# Fretwork with Iestyn Davies at Alfred Hertz Memorial Concert Hall, November 3, 2019

[Cal Performances](https://calperformances.org/performances/2019-20/recital/fretwork-with-iestyn-davies-countertenor.php) presents [Fretwork](http://www.fretwork.co.uk/) with [Iestyn Davies](http://www.iestyndavies.com/), performing works by Michael Nyman & Henry Purcell  
[Alfred Hertz Memorial Concert Hall](http://music.berkeley.edu/about-us/resources-and-facilities/performance-spaces/)  
[U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at College Ave, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+College+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94720+USA&hl=en)  
3:00 PM, Sunday, November 3, 2019

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All works on today's regular program by either Michael Nyman (b.1944) or Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

## Set One

[3:02 PM lights down, band out]

01. [3:03 PM] Nyman: _No Time in Eternity_ (2016)  
[3:14 PM; drop ID & RB]
02. [3:14 PM] Purcell: Fantasia No. 7 in C minor, Z. 738, 4 viols (6/19/1680)  
[3:17 PM; drop SS; add RB]
03. [3:18 PM] Purcell: Fantasia No. 11 in G Major, Z. 742, 4 viols (8/19/1680)  
[3:21 PM; add ID & SS]
04. [3:21 PM] Purcell: _Music for a while_ (1679)  
[3:26 PM; drop ID & RB]
05. [3:26 PM] Nyman: _Music After a While_ (2018)  
[3:37 PM; pause for ID return & ready]
06. [3:38 PM] _06. [3:n PM] Purcell: _The Evening Hymn_, Z.193 (1688)_  
[set ends 3:42 PM; bows, then all off for break]

## Set Two

[3:58 PM lights down, Fretwork out (no ID for first piece of the set)]

01. [3:59 PM] Nyman: _Balancing the Books_ (1999)  
[4:09 PM; add ID]
02. [4:09 PM] Nyman: _If_ (1995), from _The Diary of Anne Frank_
03. [4:13 PM] Nyman: _Why_ (1995), from _The Diary of Anne Frank_  
[4:17 PM; drop ID & SS]
04. [4:18 PM] Purcell: Fantasia No. 6 in F Major, Z. 737, 4 viols (6/14/1680)  
[4:21 PM; add SS]
05. [4:21 PM] Purcell: Fantasia upon One Note, Z. 745, 5 viols (1680)  
[4:24 PM; pause for EA & AM to swap seats]
[4:25 PM; ID returns]
06. [4:26 PM] Nyman: _The Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence_ (1992)  
[set ends 4:39 PM; applause & bows; all off]  
   
**Encore**  
[4:41 PM; thanks from ID; intro last work]
07. [4:41 PM] _William Byrd (1539-1623): _Ye Sacred Muses_ (Elegy for Thomas Tallis), ca. 1585_  
[show ends 4:45 PM; bows & applause; all done!]

## Performers

### Fretwork

[Fretwork](http://www.fretwork.co.uk/)

* Emily Ashton: treble viol;
* [Richard Boothby](https://www.richardboothby.com/): bass viol;
* Joanna Levine: tenor viol;
* [Asako Morikawa](https://asakomorikawa.jimdo.com/): treble viol;
* [Sam Stadlen](http://www.samstadlen.co.uk/): bass viol.

### Iestyn Davies

* [Iestyn Davies](http://www.iestyndavies.com/): countertenor vox;

## Notes

A fine afternoon of music, with an interesting mix of contemporary and well-aged music. I didn't hear a whole lot of Purcell influence in the Nyman pieces, nor any particular precursory hints of Nyman in the Purcell works, but if the conceit was necessary in order to draw a larger audience, at least it wasn't anything that got in the way of my enjoying the performance. The Nyman pieces are all identifiably modern, even if performed by a consort of viols.

None of today's works made a super strong impression -- they were entirely pleasant, if not revelatory -- yet I'd be up for another concert from these folks the next time they come 'round. Being an elegy, the encore was a bit of a downer, but it was also quite beautiful, and a good choice for closing the afternoon (and the final show of the group's tour this fall).

[Program Notes](https://calperformances.org/learn/program_notes/2019-20/pn_fretwork.pdf) or {{:2019:2019-11:pn_fretwork.pdf|program notes}}

Nicholas Jones posted a [review](https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/cal-performances/countertenor-iestyn-davies-soars-with-british-viol-ensemble-fretwork) of the show with SFCV.

{{tag>music Fretwork Iestyn_Davies Hertz_Hall Emily_Ashton Richard_Boothby Joanna_Levine Asako_Morikawa Sam_Stadlen }}

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