1964 Programme of Concerts as given in the publicity leaflet, a copy of which was given to me by Michael Hall.
Wardour Castle Summer Concerts
16-22 August, 1964
President: MICHAEL TIPPETT
Musical Director: HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
These concerts run concurrently with the Wardour Castle Summer School.
Sunday 16 August
5.0 pm Wardour Castle Assembly Room
Lecture: MUSIC IN OUR TIME
Given by Alexander Goehr
8.30 pm Wardour Castle Assembly Room
MUSIC IN OUR TIME
Introduced by Michael Tippett
A concert of contemporary English Music.
Promoted by: Institute for the Promotion of New Music
Morag Noble – Soprano
Margaret Kitchin – Pianoforte
Peter Maxwell Davies – Pianoforte
Melos Ensemble
Three Pieces for Piano – Hugh Wood
Suite for String Trio (first performance) – Neville Gambier
Piano Sonata – Anthony Gilbert
Second Piano Sonata – Michael Tippett
Monody for Corpus Christi – Harrison Birtwistle
Five Little Pieces (first performance) – Peter Maxwell Davies
Suite Op.11 – Alexander Goehr
Mondat 17 August
5.0 pm The Old Kitchen, Wardour Castle
Recital: Early organ Music
Given on a newly-restored baroque organ by Peter Maxwell Davies
Music by: Dunstable, Taverner, Byrd, Tomkins, Gabrielli, Scheidt, Zipoli, etc.
8.30 pm Wardour Castle Assembly Room
Chamber Concert
Melos Ensemble
Pianoforte Trio, F sharp minor – Haydn
Six Little Pieces – Bartok
Seven Sketches – Debussy
Première Rhapsody – Debussy
Vier Stüke – Berg
Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475 – Mozart
Horn Trio on E flat, Op.40 – Brahms
Tuesday 18 August
5.0 pm Wardour Castle Assembly Room.
Lecture: Oliver Messiaen, The Man and His Music
Given by Hugh Wood
8.30 pm Wardour Castle Assembly Room
Quartet for the End of Time
Members of the Melos Ensemble
Emmanuel Hurwitz – violin, viola
Gervase de Peyer – clarinet
Terrence Weil – Violoncello
Lamar Crowson – pianoforte
Clarinet Trio in E flat, K.498 – Mozart
Impromptus, Op. 142 – Schubert
Quatuor Pour la Fin du Temps – Oliver Messiaen
Wednesday 19 August
5.0 pm The Old Kitchen, Wardour Castle
Flute and Harpsichord
Lucy Berthoud – flute
Michael Thomas – harpsichord
Sonata No. 1 in B minor – Bach
Ordre B Minor – Couperin
Sonata No. 6 in E minor – Bach
8.30 pm Wardour Castle Assembly Room.
Discussion: Opera Today
Alexander Goehr, Peter Maxwell Davies, Michael Tippett.
Chairman: Harrison Birtwistle
Thursday 20 August
5.0 pm Wardour Castle Assembly Rooms.
A Matinee for Erik Satie
Given by Susan McGaw – pianoforte
Gymnopédies – Satie
Sonatas – C. P. E. Bach
Vieux sequins et Vieilles Cuirasses – Satie
Songs without Words – Mendelssohn
Jack-in-the-Box – Satie
8.30 pm Assemble Room Wardour Castle
Lecture: Musical Characterization in Mozart Opera.
Given by Stephen Pruslin, Princeton University.
Friday 21 August
8.30 pm Old Wardour Castle
Nocturnal.
A concert in the open air* of English and Italian echo-music from the 16th and 17th centuries for brass and voices
Given by: Gabrieli Ensemble and Choir conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr.
Music by Maschera, Isaac, A and G. Gabrieli
* under cover if wet
Saturday 22 August
8.30 pm Donhead St. Andrew Parish Church
Participants Concert
A concert given by the participants of the summer school.
Conductors: John Carewe, Michael Tippett.
Morgengesand – C. P. E. Bach
Symphony – Haydn
Sequentia Sanctia Evangeli [sic]– Peter Maxwell Davies
Secundam Lucan, in illo Tempore XXII 14-20 (first performance written for the summer school)
Fantasias – Gibbons
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Cover Design by Antony Denning.
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