power-pop band she lovedas a teenager.
Friday 7th May 2021 / 9pmOnline from Helmsley Arts Centre
SPRING WILL BE A LITTLE LATE THIS YEAR
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The Immy Churchill Trio
Immy Churchill vocalsToby Yapp double bassScottie Thompson piano
The superbly talented jazz vocalist joinsfriends to celebrate the arrival of springwith a late-night session of jazz standardsfrom the Great American Songbook.
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Maxwell Quartet
Immy Churchill
Saturday 8th May 2021 / 3pmOnline from the Long Gallery at Castle Howard
THE LARK ASCENDING
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London Mozart PlayersRuth Rogers violin
Vivaldi Spring from The Four SeasonsVaughan Williams The Lark AscendingGrieg Holberg Suite
The virtuosic chamber orchestra performsan irresistible programme of spring-themed music for strings, including theenduring beauty of a work in whichVaughan Williams depicts a singing birdon the wing.
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London Mozart Players