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Cheltenham Festival 2024: Sean Shibe, the Dunedin Consort and Alim Beisembayev

A piano recital from New Generation Artist Alim Beisembayev, and a meditative journey from the Renaissance to the present day with guitarist Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort.

A Cheltenham Festival double-bill from New Generation Artists past and present.

The first half sees Kazakh pianist Alim Beisembayev present a programme of romantic gems from across the repertoire, with Debussy’s evocative Images, a Romance by Clara Schumann and Chopin’s much-loved kaleidoscopic Etudes.

After the interval, guitarist Sean Shibe and the Dunedin Consort take us on a fluid, folk-inspired journey tracing the roots of the Scottish-Canadian diaspora from the renaissance to the 21st century. Beginning with Scottish lute manuscripts, they trace a line via Purcell’s music for viols, through to living composers James Macmillan and Linda Catlin Smith. It culminates in a brand new guitar concerto from Canadian composer Cassandra Miller, β€œChanter” – which draws on an old Highland air for bagpipes.

Recorded at the Pittville Pump Room, Cheltenham on 11th July 2024
Presented by Al Ryan

Debussy: Images, Book 2
Clara Schumann: Romance, Op 21 No 1
Chopin: 12 Γ‰tudes, Op 25

Alim Beisembayev, piano

Interval

Various: Straloch and Rowallan Scottish lute manuscripts
Dowland β€˜Lachrimae antiquae’ (from Lachrimae)
Purcell: Fantasia No 7 a 4
Purcell: In Nomine a 7
Geminiani: β€˜The Last Time I Came O’er the Moor’ (from A Treatise of Good Taste in the Art of Musick)
James MacMillan (arr. George Duthie): From Galloway
David Fennessy: Excerpts from Rosewoods
Linda Catlin Smith: Sinfonia
Cassandra Miller: β€˜Chanter’ (Cheltenham Music Festival co-commission)

Sean Shibe, guitars
Dunedin Consort
John Butt, director

2 hours, 14 minutes

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Mon 15 Jul 2024 19:30
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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Images, Book 2

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev.

  • Clara Schumann

    Romance in A minor, Op 21 No 1

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Etudes, Op 25

    Performer: Alim Beisembayev.

  • Anonymous

    Rowallan and Straloch manuscripts (excerpts)

    Performer: Sean Shibe.

  • John Dowland

    Lachrimae antiquae

    Performer: Sean Shibe. Performer: Dunedin Consort.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantasia No 7

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort.

  • Henry Purcell

    In nomine a 7

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort.

  • Francesco Geminiani

    The last time I came o'er the moor

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort.

  • James MacMillan

    From Galloway (arr. Duthie)

    Performer: Sean Shibe. Music Arranger: George Duthie. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.

  • David Fennessy

    Rosewoods - I and V

    Performer: Sean Shibe. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.

  • Linda Catlin Smith

    Sinfonia

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.

  • Cassandra Miller

    Chanter - Concerto

    Performer: Sean Shibe. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.

  • Trad.

    Folksong (arr. Duthie)

    Performer: Sean Shibe. Music Arranger: George Duthie. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Cheltenham - Pitville Pump Room.

Broadcast

  • Mon 15 Jul 2024 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3