Festival Weekend Pass

£32.50 – £65.00

There’s a lot to look forward to in our 2025 concert series.  This year, we’re offering a variety of different ticket options.  This one is limited to all 3 concerts throughout our Festival Weekend taking place at Dore Abbey between 27th June – 29th June.

Friday 27 June      Laura van der Heijden, cello; Jâms Coleman, piano

Saturday 28 June Emma Johnson, clarinet; The Gildas Quartet

Sunday 29 June    Trio Lalique, piano trio

 

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2025 will see us host our first ever Festival Weekend.  Taking place at the beautiful Dore Abbey between Friday 27th and Sunday 29th June, a thrilling programme of celebrated British and European artists are set to delight.  The Festival is in addition to our other three concerts, two of which are with exciting young ensembles, and the other with the unusual combination of accordion and saxophone.

Details of the weekend’s programme follow.

Claude Debussy      Cello Sonata 
Rebecca Clarke       Rhapsody 
Mel Bonis                 Cello Sonata in F major, Op. 67 
César Franck           Violin Sonata

We’ll be kicking the weekend off on Friday 27th June, with the acclaimed British cellist Laura van der Heijden and exciting Welsh pianist Jâms Coleman.  Their programme is centred around two of the most well-known and loved sonatas in the repertoire – Debussy’s Cello Sonata and Franck’s Violin Sonata. In between these two great works, is a sonata by Mel Bonis, a composer of fantastic music who had a fascinating life, and Rebecca Clarke’s powerfully expressive “Rhapsody.”

 

Emma Johnson  Folk Song Suite

(Fantasy on Three folk songs: The Lark in the Clear Air, Down by the Salley Gardens and Tom he Was a Piper’s Son)

Glazunov             Oriental Reverie for clarinet and strings

Shostakovich     Quartet No. 8

Mozart                 Clarinet Quintet K581

Next up on Saturday June 28th is one of the few clarinet players to have made a career as a soloist. Described by The Times as “Britain’s favourite clarinettist“, Emma Johnson has since winning the BBC Young Musician of the Year at the age of seventeen gone on to become one of the UK’s biggest selling classical artists and is known for the diverse range of the repertoire she plays. Joining Emma are the bold and explorative Gildas Quartet. Praised for their ‘energy, verve and refreshing approach’ they have performed to critical acclaim at major venues including the Bridgewater Hall, Barbican, Wigmore Hall and live on BBC Radio 3.

 

Beethoven          Piano Trio in E flat Major Op. 1 No. 1

Bernstein            Piano Trio (1937)

​Ravel                    Piano Trio in A Minor (1914)

Concluding our weekend of glorious music on Sunday June 29th are the remarkably dynamic ensemble Trio Lalique. Founded in 2022 by pianist Ilya Kondratiev, violinist Yuri Kalnits and cellist Julia Morneweg, each already a renowned chamber musician in their own right, their debut as a group in the prestigious Pharos Arts Foundation series in Nicosia (Cyprus) was praised for its virtuosity and musical artistry alike.

We’re sure you’ll agree that this is an exciting and varied programme of events to look forward to with some of Europe’s most talented chamber musicians. We hope you’ll come and join us, but if you can’t actually join us for the whole weekend, tickets for individual concerts are also available here.

Additional information

Ticket Type for Dore Abbey

Front Nave, Rear Nave, Restricted View, Student under 25

Venue: Dore Abbey, Abbeydore

Venue Website: http://www.doreabbey.org.uk/

Address: Dore Abbey, Abbeydore, Herefordshire, HR2 0AA, United Kingdom

Description: A Brief History

A photo of the screen at Dore Abbey venue for Concerts for Craswall summer concerts
The Screen Dore Abbey

The Abbey was founded in 1147 by French Cistercian Monks from Morimond. The construction of the present stone buildings in the ‘new’ Early English style started in 1175 and was consecrated in 1280.

Having avoided being razed by Owen Glendower in 1405, the Abbey was suppressed (dissolved) by Henry VIII in 1537 and the buildings sold to John Scudamore. All the monastic buildings, the nave and roof of the Abbey were dismantled and the stone sold by Scudamore. All that remained (i.e. the present Abbey) was left as a roofless ruin until c1630.

John Scudamore’s great-great-grandson (John Viscount Scudamore) had no male heir, all his sons having died at birth or soon after. Archbishop Laud suggested that his ancestor had perhaps overdone the commercial benefits of the dissolution and that he should “consider his conscience”. Restoring the ruins into a Parish Church was deemed an appropriate penance and the rebuilt church was re-consecrated in 1634. Subsequently, Scudamore’s wife had a son who survived !

Laud had considerable influence on the restored church. The Screen through which the raised altar can be seen by the congregation was one of his innovations. His coat of arms together with those of Lord Scudamore and Charles I are on the Screen.

The church was further restored, first around 1700 when the wall paintings were created, and later around 1900 when the church was ‘shrunk’ into what had been the presbytery. The Church you see today has been little altered since the 1900 rearrangement.

Today The Abbey enjoys regular Church services, has a fine organ and a peal of 6 bells. It is also the venue for many concerts and local community activities, including Concerts for Craswall.