PRE-CONCERT TALK
The Composers’ Perspective: Richard Blackford and Christopher Wright discuss their Violin Concerto and Symphony
RICHARD BLACKFORD and CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT
DRINKS RECEPTION
for EMF Friends and Vice-Presidents
RICHARD BLACKFORD: Violin Concerto
UK PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
DELIUS: Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT: Symphony
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
ENGLISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
JOHN ANDREWS | conductor
RICHARD BLACKFORD | conductor
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
JOSEPH SPOONER | cello
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Suite de ballet
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT: Summer Music
ARNOLD: Sonata for flute and piano
ERNEST TOMLINSON: Three Pieces for flute and piano
YORK BOWEN: Sonata for flute and piano
EMMA HALNAN | flute
DANIEL KING SMITH | piano
BYRD: Kyrie and Gloria
DOWLAND: All people that on earth do dwell
BYRD: Ave verum corpus; Credo
TALLIS: O sacrum Convivium
BYRD: Sanctus; Christe qui lux es; Agnus Dei
ANON: Madame d’Amours
MOERAN: River God’s Song; Under the Greenwood Tree
STEPHEN WILKINSON: Orpheus with his lute
PETER POPE: There is a lady sweet and kind; When to her lute
BUTTERWORTH: The True Lover’s Farewell
TONY BANKS: Follow thy Fair Sun
WARLOCK: The Frostbound Wood; Balulalow; The Night
JOHN POTTER | tenor
JACOB HERINGMAN | lute
PRE-CONCERT TALK
From Rebel to Romantic: Bliss’s music of the 1920s and 30s
ANDREW BURN
DYSON: Three Songs of Courage
HOLST: Sorrow and Joy; Love on my Heart; Assemble, all ye maidens
BLISS: Music for Strings
FINZI: God is gone up
DYSON: To Music; Nocturne
HOLST: Dream Tryst; Ye Little Birds; Come to Me
ELGAR: Elegy
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: In Windsor Forest
HOLST ORCHESTRA
GODWINE CHOIR
HILARY DAVON WETTON | conductor
BRITISH LIGHT PIANO MUSIC
The pianist and radio presenter Paul Guinery presents a selection of light-hearted British repetoire including some of Billy Meyerl’s brilliantly written ‘syncopated novelties’ and other similarly entertaining jazz-inflected pieces.
PAUL GUINERY | piano
ALWYN: Sonata alla Toccata
STERNDALE BENNETT: Romance no.1 in B-flat minor
PARRY: Sonata no.1
EDWARD McGUIRE: Prelude 7
BLISS: Masks
YORK BOWEN: Short Sonata in C-sharp minor
RICHARD DEERING | piano
EMF LUNCH
Wine and non-alcoholic drink included
NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE
A narrative recital of words and music from the First World War
ELGAR: Salut d’Amour
ELGAR: Troyte and W.N. from Enigma Variations
(transcr. Elgar)
ALWYN: Water Lilies
BRIDGE: Lament
BAX: In a Vodka Shop
DANIEL KIDANE: Triptych: Six
GURNEY: Prelude no.8 in F-sharp
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Hymn-tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons
ELGAR: Nimrod from Enigma Variations
(transcr. Elgar)
with poems by writers including WILFRED OWEN, SIEGFRIED SASSOON, EDWARD THOMAS and VERA BRITTAIN
CHRISTOPHER KENT | actor
GAMAL KHAMIS | piano
PRE-CONCERT TALK
‘One of the most beautiful things you have ever uttered’: a voyage through the violin-and-piano works of Sir Hubert Parry
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK
PURCELL: Dido and Aeneas (semi-staged performance)
ARMONICO CONSORT
CHRISTOPHER MONKS | conductor
Traditional English folk-songs
JOHN KIRKPATRICK
ETHEL SMYTH: GRASP THE NETTLE
Music to include excerpts from:
The Wreckers
Mass in D
Anacreontic Ode
Overture to The Boatswain’s Mate
On the Road
The March of the Women
The Clown
Es wandelt was wir schauen
Possession
Schön Rohtraut
What if I were young again
After Sunset
Chrysilla
LUCY STEVENS | contralto
ELIZABETH MARCUS | piano
ELGAR: Piano Quintet
GURNEY: The Western Playland
HOWELLS: Phantasy Quartet
GURNEY: Desire in Spring; Black Stitchel; Sleep; Captain Stratton’s Fancy
BRIDGE QUARTET
MICHAEL DUSSEK | piano
RODERICK WILLIAMS | baritone
PRE-CONCERT TALK
Gustav Holst: the impact of the First World War
CHRIS COPE
DYSON: Woodland Suite for string orchestra
WARLOCK: Serenade for the 60th birthday of Delius
DELIUS: Air and Dance
HOWELLS: First Suite
ARWEL HUGHES: Fantasia in A minor
IRELAND: Elegaic Meditation
FINZI: Romance
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Charterhouse Suite
CAMERATA WALES
OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES | 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!