Two Moors Festival

Freya Waley-Cohen's New Song Cycle Premieres with Roderick Williams at Two Moors Festival ©Photo: Patrick Allen Freya Waley-Cohen’s New Song Cycle Premieres with Roderick Williams at Two Moors Festival 27/9/2024 Baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Christopher Glynn premiere a new song cycle by Freya Waley-Cohen entitled the moon, the moss & the mushrooms at Two Moors Festival on ...

The Two Moors Festival starts this evening, and will continue across this weekend (3rd-6th) and next weekend (10th-13th). In advance of the festival, Artistic Director and Violinist Tamsin Waley-Cohen spoke with Robert Hugill about the themes and concerts in this year's festival.

Link to the preview in Planet Hugill:
https://www.planethugill.com/2024/09/high-quality-music-making-imaginative.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1fYP1LTw8ohKeMVfJXbeitf0a6sdw7eMZ9ieRqZiqrWINaXknjHdw2dgU_aem_YTHGZK_jz6lIIJu3NziKIw&m=1

As well as works by Haydn and Mozart, the incredible Carducci String Quartet will be playing Schubert's exquisite 'Death and the Maiden' in Dulverton on Saturday 5 October at 7.30pm.

Find out more and book tickets: https://tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/sales/events/festivals/2024-festival/carducci-quartet

The moors are alive with the sound of music... or, at least, they will be from Thursday!

📷 Clive Barda

This Saturday!

Connaught Brass - a quintet made up of some of the most talented young brass players in the UK - give a mid-morning concert in Bampton.

Tickets:https://tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/sales/events/festivals/2024-festival/connaught-brass

Roderick Williams - Baritone and pianist Christopher Glynn premiere a new song cycle by Freya Waley-Cohen entitled 'the moon, the moss & the mushrooms' at Two Moors Festival on 3 October. 🌙🍃🍄‍🟫

The work sets texts by Coleridge and others exploring the folklore of Exmoor, where the festival takes place. It receives further performances in the 2025/26 season at Shipston Song and Music in the Round, which commissioned the work jointly with Two Moors Festival.

Head to the link below for tickets and more info 🔗
https://ow.ly/cxPb50Tv3Ip
HarrisonParrott Group

The part of the Two Moors Festival runs from Thursday October 3rd to Sunday October 6th. To find our more about this wonderful Chamber Music Festival click on the following link & watch the promo video: https://www.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/

Programmes for the Two Moors Festival are available from our Exmoor National Park Centres in and Visit Dulverton Visit Exmoor Discover Dunster Lynton & Lynmouth

Lovely interview with Roderick Williams in The Guardian.

Hear him at Two Moors Festival this Thursday evening!

Baritone Roderick Williams: ‘I once heard a singer at a party say: “No peanuts. I’m singing in three days!”’ The baritone on how he looks after his voice, why he likes to talk to his audience, and playlists for the dying

This year's festival opens on Thursday evening with a performance by two of Britain's most acclaimed and much admired musicians, Roderick Williams and Christopher Glynn.

Here they are performing a song by Purcell at London's Wigmore Hall.

Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn - Purcell, Ah! how sweet it is to love Roderick Williams & Christopher Glynn perform Purcell's aria 'Ah! how sweet it is to love' from Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr Z613.This concert was live...

'Nothing could have prepared me for the brilliance and artistry of Mahan Esfahani, who, despite his young age, played with the musicality and virtuosity of a master... not a single phrase lacked purpose of direction.' Keyboard Magazine

Join us for a musical spectacular as Mahan Esfahani, Harpsichordist gives a complete performance of JS Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1.

Sun, 6 Oct at 3pm
Priory Church of St George, Dunster
Tickets: https://tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/sales/events/festivals/2024-festival/mahan-esfahani---harpsichord

📷 Kaja Smith

Tickets for Stile Antico's concert in Okehampton have now sold out! We can't wait to welcome this incredible vocal ensemble to the Festival again on 10th October.

Several other events are close to selling out so do get booking yours asap to guarantee your seats.

https://tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/sales

A huge thanks to everyone who has booked their tickets for this year's Festival - we cannot wait to see you all from next Thursday evening.

If you're still deciding which incredible concert/s to attend and still need to book your tickets, that's all good - although tickets are running very low for a couple of concerts and the performance from Stile Antico is officially sold out!!

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How dreamy is this from Connaught Brass?
So looking forward to their performance in Bampton next Saturday!

Someone To Watch Over Me | Gershwin | Connaught Brass Someone To Watch Over Me | Gershwin | Connaught BrassBedwyn Music Society | 13.09.24Aaron Akugbo | Trumpet Harry Plant | Trumpet Zoe Tweed | Horn Chris Brews...

A lovely interview with our Artistic Director, Tamsin Waley-Cohen

High-quality music-making & imaginative programming in the special natural setting of Exmoor & Dartmoor: I chat to Tamsin Waley-Cohen of the Two Moors Festival Music-making & imaginative programming on Exmoor & Dartmoor - interview: Tamsin Waley-Cohen of the Two Moors Festival

Fantastic article about the Festival in The Moorlander 😊

https://tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/sales

We're excited to welcome violinist & composer Henning Kraggerud to Exeter for the final event of this year's Festival on Sunday 13 October.

Since the 17th century, theorists, philosophers and composers have discussed the intrinsic properties of musical keys, and their links to time and space. These discussions and ideas inspired Henning Kraggerud and the world-famous author of Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder to collaborate on Equinox.

Equinox comprises four concertos - Afternoon, Evening, Night and Morning - each of which consists of six postludes, making 24 in all. These postludes are written in 24 keys and depict 24 hours and 24 time zones, taking the listener on a kaleidoscopic tour across the world and time, and journeying musically through the circle of fifths, beginning in C major. The postludes are by turn joyful, mournful, effervescent and heart-wrenching.

Jostein Gaarder has written an original accompanying 24-part narrative, 24 keys to a world before it slips away. The story charts a man's journey through time from the Meridian Line in Greenwich, London. As he awaits a potentially serious medical diagnosis, the protagonist decides to make the most of his 24 hours of freedom by visiting every time zone.

Equinox was premiered in 2014 at the opening concert of the Northern Lights Festival in Tromsø, and later performed with Jostein Gaarder narrating at both the Nordland Music Festival in Bodø and the Risør Festival of Chamber Music.

Get tickets to Equinox - performed by Henning Kraggerud (Official) and Clare Hammond 👇
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3 weeks to go!

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Early music vocal ensemble Stile Antico bring their atmospheric 'Toward the Dawn' programme to All Saints' Church, Okehampton on Thursday 10 October at 7.30pm.

Their programme charts a course from twilight to sunrise, seductive and unsettling in equal measure. Taverner’s mighty Ave Dei patris filia stands at the end of a delicious sequence of sacred music, chansons and madrigals by English and Continental composers including Byrd, Lassus and Tallis. Thrill to the spine-tingling sounds of Allegri’s beloved Miserere and enter into the glorious sound world of Nico Muhly’s Gentle Sleep, a haunting setting of words by Shakespeare, written especially for the twelve voices of Stile Antico.

There are very few tickets left for this performance so book soon to avoid disappointment!

https://tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/sales/events/festivals/2024-festival/stile-antico

📷 Kaupo Kikkas

Don't miss pianist Clare Hammond's performance at this year's Two Moors Festival. She will be performing alongside violinist Henning Kraggerud (Official) in our Festival finale 'Equinox' at Exeter Castle on Sunday 13 October.

Comprising of four concertos - Afternoon, Evening, Night and Morning - 'Equinox', composed by Kraggerud, takes the listener on a kaleidoscopic tour across the world and time, with an accompanying narrative written by Jostein Gaarder (Sophie's World).

Find out more and book tickets: https://tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/sales/events/festivals/2024-festival/henning-kraggerud-and-clare-ha

Photo: Clare Hammond at the BBC Proms in Nottingham, Sunday 8 September
📷Tracey Whitefoot

If you didn't hear Clare Hammond's dazzling performance at the BBC Proms on the radio last Sunday, you can catch up with it online: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022jym

It's a fantastic performance - and now we're even more excited than we were before about Clare's appearance at this year's Two Moors Festival 😀

Well this is exciting... this time next month we'll be gearing up for the opening concert of the 2024 Two Moors Festival!

Britain's "greatest living baritone", Roderick Williams, and festival favourite, pianist Christopher Glynn will perform a gorgeous programme of British and Irish song.

Before performing Vaughan Williams' Songs of Travel they'll give the world premiere of a new work by Freya Waley-Cohen, commissioned by the Two Moors Festival.

Find out more and book tickets: https://tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/sales/events/festivals/2024-festival/roderick-williams-and-christop

Catch the incredible Palisander as they make their Two Moors Festival debut in Lydford on 11 October. There are just 26 tickets remaining so get booking if you're hoping to be there!

We're thrilled they will also bring their infectious enthusiasm for all things recorder to Ashburton Arts Centre for an interactive family concert the next day. All tickets for this are £6. Plus save 10% when you book more than 4 tickets.

https://tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/sales/events/festivals/2024-festival/palisander---family-concert

🍂🍁A U T U M N U K C O N C E R T S 🍁🍂

27/9 Recorder Revolution! for local primary schools @ Banbury Early Music Festival

28/9 Double Double Toil and Trouble @ Banbury Early Music Festival *

29/9 DDTT @ Liverpool, Ullet Road Church Hall *

11/10 DDTT @ Two Moors Festival, Okehampton

12/10 Recorder Revolution! @ Two Moors Festival, Ashburton

13/10 DDTT @ St George's Bristol

31/10 DDTT @ Royal Holloway University

2/11 DDTT @ Kidbrooke Park Music Festival, East Sussex

15/11 Recorder Revolution! @ St George’s Bristol

26/11 Benslow Recorder Festival

Hope to see you there! Lots of brand new venues/festivals/cities for us, so please do let any friends in the area know we’re coming!

More info and links to tickets available here: www.palisanderrecorders.com/diary

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📸by Łukasz Rajchert during an EEEMERGING+ residency at Narodowe Forum Muzyki in Wrocław, Poland

* Performances of Double Double Toil and Trouble in Banbury and Liverpool are kindly supported by Continuo Foundation who do absolutely amazing things for the UK early music world - check them out! Thank you Continuo Foundation ❤️

Hands up all fans of the BBC Proms 🙋

Tonight's concert from the BBC Symphony Orchestra concludes with Elgar's ever popular Enigma Variations. Enjoy this gorgeous arrangement of 'Ni**od' for string quartet, played by the Carducci String Quartet.

We are so looking forward to the Carducci Quartet's performance at this year's Two Moors Festival. They'll be playing quartets by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert's great 'Death and the Maiden' in Dulverton on 5th October.

Tickets: https://tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk/sales/events/festivals/2024-festival/carducci-quartet

https://youtu.be/hhq3YGW62xY?si=28FUmMHJsbegkniX

‘Ni**od’ from the Enigma Variations for String Quartet ‘Ni**od’ from the Enigma Variations for String Quartet by Edward Elgar Performed by the Carducci String Quartet Matthew Denton - violin Michelle Fleming - ...

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