NEWBURY Spring FESTIVAL | 2023

12 box office 01635 522733 newburyspringfestival.org.uk 13 The Shackled King and Brünnhilde’s Dream Tuesday 9 May Sir John Tomlinson bass Rozanna Madylus mezzo-soprano Counterpoise: Fenella Humphreys violin Kyle Horch saxophone/clarinet Deborah Calland trumpet Anna Tilbrook piano Cecilia Stinton (director of Brünnhilde’s Dream) Corn Exchange Newbury RG14 5BD 7.30pm (ends approx 9.30pm) £21.25 (includes £1.25 Corn Exchange booking fee per ticket) Sir John Tomlinson has long been contemplating the role of Shakespeare’s Lear and sees parallels between that character andWagner’s Wotan. This new drama written for Sir John by John Casken affords him the opportunity to incarnate the aging, delusional king in a setting that incorporates Shakespeare’s text in a range of declamation from speech to song. It is a role ideally suited to Sir John and one to which he brings a lifetime’s experience as one of the world’s leadingWagnerians. Brünnhilde’s Dream is a sequence of musical items evoking the state of mind of Wotan’s favourite Valkyrie daughter as she lies on the rock, surrounded by fire, after the end of Die Walküre. The music is a carefully chosen sequence of mostly post-Wagnerian repertoire, including little-known songs by Zemlinsky’s pupil Johanna Müller-Hermann and Schoenberg’s pupil Vilma vonWebenau, as well as miniature masterpieces by Berg, Szymanowski, Zemlinsky, Schubert, Schumann and others. What Does Music Mean? A talk by Steven Osborne Tuesday 9 May International star pianist Steven Osborne will return to the Festival following his Sunday afternoon recital (see page 7) for a fascinating talk on the meaning of music, presented with musical and visual illustrations. “It’s something that’s been niggling away at me for years, when I’m working on music I have this sense of meaning... that the music gives me meaning. But what does that actually, you know, mean?” Corn Exchange Newbury RG14 5BD 11.30am (ends approx 12.30am) £11.25 (includes £1.25 Corn Exchange booking fee per ticket) Free for Friends of Newbury Spring Festival (Tickets required) Sponsored by The Englefield Trust Steven Osborne Sponsored by Friends of Newbury Spring Festival BOOK NOW BOOK NOW