Ceremonial music is also featured in this wonderful programme, including Walton's stirring Coronation Te Deum and Purcell's poignant Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary. Choral classics by Biebl, Gabrieli, and Rachmaninov are topped-off with a good dollop of gospel pizzazz brass-style from Hazell's The Gospel Hall.

Eighteenth-century French music is amongst the most elegant and compellingly beautiful in the whole baroque repertoire. In an evening of enchanting music by Couperin, Marais, Bismortier and Rameau, Passacaglia will take you on a trip back on time to expereince the opulence of Versailles, home of the most famous monarch of all time - Louis XIV, the Sun KIng. The concert follows our Friends' launch party so please note the starting time is 8.30pm.

Featuring Jinny Shaw oboe

Britten Phantasy Quartet Op.2
Anonymous Trad. Bird on a Briar (13th Century)
Cecilia McDowall Y Deryn Pur (2007)
Mozart Oboe Quartet K.370

The delightful sound of oboe with strings in some beautiful music scored for this combination is the lunchtime treat for the last day of the Festival. Jinny Shaw is the featured artist, whose performances in several Festivals have always been stunning.

Timothy Brown conductor
Stewart French guitar

Musicke's Praier
Programme includes:
Byrd Laudibus in sanctis
Palestrina Super flumina Babylonis
Graham Ross Precor Te
Lotti Crucifixus
Allegri Miserere
Walton Cantico del Sole (Prayer of St Francis)
Pearsall Lay a Garland
Stanford The Blue Bird
Delius To be sung of a Summer Night on the Water
Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs

Some music sings out for the acoustic of King's, and Allegri's famous Miserere is just one work amongst a luscious programme of Italian and English early and twentieth century choral music in which the English Voices show the supremacy of the choir in a glorious surrounding. The concert is enhanced by the soft addition of guitar to create a perfect summery ending to this year's Festival.

In January this year Tasmin recorded a CD of the same name on which she recorded three works:

J.S. Bach Partita No.3 in E major for solo violin
Paul Patterson Luslawice Variations Op.50 for violin
Eugène Ysaÿe Sonata No.3 in D minor Ballade

She offered this recording completely free to the general public - anyone who wishes to listen or to have this recording just needed to go to her website and download the tracks. The ‘Naked Violin' in performance includes introductions and performances of these three works and also a question and answer session where the audience will be able to ask Tasmin anything they wish.

An informal and relaxed hour in the company of one of this country's most virtuoso and popular violinists!

Milhaud Scaramouche
Saint-Saens Sonata
Lutoslawski Dance Preludes
Lovreglio Concert Fantasy on La Traviata

An appearance by the 19-year old award-winning clarinettist whose career has been followed eagerly by this Festival where she has played to great acclaim on several occasions.