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
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!