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
We are delighted to announce that ticket booking for the 2025 English Music Festival is now open to all. As usual, we are offering a 10% discount to local residents and to members of selected Composer Societies. Please follow this link for the online Box Office.
The full programme for the 2025 English Music Festival, can be viewed in full on this page. This year, all our events will once again be held in Dorchester-on-Thames, with the concerts taking place in the glorious surroundings of Dorchester Abbey and the talks in the historic Village Hall.
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