Accommodation at the Swan
Hotel with a 15% discount for those attending the
festival
WILLIAM ALWYN FESTIVAL
THURSDAY 6TH
OCTOBER TO SUNDAY 9TH
OCTOBER 2011
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 6TH OCTOBER
Master Class with John Turner – Saint Felix Chapel, Saint
Felix School, Southwold – 14.00-16.00
Chamber Concert with John Turner (Recorders), Lesley-Jane Rogers
(Soprano),
Janet Simpson (Piano) – Saint Felix Chapel – 19.30-21.30
(Alwyn Seascapes, Carwithen Three Songs (De la Mare) and Serenade,
Anthony Hopkins Three French Folk Songs, Karel Janovicky Rain
Songs, John Parry Nightingale Rondo,
David Matthews Happiness, Quilter Songs, and other works by
Elis Pehkonen, Geoffrey Poole, David Dubery and John Addison)
FRIDAY 7TH OCTOBER
Illustrated talk on Alwyn’s life and music by Andrew
Palmer –
Silcox Theatre, Saint Felix School, Southwold. 11.00-12.30
Workshop (Choral music from the 19th and 20th Centuries) with
Students from Saint Felix School – 14.00-16.00
Concert to include music by Alwyn given by the students of
Saint Felix School, Southwold -
Saint Felix Chapel – 19.30-21.30
Sonata alla Toccata for Piano Solo
Fantasy Waltzes Nos. 3, 6, 8 & 10 for Piano Solo
Vidas Vaitkevicius Piano
SATURDAY 8TH OCTOBER
Chamber Concert given by the Cavaleri String Quartet –
Holy Trinity Church, Blythburgh – 10.30-12.15
Haydn String Quartet in Bb Major Sunrise Op. 76/4 (Hob III:78)
Alwyn String Quartet No. 1 in D minor
Interval 15 minutes
Britten Three Divertimenti & Alla Marcia
Alwyn Three Winter Poems
Janácek String Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters
Zone One Brass Concert Conducted by Richard Ward –
Saint Felix Sports Hall, Saint Felix School, Southwold –
14.00-16.00
Alwyn Dramatic Overture The Moor of Venice
Golland Euphonium Concerto No. 1
Imogen Holst The Unfortunate Traveller
Gustav Holst Moorside Suite
Richard Steinitz Heraldic Animals
Orchestral Concert given by the Prometheus Orchestra Conducted
by Edmond Fivet –
St. Michael’s Church, Framlingham – 19.30-21.30
Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Alwyn Concerto Grosso No. 1 in Bb
Crosse Brief Encounter for Oboe d’Amore, Treble Recorder
and Strings (World Premiere)
Alwyn Seven Irish Tunes
Interval
Alwyn Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Strings (Richard Simpson Oboe)
Schubert Symphony No. 6 in C major D589
SUNDAY 9TH OCTOBER
Film Odd Man Out (1946) with an introduction by Ian Johnson
– 10.30-12.45
Silcox Theatre, Saint Felix School, Southwold
Orchestral Concert given by the Prometheus Orchestra Conducted
by Edmond Fivet –
St. Bartholomew’s Church, Orford – 16.00-18.00
Beethoven Coriolan Overture
Alwyn Aphrodite in Aulis
Elgar Chanson de Matin and Chanson de Nuit
Alwyn Concerto for Oboe, Harp and Strings (Richard Simpson Oboe)
Interval
Alwyn Tragic Interlude
Crosse Brief Encounter for Oboe d’Amore, Treble Recorder
and Strings
Schubert Symphony No. 6 in C major D589
Reception and Close for artists and sponsors (Private Event)
Town Hall Rooms, Orford from 18.30 onwards
