Music and Dining Club - Past Events and menus
January 2012
The Best Budding Bassist from Spain!
Rodrigo Moro Martin (double bass)
John Cuthbert (piano)
Spanish evening with a young virtuoso who began the instrument as part of the Yorke Minibass Project before going to the Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music where he is in his final year.
Programme includes arrangements of music by Rakhmaninov, de Falla, Brahms, and Schumann, with original works by Frank Proto and Francois Rabbath together with transcriptions by Rodrigo Moro Martin
Apéritif & canapés: Sherry & nut selection Menu: Assorted tapas/Seafood paella with seasonal salad/Manchego & biscuits/Traditional Spanish flan/Teas & coffee with mints.
November 2011
Guido Fawkes
Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks
Dan Watts (flute) and Brady Pohle (chamber organ)
Arrangements from Handel's popular suite of firework music and other display pieces for flute.
A bonfire party with fireworks in the orchard will follow if weather permits.
Apéritif & canapés: A winter warmer/Welsh rarebit toasties. Menu: Mulligatawny soup/A Trio of grilled meats and vegetables on a skewer with local spiced redcurrant jelly; bonfire jacket potatoes with chived sour cream and cauliflower Polonaise/Lardycakes or Pear tatin with cream/Teas & coffee.
This is a special event to which children are welcome at half price.
September 2011
Not just any old Trout…
Mozart Eine Kleine Nacht Musik
Schubert Quintet in A maj. D.667 'Trout'
Mark Fielding (piano) Debbie Preece (violin)
Simon Rowland-Jones (viola)
Karine Georgian (cello) and Rodney Slatford (double bass)
A fishy occasion, for which musicians have been practising scales...
Apéritif & Canapés: Grüner Veltliner/Smoked trout toasts. Menu: Cream of chicken soup/Almond-stuffed baked trout with buttered new potatoes and salad/Catherine Temple's alpine cheese/Austrian apple tart and cream/
Teas, coffee and Mozart Kugeln.
July 2011
Summer Opera
Monteverdi L'Orfeo
Conductor James Halliday, Director Jennifer Hamilton
St Mary's South Creake 29 & 30 July 2011
May 2011
Beethoven & Mendelssohn
Piano Trios
Deborah Preece - violin Rebecca Gilliver - cello
Sophia Rahman - piano
Beethoven Trio No.1 in Eb Op1 No 1
Mendelssohn Trio in D minor Op.49
Three top-rank London freelance musicians come together to make chamber music in relaxed surroundings. The programme is an Austro/German one, so our menu draws on the typical cuisine that would have been familiar to both composers.
MENU
Hüner Graupensuppe (a comforting classic German chicken and barley soup) - Forelle nach der Art der Müllerin (pan-fried trout 'the miller's wife's way' served with a green salad) - Beckenoffe (a traditional German beef, lamb, pork and potato casserole served with sauerkraut) - Hugo Ziemann's German Cream (a cold dessert with almonds and candied citron made famous by the 19th century American chef and one-time Steward of The White House) - Teas or coffee
March 2011
The Classic Buskers
Opera without the Singing
The Classic Buskers' new Opera programme consists of virtuosic arrangements of a surprisingly large number of operatic masterpieces, played at unlikely speeds on unusual instruments. It includes overtures and arias by Mozart, Verdi and Rossini, Borodin's cheery Polovtsians and Wagner's fierce Valkyries. Music by Saint-Saëns, Gluck, Vaughan Williams and Catalani is also featured on instruments including flutes of various sizes, recorders, panpipes, buzzy renaissance things, multiple ocarinas and an electric saxophone - all accompanied by a small but perfectly formed piano accordion, and delivered with the Classic Buskers' famously dry British humour.
SPECIAL EVENT
Friday 25 March 2011
North Creake Village Hall
David Rocksavage talks to Jeremy Brettingham-Smith
and presents a private showing of his film
Shadows in the Sun
set in and around the North Norfolk Coast,
featuring Jean Simmons, James Wilby and Jamie Dornan.
This was a special fund-raising event in aid of The Yorke Trust
with wine and canapés.
January 2011
East
An evening of music and food drawing inspiration from the Arab world
Jessica Leschnikoff - soprano Richard Russell - clarinet
Ilyoung Chae - violin Jamie Walton - cello
Daniel Grimwood - piano
Programme
Khachaturian Trio for clarinet, violin and piano
Bloch Nigun for violin and piano
Bloch Jewish Life for cello and piano
John Mayer Raga Music for solo clarinet
Ravel Two Jewish Songs for soprano and piano
Daniel Grimwood Khayyam Meditations for soprano, violin, clarinet, cello and piano - World première
Robert's menu included: Tartufa in Tomato Sauce, Croquettes de poisson, Kofta Meshweya with rice and salad, Baklava and/or Ataïf, Turkish Delight and Moroccan mint tea or coffee
November 2010
Adam Marsden - baritone &
Sergey Rybin - piano
Programme
Faure, Clair de lune, Prison and Au bord de l'eau
Jacques Ibert Songs for Don Quichotte (1931)
Ernest Chausson Amour d'antan, Nos souvenirs and Nanny
Jacques Offenbach Allez! Pour te livrer combat…Scintille, diamante!
Faure Poème d'un jour
Massenet Werther Albert's aria
Robert's menu included: Roasted marrow bones, Fish mousse, Stuffed quail with a rich wine sauce, pommes Parisienne, haricots verts, Normandy camembert with crusty French bread, Tarte tatin, Teas & coffee.
February 2012
An Early Valentine
Love, actually…
with
Charlotte Stephenson - mezzo soprano
and
Adam Johnson - piano
A potpourri of great classical and popular music for the occasion
Since Charlotte starred in the Yorke Trust's world première of The Airman's Tale by Jonathan Keates and Gerard McBurney in 2005, she has enjoyed continuing success on the professional stage and oratorio platform. Last year she made her solo debut with Glyndebourne (Valetto in Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea), having sung with them in their Young Artists' programme in Stravinsky's Mavra.
Adam Johnson is a popular and regular visitor to South Creake and conducts Bach's St John Passion with the Yorke Trust next Easter in Binham, South Creake and London. Charlotte is a regular soloist with Adam's Northern Lights Symphony Orchestra, one of the most enterprising new orchestras in London at the moment.
Read more about Charlotte on her website
Airman's Tale 2005
Aperitif - French Martini Cocktail
Canapé - Mozarella bruschetta with shaved fennel & courgette
Menu - Smoked trout with watercress purée and chopped egg salad; Guinea fowl with pommes Parisienne, savoy cabbage, prunes and Madeira sauce;
Bailey's Irish Cream & chocolate cheesecake.
Teas/coffees.
Chef - Robert McNaughtan
December 2011
Christmases Past and Present
Three evenings of seasonal music and readings
with young voices from the Yorke Trust opera and Easter choral courses
Olivier Labé theorbo & baroque guitar
Alec Crowe chamber organ (South Creake)
Jennifer Hamilton & Rodney Slatford readings
Conleth Stanley chorus master
Friday 16 December 2011 at 18:00
Hindringham Hall, Blacksmiths Lane, Hindringham, Norfolk NR21 0QA
A fireside, candlelit celebration followed by Christmas bites and mulled wine
by kind permission of Lynda and Charles Tucker
Hindringham Hall dates back to 1495 and the main hall itself was remodelled in 1550. When Henry VIII was destroying the monasteries, monks from Walsingham lived here and farmed fish in the moat that dates from an even earlier house on the site known to exist in 1250. Our fireside candlelit celebration rekindles the atmosphere of countless Hindringham Christmases past.
Saturday 17 December 2011 at 18:00
The Old Chapel, South Creake, Norfolk NR21 9JF
Guest artist Alec Crowe chamber organ
A festive evening with canapés, apéritif and a traditional Christmas meal as part of the Yorke Trust's Music & Dining Club series
Menu: Buckwheat blinis with scrambled egg and smoked salmon/Baked ham with cider & spices, quince & orange sauce, sauté of shredded sprouts with black butter and creamed potato with celeriac/mincemeat, apple & apricot crumble tart/Mrs Temple's Wighton & Walsingham cheeses/teas or coffee.
The Old Chapel, South Creake, the Yorke Trust's home, was built in 1783. Alec Crowe, director of the Easter Choral courses, joins us with some seasonal solos on the chapel's beautiful 1850s chamber organ. This event is part of the Trust's Music & Dining Club series and is followed by a Christmas meal in the nearby Old Norwich Arms.
Sunday 18 December 2011 at 18:00
The Stone Hall, Houghton Hall, King's Lynn, Norfolk PE31 6UE
A seasonal celebration with wine
by kind permission of Lord Cholmondeley KCVO
The Stone Hall at Houghton is at the heart of one of the country's finest privately owned buildings. Completed in the early 18th Century with magnificent interior designs by William Kent, Houghton has hosted Yorke Trust events on many occasions, the Stone Hall providing a unique atmosphere and the perfect concert venue.
Each performance lasts a little over an hour and includes a variety of seasonal carols, readings and instrumental solos. Proceeds from these evening celebrations go towards the Trust's junior arts programme Pied Piper! that runs in May and June next year involving local children.
October 2011
Nicholas Ellis plays Poulenc
An evening of light French music for clarinet and piano played by one of the most successful young clarinettists of his generation.
Programme includes Poulenc's dazzling virtuoso sonata for clarinet and piano
Canapés
Assorted tapinades
Menu
Warm goat's cheese with onion marmalade
Chicken confit with a herb chicken jus
Pommes boulangère and French beans
Hot Chocolate soufflé with a cream sauce
or crème brulée
A selection of French cheeses
Teas or coffee
June 2011
The Pasadena Rhythm Boys
More light toe-tapping music from the inter-war years from this very special virtuoso ensemble, introduced from the piano by Keith Nichols. A casual evening with some popular English food typical of the period.
April 2011
Sing for your Supper!
An evening of Rodgers & Hammerstein
led by Joyce Ellis with members of the Kinder Youth Choir of the High Peak
These wonderful young singers, finalists in the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year and winners of the 2010 International Eisteddfod in Llangollen, are not to be missed. We can sing along with them in some of the popular numbers from the musicals we all know and love, whilst Robert serves an international meal with items plucked from the storylines. It should make for a great evening!
www.kinderchildrenschoirs.org.uk
February 2011
Valentine Surprise
Cruising with Adam!
An evening in the South Creake on-deck cocktail lounge to embrace Noël Coward and other popular composers together with a few well-known classics. Adam Johnson spends much of his career at sea, delighting audiences for various cruise companies - popular requests on demand! He also conducts his own orchestra in London and was a répétiteur for Coastal Opera last summer. Robert creates a romantic ship's buffet to include vegetable terrine, chicken chaud-froid, dressed salmon, assorted international salads, panacotta, Eton mess or fresh fruit salad and a cheese platter with home-made cheese biscuits. Teas & coffee.
December 2010
A Victorian Christmas evening
A Selection of Popular Festive Carols and Readings
Readings by Rodney Slatford, Jennifer Hamilton and Friends
Performers
Daire Halpin, Niamh Fitzgerald, Katherine Moore,
Leo Tomita, Aaron Cawley, Adam Marsden, Oliver Dunn
Gwenllian Llyr - harp
Fantasy on themes from Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky/arr. K. Walter-Kuhn
Passacaglia (in memory of the Tsunami) David Watkins
Les Enfants à la Crêche de Noël Tournier
Interlude from A Ceremony of Carols Britten
Alec Crowe - organ
Robert's menu included: Brown Windsor Soup (UK), Baked Sea Bass with peppers, tomatoes, raisins and rosemary (Italy), Apple-roast duck with a sour cream sauce, red cabbage, and a purée of potato and Jerusalem artichokes (Russia), Panettone bread and butter pudding (Italy), Teas & coffee.
October 2010
Plastikes Karekles!
Paressa Daniilidou - accordion & vocals
Sarah Dubost-Hautefeuille - guitar & vocals
Pavlos Carvalho - bouzouki & vocals
The Music & Dining Club's first Greek evening. Plastikes Karekles entertain with music and dancing from the Aegean. You can dance too! This popular group plays regularly at the Hellenic Centre in London and at the Yialousa restaurant near Russell Square.
Robert's menu included: Ouzo; mezedes; egg and lemon soup; roast chicken with Greek noodles; stafithopitta (rasin cake). Greek coffee & teas.
