ENSEMBLE MOLIÈRE

Monday 17 July 3pm – 5pm

(including interval) St John’s Church £30, Balcony £25

Réunion des goûts

J-B Lully Ouverture from Psyché

F Couperin Sonade from ‘L’Impériale’, from Les Nations

G Telemann Quatuor No. 6 in E minor, from Nouveaux quatuors en six suites

F Couperin Treizième concert from Les Goûtréünis

F Couperin La Paix du Parnasse (Sonade en Trio) from L’Apothéose de Lully

G Telemann Sonata in G minor TWV43:g1 from Quadri

F Couperin Chaconne ou Passacaille, from ‘La Françoise’, from Les Nations

Ensemble Molière was selected as the first-ever Radio 3 New Generation Baroque Ensemble for two years, from October 2021. The group has performed throughout the UK and Europe. In 2017 the ensemble made its debut at the London Festival of Baroque Music, and was a finalist in the International Young Artists Competition at the York Early Music Festival.

‘Réunion des goûts’ celebrates and explores the coming together of French and Italian musical styles, in music by Lully, Couperin and Telemann.

Sarah Bakewell

Monday 17 July 4pm – 5pm Pavilion Arts Centre £12

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry and Hope

You may have some affinity with humanism, even if you don’t think of yourself in those terms. You may be drawn to literature and the humanities. You may prefer to base your moral choices on fellowfeeling and responsibility to others rather than on religious commandments. Or you may simply believe that individual lives are more important than grand political visions or dogmas. If any of these apply, you are part of a long tradition of humanist thought. Award-winning biographer Sarah Bakewell asks what humanism is and why it has flourished for so long, despite opposition from fanatics, mystics and tyrants.

Peter Moore

Tuesday 18 July 10am – 11am

Pavilion Arts Centre £12

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream 1740-1776

‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness’, the best-known phrase from the Declaration of Independence is frequently evoked today as a shorthand for that idea we call the ‘American Dream’. However rather than being uniquely American, the vision it encapsulates owes a great deal to British thinkers. Centred on the life of Benjamin Franklin, featuring figures like the cultural giant Samuel Johnson, the ground-breaking historian Catharine Macaulay, the firebrand politician John Wilkes and revolutionary activist Thomas Paine, Peter Moore looks at the generation that preceded the Declaration in 1776 and takes us back to a vital moment in the foundation of the West.

Mikeleizzucchi Duo

Saxophone And Accordion

Tuesday 18 July 11.15am – 12.15pm

St John’s Church £20, Balcony £18

J Bach (attrib) Flute Sonata in E flat, BWV 1031

C Corea Selections from Children’s Songs

R Haigh HELL HOT

A Piazzolla Escualo

R Albayati Nafas

P Glass Façades, from Glassworks

G Gershwin Three Preludes

R Galliano Taraf

This multi-award-winning duo is made up of Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi and Spanish accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrades. Their repertoire spans everything from reimagined traditional works to modern repertoire and improvisation.

They’re the winners of the Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition’s Mixed Ensemble Prize in 2021 and City Music Foundation Artists since 2022. Their programme ranges from J S Bach to Gershwin, Chick Corea and Philip Glass.

BUXTON –A SAFE HAVEN IN THE HILLS FESTIVAL WALK

Tuesday 18 July 11.30am – 1pm

Meet at the Town Hall, Market Place £15

See page p.44 for information about this event.