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
Booking for the Yorkshire EMF is now open! Tickets may be purchased from our online Box Office by clicking here. Please do join us for this weekend of joyous and celebratory music-making – we hope to see you there!
The full programme for the fourth Yorkshire EMF is now published and may be seen on this page. The Festival will take place from 27 to 29 September at St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth, in the heart of the spectacular Yorkshire Dales.
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!