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
Please join us on 6 April at St James’s Church, Sussex Gardens, London for a very special day of concerts and talks given by acclaimed musicians to raise vital funds to help ensure the continuation of the English Music Festival. The full programme is available here; and tickets may be booked through our online Events Box Office. Please do come and support us — the day promises to be a convivial and enjoyable occasion, and you will be helping to enable the Festival to continue staging events for many years to come.
Booking for the 2024 May EMF is now open for Friends of the Festival — general booking will open on Wednesday 27 March. As always, discounts are available for residents local to the Festival’s home, Dorchester-on-Thames; and these special prices may be obtained by entering your postcode at the Box Office’s front page. To book your tickets, please follow this link.
We are delighted to announce the programme for the 2024 May EMF. This year, for the first time, all our events will be held in Dorchester-on-Thames, with the concerts taking place in the glorious surroundings of Dorchester Abbey; the talks in the historic Village Hall. The full programme, with details of venues, works and artists, may be seen on this page. Booking for Friends of the Festival will open in early March, with general booking opening two weeks later; tickets will be available by post or through our online Box Office.
We have recently introduced a new tier to our Friends’ Scheme for Corporate Friends — so, if you own, or help to run, a company or a similar organisation, and would like to enjoy the special benefits that this tier offers, please do consider joining at this level. For more details about our Friends’ Scheme, please follow this link for a description of the tiers and their benefits, together with information about how to join.