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
Our warmest thanks to all those who made our first Festival at Dartington Hall such a success: to the staff at Dartington, whose help and advice in the months and weeks leading up to the Festival were invaluable and whose support during the Festival itself meant so much to us. Our warmest thanks, too, to our artists, for performing with such dedication; to our all our volunteers; and, of course, to our audiences, who supported the Festival’s move to a new venue with such enthusiasm. Finally, we are hugely grateful to all those living locally who were so positive about the Festival's presence in Devon and who circulated news of the EMF, distributed publicity material, and hosted artists and volunteers: your support is immensely appreciated.
We are delighted to announce that The English Music Festival will be making Dartington Hall its new home, and we are greatly looking forward to developing the relationships in Devon that we began to build this year as the EMF begins an exciting new chapter. The 2027 EMF will be our twentieth anniversary and we are planning a very special programme to mark the start of our third decade. Further details will be released during the autumn — when we will also be unveiling our new, re-designed and improved website. We look forward to the pleasure of your company at the EMF next year!