YORKSHIRE EMF SOIRÉE WITH PROSECCO AND CANAPÉS
J.S. BACH: Partita in E major for solo violin, BWV1006
PAUL LEWIS: Le Morte d’Arthur
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
ALAN RIDOUT: Ferdinand the Bull
EM MARSHALL-LUCK | reciter
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
YORKSHIRE FILM SCORE
YEHONATAN CHEKHAVOVICH: Routes to our Roots
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCEROCCO GREPPI: The Swing Trio
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
BRIAN MORALES: To this great Land
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
E.J. MOERAN: Prelude
E.J. MOERAN: Piano Trio in D major
Performance with simultaneous film screening of the three winning scores of the EMF Young Composers’ Film Music Competition. The films, newly commissioned by the EMF from the Yorkshire Film Archive, present black-and-white and early colour archive material about landscape, agriculture and transport in the Dales, with many recognisable scenes of Aysgarth, Hawes, Richmond, Castle Bolton and the surrounding areas.
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
JOSEPH SPOONER | cello
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | piano
1918: WAR’S EMBERS AND ECHOES OF A DYING AGE
SIR HUBERT PARRY: Shulbrede Tunes
SIR ARTHUR BLISS: Elegy (FKB Thiepval 1916)
JOHN IRELAND: London Pieces
FREDERICK DELIUS: Three Preludes
ARMSTRONG GIBBS: An Essex Rhapsody
WILLIAM ALWYN: Three Preludes
ERNEST FARRAR: Waltz
FRANK BRIDGE: Sonata
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | piano
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: It was a lover and his lass
FREDERICK DELIUS: So white, so soft, so sweet is she; To Daffodils
GERALD FINZI: Come away, death; Fear no more the heat o’ the sun; Who is Silvia?
ROGER QUILTER: Weep you no more, sad fountains
IVOR GURNEY: Under the Greenwood Tree; Spring; Sleep
WILLIAM BROWNE: To Gratiana dancing and singing
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Vagabond; Let Beauty Awake
FREDERICK DELIUS: Twilight fancies
JOSEPH HAYDN: The Sailor’s Song
JOHN IRELAND: Sea Fever; Hope the Hornblower
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silent Noon
IVOR GURNEY: I will go with my Father a-ploughing
Trad. arr. BENJAMIN BRITTEN: The Ploughboy
PETER WARLOCK: My own Country
ARMSTRONG GIBBS: Silver; Five Eyes
ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC SONGSTERS
OLIVIA CARRELL | soprano
KAMIL BIEN | tenor
LIAM McNALLY | baritone
MASTERPIECES OF THE ENGLISH GOLDEN AGE
WILLIAM BYRD: Mass for four voices; Laetentur coeli; Ne irascaris; Domine / Civitas sancti tui; Sing joyfully; Miserere mei; Ave verum Corpus; Justorum animae; Haec dies
THOMAS TALLIS: If ye love me; O nata lux; Salvator mundi
THOMAS TOMKINS: When David heard
ORLANDO GIBBONS: Almighty and everlasting God
THOMAS WEELKES: When David heard
YORKSHIRE BACH CHOIR
HERBERT HOWELLS: Lambert’s Clavichord
HERBERT HOWELLS: Howells’s Clavichord
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | clavichord
JOSEPH PHIBBS: Suite for solo violin
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES: Sonata for Violin Alone
RICHARD PANTCHEFF: Introduction and Allegro
UK PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
ALAN GIBBS: Enigma Duet for violin and cello
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Suite no.3 for solo cello
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
JOSEPH SPOONER | cello
PAUL LEWIS: Le Morte d’Arthur
RICHARD BLACKFORD: Dreams and Spells for solo violin and narrator
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
RICHARD PANTCHEFF: To Autumn
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
EM MARSHALL-LUCK | reciter
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
Booking for the 2020 Oxfordshire EMF is now open to all. As usual, we are offering a 10% discount on concert ticket and Pass prices to local residents; and, once again, we are collaborating with The White Hart Hotel in Dorchester-on-Thames to bring audience members EMF pre-concert dinners. Please visit our online Box Office to book your tickets.
Thank you to all who made the 2020 Johannesburg EMF such a success: to those at Brenthurst Gardens, Glenshiel and St George’s Church for their warm hospitality and invaluable help; to the artists, for their outstanding performances of some wonderful music; to the volunteers who staffed the Box Office, undertook Front-of-House duties, and served refreshments; and, of course, to the audience members for supporting the weekend’s events.
We are currently in discussion regarding possibilities for the 2021 Johannesburg EMF. If you would like to support us and help make this a reality, please do consider joining the South African EMF Friends’ Scheme. Your contribution will be most warmly appreciated. If you would like to be kept informed of the Festival’s return to South Africa, please email the Festival Director, Em Marshall-Luck, at em.marshall-luck@englishmusicfestival.org.uk to be added to our Johannesburg EMF mailing list.
We are delighted to announce that the programme for the 2020 Oxfordshire EMF is now published, with important world premières of works by composers including Elgar and Delius; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s superb (and too-rarely-performed) Violin Concerto; large-scale choral concerts; intimate chamber recitals; and late-night piano and dance-band music. Please visit this page for full details!
If you would like more details about our Friends’ Scheme, please follow this link to our newly reinstated ‘Friends’ Scheme’ page for a description of the tiers and their benefits, together with information about how to join.
Our recording arm, EM Records, has released a number of exciting new recordings, including a triple-disc set of Parry’s complete works for violin and piano and a disc of searingly beautiful choral works by Paul Carr and others. Please visit the EM Records website for full details of these and others!