Tickets now on sale for the autumn Newbury Spring Festival
SpringTickets went on sale yesterday (Wednesday) for the Newbury Spring Festival, this year returning as an Autumn Festival from September 4-20.
After one of the most challenging times in the festival’s history, with three cancelled programmes, it returns with a programme of 40 concerts and performances. While the festival hopes that social distancing regulations will no longer be in place, to be on the safe side a decision was taken to focus on their three largest venues – St Nicolas’ Church, the Corn Exchange and Douai Abbey.
As always, the three orchestral concerts will take place in St Nics with the first on September 4, the opening night, with St Matthew Passion by JS Bach. Not strictly an orchestral concert this magnificent work is one of the crowning achievements of Baroque European culture and one that Bach used all the tools in the box to compose and yet at the heart of the work is one simple chorale tune. The great English tenor Ian Bostridge will be the Evangelist accompanied by the Armonico Consort. A perfect work to celebrate a return to live music.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra return to the Festival on the September 11, with conductor Paul Daniel and violinist Jennifer Pike who was a previous winner of BBC Young Musician of the Year. The programme includes Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus and 6 Studies in English Folk Song for Cor Anglais and String Orchestra, along with Mozart Symphony No 29 and Violin Concerto no 5 which will be performed by Jennifer Pike.
The final orchestral concert to close the festival on September 18 sees the London Philharmonic Orchestra and two British star musicians with a spectacular programme of Brahms and Beethoven. Paul Lewis, who is internationally regarded as one of the foremost musicians of his generation and a leading exponent on the piano music of Beethoven, will give a performance of Brahms Piano Concerto No 1. Also on the programme is Beethoven’s Symphony No 7, all of which will be conducted by Richard Farnes, a former director of Opera North.
The fortnight of world-class music also features opera, chamber music, gospel and vocal groups, a steel band, young artists lunchtime concert, talks and more. To find out more, go to www.newburyspringfestival.org.uk
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