PRE-CONCERT TALK
Walton, Lambert and the Sitwells
WILLIAM SITWELL
DIANA SPARKES
DRINKS RECEPTION
for EMF Friends and Vice-Presidents
PARRY: Jerusalem
CAPEL BOND: Trumpet Concerto in D
WARLOCK: The Curlew
LAMBERT: Concerto for Piano and Nine Instruments
WALTON: Façade
ORCHESTRA OF ST PAUL’S
BEN PALMER | conductor
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | piano
DAVID WEBB | tenor
WILLIAM SITWELL | reciter
BRIAN KAY | reciter
MILFORD: Songs of Escape
FINZI: Seven Part-Songs
RAWSTHORNE: Four Seasonal Songs
WOOD: This Quiet Night
WOOD: The Phynodderee
HOLST: Four Part-Songs
THE SYRED CONSORT
BEN PALMER | conductor
BRITTEN: Fanfare for St Edmondsbury
BAX: Fanfare for a Pompous Circumstance
BLISS: Royal Fanfares
BLISS: Farnaby Tower Hill and other Ditties: Suite for Brass
PURCELL: Old One Hundredth
ELGAR: Chanson de Matin
BYRD: Earl of Oxford’s March
ARNOLD: Symphony for Brass
ELGAR: Severn Suite
WELLS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL BRASS DECTET
PRE-CONCERT TALK
“An infinite variety of things”: Elgar’s Second Symphony – disappointment and triumph
ANDREW NEILL
DELIUS: On hearing the first cuckoo
DELIUS: Summer Night on the River
BRITTEN: The Sword in the Stone
BAINTON: An English Idyll
PICKARD: The Burning of the Leaves
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
SULLIVAN: Complete incidental music to Macbeth
ESO
JOHN ANDREWS | conductor
JAMES RUTHERFORD | baritone
LULLAY MI CHILDE
From instrumental dances to Middle English lullabyes, Joglaresa presents a programme of music ranging from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Exploring the Middle English lyric, they perform songs such as Maid in the Moor Lay, Lullay Lullow and Worldes blis ne last no throwe with voices, harps, fidel and percussion.
JOGLARESA
BELINDA SYKES | voice; bagpipes
RUTH FRASER | voice; harp
JEAN KELLY | harp; fidel
TIM GARSIDE | percussion; voice
STANFORD: String Quartet no.3 in D minor
O’NEILL: Piano Quintet
ELGAR: Piano Quintet
BRIDGE QUARTET
MICHAEL DUSSEK | piano
YORK BOWEN: Selection from Preludes in all Twenty-Four Major and Minor Keys, op.102
YORK BOWEN: Piano Sonata no.5 in F minor, op.72
DALE: Piano Sonata in D minor
DANNY DRIVER | piano
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Directions in English music of the 1920s: Walton, Bliss, Bridge and others
FABIAN HUSS
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Festival Te Deum
HOLST: When first we met
HOLST: Sorrow and joy
HOLST: Love on my heart
GARDNER: Sinfonia Piccola
HOLST: Brook Green Suite
HOLST: Nunc Dimittis
HOLST: Two Psalms
GARDNER: O clap your hands
HOWELLS: English Mass
CITY OF LONDON CHOIR
THE HOLST ORCHESTRA
HILARY DAVAN WETTON | conductor
STEPHEN FARR | organ
Jazz improvisations on works by FINZI, DELIUS, WALTON and VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
AVALON TRIO
HOWELLS: Sonata for Violin and Piano no.2 in E-flat major
WORLD PREMIÈRE OF NEW EDITION BY PAUL SPICER
SAINSBURY: Mirage
CARR: Sonatina
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
GURNEY: Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-flat major
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
MATTHEW RICKARD | piano
TALLIS: Haer the voice and prayer
TALLIS: A new commandment
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Take, o take those lips away
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Orpheus with his lute
MACFARREN: When daisies pied
WILBYE: As matchless beauty
BYRD: The eagle’s force
TALLIS: Like as the doleful dove
TALLIS: Verily, verily I say unto you
TALLIS: If ye love me
MUNDY: He that hath my commandments
HATTON: Over hill, over dale
MACFARREN: Orpheus with his lute
WEBBE: Who is Sylvia?
FARMER: Fair Phyllis
STEVENS: Crabbed age and youth
DOWLAND: His golden locks
MACFARREN: Fear no more
CAMPION: Never weather-beaten sail
MUNDY: Now let us laud
OXFORD LIEDERTAFEL
PRIVATE CD LAUNCH
ALBION RECORDS
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
DELIUS: Walk to the Paradise Garden
YORK BOWEN: Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
HOLST: Egdon Heath
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Garden of Proserpine
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JOYFUL COMPANY OF SINGERS
DAVID HILL | conductor
JANE IRWIN | soprano
RAPHAEL WALLFISCH | cello
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.