TALK
The English Music Festival
EM MARSHALL-LUCK
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
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
COMPOSER PANEL DISCUSSION
Richard III Commissions
PAUL CARR
PAUL LEWIS
RICHARD PANTCHEFF
FRANCIS POTT
EM MARSHALL-LUCK
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK
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
A programme of choral works, from folk songs and love songs to an Easter antiphon and a 2015 commission on a Quaker text
ANTIPHON
TOVEY: Sonata eroica
ELGAR: Études caracteristiques
BACH: Partita no.3 for Solo Violin, BWV 1006
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
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
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.