TALK
Martin Yates and Lewis Foreman in discussion: Rediscovering lost and incomplete works
MARTIN YATES and LEWIS FOREMAN
DRINKS RECEPTION
for EMF Friends and Vice-Presidents
PREMIÈRES!
BERNERS: Portsmouth Point
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
ARNOLD: Serenade for Small Orchestra
STANFORD: Violin Concerto in D (1875)
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Blue Bird
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
DELIUS: A Song before Sunrise
MILFORD: Symphony
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
MARTIN YATES | conductor
SERGEY LEVITIN | violin
VARIATIONS ON A THEME
ROOTHAM: Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor
NIMROD BORENSTEIN: Noctural Fantasia
BORENSTEIN: Souvenirs
BORENSTEIN: Confession
DAVID MATTHEWS: Variations for Violin and Piano on Roger Scruton’s Despedida
FIRST PUBLIC PERFORMANCE
ELGAR: Sonata for Violin and Piano
WORLD PREMIÈRE PERFORMANCE OF NEW URTEXT VERSION BY G. HENLE VERLAG
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin
MICHAEL KORSTICK | piano
MY EYES FOR BEAUTY PINE
WOOD: O Thou the central Orb
STANFORD: O for a closer walk with God
BRIDGE: Adagio in E
STANFORD: How beauteous are the feet
IRELAND: Ex ore innocentium
STANFORD: Pray that Jerusalem
HOWELLS: My eyes for beauty pine
PARRY: Long since in Egypt’s plenteous land
SHEPPARD: In manus tuas
TOMKINS: Hear my Prayer
TALLIS: If ye love me
TALLIS: Te lucis ante terminum
STANFORD: Prelude on St Columba
BAIRSTOW: The King of Love
MILFORD: Prelude on St Columba
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Call (from Five Mystical Songs)
THE CHAPEL CHOIR OF WORCESTER COLLEGE, OXFORD
TALK
Not just another performance of the Elgar Sonata
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK
RADIANCE
PAUL CARR: Ubi caritas
CARR: The Lamb
BLISS: Birthday Song
BLISS: Cradle Song
OLA GJEILO: Ubi caritas
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra
FINZI: Prelude
CARR: Stabat Mater
ENGLISH ARTS CHORALE
ENGLISH ARTS ORCHESTRA
LESLIE OLIVE | conductor
NICHOLAS DANIEL | oboe
MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY AGREE
Recitation of poetry and prose about music and composers, and of musical poems and prose, including works by Thomas Hardy, T.S. Eliot, Walter de la Mare, Siegfried Sassoon, J.R.R. Tolkein, John Masefield and A.A. Milne
EM MARSHALL-LUCK & LANCE PIERSON | reciters
ONCE UPON A TIME... STORIES AND DANCES FOR FOUR HANDS
YORK BOWEN: Suite, op.52
ALWYN: Scherzando, Lento, Moderato and Vivace, ma ritmico from Fantasy Waltzes
DELIUS: Eventyr
FRANCIS ROUTH: Roumanian Dance
YORK BOWEN: Four Pieces, op.90
BLISS: Rout
TOVEY: Balliol Waltzes
LYNN ARNOLD & CHARLES MATTHEWS | piano duet
EMF LUNCH
Wine and non-alcoholic drinks included
ODE TO ALBION
ELGAR: String Quartet
WALTON: String Quartet no.2
BRITTEN: Divertimenti
BRIDGE: Idylls
PIATTI QUARTET
TALK
Gustav Holst: The Final Years
CHRIS COPE
DYSON: Hierusalem
ELGAR: Two Choral Songs, op.73
HOLST: Brook Green Suite
FINZI: Magnificat
HOWELLS: Elegy for solo viola and strings, op.15
IRELAND: Greater Love
HOLST: I love my Love
HOWELLS: Like as the Hart
ELGAR: Serenade for Strings
RUBBRA: Inscape
HOLST ORCHESTRA
GODWINE CHOIR
HILARY DAVAN WETTON | conductor
RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | viola
The Great British Songbook of the 1920s to the 1960s
NEW FOXTROT SERENADERS
LOVE’S VOICE
HOWELLS: Four Songs
WARLOCK: Folksong Preludes
IRELAND: Songs sacred and profane
FINZI: O fair to see
HOWELLS: Snapshots
IAN VENABLES: Venetian Songs
WARLOCK: Three Belloc Songs
ANANDO MUKERJEE | tenor
PAVEL TIMOFEYEVSKY | piano
LIKE AS THE LUTE DELIGHTS
Lute songs, solos and duets by JOHN DOWLAND and JOHN DANIEL
SARA STOWE | soprano
LEWIS SPRING | alto
SAM BROWN | lute
MATTHEW SPRING | lute; viola da gamba
TALK
Fantasia on a Theme: a short survey of English music for strings
DAVID WORDSWORTH
HEARTSTRINGS
BAINTON: Pavan, Idyll and Bacchanal
DELIUS: Légende
ALWYN: Love scene from The Fallen Idol
CLIVE JENKINS: Sinfonietta for Strings
IRELAND: Cavatina
IRELAND: Soliloquy
IRELAND: Bagatelle
FINZI: Romance
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Concerto Grosso
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
PETER FISHER | director
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.