The English Music Festival

2006 PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER
5.30pm The Abbey Guest House Dorchester	Arthur Sullivan: A Victorian Musician	Stephen Turnbull
7.00pm Dorchester Abbey	HOLST: Walt Whitman Overture VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Norfolk Rhapsody no.1 BRIDGE: Oration HOLST: Invocation SULLIVAN: ‘Irish’ Symphony	BBC Concert Orchestra Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) David Lloyd Jones (conductor)
10pm All Saints’ Church Sutton Courtenay	Silver Sounds and Moody Food – Music in Shakespeare’s London	Dufay Collective

SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER
11.00am Silk Hall Radley College	W.H. REED: Rhapsody ASHTON: Viola Sonata DALE: Suite	Paul Silverthorne (viola) David Owen Norris (piano)
2.30pm All Saints’ Church Sutton Courtenay	WILLIAM, MONK OF STRATFORD: Magnificat DAVY: St Matthew Passion, part I BROWNE: Jesu, mercy, how can this be? CORNYSH: Ave Maria, Mater Dei DAVY: St. Matthew Passion, part II BROWNE: Stabat Mater	Tonus Peregrinus
5.30pm The Abbey Guest House Dorchester	Gustav Holst: A man of our time	Raymond Head
7.30pm Dorchester Abbey	ELGAR: Serenade HOLST: ‘Cotwolds’ Symphony LORD BERNERS: Luna Park YORK BOWEN: Viola Concerto	New London Orchestra Paul Silverthorne (viola) Ronald Corp (conductor)
10.00pm Silk Hall Radley College	FINZI: Before and After Summer BRITTEN: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake	Howard Wong (baritone) Hein Boterberg (piano)

SUNDAY 22 OCTOBER
11.00am Silk Hall Radley College	ELGAR: piano music	David Owen Norris (piano)
2.30pm All Saints’ Church Sutton Courtenay	HOLST: The Evening Watch HOLST: Nunc dimittis HOLST: Ave Maria HOLST: This have I done for my true love VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Three Shakespeare Songs VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Spring Time of the Year VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Just as the tide was flowing VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lover’s Ghost BAX: Mater Ora Filium DELIUS: On Craig Dhu DELIUS: Wanderer’s Song DELIUS: Midsummer Song DELIUS: To be sung of a summer night on the water	CC21 Paul Guinery (reciter)
5.30pm The Abbey Guest House Dorchester	‘Under the shadowing wings of Death’: English composers and the First World War	Philip Lancaster
7.00pm Dorchester Abbey	HOLST: Two Psalms BRITTEN: Simple Symphony WESLEY: Symphony no.5 in E-flat VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Oxford Elegy	Milton Keynes City Orchestra City of London Choir Jeremy Irons (reciter) Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
10pm All Saints’ Church Sutton Courtenay	Lute and guitar music	Rob MacKillop

MONDAY 23 OCTOBER
11.00am Silk Hall Radley College	BRITTEN: Sonata in C, op.65 IRELAND: Sonata in G minor LLOYD WEBBER: In the half light LLOYD WEBBER: Nocturne DELIUS: Sonata for Cello and Piano in one movement	Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) John Lenehan (piano)
2.30pm Silk Hall Radeley College	DUNHILL: Phantasy Trio BAX: Piano Quartet YORK BOWEN: Piano Trio in E minor MOERAN: Trio in G	Endymion
5.30pm The Abbey Guest House Dorchester	Bridging the Gap	Philip Lane
7.00pm Dorchester Abbey	BRITTEN: Canticles 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 NORRIS: Prayerbook (World Première performance)	Oxford Bach Choir Peter Savidge (baritone) Michael Chance (countertenor) Charles Daniels (tenor) David Owen Norris (piano) Nicholas Cleobury (conductor)

TUESDAY 24 OCTOBER
11.00am All Saints’ Church Sutton Courtenay	Songs by DOWLAND, CAMPION, PURCELL, DANIELL and LAWES	Michael Chance (countertenor)
2.30pm All Saints’ Church Sutton Courtenay	ARMSTRONG GIBBS: Prelude, Andante and Finale RUTTER: Suite HOLST: Brook Green Suite ORR: Cotswold Hill Tune BRIDGE: Suite for Strings HOLST: St. Paul’s Suite	Southern Sinfonia
5.30pm The Abbey Guest House Dorchester	‘Let’s to Billiards’: Constant Lambert	Stephen Lloyd
7.00pm Dorchester Abbey	FINZI: Eclogue FOULDS: Indian Suite LAMBERT: Piano Concerto FINZI: Intimations of Immortality	New London Orchestra London Chorus David Owen Norris (piano) James Gilchrist (tenor) Ronald Corp (conductor)