FINZI: God is gone up
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Silence and Music
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Greensleeves
HOWELLS: Salve Regina
HARRIS: Faire is the Heaven
HOLST: St Paul’s Suite
FINZI: Magnificat
TIPPETT: Little Music for Strings
HOWELLS: Nunc Dimittis
HARRIS: Bring us, O Lord God
BERKELEY: Serenade
DYSON: Hierusalem
VOX MUSICA
SOUTHBANK SINFONIA STRINGS
MICHAEL BERMAN | conductor
Piano music of BILLY MEYERL
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | piano
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Notturno after Bach
ELGAR: Concert Allegro
MOERAN: Irish Love Song
BAX: Piano Sonata no.2
QUILTER: Three Studies
QUILTER: Three Pieces for Piano
LAMBERT: Piano Sonata
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | piano
ELGAR: String Quartet
BRIDGE: Piano Quartet
RAWSTHORNE: String Quartet
BRIDGE QUARTET
MICHAEL DUSSEK | piano
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Some versions of pastoral: Havergal Brian’s English Suite
MALCOLM MacDONALD
PARRY: Jerusalem
CURTIS: Festival Overture
BRIAN: Reverie
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Willow Wood
ELGAR: The Sanguine Fan
DELIUS: Hiawatha
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
CLIFFE: Violin Concerto
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
DAVID LLOYD JONES | conductor
PHILLIPE GRAFFIN | violin
JEREMY HUW WILLIAMS | baritone
PARADISE ON EARTH
SPOFFORTH: Hail
BISHOP: Forresters
ANON.: England
HENRY VIII: Time to pass
WEBBE: My pockets low and taxes high
FREDERICK BRIDGE: Two Snails
ELGAR: As torrents in summer
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Through bushes and briars
MACFARREN: Orpheus with his lute
CORNYSH: Adieu, adieu
BENNET: Weep, O mine eyes
HORSLEY: Slow, slow, fresh fount
MORLEY: April is in my mistress’ face
PURCELL: Winter
STANFORD: Hush sweet lute
SULLIVAN: The long day closes
CAMPION: Never weather-beaten sail
PEARSALL: There is paradise
OXFORD LIEDERTAFEL
PARRY: Lady Radnor’s Suite
BRIDGE: Lament for Strings
HOLST: Fugal Concerto
ELGAR: Serenade for Strings
COPLEY: Divertimento
IRELAND: Concertino Pastorale
MUSICIANS OF ALL SANITS
ANDREW SHERWOOD | conductor
PRE-CONCERT TALK
“A Summer Evening”: writing Quilter’s biography
VALERIE LANGFIELD
PURCELL: Rejoice in the Lord
BOYCE: Symphony no.4 in F
PURCELL: Te Deum and Jubilate
ECCLES: Hymn to Harmony
CANNONS SCHOLARS
JOHN ANDREWS | conductor
THE HARP OF BONES
A programme of mediaeval and traditional English song – as ancient as the hills of faeries – demonstrating concerns of life, love and death that remain disturbingly contemporary
JOGLARESA
NO SAD SONGS
PURCELL: Crown
BUTTERWORTH: Look not in my eyes
BUTTERWORTH: Sowing the seeds of love
BUTTERWORTH: Is my team ploughing?
ROSE: White in the moon
WHITELEY: Drop, drop, slow tears
SWAYNE: No sad songs
GRAINGER: The Merry King
BRITTEN: The Nurse’s Song
GANT: Epitaph on S.P.
PHIPPS: The moon’s funeral
MAXWELL DAVIES: Farewell to Stromness
BRITTEN: If thou wilt ease thine heart
JAMES BOWMAN | countertenor
ANDREW PLANT | piano
LUNCH AND SEMINAR
Is there a future for the British choral tradition?
JAMES BOWMAN
BRIAN KAY
DR ANDREW PLANT
HILARY DAVAN WETTON
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Sun, Moon, Stars and Man
HOLST: Hymns from the Rig Veda
BRITTEN: Choral Dances from Gloriana
FOULDS: Keltic Lament
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Mass in G minor
CITY OF LONDON CHOIR
HILARY DAVAN WETTON | conductor
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.