THE COTSWOLD CONNECTION
BLISS: Sonata for Piano and Violin
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (arr. LAMBERT): Concerto accademico
HOLST: Five Pieces for Violin and Piano
HOWELLS: Sonata in B minor for Violin and Piano
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
MATTHEW RICKARD | piano
BY COTSWOLD, SEVERN AND WYE: A SEQUENCE OF ENGLISH ORGAN MUSIC
IRELAND: Intrada
MOERAN: Air
FINZI: Elegy
HOLST: Brook Green Suite
HOWELLS: Two Psalm Preludes (Set 1, no.s 1 and 2)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Prelude on the Welsh Hymn Tune Rhosymedre
PARRY: Preston from A Little Organ Book in Memory of Huert Parry
STANFORD: Postlude on an old Irish melody
FRANCIS: Solemn Prelude on the Hymn Tune Hereford
DARKE: Meditation on Brother James’ Air
POPPLEWELL: Elegy (In Memory of Harold Darke)
HOWELLS: Rhapsody no.3
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | organ
EMF FESTIVAL LUNCH
THE SOUL OF THE AGE
TALLIS: Hear the voice and prayer
TALLIS: A new commandment
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Take, O take those lips away
ANON.: There is no rose
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The sky above the roof
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Orpheus with his lute
MACFARREN: When daisies pied
WILBYE: As matchless beauty
TALLIS: Like as the doleful dove
TALLIS: Verily, verily I say unto you
TALLIS: If ye love me
JACOB: The Ash Grove
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bushes and Briars
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Linden Lea
CAMPION: Never weather-beaten sail
ANON.: Searching for Lambs
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: This is the Truth
HOLST: There was a tree
DOWLAND: Come again, sweet love doth now invite
OXFORD LIEDERTAFEL
HOLST BIRTHDAY CONCERT
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The cloud-capp’d towers
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Over hill, over dale
ELGAR: The Snow
ELGAR: Fly, singing bird, fly
HOLST: Ave Maria
HOLST: St Paul’s Suite
ARNOLD: Fantasy for Brass Band
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Overture to The Wasps
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Prelude to 49th Parallel
HOLST: Venus from The Planets
ELGAR: selection from Enigma Variations
PAULINA VOICES
HEIDI PEGLER | conductor
ALEXIS WHITE | piano
ST PAUL’S GIRLS’ SCHOOL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
LEIGH O’HARA | conductor
FLOWERS BRASS BAND
PAUL HOLLAND | conductor
We invite you to celebrate A White Christmas with EMF regulars The New Foxtrot Serenaders on 14 December at St Lawrence’s Church, Chobham. Full details of this event may be found on this page; and tickets can be purchased through our Events Box Office.
We are tremendously excited to be bringing the EMF to South Africa in a long weekend of events based in and around St George’s Anglican Church, Parktown, in Johannesburg. This wonderful city offers many excellent venues and performers, as well as a great interest in music. The forthcoming Festival – which will see British artists collaborating with local Johannesburg musicians – will, we believe, be rewarding and culturally enriching both for the EMF and for music-lovers in the area. The Festival will take place between 14 and 16 February 2020.
The programme for the South African EMF is now published on this page. Booking – through our online Box Office – will open on 11 December.
Thank you to all who contributed to the 2019 Autumn Festival: to those at St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth, for their warm hospitality and invaluable help; to the artists, for their superb performances of some wonderful music; to the volunteers who staffed the Box Office, undertook Front-of-House duties, and served refreshments; and, of course, to the audience members for supporting the event, some of whom travelled a considerable distance to be with us. We are currently considering possibilities for the 2020 Festival, which, perhaps, will take place slightly earlier, at the end of August. Please visit this page soon for more details!
Thank you to all who made the 2019 Oxfordshire EMF such a success! We are looking forward to the 2020 Festival and already have a range of exciting concerts planned. The full programme will be available on 1 January 2020, with tickets going on sale in early March.
If you would like more details about our Friends’ Scheme, please follow this link to our newly reinstated ‘Friends’ Scheme’ page for a description of the tiers and their benefits, together with information about how to join.
Our recording arm, EM Records, has released a number of exciting new recordings, including a triple-disc set of Parry’s complete works for violin and piano and a disc of searingly beautiful choral works by Paul Carr and others. Please visit the EM Records website for full details of these and others!