Powerful drama based on novel

The Arden Theatre Group is putting on a tense, powerful drama based on a novel by John Fowles.

The Collector is a compelling, twisting story of a lonely butterfly collector’s obsession with a beautiful art student – a fixation leading to kidnap.

Will Miranda become a permanent addition to Clegg’s collection, or will she eventually fly free?

Performances begin at 8pm at the Arden Theatre in Faversham from Thursday, March 23, to Saturday, March 25.

Tickets, £7 for adults and £6 concessions, are available at Carter’s Newsagents in Market Street or at www. ardentheatre.co.uk

Canterbury Music Club, Trevor Pinnock and Jonathan Manson, St Gregory’s Centre for Music, Canterbury

The programme consisted of three sonatas for viola da gamba by J.S. Bach, interspersed with harpsichord solos.

Locally based Trevor Pinnock pioneered performance on historical instruments with his orchestra The English Concert, which he founded in 1972. Since 2003 he has divided his time between conducting, solo, chamber music and

educational projects. He explained the peculiarities of his harpsichord, before playing (between the Bach sonatas) Couperin’s Suite in F, Marais’ La Petite Bru and Handel’s Chaconne in G.

These pieces showed the depth of expression in these 17th century works, and the subtle differences in sound from the two keyboards of the harpsichord.

Jonathan Manson is one of Europe’s leading performers on cello and viola da gamba. For 10 years he was the principal cellist of the Amsterdam

Baroque Orchestra. His longstanding partnership with Trevor Pinnock has led to critically acclaimed recordings of the Bach sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord and, together with Rachel Podger, Rameau’s Pièces de clavecin en concert.

He thoughtfully explained the differences between the viola da gamba family and the violin family and confirmed that his instrument is modern.very few original instruments exist.

When playing the three Bach sonatas with Trevor, he demonstrated the range of tone

which could be produced and the complexity of fingering often needed.

The final work was greeted with rapturous applause, which led to a sprightly encore: Marais’ L’ameriquaine.

The final concert in this 75th series of Canterbury Music Club will be on Thursday, April 6, when the Kentish Piano Trio will play works by Frank Bridge, David Knotts and Franz Schubert.

For more details and booking visit www. canterburymusicclub.com/ april.html John Davey