2013 PROGRAMME
Friday 20 September
7.30pm
PITTVILLE PUMP ROOM
Cheltenham, GL52 3JE

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

Saturday 21 September
10.30am
ST LAURENCE’S CHURCH
Wyck Rissington, GL54 2PN

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

1.00pm
SLAUGHTERS COUNTRY INN
Lower Slaughter, GL54 2HS

EMF FESTIVAL LUNCH

3.30pm
ST LAURENCE’S CHURCH
Wyck Rissington, GL54 2PN

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

7.30pm
ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH
Cheltenham, GL52 5HA

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

LATEST NEWS

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.