PRE-CONCERT TALK
Arthur Sullivan: a Victorian musician
STEPHEN TURNBULL
HOLST: Walt Whitman Overture
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Norfolk Rhapsody no.1
BRIDGE: Oration
HOLST: Invocation
SULLIVAN: Irish Symphony
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
DAVID LLOYD JONES | conductor
JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER | cello
SILVER SOUNDS AND MOODY FOOD
Music in Shakespeare’s London
THE DUFAY COLLECTIVE
W.H. REED: Rhapsody
ASHTON: Sonata for Viola and Piano
DALE: Suite for Viola and Piano
PAUL SILVERTHORNE | viola
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | director
WILLIAM, MONK OF STRATFORD: Magnificat
DAVY: St Matthew Passion, Part I
BROWNE: Jesu, mercy, how can this be?
CORNYSH: Ave Maria, Mater Dei
DAVY: St Matthew Passion, Part II
BROWNE: Stabat Mater
TONUS PEREGRINUS
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Gustav Holst: a man of our time
RAYMOND HEAD
ELGAR: Serenade for Strings
HOLST: Cotswolds Symphony
LORD BERNERS: Luna Park
YORK BOWEN: Viola Concerto
NEW LONDON ORCHESTRA
RONALD CORP | conductor
PAUL SILVERTHORNE | viola
FINZI: Before and after summer
BRITTEN: Songs and Proverbs of William Blake
HOWARD WONG | baritone
HEIN BOTERBERG | piano
ELGAR: Piano music
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | piano
HOLST: The Evening Watch
HOLST: Nunc dimittis
HOLST: Ave Maria
HOLST: This have I done for my true love
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Three Shakespeare Songs
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Spring Time of the Year
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Just as the tide was flowing
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The lover’s ghost
BAX: Mater ora Filium
DELIUS: On Craig Dhu
DELIUS: Wanderer’s Song
DELIUS: Midsummer Song
DELIUS: To be sung of a summer night on the water
CC21
PAUL GUINERY | reciter
PRE-CONCERT TALK
“Under the shadowing wings of Death”: English composers and the First World War
PHILIP LANCASTER
HOLST: Two Psalms
BRITTEN: Simple Symphony
WESLEY: Symphony no.5 in E-flat
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Oxford Elegy
CITY OF LONDON CHOIR
MILTON KEYNES CITY ORCHESTRA
HILARY DAVAN WETTON | conductor
JEREMY IRONS | reciter
Lute and guitar music
ROB MacKILLOP
BRITTEN: Sonata in C, op.65
IRELAND: Sonata in G minor
LLOYD WEBBER: In the half light
LLOYD WEBBER: Nocturne
DELIUS: Sonata for Cello and Piano in one movement
JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER | cello
JOHN LENEHAN | piano
DUNHILL: Phantasy Trio
BAX: Piano Quartet
YORK BOWEN: Piano Trio in E minor
MOERAN: Trio in G
ENDYMION
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Bridging the Gap
PHILIP LANE
BRITTEN: Canticles 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
DAVID OWEN NORRIS: Prayerbook
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
OXFORD BACH CHOIR
NICHOLAS CLEOBURY | conductor
MICHAEL CHANCE | countertenor
CHARLES DANIELS | tenor
PETER SAVIDGE | baritone
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | piano
Songs by DOWLAND, CAMPION, PURCELL, DANIELL and LAWES
MICHAEL CHANCE | countertenor
ARMSTRONG GIBBS: Prelude, Andante and Finale
RUTTER: Suite
HOLST: Brook Green Suite
ORR: Cotswold Hill Tune
BRIDGE: Suite for Strings
HOLST: St Paul’s Suite
SOUTHERN SINFONIA
PRE-CONCERT TALK
“Let’s to billiards”: Constant Lambert
STEPHEN LLOYD
FINZI: Eclogue
FOULDS: Indian Suite
LAMBERT: Piano Concerto
FINZI: Intimations of Immortality
NEW LONDON ORCHESTRA
LONDON CHORUS
RONALD CORP | conductor
JAMES GILCHRIST | tenor
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | piano
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.
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