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As a part of our 2010 Derbyshire Festivals coverage, we've toiled away to find out all the places and locations of Well Dressings this summer across the whole of Derbyshire. 

Buxton Festival runs from July 7 – 25 2010: Music Listings

Order a brochure for the Buxton Festival now: 01298 70395
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• The Mandolinquents
  8 July ,1pm 1 hour
  £12
  At the dawn of a new age of mandolin activity, an all star cast hits Buxton to pay homage to the heyday of mandolin orchestras (the 1920s, 30s, 40s, and, er, the 1780s), raising the level of mandolin consciousness for generations to come! 
  
  Fresh from recent tours of the Arctic Circle, China, the jungles of Borneo and most places in-between come the Mandolinquents, including the mighty mandobass (‘yes, I think we have one in stock, Madam’).  Expect reels and traditional airs, hot swing and ragtime, Mozart and Tchaikovsky, Brazilian folk melodies and much more...played, and sometimes sung, with infectious fun, stunning virtuosity and offbeat humour.
  
• Ensemble 360
  8 July, 3pm, 1 hour 40 minutes
  £18
  
  Mozart Oboe Quartet, K370
  Howells Rhapsodic Quintet
  Britten Phantasy Quartet, opus 2
  Mozart Clarinet Quintet, K581
  
  Ensemble 360 has gained an enviable reputation across the UK as an ensemble of outstanding musicians and for its ability to communicate to audiences. Formed in 2005 the group brings together up to 11 world class musicians to offer informal, friendly and relaxed concerts, performing ‘in the round’ where possible. These friends share a passion for music which radiates through each performance.
  
  The emotional chemistry here was manifestly unusual… pure magic
  The Sunday Telegraph
  
• Graffiti Classics
  8 July, 9.45pm, 1 hour
  £10
  
  Graffiti Classics are guaranteed to leave you with a smile on your face – sixteen strings, eight dancing feet and four voices. Not gypsy, not jazz, not trad, not classical – but scintillating performance with brilliant arrangements and mischievous humour.
  
  I can't rid my mind of the image of the Pizzicato Polka with the bass tucked crosswise under his chin – God knows, I've tried
  The Daily Mail
  
  This show is a wonderful antidote for those who think that classical music is as staid as stained-glass
  The Times
  
• The Bach Cello Suites
  9 July
  11am
  1 hour 25 minutes
  £20
  
  2.30pm
  1 hour 25 minutes
  £20
  
  Tim Hugh cello
  
  11am Suites 1, 3, 5
  2.30pm Suites 2, 4, 6
  
  Bach’s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello are acclaimed as some of the greatest works ever written for solo cello. Full of light and shadow, sorrow and joy, Bach expresses a huge range of emotions in this intimate music, presented here in two concerts in the beautiful little theatre at Chatsworth House.
  
  Tim Hugh enjoys an immensely varied career incorporating chamber music, solo recitals and concertos while maintaining his position as principal cellist with the London Symphony Orchestra. He regularly appears as soloist with the world’s leading orchestras and conductors and has recorded much of the solo repertoire. BBC music magazine described his 2006 recording of the Suites as ‘the best performance on a modern cello’.
  
  Britain should be proud of Tim Hugh – an artist of world stature
  Musical Opinion
  
• A Good Reed?
  10 July  
  £12
  1pm  
  1 hour
  
  Audiences have come to expect the unexpected at A Good Reed’s concerts, as the four madcap exponents of woodwind lowlife continue their attempt at world domination.  Now with a new member to train (or tame?), will they be able to convince us that the bassoon can be more than ‘an acoustic travesty’ 
  
• Madeleine Mitchell   violin
  Noriko Ogawa piano
  11 July  
  £12
  1pm  
  1 hour
  
  Bridge   Mélodie
  Debussy  Sonate
  Takemitsu  From far beyond Chrysanthemums and November Fog
  Franck   Violin Sonata in A
  
  This exciting new Anglo-Japanese collaboration between Madeleine Mitchell and Noriko Ogawa is supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.  Delightful short pieces by Bridge and Takemitsu are paired with favourites of the violin repertoire by Franck and Debussy, who influenced Takemitsu.    Madeleine Mitchell is one of the country’s most distinguished musicians, well known for her imaginative programming.  She recently gave recitals in Sydney Opera House and the Seoul Center for the Arts as part of a three month world tour.
  
  The magnificent Mitchell…dedicated penetrating musicianship  
  BBC Music Magazine
  
• Calefax
  11 July
  £18
  3pm
  1 hour 40 minutes
  
  Mendelssohn The Hebrides overture
  Debussy Suite Bergamasque
  Tchaikovsky Overture from the Nutcracker Suite
  Tchaikovsky / Duke Ellington Nutcracker Jazz Suite
  Steve Reich New York Counterpoint
  
  Few groups are truly unique, yet that epithet applies to firm Festival friends Calefax. With over 600 concerts in 20 countries, Calefax is in great demand worldwide, performing standing up, sometimes from memory, and always engaging audiences with their musicianship and virtuosity. Most importantly, they arrange, recompose and interpret music from eight centuries to suit their unique line-up: from early music to classics and jazz, in the hands of Calefax all sounds fresh and new.
  
  We tapped our feet too at the concert by Calefax – five extremely gifted Dutch gents who almost made the wind quintet seem the best musical format on the planet
  The Times
  
• Music of the Night with Rebecca Caine and James Church
  11 July
  £10
  9.45pm
  1 hour
  
  Internationally renowned soprano Rebecca Caine shot to fame as the star of Les Miserables and later opened the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera. Now a major star of musical theatre and opera on both sides of the Atlantic, Rebecca sings some of her favourites from The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Follies and Ragtime!

Music of the Night with Rebecca Caine and James Church

• Alicja Śmietana violin Evelyne Berezovsky piano
  12 July
  £12
  1pm
  1 hour
  
  Grieg Sonata no.1, opus 8
  Schubert Rondo in A, D438
  Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre
  
  Wieniawski Fantaisie brillante on themes from Faust, opus 20 Polish born Alicja Śmietana has been described by San Francisco music critics as ‘extraordinary brilliant and sensitive’ and she has already gained the respect as soloist and chamber musician of world-famous musicians including Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Misha Maiski, Martha Argerich and Thomas Zehetmair. A multi-prizewinner in international competitions, Alicia presents a varied programme from the lyrical folk character and drama of Grieg's Sonata to Wieniawski’s great showpiece.
  
  While working with Alicja I found not only a brilliant musician but a colleague interested primarily in the greater good of music
  Nigel Kennedy
  
• Music at Twilight
  12 July
  £18
  3pm
  1 hour 30 minutes
  
  Emma Kirkby soprano Jakob Lindberg lute Emma Kirkby offers her own Grand Tour of seventeenth-century Europe, with a programme from the decades that marked the twilight of the Renaissance and the dawn of the Baroque age, with music by Dowland, Purcell, Schütz and Lawes.
  
  Emma’s voice is richer and intensely expressive...her richly coloured interpretations of English songs show that the timbre of her voice, enhanced by a gentle vibrato, has mellowed over the years. Jakob accompanied gracefully throughout and offered several elegant solos
  New York Times
  
• John Lill piano
  13 July
  £18
  1pm
  1 hour
  
  Mozart Sonata in F,
  K332 Brahms Rhapsody, opus 79
  Schumann Carnaval, opus 9
  
  Known worldwide for his aristocratic interpretations of the great nineteenth-century masters, John Lill recently celebrated his 60th birthday. His programme culminates in Schumann’s musical representation of an elaborate and imaginative masked ball during carnival season.
  
  Lill played the busy piano part it as though it was the easiest thing in the world, his hands rippling over the keys with never a missed note, in a performance that was never just a vehicle for showing off, but thoughtfully musical
  Seattle Post
  
• The Russian Chamber Philharmonic St Petersburg conducted by Juri Gilbo
  13 July
  £18
  3pm
  1 hour 40 minutes
  
  Grieg Holberg Suite, opus 40
  Tzintsadze Georgian Folk Dances
  Bach Violin Concerto in E
  Bartok Romanian Dances
  Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings, opus 48
  
  Two years ago Festival audiences were thrilled by the superb playing of this string orchestra and we are delighted to offer a return visit, when they bring Tchaikovsky’s sparkling Serenade, written as homage to Mozart's own serenades, and Grieg’s folk-inspired dance suite. Juri Gilbo and his orchestra gave the music their Russian soul and so won the hearts of the Germans.
  
  An unforgettable event!
  Osterländer Volkszeitung
  
• Sarah-Jane Brandon soprano Gary Matthewman piano
  14 July
  £12
  1pm
  1 hour
  
  Schumann Frauenliebe und leben, opus 42
  Liszt 3 songs
  Rachmaninov 6 songs
  
  Winner of the 2009 Kathleen Ferrier Competition, South African Sarah-Jane Brandon sings Schumann’s cycle of a woman’s response to love and life, coupled with Rachmaninov’s beautiful and romantic songs. Meet one of tomorrow's divas.
  
  The way she physically projects herself, with eloquence in her eyes and hands, recalls the days of silent cinema. For a 25-year-old, her artistry is astonishingly mature. A born recitalist, she has an instinctive understanding of this difficult game. Covent Garden surely beckons.
  The Independent
  
• Primrose Piano Quartet
  14 July
  £18
  3pm
  1 hour 40 minutes
  
  Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor,
  K478 Alwyn Rhapsody
  Strauss Piano Quartet in C minor, opus 13
  
  The Primrose Piano Quartet includes some of the UK's most renowned chamber musicians, with years of experience gained in the Lindsay, Sorrel and Edinburgh Quartets. They have a particular passion for lesser-known English music and sandwiched between mature Mozart and youthful Strauss is the music of William Alwyn, an unashamed Romantic who preferred his music to appeal to the heart rather than to the head.
  
  Their playing is selflessly beautiful…everything seems to be just right
  The Strad
  
• A German Journey with the Festival Chorus
  15 July
  12.30pm
  £10
  1 hour with Annette Saunders piano
  
  Our celebrated chorus enjoys a musical sojourn in German, celebrating the bicentenary of Schumann’s birth and sampling the Teutonic delights of songs and ensembles by Cornelius and Nicolai. Their stunning Rossini concert last year was a Festival highlight for many, so expect a journey to delight.
  
  The Festival Chorus – vital, disciplined and sensitive
  The Independent
  
• El Ultimo Tango
  15 July
  £10
  9.45pm
  1 hour
  
  El Ultimo Tango is a quintet created by Eduardo Vassallo, the amazing principal cellist of the CBSO. With a line-up of flute, sax, cello, bass and piano, they specialise in music from Eduardo’s native Argentina with particular emphasis on the unforgettable music of Astor Piazzolla and have performed all over the UK. El Ultimo Tango clearly greatly empathises with Piazzolla’s vibrant, fiery tango music.
  
  They play with joie de vivre. There is a feeling of freshness and spontaneity about it all MusicWeb Assured and affectionate playing
  International Record Review
  
• Viardot – tribute to a genius
  16 July
  £12
  12.30pm
  1 hour with Miroslava Yordanova mezzo-soprano, Giulio Zappa piano introduced by Julian Smith
  
  Pauline Viardot was a hugely talented pianist, singer and composer, and friend of Chopin, Liszt, Gounod, Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Turgenev and George Sand. This lecture recital, marking the 100th anniversary of her death at the age of 88, describes her world and famous friends, including some of the many songs she wrote and the operatic arias with which she was especially associated.
  
• The Academy of Ancient Music
  16 July
  £18
  3pm
  1 hour 40 minutes
  
  Pavlo Beznosiuk violin
  Elin Manahan Thomas soprano
  Vivaldi The Four Seasons, opus 8 and ‘seasonal’ arias by Purcell and Handel
  
  Vivaldi’s most popular work was originally entitled ‘The Contest between Harmony and Invention’ and helped define the concerto form. The Academy of Ancient Music cleverly intersperses the violin concertos with arias from The Fairy Queen, The Triumph of Time and Truth, Ezio and Giulio Cesare, sung by the leading baroque singer Elin Manahan Thomas, who many will remember from her role here in Samson.
  
  The AAM is on glorious form: the strings have a bite, precision and vibrancy any orchestra would envy International
  Record Review
  
• My Darling Clemmie
  16 July
  £12
  3pm
  1 hour 10 minutes with Rohan McCullough written by Hugh Whitemore directed by Gareth Armstrong
  
  ‘My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me’ Winston Churchill My Darling Clemmie is the remarkable, moving and highly entertaining story of the woman who married one of the truly great figures of the last century: Sir Winston Churchill, performed by the remarkable Rohan McCullough.
  
  Compelling, engaging, intimately and beautifully realised – an unforgettable performance
  Roger Graef, Complicite Theatre Company
  
• 'So, what's my motivation?’
  17 July
  £6
  1pm
  1 hour
  
  Alessandro Talevi, fresh from directing The Barber of Baghdad, guides willing volunteers from the Festival chorus in an opera workshop exploring the inner workings of the director’s mind!
  
• One Morning in May
  17 July
  £18
  2.30pm
  1 hour 40 minutes
  
  The stunning Dufay Collective presents a concert of English music from the 12th to 17th centuries in the beautiful and ancient ‘Cathedral of the Peak’. Tracing the roots of traditional song and dance music from Westron Wynd, Miri it is and Sumer is icumen in, they mix instrumental dances on pipes, flutes, vielle, harps, gittern, psaltery, fiddle and gurdy with ballads and dances heard in the streets and taverns of Renaissance London.
  
• Di Xiao piano
  18 July
  £12
  1pm
  1 hour
  
  Mozart Sonata in Bflat, K570
  Mendelssohn Songs without words
  Grieg Lyric Pieces, opus 43
  Debussy Deux Arabesques
  Debussy L’Isle Joyeuse
  
  Two years ago the diminutive and charming Di Xiao gave us a superb recital and we welcome her again after a year when she has thrilled audiences across Europe on her Rising Star Tour, taking in 12 of the most prestigious concert halls from Athens to Barcelona. Other tours have taken her to Singapore, India, Malaysia and China.
  
  The Chinese pianist Di Xiao presents a demanding programme of Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel and Messiaen that takes your breath away
  Kölner Philharmonie
  
• Dante Quartet
  18 July  
  £18
  3pm  
  1 hour 40 minutes
  
  Cornelius Quartet no.3 in G major
  Verdi  String Quartet
  Debussy  Quartet in G minor, opus 10
  
  Winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music and the Chamber Music section of the BBC Music Magazine Awards, the Dante Quartet is known for its imaginative programming and the emotional intensity of its performances.  Here they offer a chance to hear our opera composers in chamber guise, including what is thought to be the first modern performance of a quartet by Peter Cornelius.
  
  This was just the sort of event that makes festival-going worthwhile 
  The Financial Times
   
  When the first notes sounded it was, thrillingly, as though Beethoven was speaking to us direct 
  The Sunday Times 
• Giselle
  19 July  
  £10 stalls, £16 circle
  2pm  
  2 hours
  
  Giselle is the ultimate Romantic ballet, a tale of innocence, betrayal and the redemptive power of true love, and one of the greatest and most popular ballets.  With outstanding classical dancers and expansive choreography this production by Independent Ballet Wales has original choreography, expressive costumes and atmospheric sets to make one of the most thrilling and entertaining dance events of the year.
  
  Please note: this performance uses recorded music

 

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