2017 PROGRAMME
Friday 6 October
7.30pm
ST ANDREW’S CHURCH
Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, DL8 3SR

STANFORD: Piano Trio no.2 in G minor, op.73

IRELAND: Piano Trio no.2 in one movement

HOLST: Short Pianoforte Trio in E major

MOERAN: Piano Trio in D major

RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin

JOSEPH SPOONER | cello

DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | piano

Saturday 7 October
11.00am
ST ANDREW’S CHURCH
Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, DL8 3SR

ALWYN: Sonata alla Toccata

DELIUS: Three Preludes

HOWELLS: Sonatina

MILFORD: Prelude, Air and Finale

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Hymn Tune Prelude on “Song 13” (Orlando Gibbons)

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lake in the Mountains

IRELAND: Sarnia: an Island Sequence

DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | piano

3.00pm
ST ANDREW’S CHURCH
Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, DL8 3SR

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Six Studies in English Folk Song

DELIUS: Sonata

LLOYD WEBBER: Nocturne

SCOTT: Pastoral and Reel

FOGG: Poem

ALWYN: Two Folk Tunes

IRELAND: Sonata

JOSEPH SPOONER | cello

REBECA OMORDIA | piano

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

HOWELLS: Sonata for Violin and Piano no.1

BRIAN: Legend

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Sonata for Violin and Piano

PHIBBS: Notturno for Violin and Piano

DELIUS: Sonata no.2 for Violin and Piano

IRELAND: Sonata no.1 for Violin and Piano

RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin

DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | piano

Sunday 8 October
3.00pm
ST ANDREW’S CHURCH
Aysgarth, North Yorkshire, DL8 3SR

BACH: Sonata for Solo Violin in G minor, BWV 1001

PANTCHEFF: Sonata for Violin and Organ

BACH: Partita for Solo Violin in B minor, BWV 1002

RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin

DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | organ

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

MOERAN: Loveliest of Trees

BUTTERWORTH: The lads in their hundreds

ORR: Along the Field

IRELAND: In Boyhood

SOMERVELL: Into my heart an air that kills

DELIUS: Spring, the sweet Spring

DELIUS: The Violet

DELIUS: To Daffodils

IRELAND: The Trellis

FINZI: Let us garlands bring

ARMSTRONG GIBBS: Old wine in new bottles

ARMSTRONG GIBBS: Silver

HOWELLS: The Valley of Silence

HOWELLS: When the dew is falling

HOWELLS: When there is peace

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The House of Life

CHRISTOPHER FOSTER | bass

KATHRYN MOSLEY | 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.