A heady mix of sultry melodies and electrifying rhythms, this is an evening in the company of the legendary tango king Astor Piazzolla and his contemporaries.
The style and sound of Buenos Aires café culture is conveyed with fire and panache, presented in a relaxed cabaret-style setting creating the perfect ambience.
This special event is also part of the Ards International Guitar Festival.
The Aquarelle Guitar Quartet is one of the world’s leading guitar ensembles, acclaimed for its expressive performances and imaginative programming.
With six celebrated albums on Chandos Records and appearances at Wigmore Hall, Classic FM Live, and major festivals worldwide, the quartet blends stunning virtuosity with warmth and style.
Now joined by celebrated guitarist Craig Ogden, they continue to delight promoters and audiences alike with their engaging programmes and personable, friendly introductions. And all of this offered in the stunning surroundings and warm acoustic atmosphere of the Portico of Ards.
A solo recital & pre-concert talk at 6.30pm with Chris de Souza
This programme presents incredible musical diversity and showcases the breadth of style and period open to the classical guitar. With informative and entertaining verbal introductions, Craig draws his audience in and makes everyone feel they are part of an intimate and personal journey through Craig’s lifelong love affair with music and the guitar.
The inclusion of Gary Ryan’s ‘Lough Caragh’ inspired by a holiday the Ryan family took in County Kerry, Paula Child’s ‘These Cold Stones’ inspired by Celtic Neolithic standing stones, and Niel Gow’s Lament provide a modest acknowledgement of St Patrick’s Day too!
Federico Moreno Torroba | Sonatina for Guitar, 1st movt.
Federico Moreno Torroba | Madroño
Gary Ryan | Lough Caragh
Niel Gow | Niel Gow’s Lament for the Death of His Second Wife (arr. David Russell)
Nikita Koshkin | The Usher Waltz
Astor Piazzolla | Invierno Porteño
Roland Dyens | Fuoco from Libre Sonatina
Antonio Vivaldi | Concerto Op.3 No.9 (arr. John Williams)
Paula Child | These Cold Stones
Django Reinhardt | Nuages (arr. Roland Dyens)
George Shearing | Lullaby of Birdland (arr. William Lovelady)
Joaquín Rodrigo | Tres Piezas Españolas
Cirencester is excited to welcome the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet – one of the world’s leading guitar ensembles to an exciting evening of classical guitar music. In the first half they will be joined by the Corinium Players Guitar Ensemble and performing a variety pieces by Rimsky-Korsakov and Delibes as well as popular classics including Palladio by Karl Jenkins.
For the second half this incredible quartet will thrill the audience with their amazing repertoire of pieces.
The Corinium Players Guitar Ensemble is a group of over 50, talented and successful, classical guitarists of Primary school age upwards, based in the Cotswolds and performing classical, Spanish, Latin and popular music, directed by Sandra Dukes.
The Quartet are delighted to be giving workshops and classes with the Corinium Players Guitar Ensemble during the day.
Torroba – Sonatina
Torroba – Madroños
Philip Houghton – Kinkaschoo I Love You
Marais – Les Voix Humaines
Nikita Koshkin – The Usher Waltz
Piazzolla – Invierno Porteño
Reinhardt arr. Roland Dyens – Nuages
George Shearing – Lullaby of Birdland
Poulenc – Sarabande
World renowned guitar virtuoso Craig Ogden performs an eclectic solo programme including works by Astor Piazzolla, jazz legends Django Reinhardt and George Shearing as well as music by Marais – a court musician at Versailles and Francis Poulenc’s meditative Sarabande written in 1969 and dedicated to the renowned classical guitarist Ida Presti.
An exciting classical guitar weekend by the sea on the stunning Rame Peninsula, with Craig Ogden, Eden Stell Guitar Duo (Mark Eden, Christopher Stell), Alison Smith & Gerald Garcia.
This is a weekend not to be missed with a superb line up of Classic FM chart topping Craig Ogden, one of the world’s finest guitarists (Head of Guitar at the Royal Northern College of Music), Mark Eden & Chris Stell (Eden Stell Duo) internationally renowned for their dynamism, innovation and breathtaking virtuosity( teaching positions at the Royal College of Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) and Alison Smith, one of the UK’s most exciting and lyrical guitarists, who often leaves audiences spellbound by her sensitive playing ( teaching position University of Plymouth and previously Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and the fantastic, highly popular international guitarist and teacher, Gerald Garcia.
Craig Ogden teams up with accordionist Miloš Milivojević to bring an eclectic programme to the Memorial Hall for this late-night performance.
Vivaldi: Concerto in D | Falloni: Felix Tango, Pirotango | Albeniz: Tango, Malagueña (from España) | Boccherini: Introduction and Fandango | Piazzolla: Libertango
Exultate Singers
Craig Ogden and Gary Ryan guitars
David Ogden conductor
I was glad Hubert Parry
Os justi Anton Bruckner
Autumn Frank Bridge
Live with me and be my love Nigel Hess
Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen Johannes Brahms
Autumn Jussi Chydenius
Sancta et immaculata Virginitas Andrea Gabrieli
Muusika Pärt Uusberg
Suite of folk songs for choir and two guitars Gary Ryan
Nunc Dimittis Gustav Holst
Christ has no body now but yours David Ogden
Abendlied Josef Rheinberger
Northern Lights Ola Gjeilo
Lay a garland Robert Pearsall
Con amore, la mi madre Juan de Anchieta
Rytmus Ivan Hrušovský
Guitar duets:
Danza del Corregidor Manuel de Falla
Sambalanco & Xaranga do Vovo Celso Machado
Bristol’s accomplished chamber choir Exultate Singers makes its first visit to Glastonbury for this very special early evening concert of music of sacred and secular music from across the ages.
Including intimate and reflective motets along with large-scale choral pieces, expertly and exquisitely sung, the concert will inspire and entertain. Craig Ogden and Gary Ryan, two charismatic virtuosi of the guitar, team up with the choir for a performance of Live with me and be my love by Nigel Hess and an exhilarating Suite of folk songs for choir and two guitars. Songs from the Congo, Sweden, England, Spain and America are given a contemporary twist with virtuosic interplay between the guitars weaving in and out of the choir textures.
Come and enjoy some ravishing choral music and entertaining guitar duets in an atmospheric setting and the opportunity to meet the performers in the interval over a glass of wine.
Craig Ogden, one of the most exciting artists of his generation, returns to the festival having closed last year’s with the London Tango Quintet. This is an opportunity to hear one of the most recorded guitarists, including six chart-topping albums for Classic FM, in Romney Marsh’s most intimate venue.
Spring Concert for Burton Bradstock Festival
Baroque Variations: A Path Towards the Goldbergs
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Goldberg Variations BWV988
Aria mit verschiedenen Veränderungen (arranged David Juritz)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Music for a while
Jean Philippe Rameau (1683 – 1764) Hippolyte et Aricie: Ritournelle
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 – 1704) Sans frayeur dans ce bois
Marin Marais (1656 – 1728) Les voix humaines
Francois Couperin (1668 – 1733) La Couperin
Johann Paul von Westhoff (1656 – 1705) Imitazione delle Campane
William Byrd (1540-1623) Pavan ’The Earl of Salisbury’
Andrea Falconieri (1585/6–1656) Pascalle
Nicola Matteis (c.1650 – c.1713) Ground after the Scotch Humour
James Oswald (1710–1769) The Marvel of Peru ‘Comic’
Juan Arañés (died c. 1649) Una sarao de la chacona, ‘A La vida bona’
Francesca Caccini (1587 – d. after 1641) Ciaccona
Alessandro Marcello (1673-1747) arr. J S Bach Adagio from Concerto in D minor BWV 974