PARRY: Jerusalem
HOLBROOKE: Birds of Rhiannon
RAWSTHORNE: Practical Cats
MACKENZIE: Benedictus
BANTOCK: Celtic Symphony
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
BARRY WORDSWORTH | conductor
JEREMY NICHOLAS | narrator
SULLIVAN: Sacred music
THE SULLIVAN SINGERS
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | director
IAN PARTRIDGE | tenor
TALK
Stage or sanctuary? Assessing Sullivan’s hymn tunes and sacred music
IAN BRADLEY
ELGAR: There is sweet music
FINZI: Romance
HOLST: Ave Maria
FINZI: Welcome sweet and sacred feast
ELGAR: Serenade for Strings
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Lord, Thou hast been our refuge
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Concerto Accademico
HOLST: Nunc Dimittis
HOWELLS: Serenade for Strings
FINZI: Magnificat
VOX MUSICA
SOUTHBANK SINFONIA STRINGS
PRE-CONCERT TALK
The Consumate Anthologist
GILES EASTERBROOK
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Te Deum
O’NEILL: Pastorale
BRIDGE: Suite for Strings
HOLST: Brook Green Suite
BLISS: Pastoral
CITY OF LONDON CHOIR
MILTON KEYNES CITY ORCHESTRA
HILARY DAVAN WETTON | conductor
Piano music by BILLY MEYERL
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | piano
PURCELL arr. BRITTEN: Chacony
ALWYN: Three Winter Poems
BRIDGE: Rhapsody for two violins and viola
DELIUS: Late Swallows
BRIDGE: String Quartet no.2
BRIDGE QUARTET
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
FINZI: Clarinet Concerto
IRELAND: Downland Suite
ELGAR: Introduction and Allegro
AMARETTI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
PRE-CONCERT TALK
English romantic music and literature
JOHN LEEMAN
ARNE: Symphony no.4
LINLEY: In yonder grove
ARNE: The Judgement of Paris
CANNONS SCHOLARS
JOHN ANDREWS | conductor
AL MANERE MINSTRELSY
THE DUFAY COLLECTIVE
Songs by BRITTEN, QUILTER, PURCELL, ELGAR, VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, HANDEL, SULLIVAN and others
JAMES BOWMAN | countertenor
ANDREW SWAIT | treble
ANDREW PLANT | piano
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: String Quartet no.2
MOERAN: String Quartet in E-flat
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: String Quartet no.1
CARDUCCI QUARTET
PRE-CONCERT TALK
“O for a muse of fire”: Dyson and his Agincourt
PAUL SPICER
DYSON: Agincourt
DYSON: Prelude and Postlude
DYSON: Voluntary in D
DYSON: Fantasia and Ground Bass
ELGAR: The Banner of St George
ANDOVER CHORAL SOCIETY
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | conductor
HOLBROOKE: Fantasia-Sonate no.1 (The Haunted Palace)
HOLBROOKE: Rhapsody-Études
HOLBROOKE: Barrage
HOLBROOKE: Fantasie-Sonate no.2 (Destiny)
PANAGIOTIS TROCHOPOULOS | piano
DELIUS: Légende
DELIUS: Sonata
ALWYN: Sonatina
BRITTEN: Suite, op.6
PHILIPPE GRAFFIN | violin
MARISA GUPTA | piano
PRE-CONCERT TALK
“My friends call me Jack”: the legacy of E.J. Moeran
BARRY MARSH
EMF NEW COMMISSIONS CONCERT
MATTHEW CURTIS: Festival Overture
PAUL CARR: Oboe Concerto
CECELIA McDOWALL: The skies in their magnificence
RONALD CORP: Jubilate
PHILIP LANE: LYRIC DANCES
DAVID OWEN NORRIS: Piano Concerto
SOUTHERN SINFONIA
LONDON CHORUS
RONALD CORP | conductor
NICHOLAS DANIEL | oboe
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.
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.