Barnes Music Festival A5 Brochure 2019 v5
Barnes Music Festival A5 Brochure 2019 v5
M USIC
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Barnes
Music
Festival
9–24 March 2019
www.barnesmusicfestival.com
Welcome to the Music & Invention
Sat 9 Mar 12 noon Velehrad Centre Barnes Young Musician of the Year Finals – Paul McCreesh (adj.)
Barnes Music Festival 2019 7.30pm St Mary’s Opening Concert Richter Four Seasons Recomposed, Biber, Vivaldi, Panufnik
Fenella Humphreys vl, St Paul’s Schools Choirs, James Day
Photography Exhibition launch
Leonardo da Vinci’s 500th anniversary this year has inspired us Sun 10 Mar 3.00pm St Mary’s Barnes Concert Band
to choose Music & Invention as our theme for the 2019 Barnes 7.00pm St Michael’s Glorious Bach – English Chamber Singers & St Michael’s Choir
Music Festival. Leonardo was the quintessential Renaissance man Mon 11 Mar 7.30pm St Mary’s Around the Horn Chris Larkin
who excelled both in the arts and in the sciences – and it is little
Tues 12 Mar 1.00pm St Mary’s Organ Recital Luke Bond
known that he was also an accomplished musician as a singer and
7.00pm St Mary’s Rêverie. Life and Loves of Debussy Lucy Parham & Alistair McGowan
lyre player. It is his ingenuity, curiosity and invention which have
guided us and our artists in choosing a programme which reflect Wed 13 Mar 7.30pm St Mary’s Instant & Eternity Oriole Quartet – Ravel, Brahms, Pärt & Hindemith
Leonardo’s creativity. “Among the many Thur 14 Mar 1.00pm St Mary’s Cello Recital Leo Popplewell – Dodgson, Carter, Britten
This year’s festival includes thirty events over two weeks at good reasons for 7.30pm St Mary’s Piano Recital Cordelia Williams – Bach, Prokofiev, Pärt & Liszt (BMS)
venues across Barnes. Our programme features performances being enthusiastic Fri 15 Mar 1.00pm St Mary’s Beethoven Kreutzer Sonata Violin & Piano Recital Henry Chandler & J-P Ekins
from international artists, local groups and many young about life in Barnes, 7.30pm St Mary’s Bach St John Passion Tiffin Boys’ Choir,
performers, with over 800 musicians taking part. We hope that we can now add Instruments of Time & Truth Edward Higginbottom
there is something for everyone, whatever your musical taste, a terrific music Sat 16 Mar 1.00pm OSO Harrodian School Jazz Group
from instrumental to orchestral, choral to opera, jazz to film and festival every year.”
7.30pm St Mary’s Britten Turn of the Screw Riverside Opera, James Day
photography. Lord Patten of Barnes
We are grateful to all our supporters, especially our main Sun 17 Mar 11.30am St Mary’s Come & Sing Explore Invictus with Howard Goodall & Fulham Camerata
sponsors Chestertons and Russell-Cooke, to the Friends of Barnes We are grateful to 6.00pm St Mary’s Invictus performance with Junior Royal Academy orchestra
Music Festival, and to the many volunteers and local organisations our inspiring Patrons 8.30pm St Mary’s Rachmaninoff Vespers by candlelight King’s College London Choir
Howard Goodall,
who make the festival happen. But most of all we are grateful to the Mon 18 Mar 7.30pm St Mary’s Byron Don Juan musico-drama Davina Clarke & Tama Matheson
Roxanna Panufnik,
musicians for bringing such high quality music for us to enjoy in Gyles Brandreth Tues 19 Mar 1.00pm St Michael’s Organ Recital Martin Neary
Barnes. and Lord Patten of
7.30pm St Mary’s Re-inventing the Trio Linos Piano Trio
We look forward to welcoming you all to this year’s festival Barnes
Wed 20 Mar 7.30pm St Mary’s The Inventive Abbot Theodora
celebrating Music & Invention and we hope that it gives you much
pleasure and enjoyment. Thur 21 Mar 1.00pm St Mary’s Re-inventing the Folk Michael Pandya (piano), Paul Grant (baritone) & Eleanor
Sanderson-Nash (soprano)
James Day Andrew Summers 7.30pm Holy Trinity Community Evening Barnes Community Choir
Artistic Director Chairman 7.30pm London Wetlands Musical Flights of Fancy guitar recital Marc Jean-Bernard
Fri 22 Mar 7.00pm Wathen Hall Leonardo & His Flying Machines Schools Concert
7.30/9.30pm Olympic Music in the Dark
Sat 23 Mar 4.30pm St Michael’s In the Home of Leonardo Family event (Music Around the Park)
7.00pm St Mary’s Music for Royalty Barnes Choir, incl. BYM winner performance
Sun 24 Mar 10.30am Olympic Studios I Berlioz… Tony Palmer film
6.00pm St Mary’s Festival Choral Evensong Bishop David Stancliffe. St Mary’s & St Michael’s Choirs
Tickets
Online from
We are grateful to the Friends of Barnes Music Festival for
their generous support. Music & Invention
www.barnesmusicfestival.com
In person from Chestertons Alastair & Libby Aberdare Juliet Kingsmill
offices or complete the form at Geoffrey & Fiona Barnett Anthony Land
the back of the brochure Margaret & David Barrie Stephen & Roxanna
Stephen Beard Macklow-Smith
The thirty events of the 2019 Festival have an immersive Musico-Drama based upon the
Gyles & Michèle Brandreth Ben & Sue Mackworth-Praed
Chestertons Barnes been inspired by the work of the polymath life of Lord Byron.
Alastair & Dawn Cameron Chris & John Madeley
68-69 Church Road Leonardo da Vinci, the ‘Renaissance Man’, Reflecting Leonardo the inventor,
Brian & Celia Cleave Rodney & Mary Milne-Day
Barnes SW13 9LD whose output was truly ingenious. He held works by local composers are a highlight of
Miranda Corben Christopher & Diane Morcom
Christopher Morgan
a unique ability to combine creativity and the festival. Our two composer patrons have
Jenny Cross
Chestertons North Barnes Katherine Passerieu science to produce such a range of output: works performed in the festival: Roxanna
Pip Danby
192 Castelnau Chris & Lavender Patten from exquisite paintings to complex Panufnik’s Winter in Tibet is to be performed
Patricia Darke
Barnes SW13 9DH Eleanor Davison Lindy Peartree mechanical designs. at the Opening Night concert alongside music
David Devons Philip Pirie The Festival spans an even greater spanning four centuries culminating this
Chestertons East Sheen Giles & Annie Dimock Paul Phillips number of genres and mediums – alongside span of time with Max Richter’s Four Seasons
254a Upper Richmond Road Jane Dodgson Jenny Pitman orchestral, choral and chamber music we Recomposed. Howard Goodall explores his
East Sheen SW14 8AG Anthony Figgis Tom Ridley present our very first opera: Britten’s Turn new work Invictus and cellist Leo Popplewell
Christabel Gairdner Alasdair & Joanna Saunders of the Screw in which Henry James’ horror performs rarely heard works by Stephen
Barnes Music Festival Office Susie & Berkeley Gaunt Robert & Caroline Scallon novel is composed as a calculated tightening Dodgson, a resident of Barnes. Our youth
St Mary’s Barnes Andrew Gerry Veronica Schroter structure and pre-calculated melodies. programme continues to expand with Mark
Church Road Pauline Gore Derek & Esther Senhenn Music in the Dark will allow us to experience Wilderspin, Director of Music at St Paul’s
Barnes SW13 9HL Judy & Nik Gowing Gary & Sue Smith music away from other influences, providing composing a new work based on musical
Robin Grant Michael & Gill Spillane a unique pure experience. In contrast, a fragments composed by children of Barnes.
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Jock & Susie Green-Armytage Joanna & Ron Sullam candlelit performance of Rachmaninoff’s All- The actual musical fragments of Leonardo
John & Menna Harries Andrew & Frances Summers
Night Vigil allow a heightened atmospheric are to be performed at the Wetlands Centre
William & Fouki Heller Paul & Jo Teverson
experience in St Mary’s. by guitarist Marc Jean-Bernard. Bach,
Lowell Herbert Judy & Simon Umfreville
Alongside our regular festival perhaps the king of musical invention, has
Michael & Judy Hildesley Michael & Karen Whalley
performers, we welcome new local and always been a mainstay of the festival: Martin
Angela Hoggarth Joan Wheeler-Bennett
international artists performing staples of Neary returns with Bach’s Magnificat and
Hugh & Avril Joslin
the classical canon alongside music that has Edward Higginbottom leads an authentic
Partners and Sponsors been re-arranged, re-composed and re- performance of the St John Passion.
created. The Linos Trio present famous 20th The 2019 Festival presents an eclectic
BARNES
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SOCIETY
Century French masterpieces, and acclaimed array of music in the spirit of the polymath.
accompanist Mikey Pandya curates a recital I encourage you to explore the festival as
PRESIDENT STEVEN ISSERLIS
12.00pm
Youth Programme Young Artists Barnes Young Musician of Tickets free
Paul McCreesh Adjudicator Now in its third year, the Award looks ahead
David Syrus Accompanist to the future of musical performance. As
well as giving our own young musicians a
platform during the Festival, we are also
playing our part in sustaining a high quality of
musicianship in future generations. The first
BYM took place in 2017 and established a high
BARNES standard. In 2018 the number of applicants
YOU NG
more than doubled and we are expecting to
MUSICIAN OF
see further growth in 2019. Applicants must
THE YEAR
either live, attend school or have their music
lessons in Barnes.
Opening Concert
Fenella Humphreys Violin Join rising star Fenella Humphreys (winner of The Barnes Concert Band brings together
St Paul’s Girls’ School Senior Choir the 2018 BBC Music Magazine Instrumental over 40 wind, brass and percussion players
St Paul’s School Chamber Choir Award) in a evening exploring music of Daryle Lowden Conductor returning to the Barnes Music Festival to
James Day Conductor remarkable innovation spanning four present a relaxed Sunday afternoon concert
Barnes Festival Orchestra centuries. St Paul’s School and Girls’ School Malcolm Arnold The Padstow Lifeboat under their new Music Director Daryle
join forces alongside the Barnes Festival Lowden. The programme covers both
Gustav Holst First Suite in Eb
Roxanna Panufnik Tibetan Winter Orchestra in Vivaldi’s Gloria which is set popular tunes with some challenging wind
against Biber’s eccentric Batalia and Tibetan Benny Goodman in Concert (arr Nahiro Iwai) band music and includes the First Suite in Eb
Heinrich Ignaz von Biber Batalia
Winter by renowned British composer and Ralph Ford Dillon’s Flight by Barnes composer Gustav Holst. Listen to
Antonio Vivaldi Gloria Festival patron, Roxanna Panufnik (whose the music and then enjoy free tea and cakes
Edgar Harburg/Harold Arlen
Max Richter Recomposed: Vivaldi, the Four most recent work included the BBC Last Night The Wizard of Oz (arr James Barnes) with the band members.
Seasons of the Proms comission).
Hans Zimmer Time (from the film Inception,
arr Geoff Kingston)
Max Richter’s 2012 ‘‘recomposition’ of
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, a work already Peter Graham Pentium
recognised as one of the most ingenious Nigel Hess Stephenson’s Rocket
compositions of the 21st Century is the
feature of the evening. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
is heard as a distant murmur with three-
quarters of the material discarded and fused
with neo-classical and minimalist textures.
Richter is a German-born British composer
who has been an influential voice in post-
minimalist composition and in the meeting
of contemporary classical and alternative
popular musical styles since the early 2000s.
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Sunday 10 March St Michael’s Barnes Monday 11 March St Mary’s Barnes
7.00pm
7.30-9.30pm
Glorious Bach Tickets
£30, £20, £10 Larkin around the Horn Tickets £15
Lucy Parham
Alistair McGowan
Claude Debussy’s contribution to the
piano repertoire and his influence Luke Bond Martin Neary
Scripted by Lucy Parham on 20th century composition is hard to
overestimate. A genuine inventor, he Henri Mulet Carillon Sortie JS Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542
In this unique portrait of the French piano transformed the use of harmonic structure,
JS Bach Sonata V BWV 529 Thomas Weelkes Why ask you? An English Toy
giant in words and music, Lucy Parham creating a new idiom with colours and
(on the piano) and Alistair McGowan (very complexities that had never been seen (or Herbert Howells Rhapsody No 3 Thomas Tomkins A sad pavane for these
much not) evoke Debussy’s originality and heard) before. But at what cost to those Percy Whitlock Fanfare distracted times
brilliance as a composer and his complex around him? Louis Vierne Berceuse William Walond Voluntary
(and often shocking) emotional life. JS Bach Five Passiontide Chorale preludes
Alexandre Guilmant Sonata 1
Acknowledged as one of Britain’s finest
O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig BWV 618
McGowan reads from the Frenchman’s very pianists, Lucy Parham has created this vivid
revealing journals while Lucy Parham and highly informative portrait of Debussy Luke Bond’s programme features works Christ, du Lamm Gottes BWV 619
performs a number of Debussy’s wonderfully with great sensitivity. Barnes’s Alistair and composers with a truly inventive and Christus, der uns selig macht BWV 620
atmospheric solo piano works including McGowan, after his own successful foray innovative approach. Henri Mulet was an
Da Jesus an dem Kreuze stund BWV 621
Rêverie, Arabesques, several Preludes and the into classical piano with ‘Piano Peace’ at the organist at the Basilica Sacre-Coeur, Paris.
He was deeply moved by many of the visual O Mensch, bewein’ dein Sünde gross BWV 622
exquisite Claire de Lune. 2018 festival, this year brings his considerable
aspects of the church and often reinterpreted Passacaglia and Fugue in G minor BWV 582
acting skills to the fore in a fascinating,
beautiful and highly-memorable show. such features into musical form. The lengths
to which Bach employed established and new Martin Neary’s programme reveals Bach’s
compositional devices in this three movement extraordinary powers of invention within
sonata is the very definition of musical traditional forms. The recital opens
innovation. Herbert Howells looked back by and closes with two of Bach’s greatest
about 300 hundred years to find the models masterpieces, the Fantasia and Fugue in G
upon which he would sprinkle a hefty dose of minor and the Passacaglia and Fugue in C
20th century ideas. Alexandre Guilmant is minor. Contrasting with these massive works
the forefather of the Romantic organ form, are five preludes by Bach, based on Passion
the Organ Symphony which brought the chorales, and a delightful selection of 17th
organ back to life after it’s demise in France and 18th century English voluntaries, which
post the 1789 revolution. Luke Bond plays will provide an opportunity to hear some of
or directs the choral services at St George’s the new sounds of the recently restored St
Chapel Windsor and at services of national Michael’s organ.
and international significance like Royal
weddings.
7.30–9.30pm 1.00pm
Instant & Eternity Tickets £15 Violin & Tickets £10
7.30pm 7.00pm
Piano Recital Tickets £15 St John Passion Tickets £25, £20
1.00pm 7.00pm
Harrodian School Jazz Band Tickets £10 Turn of the Screw – a Chamber Opera Tickets £30, £20
Benjamin Britten
Harrodian School Jazz Band The Harrodian Jazz Band consists of around Based on the novel by Henry-James The Barnes Music Festival is delighted to
led by Director of Music Hannah Ashe 18 pupils between the ages of 12 and 17, Two hours including interval. present its very first opera in conjunction with
many of whom are studying Music at GCSE Riverside Opera. The Turn of the Screw is
A selection of jazz, funk and blues standards or A Level. The band performs music from James Day Conductor regarded by many as Benjamin Britten’s finest
a wide range of styles from classic jazz Donna Stirrup Director work for stage. Our Artistic Director, James
standards to funk and soul covers. They enjoy Riverside Opera Day, is joined by internationally acclaimed
Enjoy delicious food, snacks and drinks
performing regularly both at school and at Laura Jane Stanfield Set & Costume Designer Director, and local resident, Donna Stirrup
from the OSO Café for a relaxing Saturday
external venues such as the Bulls Head Jazz who regularly works at both the ENO and
lunchtime listening to great jazz.
Club in Barnes. Last year the band toured to Glyndebourne. The cast (to be announced in
Budapest, performing at the Budapest Jazz early 2019) will be comprised of rising stars in
Club as well as other venues around the city. the international opera world.
In April 2019 they will be touring to Krakow,
Poland and look forward to having the Based on Henry James’s chilling novel, the
opportunity to play in jazz venues there. mystery of this opera explores a governess
entrusted to with the care of two lively
children. With each scene we come to
question whether their youthful playfulness
is perhaps symptomatic of something
altogether more sinister. Each twist of this
gripping tale is ingeniously married with
Britten’s construction: with each turn the
structure, harmony and melody adds to the
anguish of the performance.
8.30pm 8.30pm
Invictus: A Passion — Come, Sing Tickets £15 Rachmaninoff Verspers Tickets £15
Registration 11.30am at St Mary’s Barnes Invictus: A Passion is a new work for choir, Joseph Fort Conductor The Choir of King’s College London makes
Performance 6.00pm at St Mary’s Barnes soloists, and chamber orchestra by Howard its debut at the Barnes Music Festival,
Goodall, taking a fresh look at the meaning Sergei Rachmaninoff Vespers (All Night Vigil) performing Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night
Come & Sing £20 and modern resonance of the traditional Vigil. More typically known as the ‘Vespers’,
Performance audience £10 Passion oratorio. This is a unique opportunity Rachmaninoff’s composition draws on the
to explore this new work with the multi-award sounds of Orthodox worship—particularly
Howard Goodall Composer winning composer himself, in conjunction the singing of chant and the ringing of bells,
Charlotte La Thrope Soprano with members of the Fulham Camerata led both of which permeate the work. Since its
Tom Castle Tenor by Music Director Harry Castle. The Come & premiere in 1915, the All-Night Vigil has
Fulham Camerata Sing day finishes with a full performance of the established itself as a work dear to choirs and
Junior Royal Academy Chamber Orchestra work with the Junior Royal Academy Chamber audiences alike. Described variously as ‘a
Harry Castle Conductor Orchestra. choir as passionate as it is disciplined’ (BBC
Music Magazine) and ‘English choral singing
at its best’ (Choir and Organ Magazine), the
Choir of King’s College London is widely
recognised as one of the leading collegiate
choirs in the country.
7.30pm 7.30pm
Don Juan — a Musico-Drama Tickets £15 Re-Inventing the Trio Tickets £15
Tama Matheson Actor Tama Matheson and Davina Clarke unite Konrad Elias-Trostmann Violin The late 18th century saw a wider usage of
Davina Clarke Violin once more to bring to life Lord Byron’s Vladimir Waltham Cello two great technological inventions that
Eligio Quinterio Guitarist greatest literary work, Don Juan, as it has Prach Boondiskulchok Piano came to define domestic music making: the
never been experienced before. ‘forte-piano’ and the copperplate printing.
CPE Bach Accompanied Piano Sonata in G Major With this new affordability of printed music,
Don Juan explores the seductive and Wq. 91 no. 2 and a new keyboard instrument that was
scandalous life of Lord Byron’s fictional both loud enough and expressive enough to
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trio in G major,
libertine, intertwined with the equally be accompanied by string instruments, the
Op. 1, No. 2
outrageous life of Lord Byron himself. genre of the piano trio was born.
In this creative interpretation of the literary Re-Inventing the Trio:
classic, Byron and Juan become reflections of Claude Debussy, arr. Linos – Prélude à l’après- The second half of this programme sees the
each other, until it is almost impossible to tell midi d’un faune Linos Piano Trio’s process of re-inventing
where fact ends and fiction begins. Paul Dukas, arr. Linos – The Sorcerer’s the piano trio. Collaboratively, the trio
Apprentice reimagines orchestral colours of three French
Just like Byron’s poem itself, the musical masterpieces, and creates more personal
Maurice Ravel, arr. Linos – La Valse
interpretation of Don Juan is full of wit, and intimate versions for a chamber setting.
charm, elegance, adventure and horror, Debussy’s symphonic poem Prelude to the
revealing a deep portrait of one of the greatest Afternoon of a Faune, marks an important
creative minds of the Romantic era. turning point in European music and was
considered by Boulez to be the “beginning
of modern music”. Dukas’ ever popular
Sorcerer’s Apprentice was featured in Disney’s
1940 creation of Fantasia. And finally the
uncannily haunting La Valse by Ravel, a kind
of proto-post-modernist take on the dance:
“the birth, decay, and destruction of a musical
genre: the waltz” (George Benjamin).
Lord Byron
by Richard Westall
oil on canvas, 1813
© National Portrait Gallery, London
7.30pm 1.00pm
The Inventive Abbot Tickets £15 Re – Inventing the Folk Tickets £10
Theodora
Mariamielle Lamagat Soprano This programme presents a musical homage Michael Pandy Piano This programme presents a varied selection of
Louise Ayrton Violin to François Timoléon, abbé de Choisy Paul Grant Baritone music inspired by folklore. Folk music has been
Conor Gricmanis Violin (1644-1724). Transvestite, abbé and author, Eleanor Sanderson-Nash Soprano a source of huge inspiration for composers
Alice Trocellier Viola da Gamba this contemporary of Louis XIV defied the across the world for several centuries; here the
Lucie Chabard Harpsichord social codes of his time and defended his Johannes Brahms Sonntag artists showcase famous tunes from all corners
freedom of action and belief. Although he Michael Head Limehouse Reach of the UK as well as Europe and the USA. The
François Couperin Muséte de Choisy was known for his extravagant manners Percy Grainger The Sprig of Thyme singers recount stories of lovers, childhood,
François Couperin Deuxième Leçon de Ténèbres and love of cross-dressing, his lifetime Roger Quilter Ca’ the yowes foreign lands and animal squabbles, while
Jean-Féry Rebel Trio Sonata La Pallas commitment to the religious orders never Maurice Ravel Chanson ecossaise the piano parts are used to illustrate,
Michel Lambert Vos Mépris Chaque Jour left him. An amateur chamber musician – he Benjamoin Britten Ca’ the yowes ornament, question or even defy the words and
Jean-Philippe Rameau Viens Hymen was proficient on the harpsichord and loved Gerald Finzi When I set out for Lyonnesse subsequent emotions of each story. Arguably
Jean-Féry Rebel Trio Sonata L’Apollon playing Chambonnières – de Choisy was also Gustav Mahler Rheinlegendchen the master of reinventing and modernising
J. C. de Chambonnières an enthusiastic thespian and entertained Johannes Brahms Da unten in Tale folk melodies was Benjamin Britten, yet he
Pavane “L’Entretien des Dieux” his guests with his theatrical talents. The Benjamin Britten O Waly, Waly never associated himself with the ‘folksong
Jean-Philippe Rameau programme echoes the many facets of this Gustav Mahler Lob des hohen verstands school’ of composition in England in the
Cantata “Le Berger Fidèle” fascinating figure of 18th-century France, Aaron Copland I bought me a cat 1930s, a school that included Ralph Vaughan
from the pious intimacy of the Leçons de Benjamin Britten The Ash Grove Williams. Both these composers, as well as
Ténèbres to the pastoral drama of Rameau’s Vaughan Williams Whither must I wander? another whose folk composition Britten
Berger Fidèle. Benjamin Britten The Crocodile greatly admired, Percy Grainger, appear in this
Charles Dibdin arr. Britten Tom Bowling colourful programme
THÉODORA is an emerging Franco-English Aaron Copland Long Time Ago
ensemble focusing on the performance of Benjamin Britten Oliver Cromwell Eleanor Sanderson-Nash graduated from the
French and English baroque repertoire. Masters of Performance course at the Royal
Formed in October 2017, the ensemble is College of Music with Distinction in 2017. She
comprised of finalist students from the Royal was a finalist in the Royal Overseas League
Academy of Music and the Conservatoire Annual Music Competition in 201. Paul
National Supérieur de Musique de Paris Grant is a Britten Pears Young Artist and won
(CNSMDP). the 2018 Richard Lewis/Jean Shanks Award.
Both Eleanor and Paul have regular duo
partnerships with Michael Pandya, who in 2018
has been awarded the Gerald Moore Award,
the Accompanist Prize at the Kathleen Ferrier
Awards and the Oxford Lieder Young Artist
Platform.
7.30pm 7.30pm
Community Evening Tickets £8 Musical Flights of Fancy Tickets £15
Guitar Recital
Barnes Community Choir is for singers of all Marc Jean-Bernard Guitar Under the title Musical Flights of Fancy,
ages and backgrounds, who share a love of this guitar recital invites you on a journey
song and an enthusiasm for making music Joaquín Rodrigo Tiento Antiguo of exploration of the multiple facets of
together. There’s no audition, nor is any Leonardo da Vinci’s inventive genius,
Francesco Canova da Milano Ricercar 34
previous experience or music-reading skill reaching across art, science and music.
La Compagna
necessary as everything’s learnt by ear. Choir No place could better reflect Leonardo’s
leader extraordinaire and Barnes resident Pietro Paulo Borrono Da Milano Fantasia love of nature than the Wetland Centre. For
Joe Bunker says: “This choir is based on (Casteliono, Milano) Leonardo, birds were not only the charming
inclusivity and accessibility: the results we Franchino Gaffurio Regina Dei and legendary creatures of nature. They were
achieve are amazing! They love to perform Leonardo da Vinci Rebus the real-world model for his flying machines
for local events and for bigger audiences – and the spiritual ‘symbol of his destiny’.
Luis de Milan Fantasia XVI
including the Albert Hall, Tate Modern and The theme of Birds will be reflected in an
the Young Vic!” William Byrd. The Woods So Wild B 85 eclectic programme which has the Fantasy as
John Dowland Fancy (Fantasy Mr. Dowlande) its golden thread.
BCC will be singing a variety of music- gospel, Joaquín Rodrigo Pájaros de Primavera
jazz, classical, pop and musical theatre lead Gaspar Sanz Canarios Marc Jean-Bernard is a classical guitarist, a
by Joe Bunker and accompanied by their conductor and an academic. Marc lives in
J. S. Bach Prelude & Fugue BWV 997
wonderful pianist. Most of their songs will Puerto Rico where he teaches philosophy at
be in three or four part harmony – inventing Napoléon Coste Divertissement su Lucia de the University.
new ways of putting familiar music across in Lamermoor, Op.9 9:10
keeping with this years theme. Claude Debussy La fille aux cheveux de Lin
(Préludes, I.)
Barnes Community Choir will be sharing the Hans Werner Henze Drei Tentos (Kammermusik
evening with with FM Jazz. Having released 1958, III.)
their debut album “Songbook” this year, FM
Mario C. Tedesco Golondrinas Tarantella
Jazz seek to provide new flavours to favourite
jazz and swing numbers whilst keeping you Jean-Yves Bosseur Da Leonardo (commissioned
grooving throughout. for the festival – world première)
7.00pm 4.30pm
Leonardo and His Flying Machines Tickets £10 In the home of Leonardo Tickets £10
Goodwin Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Building on a successful collaboration with St After all he is remembered as an excellent
Machines Paul’s School and the Rodolfus Foundation, A selection of vocal pieces from Leonardo’s and skilled musician. He played the lira da
in 2019 we continue with a project based on lifetime braccio, an ancestor of the modern viola and
Arlen/Harbuerg Somewhere Over the Rainbow
the current theme: ‘Music and Invention’. often had musicians playing in his studio
Watson (after WA Mozart) A la cart whilst painting.
Emerson/trad Shoshone love song During a workshop in the Autumn term, led
Mark Wilderspin Leonardo and His Flying by Mark Wilderspin, Director of Music at St Children are welcome to bring paper and
Machines (new commission) Paul’s School for Boys, the children came pencils and follow in the master’s footsteps.
up with music ideas inspired by Leonardo’s And all are more than welcome to sing along!
designs. Their ideas have been arranged by
Mark into a new commission..The children
will perform this and other flying related
pieces, along with St Paul’s Choir and
members of the Rodolfus Choir.
7.30pm
Music for Royalty Tickets £15 Music in the Dark I Berlioz …
Barnes Choir a Film by Tony Palmer
Julian Collings Conductor This concert will be preceded by a short 7.30 – 9.00pm 10.30am – 12.30pm
Peter Jaekel Organ Performance by the Winner of the Barnes 9.30 – 11.00 pm Tickets £15
Music Festival Young Musician of the Year Tickets £15
Henry Purcell Funeral Sentences For Queen Mary 2019. Featuring Corin Redgrave as Berlioz with
When the lights are turned off, your Ludmilla Schemtschuk, Giorgio Lamberti,
Georg Frederic Handel Coronation Anthems
From the intimacy of Purcell’s Funeral hearing is heightened and the music is more Agnes Habereder, Vesselina Kasarova, Anne
John Tavener Song for Athene Sentences and serenity of John Tavener’s intense. Experience this intensity in the new Sofie von Otter and the Ensemble, Chorus
Hubert Parry I Was Glad; Blest Pair of Sirens Song for Athene to the pomp and ceremony of Screening Room at Olympic Studios with and Orchestra of Zurich Opera House
Handel’s Coronation Anthems and Parry’s two their legendary Dolby Atmos surround-sound
great anthems, Music for Royalty features a system. Iconic performances of classical Conducted by Ralf Weikert
wide range of works written for or performed greats will be played with the lights dimmed to Filmed in Paris, Hungary, Switzerland
on royal occasions over the last three hundred minimum levels (and eye-masks provided for and Italy
years. the full black-out experience) so that you can
savour every note and experience a different “I, Hector Louis Berlioz, composer, musician,
The Barnes Choir is an amateur choir of and deeper way of listening to great music. citizen of France, tell you, in this my last Will
around 65 voices who have been part of the and Testament, that my subject is – and always
music scene in Barnes and Sheen for many Since Olympic Screening Room seats only has been – war”. So begins an epic journey
years. They perform with professional singers 20 people, there will be two “soundings” on through the terrible struggles that Berlioz
and orchestras and a regular feature of their the evening starting at 7.30pm and 9.00pm, endured to get his great opera The Trojans
programmes are works by young composers, each with a short interval to refresh your mind performed. He never succeeded and it was not
such as Russell Hepplewhite, and local and body! staged complete until twenty-one years after
composers, such as Howard Goodall. They his death 150 years ago in 1869.
are regular performers at the Barnes Music
Festival and support local charities including Celebrating the life of this great composer,
the Holly Lodge Centre and the Mulberry who obtained far greater recognition
Centre by carol singing posthumously than he did during his lifetime,
multi-award-winning director Tony Palmer
introduces his film which places strong
emphasis on the influence that the innovative
Berlioz wielded on subsequent generations of
musicians.
6.00pm
Combined Choirs of St Mary’s Barnes Join us for the final celebratory event of the Open daily throughout the Festival from
and St Michael’s Barnes Barnes Music Festival 2019 at the timeless 10.30–12.30pm and during all events
Directed by Henry Chandler and office of Choral Evensong with the combined
Martin Neary choirs of St Mary’s Barnes and St Michael’s
Address by Bishop David Stancliffe Barnes. The address is given by Rt Revd David The myriad of themes that emanate from the
Stancliffe, previously Bishop of Salisbury 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s
and Vice-President of the Royal College of death provide the richest, broadest and most
Church Music who is himself a musician and visual storyboard for this year’s exhibition
conductor of his own group Bishop’s Consort. on the theme of “Music and Invention”. And
there can be fewer more inspirational lives.
New Age © Bill Christie
The service is followed by a reception to Regarded by many historians as the ‘universal
celebrate the Festival to which all are invited. genius’ or ‘Renaissance Man’, he was a man
of “unquenchable curiosity” and “feverishly
inventive imagination”. His contributions
can be seen in so many key walks of life, in
fields of painting, sculpture, architecture,
science, music, mathematics, architecture,
engineering and astronomy and the
exhibition interprets many of these fields of
invention with stunning photographs.
Goats Beard seed head © Andrew Wilson
Parachutes from nature, the Dandelion, as Nautilus Shell – Mathematical Beauty ©James Kirland
photographed by Tammy Marlar. Amongst a plethora
of achievements, Leonardo de Vinci invented the
parachute ©Tammy Marlar