Treats in store at Ryedale

The famous Russian cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich, once said that '˜you will learn far more about Shostakovich listening to his fifteen string quartets than you will ever discover by exploring his symphonies'.
By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Jun 2017, 08:00 BST
Updated 4th Jun 2017, 21:18 BST
MUSIC VENUE: The Tallis Scholars will be playing at Ampleforth Abbey.MUSIC VENUE: The Tallis Scholars will be playing at Ampleforth Abbey.
MUSIC VENUE: The Tallis Scholars will be playing at Ampleforth Abbey.

Those words you will prove true in this year’s Ryedale Festival when the highly acclaimed young Carducci Quartet perform ten of the quarters in four concerts interspersed by appropriate Russian poems read by Simon Callow.

They share Ryedale’s headline news with two performances of Mozart’s gentle comedy, La Finta Giardiniera (The Pretended Gardner), where the characters are not always who they seem to be, until all is revealed as it ends in happiness.

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Period instrumentalists from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment share the stage following their opening night concert playing four of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.

One of the world’s great singers, Sir John Tomlinson, sings Schubert’s Schwanengesang with Christopher Glynn as his accompanist, the pair also journeying into Tomlinson’s famous Wagnerian role as Wotan.

Two star-studded trios of Jack Liebeck, Guy Johnston and Amandine Savary play Ravel’s Piano Trio; Chloe Hanslip, Peter Wispelwey and Danny Driver offer Schubert; Steven Osborne’s piano recital includes Brahms, Rachmaninov and Debussy, while the Tallis Scholars, in the ideal acoustic of Ampleforth Abbey, are among the festival’s delights.

July 14-30 in venues around Ryedale, details www.ryedalefestival.com

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