lake district summer music - festival diary 2015

International Festival

1–14 August 2015

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Unique collaborations • Thrilling performances

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1ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S WELCOME

Music Lovers, Friends, Artists, Colleagues, please join us in celebrating our 30th Anniversary.

Hear and meet artists making LDSM débuts, greet returning artists, experience old music anew, enjoy world premières and commissions interspersed with opera at Fellinis, jazz at Zeffirellis, and a Viola Extravaganza in our Blackwell series!

The renowned Armonico Consort opens our Festival with Pergolesi’s Stabat mater and Purcell’s masterpiece Dido and Aeneas. Its second concert, Greensleeves, beckons families and all who love traditional folk melodies from the British Isles.

Making his UK festival début, Van Cliburn prizewinner Vadim Kholodenko plays a romantic programme with Medtner, Brahms and Schumann.

Vision and sound fuse with silent film given voice. The inspiration of 15th century French vocal music illuminates Dreyer’s masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc with the Orlando Consort. Commissioned by LDSM, Luke Bedford composes for the brilliant Apollo Saxophone Quartet who bring their own wit and ingenuity to Meliès’s pioneering film cameos.

With chamber music at our heart, the Kuss String Quartet plays two generous programmes, including the Brahms Quintet with one of the UK’s leading clarinettists, Timothy Orpen.

Heralding music from Eastern Europe, Janácek and Kodály stand with Dvorák, whose ‘folk’ spontaneity will captivate all with both of his piano quartets in the distinguished playing of the Frith Piano Quartet while his rarely-heard Piano Quintet No.1 makes its first LDSM performance with the LDSM Artists Ensemble preceded by Janácek.

From northern climes, Sibelius and Nielsen celebrate 150th anniversaries. Pro Musica teams Sibelius with Beethoven, Kodály and evergreen Schubert. This follows a family afternoon of vivid fantasy, drama and intrigue as Emily Hennessey reveals the Firebird of Russian folklore…

1915 World War 1 anguish and hope is embodied in music when words fall silent. The distinguished cellist Gregor Horsch and Andrew Brownell frame Sibelius, Kodály and Debussy with Bach and Beethoven while Benjamin Appl and James Baillieu take us from George Butterworth’s A Shropshire Lad to Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin. Morning recitals bring us Roger Chase and Andrew Dunlop playing Bliss’s great Viola Sonata; Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale Suite features when Timothy Orpen and Andrew Brownell are joined by Levon Chilingirian and narrator. At Zeffirellis the Tina May Jazz Quartet pays tribute to Edith Piaf, born in 1915.

Masterclasses at Brathay Hall spotlight our Academy tutors and students. Closing our 30th Anniversary, the candlelit Serenade Concert showcases Academy soloists and ensembles. Abundant talent immersed in music old and new is our passport to future decades of music, ever renewing, ever evolving.

This brings our profound thanks to all our artists, colleagues, and volunteers who give so much to so many.

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3VENUES

Lake District Summer Music’s website has lots of information on Festival venues, including venue links, maps, directions, advice on parking, and much more. Visit www.ldsm.org.uk/venues for full details.

Below is a Venue Access Guide for all our venues.

1 Ambleside Parish Centrep6, 10, 14, 20

2 Ambleside Parish Churchp5, 7, 8, 11, 16, 21, 23, 29

3 Blackwell Arts & Crafts House, near Bowness p6, 12, 21, 27

4 Brathay Hall, near Amblesidep10, 14, 20, 24

5 Carver Church, Windermerep5, 18, 25, 26

6 Coronation Hall, Ulverstonp4

7 Fellinis Cinema, Amblesidep5, 8, 12, 16, 18, 22, 26

8 Grasmere Parish Churchp22 (Near venue)

9 Hawkshead Parish Churchp22

10 Kendal Town Hallp9, 15, 19

11 Kirkby Lonsdale Parish Church p12

12 Rydal Churchp24

13 St Thomas's Church Kendalp13, 17, 27

14 Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands p24

15 Zeffirellis, Amblesidep13,15

box office 01539 7426214 SATURDAY 1 AUGUST 2015

Armonico Consort and Baroque PlayersChristopher Monks MUSICAL DIRECTOR

Eloise Irving SOPRANO

Penelope Appleyard SOPRANO

William Towers COUNTERTENOR

Gareth John BARITONE

8pm Coronation Hall, UlverstonBALCONY £23 FRONT STALLS £18.50 REAR STALLS £16

ALLOCATED SEATING

Pergolesi Stabat mater 39'Purcell Dido and Aeneas 55' (concert performance)

Our 30th Anniversary Festival opens with a welcome return to Coronation Hall with a vocal feast: two baroque masterpieces sung by this popular ensemble. Pergolesi's music was the most intoxicating of all of the styles emanating from Italy in the mid-18th century. The Stabat mater was composed at the end of Pergolesi's all-too-brief life – he died aged 26. Often described as the first English opera, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas was written in 1689 for Josias Priest, a gentleman of the theatre who ran a dancing academy for young women in Chelsea.

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Prokofiev’s War and Peacefrom the Mariinsky

2.30pm Fellinis Cinema, Ambleside£16 ALLOCATED SEATING

DURATION 240’

A brand-new production of Prokofiev’s epic masterpiece filmed live in July 2014. Directed by Graham Vick with stage design by Paul Brown, the opera is conducted by Valery Gergiev. The production stars the exciting young Ukrainian baritone Andrei Bondarenko as Andrei and the soprano Aida Garifullina as Natasha. Their individual and personal stories are overtaken by political events as Napoleon's army closes in on Russia, making war inevitable. The opera explores the preoccupations and concerns of the individual in a universal context.

GreensleevesArmonico Consort

3pm Carver Church, Windermere£16* UNRESERVED SEATING

2.30pm REFRESHMENTS 3pm CONCERT

“…Wonderful concert in this great venue…” Audience member 2014

After last night’s tear-jerker, the Consort returns for an uplifting celebration of music spanning the length and breadth of the British Isles, featuring new arrangements of the most beautiful folk music ever written. This special event will be presented by a guest narrator, William Towers, who will entertain with anecdotes on what makes Britain unique, well-loved and great. The programme includes Lisa Lân, Loch Lomond and perhaps the most famous British melody ever written, Greensleeves, together with a specially-commissioned arrangement by Toby Young of the Cumbrian folksong Horn of the Hunter.

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Celebrity Evening RecitalVadym Kholodenko PIANO

8pm Ambleside Parish ChurchA £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING

Medtner Three Fairy Tales 10½'Brahms Seven Fantasies, Op.116 22'Schumann Humoresque in B flat major, Op.20 28’Schumann Gesänge der Frühe, Op.133 10’

Winner of the Gold Medal at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Ukrainian Vadym Kholodenko tonight makes his UK festival début in this great Romantic programme including late works by Brahms and Robert Schumann linked by Clara, wife and muse. A pianist-composer like his lifelong friend and fellow Russian exile Rachmaninov, Medtner composed a long series of works inspired by myths and legends. Of the 1838 Humoresque, Schumann wrote that he had “been all week at the piano, composing, writing, laughing and crying, all at once”.

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Music at NoonLaura Snowden GUITAR

12noon Ambleside Parish Centre£16* UNRESERVED SEATING

11.30am REFRESHMENTS 12noon CONCERT

Dowland Fantasias for lute 7½’JS Bach Suite No.3 in G minor for lute, BWV995 19’L Berkeley Sonatina, Op.52 No.1 11½’Gerhard Fantasia 4’De Falla Homenaje pour le tombeau de Debussy 3½’Roussel Segovia, Op.29 2½’Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op.70 17’

Supported by the Tillett Trust

Laura Snowden is currently a Postgraduate Scholar at the Royal College of Music, with the support of Julian Bream, for whom Lennox Berkeley and Britten wrote the masterpieces to be heard today. Bach’s great G minor Lute Suite is his own transcription of the 5th Cello Suite, which you can compare in its performance on Wednesday.


Gaelic musicJoy Dunlop VOICE

Andrew Dunlop HARP, KEYBOARD

5pm Blackwell Arts & Crafts House,5pm near Bowness£16 UNRESERVED SEATING

The first of this year’s ever-popular Blackwell events in partnership with Lakeland Arts Trust. Andrew Dunlop is well known to LDSM audiences as a piano accompanist (and duo partner – see Friday) but today we see another side to his musical talents: he is equally adept in traditional music from his native Scotland, and this afternoon we mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Blackwell’s architect Baillie Scott (1865-1945) with a programme in which Andrew is joined by his sister Joy, a celebrated Gaelic singer.

Present your Blackwell concert ticket at the Arts & Crafts House ticket desk after 2pm and get £1 off the admission price to the House.

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Kuss Quartet 17.30pm Ambleside Parish ChurchA £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING

Mozart String Quartet No.19 in C major Dissonance, K465 29’

Stravinsky Three pieces for string quartet 7’Beethoven String Quartet in B flat major,

Op.130 with Grosse Fuge, Op.133 44’

Supported by Mrs Kate Dugdale

The Kuss Quartet of Berlin opens its Festival residency (see also Saturday) with classical masterpieces framing Stravinsky’s WW1 miniature. The last of Mozart’s six quartets dedicated to Haydn gains its nickname from its introduction, discordant to the ears of his time. Forty years later, audiences were equally baffled by the sheer scale of Beethoven’s imagination in his Op.130 Quartet – so much so that he was persuaded to write a shorter closing movement. Tonight we hear the work in all its (original) glory.

Late Night PianoFrançoise-Green Piano Duo

9.30pm Ambleside Parish Church£10 UNRESERVED SEATING

JS Bach Chorale Preludes arr KurtágKurtág movements from Játékok for piano duetLigeti Selbstportrait from Three Pieces for two pianos 9’

“Játékok… an ever-expanding set of pieces, is just one of the laboratories in which Kurtág has conducted his experiments in the search for musical truth. It’s a compositional journey that has often involved reducing music to the level of the fragment, the moment, with individual pieces or movements lasting mere seconds, or a minute, perhaps two. Far from a ‘reduction’, Kurtág’s fragments are about musical and, above all, expressive intensification: maximising the effect and impact of every note, every gesture.” Tom Service, The Guardian

Stay on and enjoy this informal 45-minute programme, introduced by the artists, as a prelude to their duo recital tomorrow morning.

Combination ticket for Kuss Quartet and Late Night Piano £28 (cannot be used in conjunction with Festival Saver Deals)

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Françoise-Green Piano Duo11am Ambleside Parish ChurchA £22 B £14 RV ALLOCATED SEATING

Mozart Sonata in D major for two pianos, K448 24½’Stravinsky Concerto for two pianos 20’Debussy En blanc et noir 16’Schubert Fantasie in F minor, D940 19’

Supported by the Royal Over-Seas League

A morning of masterworks. Mozart’s only sonata for two pianos was written while he was fending for himself after his final break with his Salzburg employer, Archbishop Colleredo. Stravinsky composed his ‘concerto’ (sans orchestra) in Paris for himself and his son Soulima to perform. Debussy’s wartime work is said to have been inspired by the shades of grey (!) in the paintings of Velásquez; its third movement is dedicated to Stravinsky. We go to a single keyboard for Schubert’s landmark work of 1828, dedicated to Countess Caroline von Esterházy, for whom he’d first become a tutor some ten years earlier.

Rossini’s The Barber of Sevillefrom Opéra de Paris


DURATION 191’ inc 15’ interval

Count Almaviva René Barbera tenorBartolo Carlo Lepore bassRosina Karine Deshayes mezzo-sopranoFigaro Dalibor Jenis baritoneBasilio Orlin Anastassov bass

Undoubtedly the most famous opera buffa in the history of music, Rossini’s remarkable opera was composed in only a few weeks. Although the première in Rome was a resounding flop, attended by all of Rossini’s enemies, the opera was quickly revived, since when it has never been out of the repertoire. With its incredible verve and youthful cheer, this was the work that built Rossini’s brilliant international reputation. Italian stage director Damiano Michieletto makes his Paris Opera début in this new production, recorded in September 2014.

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Apollo Saxophone Quartet8pm Kendal Town HallBALCONY £22 FRONT STALLS £16 REAR STALLS £10 ZONED SEATING

Lyondev arr Buckland Kaval Sviri 5’RR Bennett Saxophone Quartet 15’L Bedford Saxophone Quartet WORLD PREMIERE 12’Wijeratne Visaya 6½’Francaix Petit Quatuor 8’Journey Across the Impossible – films by MelièsThompson Carnival and Greek Dance 7’

Supported by Sir John Manduell CBE

The Apollo Saxophone Quartet and LDSM share a 30th Anniversary this year and to celebrate this milestone we have commissioned a work to add to the remarkable corpus the ASQ has commissioned or premiered, including Richard Rodney Bennett’s 1994 Quartet. As part of a major new strand in this year’s Festival (see also Friday), the ASQ’s members will perform music they have composed to accompany the remarkably inventive and witty silent films of the early cinematic pioneer Georges Meliès.

The Composer Speaks: Luke Bedford6.30pm Kendal Town HallFREE

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Atéa Wind QuintetWITH MEMBERS OF THE Quattro Cello Quartet*

11am Ambleside Parish Centre£16 UNRESERVED SEATING

Zemlinsky Humoresque 4½’Danzi Quintet in B flat major, Op.56 No.1 12½’Truan The Chase, for flute & clarinet 3’Ligeti Six Bagatelles 11½’Nielsen Serenata in vano* 8’Arnold Three Shanties, Op.4 7’Liadov Eight Russian Folksongs, Op.58 12’Taffanel Quintet in G minor 18’

Humour is a thread that ties many of this morning’s works presented by this young ensemble together with interloping members of tomorrow’s Quartet. Danzi consolidated the combination of instruments used in the wind quintet in his charming compositions, as the first to compose for this combination outside France, while Taffanel led the French school of flute two generations later. Nielsen’s little jewel, with its odd scoring for clarinet, bassoon, horn, cello & double bass stemming from its original pairing with Beethoven’s Septet, tells the story of two gentlemen trying – and failing – to woo a fair maid, while Arnold’s rather more rowdy sea shanties take us back to Napoleonic times with Boney was a warrior.

Viola MasterclassRoger Chase

2.30pm Brathay Hall, near Ambleside£10 UNRESERVED SEATING

Supported by Mr & Mrs Martin Rayner

Roger Chase has not been seen at LDSM since 1993, due to the teaching positions he has held in America for many years. We are thrilled that on his return to these shores, he immediately accepted our invitation to rejoin the ISMA tutors, with this afternoon’s masterclass and a recital on Friday.

This year’s masterclasses will be given in the theatre studio at Brathay, a larger venue to accommodate the ever-growing demand for these events.

Other masterclasses on Fri 7th (cello), Mon 10th (violin) and Wed 12th (ensemble).

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Gregor Horsch CELLO

Andrew Brownell PIANO


JS Bach Suite No.5 in C minor for solo cello, BWV1011 24’Kodály Sonata for cello and piano, Op.4 18’Sibelius Cantique (Lætare anima mea) for cello and piano,

Op.77 No.1 6’Debussy Sonata in D minor for cello and piano 12’Beethoven Sonata No.3 in A major for cello and piano,

Op.69 26’

Soloist, chamber musician, teacher in high demand and principal cello of the Royal Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Gregor Horsch joins us once again to make music here in the Lakes. Three of the greatest works in the cello repertoire, spanning three centuries, are joined by two rarities: Kodály’s lesser-known duo sonata, and, to mark both the WW1 centenary and the composer’s 150th anniversary, one of Sibelius’ works for his cellist brother Christian. We also mark the centenary of the composition of Debussy’s patriotic work, which at one point he considered subtitling ‘Pierrot angry with the moon’.

Jean Sibelius

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Music at Noon: Kirkby Market Day ConcertQuattro Cello Quartet

12noon Kirkby Lonsdale Parish Church£10 UNRESERVED SEATING

Mozart Overture from The Marriage of Figaro, K492 4’Brahms Four Chorale Preludes 12’Piazzolla La muerte del Ángel 3’Florentz Chant de Nyandarua, Op.6 12’JS Bach Fugue No.9 in E major, BWV878, Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2 4’Shostakovich String Quartet No.8 in C minor, Op.110 20’

“…Lovely setting. Superb performance…” Audience member 2014

Supported by Mr & Mrs Alan Maddocks

The beautiful Norman church of St Mary’s hosts this Quartet, here as winners of the 9th Annual Pettman/ROSL ARTS International Scholarship for a New Zealand chamber ensemble. Its remarkable repertoire ranges from an original work conceived in Kenya and dedicated to Karen Blixen by Messiaen pupil Jean-Louis Florentz, via Boulanger’s pupil, the Argentinian tango composer Piazzolla, and culminating in a powerful arrangement of Shostakovich’s best-known quartet, composed in just 3 days in 1960 while near a Dresden still in post-war ruin and dedicated ‘to the victims of fascism and war’.

Verdi’s Aïdafrom Opéra de Paris

2.30pm Fellinis Cinema,2.30pm Ambleside£16 ALLOCATED SEATING


First performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo in 1871, Verdi’s epic masterpiece is seen here in a new production directed by Olivier Py and filmed in November 2013. The tragic story of an Egyptian commander’s love for an Ethiopian Princess weaves a poignant human story within the wider themes of war and conflict.

LDSM Academy Artists5pm Blackwell Arts & Crafts House, near Bowness£16 UNRESERVED SEATING

JS Bach movts from Partita No.2 in D minor for solo violin, BWV1004 15½’Prokofiev Sonata in C major for 2 violins, Op.56 15’JS Bach Prelude from Suite No.3 in C major for solo cello, BWV1009 3½’Kodály Duo for violin and cello, Op.7 25’

“…Super programme and so professionally played and presented. It is heartening to see and hear the young musicians. Hope for lots more in the future…” Audience member 2014

Supported by Reiver Instruments

Three members from the Manon Quartet, popular performers in last year’s LDSM Academy concerts, return to show their strengths in solo and duo works. The first four movements of Bach’s 2nd Partita will be completed by a performance of the closing Chaconne here next Thursday. The climax of this afternoon’s concert is Kodály’s 1914 Duo: trapped in Switzerland at the outbreak of the war, he hitched a lift on a lorry back to Austria and wrote this work out on borrowed manuscript paper.


book online www.ldsm.org.uk 13THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015

Trio di Parma 18pm St Thomas’s Church Kendal£18 UNRESERVED SEATING

Schubert Trio in B flat major Sonatensatz, D28 10’Beethoven Piano Trio No.1 in E flat major, Op.1 No.1 30’Brahms Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8 34’

“…Their playing was inspirational… Absolutely stunning. Many thanks for bringing them… A superb concert, the best performance of the Schubert [D929] that I can remember hearing…” Audience members 2013

In the first of two concerts (see also next Monday) Festival favourites Trio di Parma return in this programme of youthful first thoughts and Viennese connections – a Mozartian trio started by 15-year-old Schubert the day after his voice broke; Beethoven’s opus primus, dedicated to Prince Lichnowsky, in whose palace Beethoven was then living, and in whose salon the first performance was given, in Haydn’s presence; and a work Brahms wrote when 20 then revisited 35 years later. He wrote to Clara: “It will not be as wild as it was, but whether or not it will be better?”

Piano kindly provided by Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Gwilym Simcock Mike Walker PIANO AND GUITAR DUO

8.30pm Zeffirellis, Ambleside£16 UNRESERVED SEATING

We are proud to host one of only three duo concerts being given nationwide this summer by these jazz giants, with a programme of their own compositions.

More jazz at Zeffirellis tomorrow night!

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Music at NoonRoger Chase VIOLA

Andrew Dunlop PIANO

12noon Ambleside Parish Centre£16* UNRESERVED SEATING

11.30am REFRESHMENTS 12noon CONCERT

JS Bach/Kodály Fantasia Cromatica for solo viola 7½’Bliss Sonata for viola and piano 28’York Bowen Melody on the G string for viola and piano,

Op.47 4½’Schumann Waldszenen, Op.82 Nos.1, 7 & 9 9’Schumann Märchenbilder for viola and piano, Op.113 16’

“…York Bowen is a lovely composer. LDSM should include his music every year!… Bliss was amazing…” Audience members 2014

The spirit of Lionel Tertis hovers over the programming of viola recitals, with so many works that he premiered, commissioned or championed, but this programme has additional ties: not only were the Bliss and York Bowen written for him, but Roger Chase is Tertis’s former student and he plays one of Tertis’s violas, an instrument made by Stradivarius’s pupil, Domenico Montagnana. Schumann is a strand of this year’s programmes, and the second half of the programme focuses on the German Romantic aesthetics of forests and fairytales.

See also our Viola Extravaganza next Thursday.


Cello MasterclassGregor Horsch

2.30pm Brathay Hall, nr Ambleside£10 UNRESERVED SEATING


Following his LDSM recital on Wed 5th, Gregor Horsch will guide three students in this year’s ISMA cello class through core repertoire works. Other masterclasses on Wed 5th (viola), Mon 10th (violin) and Wed 12th (ensemble).

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The Passion of Joan of ArcOrlando Consort

8pm Kendal Town HallBALCONY £20 STALLS £16

A screening of Dreyer’s 1928 silent film La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc (96’) with a live performance of 15th century sacred and secular vocal music to amplify the powerful portrayal of Joan’s trial and execution and provide a unique and evocative accompaniment. The Orlando Consort brings an added dimension to this landmark film, which regularly appears in lists of the top ten greatest films ever made.

Introduction to the film and its music6.30pm Kendal Town HallFREE

Donald Greig, baritone in the Orlando Consort, will discuss the background to the film and the extensive research behind the music they have chosen.

Piaf Tribute ConcertTina May Jazz Quartet

8.15pm Zeffirellis, Ambleside£16 UNRESERVED SEATING

2015 is the centenary of the birth of Edith Piaf – who gained her Christian name, as so many French and Belgian girls born after October 1915, in response to the death of Edith Cavell in front of a German firing squad. We mark this double anniversary with classics including La vie en rose, Hymne à I’amour, Milord and Non, je ne regrette rien sung by long-time Piaf devotee Tina May accompanied by Nikki Iles (piano), Karen Street (accordion) and Julie Walkington (double bass).

The second of two Jazz at Zeffirellis events in this year’s programme – see also last night.

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LDSM Artists Ensemble11am Ambleside Parish ChurchA £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING

Schubert Violin Sonatina No.1 in D major, D384 14½’Janácek Sonata for violin and piano 17’Szymanowski Notturno e Tarantella in E minor, Op.28 11’Dvorák Piano Quintet No.1 in A major, Op.5 28’

Supported by Mr Derrick Johnson

Japan’s leading duo Kazuki Sawa and Emiko Tadenuma celebrate centenaries and a bicentenary: their central work is the sonata Janácek wrote “at the beginning of the war, when we were expecting the Russians in Moravia”. They are joined by Richard Deakin, Roger Chase and Emma Ferrand for a work from neighbouring Bohemia. A slow bloomer, Dvorák only emerged as a composer in his late twenties, and many of his earliest works are now lost. Indeed, he destroyed his own manuscript of this 1872 Quintet, but the friend who promoted its première had made a copy which Dvorák returned to some 15 years later.

In search of Haydn2.30pm Fellinis Cinema, Ambleside£16 ALLOCATED SEATING

DURATION 102’

Joseph Haydn is the composer that Mozart and Beethoven revered above all. This biographical account of his life includes breathtaking performances by some of the world’s most celebrated musicians. Through enlightening interviews with experts, detailed extracts from Haydn’s personal letters and beautiful location footage we gain insight into not only Haydn’s music but the man himself. This visual and aural feast will be introduced by the film’s award-winning director, Phil Grabsky, who will also lead a Q&A after the screening, still leaving plenty of time to enjoy the Haydn quartet which opens tonight’s concert.

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Sat 1 8pm Armonico Consort

Sun 2 2.30pm Prokofiev’s War and Peace £16

3pm Greensleeves £16

8pm Vadym Kholodenko

Mon 3 12noon Laura Snowden £16

5pm Gaelic music £16

7.30pm Kuss Quartet 1 *

9.30pm Late Night Piano * £10

Combination ticket for * £28

Tue 4 11am Françoise-Green Duo

2.30pm Rossini’s The Barber of Seville £16

8pm Apollo Saxophone Quartet

6.30pm Composer Speaks: Luke Bedford FREE FREE

Wed 5 11am Atéa Wind Quintet £16

2.30pm Viola Masterclass £10

8pm Horsch & Brownell

Thu 6 12noon Quattro Cello Quartet £10

2.30pm Verdi’s Aïda £16

5pm LDSM Academy Artists £16

8pm Trio di Parma 1 £18

8.30pm Gwilym Simcock/Mike Walker £16

Fri 7 12noon Roger Chase & Andrew Dunlop £16

2.30pm Cello Masterclass £10

8pm The Passion of Joan of Arc

6.30pm Introduction to the film FREE FREE

8.15pm Piaf Tribute Concert £16

Sat 8 11am LDSM Artists Ensemble

2.30pm In search of Haydn £16

8pm Kuss Quartet 2 £18

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Sat 1 8pm Armonico Consort

Sun 2 2.30pm Prokofiev’s War and Peace £16

3pm Greensleeves £16

8pm Vadym Kholodenko

Mon 3 12noon Laura Snowden £16

5pm Gaelic music £16

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Tue 4 11am Françoise-Green Duo

2.30pm Rossini’s The Barber of Seville £16

8pm Apollo Saxophone Quartet

6.30pm Composer Speaks: Luke Bedford FREE FREE

Wed 5 11am Atéa Wind Quintet £16

2.30pm Viola Masterclass £10

8pm Horsch & Brownell

Thu 6 12noon Quattro Cello Quartet £10

2.30pm Verdi’s Aïda £16

5pm LDSM Academy Artists £16

8pm Trio di Parma 1 £18

8.30pm Gwilym Simcock/Mike Walker £16

Fri 7 12noon Roger Chase & Andrew Dunlop £16

2.30pm Cello Masterclass £10

8pm The Passion of Joan of Arc

6.30pm Introduction to the film FREE FREE

8.15pm Piaf Tribute Concert £16

Sat 8 11am LDSM Artists Ensemble

2.30pm In search of Haydn £16

8pm Kuss Quartet 2 £18

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Sun 9 3pm Firebird: a Russian folktale £16

6pm Britten’s The rape of Lucretia £20

8pm Pro-Musica String Trio

Mon 10 11am Orpen/Chilingirian/Brownell £16

2.30pm Violin Masterclass £10

5pm Atesh Quartet £16

8pm Trio di Parma 2

Tue 11 11am Grasmere Concert £10

2.30pm Puccini’s Tosca £16

8pm Frith Piano Quartet 1

Wed 12 11am Rydal Concert £10

2.30pm Ensemble Masterclass £10

8pm Ursula Smith & Emiko Tadenuma £16

8pm 4-MALITY Percussion Quartet £18

6.30pm Composer Speaks: Jan Bradley FREE FREE

Thu 13 11am Morning Serenade † £16

2.30pm Cavalleria Rusticana/I Pagliacci £16

5pm Viola Extravaganza £16

8pm Benjamin Appl & James Baillieu £18

Fri 14 11am Frith Piano Quartet 2

8pm Candlelight Serenade †

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Kuss Quartet 2Timothy Orpen CLARINET*

8pm St Thomas’s Church Kendal£18 UNRESERVED SEATING

Haydn String Quartet in E flat major The Joke, Op.33 No.2 18’

Reger String Quartet No.4 in E flat major, Op.109 36½’

Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115* 38’

Supported by Mrs Kate Dugdale

For its second concert (see also Mon 3rd) the Kuss Quartet is joined by Tim Orpen for the greatest of all the late works Brahms composed for his clarinettist friend Richard Mühlfeld. As a champion of Reger’s music, it is appropriate that the Kuss Quartet brings us the first-ever performance of his music at LDSM. We open with the Joke Quartet, so named for its opening, with a falsetto cello answering the violin, and deliberate stops and starts, then its conclusion, with a surprise ending…

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Firebird: a Russian folktaleFamily Event

3pm Carver Church, Windermere£16* UNRESERVED SEATING

DURATION 60’

2.30pm REFRESHMENTS 3pm EVENT

In a dark, cold trench, two soldiers pass the night with a story.

Young prince Ivan is the laughing stock of his older brothers. But now, with a golden feather in his hand, he must embark on a challenging adventure to find the most extraordinary creature of all. With an ancient donkey as his steed and not a penny in his pocket, things aren’t looking good for Ivan. Being scared of the dark isn’t helping either! But when a mysterious grey wolf and a rather unusual princess turn up, things take a rather different turn…

Storyteller Emily Hennessey seizes the reins on a riotous adventure bursting with magic and marvel, wit and wonder, big questions and even bigger giants, bringing to life one of the most joyous and gripping traditional Russian tales.

Suitable for adults & children 8yrs +


Britten’s The rape of LucretiaLive from Glyndebourne

6pm Fellinis Cinema, Ambleside£20 ALLOCATED SEATING


Fiona Shaw directorLeo Hussain conductorLucretia Christine Rice mezzo-sopranoMale Chorus Allan Clayton tenorFemale Chorus Kate Royal sopranoTarquinius Duncan Rock baritoneCollatinus Matthew Rose bassBianca Catherine Wyn-Rogers mezzo-sopranoJunius Michael Sumuel bass-baritoneLucia Louise Alder sopranoLondon Philharmonic Orchestra

“This new production of Lucretia – the first at Glyndebourne since Britten’s chamber opera had its première there in 1946 – is quite the darkest, and possibly the most truthful, you’re likely to see in some time” The Times

The harrowing historic tale of Lucretia has inspired works by artists throughout the ages. According to historians, Lucretia was raped by Tarquinius Sextus, son of the Etruscan King of Rome. Her consequent suicide spurred the revolution which toppled the monarchy and brought about the Roman Republic. In Ronald Duncan’s libretto, the action is introduced and commented upon throughout by two contemporary observers, a Male and Female Chorus, lending the story an urgent, contemporary air.

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Franz Schubert

Pro-Musica String Trio8pm Kendal Town HallBALCONY £22 FRONT STALLS £16 REAR STALLS £10 ZONED SEATING

Schubert String Trio in B flat major, D581 20’Kodály Intermezzo 5’Sibelius String Trio in G minor 11½’Beethoven String Trio in E flat major, Op.3 40’

As a foretaste of the Frith Piano Quartet residency (see Tue and Fri), its string players offer a programme with youth as its theme – Schubert and Sibelius both wrote these trios in their 20th year, Kodály wrote his Intermezzo when 23, and Beethoven was 24 when he wrote his great work, modelled on Mozart’s Divertimento K563 with the same key and six-movement form: these two works still form the core of the string trio repertoire to this day.

box office 01539 74262120 MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015

Violin MasterclassLevon Chilingirian

2.30pm Brathay Hall, near Ambleside£10 UNRESERVED SEATING

“…This was remarkable – what a delight to hear Levon Chilingirian engage in this way with the students – and the progress they were making with him – and the trust they placed in him were evident to everyone. A real pleasure…” Audience member 2014


Other masterclasses on Wed 5th (viola), Fri 7th (cello) and Wed 12th (ensemble).

Timothy Orpen CLARINET

Levon Chilingirian VIOLIN*

Andrew Brownell PIANO

11am Ambleside Parish Centre£16 UNRESERVED SEATING

Finzi Five Bagatelles, Op.23 15’Stravinsky Three pieces for solo clarinet 7’Bliss Pastoral 4’Poulenc Clarinet Sonata 12’Milhaud Suite for clarinet, violin and piano,

Op.157b* 12’Stravinsky Soldier’s Tale Suite* 25’

“…Wonderful playing! Where else could one sit and listen to such music with an idyllic view like this?... This was a deeply satisfying concert with superb musicians – a truly lovely and memorable occasion…” Audience members 2013

War is the warp and Switzerland the weft of this morning: Finzi’s Five Bagatelles, though drafted in the 1920s, were first heard in the Wartime National Gallery Concerts in London, and Bliss wrote his Pastoral in the shadow of war while studying with Stanford at the RCM; it was first heard in 1916. Poulenc’s glorious Clarinet Sonata was written in 1962 in memory of Swiss composer and fellow member of Les Six, Arthur Honegger. Stravinsky wrote his Three pieces as (belated) thanks to the Swiss financier (and amateur clarinettist) who funded The Soldier’s Tale, from whose music this concert suite was extracted. This morning we restore the narrative of Swiss novelist CF Ramuz’s story by adding verse to the music and ensuring the tale has its twist in the tail.

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Atesh Quartet5pm Blackwell Arts & Crafts House,5pm near Bowness£16 UNRESERVED SEATING

Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op.76 No.1 21’

Janácek String Quartet No.1 in E minor Kreutzer Sonata 18’

Beethoven String Quartet in D major, Op.18 No.3 24’

Supported by Valerie Howe & Mary Powney

Formed last year at the Royal Northern College of Music, the Atesh Quartet has already won multiple prizes and awards both collectively and individually. Its programme embraces the first quartet from Haydn’s final set of six – and a quartet from Beethoven’s first set of six, composed four years later at the dawn of the nineteenth century.

Janácek’s programmatic quartet was inspired by Tolstoy’s novella and reflected his identification with the subject of a heroine, married to an unworthy husband; she has an affair with a stronger man, resulting in murder by the rejected husband.


Trio di Parma 28pm Ambleside Parish ChurchA £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING

Mozart Piano Trio in E major, K542 19’Sibelius Piano Trio No.4 in C major Loviisa Trio 16’Dvorák Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65 40’

Mozart effectively created the modern piano trio by giving the cello an independent voice. His penultimate and arguably greatest trio, composed in 1788 just before Symphony No.39, was a gift to a brother freemason in gratitude for his financial support in a difficult period of his life. Exactly 100 years later the 23-year-old Sibelius was starting to find his feet as a composer; five years earlier, Dvorák had taken Brahms’s F minor Piano Quintet as his model for his own trio in the same key, but with his signature Slavonic spirit in the second movement.

box office 01539 74262122 TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015

Grasmere ConcertLDSM Academy Artists

11am Grasmere Parish Church£10 UNRESERVED SEATING

“…Sublime – a real treat. Lovely to hear such wonderfully talented musicians! It lifts the soul…” Audience members 2014

The resting place of William Wordsworth, set in the heart of Grasmere, this church is always an inspiring location to hear great music performed by emerging professional artists attending our International Summer Music Academy.

Puccini’s Toscafrom Opéra de Paris



A singer in love, passionate, jealous and impulsive; a romantic painter, an idealist and a defender of liberty; a police chief with a lust for flesh, power and blood, ready to do anything to achieve his ends. Puccini artfully combines the ingredients of a melodrama written for Sarah Bernhardt and comes up with what might be called the opera of operas, a spectacle at once primitive and decadent. In a mythical yet real Rome, from the shadows of the church of Sant’ Andrea della Valle to the terrace of Castello Sant’ Angelo, passions collide and tear all apart, mingling the erotic with the sacred, love with possession, theatre with life. Pierre Audi directs a new production, filmed in October 2014, of this violent and passionate work, with soprano Martina Serafin as Tosca, tenor Marcelo Álvarez as Cavaradossi and Scarpia sung by baritone Ludovic Tézier.

Music for a Summer EveningLDSM Academy Artists

8pm Hawkshead Parish ChurchRetiring Collection UNRESERVED SEATING

Our annual partnership with this popular Hawkshead summer concert series presents LDSM Academy Artists in this idyllic church on the hill. This year’s programme will include a string orchestra performance, led by ISMA tutor Levon Chilingirian, of Tippett’s String Quartet No.2 in F sharp major, a wartime work: the second movement’s fugal theme came to Tippett during the Munich crisis, and the work was completed after A child of our time.

NB Tickets cannot be booked in advance – just turn up at the door.

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Frith Piano Quartet 18pm Ambleside Parish ChurchA £23 B £15 RV ALLOCATED SEATING

Sibelius Piano Quartet in C minor 8½’Beethoven Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.16 23’Schubert Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F major, D487 14’Dvorák Piano Quartet No.1 in D major, Op.23 32’

Another Sibelius rarity to mark his 150th anniversary – a piano quartet with two violins but no viola – and another lesser-known work by Schubert, his first work for piano and strings. Beethoven’s Op.16 is more commonly heard in its version as a Quintet for piano and winds, for which Beethoven’s model was Mozart’s Eb Quintet K452. To close, the first of Dvorák’s two piano quartets (see also next Friday), the last of three intimate works written in spring 1875, composed in just over 2 weeks and yet not performed until 5 years later.

Antonín Dvorák

box office 01539 74262124 WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 2015

Rydal ConcertLDSM Academy Artists

11am Rydal Church£10 UNRESERVED SEATING

“…Excellent concert in beautiful surroundings. Exceptional talent in very young people. Long may LDSM continue!…” Audience member 2014

Supported by the Stephen Bell Charitable Trust

Always one of our most captivating venues, this historic church was where Wordsworth and his family worshipped when they lived at Rydal Mount from 1813 to 1850. Today, talented string players from our International Summer Music Academy at Brathay fill this beautiful intimate rural church next to Dora’s field with the poetry of music.

Ensemble MasterclassFrith Piano Quartet

2.30pm Brathay Hall, nr Ambleside£10 UNRESERVED SEATING


Quite aside from their long-standing quartet partnership, Benjamin Frith, Robert Heard, Louise Williams and Richard Jenkinson each have decades of experience in other chamber ensembles. This afternoon their experience will be shared in this illuminating event. Other masterclasses on Wed 5th (viola), Fri 7th (cello) and Mon 10th (violin).

Ursula Smith CELLO

Emiko Tadenuma PIANO

8pm Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands£16 UNRESERVED SEATING

Beethoven Twelve Variations in F major on Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen, Op.66 10’

Schumann Funf Stücke im Volkston, Op.102 17’Dvorák Waldesruhe (Silent Woods), Op.68 No.5 6’Dvorák Polonaise in A major 8’Kodály Capriccio for solo cello 5’Sibelius Malinconia, Op.20 13’Fauré Sonata No.2 in G minor for cello and piano,

Op.117 19’

For the third time in the festival, we hear Beethoven taking Mozart as his reference: this time it is Papageno’s song from Act II of The Magic Flute, with these variations composed for a visit to the Berlin court of cellist King Wilhelm II of Prussia. Despite profound deafness at the time of its composition, Fauré’s late sonata is filled with euphoria and a joy for life: even its slow movement, originally a funeral march for wind band commemorating the centenary of Napoleon’s death, is uplifting and positive in mood. Cellists must be ever thankful for Schumann and Dvorák’s great contributions to their chamber and concerto repertoire.

Piano kindly provided by Grange-over-Sands & District Concert Club

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4-MALITY Percussion QuartetSarah Castle MEZZO-SOPRANO*

8pm Carver Church, Windermere£18 UNRESERVED SEATING

Rafnsson Ykjur 9’Reich Mallet quartet 15’Bradley new piece* WORLD PREMIERE 15’Marino Risk Every Moment 12’Norman Longshore Drift 13’Bradley In-line 9’

“…Totally engaging – made a refreshing addition to the LDSM Festival… A brilliant quartet, liked their friendly presentation as well as their compositions. Tremendous… Exhilarating and musical… A very enjoyable evening taking us into quite unfamiliar territory. We were amazed by their dexterity and expertise.…” Audience members 2013

After its 2013 sell-out performance LDSM immediately began plans for a return visit by this great ensemble, and tonight the rafters will resonate to marimbas, vibraphones, cymbals, tubular bells, scaffolding pipes, tam-tams, woodblocks, cowbells, drums of all shapes and sizes… and a Korean snapstick!

The Composer Speaks: Jan Bradley6.30pm Carver Church, WindermereFREE

4-MALITY founder member Jan Bradley will give the background to his new work for mezzo Sarah Castle and percussion quartet, setting texts by three female WW1 poets (French, German and Irish).

box office 01539 74262126 THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015

Morning SerenadeLDSM Academy Artists and Ensemble Jeunesse

11am Carver Church, Windermere£16 UNRESERVED SEATING

“…Exquisite concert… a most enjoyable experience. The venue is calm, intimate and completely appropriate for this kind of performance. The young players all performed well, making a good rapport with the sympathetic audience. We particularly enjoyed the Jeunesse group of violinists and the range of music that had been selected for them…” Audience members 2014

Supported by Mrs Eira Leach

A treasure trove: after ten intensive days of coaching and playing, the Academy students give a showcase concert with masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire alongside some pleasant surprises, with repertoire in previous years throwing up neglected gems.

Combination ticket for this concert and tomorrow’s Candlelight Serenade £30 (cannot be used in conjunction with Festival Saver Deals)

Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana AND Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci from Festival Euro Mediterraneo



Adapted from the short story written by Giovanni Verga, Cavalleria Rusticana is a one-act opera considered one of the classics of verismo opera. Composed in 1888 for a publisher’s competition, its win was crowned by success throughout Europe and the United States. Inspired by Mascagni’s triumph, Leoncavallo composed his verismo opera based on the true events of an 1865 murder. The two operas were first performed as a double-bill in 1893 at the Metropolitan Opera. Directed by Enrico Castiglione, the cast includes Daniela Dessì, Fabio Armilato, Giuseppina Piunti, Valdis Janons and Maria José Trullu (Cavalleria) and Piero Giuliacci, Chiara Taigi, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Giovanni Di Mare and Vincenzo Taormina (I Pagliacci). Recorded live in July 2014 at Teatro Antico di Taormina, the second-largest ancient Greek theatre in Italy, sitting on the coast of Sicily.

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Benjamin Appl BARITONE

James Baillieu PIANO

8pm St Thomas’s Church Kendal£18 UNRESERVED SEATING

Butterworth Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad 13’Schubert Die schöne Müllerin, D795 62’

A friend of Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth was killed in 1916 in the Battle of the Somme, one of the ‘lads that will die in their hundreds and never grow old’, as Housman’s poignant Shropshire Lad poetry foretold.

Continuing in pastoral mood, Schubert’s great song cycle, the first of its kind, tells the story of an apprentice miller’s unrequited love for his employer’s daughter.

German baritone Benjamin Appl is a member of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme and was mentored by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Piano kindly provided by Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts

Viola Extravaganza5pm Blackwell Arts & Crafts House,5pm near Bowness£16 UNRESERVED SEATING

JS Bach Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV1004 14’

Halvorsen arr Tertis Passacaglia on Handel’s Harpsichord Suite No.7 in G minor 6½’

York Bowen Fantasie Quartet in E minor for four violas, Op.41 No.1 10’

Bridge Lament for two violas 8½’Dale Introduction and Andante for six violas,

Op.5 10½’

“…To walk on the fells, to hear the glorious music in the sublime surroundings of Blackwell and to emerge afterwards to the sight of a sparkling Lake Windermere – what more can one ask from life?!…” Audience member 2014

ISMA tutors Yuko Inoue, Garfield Jackson, Louise Williams and Kazuki Sawa are joined by advanced LDSM Academy students for this celebration of the viola, with three of the works written shortly before WW1; during the war Benjamin Dale was held in a civilian camp near Berlin and his friend York Bowen performed the Melody (see last Friday) with Tertis in a fundraising concert for internees.


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Frith Piano Quartet 211am Ambleside Parish ChurchA £22 B £14 RV ALLOCATED SEATING

Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.47 27’Bridge Phantasie Piano Quartet in F sharp minor 12’Dvorák Piano Quartet No.2 in E flat major, Op.87 34’

A divine trinity. Schumann’s work was the most ambitious and advanced piano quartet written up to that point, the last and greatest work of his most productive year; Mendelssohn (who, along with Mozart, had made his own substantial contribution to this genre) praised it. Bridge’s single-movement Phantasie was commissioned in 1910 by WW Cobbett, a keen amateur chamber music player and patron of British composers. Contemporary with the Eighth Symphony, Dvorák’s E flat Quartet was written in six weeks after much pressure from his publisher following the success of his earlier quartet – see Tuesday.

Candlelight SerenadeLDSM Academy ArtistsLDSM Academy EnsembleKazuki Sawa DIRECTOR


“…Candlelight Serenade was, as usual, a great performance with the individual items showing off the staggering ability of each student. What a wealth of talent and an honour to have been able to enjoy it!.. A real joy…” Audience members 2014

Supported by Mr & Mrs Harold Lefton

This is your opportunity to hear musicians destined for great careers in this culmination of the intense work between the ISMA Artists and their tutors in the last twelve days.

Solos, duos and some of the greatest chamber works of the classical repertoire bring the festival to a close in a spectacular fusion of sound and lighting with a programme reflecting our themes and anniversaries, to include Britten’s Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge, Op.10, and Sibelius’s Romance in C major, Op.42 and Andante festivo.

A unique event not to be missed.

Combination ticket for this concert and yesterday’s Morning Serenade £30 (cannot be used in conjunction with Festival Saver Deals)

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LDSM Patrons priority booking OPENS TUESDAY 26 MAYPriority Booking is available to Patrons of LDSM.

Please return your completed Booking Form marked PATRON, enclosing payment and a stamped addressed envelope. LDSM Patrons are advised to take advantage of the Priority Booking Period, by post ONLY from 26 May – 7 June. All ticket orders received after this period will be treated as standard postal bookings. Patrons also receive a free copy of the Souvenir Book if ordered during early booking.

Online and postal bookingOPENS MONDAY 8 JUNETo book online go to www.ldsm.org.uk. Your tickets will be held for you to collect at the first concert you have booked, unless you request that tickets are posted to you in advance, for which there is a £2 transaction fee.

For postal bookings, please return your completed Booking Form to Lake District Summer Music, Stricklandgate House, 92 Stricklandgate, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 4PU enclosing payment and a stamped addressed envelope for the return of your tickets. A £2 transaction fee will apply to all postal bookings not accompanied by an SAE, and to online bookings if you request that tickets are posted to you in advance.

Telephone bookingOPENS MONDAY 15 JUNEPlease call LDSM Box Office on 01539 742621. Open Monday to Friday, 11am to 4pm. A 24hr message service is also in operation, on the same number.

Booking in personOPENS MONDAY 15 JUNETickets will be available from the Lake District Summer Music offices at Stricklandgate House, 92 Stricklandgate, Kendal (Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm). Our staff will be pleased to meet you at Stricklandgate House reception and take your booking. Subject to availability, tickets will also be on sale at the venue on the day of each concert from an hour before the performance.

ConcessionsConcessions of 50% are available to under-18s, full-time students on production of NUS cards, and those in receipt of JSA or ESA. Appropriate ID will be required and concessions must be requested at the time of booking. Please bring along your proof/identification to the first event you attend, whereupon you can collect your tickets. Concessions are not available on the Festival Saver Deals (see page 4) and apply only to ticket purchases.

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RefundsPlease check your tickets as soon as you receive them. The Box Office cannot exchange tickets or refund money. Tickets may only be returned for resale (except those purchased as part of a Festival Saver Deal, see page 4) if the event in question is sold out. A £2 handling charge will be made per return.

LatecomersLDSM reserves the right to refuse admission until a suitable break, or the (first) interval. We regret that babes-in-arms and children in prams cannot be admitted to ticketed performances.

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Whilst every effort is made to ensure that the information in this brochure is correct at the time of going to press, some alterations to the programme or artists may be necessary in exceptional circumstances. LDSM reserves the right to make any necessary alterations without prior notification.

FREE 2015 Souvenir Book worth £7

with any booking totalling over £50

Packed with programme notes, articles and artist biographies giving a rich

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32 DONORS, SPONSORS & SUPPORTERS

Launched in 1985 alongside the International Festival and Summer School the aims of this separate charity are:

Supporting young musicians today – ensuring great artists tomorrowTo support the activities of LDSM • To raise money to provide

scholarships for students attending LDSM Summer SchoolsJoin today and receive priority booking, invitations to special events, advance information on LDSM and Patron events and a free Festival Souvenir Book.

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Tillett Trust

Windermere Lake Cruises

Zeffirellis

Patrons ofLake District Summer Music

International Festival

1–14 August 2015

www.ldsm.org.ukRegistered Charity No. 516350

Inspiring events • Intimate venues

Unique collaborations • Thrilling performances

Lake District Summer Music Ltd, Stricklandgate House, 92 Stricklandgate, Kendal, Cumbria LA9 4PU

box office 01539 742621 fax 01539 742622 email [email protected]

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lake district summer music - festival diary 2015

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