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Program and Information
Updated 14. January 2017
HINDSGAVL FESTIVAL
10 to 18 July 2017
A musical vacation
In July, Hindsgavl Festival will take place for the
49th time at Hindsgavl Castle, where both
musicians and audience stay at the castle a few
days of their choice and form a little musical
community that truly deserves the most
stunning surroundings in Denmark. There is a
fantastic atmosphere and a perfect serenity.
Take a swim in the ocean, a jog in the forest,
attend musical lectures and open rehearsals,
enjoy the gastronomy and not least the
concerts. After the concerts the bar in the old
main building will open, but there is also the
possibility of sitting on the beach jetty in the
moonlight, listening to the porpoises and
enjoying the midnight magic in the park.
The program this year exceeds our own
expectations (once again) - it has probably
never been better! As for previous seasons, we
have made it a virtue to bringing artists to
Hindsgavl Manor that have only rarely, or
never, performed on Danish stages. Therefore,
in case you do not already know them, seize this
opportunity to get acquainted with some of the
most outstanding personalities on the classic
music scene right now.
Hindsgavl Festival has three concert series:
International stars (typical evening concerts),
young talents (typical afternoon concerts) and
contemporary music (typically late evening
concerts).
All in all, we are very much looking forward to
eight enchanting days on Hindsgavl Castle.
Hoping to see you,
Bernard Villaume, Festival Director
Hindsgavl Festival wishes to express gratitude to these Danish
institutions and foundations:
Monday, 10 July 2017
French opening and funky folk music
Quatuor Ébène is reputed to be one of the most creative classical ensembles, moving effortless across
genres; from classical to jazz, pop, world music and even to rock 'n roll. The quartets trademark is their
energetic style and infectious enthusiasm. Improvisations are often fitted into their concert programs
and the quartets focus on this skill may explain why the audience is often left with the feeling that ‘good
old quartets’ by Haydn and his like are being created in the same now as they are played.
This evening quartets by Mozart and Beethoven are performed, alongside the Ravel quartet, the
recording of which received the “Best Album of the Year”-award at the Classic FM Gramophone
Awards in 2009. Also, do not miss the award-winning documentary about the quartet, "4 ", which we
show in the afternoon. The documentary gives a unique insight into how much it requires both
artistically and personally to work as an ensemble on international top level.
As per tradition, the opening day ends with a musical party in the castles Garden Room, this time with
the Danish/Swedish funky folk music trio, Dreamers Circus.
13:00
17:15
20:00
(INT)
Tour of park and castle
Pre-concert talk (in Danish)
Quatuor Ébène (F)
Pierre Colombet, Gabriel Le MagaMajore, violins; Adrien Boisseau, viola; Raphaël Merlin, violoncello
W.A. MOZART (1756 - 1791)
L. van BEETHOVEN (1770 - 1827)
String quartet No. 15, K421 (1783), 26’
String quartet No. 11, op. 95 (1810), 21’
- < > - intermission - < > Maurice RAVEL (1797 - 1828)
22:30
String quartet in F-Major (1902-3), 29’
Dreamers Cirkus (DK/S)
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, violin; Ale Carr, banjo; Nikolaj Busk, piano & accordion
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Tuesday, 11 July 2017
Wondrous Love Story and a Classy Clarinet
This day is a cornucopia with a variety and quality of classical music, you will not find anywhere else. Let's begin
with the afternoon concert:
"To hear him is something you want to tell on two of your grandchildren” wrote British The Telegraph after
Christian Gerhaher was in London to receive the award for best male singer at the International Opera Awards
2015. “One of the finest lieder singers of this or any generation” – the citation as Christian Gerhaher was awarded
the Wigmore Hall medal in October 2016. These honors are just a tiny fraction of the many that are strewn across
the German baritone. Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber, have known each other since adolescence, and been
musical partners through 28 years. Their recordings have won numerous awards and their interpretations of
especially Schubert and Schumann has set new standards for the genre. This afternoon Brahms is on. Completed
in 1869, his song cycle Die Schöne Magelone derives from a quasi-medieval romance, in prose and verse, by
Ludwig Tieck about a Provençal knight-errant called Peter and his love for the beautiful, if initially unavailable,
Magelone.
After Magelone, an evening concert in clarinet- and piano heaven with Martin Fröst and pianist Roland Pöntinen.
And last – but certainly not least - a transcendent and spiritual experience into the contemporary music world
with Danish composter Simon Loeffler whose compositions captivates and puzzles the audience on the most
prestigious contemporary music scenes worldwide.
10:00
14:30
15:30
(INT)
17:30
20:00
(INT)
22:30
(NEW)
15 minutes with yesterday’s artist
Introduction to ‚Die Schöne Magelone’ (in Danish)
Christian Gerhaher (D), bariton and Gerold Huber (D), piano
Johannes BRAHMS (1833 - 1897)
Die Schöne Magelone (1861–69), 55’
(15 Romanzen aus L. Tiecks Magelone, Op.33)
Pre-concert talk (in Danish)
Martin Fröst (S), clarinet and Roland Pöntinen (S), piano
W. LUTOSLAWSKI (1913 - 1994)
Ferruccio BUSONI (1866 – 1924)
Frederic CHOPIN (1810 – 1849)
Dance Preludes (1954), 10‘
Elegi in E flat Major (1920), 4‘
Solo piano:
Nocturne i g-mol, op. 15 nr. 3 (1833)
Scherzo nr. 3 i cis-mol, op. 39 (1839)
Bela BARTÓK (1881 – 1945)
Romanian Folk Dances (1915/arr. J. Dominique in 2015)
- < > - pause - < > Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)
Solo piano:
Première Rhapsodie (1909-10)
La sérénade interrompue & La Cathédrale englouite
.. from Préludes book I (1909-10)
Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
Sonata in E flat Major, op. 120 No. 2 (1894), 22’
Simon Løffler (DK), portrait of a young composer
Works by Simon Løffler, approx. 30 minutes
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Wednesday, 12 July 2017
Solo percussion and clarinet quintets
The giants meet when Martin Fröst plays Mozart and Brahms with Quatuor Ébène. Sparks were flying
from the stage during their first collaboration at Verbier Festival in Switzerland in 2016, and they are
looking immensely forward to the second round at Hindsgavl in 2017. So are we!
The New York Times very aptly wrote this about Fröst in 2014: “In earlier times, the talent of Martin
Frost would have attracted suspicion. Like that of Paganini, whom contemporaries suspected to be in
cahoots with the Devil: How else to explain his wizardry on the violin, which surpassed everyone else
in technique and brilliance?” No matter who he is in cahoots with, we are looking tremendously
forward to hosting the Swedish clarinet-wizard again, for the third time at Hindsgavl Festival.
In the afternoon, it is time for solo percussion with Danish Mathias Reumert, who in 2015 received the
Danish Music Critics' Artist's Award and who has received ecstatic reviews for his recent DVD release
"SOLO". A breathtaking and virtuoso experience is guaranteed!
10:00
15:30
15 minutes with yesterday’s artist
Mathias Reumert (DK), solo percussion
(NEW)
Pierre JODLOWSKI (f. 1971)
Javier ALVAREZ (f. 1956)
Vinko GLOBOKAR (f. 1934)
K. STOCKHAUSEN (1928 -2007)
17:15
20:00
(INT)
Time & Money, 1st part (2003), 6’
"Temazcal" (Mexican for “Burning Water”) for maracas
and tape (1984), 8’
?Corporel (1985), 10’
Zyklus (No. 9, 1959), 12’
Pre-concert talk (in Danish)
Quatuor Ébène (F) with Martin Fröst (S), clarinet
W.A. MOZART (1756 - 1791)
Clarinet quintet in A Major, K. 581 (1789), 34’
- < > - intermission - < > -
Johannes BRAHMS (1833 - 1897)
Clarinet quintet i B Minor, op. 115 (1891), 40’
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Thursday, 13 July 2017
String quartet and Anderszewski solo
Piotr Anderszewski has won a reputation as one of the greatest and most interesting musical
personalities. His playing is renowned for sound richness, depth and virtuosity and his recordings have
won a host of awards. The Polish pianist is known as an uncompromising and extremely perfectionist
artist - traits which made him leave the stage as 21-year-old in the middle of his semi-final program in
the famous Leeds piano competition because he felt he had not played at his best - and most recently
in London to repeat an entire Bach partita at a concert when he was not satisfied with his first version.
As for all his solo recitals, the program is carefully selected using the principle that a mutual sympathy
between himself as performer and the composer is essential – just as it is in interpersonal relations.
In this case, we feel confident that Mozart, Janácek and Chopin would be pleased to have this fine
pianist at the keyboard. Remember the documentary "The Unquiet traveler" about Piotr at 10:30.
The young Nordic Alba String Quartet saw their breakthrough in the Carl Nielsen Chamber Music
Competition in Copenhagen in 2015. The Hindsgavl Festival management has since then on various
occasions enjoyed the quartet playing with an incredible maturity, both new and older compositions.
10:00
13:00
15:30
(TALENT)
15 minutes with yesterday’s artist
Tour of park and castle
Alba String Quartet (DK)
Amalie Kjældgaard Kristensen and Cecilie Emtoft, violin, Minna Svedberg, viola; Theodor Lyngstad,
violoncello
P. GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN (1932 – 2016)
Edvard GRIEG (1843 – 1907)
17:15
20:00
String quartet No. 10, ’New Ground’ (2011), 13’
String quartet No. 1, G Minor, Op.27 (1878), 35’
Pre-concert talk (in Danish)
Piotr Anderszewski, piano (Pol)
(INT)
W.A. MOZART (1756 - 1791)
Fantasia & Sonata in C Minor, KV 475/457 (1785), 30’
- < > - intermission - < > Leos JANÁCEK (1854 – 1928)
On an overgrown path, part 2 (1911), 18’
Frédéric CHOPIN (1810 – 1849)
3 Mazurka, op 56 (1843)
3 Mazurka, op 59 (1845)
Polonaise-fantaisie, op 61 (1846)
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Saturday, 15 July 2017
Two very different cello-experiences
Soloist, chamber musician, teacher, author and radio host. Steven Isserlis can write many titles on his
resumé. His great musicianship, his intense presence on stage and his technical mastery have secured
him a position as one of the greatest cellists with solo engagements in front of top orchestras
worldwide. In classical cello concertos he is not only playing the solo part but also very often enjoys
leading the orchestra, and along with his passion for the education of young musicians, this makes him
to the perfect match for Hindsgavl Festival's own young Nordic in-house ensemble.
It is truly a day in the sign of the violoncello. In the afternoon we shall listen to another cellist,
Belgian/French Camille Thomas who despite her young age, has a spectacular international career
already. With romantic/modern music for duo with piano, this will be a completely different celloexperience, compared to the evening concert. Camille visited Hindsgavl for the first time in 2014.
13:00
15:30
(TALENT
/INT)
Tour of the park and castle
Camille Thomas (B), violoncello and Beatrice Berrut (CH), piano
César FRANCK (1822 – 1890)
Fazil SAY (f. 1970)
17:15
20:00
(INT)
Sonata in A Major for violin and piano, transcribed by
Delsart to piano and violoncello (1886/1888) 30’
Four Cities – Dört Şehir.
Sonata for violoncello and piano, Op. 41 (2012), 22'
Pre-concert talk (in Danish)
Hindsgavl Nordic Chamber Ensemble (DK/N/S)
Soloist: Steven Isserlis (UK), violoncello
Concertmaster: TBA
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685 – 1750)
Christian W. CHRISTENSEN (f. 1977)
Joseph HAYDN (1732 - 1809)
Air on the G String, BWV 1068 (1731) 5’
Air on the G String (2013), 7’
Concerto for cello No. 1 in C Major, Hob.
VIIb/1 (1761-65), 25’
- < > - intermission - < > Luigi BOCCHERINI (1743 – 1805)
Antonín DVOŘÁK (1841 - 1904)
Concerto for cello in G Major, G.480
(approx. 1770), 20’
Seranade for strings in E Major, op. 22
(1875) 30’
This concert is supported by The Nordic Culture Fund.
The concert is repeated in Tivoli Concert Hall on 16 July 2017.
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Sunday, 16 July 2017
Liszt .. con Brio
Trio con Brio Copenhagen has been an institution in the Danish music scene for now 18 years, and has
a thriving international career – the past six months alone has led them on tours to South America, USA,
Germany, France and England. However, oddly enough the trio remains undiscovered by many of the
most prestigious non-Danish concert venues. On a bad day, they outperform the best, and you never
know what to expect: Their telepathic interplay, their energy on stage and their enormous care for all
musical details is a continued source of divine surprise.
This Sunday’s afternoon concert features grandiose piano music by Liszt, Mahler and Bach. In charge is
the young Swiss giga talent Béatrice Berrut whom some may remember for a memorable concert with
Bach-Busoni works on Hindsgavl Festival 2014.
We finish the day in the intimate Garden Room of the castle with music for the Onde Martenot; the
earliest electronic instrument in music history. Many 20th century composers have written wonderful
music for this instrument, among others and most notably Olivier Messiaen, who was a big fan.
10:00
15:30
(TALENT
/INT)
17:15
20:00
(INT)
15 minutes with yesterday’s artist
Beatrice Berrut (CH), piano
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685 - 1750)
Gustav MAHLER (1860 - 1911)
Franz LISZT (1810 – 1885)
Suite
Transscription (B. Berrut)
TBA
Pre-concert talk (in Danish)
Trio con Brio Copenhagen (DK)
Soo-Jin Hong, violin – Soo-Kyung Hong, violoncello – Jens Elvekjær, piano
Joseph HAYDN (1732 - 1809)
Pianotrio No. 39, in G Major,
Hob.XV:25 (’Gypsy’) (1795), 16’
Piano trio in G Minor (1855), 30’
Bedřich SMETANA (1824 – 1884)
- < > - intermission - < > Johannes BRAHMS (1833 – 1897) Piano trio in B Major, Op. 8 (1854/1890), 28’
22:30
(NEW)
Nadia Ratsimandresy (F): French solo works for Onde Martinot
Antoine TISNÉ (1932-1998)
Jacques CHARPENTIER (f. 1933)
Tristan MURAIL (f. 1947)
Nadia RATSIMANDRESY (f. 1978)
Hommage à Messiaen (1994) 6’
Suite Karnatique, 1. og 2. sats (1958) 7’
La Conquête l'Antarctique (1982) 8’
Bird (2016) 5’
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Monday, 17 July 2017
New piano trio and heavenly baroque
Ensemble Arcangelo was formed in 2010 and has already found a place among the world's leading
ensembles for early music. It was founded by artistic director and conductor Jonathan Cohen, and like
him, all members of the ensemble are driven by a common passion for chamber music. They have
recorded and toured with several prominent soloists (including Hindsgavl Festival ‘veterans’ Isabelle
Faust, Christiane Karg and Alina Ibragimova) and are in season 16/17 Wigmore Hall's first Baroque
ensemble "in residence" ever with a four-concert showcase of “the period instrument ensemble’s
gripping artistry” (Wigmore Hall).
But first – in the afternoon – enjoy once more Trio con Brio Copenhagen. This time in a purely Danish
program which offers something as exciting as a first performance of the young composer Rune
Glerup's piano trio, as well as music of renown composer Niels W. Gade, celebrating his 200-year’s
anniversary in 2017.
10:00
15:30
15 minutes with yesterday’s artist
Trio con Brio Copenhagen (DK)
(NEW/INT)
Soo-Jin Hong, violin – Soo-Kyung Hong, violoncello – Jens Elvekjær, piano
Niels. W. GADE (1817 – 1890)
Rune GLERUP (f. 1981)
17:15
20:00
(INT)
Piano trio in F Major, Op. 42 (1864)
Piano trio No. 1, (2017, World Premiere) 18’
Pre-concert talk (in Danish)
Arcangelo (UK)
Jonathan Cohen, harpsichord and direction – Sophie Junker, soprano - Sophie Gent, Bojan Čičič, violins Jonathan Manson, gamba – Georgia Browne, flute
Louis N. CLÉRAMBAULT (1676 – 1749) Léandre et Héro (20’), with soprano
François COUPERIN (1668-1733)
Les Nations - La Françoise (23’)
- < > - intermission - < > François COUPERIN (1668-1733)
Les Nations - L’impériale (30’)
Les Nations - Le retour de la paix (15’)
22:30
(NEW)
Nadia Ratsimandresy (F): Onde Martinot with tape
André JOLIVET (1905-1974)
Alain LOUVIER (f. 1945)
Konstantin KOUKIAS (f. 1965)
Nadia RATSIMANDRESY (f. 1978)
Incantation "Pour que l'image devienne
symbole” (1937) 3’
Raga for onde and tape (1977) 5’
Epirus for onde and tape (1965) 8’
Urban Yawk 8’
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Tuesday, 18 July 2017
Russian finale
In a pure Russian program, we meet star cellist Steven Isserlis for the second time on this year’s festival,
this time in collaboration with an old friend of Hindsgavl Festival, pianist Alexander Melnikov. The
evening concert will certainly not lack neither temperament nor soul. It will be particularly interesting
to hear the world-famous pianist/conductor Pletnev in the role of composer. His sonata from 2006 is
written to Steven Isserlis, who also played this piece several times with Pletnev himself at the piano.
Today’s afternoon concert is also to be looked forward to. Three of Sweden's leading young soloists
(well, local hero Andreas Brantelid is of course MOSTLY Danish) join forces in one of the chamber music
literature's heavyweights, namely Mozart's Divertimento K. 563 which is so much more than ‘just’
serving to ‘divert’.
Don’t forget that it is possible to get one more string trio for the road (Beethoven) at a short lunch
concert the following day, Wednesday 19 July, before saying goodbye to this year's Hindsgavl Festival
and wishing for a happy reunion in 2018.
10:00
13:00
15:30
(INT)
15 minutes with yesterday’s artist
Tour of park and castle
Fredrik Paulsson (S), violin; Ellen Nisbeth (S), viola; Andreas Brantelid (DK),
violoncello
W. A. MOZART (1756 - 1791)
Franz SCHUBERT (1797 - 1828)
17:15
20:00
Divertimento i E flat Major, K.563, 44’
Trio fragment D.471, 9’
Pre-concert talk (in Danish)
Steven Isserlis (UK), violoncello og Alexander Melnikov (Rus), piano
(INT)
Dmitri SJOSTAKOVITJ
Sonata for violoncello and piano, op. 40 in D
(1906 - 1975)
Minor (1964), 32’
Mikhail PLETNEV (f. 1957)
Sonata for violoncello and piano (2006), 33’
- < > - intermission - < > Evgeni KISSIN (f. 1971)
Sonata-Ballade for violoncello and piano (2016)
S. RACHMANINOV
Sonata for violoncello and piano in G Minor, op.
(1873 – 1943)
19 (1901), 34’
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Tickets with accomodation
PRICES
Per person in Double Room
DKK
/ day
EUR 1.150,155,- /day
Single Room
EUR1.350,182,- /day
DKK
/ day
Stay one or more days on the castle where all
activities, meals etc. is within walking distance.
The festival stay starts with room check-in from
13:00 on the date of arrival and ends on departure
day with check-out at 10:00 or before.
Included: Evening buffet at 18:00,
accommodation, breakfast buffet and admission
to all festival activities, including a glass of wine or
similar during the interval of the evening concerts.
HOW TO ORDER
Send an e-mail to [email protected] and include the following information:
1) Name; 2) Address; 3) Type of room (single- or double); 4) Date of arrival; 5) Date of departure.
We will respond within 24 hours – the festival is small enough for this old-fashioned personal touch.
YOUTH DISCOUNTS
(order per mail: [email protected])
.. in your own tent
.. with room in the castle
Bring your own tent and take part in the 3day Hindsgavl Festival Camp. Arrival 15 July
and departure 18 July 2017. Includes full
access to all festival activities and all meals
for only EUR 159,- for all 3 days.
Avaliable for Students or if under 30 y.o.
If you are under 35 y.o. and wish the full
comfort of a shared double-room, we have a
limited amount of ”Tickets with
accomodation” for only 93 EUR /person/day.
Please order 2 persons at a time (one
double-room).
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Tickets without accomodation
PRICES
Day-ticket
DKK
EUR 625,-/pers.
84,- /pers.
Concert at 20:00
DKK
/pers.
EUR300,41,- /pers.
Admission to all festival activities from 13:00,
including concerts and evening buffet.
Concerts at 15:30 or 22:30:
DKK
EUR 17,125,-
HOW TO ORDER
Send an e-mail to [email protected] and include the following information:
1) Name; 2) Which concert you like - or simply the date, if you order a day-ticket; 3) Number of
tickets.
We will respond within 24 hours – old-fashioned, but safe!
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Practical Information
Getting there
The 18th century Hindsgavl Castle is located
3 km from the picturesque city of Middelfart and
only 200 meters from the sea.
Once you have reached the castle, everything is in
walking distance: Accommodation, concert venue,
dining, rooms, etc.
Further Information
Address:
Hindsgavl Allé 7
DK-5500 Middelfart, Denmark
Festival website: www.hindsgavlfestival.dk
Contact Festival Director Bernard Villaume:
Mail:
[email protected]
Phone:
(+45) 2814 1841
Distances by car or bicycle from …
German border (100 km); Copenhagen (215 km);
Hamburg (265 km); Berlin (540 km); Paris (1.150 km)
By train / airplane
There are direct train connections between
Copenhagen Airport (Kastrup) and the town of
Middelfart. These trains depart on an hourly basis
with a commuting time of approx. 2h 25 min.
Alternative airport is Billund Airport, 65 km from
Hindsgavl. Transport to Hindsgavl can be a bit tricky
– taxi costs around 125 Euro, one-way.
Festival Director Bernard Villaume (left)
with Artistic Advisor, Ulrik D. Andersen
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