PRE-CONCERT TALK
Stand for Truth and Honour: Music and Poetry of the First World War
JOHN FRANCIS
DRINKS RECEPTION
for EMF Friends and Vice-Presidents
PARRY: Jerusalem
ARNELL: The New Age Overture
UK PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
BRIAN: Third English Suite
BUTTERWORTH: Fantasia for Orchestra (completed and orchestrated by Martin Yates)
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
Finzi: Cello Concerto
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
MARTIN YATES | conductor
RAPHAEL WALLFISCH | cello
F.S. KELLY: Sonata in G major for Violin and Piano (“Gallipoli”)
STEPHEN MATTHEWS: Sonata for Violin and Piano, op.130
ALWYN: Sonatina
PARRY: Sonata in D for Violin and Piano
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
MATTHEW RICKARD | piano
TOVEY: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, op.16
GERMAN: Romance
DUNHILL: Phantasy Suite, op.91
HURLSTONE: Four Characteristic Pieces
STANFORD: Three Intermezzi, op.13
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Six Studies in English Folksong
CHARLES O’BRIEN: Sonata
PETER CIGLERIS | clarinet
MARTIN COUSIN | piano
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Adrian Boult: Icon or Iconoclast?
PAUL GRAY
HOWELLS: God is gone up
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Two Part-Songs
BANTOCK: The Mermaid’s Croon
HARRIS: Faire is the heaven
WALTON: Where does the uttered music go?
HOWELLS: The House of the Mind
NAYLOR: Vox dicentis
FINZI: Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
HOWELLS: King of Glory
THE ELYSIAN SINGERS
SAM LAUGHTON | director
NOCTURNE: WORKS FOR PIANO BY LIONEL SAINSBURY
Cuban Dance no.1
Four Moments Musicaux
Nocturne, op.18
Prelude no.6
South American Suite, op.23
LIONEL SAINSBURY | piano
STERNDALE BENNETT: Quartet in G major
BUTTERWORTH: Suite for String Quartet
DELIUS: String Quartet
VILLIERS QUARTET
THE MUSIC OF THESE ISLANDS
New Jerusalem; Scarborough Fair; Early one morning; Wishes; Silent Noon; In the beginning; Now is the month of Maying; The Miller of Dee; Danny Boy; The Skye Boat Song; The water is wide; My love is like a red, red rose; The Lord’s my Shepherd; Jerusalem
ALBION
FRASER WILSON | director
PRE-CONCERT TALK
That precious legacy: Vaughan Williams and Essex Folk Song
SUE CUBBIN
STANFORD: Serenade-Nonet
BRITTEN: Sinfonietta
BAX: Nonet
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Nonet
ORCHESTRA OF ST PAUL’S
BEN PALMER | conductor
WHEN THEY SOUND THE LAST ALL-CLEAR: THE BRITISH WARTIME POPULAR SONG
ALFORD: Colonel Bogey
RUBENS: Your King and Country want you
BOX, COX, READ: In the quartermaster’s stores
CHESTER, NICHOLLS, MORGAN: Down Forget-me-not-Lane
COLIN, ALDRICH: If only I had wings
GAY, EATON: Let the people sing
WOOD: Roses of Picardy
GAY: There’s something about a soldier
COWARD: London Pride
CHARLES, ELTON: When they sound the last all-clear
NOBLE, CAMPBELL, CONNELLY: Goodnight, sweetheart
NEW FOXTROT SERENADERS
101 LIAISONS
ANON.: The Division Violin: Faronel’s Divisions on a Ground
DANIEL PURCELL: By silver Thames’ flow’ry side
HUME: My hope is decayed
HENRY PURCELL: Not all my torments
ANON.: Divisions in G minor
LAWES: Love’s dying passions
LAWES: Why soe pale and wan, fond lover?
HUME: Adue sweet love – be merry a day shall come
CROFT: Ground
HAYES: Jupiter and Europa
HOROLOGE
EMF LUNCH
Wine and non-alcoholic drink included
SMITH: Overure to The Fairies
DELIUS: Légende
PURCELL: Music for a while
JENKINS: White Bird: a Dartmoor ghost story in six scenes
MUDGE: Concerto Grosso no.5 in B-flat
RAWSTHORNE: Light Music for Strings
IRELAND: Cavatina
ARNE: The Sycamore Shade
ARNE: My heart’s my own
BISHOP: Weave, o weave me garlands gay
BRITTEN: Simple Symphony
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
PETER FISHER | violin
SUZANNE MANUELL | soprano
PRE-CONCERT TALK
A Unexpected Genre: the violin works of Hubert Parry
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK
MILFORD: Miniature Concerto in G
HURD: Shore Leave
BOUGHTON: Aylesbury Games
FINZI: Romance
BUTTERWORTH: Six songs from A Shropshire Lad
HOLST: St Paul’s Suite
SYMPHONIA ACADEMICA
DAVID BEAMAN | conductor
RODERICK WILLIAMS | baritone
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.
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