The English Music Festival

2008 programme

FRIDAY 23 MAY
7.30pm Dorchester Abbey	PARRY: Jerusalem HOLBROOKE: Birds of Rhiannon RAWSTHORNE: Practical Cats MACKENZIE: Benedictus BANTOCK: ‘Celtic’ Symphony	BBC Concert Orchestra Jeremy Nicholas (narrator) Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

SATURDAY 24 MAY
11.00am Keble College Chapel Oxford	SULLIVAN: sacred music	The Sullivan Singers Ian Partridge (tenor) David Owen Norris (director)
12.15pm Pusey Room Keble College Oxford	‘Stage or sanctuary?’ Assessing Sullivan’s hymn tunes and sacred music	Ian Bradley
2.30pm All Saints’ Church Sutton Courtenay	ELGAR: There is sweet music FINZI: Romance HOLST: Ave Maria FINZI: Welcome sweet and sacred feast ELGAR: Serenade VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Lord, Thou hast been our refuge VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Concerto Accademico HOLST: Nunc Dimittis HOWELLS: Serenade for Strings FINZI: Magnificat	Vox Musica Southbank Sinfonia Strings
5.15pm The Abbey Guesthouse Dorchester	The Consumate Anthologist	Giles Easterbrook
7.00pm Dorchester Abbey	VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Te Deum NORMAN O’NEILL: Pastorale BRIDGE: Suite for Strings HOLST: Brook Green Suite BLISS: Pastoral	Milton Keynes City Orchestra City of London Choir Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
9.45pm Dorchester Abbey	Piano music by Billy Mayerl	David Owen Norris (piano)

SUNDAY 25 MAY
11.00am The Chapel Radley College	PURCELL/BRITTEN: Chacony ALWYN: Three winter poems BRIDGE: Rhapsody for two violins and viola DELIUS: Late Swallows BRIDGE: Quartet no.2	Bridge Quartet
2.30pm Silk Hall Radley College	VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis FINZI: Clarinet Concerto IRELAND: Downland Suite ELGAR: Introduction and Allegro	Amaretti Chamber Orchestra
5.15pm The Abbey Guesthouse Dorchester	English Romantic Music and Literature	John Leeman
7.00pm Dorchester Abbey	ARNE: Symphony no.4 LINLEY: In Yonder Grove ARNE: The Judgement of Paris	The Cannons Scholars John Andrews (conductor)
9.45pm Dorchester Abbey	Al Manere Minstrelsy	The Dufay Collective

MONDAY 26 MAY
11.00am Dorchester Abbey	Songs by BRITTEN, QUILTER, PURCELL, ELGAR, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, HANDEL, SULLIVAN and others	James Bowman (countertenor) Andrew Swait (treble) Andrew Plant (piano)
2.30pm All Saints’ Church Sutton Courtenay	VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: String Quartet no.2 MOERAN: String Quartet in E-flat VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: String Quartet no.1	Carducci String Quartet
5.15pm The Abbey Guesthouse Dorchester	‘O for a Muse of Fire’: Dyson and his Agincourt	Paul Spicer
7.30pm Dorchester Abbey	DYSON: Agincourt DYSON: Prelude and Postlude DYSON: Voluntary in D DYSON: Fantasia and Ground Bass ELGAR: The Banner of St George	Andover Choral Society David Owen Norris (conductor)

TUESDAY 27 MAY
11.00am Dorchester Abbey	HOLBROOKE: Fantasia-Sonate No.1 ‘The Haunted Palace’ HOLBROOKE: Rhapsodie-Études HOLBROOKE: Barrage HOLBROOKE: Fantasia-Sonate no.2 ‘Destiny’	Panagiotis Trochopoulos (piano)
2.30pm Silk Hall Radley College	DELIUS: Légende DELIUS: Sonata ALWYN: Sonatina BRITTEN: Suite, op.6	Philippe Graffin (violin) Marisa Gupta (piano)
5.15pm The Abbey Guesthouse Dorchester	‘My Friends Call Me Jack’: The Legacy of E.J.Moeran	Barry Marsh
7.30pm Dorchester Abbey	EMF NEW COMMISSIONS CONCERT CURTIS: Festival Overture CARR: Oboe Concerto MCDOWALL: The skies in their magnificence CORP: Jubilate LANE: Lyric Dances NORRIS: Piano Concerto	Southern Sinfonia London Chorus Nicholas Daniel (oboe) David Owen Norris (piano) Ronald Corp (conductor)