BLISS: Sonata for Piano and Violin
IRELAND: Sonata no.2 for Violin and Piano
ELGAR: Allegretto on GEDGE
PARRY: Freundschaftslieder for violin and piano
ELGAR: Sonata for Violin and Piano, op.82
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
PETER CARTWRIGHT | piano
COME AND SING
Audience members are invited to join THE CHOIR OF ST GEORGE’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSIC CHOIRS FROM SOUTH AFRICA, and YOUTH CHOIRS FROM SOWETO in the singing of much-loved hymns.
RICHARD PANTCHEFF | director
MARNUS GREYLING | organ
MUSIC AND NATURE: A CONCERT FOR THE GARDENS
PANTCHEFF: The Gardens of Love
World Première performance
BLACKFORD: Dreams and Spells
EM MARSHALL-LUCK | reciter
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
GIBBONS: Drop, drop, slow tears
TALLIS: If ye love me
PURCELL: Remember not, Lord, our offences
WILBYE: Adieu, sweet Amaryllis
MORLEY: Aprill is in my Mistris face
PURCELL: Rejoice in the Lord alway
MORLEY: Ay me, the fatal arrow
MORLEY: Now is the month of maying
FARMER: A little pretty bonny lass
FARMER: Fair Phyllis
PURCELL: Musick, for a while
PURCELL: Thou knowest, Lord
BYRD: Ave verum corpus
BILLY JOUBERT: Three Sonnets
LENNON/McCARTNEY: Can’t buy me love
LENNON/McCARTNEY: Yesterday
LENNON/McCARTNEY: With a little help from my friends
THE PARKTOWN SINGERS
MARNUS GREYLING | director
MORNING EUCHARIST
MASS SETTING | PANTCHEFF: Service of Holy Communion
COMMUNION MOTET | PURCELL: Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei
ORGAN VOLUNTARY | FLETCHER: A Festival Toccata
RICHARD PANTCHEFF | director
MARNUS GREYLING | organ
J.S. BACH: Partita in B minor for Solo Violin, BWV1002
ELGAR: Études caractéristiques
PHIBBS: Suite for Solo Violin
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
STANLEY: Voluntary in D minor, op.5 no.8
THALBEN-BALL: Elegy
PANTCHEFF: Chorale Prelude: Werde munter, mein Gemüte
GUILMANT: March on a Theme by Handel
ELGAR: Nimrod from Variations for Orchestra (“Enigma”)
WALTON: Crown Imperial
MARNUS GREYLING | organ
CHORAL EVENSONG
CHOIR INTROIT | RAMSBOTHAM: Abide with me
RESPONSES | PANTCHEFF: The St George’s Responses
PSALM SETTING | BAIRSTOW: Psalm 114
CANTICLES | STANFORD: Evening Canticles in C
CHOIR ANTHEM | PARRY: I was glad
RECESSIONAL MOTET | RUTTER: A Gaelic Blessing
ORGAN VOLUNTARY | COOK: Impromptu
RICHARD PANTCHEFF | director
MARNUS GREYLING | organ
ENGLISH MUSIC FOR WIND QUINTET
PURCELL: Suite from Abdelazer
STEPHENSON: Divertimento for Quintet
HOLST: Quintet in A-flat
PANTCHEFF: Nocturnus III
ARNOLD: Three Shanties for Wind Quintet
UMOYA ENSEMBLE
MALANÉ HOFMEYR-BURGER | flute
LESLEY STANSELL | oboe
CHRISNA SMITH | clarinet
PENELOPE IVES | bassoon
SHANNON ARMER | horn
Booking for the 2024 May EMF is now open to all. 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.