Tuesday 3rd July Ami Oike, violin


Programme: Beethoven Chausson Saint-Säens


Makiko Oike, piano St Mary’s Centre 1.00pm £9


Romance No. 2 in F major Poème


Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Edward Gregson Triptych (2011)


This young Japanese violinist made headlines as yet another artist from the Far East to watch, when she won the 2011 RNCM Manchester International Violin Competition playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. It was the first time she had played in the UK with a British orchestra and we are delighted that she is appearing in the Festival this year. Her programme complements our Great Romantics theme.


A E Housman’s poems in A Shropshire Lad, published in 1896 and never out of print since, appealed to many early 20th- century composers. Here Ian Buckle and Philip Holland join together again – as for last year’s highly successful “Larkin’s England” – to present a programme that includes Butterworth’s Loveliest of trees and The lads in their hundreds, Ireland’s A Grecian Lad, Tis time, I think by Wenlock Edge, and much, much more.


Friday 6th July


Ian Buckle, piano Philip Holland, actor tbc, baritone


St Mary’s Centre 1.00pm £9


Shropshire and Other Lads; A E Housman in words and music


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