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
Our warmest thanks to all those who made our first Festival at Dartington Hall such a success: to the staff at Dartington, whose help and advice in the months and weeks leading up to the Festival were invaluable and whose support during the Festival itself meant so much to us. Our warmest thanks, too, to our artists, for performing with such dedication; to our all our volunteers; and, of course, to our audiences, who supported the Festival’s move to a new venue with such enthusiasm. Finally, we are hugely grateful to all those living locally who were so positive about the Festival's presence in Devon and who circulated news of the EMF, distributed publicity material, and hosted artists and volunteers: your support is immensely appreciated.
We are delighted to announce that The English Music Festival will be making Dartington Hall its new home, and we are greatly looking forward to developing the relationships in Devon that we began to build this year as the EMF begins an exciting new chapter. The 2027 EMF will be our twentieth anniversary and we are planning a very special programme to mark the start of our third decade. Further details will be released during the autumn — when we will also be unveiling our new, re-designed and improved website. We look forward to the pleasure of your company at the EMF next year!