Festival 2022

FESTIVAL 2022

1 – 4 September 2022

Natalie Clein Artistic Director

9 VENUES

IN PURBECK AND ACROSS DORSET

9 ARTISTS

FROM AROUND THE WORLD

4 DAYS

OF EXHILARATING LIVE MUSIC

VIDEOS GALLERY

9

PICMF 2022

Promotional Video

8

Bloch

Meditation hebraique | PICMF 2022 | Wigmore Hall

PHOTOS 2022

Credits : Keith Bridle Photography & Richard Wynn-Jones

PROGRAMMES PICMF 2022

CONCERT 1

Freedom through Form

Thu 1st September 2022

5:00PM

Bach Goldberg Variations arrangement for string trio 

Nurit Stark – violin | Max Baillie – violin & viola | Natalie Clein – cello

CONCERT 2

Pure Freedom

Thu 1st September 2022

7:30PM

Debussy Preludes From Book 2: Général Lavine Excentric – La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune – Ondine
Cedric Pescia – piano

Bach Cello Suite No.1 in G major
Natalie Clein – cello

Improvisation by festival musicians

Hayden Chisholm – saxophone | Max Baillie – violin & viola | Stephan Braun – cello

Poetry by Dave Neita

CONCERT 3

Peace is freedom

St Nicholas' Church, Studland

Fri 2nd September 2022

11:00AM

Tavener Threnos for solo cello

Bach Cello Suite No.3 in C major

Natalie Clein – cello


Improvisation
Hayden Chisholm – saxophone
Max Baillie – violin & viola
Stephan Braun – cello

CONCERT 4

Introducing the unique world of Deborah Pritchard

Fri 2nd September 2022

2:00PM

Natalie Clein in conversation with Composer Deborah Pritchard (pictures presented)

Pritchard Colour Circle – an improvisation on the graphic score presented by festival musicians

Pritchard Inside colour for solo violin
Max Baillie – violin

CONCERT 5

Frei aber Einsam (Free but lonely)

Fri 2nd September 2022

7:30PM

Bloch Meditation Hebraique (newly added)
Natalie Clein – cello | Cedric Pescia – piano

Schumann Intermezzo from FAE Sonata (Violin Sonata No.3)
Max Baillie – violin | Cedric Pescia – piano
Poetry by Dave Neita

Brahms Songs op 91
Ruby Hughes – soprano | Natalie Clein – cello | Cedric Pescia – piano

Pritchard Radiance for cello solo (2022) / PICMF commission
Natalie Clein – cello

Schumann Piano Quartet No. 2 in E Flat Major op. 47
Nurit Stark – violin | Max Baillie – viola | Natalie Clein – cello | Cedric Pescia – piano

CONCERT 6 & 7

Intimate voices

Saint Nicholas Church, Worth Matravers

Sat 3rd September 2022

Concert 6 – 10.00am 
Concert 7 – 11.30am

Bloch Solo Suite N.1 for solo violin
Nurit Stark – violin

Kurtag Solo violin Suite
Nurit Stark – violin

Bach Cello Suite No.5 in C minor
Natalie Clein – cello

CONCERT 8

The loss of freedom

St Edward's Church, Corfe Castle

Sat 3rd September 2022

6.00PM

Pritchard Storm Song for soprano, piano and cello text by Jeanette Winterson.
Commissioned by Natalie Clein and the University of Oxford for International Women’s Day 2017

Dave Neita new poem

Tavener Dante, Couplet and Boris Pasternak from Akhamatova Songs for voice and cello
Ruby Hughes – soprano | Natalie Clein – cello

Shostakovich Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Nurit Stark violin | Natalie Clein – cello | Cedric Pescia – piano

CONCERT 9

Parallel Worlds

St Edward's Church, Corfe Castle

Sat 3rd September 2022

8.30PM

Schubert Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (The Shepherd on the Rock)
Ruby Hughes – soprano | Natalie Clein – cello | Cedric Pescia – piano

Bloch Violin Sonata No.2 Poème mystique (newly added)
Nurit Stark violin, Cedric Pescia piano

Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor D821
Natalie Clein – cello | Cedric Pescia – piano

Improvisation by festival musicians

CONCERT 10

Returning full circle

St James' Church, Kingston

Sun 4th September 2022

11.30AM

Bach Goldberg Variations arrangement for string trio
Nurit Stark – violin | Max Baillie – violin & viola |  Natalie Clein – cello

Improvisation by festival musicians

CONCERT 11

Family concert Colour circle

St James' Church, Kingston

Sun 4th September 2022

14.15PM

Festival musicians come together to introduce young people and their family to the joy of live music.