GEORGE BUTTERWORTH CELEBRATION CONCERT
BUTTERWORTH: Two English Idylls
BUTTERWORTH: Rhapsody: A Shropshire Lad
BUTTERWORTH: Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad (orch. Russman)
BUTTERWORTH: Love blows as the wind blows
BUTTERWORTH: The Banks of Green Willow
BUTTERWORTH: Fantasia for Orchestra (unfinished)
BUTTERWORTH CENTENARY ENSEMBLE
JOHN LUBBOCK | conductor
STEPHEN CLARKE | conductor
HANNAH NYE | soprano
JOHNNY HERFORD | baritone
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Aims, origins and successes of the EMF
EM MARSHALL-LUCK
PARRY: Jerusalem
LEWIS: An Optimistic Overture
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
MATTHEWS: Norfolk March
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
DELIUS: Three Small Tone-Poems
Summer Evening; Winter Night (Sleigh Ride); Spring Morning
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Petite Suite de Concert
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fat Knight
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
MARTIN YATES | conductor
MUSIC OF THE REALM
BYRD: O Lord, make Thy servant Elizabeth our Queen
TALLIS: O sacrum convivium
TOMKINS: When David heard
WEELKES: O Jonathan
MORLEY: O amica mea
GIBBONS: Lift up your heads
DRAYTON: Canzonetta
MORLEY: Hard by a crystal fountain
BYRD: Ye sacred muses
TOMKINS: See, see the shepherd’s queen
WEELKES: Like two proud armies
GIBBONS: The silver swan
Trad. arr. GRAINGER: Brigg Fair
Trad. arr. ROBERTS: Scarborough Fair
Trad. arr. LANGFORD: The Oak and the Ash
QUEEN’S SIX
SHAKESPEARE IN SONG
WARLOCK: Pretty Ring Time
MORLEY: It was a lover and his lass
HUMFREY: Where the bee sucks
WILSON: Lawn as white as driven snow
GURNEY: Under the Greenwood Tree
ARNE: When daisies pied
SULLIVAN: Sigh no more, ladies
SHEARING: Fie on sinful fantasy
WALTON: Passcaglia: The death of Falstaff
QULITER: Take, o take those lips away
CHILCOT: Pardon, Goddess of the night
DRING: Come away, Death
Trad.: The Willow Song
PARRY: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Orpheus with his lute
HARRIS: Storm Scene
STOKER: Come unto these yellow sands
IN VOICE AND VERSE
BELINDA YATES | soprano
HEATHER CHAMBERLAIN | keyboard
LANCE PIERSON | actor
PRE-CONCERT TALK
William Sterndale Bennett: A beacon of hope for English music?
BARRY STERNDALE BENNETT
GILLINGWATER: Overture: Ad Fontem
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
ELGAR: Salut d’Amour
SHERWOOD: Concerto for Violin and Cello
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending
ELGAR: Serenade for Strings
PARRY: Lady Radnor Suite
ENGLISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JOHN ANDREWS | conductor
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
JOSEPH SPOONER | cello
A concert of English rustic country dance music, traditional and composed
OLD SWAN BAND
PURCELL (arr. TIPPETT): If music be the food of love
ARNE: On a day, alack the day
ADDISON: O mistress mine
PARRY: O mistress mine
GERMAN: Orpheus with his lute
GURNEY: Come away, Death (unpublished)
QUILTER: Come away, Death
STANFORD: The rain it raineth every day
COATES: Sigh no more, ladies
BALFOUR GARDINER: Winter
IRELAND: When daffodils begin to peer
TIPPETT: Songs for Ariel
Come unto these yellow sands; Full fathom five; Where the bee sucks
BRITTEN: Fancie
DRING: Crabbed age and youth
RICHARD EDGAR-WILSON | tenor
DAVID OWEN NORRIS | piano
EMF LUNCH
Wine and non-alcoholic drink included
VENABLES: In Memoriam IBG
GURNEY: Sonata for Cello and Piano
VENABLES: At Malvern
VENABLES: It Rains
DELIUS: Caprice and Elegy
JOHN FRITH: Eden
ALWYN: Mountain Scenes
HURLSTONE: Sonata for Cello and Piano
RICHARD JENKINSON | cello
BENJAMIN FRITH | piano
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Brighter visions: The life and music of Ivor Gurney
IAN VENABLES
RAWSTHORNE: Light Music for Strings
ELGAR: Elegy
STERNDALE BENNETT: Two Part-Songs
Come live with me and be my love; Sweet stream
BRIAN: Two Part-Songs
Blow, blow, thou winter wind; Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
HOWELLS: A Spotless Rose
DANKWORTH: Two Part-Songs
Sleep on; Jenny kissed me
LENNOX BERKELEY: Serenade for Strings
BLISS: Pastoral
CITY OF LONDON CHOIR
THE HOLST ORCHESTRA
HILARY DAVON WETTON | conductor
MARTA FONTANALS-SIMMONS | mezzo-soprano
EMMA HALNAN | flute
BRITISH POPULAR SONGS FROM STAGE, SCREEN AND WIRELESS
Leaning on a lamppost; On the crest of a wave; Mad dogs and Englishmen; Smile; Ali Baba’s camel; The very thought of you; Hindustan; Roll on tomorrow; Poor little rich girl; Lady of Spain; The sunshine of your smile; I’d do anything; Startime; It’s never too late to fall in love
NEW FOXTROT SERENADERS
HOWELLS: King David
QUILTER: Three Shakespeare Songs, op.6
ELGAR: Sea Pictures
FINZI: Let us garlands bring
WARLOCK: An Old Song
WARLOCK: Let us consider
BRIDGE: Coleridge settings
Thy hand in mine; Where she lies asleep; Love went a-riding
KATHRYN RUDGE | mezzo-soprano
JAMES BAILLIEU | piano
HOLST: Suite no.1 in E-flat
HOROVITZ: Euphonium Concerto
HOWELLS: Pageantry
ARNOLD: The Padstow Lifeboat
ELGAR: Severn Suite
ALWYN: The Moor of Venice
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Prelude on three Welsh hymn-tunes
JAGUAR LAND ROVER BAND
DAVE LEA | conductor
PRE-CONCERT TALK
William Hurlstone: our missing heritage
JOHN HUMPHRIES
MOERAN: Sinfonietta
CARR: Violin Concerto
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
HOLST: A Song of the Night
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Wasps: Aristophanic Suite
BATH PHILHARMONIA
JASON THORNTON | conductor
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
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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