New Paths is just five weeks away

Now that the “year’s at the spring”, we’re counting down the weeks until the New Paths festival bursts forth into Beverley, bringing with it forty of the country’s leading musicians for a joyous celebration of music making.  We’ve packed over thirty events into the long weekend, so, rise up and come to the East Riding of Yorkshire this Easter for one of the most exciting new festivals in the land.
 
The opening concert, On this Island, is a springboard into the festival and is a brilliant showcase of the garland of themes encircling the spring weekend in beautiful Beverley.
 
Set in front of the spectacular Great West Door of Beverley Minster, with its beautiful carvings of the four seasons, we are treated to a performance of Beethoven’s radiant and evocative Spring Sonata, by Fenella Humphreys and Libby Burgess.  Recently introduced to Beverley for the first time whilst visiting the area for her City of Culture concerts, Fenella can’t wait to return for the festival.  Her most recent disc – Bach to the Future 2 – was Editor’s Choice in Gramophone Magazine, and so we can’t wait to hear her either!
 
The astonishing programme also includes one of Brahms’s great masterpieces of chamber music, the Horn Trio in E flat, in which Libby is joined by Francesca Moore-Bridger and Jamie Campbell - who makes a very welcome return to the festival, having stunned the audience last year with his heartfelt playing of Brahms’ violin sonata in D minor.  We are thrilled to be continuing our journey through the chamber music and song of Brahms, our namesake composer whose music forged “New Paths”.  The following day John Slack also makes a very welcome return to the festival, to perform Brahms’ autumnal F minor clarinet sonata, as part of ‘A Retrospective’ – a journey backwards through life.

You can see the full programme at http://www.newpathsmusic.com     

Tickets are available at   https://uk.patronbase.com/_EastRidingTheatre/Productions   for all venues and events.