Twentieth-century English piano music by HOWARD FERGUSON (including the Piano Sonata in F minor), ALAN RAWSTHORNE and LENNOX BERKELEY
ANTONY WILLIAMS | piano
DRINKS RECEPTION
for EMF Friends and Vice-Presidents
PARRY: Jerusalem
ALWYN: Derby Day
QUILTER: Serenade
BRIAN: Shadow Dance
MONTAGUE PHILLIPS: Piano Concerto no.1
MOERAN: Lonely Waters
YORK BOWEN: Symphony no.1
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
GAVIN SUTHERLAND | conductor
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | piano
BLISS: Sonata for Violin and Piano
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
WALFORD DAVIES: Sonata for Violin and Piano in A major
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
YORK BOWEN: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor, op.112
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
MATTHEW RICKARD | piano
PURCELL: Incidental music to Abdelazer
CARR: A Gentle Music
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
ELGAR: Elegy for Strings
GIBBS: Threnody
WARLOCK: Capriol Suite
ORCHESTRA OF ST PAUL’S
BEN PALMER | conductor
PRE-CONCERT TALK
“Where no-one shall me find...”: E.J. Moeran and Lonely Waters
BARRY MARSH
WOOD: Fathom Five
PEARSALL: Lay a Garland
STANFORD: Heraclitus
HOLST: I love my Love
FINZI: My spirit sang
ELGAR: My love dwelt in a northern land
ELGAR: As torrents in summer
BRIDGE: Five Part-Songs
HOLST: The Coming of Christ
CITY OF LONDON CHOIR
HILARY DAVAN WETTON | conductor
BYRD: Kyrie and Gloria (from the Four-Part Mass)
Trad. arr. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Bushes and Briars
PARRY: Love wakes
STANFORD: Hush sweet lute
ANON. (English, 15th century): There is no rose
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The sky above the roof
BENNET: Weep, O mine eyes
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fain would I change that note
English folksong, arr. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Dives and Lazarus
English folksong, arr. CHRISTOPHER LE FLEMING: O waly, waly
BYRD: Agnus Dei
English folksong: Searching for Lambs
English folksong, arr. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: This is the truth
OXFORD LIEDERTAFEL
TOVEY: Air and Variations
ARNELL: String Quartet no.3
BRITTEN: String Quartet no.1
TIPPETT QUARTET
BRITTEN: Ad majorem Dei gloriam
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Ca’ the yowes
STANFORD: The Blue Bird
ELGAR: Go, song of mine
BANTOCK: Three Settings of Alfred Hayes
HOWELLS: Requiem
ELYSIAN SINGERS
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Holst and Dharma: a composer’s path in life of assimilation, experimentation, gestation and development of ideas
NEIL WILLIAMS
DELIUS: Hassan
HOLST: Sāvitri
CITY OF CANTERBURY CHAMBER CHOIR
ORCHESTRA NOVA
GEORGE VASS | conductor
JANICE WATSON | soprano
MARK CHAUNDY | tenor
DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON | baritone
PAUL GUINERY | narrator
THE MURKY, MIDNIGHT HOUR
Ballads of darkness, the supernatural, faeries and, of course, love.
JOGLARESA
BELINDA SYKES | voice; director
MICK SANDS | voice; bodhran
STUART HALL | fiddle; guitar
JEAN KELLY | harp
TIM GARSIDE | dulcimer; voice; percussion
FINZI: Magnificat
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: O how amiable
IRELAND: Five Part-Songs
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Little Cloister
FINZI: Lo, the full final sacrifice
THE SYRED CONSORT
BEN PALMER | conductor
HOLST: Suite no.1 in E-flat
HOLST: A Moorside Suite (Suite no.2 in F)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Variations for Brass Band
BANTOCK: The Frogs
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: English Folk Song Suite
FLETCHER: An Epic Symphony
JAGUAR (COVENTRY) BAND
DAVE LEA | conductor
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Sullivan – without Gilbert
ROBIN WILSON
COME AND SING
SOMERVELL: Maud
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Mystical Songs
ELGAR: Songs from the Bavarian Highlands
BRIAN KAY | conductor
DAVID WILSON-JOHNSON | baritone
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.