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
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Thank you to all who made the 2023 May Festival such a success: to all those at the venues for their invaluable help and support and for welcoming us so warmly; to the artists, for the energy and commitment of their performances; to all the volunteers who assisted with general administration, staffing the Box Office, stage-managing and stewarding, and without whose help running the Festival would simply not be possible; and, of course, to our audiences, whose enthusiasm, encouragement and financial and moral support continue to mean so much to us.