Ticket Offers


Let’s hear it PASSES: Weekend pass (all day and eve


concerts over Sat and Sun) £86 – You save £24!


Saturday pass (day and eve) £54 –You save £16!


Sunday pass (day and eve) £27 – You save £8!


These passes cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.


A FESTIVAL WITHIN A FESTIVAL Let's hear it 6–8 JULY 2012


PRESENTED BY THE CHESTER SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL


Tempest Flute Trio Let’s hear it Tine Thing Cries of London


DAYTIME TICKET DEAL Buy 3 tickets and get 1 ticket


FREE! Each ticket gives you entry to any Let’s hear it daytime concert on the Saturday and Sunday. All seats are unreserved and allocated on a first come first served basis. Don’t worry if one concert is full, your ticket is good for the next one. This ticket deal cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.


25 AND UNDER – £5 ticket for any evening concert (limited


availability). Use promo code CSMF25 when booking and please bring your ID on the night.


CONCESSIONS


Students and the registered unemployed may purchase any available seat (evening concerts only) at half-price by visiting the venue one hour before the concert. Please provide proof of concessionary status


Registered disabled are entitled to a half-price ticket (evening concerts only), plus a free ticket for their accompanying support worker for day and evening concerts (with relevant ID); please call the Box Office to book your tickets and arrange collection (these must be collected in person)


Groups of 10 or more receive 10% off, evening concerts only


Welcome


Let’s hear it – A mini festival within a festival; a weekend of non-stop music designed for music lovers, casual listeners, the young, the old and the curious, from the bite size to the full length concert.


Let’s hear it features some very special lunchtime and evening concerts as well concerts on the hour, every hour, throughout Saturday and Sunday.


With all concerts based at Chester Town Hall and a handy café bar on site (provided by The Coach House), you’ll be able to pick’n’mix whatever takes your fancy!


Ian Buckle 20.00-21.45 Hints & tips...


BUYING TICKETS… For all ticket enquiries


contact our Box Office at Chester Visitor Information Centre, Open Mon – Sat 9.30am – 4.30pm / Sunday 10.00am – 3.30pm. Friends priority booking opens 15th March 2012. General booking opens 1st April 2012.


ONLINE –


www.chesterfestivals.co.uk (Print your tickets at home)


BY PHONE – 0845 241 7868 (10% booking fee per


transaction applies)


IN PERSON – Chester Visitor Information Centre (CH1 2HJ)


AT THE VENUE – Even though we always


advise booking to avoid disappointment, we don’t mind if you drop in and buy a ticket on the door.


We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded. For full terms and conditions please visit www.chesterfestivals.co.uk


WHERE TO FIND US… All Let’s hear it events are


situated in Chester Town Hall, Northgate St, Chester, CH1 2HJ.


WHERE TO PARK… Market Car Park (CH1 2HH)


is just a 2 minute walk from the venue. Alternatively Gorse Stacks (CH1 3EQ) is a 5-10 minute walk away. Both these car parks are ‘Free After 3pm’. For more information on parking in Chester visit www.cheshirewestand chester.gov.uk/parking


PICK’N’MIX…


All daytime concerts on Sat 7th and Sun 8th July start on the hour, almost every hour and are a ‘bite-size’ 40 minutes long. You’ll be able to pick‘n’mix whatever concerts take your fancy; and with some fantastic ticket offers available you can save money and try something new. The evening concerts are also a fantastic treat so be sure to check those out too! See all concert details in the What’s On, When and Where... section.


LET’S HEAR IT


CAFÉ BAR… Why not relax in between concerts with a coffee or bite to eat? The Chester Summer Music Festival official ‘Hub’– The Coach House – are running a Café Bar situated within the Town Hall, so come and make yourself at home!


CHESTER FESTIVAL CHORUS CONCERT


CHESTER CATHEDRAL £26/£22/£20/£10


Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra


Vasily Petrenko, conductor Andrew Foster-Williams, baritone Sophie Bevan, soprano Philip Rushforth, organ


This concert gives us one of the most beautiful works written by Brahms – his Ein Deutsches Requiem. Juxtaposing psalm texts with a traditional requiem text, it was presented by Brahms as an act of consolation for the bereaved rather than as a mass for the dead. The charismatic conductor Vasily Petrenko, the RLPO, and our own Chester Festival Chorus with two of the UK’s finest soloists – deliver this remarkable piece. Reubke’s Sonata, inspired by the words of Psalm 94, and one of the masterpieces of romantic organ music, aptly prefaces the Requiem.


FRIDAY 6TH JULY 13.00-13.50


IAN BUCKLE, PIANO;


What’s on, when and where... RLPO BRASS


SATURDAY 7TH JULY 11.00-11.45


PHILIP HOLLAND, ACTOR; BARITONE, TBC


ST MARY’S CENTRE, £9


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


A E Housman’s poems in A Shropshire Lad, published in 1896, appealed to many of Britain’s early 20th-century composers. Here, Ian Buckle and Philip Holland join together again – as for last year’s highly successful Larkin’s England.


ASSEMBLY ROOM, TOWN HALL, £5


Rhys Owens, trumpet 1; Paul Marsden, trumpet 2; Tim Jackson, horn; Simon Cowen, trombone; Robin Haggart, tuba


Start the day dancing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s brass section with music from the Renaissance to the present day. A fun and energetic way to start our day of music! Praetorius, Tchaikovsky, and Khachaturian will keep your feet moving.


12.00-12.45


CRIES OF LONDON I COUNCIL CHAMBER, TOWN HALL, £5


This year’s resident vocal group, the Cries, present a wide-ranging close harmony concert from madrigals to ‘Come fly with me’ via ‘Mari’s Wedding’ and a ‘Hymn to St. Werburgh’, patron Saint of Chester. Pure skill and beautiful sounds.


13.00-13.45


ELLIOTT GRESTY, CLARINET DAVID SHAW, VIOLIN NICHOLAS OLIVER, PIANO


ASSEMBLY ROOM, TOWN HALL, £5


Two of Chetham’s finest students, accompanied by Nick Oliver, will present a lively programme of chamber music.


14.00-14.45


TEMPEST FLUTE TRIO COUNCIL CHAMBER, TOWN HALL, £5


Helen Wilson, Holly Melia, Sarah Bennett


Winners of the Non-Classical Battle of the Bands competition and the Royal Northern College of Music’s Ensemble of the Year 2011, Tempest deliver virtuosity and sublime musicianship with the music of Debussy, Devienne and Chick Corea.


18.45-20.45


VILDE FRANG, VIOLIN AND MICHAIL LIFITS, PIANO


ASSEMBLY ROOM, TOWN HALL, £20


Already a seasoned performer at major venues throughout Europe and Japan, this young Norwegian violinist, winner of the 2011 Classical BRIT awards and a clutch of awards in Germany, is feted for her superb musical expression and virtuosity - all qualities required for the dramatic music of Mozart; the emotional switches within the last of Brahms’s sonatas for piano and violin; Szymanowski’s evocation of the Mediterranean; and a brilliant sonata by Mendelssohn.


Supported by the Norwegian Embassy


Jonathan & Georgina Aasgaard


15.00-15.45 CRIES OF LONDON II


ASSEMBLY ROOM, TOWN HALL, £5


Back for their second concert of the day, the Cries turn their skills to a programme of popular classic songs and arias.


16.00-16.45


JONATHAN AND GEORGINA AASGAARD, CELLOS


COUNCIL CHAMBER, TOWN HALL, £5


Jonathan, familiar to many as the Principal Cellist of the RLPO, is joined by his wife Georgina in a fun programme for all the family including Saint-Saëns’s ‘The Swan’, Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Flight of the Bumble Bee’, pieces by Bach, and a little flamenco.


Supported by the Norwegian Embassy


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