New Paths Music launches - with a sell-out first event!
Wed 6th April 2016
The wonderful musicians of the first New Paths Music Festival in Beverley - the country's leading young professional musicians - have already started to arrive in town, journeying to be here from all corners of the British Isles to contribute to the spectacular array of concerts and events taking place from Thursday until Sunday.
Although the first event, being held in the carpeted warmth of Toll Gavel United Church for the youngest members of the community is oversubscribed, there are some tickets still available for all other events. Any tickets not sold beforehand will be available on the door, so you might just be lucky if you haven't already booked! Tickets are available from East Riding Theatre Box Office and online here http://ert.eticketme.com/
The opening concert, in the atmospheric South Transept of the Minster, is a lavish combination of chamber music and song, including Brahms's Violin Sonata in D minor, Robert Schumann's Piano Quartet in Eb major, songs by Schubert and Clara Schumann, and a performance by Nick Pritchard of Beethoven's An die ferne Geliebte. It is pleasing that in this, the first ever song cycle written 200 years ago in April 1816, poet and composer use the tender image of primroses sleeping to capture a sense of tranquillity in nature. This concert will be a rare treat!
It's not all chamber music, though! There is barber shop, songs from the First World War, organ recitals, opera, classical, religious and early music - something for everyone - held in various venues around Beverley and beyond!
