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DORIC QUARTET and
CUARTETO QUIROGA
1.15pm St Mary and All Saints Church,
Fotheringhay
Tickets £13 front / £11 rear / £5 under 21s Brett Dean Eclipse |
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For this concert they join forces with another prize-winning ensemble, the
Cuarteto Quiroga from Spain, providing the opportunity to perform Mendelssohn's glorious Octet in the 200th anniversary year of his birth. Composed when Mendelssohn was only 16, the Octet has earned its place as a classic of chamber music repertoire.
The concert ends at 2.15pm. A pre-concert light lunch is available at the Doors open at 12.55pm for those wishing to Sponsors Friends of the Festival |
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| Doric Quartet |
COMMUNITY OPERA
The Cunning Little Vixen
by Leos Janácek
Director Alastair Boag
Music Director Alexander Walker
Designer Gillian Dolby
7.30pm St Peter’s Church (Oundle Parish Church)
Tickets £12 / £5 under 21s
Leos Janácek composed a Czech ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ by turning a serial comic strip from a local newspaper into one of his most touching and inventive operas. The ingenious story tells the adventures of Vixen Sharp-Ears and is set in a world populated by humans as well as forest and barnyard animals.
Janácek’s opera is a masterful amalgam of operatic dialogue, songs, chorus, wordless singing, ballet, mime, and orchestral interludes. He combines the mythic, the tragic and the comic, creating a philosophical reflection on the cycle of life and death. It is one of the 20th century’s most imaginative excursions into fantasy.
In 2007 Oundle International Festival made its first venture into community opera with a very successful production of Jonathan Dove’s ‘Tobias and the Angel’. The verve, enthusiasm and talent that this community brings to the difficult task of producing an opera has to be seen and heard. Children and adults from all over the district have been rehearsing since April,
honing their skills in movement and singing, while the professional opera singers and musicians crown this delightful production.
The performance ends at 9.30pm.unchtime Recital
Celebrity Piano Recital
LIBOR NOVACEK
7.30pm Great Hall, Oundle School
Tickets £13 / £5 under 21s
| Joseph Haydn | Piano Sonata in C major HOB XVI:50 |
| Claude Debussy | Preludes Book II Selection |
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| Leos Janácek | On the Overgrown Path |
| Franz Liszt | Orage |
| Franz Liszt | Vallée d'Obermann (from Années de Pèlerinage, Suisse) |
Libor Novacek has gained an international reputation
for his interpretations of the works of Brahms and Liszt,
which despite his young age have already been
compared with those of the great masters such as
Kempf and Arrau; he is said to possess ‘exceptional
poetic verve and inwardness’. Oundle International
Festival has seen some unforgettable piano recitals
over the years; this one is sure to be among them.
Refreshments will be available before the performance and during the interval.
The recital ends at 9.30pm.
Sponsors Richard and Jean Winfrey
Twilight Recital
KATY SMITH, violin
ALISON RHIND, piano
9.45pm Arthur Marshall Room, Great Hall,
Oundle School
Tickets £10 / £5 under 21s
J S Bach (unaccompanied) Allemanda, Corrente,
Sarabanda, Giga, from Partita II
Beethoven Sonata no.1
Sarasate Habanera
Ravel Tzigane
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Katy Smith is the highly talented young violinist who won the title of Oundle Young Musician of the Year at last year’s Festival of Music & Drama. Accompanied this evening by the pianist Alison Rhind, we are delighted to welcome her back to Oundle in an appealing and engaging programme well suited to the twilight hour. “Katy Smith... delivered a fluently controlled line of melody in a tone of taut velvet... with precision, lyrical delicacy, and awesome bow control.” Geoffrey Hindley, Rutland and Stamford Mercury |
| Alison Rhind |
Refreshments available before the concert and during the interval.
The recital ends at 10.40pm.