Press Release – for immediate use
You'd hope and expect a Fringe Festival to produce something a bit unusual and out of the mainstream and the Buxton Festival Fringe delivers in 2014.
John Kilpatrick says this will be the last performance by the Sheffield Lydian Ensemble and it is playing his Jumblies Suite amongst other pieces. The Ensemble takes music-making seriously and standards are high but expect fun and be prepared to laugh out loud. Skilled musicianship is also to be expected from the Clouds Harp Quartet who trained at the RNCM. It will be taking its wide-ranging programme to four different Buxton venues.
The Fringe is delighted to welcome back well-established friends. Early music specialist Partita returns for the 20th year. The High Peak Orchestra – with local cello soloist Miriam Brown – will be playing Mahler's 4th and Schumann's cello concerto. Miriam once played with the Derbyshire City and County Youth Orchestra. The DCCYO has an intensive summer school at the end of which it plays a concert including, this year, Holst's Planet Suite. Slightly smaller in scale is the Amaretti Chamber Orchestra which has won many admirers in the north west. Its programme includes popular pieces by Debussy, Vaughan Williams and Strauss.
The 40-strong Manchester Recorder Orchestra also returns to play Vivaldi plus some pieces written especially for the MRO. There will also be prodigious blowing from the Sovereign Saxophone Octet celebrating the 200th birthday of Adolphe Sax – inventor of the instrument.
Fringe Award-winner from 2013 the K'antu Ensemble returns with two different concerts of music and a workshop for children. Its music is accessible and exciting and not to be missed.
Guitar fans have some intriguing options in Buxton this year. David Youngs is an acoustic virtuoso and Kenny Robertson promises an aural history of rock guitar. By contrast ARKangel has a show Lullaby of Andalusia which features flamenco guitar and violin.
We are delighted to welcome pianists John Thomson and Jonathan Ellis back to the Fringe. John will be playing Beethoven, Chopin and Bartók. Jonathan will include pieces by Bach, Mussorgsky as well as Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. At a separate recital Jonathan will play with violinist Duncan Reid; featured will be Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata as well as pieces by Brahms and Bartók. Rachel Johnson and Jemima Palfreyman will bring a delightful recital of flute and piano music The centre-piece will be a sonata by Prokofiev.
Lastly, but certainly not least, Mart Rodger's Manchester Jazz is back for two vibrant and life-affirming shows. Drawing on traditional and Dixieland styles Mart and his band have been entertaining audiences over 30 years and sound better than ever.
Fringe chair Keith Savage said, “There is so much music to look forward to in this year's Fringe and with performances from lunch-time onwards I expect some very full days and some very tough decisions when its come to agreeing on awards!”
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