The English Music Festival

2009 programme

FRIDAY 22 MAY
7.00pm Dorchester Abbey	FINZI: God is Gone Up VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silence & Music VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Greensleeves HOWELLS: Salve Regina HARRIS: Faire is the Heaven HOLST: St Paul’s Suite FINZI: Magnificat TIPPETT: Little Music for Strings HOWELLS: Nunc Dimittis HARRIS: Bring us O Lord God BERKELEY: Serenade DYSON: Hierusalem	Vox Musica Southbank Sinfonia Strings Michael Berman (conductor)
9.45pm Dorchester Abbey	Piano music of BILLY MAYERL	David Owen Norris (piano)

SATURDAY 23 MAY
11.00am Dorchester Abbey	VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Notturno after Bach ELGAR: Concert Allegro MOERAN: Irish Love Song BAX: Second Sonata QUILTER: Three Studies QUILTER: Three Pieces for Piano LAMBERT: Sonata	David Owen Norris (piano)
2.30pm Silk Hall Radley College	ELGAR: String Quartet BRIDGE: Piano Quartet RAWSTHORNE: String Quartet	Bridge Quartet Michael Dussek (piano)
5.15pm Abbey Guest House Dorchester	Some versions of pastoral – Havergal Brian’s English Suite	Malcolm MacDonald
7.30pm Dorchester Abbey	PARRY: Jerusalem CURTIS Festival Overture HAVERGAL BRIAN: Reverie VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Willow Wood ELGAR: The Sanguine Fan DELIUS: Hiawatha (World Premiere performance) CLIFFE: Violin Concerto	BBC Concert Orchestra Philippe Graffin (violin) Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) David Lloyd Jones (conductor)

SUNDAY 24 MAY
11.00am The Chapel Radley College	PARADISE ON EARTH SPOFFORTH: Hail BISHOP: Forresters ANON: England HENRY VIII: Time to pass WEBBE: My pockets low and taxes high FREDERICK BRIDGE: Two snails ELGAR: As torrents in Summer VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Through bushes and briars MACFARREN: Orpheus with his lute CORNYSH: Adieu, adieu BENNET: Weep O mine eyes HORSLEY: Slow, slow, fresh fount MORLEY: April is in my mistress’ face PURCELL: Winter STANFORD: Hush sweet lute SULLIVAN: The long day closes CAMPION: Never weather beaten sail DE PEARSALL: There is paradise	Oxford Liedertafel
2.30pm Silk Hall Radley College	PARRY: Lady Radnor’s Suite BRIDGE: Lament for Strings HOLST: Fugal Concerto ELGAR: Serenade IAN COPLEY: Divertimento IRELAND: Concertino Pastorale	Musicians of All Saints Andrew Sherwood (conductor)
5.15pm Silk Hall Radley College	‘A Summer Evening’ – Writing Quilter‘s biography	Valerie Langfield
7.00pm The Chapel Radley College	PURCELL: Rejoice in the Lord BOYCE: Symphony no.4 in F PURCELL: Te Deum and Jubilate ECCLES: Hymn to Harmony	Cannons Scholars John Andrews (conductor)
9.45pm The Chapel Radley College	THE HARP OF BONES (A programme of mediaeval and traditional English song – as ancient as the hills of faeries – demonstrating concerns of life, love and death that remain disturbingly contemporary)	Joglaresa

MONDAY 25 MAY
11.00am Dorchester Abbey	NO SAD SONGS PURCELL: Crown BUTTERWORTH: Look not in my eyes BUTTERWORTH: Sowing the seeds of love BUTTERWORTH: Is my team ploughing? ROSE: White in the moon WHITELEY: Drop, drop slow tears SWAYNE: No sad songs GRAINGER: The merry king BRITTEN: The nurse’s song GANT: Epitaph on S.P. PHIPPS: The moon’s funeral MAXWELL DAVIES: Farewell to Stromness BRITTEN: If thou wilt ease thine heart	James Bowman (countertenor) Andrew Plant (piano)
1.30pm (for 2.00pm) Village Hall Dorchester	LUNCH AND SEMINAR Is there a future for the British Choral Tradition?	Hilary Davan Wetton, Brian Kay, James Bowman, Dr Andrew Plant
5.00pm Dorchester Abbey	VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Sun, Moon, Stars and Man HOLST: Hymns from the Rig Veda BRITTEN: Choral Dances from ‘Gloriana’ FOULDS: Keltic Lament VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Mass in G minor	City of London Choir Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)