Only days now until Festival 2012 begins!
Star pianist Alexandra Dariescu performs at the Music Festival
With only days now until the start of the 2012 Budleigh Music Festival, Chairman Roger Bowen reminds us of the exciting and varied programme which music-lovers from
As a founding member of the Music Festival, Roger was also a
Budleigh Salterton Town Councillor and was for about three years on Fairlynch's
managing committee with responsibility for liaising with the Museum.
"My involvement with Fairlynch was when Roger Kingwill was
chair," he recalls. "I participated when Jeremy Robinson made his
report about the Museum's organisation. I also prepared a website to replace
the outdated hub-dependent one though it was never really used to any great
extent."
For three years Fairlynch put an event on for the Music
Festival usually organised by Sonia Stone, who succeeded Roger Kingwill as
chair.
Many members of the Music Festival are Friends of Fairlynch
and would no doubt welcome a revival of such events similar to those which link
the Museum to the Literary Festival.
"Our annual classical
music festival - Budleigh's eighth - begins on 13 July and is followed by a
delicious programme of varied music for just over a week," says Roger
Bowen. "Tickets have been selling well
and some concerts are close to being fully booked or are well on the way to
being so. Don't delay. Book your tickets today."
On every day (except
Sunday 15 July, at the Parish Church of St Peter's and 22 July at the Methodist Temple Church
Here is your choice of
concert:
We start with a wind serenade
from the acclaimed orchestra of St Pauls's Covent Garden
conducted by Ben Palmer. Their programme contains works by Dvorak and Mozart
with Jonathan Dove's 'Figures in the Garden'. Tickets available now.
Local children take part
in Britten's 'The Little Sweep' to be performed both in Lympstone (12 July) and in
Budleigh when there will be two performances, one in the afternoon and again in
the evening. There is ample opportunity for the audience to sing because there
are parts written for this purpose with a choir of children to provide tuition! Tickets for
both performances are still available. Generous family concessions apply here.
Alexandra Dariescu is a
delightful and talented pianist who gives a recital to include works by Schumann,
Beethoven, Scarlatti, Debussy and Chopin. She recently featured as BBC Music
Magazine's 'Rising Star'. This is a recital not to be missed and some tickets are still available
We are lucky to be able
to feature the Florilegium Ensemble who present
a baroque celebration. The programme is very full, with works by Bach,
Scarlatti, Corelli, Vivaldi, Handel, Geminiani and Telemann. A very few seats
are still available at the time of writing.
The Orchestral Concert
given by the Budleigh Festival Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Marshall
features soloists Tamsin Waley-Cohen, (left), violin and Sarah Jane Bradley, (below, right) viola.
The
programme offers works by Handel, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Haydn.
Though
even fewer tickets than for Florilegium are as yet unsold you may be lucky if you
hurry.
What an evening is in
prospect when we welcome the Barbirolli Quartet who play Haydn, Bartok and
Schumann!
They return to the UK
And then there is our
opera presentation in conjunction with the New Devon Opera Company, which this
year is Puccini's masterpiece 'Madam Butterfly'.
This year we go to a larger
auditorium when Budleigh takes over the Pavilion in Exmouth. Premium seats sold
out long ago but some returns may be available, so try your luck
All good things must come
to an end and we close with the hugely celebrated Exeter Festival Chorus who
sing three works: by Vaughan Williams, Tippett and Duruflé.
Staged in Budleigh's
spacious St Peter's church, with tickets still available.
Book tickets at Budleigh
TIC or by phone 01395445275
All tickets are now on
sale and selling fast.
Programme information
can be downloaded from the web site www.budleigh-festival.org.uk
Friday
The Orchestra of St
Paul's Covent Garden present a Wind Serenade at the Temple Church 7.30pm
Saturday
Two performances of 'The
Little Sweep' at the Temple
Church
Sunday
St Peter's Church at 6.00
pm Festival Choral Evensong.
Monday
Alexandra Dariescu,
piano, at the Temple
Church
Free lunchtime concert
by Alex Knight, guitar.
Tuesday
Florilegium - a baroque
celebration at the Temple Church 7.30 pm.
Free lunchtime concert by
Jayne Hannah, flute with David House, piano
Wednesday
Orchestral Concert at
the Temple Church 7.30 pm by the Festival Orchestra with Tamsin Waley-Cohen,
violin, and Sarah-Jane Bradley, viola, conducted by Nicholas Marshall.
Free lunchtime concert
at St Peter's by Michael Dawson, organ.
Thursday
Barbirolli Quartet at
the Temple
Free lunchtime concert by
Lucy Bray, soprano.
Friday
'Madam Butterfly' by New
Devon Opera at the Pavilion, Exmouth, 7.30pm.
Free lunchtime concert
by the Festival Chorus.
Saturday
Sunday 22 July
The festival closing
service at the Temple Church 10.30 am.
TIC Fore Street Budleigh
Salterton EX9 6NG for ticket sales
Tel: 01395 445275.
This post is an expanded version of one at http://www.devonmuseums.net/Latest-News/Fairlynch-Museum/Museum-News/
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