PROGRAMME 2009
Time Venue Work Artists Price*
FRIDAY 22nd MAY
7.00pm Dorchester Abbey Finzi God is Gone Up
Vaughan Williams Silence & Music, 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
 
9.45pm Dorchester Abbey Mayerl Piano Music David Owen Norris  
SATURDAY 23rd 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  
2.30pm Radley College Silk Hall Elgar String Quartet
Bridge Piano Quartet
Rawsthorne String Quartet
Bridge Quartet
Michael Dussek
 
5.15pm Dorchester Abbey Guest House 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 Sanguine Fan
Delius Hiawatha (World Premiere)
Cliffe Violin Concerto
BBC Concert Orchestra David Lloyd Jones
Philippe Graffin
Jeremy Huw William
 
SUNDAY 24th MAY
11.00am Radley College Chapel 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 through briars
Macfarren Orpheus with his lute
Cornish Adieu, adieu
Bennet Weep O mine eyes
Horsley Slow, slow, fresh fount
Morley April is in my mistress's 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 Radley College, Silk Hall Parry Lady Radnor's Suite
BridgeLament for Strings
HolstFugal Concerto
Elgar Serenade
Ian Copley Divertimento
Ireland Concertino Pastorale
Musicians of All Saints
Andrew Sherwood
 
5.15pm Radley College, Silk Hall A Summer Evening – Writing Quilter's biography Valerie Langfield  
7.00pm Radley College, Chapel

Purcell Rejoice in the Lord
Boyce
Symphony No. 4 in F
PurcellTe Deum and Jubilate
Eccles Hymn to Harmony

Cannons Scholars, John Andrews  
9.45pm Radley College, Chapel 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 25th MAY
11.00am Dorchester Abbey NO SAD SONGS
Purcell Crown
Butterworth Look not in my eyes
Sowing the seeds of love
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, Andrew Plant  
1.30pm (for 2.00pm)   LUNCH AND SEMINAR – Is there a future for The British Choral Tradition? Davan Wetton, Brian Kay, James Bowman, Dr Andrew Plant  
5.00pm Dorchester Abbey Vaughan WIlliams Sun, Moon, Stars & Man
Holst Hymns
Britten Choral
Foulds Keltic
Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor

Hilary Davan Wetton,
City of London Choir                               
 
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