Saturday 5th July,
Gala Picnic Concert with the Dean & Chadlington Festival Orchestra led by David Juritz with Soloists
Saturday 5th July 6.00pm picnic, 7.00pm concert
All Saints Church Churchill and Terrace, OX7 6NJ £35/under 21's £5, including a welcome glass of wine
The Dean & Chadlington Festival Orchestra, led by David Juritz, with soloists.
Gala Picnic Concert at Churchill - picnic on the terrace* overlooking the Sars Valley with the concert in the Church. Bring your own picnic.
We are delighted to introduce to you the programme for our festival Gala concert which is another wonderfully diverse and imaginatively chosen collection of works. Having use of the wonderful organ in All Saints Church enabled us to programme two absolute classics - Handel’s Organ Concerto in F major - 'The cuckoo and the nightingale’ (so named because of imitative motifs in the second movement mimicking the calls of the cuckoo and the nightingale) and Albinoni’s timeless Adagio for Organ and Strings.
From this starting point, David Juritz and Craig Ogden were inspired to explore the bird theme further, so have Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, Vivaldi’s Flute Concerto, 'Il Gardellino’ (The Goldfinch - the first movement features trills and scales that depict the goldfinch’s chirping song). Finally, to round off the bird theme, six charming and colourful miniatures for solo flute by Richard Rodney Bennett will provide short, entertaining interludes between the bigger pieces on the programme. Classic works by Peter Warlock and Gustav Holst, both inspired by dances and folksongs, begin and end the programme.
We’re thrilled to be exploring a new venue for our Gala concert this year. All Saints Church in Churchill is beautifully situated, overlooking hills and valleys to the East and with a beautiful grassy terrace right around the church where picnics can be taken. If blessed with beautiful weather it will be a magical evening indeed and regardless of the weather we promise you a joyful evening of world-class music.
Schedule:
6.00pm Arrival with complimentary glass of wine. Picnic on Terrace*
7.00pm Gala concert
7.45pm Picnic interval on the Terrace
8.30pm Gala concert continues
* or in the Church in the case of bad weather