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GERARD BROOKS
1.15pm St Mary & All Saints Church,
Fotheringhay
Tickets £11 / £5 under 21s
Lunch tickets £12 - pre-booking essential,
by Saturday 11th July
Handelabra
The Queen of Sheba arrives - and departs - to frame this
multi-branched celebration of Handel's music, and its
resonance in pieces by other composers for the organ.
Handel (d.1759) features in our musical celebrations this
year and Gerard's entertaining programme includes
Guilmant's March on Handel's Lift up your heads,
Grainger's Handel in the Strand, and new pieces by Paul
Ayres and Thomas Neal - alongside Voluntary on a Flight
of Angels, and Organ Concerto in D minor (Op. 7 no 4) by
Britain's own nationalised institution, the great GFH.
Gerard, recently appointed Director of Music at
Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, is one of the
nimblest players in the business - and this recital
should be fun!
The recital ends at 2.10pm.
A pre-concert light lunch is available at the church at 12 noon. Doors open at 12.55pm for those wishing to attend the recital only.
TOUR OF ROCKINGHAM CASTLE
2pm Coach leaves from Gascoigne Building
Car Park (see map on page 20)
Tickets £21 (pre-booking essential)
Our guided tour of magnificent Rockingham Castle, with
its wonderful views across the Welland Valley, will
include an exhibition of 20th century paintings. There
will also be time to take in the new garden project
designed by Chelsea gold medal winner Robert Myers,
and for a cup of tea (included in the ticket price).
Back in Oundle by 6.30pm.
Open-air Theatre
ILLYRIA
6.30pm (gates open 5.30pm)
The Creed Chapel, Ashton
(1 mile from Oundle Town Centre)
Tickets £12 / £5 under 21s
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
All for One, One for All; young D’Artagnan is desperate
to join Athos, Porthos and Aramis as a Musketeer of the
King’s Guard. But are his swashbuckling credentials
sufficient? Find out as the fearless four rescue the
Queen’s diamonds, restore her honour, survive the plots
laid by the scheming Cardinal Richelieu, race the clock to
save the hapless Mme Bonancieux, and cross swords
with one of the original, and most deadly, femmes fatales:
Milady de Winter. This brand new production, specially
adapted for international award-winning Illyria, is
sumptuously costumed, fast-moving, and suitable
for all ages 8+.
Bring a picnic and low-backed chairs or rugs – no seating provided. Refreshments (bar and coffee) available.
This open-air performance will be cancelled in the event of a hurricane only!
The performance ends at 9.10pm.
SOFIA ORTHODOX CHOIR
Conductor Vivian Klochkov
8pm St Mary & All Saints Church, Fotheringhay
Tickets £16 front / £14 rear / £5 under 21s
The powerful and
expressive singing of this
outstanding Bulgarian choir
comes from a unique style
based on fiery rhythms,
unusual harmonies and a
vocal technique that gives
power to the voice and
voice to the heart. For
over twenty years the
Sofia Orthodox Choir has
performed a rich repertoire of Byzantine and Orthodox
music, liturgies, Gregorian chants and traditional Slav
song, taking them across Europe and Japan for
concerts, recordings and broadcasts. Their thrilling
sound in the magnificent surroundings of Fotheringhay
Church is not to be missed!
All our gratitude is extended to this wonderful choir that
made us experience again emotions in our Cathedral.
For their exceptional voices, the singers are awarded
the Golden Order of the Cathedral
Chief of the Cathedral, Notre Dame
Refreshments available before the concert and during the interval.
The Sofia Orthodox Choir visit to the UK is supported by British Airways.
The concert ends at 9.40pm.
Film at the Festival
In association with Oundle Cinema
Blue (15) French with subtitles
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
7.45pm Arthur Marshall Room, Great Hall
Tickets £5
The first film in Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national
motto: Liberté, égalité, fraternité, ‘Blue’ is the story of
Julie (Juliette Binoche) who loses her husband, an
acclaimed European composer, and her young daughter
in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is
manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew, free
of personal commitments, belongings, grief and love.
She intends to commit suicide spiritually by with drawing
from the world and living completely anonymously and
in solitude in Paris. However, the reality created by the
people who need and care about her, as well as the
music around which the film revolves, heal Julie and
irresistibly draw her back into the land of the living.
The film ends at 9.23pm.