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ST MAGNUSInternational Festival

2018

22nd - 28th June

WELCOME

I’m delighted to share with you the programme for this year’s Festival. Once again we bring you a box of delights to fill the midsummer days in Orkney with performances across the islands. We will explore the world of chamber music with many performances ranging from renowned duo Tom Poster and Elena Urioste’s survey of violin and piano repertoire to Ensemble Perpetuo’s take on Bach’s Goldberg Variations interspersed with newly commissioned responses. Solo cello, guitar and accordion take us to venues across the Orkney Islands and even on-board the tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl visiting from Bergen.

Singing is also a feature of this year’s event and we are delighted to welcome the exciting choir Sonoro bringing the iconic Rachmaninov Vespers to the evening glow of St Magnus Cathedral. Sonoro will also join the Festival chorus to present Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle. The internationally acclaimed soprano, Measha Brueggergosman, brings a fascinating concert leading Orkney Rocks! and the Mayfield Singers in Songs of Freedom.

Old friends the Danish Sinfonietta pay a return visit with concerts and an opera, a comedy about a feisty chambermaid, and Zoë Martlew presents her highly entertaining cabaret Revue Z full of jokes, sequins, a cello and feather boas.

Bjarte Eike’s Barokksolistene brings together a band of international performers equally at home with folk music as they are with period performance. They will bring their famous Music at the Alehouse programme alongside a more melancholy review of the music of Henry Purcell.

We’re moving outdoors again this year with a live stage next to Skaill House featuring the extraordinary Subtilu-Z from Lithuania and Orkney’s own The Chair as headline acts.

I’m delighted that the award-winning poet Sinéad Morrissey joins us and look forward, in this the Year of Young People, to not one but two Johnsmas Foys created by pupils from Kirkwall Grammar School and Stromness Academy.

There are so many things to look forward to and we look forward to seeing you in June.

ALASDAIR NICOLSONFestival Director

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Event Number & Title Time Venue Page

Friday 22 June

1 Rachmaninov Vespers 20.30 St Magnus Cathedral 22 Launch Party 21.30 The Sound Archive 2

Saturday 23 June

3 Sinéad Morrissey 11.00 Stromness Parish Church 34 Sounds of Surroundings Hear My Music 11.00 Salvation Army Hall 35 Fiachra Garvey 13.00 St Magnus Cathedral 46 The Romantic Violin I 14.30 Stromness Town Hall 57 Magfest Goes West: Hadhirgaan, Subtilu-Z & The Chair 17.30 Skaill House, outdoor stage 68 Opera: Pimpinone 19.00 Orkney Theatre 79 Goldberg Variations Plus 22.00 St Magnus Cathedral 8

Sunday 24 June

St Magnus Festival Service 11.15 St Magnus Cathedral 910 Sinéad Morrissey 14.30 King Street Halls 911 Perfectly Pitched Percussion 15.30 Stromness Town Hall 912 Opera: Pimpinone 16.00 Orkney Theatre 1013 Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle 19.00 St Magnus Cathedral 1014 The Alehouse Sessions 21.30 Stromness Town Hall 11

Monday 25 June

15 O Duo 11.00 Orkney Theatre 1216 Danish Sinfonietta 13.00 St Magnus Cathedral 1317 Michael Butten 15.30 St Magnus Kirk, Birsay 1418 What Like? Johnsmas Foy Kirkwall 17.30 Kirkwall Grammar School 1419 Purcell’s Playground 19.30 St Magnus Cathedral 1920 Nocturnes and Moonlight 22.00 St Magnus Cathedral 20

Tuesday 26 June

21 Yoanna Prodanova & Mihai Ritivoiu 11.00 Stromness Town Hall 22 22 Tall Ship Tunes 17.30 Statsraad Lehmkuhl 2323 Remains To Be Seen Johnsmas Foy Stromness 17.30 Stromness Academy Theatre 2324 Vesalii Icones 19.30 St Magnus Cathedral 2425 Cabaret – Revue Z 21.30 Orkney Theatre 25

Wednesday 27 June

26 The Romantic Violin II 11.00 Stromness Town Hall 2627 Intimate Accordion 13.00 Statsraad Lehmkuhl 27 Festival on Tour: Danish Sinfonietta 19.30 Cromarty Hall, St Margaret’s Hope 28 Festival on Tour: Red Note Ensemble 19.30 The Space, Rousay 2828 Songs of Freedom 19.30 St Magnus Cathedral 2929 Excursion: Zoë Martlew 22.00 St Peter’s Kirk, Sandwick 30 30 Wrap Party 21.30 The Sound Archive 30

Thursday 28 June

Festival on Tour: Michael Butten 19.30 Grand Auld Byre, Westray 31

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RACHMANINOV VESPERSSonoro

20.30 St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall

SonoroNeil Ferris ............................... Conductor

Rachmaninov ........................ All-Night Vigil (Vespers), Op. 37

Written in 1915, a few years before the Revolution, Rachmaninov’s rich, sensual and intense work draws on the liturgy of the Orthodox Church and creates a choral masterpiece. The depth and intensity of vocal sonorities and passionate nature of the music brings the feel of a meditative ritual to any performance.

Sonoro is one of the UK’s newest choral groups and has instantly won acclaim for its exquisitely balanced sound and passionate singing.

Tickets £25, £20, £11 / Concessions £19, £15, £8Duration 1 hour

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FRIDAY 22nd June

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LAUNCHPARTY21.30 The Sound Archive, Kirkwall

AIDAN MOODIEGuitar/Vocals

GRAHAM RORIEViolin

Celebrate the opening of the 2018 Festival at the Sound Archive with late-night entertainment from two of Orkney’s finest talents and an award-winning duo. Traditional and new tunes and songs to get your feet tapping.

Doors 21:30Music from 22:00Tickets £10 / Concessions £8

“A rich, robust texture, abundant in vibrant colourand undoubted excitement.”

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SATURDAY 23rd June

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SINÉAD MORRISSEYFestival Poet

11.00 Stromness Parish Church, Stromness

Winner of the TS Eliot and Forward prizes, Sinéad Morrissey grew up in Northern Ireland, is Belfast’s first Poet Laureate and Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Rooted in everyday experiences yet often strangely eerie, philosophical yet spiritual, Morrissey’s poetry contains a strong thread of her Northern Irish identity – from a Troubles-era childhood, to Belfast as a bustling modern-day city.

Her travels and time spent abroad in Japan, New Zealand and China also inform her work. Morrissey is a captivating and elegant performer of her own work.

Tickets £18 / Concessions £14Duration 1 hour 10 minutes

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SOUNDS OF SURROUNDINGSHear My Music

11.00 Salvation Army Hall, Kirkwall

Pupils from Kirkwall Grammar SchoolGlaitness Primary School

Led by Emily Carr Martin and Clea Friend

Sounds of surroundings will present new works by young people who have complex needs and/or autism inspired by their surround-ings, celebrating what makes a place and a person unique through the exploration of everyday sounds.

As we celebrate the Year of Young People this, along with other events, brings to life a young person’s viewpoint. Those involved in the project will be joined by their peers and individuals within the local community to perform the pieces through live music and film. This event continues the collaboration of the Festival with Hear My Music over the last three years and is an ongoing project.

Tickets £10 / Concessions £8Duration 1 hour

“Historically attuned and touchingly personal, imaginatively wide-ranging and linguistically precise.”

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FIACHRA GARVEY13.00 St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall

Fiachra Garvey ......................Piano

Debussy.................................... Images Book 2Chopin ........................................Barcarolle No. 6, Op. 60Chopin ........................................Polonaise in A-flat, Op. 53 ‘Heroic’Lachenmann ..........................5 Variations on a theme of SchubertBarber ........................................Sonata in E-flat minor, Op. 26

Fiachra Garvey serves up a richly varied and vibrant programme ranging across a century from the 1840s to the 1950s. Debussy’s elusive sonorities and delicate sound pictures filled with bells and orientalism flows gently into Chopin’s gondolier’s song. The same composer’s more vigorous Polonaise unleashes a more virtuosic pianistic world. Lachenmann’s energetic and percussive deconstruction of Schubert’s theme leads us to the mighty Barber Sonata originally performed by Horowitz and a staple of 20th century piano repertoire.

Fiachra Garvey is one of the finest Irish pianists of the younger generation whose performances have won acclaim throughout the world. He is also director of West Wicklow Festival.


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“…a deep and infectious enthusiasm, combined with insight and technical comfort”

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THE ROMANTIC VIOLIN IElena Urioste & Tom Poster

14.30 Stromness Town Hall, Stromness

Elena Urioste .........................ViolinTom Poster ...............................Piano

Kreisler ......................................Miniatures: Preghiera in the style of Martini; Songs My Mother Taught Me; Midnight BellsClara Schumann ...................Three Romances for violin and piano, Op. 22Strauss.......................................Violin Sonata in E-flat, Op. 18Grieg ...........................................Violin Sonata No. 2 in G, Op. 13Amy Beach ..............................Romance for violin and piano, Op. 23Gershwin/Heifetz ...............Selections from Porgy and Bess: My Man’s Gone Now; Bess, You Is My Woman Now; It Ain’t Necessarily So

A concert rich with melody at the heart of which are the sonatas of Grieg and Strauss written in the same decade at the end of the 19th Century and both unmistakably representative of their composers: Strauss’s work filled with singing melodies and Grieg’s sonata shot through with Nordic darkness. Clara Schumann and Amy Beach’s miniatures are elegant and romantic, the latter written for the first World’s Fair. The programme is framed with music by two violin virtuosi exploring arrangements of other composers through their complete mastery and understanding of the instrument.

Renowned as solo performers, Tom Poster and Elena Urioste’s duo partnership has been acclaimed universally and led to a recent disc of Tom’s own arrangements and the complete Grieg Sonatas.

Tickets £17, £10 / Concessions £13, £8Duration 2 hours

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“Urioste played as though it were coming from her own soul... beyond masterful and exquisitely beautiful.”

“And what can I say about the excellent Tom Poster? His versatility and unerring sense of what works best mark him out as a musician’s musician and everyone in the business should be beating a path to his door.”

Hadhirgaan 17.30-18.30

MagFest goes West opens with a set from Hadhirgaan, Orkney’s ongoing and ever-changing band of young traditional musicians from Kirkwall Grammar School whose performances are renowned for their toe-tapping youthful exhuberance.

Entry to all MagFest performances at Skaill House £15Concessions £13

Subtilu-Z 19.00-20.00

Laurynas VaitkusTenor Birbyne, Pipe

Povilas VelikisAccordion

Dmitrijs MihailovsAccordion, Piano

Vytautas ŠvažasPercussion

From Lithuania this wonderfully eccentric ensemble brings together two accordions, percussion and traditional reedpipe. Whether it be a jazz standard, Argentine tango or painfully familiar classics they bring a riotously colourful style to bear using jazz, traditional, pop and classical influences in a heady mix. Each concert of Subtilu-Z is a synonym for excellent music, good mood and impeccable style.

The Chair 20.30-21.30

Douglas Montgomery Kenny Ritch Brian Cromarty Bob Gibbon Gavin Firth Andrew Gifford Erik Laughton Robbie Thomson

The Chair on-stage is an experi-ence that will have even the most reserved audience beating a path to the dance floor. Melodies from their native Orkney are mashed up with blues, dub and klezmer in an 8-piece riot of fiddles, banjos, accordions and drums. Collectively, the sound approaches the energy levels of a rock gig, yet remains acoustic at heart. The Chair, a must-see festival band, were voted Band of the Year at the 2008 Scots Trad Music Awards.

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Saturday23rd June

Please Note: This is an outdoor event.

Please wear comfortable, flat shoes and, given the perils of the Orkney

weather, it is advisable to bring an additional warm and waterproof

layer! No seating is provided but the audience is welcome and

encouraged to bring their own chairs, blankets and picnics.

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MAGFEST GOES WESTThe Outdoor Stage, Skaill House

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PIMPINONE (The Unequal Marriage Between Vespetta and Pimpinone)Comic Opera

19.00 Orkney Theatre, Kirkwall

Aarhus SommeroperaThe Danish Sinfonietta Berit Berfred Jensen .........Vespetta Jesper Mikkelsen .................PimpinoneJan Maagard ..........................DirectorIvar Gjørup ...............................DesignerDavid Riddell ..........................Conductor Telemann .................................Pimpinone, TWV 21:15

Pimpinone – Telemann’s wonderful comic opera - was premièred in 1725 in Hamburg as light relief between acts of Handel’s opera Tamerlano. A fun-packed entertainment, its full title The Uneven Marriage Between Vespetta and Pimpinone or The Dominating Chambermaid reveals that this intermezzo sits in direct contrast to the magnificent Baroque world of gods and aristocracy with its overindulgence in love, longing, pain, and passion. These three vignettes present an alternative, more practical reality, where the unemployed chambermaid Vespetta succeeds in bringing certain feelings to life in the rich, but lonely, Pimpinone. He engages her as his chambermaid and housekeeper with surprising consequences. In this version of Pimpinone, instrumental music, together with an aria and a duet written by Telemann, but originally performed as part of Richard Keiser’s opera Nebucadnezar, have been added to complete Aarhus Sommeropera’s version of Telemann’s most popular opera. The whole story unfolds in a cartoon-strip universe where Baroque classicism meets the present day.

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“‘Pimpinone’ lives its cartoon-style life, thriving on gags and vitality and a couple of singers who really manage to get in touch with the audience - baritone Jesper Mikkelsen as carpet-slipper hero, who doesn’t manage to get much past Berit Barfred Jensen’s shrew.”

Pimpinone will be sung in English in a new translation by Christopher Cowell.

Tickets £20 / Concessions £15Duration 2 hours

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Saturday23rd June

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GOLDBERG VARIATIONS PLUSEnsemble Perpetuo


Fenella Humphreys............ViolinSimon Tandree ......................ViolaCara Berridge .........................Cello

JS Bach ......................................Goldberg Variations BWV 988 (arr. Dmitry Sitkovetsky)

David Fennessy ...................Airs, Jigs and ReelsDonald GrantAlasdair NicolsonAidan O’RourkeAilie Robertson

Ensemble Perpetuo presents the trio arrangement of Bach’s timeless Goldberg Variations alongside newly commissioned works which take this masterpiece as their inspiration. The ensemble has invited composers from both the classical and folk world whose background is in Celtic culture to respond to Bach’s music using ideas of traditional dance forms.

Ensemble Perpetuo is a collective of musicians who bring classic and contemporary music to unusual spaces. Their string trio is led by Fenella Humphreys who is no stranger to the Festival and whose recent recordings have been winning 5-star reviews.

Tickets £20, £17, £10 / Concessions £15, £13, £8Duration 1 hour 10 minutes

WORLD PREMIÈRE

“Golden precision and effortless virtuosity”

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SINÉAD MORRISSEYFestival Poet

14.30 King Street Halls, Kirkwall

See event 3 for details.


SUNDAY 24th June

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PERFECTLY PITCHED PERCUSSIONO Duo

15.30 Stromness Town Hall

O Duo Oliver Cox .................................... Percussion Owen Gunnell ........................... Percussion

O Duo ............................................. Bongo FuryGranados ..................................... Spanish Dance No. 5Soler ............................................... Sonata No. 90Mendelssohn ............................ Fugue No. 4P. Desmond ................................ Take 5Philip Glass ................................. Mad RushMonti ............................................. CzardasSteve Reich ................................ Clapping MusicMaxwell Davies ....................... Farewell to Stromness(arr. Cox) Soler ............................................... Sonata No. 84Piazzolla ....................................... LibertangoO Duo ............................................. Searching

O Duo always astonish and entertain with their virtuosity and good humoured presentation and here Owen and Olly take us on a tour whose geography reaches out across the world from South America to Hungary, Spain to America and Germany to Orkney.

Not only a tour but a tour de force exploiting every inch of every percussion instrument and more besides. This is O Duo’s second visit to the Festival and they’re back by popular demand.

Tickets £17, £10 / Concessions £13, £8Duration 1 hour 30 minutes

FESTIVAL SERVICE11.15 St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall

The Festival Service will be led by Fraser MacNaughton with the St Magnus Cathedral Choir.

Michael BelL ..............Choir DirectorHeather Rendall ......Organ

Duration 1 hour 15 minutes

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PIMPINONE (The Unequal Marriage Between Vespetta and Pimpinone)Comic Opera


See event 8 for details.

Tickets £20 / Concessions £15Duration 2 hours

Sunday24th June

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Event 13

ROSSINI PETITE MESSE SOLENNELLESonoro & St Magnus Festival Chorus


Sonoro ChoirSt Magnus Festival Chorus(Paul Rendall Festival Chorus Director)

Michael Higgins ....................PianoPaul Chamberlain .................Accordion Neil Ferris .................................Conductor

Rossini .......................................Petite Messe Solennelle

Written thirty-four years after his last opera Rossini still brings something of the operatic stage to this large-scale sacred work. His title “petite” (little) is far from the case and this engaging work is filled with impressive choral fugues and aria-like solos. Although the composer later orchestrated the Mass, this performance uses the original scoring of two pianos but replaces the harmonium with accordion. This performance brings together the annual gathering of singers for the Festival’s chorus with the renowned voices of Sonoro.


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THE ALEHOUSE SESSIONSBarokksolistene

21.30 Stromness Town Hall

BarroksolisteneBjarte Eike ...............................Violin/Director

An enormous hit across the world, the Alehouse Sessions – curated and devised by Bjarte Eike – is an ever changing and evolving insight into the music of the 17th Century tavern. It gives audiences a window into this tumultuous period through Purcell overtures, sea shanties, and Scandinavian folk songs thrown in for good measure.

Taking inspiration from Cromwell’s regime, under which theatres were forcibly closed, the Barokksolistene reimagine a time when culture was driven into the alehouses, where singing and playing coexisted with talking and drinking (and far less admissible things) as an evening’s activity. The result is a fusion of entertainment that relies as much on the personalities of the musicians as their endlessly plural performance skills. The virtuosic instrumentalists are led by the irrepressible Bjarte Eike, part storyteller, part fiddler and part bandleader.

Tickets (Unreserved) £20 / Concessions £15 Duration 1 hour 30 minutes

“They dismantled staleconcert-going conventions in a joyously irreverent hoedown”

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MONDAY 25th June

“This duo’s wonderful rapport together with their extraordinary versatility, virtuosity and physical prowess, adds up to a visual and artistic feast that is exhilarating and utterly irresistible.”

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O DUO 11.00 Orkney Theatre, Kirkwall

O Duo Oliver Cox .................................... Percussion Owen Gunnell ........................... Percussion

O Duo ..............................................Bongo FurySoler ................................................Sonata No. 84 Botsford ........................................Black and White Rag Monti ..............................................Night in Tunisia Maxwell Davies ........................Farewell to StromnessVarious composers .................Film medleyO Duo ..............................................O Drumming

Get up close, and even join in, with Owen and Olly’s unique whirlwind tour of rhythm. Performing music that’s familiar with some works that they’ve written themselves, they bring a battery of instruments to life whilst revealing the wonders of the percussion family. O Duo are vividly virtuosic and extremely entertaining.


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DANISH SINFONIETTA 13.00 St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall

The Danish Sinfonietta David Riddell ......................... Conductor

Purcell - Britten.................... Chacony in G minorFrançaix ................................... Wind QuartetNielsen ...................................... Andante Lamentoso “At the bier of a young artist” Martinu ..................................... Nonet

Exploring interesting corners of the chamber music repertoire this concert celebrates the soloistic virtuosity of the Danish Sinfonietta’s players. Britten’s arrangement of Purcell’s Chacony for Strings with its ever-repeating bass line has a gravity reflected in Nielsen’s Lament, created for the funeral of friend. The music of Françaix and Martinu bring a brightly coloured and joyous neoclassicism to the fore and the Nonet brings together strings and wind in an intriguing work by this Czech composer written in the year before he died.


This concert will be recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3

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Monday25th June


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MICHAEL BUTTEN15.30 St Magnus Kirk, Birsay

Michael Butten ......................Guitar

Arnold .........................................Fantasy, Op. 107Purcell ........................................Suite for Harpsichord No. 8 in FMcLeod .....................................Fantasy on Themes from Britten’s ‘Gloriana’Dowland....................................Praeludium, Fantasia, Frog Galliard, Lord Strang’s March, Lachrimae PavanBowers ......................................Elegy: Homage to DowlandBritten ........................................Nocturnal after John Dowland

Taking Dowland as his starting point. Michael Butten surveys music from the UK which straddles the centuries. A master of the lute, Dowland has inspired many later composers and the Nocturnal by Britten is one of the most eloquent homages. John McLeod, the Scottish composer, brings together both Dowland, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I and Britten whose opera about the queen provides musical material for this Fantasy. Music by Dowland himself gives context to these contemporary works.

There has been a burgeoning of young British guitarists and Michael Butten is a young artist whose playing has won much acclaim.


Ticket includes delicious refreshments supplied by The Birsay Bay Tearoom

“This was playing of exceptional accomplishment, distinguished by a natural warmth of tone and finely judged nuance of expression.”

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WHAT LIKE?Johnsmas Foy Kirkwall

17.30 Kirkwall Grammar School, Kirkwall

Created and performed by pupils and staff from Kirkwall Grammar School

“What like is it growing up in Orkney?” is a question that might be asked of many Orcadians. Students from Kirkwall Grammar School try to answer this question in their specially created Foy using everything from traditional to newly composed music, physical theatre, mask and dramatic scenes.

For the Stromness perspective, visit the Stromness Foy on Tuesday evening Event 23.


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“Barokksolistene’s sound is intimate, poignant and gently graded in distinct timbres”

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PURCELL’S PLAYGROUNDA musical Portrait of HenryBarokksolistene


BarokksolistineBjarte Eike......................... Violin/Director

Henry Purcell .................. Ouverture and Hornpipe from The Old Batchelor If Music be the food of love (third version) “Here the deities” Welcoming ode to celebrate St Cecilias day Music for a While from Oedipus Fantasia in C minor No. 7 Chacony for Strings in G minor Air for strings from The Fairy Queen An Evening Hymn Adagio from ‘Come ye Sons of Art’ O when the Glittering Queen of Night from ‘Of old when heroes thought it base’ Scene from Dido and Aeneas (act 3 scene 1) Curtain Tune from Timon of Athens Sound the trumpet from ‘Come ye Sons of Art’

Henry Purcell stands firmly within the canon of British music as one of the first significant names to survive across the centuries. The variety of music is astonishing and particularly his music for opera and theatre has stood the test of time. Bjarte Eike gathers a wide-ranging programme which reveals the variety in Purcell’s output and shines a light on the grace, beauty, energy and clarity that epitomises this composer.


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Monday25th June

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NOCTURNES AND MOONLIGHTEnsemble Perpetuo, Elena Urioste & Tom Poster


Tom Poster ............................. PianoElena Urioste ......................... Violin

Ensemble PerpetuoFenella Humphreys ........... ViolinSimon Tandree...................... ViolaCara Berridge ........................ Cello

Debussy ................................... Clair de luneLili Boulanger ........................ Nocturne Schubert .................................. Notturno in E-flat, Op. 148, D. 897Bartók ........................................ Adagio molto (Night Music) from String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102Franck ....................................... Piano Quintet in F minorarr. Tom Poster ...................... Classics from the Great American Songbook

This concert brings together Festival performers in a late-night exploration of night, darkness and moonlight. At the heart of the programme sits Franck’s late Quintet, a dark and impassioned work whose first pianist was Saint-Saëns. Round this centrepiece sit calm nocturnal reflections and Tom Poster’s own arrangements of familiar popular songs.


This concert will be recorded for future broadcast by BBC Radio 3

TUESDAY 26th June

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YOANNA PRODANOVA & MIHAI RITIVOIU11.00 Stromness Town Hall, Stromness

Yoanna Prodanova ..............CelloMihau Ritivoiu .......................Piano

Beethoven ...............................Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’Shostakovich ..........................Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40Cassado .....................................RequiebrosKurtág.........................................Az hit… for celloAdès ............................................Three Mazurkas for piano, Op. 27Chopin .......................................Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor, Op. 65

This dynamic duo presents a wide-ranging recital with two mighty sonatas at its heart. Both in the minor key, Shostakovich’s work written in a period of emotional turmoil and Chopin’s late work the cause of composerly uncertainty, they are searing works both central to the cello repertoire. Surrounding these are Beethoven’s variations on Mozart’s tune from The Magic Flute and three works from composers in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Bulgarian born Prodanova and Romanian Ritivoiu are both prizewinning young artists and they have garnered acclaim individually and, as a duo, they are supported by the Musicians’ Company.

Tickets £17, £10 / Concessions £13, £8Duration 1 hour 40 minutes


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REMAINS TO BE SEENJohnsmas Foy Stromness

17.30 Stromness Academy Theatre, Stromness

Performed and devised by pupils and staff from Stromness Academy

The young people of Orkney’s West Mainland grow up surrounded by physical reminders of their islands’ history in the stones, settlements and monuments. Many are also steeped in stories, poetry and music which celebrate dialect, cultural heritage and traditions.

At the same time they are citizens of the modern world, influenced by social media and pop culture. Showcasing the creative talents of the young people of Orkney’s West Mainland the Foy investigates the range of influences on their lives. How they manage to reconcile these to create their own unique identities remains to be seen.


“A masterful, madcap musical journey and an absolute riot of an evening”

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TALL SHIP TUNESBarokksolistene

17.30 Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Kirkwall Harbour

BarokksolistineBjarte Eike ...............................Violin\Director

Eike and his diverse band of performers present an hour of music ranging from traditional to baroque in a more unusual venue, the tall ship which will have sailed from Bergen especially for the Festival. Enjoy the music and visit this historic vessel in a unique opportunity.

The “Statsraad Lehmkuhl” is a 3-masted steel bark, built by Johann C. Tecklenborg AG in Bremerhaven-Geestemünde in 1914 as a training ship for the German merchant marine. Her original name was “Grossherzog Friedrich August”. During most of World War One the “Statsraad Lehmkuhl” was used as a stationary training ship in Germany and transferred to England as part of the war reparations in 1920. On an initiative by the then current director of the Bergen-based shipping company “Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab” and the former cabinet minister Kristofer Lehmkuhl, the «Statsraad Lehmkuhl» was purchased from England in 1921 and put into service as a sail training vessel under the Norwegian flag from 1923.


This performance will be presented in the round.

Tickets (Unreserved) £17 Concessions £13Duration 1 hour 20 mins

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VESALII ICONESRed Note Ensemble


Red Note EnsembleMathew Hawkins ................Dancer/ChoreographerRobert Irvine ..........................Cello

Koechlin ....................................Excerpts from Les Heures PersanesMaxwell Davies ....................Vesalii Icones

Written in 1969 this is one of Peter Maxwell Davies’s classic works of concert-hall music theatre. An extraordinarily dramatic, multi-layered fusion of dance and music, its shape superimposes the 14 stations of the Cross on a series of 16th-century anatomical drawings by Vesalius, with a dancer and a solo cellist as the protagonists. Scored for the classic Fires of London Sextet line-up the work is filled with unconventional percussion instruments, a honky tonk piano and much allusion to foxtrots as well as medieval and renaissance music. In contrast to the vibrant sonorities of Vesalii Icones, Matthew Hawkins dances to the atmospheric piano works inspired by Persia and written during the First World War by the prolific French composer Charles Koechlin.

“Red Note Ensemble, superb Scottish specialists in the contemporary, deliver every piece with precision and relish.”

Tuesday26th June

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NEW PRODUCTION

“the astonishing Zoë Martlew (billed as cellist/performer, a virtuoso show of understatement) in her spectacular ‘Revue Z’”

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REVUE ZCabaret of the Cello


Revue Z – one-woman cabaret written and performed by Zoë Martlew

Featuring a blonde, a cello, a whip and a lot of digital playback…Unhinged, uncensored, underwired.

Uproarious, moving, hilarious and utterly off the wall, Revue Z features Zoë’s unforgettably theatrical music for cello, voice and pre-recorded soundtrack in a dazzling array of musical styles linked together by the shimmering virtuosity and expressivity of her cello playing and a LOT of glitter.

Since its inaugural London outing ten years ago in collaboration with BAFTA award-winning director Toby Sedgwick, the show has dropped pink feathers over all kinds of venues from theatres, concert halls, churches, schools, pubs, a canoe club, festivals in the UK, Denmark, Iceland, Spain and Canada and most recently at Wigmore Hall in London.


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THE ROMANTIC VIOLIN IIFoyle-Stsura Duo

11.00 Stromness Town Hall, Stromness

Michael Foyle ....................... ViolinMaksim Stsura ..................... Piano

Janáček .................................... Violin SonataKenneth Hesketh ................ Inscrizione (derivata) (A Lie to the Dying) Debussy................................... Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minorRespighi ................................... Sonata for Violin and Piano in B minor

The three sonatas in this programme draw music from three corners of Europe in time of war with Janáček’s work coming from the start of the 1914-18 period – “I could just about hear sound of the steel clashing in my troubled head,” he said. Both Debussy’s, his last work, and Respighi’s Sonatas are intense and serious works perhaps reflective of the world in conflict.

Bringing us right up to date is Kenneth Hesketh’s specially commissioned new work.

Scots violinist Michael Foyle and Estonian Pianist Maksim Stsura have a burgeoning reputation as a duo performing throughout Europe.

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WEDNESDAY 27th June

WORLD PREMIÈRE

Tickets £17 / £10Concessions £10 / £8Duration 1 hour 30 minutes


“An abundance of mature musical expression and a rare, seemingly limitless variety of tonal colour.”

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INTIMATE ACCORDIONPaul Chamberlain

13.00 Statsraad Lehmkuhl, Kirkwall Harbour

Paul Chamberlain ......Accordion

Khachaturian ...............Toccata in E-flat minorRameau ..........................L’EgyptienneAngelis ............................RomanceZolotariev ......................Sonata No. 2Piazzolla .........................Adios Nonino LibertangoBjørklund .......................RitornellGridin ...............................Rassypucha

An intimate recital aboard the Norwegian Tall Ship exploring the wide range of music from across the centuries written or arranged for classical accordion. Paul Chamberlain is one of Scotland’s finest accordionists. Having graduated with all the honours from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland he has since toured all over the world and released two CD recordings.


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Wednesday27th June

Festival On Tour

RED NOTEENSEMBLE19.30 The Space, Rousay

Ruth Morley ..................................FluteScott Dickinson ...........................ViolaRobert Irvine ................................. Cello

Debussy .......................................SyrinxHaydn................................................. TrioLutoslawski ............................BucolicsVilla-Lobos ...................... Jet WhistleMcGuire ......................................LullabyMcGuire .........................Prelude No. 3 Roussel ............................. Trio Op. 40

One of Scotland’s finest chamber ensembles brings a richly diverse programme ranging across the centuries to Rousay. Trios by Haydn and Roussel are surrounded by intriguing duos and solos and music by veteran Scottish composer and traditional musician Eddie MaGuire.

Tickets £5 at the doorDuration 1 hour 30 minutes

Festival On Tour

DANISH SINFONIETTA 19.30 Cromarty Hall, St Margaret’s Hope

The Danish Sinfonietta David Riddell ..........................Conductor

Purcell - Britten.....................Chacony in G minorFrançaix ....................................Wind QuartetNielsen Andante Lamentoso “At the bier of a young artist” for string orchestra, FS 58Martinu ......................................NonetTelemann .................................TBC

Exploring interesting corners of the chamber music repertoire this concert celebrates the soloistic virtuosity of the Danish Sinfonietta’s players. Britten’s arrangement of Purcell’s Chacony for Strings with its ever-repeating bass line has a gravity reflected in Nielsen’s Lament, created for the funeral of friend. The music of Françaix and Martinu bring a brightly coloured and joyous neoclassicism to the fore and the Nonet brings together strings and wind in an intriguing work by this Czech composer written in the year before he died.

Tickets at the door £5Duration 1 hour 45 minutes

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Event 28

SONGS OF FREEDOM19:30 St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall

African American Spirituals including:Wade in the Water, Go tell it on the Mountain, Go down Moses, Swing Low Sweet Chariot and many others

Measha Brueggergosman .............Soprano Aaron Davis ...............................................Musical Director and piano Mike Eckert ............................................Pedal steel guitarEarl Harvin ............................................Drums

Orkney Rocks!Mayfield Singers

Measha Brueggergosman is an award-winning Canadian soprano who is recognized around the world for her spectacular voice, innate musicianship, magnificent performance style and vibrant personality. She has also explored a variety of non-classical musical avenues notably the album of African-American spirituals — songs that lie a bit closer to her musical roots as a child growing up in New Brunswick, a powerful selection of freedom songs that came from Africa to North America via the slave trade. For this inspirational concert she’s joined by a fine band and local Orkney singers to present a moving selection of familiar songs.


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“My exploration of African-American spirituals is a way for me to challenge my classically trained mind, My people have spirituals, which played a huge part in how my ancestors came to be here — free, no longer owned, no longer stolen — on the East Coast of Canada.”

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Wednesday27th June

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Excursion

ZOË MARTLEW22.00 St Peter’s Kirk, SandwickBuses depart 21.15 Concert starts at 22.00

Zoë Martlew ...........................Cello

Martlew .....................................New WorkHarvey .......................................Curve with PlateuxSørensen ..................................The Wings of Spring (2010)Ligeti ...........................................Sonata for Solo CelloSainte Columbe .....................Les Pleurs (arr. Martlew)Martlew .....................................“Scratch”Nordentoft ............................... ImpetuosoSørensen ..................................The Wings of Spring (2004)

The drama of solo cello is exploited here in a recital of music ranging from pieces originally for viol to newly created works by this cellist/composer. At the heart of the recital is Ligeti’s beguiling and hypnotic solo sonata.

A virtuoso, a composer, a writer, Zoë Martlew brings her virtuosity together with her sensitive interpretation to explore the acoustics of St Peter’s with intriguing solo repertoire.


Ticket includes transportBuses depart Palace Road, Kirkwall at 21:15 / Concert 22:00Buses depart St Peter’s Kirk and return to Palace Road after the concertParking is very limited, please use the Festival buses

WORLD PREMIÈRE

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WRAP PARTYChamberlain & Haywood

21.30 The Sound Archive, Kirkwall

PAUL CHAMBERLAINAccordion

MICHAEL HAYWOOD Saxophone, Whistle, Violin, Clarinet

Join us from 21:30 onwards for the closing celebration of the 2018 Festival with entertainment by this wonderful duo who bring an eclectic, energy-filled trip round Europe. Gypsy rhythms, Balkan tunes, traditional Scots and jazz inspired melodies. A great way to wrap up our midsummer festivities.

Doors 21:30Music from 22:00Tickets £10 / Concessions £8

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MICHAEL BUTTEN19.30 Graand Auld Byre, Westray

Michael Butten .....................Guitar

Legnani .....................................Fantasia in A, Op. 19JS Bach ......................................Violin Sonata No. 3 in C, BWV1005Gerhard .....................................FantasiaDowland ...................................Praeludium, Fantasia, Frog Galliard, Lord Strang’s MarchJS Bach ......................................Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004

Michael Butten explores music written for the guitar and lute whilst taking two Bach arrangements from the violin repertoire as cornerstones of his recital. Gerhard’s Fantasia takes us into the 20th Century and firmly hints at the Spanish roots of the guitar.

Tickets at the door £5Duration 1 hour 30 mins

This concert will be recorded or future broadcast by BBC Radio 3

“a strikingly committed and technically adroit performance”

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