Lake District Summer Music Festival 30 July - 15 August 2010
Welcome to our 26th Festival.
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‘What is music?’ the poet Heine asked and pondered. As the 19th century romantic movement gathered pace, composers, poets and painters pooled their newfound expressive freedom, leaving us works of intrinsic beauty still relevant and sought after in the scientific and precise 21st century.
Our Festival programme this year celebrates the births of Schumann and Chopin in 1810. With their colleagues, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Wagner, and others, they were swept along by the passion aroused in the pursuit of personal expression. You will also be moved by the inspiration and genius found in the song cycles of Schumann, Mahler, Finzi and Bridge.
The King’s Singers open the festival taking us from 16th-century Byrd and Tallis to the Europe of Schumann, Mendelssohn and Saint-Saëns. Other choral works take us to Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle and a late-night programme from Schumann to Bridge given by Pro Nobis. Walton brings the smart, sophisticated 1920s to us with his settings of Edith Sitwell’s ironic poems in Façade. In this programme you can also enjoy Berio’s enchanting folk songs, sung by Wendy Dawn Thompson.
Northern Sinfonia, the distinguished Gaudier Ensemble, the QuintEssential players of cornettes, sackbutts and dulcian, plus the Brook Street Band, join us for the first time. Soloists and ensembles, old friends and new, fill our festival programmes in works by the Romantics, whose influence continues to this day, and also works from the composers Schumann and his colleagues revered.
The greatness of Beethoven, indestructible Bach and Mozart, lie comfortably with today’s contemporary composers and continue to illuminate our lives with their music. Enjoy it all: the music, and the cameraderie of meeting our artists, our students and your festival friends.
Renna Kellaway, Artistic Director
Click here to download the Festival Diary PDF with full details of the Lake District Summer Music Festival 2010.
Online Tickets will be on sale at 18.00 BST (17.00 GMT). Click here to visit our online ticketing website.
| Thursday 8 July | 7.30pm | Chetham's Symphony Orchestra | Kendal Leisure Centre |
| Friday 30 July | 8pm | The King's Singers | Kendal Parish Church |
| Saturday 31 July | 12noon | Music at Noon: The Quartet | Ambleside Parish Centre |
| 4pm | Exhibition Preview | University of Cumbria, Ambleside | |
| 8pm | Northern Sinfonia | Coronation Hall, Ulverston | |
| Sunday 1 August | 5.30pm | Talk: Directing an Opera | Theatre by the Lake, Keswick |
| 8pm | Birth of an Opera | Theatre by the Lake, Keswick | |
| 8pm | Samyo: Tributes | Coronation Hall, Ulverston | |
| Monday 2 August | 3.30pm | 'Cabbages and Kings' | University of Cumbria, Ambleside |
| 8pm | Chilingirian Quartet 1 | Kendal Parish Church | |
| Tuesday 3 August | 12noon | Music at Noon: The Oboe | Ambleside Parish Centre |
| 8pm | Tarang: Different Voices | Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal | |
| 8pm | Leon McCawley | Coronation Hall, Ulverston | |
| Wednesday 4 August | 12noon | Music at Noon: Romantic Viola | Ambleside Parish Centre |
| 2.30pm | Sam Forrester Masterclass | University of Cumbria, Ambleside | |
| 8pm | Psappha | St Thomas's Church, Kendal | |
| Thursday 5 August | 12noon | Kirkby Market Day Recital 1 | Kirkby Lonsdale Parish Church |
| 8pm | LDSM Artists Ensemble | Penrith Methodist Church | |
| Friday 6 August | 12noon | Music at Noon: Voice in Lieder | St Martin's Church, Bowness |
| 2.30pm | YSV Showcase Concert | St Mary's Church, Windermere | |
| 2.30pm | Piano Masterclass | University of Cumbria, Ambleside | |
| 8pm | Chilingirian Quartet 2 | Coronation Hall, Ulverston | |
| Saturday 7 August | 11am | Rydal Concert | Rydal Church |
| 8pm | Andreas Staier | Kendal Town Hall | |
| 10pm | Late Night LDSM | University of Cumbria, Ambleside | |
| Sunday 8 August | 12noon | Discovering Music | University of Cumbria, Ambleside |
| 8pm | Wallfisch & Snyder | Kendal Town Hall | |
| 8pm | The Menuhin Concert | Theatre by the Lake, Keswick | |
| Monday 9 August | 11am | LDSM Young Artists | Grasmere Church |
| 2.30pm | Cello Masterclass | University of Cumbria, Ambleside | |
| 3.30pm | Taffy Thomas | Storyteller's Garden, Grasmere | |
| 5.30pm | Pre-concert Talk | Kendal Parish Church | |
| 7.30pm | Gaudier Ensemble | Kendal Parish Church | |
| 10pm | Late Night Singers | Kendal Parish Church | |
| Tuesday 10 August | 12noon | Music at Noon: The Ensemble | St Martin's Church, Bowness |
| 2.30pm | Violin Masterclass | University of Cumbria, Ambleside | |
| 8pm | Music for a Summer Evening | Hawkshead Parish Church | |
| 8pm | Skampa Quartet 1 | Kendal Parish Church | |
| Wednesday 11 August | 2.30pm | Ensemble Masterclass | University of Cumbria, Ambleside |
| 3.30pm | Afternoon Serenade | Grasmere Church | |
| 7.30pm | Rising Star 1: Marcus Farnsworth | St Martin's Church, Bowness | |
| 10pm | Late Night Strings | St Martin's Church, Bowness | |
| Thursday 12 August | 11am | Horsch and Presland | Kendal Town Hall |
| 12noon | Kirkby Market Day Recital 2 | Kirkby Lonsdale Parish Church | |
| 3.30pm | Rising Star 2: Andrew Brownell | Kendal Town Hall | |
| 8pm | Gagliano Piano Trio | Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands | |
| 8pm | QuintEssential | Kendal Parish Church | |
| Friday 13 August | 11am | Jonathan Scott | Kendal Parish Church |
| 8pm | Candlelight Serenade | St Thomas's Church, Kendal | |
| Saturday 14 August | 11am | Skampa Quartet 2 | Kendal Town Hall |
| 5.30pm | Pre-concert Talk/Demonstration | St Thomas's Church, Kendal | |
| 8pm | Rossini's Great 'Little Mass' | St Thomas's Church, Kendal | |
| Sunday 15 August | 5.30pm | Pre-opera Talk | Theatre by the Lake, Keswick |
| 8pm | Handel's Acis & Galatea | Theatre by the Lake, Keswick |
