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Friday 24 July
7pm St Mary's Upper St
Opening Concert  -  Poems of love and loss
Ernest Chausson - Poème, opus 25 for violin, string quartet and piano
​Gustav Mahler - Piano Quartet
Franz Schubert - String Quartet no. 14 D810  “Death & the Maiden”

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Zoë Beyers - solo violin
Joana Ly & Tamaki Higashi - violins
Dorothea Vogel - viola
Kirsten Jenson - cello
Martin André - piano
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Saturday 25 July
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11am Gallery 123 After Noah, Upper St
SANE and the art of possibility

Art exhibition opening

The charity SANE is proud to present, in  partnership with the festival, a selection of work celebrating the art of possibility, created by artists with lived experience of mental ill health. The exhibition showcases art made by recipients of SANE Creative Awards, as part of a grants programme that has supported artists for over thirty years.Time and again, the talent, passion and dedication of these artists has shone through, and served as a reminder of the powerful impulse to create, even in the face of great adversity.
The exhibition will run throughout the festival, you can visit  Monday to Saturday 10am - 6pm and Sundays 11-5pm

2pm  Angel Central
Folklore 
Mikel Laboa  – Txoria Txori 
Edvard Grieg – Holberg Suite, opus 40
Annabel Kershaw - …of Place, of Folk, of Ritual
Igor Stravinsky  – Pulcinella Suite 

 
MZ Duo- Saxophone and Accordion

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6pm St Mary's Upper St 
European Impressions


Francis Poulenc
- Sonata for clarinet and piano FP184 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -  “Kegelstatt” Piano Trio k498 
Josef Suk - Elegie for violin, cello and piano, opus 23 
Dora Pejačević  - Piano Quartet in d, opus 25 
 
John Slack - clarinet
Martin André - piano
Dorothea Vogel - Viola
Joana Ly - violin
Bryony James - cello

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Sunday 26  July
11am Duke Organic
Coffee Concert - Dialogues and Fantasy


Hildegard von Bingen
O virtus Sapientie
Carl Philip Emanuel Bach Andante from Duet H598
Georg Philipp Telemann Fantasia  for solo violin
Adi Ivgi  Fantasia for baroque violin
Jacob van Eyck  Fantasia and Echo
Tal Arbel  Fantasia for recorder
Georg Philipp Telemann Canonic Duet
Rachel Stott  Fantasia canonical
Georg Pisendel Sonata per violino solo senza bassi
Fumiharu Yoshimine  “Mudai” for tenor recorder
Georg Philipp Telemann Lesson Twenty from “Der getreue Music-Meister”

 
Kati Debretzeni - baroque violin
​Alma Nuñez Debretzeni - recorders

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4pm Angel Central
Swing Dance Class at the Piazza
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Absolutely suitable for all ages and abilities, for couples and individuals!
Tutors from Swing Patrol:
David  Savage  and  Oksana


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6pm  Piazza, Angel Central
From New Orleans to Paris: the sounds of Sidney Bechet
 
The Sol Grimshaw Jazz Quartet

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Thursday  30 July
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6pm Little Angel Theatre
Voices of San Lazzaro
 
Nerses Shnorhali  – Aravot luso
Orlando di Lasso – Susanne un jour
Settimia Caccini – Due luci ridenti
Armenian traditional – Keler Tsoler
Grigor Narekatsi – Havoon havoon
Claudio Monteverdi  – Si dolce è 'l tormento
Barbara Strozzi  – Che si può fare
Armenian traditional – Hov Arek
Komitas Vardapet  – Soorp Soorp
Barbara Strozzi – Silentio nocivo
Francesca Caccini  – Maria, dolce Maria
Claudio Monteverdi – Lamento della ninfa
Tarquinio Merula – Folle è ben che si crede

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Friday 31 July
12pm Courtroom at Old Sessions House
​Matinée musicale - Much Ado about Nothing


Dora Pejačevič - Canzone
Charlotte Sohy - Thème Varié
Erich Korngold - Much Ado about Nothing Suite
Amy Beach - Romanze
Fritz Kreisler - Liebesleid, Schön Rosmarin
Cécile Chaminade - Andantino, Bohémienne


Joana Ly - Violin
Martin André - Piano
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6pm  FT Britannia Row
​From Bach to Dante's Hell

 
Johann Sebastian Bach   Suite no. 1 BWV 1,007 
Zoltán Kodály  Sonata for cello, opus 8 
Giovanni Sollima  Hell I 

Miguel Ángel Villeda Cerón - Cello
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8pm  Little Angel Theatre
Edward Elgar meets Oscar Wilde


Gerald Finzi  - It was a lover and his lass
Edward Elgar  – 7 Lieder: Like to the Damask Rose
Oscar Wilde  - “The Grave of Keats”
Elgar - Queen Mary’s Song
Wilde - “Sonnet: On Hearing the Dies Irae Sung in the Sistine Chapel”
Elgar - A Song of Autumn
Wilde - “Symphony in Yellow”
Elgar -The Poet’s Life
Wilde - “Helas!”
Elgar -Through the Long Days and Years
Wilde - “Silentium Amoris”
Elgar - Rondel
Wilde - “La Bella Donna della Mia Mente”
Elgar - The Shepherd’s Song
Wilde - “The Garden of Eros” (selections)
Wilde -"The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (selections)
Madeleine Dring - It was a lover and his lass

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Saturday 1 August
11am Arc Collective
Yoga with Harp  - the perfect combination of sound and relaxation
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 Catrin Meek - harp 
 John Slade - tutor
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6pm Christ Church Highbury
Piano Recital - Waldstein and Kreisleriana
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Frédéric Chopin - Étude, opus 25 no.7 
Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata no. 21 “Waldstein”      
Robert Schumann
- “Kreisleriana” opus 16 
  
Dmitrii Kalashnikov - piano
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Sunday 2 August
11am Duke Organic
Coffee Concert with Haydn


Joseph Haydn 

String Quartet opus 76 no. 3 in C “The Emperor”
 String Quartet opus 76 no. 6 in E flat 
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Francesca Barritt & Joana Ly -violins
Miguel Sobrinho - viola
Gemma Wareham - cello

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5pm Christ Church Highbury
Grand Finale - Beethoven, Tolstoy and Janáček

Ludwig van Beethoven
- Sonata no. 9 Kreutzer Sonata
Leo Tolstoy - excerpts from Kreutzer Sonata
Leoš Janáček -   String Quartet no. 1  Kreutzer Sonata

Joana Ly and   Francesca Barritt - violins
Miguel Sobrinho - viola
Gemma Wareham - cello
Martin André - piano
Samuel Collings - actor
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