Reubke’s Sonata on the 94th Psalm and Duruflé’s Suite Op 5

Not since 2001 have Oundle Festival-goers enjoyed the stirring sounds of Peterborough Cathedral’s celebrated Hill/Harrison organ. Seize this chance to hear its epic soundscape in two of the organ repertoire’s most dazzling and emotional works, played by brilliant French organist Erwan le Prado. Erwan has been a prizewinner in numerous international organ competitions including St Albans, Biarritz and Luzern, winning first prize at the Concours International Suisse in Genève in 1999 and the prestigious Grand Prix de Chartes Interpretation in 2000.

Reception for Friends of the Festival
6pm
Festival Club

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The Academy of Ancient Music
Director and harpsichord, Richard Egarr
with Pavlo Beznosiuk, violin
Rachel Brown, flute
Joseph Crouch, cello

7.30pm
Oundle School Chapel
Tickets £15 front / £13 rear / £5 under 21
Front seats sold out

Brandenburg Concerto No.5, Violin Concerto in A minor - JS Bach
Harpsichord concerto in D minor - CPE Bach
Triple concerto for flute, violin & cello, Flute concerto in D Major - G Telemann

The Academy of Ancient Music is one of the world’s most celebrated period instrument orchestras; it was also one of the first, founded in 1973. This ‘Baroque Triples’ programme combines two perennial favourites by JS Bach with the enduring appeal of Telemann and the mercurial mannerisms of CPE Bach, who was even more famous in his lifetime than his father.

With exceptional contributions from Egarr (harpsichord), flautist Rachel Brown and violinist Pavlo Beznosiuk, this was lively, discursive, idiosyncratic, fluid, exciting, risky, funny, characterful and original. Exactly what one wants in Bach and what one so seldom gets.
Anna Picard, Independent on Sunday

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The Beat That My Heart Skipped (15)
Director: Jacques Audiard 2005
France 108 mins (subtitled)
9.45pm
Arthur Marshall Room, Oundle School Great Hall
Tickets £4

Romain Duris, in an outstanding performance, portrays the 28 year-old Tom who seems destined to follow in his father’s footsteps as a Parisian property shark working in a sleazy and sometimes brutal milieu. A chance encounter with his late mother’s music agent rekindles a desire for a musical career and hope for a better life. Audiard has fused two unlikely worlds into a stunning vision featuring a menacing and dangerous Paris rarely seen on screen. The Beat That My Heart Skipped is an intelligent, involving film, told in long takes with a handheld camera to heighten the emotional impact.

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