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 2020 Oxfordshire EMF is now open to all. As usual, we are offering a 10% discount on concert ticket and Pass prices to local residents; and, once again, we are collaborating with The White Hart Hotel in Dorchester-on-Thames to bring audience members EMF pre-concert dinners. Please visit our online Box Office to book your tickets.
Thank you to all who made the 2020 Johannesburg EMF such a success: to those at Brenthurst Gardens, Glenshiel and St George’s Church for their warm hospitality and invaluable help; to the artists, for their outstanding 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 weekend’s events.
We are currently in discussion regarding possibilities for the 2021 Johannesburg EMF. If you would like to support us and help make this a reality, please do consider joining the South African EMF Friends’ Scheme. Your contribution will be most warmly appreciated. If you would like to be kept informed of the Festival’s return to South Africa, please email the Festival Director, Em Marshall-Luck, at em.marshall-luck@englishmusicfestival.org.uk to be added to our Johannesburg EMF mailing list.
We are delighted to announce that the programme for the 2020 Oxfordshire EMF is now published, with important world premières of works by composers including Elgar and Delius; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s superb (and too-rarely-performed) Violin Concerto; large-scale choral concerts; intimate chamber recitals; and late-night piano and dance-band music. Please visit this page for full details!
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!