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Welcome Welcome to our 39th annual celebration of the arts – created and curated in partnership with composers, musicians and artists, taking place amid the timeless beauty of the Welsh Marches.

As a result of the continuing Covid-19 pandemic, our 2021 edition has a different look. To enable compliance with government guidelines, we are presenting hour-long socially-distanced events. To facilitate the presentation of larger-scale concerts, the Festival is widening its reach to include Hereford Cathedral and Leominster Priory for the first time. Before booking, please acquaint yourself with our Covid-19 safety protocols, found at the back of this brochure.

The music programme embraces a variety of constituents – an exploration of music from France centring on Ravel, a mini-feature of Michael Tippett and music by Malcolm Arnold marking his centenary. Supporting events include an assortment of talks and exhibitions – at the Sidney Nolan Trust and Bleddfa Centre – and the popular Presteigne Open Studios weekend.

The Festival’s advocacy for new music continues with exciting works from composer-in-residence Cecilia McDowall – in her 70th year – and others: James Francis Brown, Gary Carpenter, Nathan James Dearden, Sarah Frances Jenkins, Luke Styles, Adrian Sutton, Hilary Tann, Matthew Taylor and James B Wilson, our 2021 RPS Emerging Composer.

I hope you’ll be tempted to join us in and around Radnorshire’s favourite Festival town for another amazing collection of world-class events.

George Vass, artistic director

Croeso

Croeso i’n 39ain dathliad blynyddol o’r celfyddydau – wedi’i greu a’i guradu mewn partneriaeth â chyfansoddwyr, cerddorion ac artistiaid, ac yn cael ei gynnal yn harddwch bythol y Mers.

O ganlyniad i bandemig parhaus Covid-19, mae rhifyn 2021 ychydig yn wahanol. Er mwyn gallu cydymffurfio â chanllawiau’r llywodraeth, rydym yn cynnal digwyddiadau awr o hyd gan gadw pellter cymdeithasol. Er mwyn hwyluso’r gwaith o gyflwyno cyngherddau ar raddfa fwy, mae’r ŵyl yn ehangu ei chyrhaeddiad i gynnwys Eglwys Gadeiriol Henffordd a Phriordy Llanllieni am y tro cyntaf. Cyn archebu, dylech ddarllen ein protocolau diogelwch Covid-19, sydd i’w gweld yng nghefn y llyfryn hwn.

Mae’r rhaglen gerddoriaeth yn cynnwys amrywiaeth o gyfansoddion – archwilio cerddoriaeth o Ffrainc sy’n canolbwyntio ar Ravel, darn byr o waith Michael Tippett a cherddoriaeth gan Malcolm Arnold i ddathlu ei ganmlwyddiant. Mae’r digwyddiadau ategol yn cynnwys amrywiaeth o sgyrsiau ac arddangosfeydd – yn Ymddiriedolaeth Sidney Nolan ac Oriel Bleddfa – a phenwythnos poblogaidd Stiwdios Agored Llanandras.

Mae’r gwaith o eirioli dros gerddoriaeth newydd yn parhau gyda gweithiau cyffrous gan y cyfansoddwr preswyl Cecilia McDowall – sy’n 70 eleni – ac eraill: James Francis Brown, Gary Carpenter, Nathan James Dearden, Sarah Frances Jenkins, Luke Styles, Adrian Sutton, Hilary Tann, Matthew Taylor a James B Wilson, cyfansoddwr newydd RPS 2021.

Rwy’n gobeithio y gallwn eich denu i ymuno â ni yn hoff dref Wyliau Sir Faesyfed a’r cyffiniau, ar gyfer casgliad anhygoel arall o ddigwyddiadau o’r radd flaenaf.

George Vass, cyfarwyddwr artistig

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Estates and Agency Group

Presteigne and Norton Town Council

Sponsorship

Arts Council of Wales

The Malcolm Arnold Trust

The John S Cohen Foundation

The Elmley Foundation

The Fidelio Charitable Trust

The Moondance Foundation

The Musicians’ Company

RVW Trust

Tŷ Cerdd

Wales Cultural Recovery Fund

The Williams Church Music Trust

Major Donations

The Real Wine Company

The Stagg Inn, Titley

The Workhouse Gallery and Café, Presteigne

Corporate Patrons

cover photograph (detail): Alex Ramsay | brochure design: Andrew Giles

Essential financial support is also provided by Corporate Patrons, Sponsors and a generous community of Benefactors, Patrons and Friends. If you would like details of any of these or to enquire about other opportunities, please email our Festival Producer: [email protected]

Other Donations

We are enormously grateful to our team of volunteers. Some assist as stewards, programme sellers and drivers, while others provide overnight accommodation for performers and composers over the Festival period. Without them, it would be impossible for us to mount such an inspiring celebration of the arts each year.

Volunteers

In unavoidable circumstances Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts Limited reserves the right to alter artists or programme content.

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THURSDAY 26 AUGUST | DYDD LAU 26 AWST

Event 1 3.30pm Virtuoso Caprices | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 6

Event 2 6.00pm Awakening Shadow | Opera PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 7

Event 3 8.30pm Awakening Shadow | Opera PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 7

FRIDAY 27 AUGUST | DYDD GWENER 27 AWST

Event 4 11.30am Miroirs | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 8

Event 5 11.30am Still in the water and singingbirds | Concert PEMBRIDGE ∙ St Mary’s Parish Church 9

Event 6 2.30pm Miroirs | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 8

Event 7 2.30pm Still in the water and singingbirds | Concert PEMBRIDGE ∙ St Mary’s Parish Church 9

Event 8 4.30pm Tam O’Shanter and the Avant-Garde | Talk PRESTEIGNE ∙ Memorial Hall 10

Event 9 6.00pm Britten, Grime and Webern | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 11

Event 10 7.45pm A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs | Talk PRESTEIGNE ∙ Memorial Hall 12

Event 11 8.30pm Britten, Grime and Webern | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 11

SATURDAY 28 AUGUST | DYDD SADWRN 28 AWST

Event 12 11.30am A Shropshire Lad | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 13

Event 13 2.30pm A Shropshire Lad | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 13

Event 14 3.00pm Virtuoso Caprices | Concert LEINTWARDINE ∙ St Mary Magdalene 14

Event 15 4.30pm Michael Tippett – A Discussion | Conversation PRESTEIGNE ∙ Memorial Hall 14

Event 16 6.00pm Tippett, McDowall and Ravel | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 15

Event 17 8.30pm Tippett, McDowall and Ravel | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 15

SUNDAY 29 AUGUST | DYDD SUL 29 AWST

11.00am Festival Eucharist PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 16

Event 18 3.00pm Festival Orchestra at Leominster Priory | Concert LEOMINSTER ∙ Priory Church 17

Event 19 4.30pm Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Literature PRESTEIGNE ∙ Memorial Hall 16

Event 20 5.30pm Festival Orchestra at Leominster Priory | Concert LEOMINSTER ∙ Priory Church 17

Event 21 6.00pm Debussy Connections | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 18

Event 22 8.30pm Debussy Connections | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 18

MONDAY 30 AUGUST | DYDD LLUN 30 AWST

Event 23 11.30am Variants of Solitude | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 19

Event 24 2.30pm Variants of Solitude | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 19

Event 25 3.00pm Choir of Royal Holloway in Leominster | Concert LEOMINSTER ∙ Priory Church 20

Event 26 4.00pm I have a Dream | Literature PRESTEIGNE ∙ Memorial Hall 21

Event 27 5.30pm Choir of Royal Holloway in Leominster | Concert LEOMINSTER ∙ Priory Church 20

Event 28 6.00pm Schumann Piano Quartet | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 22

Event 29 8.30pm Schumann Piano Quartet | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 22

TUESDAY 31 AUGUST | DYDD MAWRTH 31 AWST

Event 30 11.30am Bach and Butterflies | Concert PRESTEIGNE ∙ St Andrew’s Church 23

Event 31 3.00pm Festival Gala | Concert HEREFORD ∙ Cathedral 24

Event 32 7.45pm Festival Gala | Concert HEREFORD ∙ Cathedral 24

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Thursday August at 3.30pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Lau Awst am 3.30pm | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 26EVENT 1

VIRTUOSO CAPRICES

Fenella Humphreys violin

Fritz Kreisler Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice, Op 6Cecilia McDowall Anaphora Grażyna Bacewicz Caprice No 2 Niccolò Paganini Caprice in B flat, Op 1 No 13 Sally Beamish, Emily Howard, Alexandra Harwood, Adrian Sutton, Andra Patterson, Robin Haigh, Piers Hellawell, Héloïse Werner, Stuart MacRae, Laura Reid, James Joslin, Seonaid Aitken Variations on Paganini’s 24th Caprice Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade Devil’s Minion Roxanna Panufnik Hora Bessarabia Henryk Wieniawski Étude-Caprice in E flat, Op 18 No 2Sarah Frances Jenkins Tincture of the Skies Presteigne Festival commission ∙ World premiereNiccolò Paganini Caprice in A minor, Op 1 No 24

Tickets | Tocynnau £20 Premium | Premiwm ∙ £15 restricted view | golweg gyfyngedig ∙ £6 student | mfyrwyr Advance booking only | Archebu ymlaen llaw yn unig

Event end time: 4.30pm | Amser gorffen y digwyddiad: 4.30pm

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Nova Music Opera Richard Williams director · George Vass conductor

Luke Styles and Benjamin Britten Awakening Shadow, a chamber opera Commissioned jointly by the Presteigne and Cheltenham festivals ∙ Welsh premiere

Awakening Shadow is a fusion of newly composed scenes by Luke Styles with Benjamin Britten’s five Canticles, brought together to form a thoughtful through-composed work for five singers and four instrumentalists, here presented in a semi-staged production.

Donna Lennard soprano ∙ Ralph Thomas Williams countertenor Christopher Bowen and Bradley Smith tenors ∙ Felix Kemp baritoneTimothy End piano ∙ Sophie Mather violin ∙ Alexei Watkins horn ∙ Rachel Wick harp


Event end times: Event 2 7.15pm, Event 3 9.45pm Amseroedd diwedd y digwyddiad: Digwyddiad 2 7.15pm, Digwyddiad 3 9.45pm

AWAKENING SHADOW

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Friday August at 11.30am | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Gwener Awst am 11.30am | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 27EVENT 4

Friday August at 2.30pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Gwener Awst am 2.30pm | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 27EVENT 6

George Xiaoyuan Fu piano

Henri Dutilleux Le jeu des contraires, from ‘Préludes’ Timo Andres Clear and Cold Freya Waley-Cohen Bad Habit James B Wilson New work Presteigne Festival commission ∙ World premiereMaurice Ravel Miroirs



MIROIRS

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Friday August at 11.30am | St Mary’s Parish Church, Pembridge HR6 9EA Dydd Gwener Awst am 11.30am | Eglwys Blwyf y Santes Fair, Pembridge HR6 9EA 27EVENT 5

Friday August at 2.30pm | St Mary’s Parish Church, Pembridge HR6 9EA Dydd Gwener Awst am 2.30pm | Eglwys Blwyf y Santes Fair, Pembridge HR6 9EA 27EVENT 7

Ensemble Perpetuo James Turnbull oboe · Fenella Humphreys violin · Rosalind Ventris viola · Cara Berridge cello

David Matthews String Trio No 1, Op 48 Hilary Tann Oboe Quartet: Still in the water and singingbirds Presteigne Festival commission ∙ World premiere Cecilia McDowall Time between Tides Hugh Wood Ithaka, Op 61 Malcolm Arnold Oboe Quartet, Op 61

Tickets | Tocynnau £25 ∙ £6 student | mfyrwyr Advance booking only | Archebu ymlaen llaw yn unig

Transport – Event 7 only | Cludiant – Digwyddiad 7 yn unigThe Festival Bus will depart from Presteigne at 1.45pm (please see Booking Information)Bydd Bws yr Ŵyl yn gadael Llanandras am 1.45pm (gweler Gwybodaeth Archebu)


STILL IN THE WATER AND SINGINGBIRDS

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Friday August at 4.30pm | Memorial Hall, Presteigne LD8 2DU Dydd Gwener Awst am 4.30pm | Neuadd Goffa, Llanandras LD8 2DU 27EVENT 8

TAM O’SHANTER AND THE AVANT-GARDE: MALCOLM ARNOLD AT 100

Christopher Austin

Few composers as broadly popular as Malcolm Arnold have been so broadly misunderstood. For most of his creative life his work was beset by controversy due to an aesthetic stance seemingly at odds with tides of musical history. Now, despite his music having found the widest audiences through cinema and recordings, Arnold’s status as a permanent yet popular outsider seems embedded more than ever, with the documentation of his life and work in books, articles and film often reinforcing a narrative that reduces the man and his music to a cypher in an aesthetic war that never really was.

To mark Malcolm Arnold’s centenary, Christopher Austin takes a fresh look at the work of this singular creative artist, where nothing is quite what it seems.



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Heath Quartet

Anton Webern Langsamer Satz Helen Grime String Quartet No 2 Benjamin Britten String Quartet No 2 in C, Op 36



BRITTEN, GRIME and WEBERN

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Friday August at 7.45pm | Memorial Hall, Presteigne LD8 2DU Dydd Gwener Awst am 7.45pm | Neuadd Goffa, Llanandras LD8 2DU 27EVENT 10

A DICTIONARY of INTERESTING

and IMPORTANT DOGS

Peter J Conradi

In his book A Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs, Peter J Conradi embraces the intriguing, provocative, the essential and the trivial, foraying into history, literature and

personal anecdote to unearth a treasure trove of legends. He ranges from Jane Welsh Carlyle’s dog Nero – who tried to learn to fly – through Shakespeare’s dislike of dogs to the lapdogs secreted in first class on the Titanic and Edinburgh’s Greyfriars Bobby, reputed to have stayed by his master’s grave for fourteen years.

Peter J Conradi FRSL is biographer of Iris Murdoch; his most recent book Family Business: A Memoir was published by Seren in 2019.



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Saturday August at 11.30am | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Sadwrn Awst am 11.30am | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 28EVENT 12

Saturday August at 2.30pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Sadwrn Awst am 2.30pm | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 28EVENT 13

Jonathan Gunthorpe baritone ∙ Timothy End piano

Richard Rodney Bennett Songs before SleepNinfea Cruttwell-Reade From Joseph Roth’s ‘Radetzkymarsch’Ian Venables The Pine Boughs Past Music, Op 39 Cecilia McDowall A Crescent Ship World premiereGeorge Butterworth A Shropshire Lad



A SHROPSHIRE LAD

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EVENT 14

EVENT 15

VIRTUOSO CAPRICES

MICHAEL TIPPETT – A DISCUSSION

Fenella Humphreys violin

For repertoire please see EVENT 1 on page 6



Oliver Soden and Thomas Hyde

Oliver Soden, author of the hugely successful Michael Tippett: The Biography, chosen as ‘Book of the Year’ in The Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement and a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’, is in conversation with composer Thomas Hyde about Tippett’s life and work.



Saturday August at 3.00pm | St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Leintwardine SY7 0LB Dydd Sadwrn Awst am 3.00pm | Eglwys y Santes Fair Fadlen, Leintwardine SY7 0LB 28

Saturday August at 4.30pm | Memorial Hall, Presteigne LD8 2DU Dydd Sadwrn Awst am 4.30pm | Neuadd Goffa, Llanandras LD8 2DU 28

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EVENT 16

EVENT 17

Heath Quartet

Cecilia McDowall The Case of the Unanswered WireMaurice Ravel String Quartet in FMichael Tippett String Quartet No 5



TIPPETT, McDOWALL and RAVEL

Saturday August at 3.00pm | St Mary Magdalene’s Church, Leintwardine SY7 0LB Dydd Sadwrn Awst am 3.00pm | Eglwys y Santes Fair Fadlen, Leintwardine SY7 0LB

Saturday August at 6.00pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Sadwrn Awst am 6.00pm | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 28

Saturday August at 8.30pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Sadwrn Awst am 8.30pm | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 28

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Sunday August at 11.00am | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Sul Awst am 11.00am | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 29FESTIVAL EUCHARIST

All are welcome to worship at the Festival Eucharist, though numbers are restricted this year due to Covid-19 guidance. Music to be sung at the service includes Dan Locklair’s The Mystery of God, George Arthur’s Missa Brevis and Cecilia McDowall’s Love incorruptible.

Choir of Royal Holloway ∙ Rupert Gough director

Sunday August at 4.30pm | Memorial Hall, Presteigne LD8 2DU Dydd Sul Awst am 4.30pm | Neuadd Goffa, Llanandras LD8 2DU 29EVENT 19

Fiona Sampson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who grew up in Herefordshire, was one of the nineteenth century’s most influential writers. Nominated for Poet Laureate, she was buried as a heroine of the Italian struggle for independence. Hugely famous, she helped change British popular opinion on a range of contemporary socio-political issues; yet both her life and her work also hold up an extraordinary mirror to life in Britain today.

Fiona Sampson, a leading poet and writer, has received numerous national and international awards and been

published in 38 languages. Her books include In Search of Mary Shelley (2018) and Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2021).

https://profilebooks.com/work/two-way-mirror/



ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING: THROUGH THE TWO-WAY MIRROR

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Sunday August at 3.00pm | Priory Church, Leominster HR6 8NH Dydd Sul Awst am 3.00pm | Eglwys Priordy, Llanllieni HR6 8NH 29EVENT 18

Sunday August at 5.30pm | Priory Church, Leominster HR6 8NH Dydd Sul Awst am 5.30pm | Eglwys Priordy, Llanllieni HR6 8NH 29EVENT 20

Presteigne Festival Orchestra ∙ George Vass conductor Fenella Humphreys and Francesca Barritt violin

Jessie Montgomery Starburst Cecilia McDowall Off the GroundMalcolm Arnold Concerto for two violins and string orchestra, Op 77Huw Watkins Three Welsh Songs Gary Carpenter as dreams are made on Presteigne Festival co-commission ∙ World premiereMichael Tippett Little Music

Tickets | Tocynnau £25 Main Nave | Prif Gorff ∙ £20 South Aisle, restricted view | De Aisle, golweg gyfyngedig£15 North Nave, very limited view | Corff y gogledd, golygfa gyfyngedig iawn ∙ £6 student | mfyrwyr Advance booking only | Archebu ymlaen llaw yn unig

Transport – Event 18 only | Cludiant – Digwyddiad 18 yn unig The Festival Bus will depart from Presteigne at 2.10pm (please see Booking Information) Bydd Bws yr Ŵyl yn gadael Llanandras am 2.10pm (gweler Gwybodaeth Archebu)


FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA at LEOMINSTER PRIORY

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George Xiaoyuan Fu piano ∙ Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade flower pots

Michael Tippett Piano Sonata No 2 Paul Dukas La plainte, au loin, du faun Germaine Tailleferre Pastorale Manuel de Falla Homenaje ‘Pour le tombeau de Debussy’ Oliver Knussen Ophelia’s Last Dance, Op 32 Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade Three études for piano and flower potsClaude Debussy Études – excerpts



Sunday August at 6.00pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Sul Awst am 6.00pm | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 29EVENT 21

Sunday August at 8.30pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Sul Awst am 8.30pm | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 29EVENT 22

DEBUSSY CONNECTIONS

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James Turnbull oboe ∙ Catriona McDermid bassoon ∙ Timothy End piano

James Francis Brown Variants of Solitude World premiereMalcolm Arnold Oboe Sonatina, Op 28 Henri Dutilleux Sarabande et Cortège Helen Grime Five North-Eastern Scenes Francis Poulenc Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano



Monday August at 11.30am | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Llun Awst am 11.30am | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 30EVENT 23

Monday August at 2.30pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Llun Awst am 2.30pm | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 30EVENT 24

VARIANTS OF SOLITUDE

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Monday August at 3.00pm | Priory Church, Leominster HR6 8NH Dydd Llun Awst am 3.00pm | Eglwys Priordy, Llanllieni HR6 8NH 30EVENT 25

Monday August at 5.30pm | Priory Church, Leominster HR6 8NH Dydd Llun Awst am 5.30pm | Eglwys Priordy, Llanllieni HR6 8NHF 30EVENT 27

CHOIR OF ROYAL HOLLOWAY in LEOMINSTER

Choir of Royal Holloway ∙ Rupert Gough conductor

George Arthur From dustNathan James Dearden Full of sweet days Presteigne Festival commission ∙ World premiereCecilia McDowall When Time is Broke: Three Shakespeare Songs Maurice Ravel (arr Rupert Gough) Requiem aeternam Pierre Villette Kyrie (Messe da pacem, Op 38) Yves Castagnet Veni Sancte Spiritus

Tickets | Tocynnau £25 Main Nave | Prif Gorff ∙ £20 South Aisle, restricted view | De Aisle, golweg gyfyngedig£15 North Nave, very limited view | Corff y gogledd, golygfa gyfyngedig iawn ∙ £6 student | mfyrwyr Advance booking only | Archebu ymlaen llaw yn unig



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Nicholas Murray

Following his exploration in 2019 of the dystopian visions of Brave New World and 1984, poet and biographer Nicholas Murray looks at the visionaries of the Utopian tradition who dared to dream of alternative and better worlds. He will look in particular at the works of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century utopians such as William Morris’ News from Nowhere, Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward and feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland.



Monday August at 3.00pm | Priory Church, Leominster HR6 8NH Dydd Llun Awst am 3.00pm | Eglwys Priordy, Llanllieni HR6 8NH

I HAVE A DREAM: THE UTOPIAN VISIONARIES

Monday August at 4.00pm | Memorial Hall, Presteigne LD8 2DU Dydd Llun Awst am 4.00pm | Neuadd Goffa, Llanandras LD8 2DU 30EVENT 26

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George Xiaoyuan Fu piano ∙ Ensemble Perpetuo Fenella Humphreys violin · Rosalind Ventris viola · Cara Berridge cello

Adrian Sutton Trio DancesPresteigne Festival commission ∙ World premiereJean Françaix String Trio in C Robert Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat, Op 47





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Monday August at 6.00pm | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Llun Awst am 6.00pm | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF

Cara Berridge cello

György Ligeti Sonata for solo cello Kaija Saariaho Sept Papillons Johann Sebastian Bach Suite in C minor, BWV1011


Event end time: 12.30pm Amser gorffen y digwyddiad: 12.30pm

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BACH AND BUTTERFLIES

Tuesday August at 11.30am | St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne LD8 2AF Dydd Mawrth Awst am 11.30am | Eglwys Sant Andreas, Llanandras LD8 2AF 31

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Tuesday August at 3.00pm | Hereford Cathedral HR1 2NG Dydd Mawrth Awst am 3.00pm | Eglwys Gadeiriol Henffordd HR1 2NG

Tuesday August at 7.45pm | Hereford Cathedral HR1 2NG Dydd Mawrth Awst am 7.45pm | Eglwys Gadeiriol Henffordd HR1 2NG

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FESTIVAL GALA

Choir of Royal Holloway ∙ Presteigne Festival Orchestra James Turnbull oboe ∙ George Vass conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No 13 in F, K112Cecilia McDowall Ave maris stellaMatthew Taylor Oboe ConcertoWorld premiereWolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ave verum corpus, K618Malcolm Arnold Sinfonietta No 1, Op 48Cecilia McDowall Shipping Forecast

Tickets | Tocynnau £25 Nave Premium | Premiwm ∙ £18 Side Aisle and Transepts, restricted view | Aisle Ochr a Transepts, golweg gyfyngedig ∙ £6 student | mfyrwyrr Advance booking only | Archebu ymlaen llaw yn unig



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Open Studios 2021Artists and makers in and around Presteigne will once again be opening up their doors to visitors over the Festival weekend; you will be able to wander around the town and see a wide range of talented people at work, along with their work on display. Map and full details available online later.

Various venues in Presteigne Lleoliadau amrywiol yn Llanandras

Saturday 28 August to Monday 30 August Dydd Sadwrn 28 Awst i ddydd Llun 30 Awst

Colour of the Sky – Auschwitz PaintingsSir Sidney Nolan began to contemplate and make art works about the concentration camps as early as 1944. In 1962, Nolan finally came face to face with the horrors when he travelled to Poland; the trip would haunt him and influence much of his work during the years to come. For the first time, Nolan’s Auschwitz paintings are presented along with original photographs Nolan made during his visit.

Robert Cunning

Moons – Jesssica Watkins

Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne LD8 2LL Ymddiriedolaeth Sidney Nolan, Y Rodd, Llanandras LD8 2LL

Open Friday 27 August to Monday 30 August, 11.00am-4.00pm Ar agor dydd Gwener 27 Awst i dydd Llun 30 Awst, 11.00am-4.00pm

Admission charges apply for Rodd Court and Gallery Mae taliadau mynediad yn berthnasol ar gyfer Llys ac Oriel Rodd

Between 2 RiversExplore the rivers Severn and Wye, their banks, water meadows and countryside with artists Robert Cunning, Martin Eldridge and Michelle Anderson.

All are notable for their capturing of landscape and sense of place.

The Bleddfa Centre, Bleddfa, Knighton LD7 1PA Oriel Bleddfa, Bleddfa, Tref-y-Clawdd LD7 1PA

Open Thursday 26 August to Monday 30 August, 11.00am-4.00pm Ar agor dydd Lau 26 Awst i ddydd Llun 30 Awst, 11.00am-4.00pm

FESTIVAL EXHIBITIONS

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COVID-19 SAFETYWe take seriously our responsibility to keep audience members, artists, staff and volunteers safe during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and therefore ask that you read the following information carefully before booking.

The 2021 Presteigne Festival will operate in line with government regulation in place at the time of our events. This may vary, depending if the venue concerned is in Wales or England.

We have made assumptions based on the best current available guidance about audience numbers, with safe social-distancing. Guidance may change before the Festival period and we therefore reserve the right to maintain flexibility on venue capacities. Should we be forced to reduce capacities, we will give priority to those who booked first.

Although refunds are not normally made, they will be available should Government Covid-19 guidance force the cancellation of all or part of the 2021 Presteigne Festival.

We reserve the right to refuse entry to anyone not willing to comply with the relevant regulation, or to ask that person to leave the venue.

Thank you for your co-operation in helping to make the 2021 Presteigne Festival as safe and relaxed as possible under what may be difficult circumstances.

BOOKING INFORMATION The Presteigne Festival uses a simple system with multiple ticket types available for the different areas of venues used by the organisation. In 2021 all seats MUST be booked in advance.

Premium tickets are available for events at St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, and in Hereford Cathedral; they are numbered and afford excellent views of the stage; sight-lines in other areas are less good.

Student tickets are available to individuals over the age of 10 and in full-time education (including university). Student concessions are available in both Premium and other areas for all events.

The 2021 Presteigne Festival will operate a Covid-19 safe environment; we expect our audience to follow this simple code:

• Please use hand sanitiser before entering Festival performance venues;• Please wear a face covering at all times when inside Festival performance venues;• Please wait to be shown to your seat by a member of Festival staff;• After the performance, please remain seated until shown out by a member of Festival staff.

Please note that as a result of social-distancing, tickets for many events will be in great demand. We strongly advise early booking online – all tickets MUST be booked in advance.

BOOKING DATES 2021Tuesday 25 May | Booking opens for Benefactors, Patrons and FriendsTuesday 8 June | Online booking opens via www.presteignefestival.comTuesday 8 June I Postal and Telephone booking opens – Telephone at any time and leave a message on the answerphone. A member of the Box Office staff will call back to take details of your order. Alternatively, download an order form at www.presteignefestival.comMonday 16 August | In person booking opens

Bookings may be made by telephone (credit and debit card bookings only) on 01544 267800 and in person at the Festival Box Office, Assembly Rooms, Broad Street, Presteigne – opening times below:

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Published by Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts LimitedRegistered Charity No 1039968 Company No 02952926

BOX OFFICE OPENING TIMES16-21 August 2021 | Monday to Saturday 10.00am-1.00pm23-31 August 2021 | Daily 10.00am-5.00pm

BOOKING FEES

As a registered charity, the Presteigne Festival charges a Booking Fee to cover costs associated with the provision of a Box Office. The 2021 Booking Fee is £2 per transaction and applies to all sales – online, telephone or in person at the Box Office.

TICKET COLLECTION

Tickets will be held at the Festival Box Office and can be collected during normal opening hours (see above). If, for any reason, you are not able to collect your tickets before your first event, please telephone the Box Office where our team will be able to help. If you prefer to receive tickets by post, please request at the time of booking.

PAYMENT

Major credit and debit cards (Visa/MasterCard/Maestro) are accepted. Cheques should be made payable to Presteigne Festival Limited. We regret that refunds cannot be made, except in Covid-19 related circumstances.

ACCESS

All venues have wheelchair access. Please notify the Festival Box Office if you require a wheelchair space or if you have any other specific access needs. Should you need a large-print version of this brochure, the Festival Box Office will be happy to assist. There is an induction hearing loop at St Andrew’s Church, Presteigne, Leominster Priory and Hereford Cathedral but not at other venues. We offer free companion tickets to customers who are registered disabled, please call the Festival Box Office on 01544 267800 or email [email protected]. It is not possible to book these tickets online.

FESTIVAL BUS

A Covid-19 safe Festival Bus is available to transport patrons from Presteigne (Recycling Site car park, opposite Presteigne Memorial Hall) to selected events taking place outside of town. Departure times are given as part of event information; return journeys depart approximately 15 minutes after the end of an event. Face coverings MUST be worn on all bus journeys. Return fares are given below, tickets MUST be booked in advance, preferably at the time of event booking:

Pembridge and Leominster £10; Hereford £20

Please use this service and help us to become a more sustainable organisation. Seats will be reserved for bus users at destination venues.

Festival Box Office: Presteigne Festival, PO Box 30, Presteigne, Powys LD8 2WF

Telephone 01544 267800 Website and online booking www.presteignefestival.com

Gallery Gallery selling gifts, cards and local art made by companies and individuals who share our ethos.

Handwoven rug and textile showroom.

Bespoke rug design and weaving service.

Rug cleaning and repairs in our workshop.

CaféOutdoor covered & heated café serving cakes,

light lunches, teas, coffees, beer and wine.

Open Wed - Sat 10-4 & Every Day During Presteigne Festival

Industrial Estate, Presteigne, LD8 2UFShop Online www.theworkhousegallery.co.uk

01544 267864 [email protected]

Documents

26 31 August 20 21...Event 15 4.30pm Michael Tippett – A Discussion | Conversation PRESTEIGNE ∙ Memorial Hall 14 Event 16 6.00pm Tippett, McDowall and Ravel | Concert PRESTEIGNE