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
Thank you to all who made the 2022 May EMF such a success: to all those at the venues for their invaluable help and support and for welcoming us so warmly; to the artists, for the energy and commitment of their performances; to all the volunteers who assisted with general administration, staffing the Box Office, stage-managing and stewarding, and without whose help running the Festival would simply not be possible; and, of course, to our audiences, whose enthusiasm and financial and moral support all continue to mean so much as live music-making returns and we begin to plan for the future.
The English Music Festival is delighted to return to magnificent Truro Cathedral on Saturday 9 July for a day of concerts. The programme, which includes Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending and choral works by Walton, Elgar and Orlando Gibbons, may be viewed on this page; and booking can be made through our Online Box Office.
If you would like more details about our Friends’ Scheme, please follow this link to our ‘Friends’ Scheme’ page for a description of the tiers and their benefits, together with information about how to join.