Festival 2025
Solo Classics:
Baroque and 20th-Century Music for Viola
Saturday 30 August, 12.00pm-1.00pm
West Clandon Village Hall (The Street, West Clandon, Guildford, GU4 7TD)
Tickets £15 [book both Saturday concerts for £30]
The Festival is delighted to welcome violist, Rosalind Ventris, to Clandon this year. Rosalind has performed at the Royal Festival Hall, the Wigmore Hall and the Aldeburgh Festival, and is a member of Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective. From September, she takes up the role of Director of Music at the Yehudi Menuhin School. Here she offers a programme showcasing the viola as a solo instrument, performing arrangements of famous works by J. S. Bach and G. P. Telemann, alongside beautiful pieces by 20th-Century female composers, Imogen Holst and Thea Musgrave.
Programme
Fantasia No. 1, TWV 40:14 - G. P. Telemann
Suite for Viola - Imogen Holst
In the Still of the Night - Thea Musgrave
Cello Suite No.3, BWV 1009- J. S. Bach
Telemann and Contemporaries:
Cantatas and Trios of the Baroque
Saturday 30 August, 4.30pm-6.00pm (this concert includes an interval)
West Clandon Village Hall (The Street, West Clandon, Guildford, GU4 7TD)
Tickets £20 [book both Saturday concerts for £30]
Stephen Fort and Endelienta Baroque join forces to put on a concert centred around the magnificent Cantatas of G. P. Telemann for solo bass voice and chamber ensemble. The programme is complemented with instrumental items, including the famous Flute Sonata in B minor, by Telemann's friend, J. S. Bach, and two uplifting trios by lesser-known composers, P. H. Erlebach and M. Marais.
Programme
Reiner Geist, laß doch mein Herz, TVWV 1:1228 - G. P. Telemann
Trio Sonata No. 3 in A major - P. H. Erlebach
Flute Sonata in B minor, BWV 1030 - J. S. Bach
Ich will den Kreuzweg gerne gehen, TVWV 1:884 - G. P. Telemann
Suite in D, from Pièces en trio (1692) - M. Marais
Stephen Fort - bass
Endelienta Baroque:
Eva Caballero - flute
Maxim Del Mar - violin
Sarah Small - viola da gamba
Seb Gillot - harpsichord/organ
Sunday Eucharist
Sunday 31 August at 10.30am
St Thomas of Canterbury, The Street, East Clandon, Guildford, Surrey, GU4 7RY
The congregations of East and West come together for this service which will include music performed by the villages’ own Schola Cantorum. All are welcome.
Music
Introit - O Taste and See by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Mass setting - Missa secunda by Sebastian Forbes (composed for the Clandon Churches)
Anthem - Rejoice in the Lord Alway Anon (16th century)
1930s Gramophone Recital
Sunday 31 August, 2.00-3.30pm [doors open at 1.30pm]
West Clandon Village Hall
Donations in aid of the West Clandon Village Hall
Transport yourself back to 1930s America with some classic big band music. There will be lively tunes by the likes of Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman sounding once again from the state-of-the-art EMG gramophone. Enjoy some tea and cake with friends or bring your dance shoes and practise your lindy hop and balboa! Whatever your fancy, this will be a very relaxed occasion perfect for a Sunday afternoon.
Stephen Fort will operate the beautiful, original 1930s EMG gramophone. EMG was one of the finest gramophone manufacturers in the world, and provides the ideal way to listen to these classic recordings of the period.
FREE ENTRY WITH FREE TEA AND CAKE
Jazz Through Time: An Edu-Concert on the Evolution of Jazz Music
Sunday 31 August, 4.30pm-6.00pm [doors open at 4.00pm]
West Clandon Village Hall
Tickets £15
With wit and amusement, international pianist, John Lander, takes you on a fun journey through the history of jazz. John draws on his experience as a professional, touring musician, and his previous work at the Juilliard School of Music and Columbia University, to blend an educational experience into an entertaining performance chronicling the evolution of jazz music, as he emulates the styles of the most important figures in the genre.
Refreshments will be available, so you can relax
for this social and light-hearted event.
John Lander - piano