TETBURY MUSIC FESTIVAL
THE FINEST MUSIC IN THE COTSWOLDS
We look forward to welcoming you to Tetbury for this year's series of wonderful concerts and lectures. Tickets will go on sale in April.
SATURDAY 27 SEPTEMBER
7pm The Goods Shed Arts Centre, Tetbury
The London Tango Quintet
Craig Ogden, guitar
Miloš Milivojević, accordian
David Gordon, piano
David Juritz, violin
Richard Pryce, double bass
Programme
Astor Piazzolla Michelangelo '70
Astor Piazzolla Milonga del ángel
Osvaldo Pugliese La yumba
Marcello/Bach Adagio from Oboe concerto in D minor
Julio de Caro Tierra querida
Juan Carlos Cobián La casita de mis viejos
Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel
Astor Piazzolla La muerte del ángel
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David Gordon Bebop Tango
Astor Piazzolla Oblivion
Horacio Salgan A fuego lento
Feliciano Brunelli Iliusión de mi vida
Astor Piazzolla Mumuki
Isaac Albéniz Asturias (Leyenda)
Astor Piazzolla Adios Nonino
Astor Piazzolla Libertango
As is customary at our Goods Shed concert, we showcase the versatility of so many of our finest musicians. The London Tango Quintet is a group of five internationally acclaimed artists, which includes guitarist Craig Ogden who made his Tetbury debut in 2024. Alongside their classical careers they share a passion for tango music. In this concert music by the legendary Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla is interspersed with stunning instrumental solos from each member of the group. The result is an energetic and inspiring concert of relaxed virtuosity, with references to both classical and contemporary repertoire.
THURSDAY 2 OCTOBER
7pm St Marys' Church, Tetbury
Steven Osborne, piano
and
Paul Lewis, piano
Programme
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G Faure Dolly Suite
Francis Poulenc Sonata for Piano Duet
Debussy, Claude Six epigraphes antiques
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Claude Debussy Petite suite
Igor Stravinsky Trois Pièces Faciles
Maurice Ravel Mother Goose Suite
Bringing together two of today’s finest pianists the programme includes two of the most gorgeous works ever written for four hands, both steeped in childhood reveries, together with Debussy’s sublime Petite Suite. Poulenc, Stravinsky and Debussy (in more enigmatic mood) offer sophisticated interludes. In the grandeur and beauty of St Marys' Church the duo will play the concert on two Steinway concert grand pianos.
[Osborne and Lewis] renew their collaboration in a programme of French duets—plus Stravinsky of his Parisian years—framed by two of the most popular pieces in the repertoire, Fauré’s Dolly Suite and the original version of Ravel’s Ma mère l’oye. The two pianists lavish an almost orchestral palette of colours on both: limpid, translucent textures, vital rhythmic address and shapely phrasing of both composers’ melodies … an absorbing and brilliantly played programme’ The Sunday Times
FRIDAY 3 OCTOBER
3pm The Goods Shed Arts Centre, Tetbury
Henry Purcell: England’s greatest composer?
From ‘Music for a while’ to ‘Nymphs and shepherds’ , Purcell’s music has always been thought of as quintessentially English. Yet his idiom was thoroughly international, bringing together influences from around Europe.
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In advance of the evening's performance of Dido & Aeneas, our guest lecturer, the distinguished arts administrator and writer on music Sir Nicholas Kenyon reflects on Purcell’s changing reputation over the years, the nature of Englishness in music from Tye and Tavener to Vaughan Williams and Britten, and considers what lessons Purcell holds for our music-making today.
FRIDAY 3 OCTOBER
7pm St Marys' Church, Tetbury
I Fagiolini
conducted by Robert Hollingworth
with
Julia Doyle, soprano
Rowan Pierce, soprano
Frederick Long, bass-baritone
Martha McLorinan, mezzo-soprano
Programme
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Henry Purcell:
Soft Music - Dance of the Furies from Dioclesian
Pluto, arise from Circe
O fair Cedaria
Pavan of four parts
Mark how the instruments from Raise the voice
Music for a while from Oedipus Rex
The sparrow and the gentle dove from From Hardy Climes
Hornpipe 'Come shepherds' from King Arthur
Triumph victorious Love from Dioclesian
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Dido and Aeneas
Julia Doyle - Dido
Rowan Pierce - Belinda
Frederick Long - Aeneas
Martha McLorinan - Sorceress
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Purcell’s pocket-opera Dido and Aeneas tells a tragic love story in less than an hour, encompassing humour and drama before culminating in the deeply moving aria known as Dido’s Lament.
This semi-staged performance from I Fagiolini and an an impressive cast of acclaimed soloists is preceded by a first half that demonstrates the depth and range of the composer dubbed ‘Britain’s Orpheus’.
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Find out more about Purcell's skills as a composer and dramatist at Nick Kenyon's talk earlier in the day.
I Fagiolini is internationally renowned for its genuinely innovative productions: “The group are musical shapeshifters, following Hollingworth’s giddy, eclectic imagination wherever it leads”
The Spectator
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SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER
3pm The Goods Shed Arts Centre, Tetbury
J S Bach: Music for All Ages
From the Swingle Singers to the Moog synthesiser, from massive symphonic orchestrations to purist one-to-a-part performances, Bach’s music has been continually transformed over the time since his death. But his idiom seems continually resilient.
Our guest lecturer Sir Nicholas Kenyon explores some of the ways Bach's music has been interpreted and adapted to reflect the taste of the times, and what historically informed performances have revealed. Our Sunday concert 'BaroqueBusters' will provide a further reminder of Bach's staying power across the centuries.
SATURDAY 4 OCTOBER
6.30pm St Marys' Church, Tetbury
Lawrence Power, viola
Tom Poster, piano
The festival is delighted to welcome internationally-acclaimed viola player Lawrence Power for the first time. Lawrence is widely heralded for his richness of sound, and technical mastery. Tom Poster is no stranger to the festival, most recently having delighted the audience at our Friday night concert in 2024 with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, ‘a flexible ensemble of wonderful, joyful, kind, passionate musicians who can’t wait to share chamber music with you’..
Lawrence has advanced the cause of the viola both through the excellence of his performances and the creation of the Viola Commissioning Circle (VCC) which has led to a substantial body of fresh repertoire for the instrument by today’s finest composers. He is Resident Artist at the Southbank Centre in 2024/25 and as a chamber musician he is in much demand and regularly performs at Verbier, Salzburg, Aspen, Oslo and other festivals with artists such as Steven Isserlis, Nicholas Alstaedt, Simon Crawford-Phillips, Vilde Frang, Maxim Vengerov and Joshua Bell. Lawrence was announced in 2021 as an Associate Artist at the Wigmore Hall, a position lasting for five years, with artists performing at least once each season.
Lawrence directs orchestras from both violin and viola, most recently at the Edinburgh International Festival with Scottish Ensemble, Australian National Academy of Music and with Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and leads his own orchestra, Collegium, made up of fine young musicians from across Europe. He is on the faculty at Zurich’s Hochschule der Kunst and gives masterclasses around the world, including at the Verbier Festival.
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Lawrence and Tom's programme will be announced shortly.
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SUNDAY 5 OCTOBER
5pm St Marys' Church, Tetbury
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Baroque Busters
Programme
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Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon
JS Bach Overture from Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
Bach First prelude from The Well-Tempered Clavier
JS Bach Air from Suite No. 3 in D major
Vivaldi Spring from The Four Seasons
JS Bach Jesu Joy of man’s desiring from BWV 147
Rameau Les Sauvages from Les Indes Galantes
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Lully Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turks
from Le bourgeois Gentilhomme
JS Bach First movement from Suite No. 1 in G for solo cello
Albinoni Slow movement from oboe concerto
Op. 9 No. 2 in D minor
JS Bach Gavotte 1 & 2 from
Suite No. 3 in D major
Pachelbel Canon
JS Bach Bouree and Gigue from Suite No. 3 in D major
The final concert of the festival, teasingly titled ‘Baroque Busters’, is an irresistible programme from The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment which promises to parade ‘the greatest hits' of the 18th century and to reveal the qualities that make them the much loved masterpieces that they are.
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Presented by the OAE's impeccable musicians with their customary flair and passion, expect to have your ears opened anew and find out why certain tunes have become such favourites and part of the soundtrack of our daily lives.
The OAE is a trailblazing ensemble that has helped redefine how we listen to the music of the past – and now they ask what makes a piece of music a 'hit'? Why do some works become famous and almost universally recognised while others get consigned to obscurity? The explanations are often not as straightforward as we might expect.