2015 PROGRAMME
Friday 11 September
6.30pm
ST ANDREW’S CHURCH
Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, DL8 3SR

TALK
The English Music Festival

EM MARSHALL-LUCK

7.30pm
ST ANDREW’S CHURCH
Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, DL8 3SR

BLISS: Sonata for Piano and Violin

PARRY: Sonata in D major for Violin and Piano

ELGAR: Allegretto on GEDGE

HOLST: Five Pieces for Violin and Piano

ELGAR: Sonata in E minor for Violin and Piano, op.82

RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin

MATTHEW RICKARD | piano

Saturday 12 September
11.00am
THE CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST ALKELDA
Middleham, North Yorkshire, DL8 4PQ

BY DALE, MOOR AND MINSTER: A SEQUENCE OF ENGLISH ORGAN MUSIC

LEWIS: Fanfare for King Richard III

CAMIDGE: Gavotte in A minor

ELGAR: Vesper Voluntaries

BAIRSTOW: Evening Song

JACKSON: Arietta

FARRAR: Prelude and Variations on a Ground Bass, op.22

WALTON: Three Pieces from Richard III

DYSON: Three Variations on Old Psalm Tunes

DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | organ

2.15pm
THE CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST ALKELDA
Middleham, North Yorkshire, DL8 4PQ

COMPOSER PANEL DISCUSSION
Richard III Commissions

PAUL CARR

PAUL LEWIS

RICHARD PANTCHEFF

FRANCIS POTT

EM MARSHALL-LUCK

RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK

3.15pm
THE CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST ALKELDA
Middleham, North Yorkshire, DL8 4PQ

RICHARD III NEW COMMISSIONS CONCERT

SAINSBURY: Soliloquy

CARR: Sonatina: On the Reburial of King Richard III
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE

LEWIS: Threnody for Violin: The Most Famous Prince of Blessed Memory
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE

PANTCHEFF: Suite: King Richard III
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE

POTT: Tenebrae
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE

RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin

EM MARSHALL-LUCK | reciter

7.30pm
THE CHURCH OF ST MARY AND ST ALKELDA
Middleham, North Yorkshire, DL8 4PQ

A programme of choral works, from folk songs and love songs to an Easter antiphon and a 2015 commission on a Quaker text

ANTIPHON

Sunday 13 September
3.15pm
ST OSWALD’S CHURCH
Thornton Steward, North Yorkshire, HG4 4BB

TOVEY: Sonata eroica

ELGAR: Études caracteristiques

BACH: Partita no.3 for Solo Violin, BWV 1006

RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin

7.30pm
ST ANDREW’S CHURCH
Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, DL8 3SR

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Mystical Songs

FINZI: Earth and Air and Rain

BUTTERWORTH: Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Songs of Travel

PHILIP LANCASTER | baritone

DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | piano

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.