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Box office opens 15 March 2012
Tickets will be available from www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/boxoffice.html or by postal form.
Tickets will be available from www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/boxoffice.html or by postal form.
| FRIDAY 1 JUNE | |||
| 7.30pm Dorchester Abbey |
PARRY: Jerusalem CURTIS: Festival Overture IRELAND: Legend VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Piano Fantasia (World Première) MOERAN / YATES: Symphony no.2 (World Première) |
BBC Concert Orchestra Martin Yates (conductor) Mark Bebbington (piano) |
£22.00 |
| SATURDAY 2 JUNE | |||
| 11.00am Dorchester Abbey |
PICKARD: Insomnia for violin and piano SACHEVERELL COKE: Violin Sonata no.1 in D minor (World Première) SAINSBURY:Soliloquy for solo violin CARR: Now Comes Beauty (World Première of violin and piano version) ELGAR: Sonata in E minor for violin and piano, op.82 |
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin) Matthew Rickard (piano) |
£17.50 |
| 2.30pm All Saints’ Church, Sutton Courtenay |
Part-songs by British composers, including JOHN IRELAND | Syred Consort Ben Palmer (director) |
£17.50 |
| 7.30pm Dorchester Abbey |
ANON: Allegra, Anglia! MORLEY: Hard by a Crystal Fountain BAX: What is it like to be young and fair? BENNET: All creatures now are merry minded BENNET: Weep, O mine eyes TIPPETT: Dance, clarion air GIBBONS: Dainty fine bird HOWELLS: Inheritance EAST: Hence, stars, too dim of light RAWSTHORNE: Canzonet BRITTEN: Choral Dances from Gloriana BRITTEN: Hymn to St Cecilia VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silence and Music WEELKES: As Vesta was from Latmos Hill descending FARMER: Fair nymphs, I heard one telling BERKELEY: Spring at this hour MORLEY: Leave, alas this tormenting FINZI: White-Flowering Days BRITTEN: Five Flower Songs |
Joyful Company of Singers Peter Broadbent (director) |
£22.00 |
| 9.30pm Dorchester Abbey |
HARDY PERENNIALS Favourite music, songs, stories and poems from the works of Thomas Hardy and the Dorset tradition |
The Mellstock Band | £12.00 |
| SUNDAY 3 JUNE | |||
| 11.00am Silk Hall Radley College |
English Solo Song: songs by FINZI, IRELAND, HOWELLS, GURNEY, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, BRITTEN and PEEL | Philip Lancaster (baritone) Andrew Plant (piano) |
£17.50 |
| 2.30pm Silk Hall Radley College |
YORK BOWEN: Suite no.1 RAWSTHORNE: The Creel HOLST: The Planets |
York 2 | £17.50 |
| 7.00pm Dorchester Abbey |
PURCELL: King Arthur BRITTEN: The Sword in the Stone ELGAR: Arthur (complete incidental music) |
Orchestra of St Paul’s Ben Palmer (conductor) |
£22.00 |
| 9.30pm Dorchester Abbey |
Songs by ARMSTRONG GIBBS, QUILTER, STANFORD, BOUGHTON, HARTY and others | Charlotte de Rothschild (soprano) Danielle Perrett (harp) |
£12.00 |
| MONDAY 4 JUNE | |||
| 11.00am Dorchester Abbey |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lake in the Mountains VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Hymn Prelude no.13 GURNEY: Five Preludes GURNEY arr. Banfield: Chorale Prelude on Rockingham VAUGHAN WILLIAMS arr. Vally Lasker: Job: A Masque for Dancing |
Iain Burnside (piano) | £17.50 |
| 2.30pm Silk Hall Radley College |
AVISON: Concerto in A op.9 no.11 FARNABY arr. Bantock: Seven Pieces BOUGHTON: Three Folk Dances BRITTEN: Simple Symphony DARKE: Fantasy in E minor JENKINS: Pastorale and Allegro PURCELL: Fairy Queen Suite BOYCE: Symphony no.1 IRELAND: Concertino Pastorale FISHER: Widdicombe Fair: Variations in the style of Paganini |
Chamber Ensemble of London | £17.50 |
| 7.00pm Dorchester Abbey |
IRELAND: A Downland Suite HOWELLS: Pageantry ARNOLD: Little Suites no.s 1 and 2 VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Henry V Overture BANTOCK: Prometheus Unbound |
Jaguar Land Rover Band Dave Lea (conductor) |
£22.00 |
| 9.30pm Dorchester Abbey |
BYRD: Haec Dies BYRD: Sing joyfully STANFORD: Beati Quorum Via TRADITIONAL arr. Grainger: Brigg Fair RUTTER: Come live with me RUTTER: It was a lover and his lass TRADITIONAL: Bobby Shaftoe TRADITIONAL: Londonderry Air TRADITIONAL: Swing Low LENNON and McCARTNEY: Blackbird BERLIN: Cheek to Cheek MANNING: A Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square MANNING: The way you look tonight |
The Songmen | £12.00 |
| TUESDAY 5 JUNE | |||
| 11.00am Dorchester Abbey |
BRIDGE: Cello Sonata IRELAND: Cello Sonata VENABLES: Elegy WALTON: Passacaglia for solo cello BRITTEN: Cello Sonata |
Richard Jenkinson (cello) Benjamin Frith (piano) |
£17.50 |
| 2.30pm Silk Hall Radley College |
KIPLING SETTINGS GERMAN: The Big Steamers HUNT: We don’t want to fight McGLENNON: Sons of the Sea DAWONS: Boots STUART: Soldiers of the Queen GERMAN: Rolling down to Rio SULLIVAN: The absent-minded beggar SPEAKES: The Road to Mandalay DE KOVEN: Recessional IRELAND: The Soldier GERMAN: Have you news of my Jack? ELGAR: The Fringes of the Fleet NOVELLO: Keep the Home Fires burning COWARD: Mad Dogs and Englishmen This will be a ‘Come and Sing the Choruses’ event. Audience members who wish to take part will be invited to attend a rehearsal before the concert (sandwich lunch included). |
Tom Higgins (director / piano) Elizabeth Traill (soprano) Alexander Knox (baritone) Richard Fawkes (narrator) |
£17.50 |
| 7.00pm Dorchester Abbey |
DELIUS: Irmelin, Song before Sunrise WARLOCK: Capriol Suite PARRY: English Symphony and works by COLERIDGE TAYLOR and ALWYN |
ESO John Andrews (conductor) |
£22.00 |
| The EMF reserves the right to change the programme or the artists without prior notice. | |||