30. COFFEE CONCERT: REBECA OMORDIA PIANO
All Saints’ Church, Hovingham HovinghamRebeca Omordia is a pioneering virtuoso whose revelatory album African Pianism has changed the face of classical music. From a delicate Nocturne expressing Moroccan composer Nabil Benabdeljalil’s intense joy at roaming the Middle Atlas mountains after lockdown, to the pianistic recreation of Nigerian drum techniques by Christian Onyeji, and David Earl’s nostalgia for childhood fishing […]
31. NATIONAL YOUTH CHAMBER CHOIR AND PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
Hovingham Hall HovinghamAn unmissable collaboration between the festival’s two ensembles in residence, as San Francisco’s renowned period instrument orchestra accompany their British director in a sparkling organ concerto before joining the National Youth Chamber Choir for one of Handel’s earliest masterpieces, a tour de force of vocal and instrumental virtuosity that bubbles with the energy and exuberance […]
32. DAME JANET BAKER
Duncombe Park HelmsleyOne of the greatest of all singers gives a rare public interview in her native North Yorkshire. Dame Janet Baker is joined by Edward Seckerson to discuss her life in music and the remarkable people, music and ideas that inspired her stellar career, in between recorded examples of some of her most famous performances In conversation […]