BLISS: Sonata for Piano and Violin
HOWELLS: Sonata no.3 in E minor for Violin and Piano
ALWYN: Sonatina
ELGAR: Sonata for Violin and Piano, op.82
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | piano
IRELAND: Sonatina
DYSON: Primrose Mount
DYSON: Four Preludes
BAINTON: Willows
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
BAINTON: The Making of the Nightingale
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
BAINTON: Visions
ARMSTRONG GIBBS: Ballade in D-flat
BAX: Piano Sonata no.2
DUNCAN HONEYBOURNE | piano
BLOW: Lysander, I pursue in vain
PURCELL: Music for a while
PURCELL: Bess of Bedlam
FROBERGER: Lamentations
ECCLES: I burn, my brain consumes to ashes
HUMFREY: A Hymn to God the Father
PURCELL: Not all my torments
HANDEL: Sarai contenta un dì
PURCELL: How long, great God?
PURCELL: Evening Hymn
HANDEL: Occhi miei, che faceste?
PURCELL: From rosy bow’rs
BETHANY SEYMOUR | soprano
PETER SEYMOUR | harpsichord
PURCELL: Funeral Sentences
PURCELL: Remember not, Lord, our offences
PURCELL: I was glad
PURCELL: Hear my Prayer, O Lord
PURCELL: Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei!
PURCELL: O Dive custos
PURCELL: Evening Hymn
PURCELL: The Blessed Virgin’s Expostulation
PURCELL: How long, great God?
BLOW: Salvator mundi
BLOW: Behold, O God our Defender
BLOW: Epicedium for Queen Mary
YORKSHIRE BACH CHOIR
PETER SEYMOUR | conductor; harpsichord
FINZI: Earth and Air and Rain, op.15
GURNEY: Snow
GURNEY: Desire in Springtime
TRIMBLE: Green Rain
GURNEY: The Fiddler of Dooney
WARLOCK: The Fox
WARLOCK: Jillian of Berry
IRELAND: Three Songs to Poems by Thomas Hardy
IRELAND: The Trellis
IRELAND: My true love hath my heart
DELIUS: The Bird’s Song
DELIUS: I-Brasil
ELIZABETH THOMPSON | soprano
LORNA DAY | mezzo-soprano
PETER LIDBETTER | bass-baritone
DAVID JONES | piano
HOLBROOKE: Come, let us make love deathless
HOLBROOKE: I came at morn
HOLBROOKE: Homeland
HOLBROOKE: Killary
HOLST: selection from Twelve Humbert Wolfe Songs
LAMBERT: Trois pièces nègres pour les touches blanches
WALTON: Siesta
LAMBERT: Eight Poems by Li Po
WALTON (arr. Constant Lambert): Façade Suites no.s 1 and 2
JAMES GEER | tenor
ANDREW WEST | piano
RONALD WOODLEY | piano
We invite you to celebrate A White Christmas with EMF regulars The New Foxtrot Serenaders on 14 December at St Lawrence’s Church, Chobham. Full details of this event may be found on this page; and tickets can be purchased through our Events Box Office.
We are tremendously excited to be bringing the EMF to South Africa in a long weekend of events based in and around St George’s Anglican Church, Parktown, in Johannesburg. This wonderful city offers many excellent venues and performers, as well as a great interest in music. The forthcoming Festival – which will see British artists collaborating with local Johannesburg musicians – will, we believe, be rewarding and culturally enriching both for the EMF and for music-lovers in the area. The Festival will take place between 14 and 16 February 2020.
The programme for the South African EMF is now published on this page. Booking – through our online Box Office – will open on 11 December.
Thank you to all who contributed to the 2019 Autumn Festival: to those at St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth, for their warm hospitality and invaluable help; to the artists, for their superb 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 event, some of whom travelled a considerable distance to be with us. We are currently considering possibilities for the 2020 Festival, which, perhaps, will take place slightly earlier, at the end of August. Please visit this page soon for more details!
Thank you to all who made the 2019 Oxfordshire EMF such a success! We are looking forward to the 2020 Festival and already have a range of exciting concerts planned. The full programme will be available on 1 January 2020, with tickets going on sale in early March.
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!