The English Music Festival

2010 programme

THURSDAY 27 MAY
8pm Silk Hall Radley College	Twentieth-century English Piano Music by Howard Ferguson (including the Piano Sonata in F minor), Alan Rawsthorne and Lennox Berkeley	Antony Williams (piano)	Free

FRIDAY 28 MAY
7.30pm Dorchester Abbey	PARRY: Jerusalem ALWYN: Derby Day QUILTER: Serenade HAVERGAL BRIAN: Shadow Dance MONTAGUE PHILLIPS: Piano Concerto no.1 MOERAN: Lonely Waters BOWEN: Symphony no.1 (World Première)	BBC Concert Orchestra Gavin Sutherland (conductor) David Owen Norris (piano)	£20

SATURDAY 29 MAY
11am Dorchester Abbey	BLISS: Violin Sonata (World Première) WALFORD DAVIES: Sonata in A major (World Première) BOWEN: Violin Sonata in E minor, op.112	Rupert Luck (violin) Matthew Rickard (piano)	£15
2.30pm Silk Hall Radley College	PURCELL: Incidental Music to Abdelazer CARR: A Gentle Music World Première Performance ELGAR: Elegy for Strings GIBBS: Threnody WARLOCK: Capriol Suite	Orchestra of St Paul’s Ben Palmer (conductor)	£15
5.15pm Abbey Guest House Dorchester	‘Where no-one shall me find ...’ E.J. Moeran and Lonely Waters	Barry Marsh	£3
7.30pm Dorchester Abbey	WOOD: Fathom Five PEARSALL: Lay a garland STANFORD: Heraclitus HOLST: I love my love FINZI: My spirit sang ELGAR: My love dwelt in a northern land ELGAR: As torrents in summer BRIDGE: Five Part-Songs HOLST: The Coming of Christ	City of London Choir Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)	£20
9.45pm Dorchester Abbey	BYRD: Kyrie and Gloria (From the four-part Mass) TRADITIONAL (arr. Vaughan Williams): Bushes and Briars PARRY: Love wakes STANFORD: Hush sweet lute ANON (English, 15th century): There is no rose VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The sky above the roof JOHN BENNET: Weep O mine eyes VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fain would I change that note ENGLISH FOLKSONG (arr. Vaughan Williams): Dives and Lazarus ENGLISH FOLKSONG (arr. Christopher Le Fleming): O Waly, waly BYRD: Agnus Dei ENGLISH FOLKSONG: Searching for Lambs ENGLISH FOLKSONG (arr. Vaughan Williams): This is the truth	Oxford Liedertafel	£10

SUNDAY 30 MAY
11am Silk Hall Radley College	TOVEY: Air and Variations ARNELL: Quartet no.3 BRITTEN: Quartet no.1	Tippett Quartet	£15
2.30pm All Saints’ Church Sutton Courtenay	BRITTEN: Ad majorem Dei gloriam VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Ca’ the yowes STANFORD The Blue Bird ELGAR: Go, Song of Mine BANTOCK: Three Settings of Alfred Hayes HOWELLS: Requiem	Elysian Singers	£15
5.15pm Abbey Guest House Dorchester	Holst & Dharma: a composer’s path in life of assimilation, experimentation, gestation and development of ideas	Neil Williams	£3
7pm Dorchester Abbey	DELIUS: Hassan HOLST: Sāvitri	City of Canterbury Chamber Choir Orchestra Nova George Vass (conductor) Janice Watson (soprano) Mark Chaundy (tenor) David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Paul Guinery (narrator)	£20
9.45pm Dorchester Abbey	The Murky, Midnight Hour - Ballads of darkness, the supernatural, faeries and, of course - love: ‘At the murky, midnight hour the faerie folk do ride And those that would their true loves win, at Mile’s Cross they must hide’ (Ballad of Tamlin)	JOGLARESA Belinda Sykes (voice, director) Mick Sands (voice, bodhran) Stuart Hall (fiddle, guitar) Jean Kelly (harp) Tim Garside (dulcimer, voice, percussion)	£10

MONDAY 31 MAY
11am Dorchester Abbey	FINZI: Magnificat VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: O how amiable IRELAND: Five Part-Songs VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Little Cloister FINZI: Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice	The Syred Consort Ben Palmer (conductor)	£15
2.30pm Dorchester Abbey	HOLST: Suite no.1 in E-flat HOLST: A Moorside Suite (Suite no.2 in F) VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Variations for Brass Band BANTOCK The Frogs VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: English Folk Song Suite PERCY FLETCHER: An Epic Symphony	Jaguar (Coventry) Band Dave Lea (conductor)	£15
5.15pm Abbey Guest House Dorchester	Sullivan – without Gilbert	Robin Wilson	£3
7.30pm Dorchester Abbey	SOMERVELL: Maud ‘Come and Sing’: VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Mystical Songs ELGAR: Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands	David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) David Owen Norris (piano) Brian Kay (conductor)	£20