Sunday
16th July
Celebrity Organ Recital
Anne Page
5pm
Oundle School Chapel
Tickets £8
Music by Bach and Carl Rütti Anne’s
prestigious reputation ranks her amongst
the UK’s premier league recitalists
and teachers – renowned for her
inspired interpretation of both baroque
and contemporary repertoire. Australianborn,
Anne is a regular welcome guest artist
and tutor at Oundle. Her programme, featuring
Carl Rutti’s exciting The Life
of St Fridolin alongside Bach’s
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor and other
works, plays to Anne’s strengths
- and to those of the Frobenius organ
in Oundle School Chapel.
The
Bohemian World of Ravel, Debussy
and Enescu
Philippe Graffin, violin
Claire Désert, piano
 
8pm
St Peter’s Church (Parish Church)
Tickets £12 / £5 under
21
Sonate Posthume - Maurice Ravel
Sonata in A for violin & piano
- César Franck
Minstrels and Beau Soir - Claude Debussy
Impressions d'enfance Op 28 - George
Enescu
Sonata in G - Ravel
Philippe
Graffin’s individual style
of playing and outstanding achievements
have already placed him among the
finest of French violinists. Claire
Désert has also made many
recordings and has performed at festivals
throughout Europe and in South America.
Philippe was recently credited with
having made the ‘definitive
recording’ of Ravel’s
Sonate Posthume, which opens this
evening’s concert. This piece,
together with the Sonata by César
Franck - so sensual, expressive and
full of glorious melodies - puts
an utterly Gallic stamp on this concert.
Debussy,
Ravel and Enescu shared great affection
for gypsy violin playing. Debussy
wrote, in 1911, ‘The town
(Budapest) and its people are delightful.
In particular there is a gypsy fiddler
named Radicz who is amazing. This
man loves music more than most of
us. He gives one… the impression
of sitting in the shade of the forests
and of searching in the bottom of
one’s heart for that covert
sentiment that we can so scarcely
reveal for fear of looking foolish..’ Words
which could also have been written
by Ravel or Enescu. Their ‘sense
of freedom’ resonates throughout
the works to be played tonight. |
