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Coffee Concert

Sir Thomas Allen and friends

Part of the Ryedale Festival 2015

Add to my Calendar 17-07-2015 11:00 17-07-2015 13:00 36 Coffee Concert After opening with one of the extraordinary works for viol consort that so excited Purcell’s musical imagination, and a contemporary piece inspired by it, the Ryedale Festival, famous for its Coffee Concerts, presents the world premiere of a new coffee-inspired work by David Gordon. It features recorder soloist (and BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist) Charlotte Barbour-Condini and an array of percussion instruments from the main coffee-growing countries. Finally, Sir Thomas Allen heads the cast for one of the most comic and quirky pieces ever to come from the pen of J.S. Bach: a mini-opera about a coffee-addicted girl and her father who longs to find her a respectable husband, heard here in the first performance of a new translation by John Warrack, with the moral ‘drinking coffee is natural!’Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am  Pickering Parish Church, Pickering DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Pickering Parish Church
Hall Garth
Pickering
North Yorkshire
YO18 7BE
England

Programme

Henry Purcell – Fantasia no.7
Johann Sebastian Bach – Cantata, BWV 211 (Coffee Cantata)
David Gordon – Romanesque (World premiere)
Marcus Bartram-Stephens – Double on Purcell's Fantasia no. 7 (World premiere)

Performers

Sir Thomas Allen – baritone

Programme Note

After opening with one of the extraordinary works for viol consort that so excited Purcell’s musical imagination, and a contemporary piece inspired by it, the Ryedale Festival, famous for its Coffee Concerts, presents the world premiere of a new coffee-inspired work by David Gordon. It features recorder soloist (and BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist) Charlotte Barbour-Condini and an array of percussion instruments from the main coffee-growing countries. Finally, Sir Thomas Allen heads the cast for one of the most comic and quirky pieces ever to come from the pen of J.S. Bach: a mini-opera about a coffee-addicted girl and her father who longs to find her a respectable husband, heard here in the first performance of a new translation by John Warrack, with the moral ‘drinking coffee is natural!’

Coffee/tea/soft drinks and biscuits served from 10am–10.45am
 

Sir Thomas Allen Ryedale Festival

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