When:
May 27, 2022 – May 29, 2022 all-day
2022-05-27T00:00:00+01:00
2022-05-30T00:00:00+01:00
Where:
Dorchester Abbey
HIgh Street
Dorchester on Thames, Wallingford
Oxon OX10 7HH
English Music Festival 27th May to 29th May @ Dorchester Abbey
7.30pm Fri 27th May
SIR EDWARD ELGAR: The Spanish Lady: Comedy Overture, FREDERICK DELIUS: Petite Suite pour Orchestre, SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR: Violin Concerto in G minor, WILLIAM ALWYN: Concerto Grosso no.1 in B-flat, REGINALD (R. O.) MORRIS: Sinfonia in C and RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Ballet: Old King Cole with the BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA MARTIN YATES | conductor and RUPERT MARSHALL-LUCK | violin

Sat 28th May 10.45am

HAVERGAL BRIAN: When Icicles Hang by the Wall, Sorrow Song, The Message, Farewell, Piping Down the Valleys Wild, The Land of Dreams, The Defiled Sanctuary, John Dowland’s Fancy, Lady Ellayne, Why Dost Thou Wound and Break My Heart?, The Mountain and the Squirrel, The Lost Doll, GRANVILLE BANTOCK: Ozymandias and Song to the Seals, JOSEPH HOLBROOKE: Annabel Lee, SIR EDWARD ELGAR: In Moonlight, The Muleteer’s Serenade and A Song of Flight RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Splendour Falls, How Can the Tree but Wither? and Rondel, HAROLD TRUSCOTT: Two Songs with GARETH BRYNMOR JOHN | baritone and CHRISTOPHER GLYNN | piano

Sat 28th May 7.00pm

GERALD FINZI: Extracts from Love’s Labour’s Lost, JOHN IRELAND: Te Deum and Jubilate in F, EDGAR BAINTON: Christ in the Wilderness, HERBERT HOWELLS: A Hymn for St Cecilia, RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Willow Wood, HERBERT HOWELLS: Music for a Prince, GUSTAV HOLST: This Have I Done for My True Love, FREDERICK DELIUS: Irmelin Prelude, HERBERT HOWELLS: King David, SIR GEORGE DYSON: In Honour of the City with THE HOLST ORCHESTRA and GODWINE CHOIR HILARY DAVAN WETTON | conductor and RODERICK WILLIAMS | baritone

Sat 28th May 9.30pm

BENJAMIN BRITTEN: Nocturnal, JOHN DOWLAND: La Mia Barbara, WILLIAM WALTON: Three Bagatelles, JOHN DOWLAND: Melancholy Galliard and Lady Hunsdon’s Puffe with MICHAEL POLL | guitar

Sunday 29th May 7.00pm

SIR HUBERT PARRY: Blest Pair of Sirens, RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Five Mystical Songs, GUSTAV HOLST: Five Partsongs and The Cloud Messenger with ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA and CHOIR OF KING’S COLLEGE LONDON JOSEPH FORT | conductor

Sunday 29th May 9.30pm

SIR NOËL COWARD: There Are Bad Times Just around the Corner, Touring Days, Any Little Fish, We Must All Be Very Kind to Auntie Jessie, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Poor Little Rich Girl, A Room with a View,A Bar on the Piccola Marina, Something Very Strange, Mrs Worthington, You Were There, Mad about the Boy, It’s Only You, Dearest Love, I Wonder What Happened to Him, I’ll Follow My Secret Heart and That Is the End of the News with MICHAEL LAW | voice and piano