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SpThie Garzettei of thte Eneglishd Music Festival Issue 1 Spring 2011 the EnglISh MuSic FeSt ival 27- 30 May 20 11 Editorial Box office opens 1 April 2011. Visit http://www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk/booking.html or call 0300 030 3003. Welcome to the first edition of Spirited . This is an exciting new Friday 27 Saturday 28 Sunday 29 Monday 30 ventUre, representing as it does one of the key aims of the EMF: 11.00am 11.00am 11.00am namely, to reach oUt beyond those who are able to attend the Dorchester Abbey Dorchester Abbey Dorchester Abbey annUal Festival in Dorchester-on-Thames to enthUsiasts of English Milford Songs of Escape Stanford Quartet No. 3 in D minor Howells Sonata no. 2 in E flat major mUsic everywhere. Finzi Seven Part-songs Norman O'Neill Piano Quintet (world première of new edition Rawsthorne Four Seasonal Songs Elgar Piano Quintet by Paul Spicer) Issue 1 Haydn Wood This Quiet Night ; Bridge QUartet, Michael DUssek Lionel Sainsbury Mirage Spirited We hope that yoU find mUch of fascination in this inaUgUral issUe. The Phynodderee Paul Carr Sonatina (world première) Spring 2011 Holst Four Part-songs Gurney Violin Sonata in E flat major RegUlar attendees of the Festival will be interested to read more of The Syred Consort, Ben Palmer (world première) RUpert LUck, Matthew Rickard the backgroUnd and ecclesiastical significance of Dorchester Abbey 2.30pm 2.30pm 2.30pm in SUe Dixon’s illUminating article; whilst Philip Mitchell’s accoUnt of the town sheds light on its indUstrial and military history, its Silk Hall, Radley College Silk Hall, Radley College All Saints’ Church, Sutton Courtenay Elgar Severn Suite Bowen Selection from Preludes in “Soul of the Age” decline dUring the Middle Ages and its more recent revival. English Britten Russian Funeral Music all Twenty-four Major and - Shakespeare settings by Macfarren, Britten Fanfare for St Edmundsbury Minor Keys, Op 102 Hatton, Webbe, Stevens and mUsic and composers are, of coUrse, also highlighted: Marjorie Walton Spitfire Prelude and Fugue Bowen Piano Sonata no 5 in Vaughan Williams, and sacred Bliss Royal Fanfares F minor, Op 72 and secular music of the age by CUllerne’s perspective on Haydn Wood’s life and mUsic; a description Wells Cathedral School brass dectet Dale Sonata in D minor Tallis, Byrd, Wilbye, Mundy, Contact us: of York Bowen’s works at concerts over the foUr Festivals by EMF Danny Driver Campian and Farmer Em Marshall, Director TrUstee Dr David Green; and an overview of Joseph Holbrooke’s 5.15pm 5.15pm 5.15pm 5.15pm The Red House Lanchards Lane mUsic on CD by Robin Sawyers. The lighter side of the English Abbey Guest House, Dorchester Abbey Guest House, Dorchester Abbey Guest House, Dorchester Shillingstone mUsic tradition is celebrated, too, in StUart Millson’s glimpse into Walton, Lambert and the Sitwells ‘An infinite variety of things’: Directions in English Music of BLANDFORD FORUM PRIVATE CD launch the world of Eric Coates, Ernest Tomlinson and Ronald Binge. - William Sitwell and Diana Sparkes , Elgar’s Second Symphony: the 1920s: Walton, Bliss, Bridge DT11 0QU daughter of Hubert Foss, disappointment and triumph and others’ - Fabian Huss in conversation - Andrew Neill Email: [email protected] Telephone: 07808 473 889 This is a free issUe; bUt the costs of prodUcing sUch a joUrnal are 7.30pm 7.00pm 7.00pm 7.00pm Visit our website: high and, in the fUtUre, we may have to charge a sUbscription fee Dorchester Abbey Dorchester Abbey Dorchester Abbey Dorchester Abbey www.englishmusicfestival.org.uk in order to cover these costs and to ensUre the continUed sUccess Parry Jerusalem Delius On hearing the first Vaughan Williams Festival Te Deum Vaughan Williams Five Variants of the project. As yoU may be aware, the Newsletter, The Spirit of Capel Bond Trumpet Concerto in D cuckoo in spring Holst When First we met, on Dives and Lazarus Editorial: Warlock Curlew Delius Summer Night on the River Sorrow and joy, Love on my Heart Bowen Rhapsody for Cello England , will be mainly issUed online and many of yoU have already Lambert Piano Concerto Britten Sword in the Stone Gardner Sinfonia Piccola and Orchestra Editor: RUpert LUck Pickard Burning of the Leaves Holst Brook Green Suite , Design: Graham Crocker kindly provided email addresses. Of coUrse, Friends of the Festival Bainton An English Idyll Nunc Dimittis , Two Psalms Printing and distribUtion: BUxton Press will receive printed copies of both Spirited and The Spirit of England INTERVAL INTERVAL INTERVAL INTERVAL Photo credits: free of charge; and we will still send copies of the Newsletter by Walton Facade Sullivan Macbeth Gardner O Clap your Hands Delius Walk to the Paradise Garden Carli Adby Orchestra of St PaUl’s, Ben Palmer, English Symphony Orchestra, Howells English Mass Holst Egdon Heath post to those of yoU for whom we do not have an email address – David Owen Norris, David Webb, John Andrews, James RUtherford City of London Choir, Vaughan Williams Garden of TadeUsz Kasa William Sitwell the Holst Orchestra, Proserpine (world première) Em Marshall in sUch cases, any donations towards the costs of postage woUld Hilary Davan Wetton, BoUrnemoUth Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Farr (organist) JoyfUl Company of Singers, David Hill, Andrew Neill be most gratefUlly received! Janice Watson,Raphael Wallfisch Chris Sreeves Cover photograph: Carli Adby 9.30pm 9.30pm Finally, please write to Us and let Us know what yoU think of this first issUe! We woUld also welcome sUbmissions for the next Dorchester Abbey Dorchester Abbey edition; and, if any of yoU woUld like to take on the role of editor, Lullay Mi Childe - From instrumental Jazz improvisations on works by © Copyright for all articles is retained by the aUthors. dances to Middle English lullabies, Finzi, Delius, Walton and we’d like to hear from yoU. Joglaresa presents a programme of Vaughan Williams The views expressed in this Gazette are those of the English music from the 12th to Avalon Trio aUthors and are not necessarily shared by the English the 15th centuries. Exploring the MUsic Festival, its TrUstees or its Directors. Middle English lyric they perform This year’s Festival promises to be a thrilling event, with premières songs such as Maid in the Moor Lay , All rights reserved. No part of this pUblication may be of important works by composers inclUding VaUghan Williams, Lullay Lullow and Worldes Blis reprodUced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted Ne Last No Throwe with voices, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, harps, fidel and percussion. Howells and GUrney. We very mUch hope to see yoU there. photocopying, recording or otherwise withoUt the prior Joglaresa permission of The English MUsic Festival. Belinda Sykes: voice, bagpipes Ruth Fraser: voice, harp Em Marshall FoUnder-Director of The English MUsic Festival Jean Kelly: harp, fidel The English MUsic Festival Company Ltd 4654387. Tim Garside: percussion, voice Registered Charity No. 1107065. Rupert Luck Editor The Festival reserves the right to change the programme or artists without prior notice. Spirited • Issue 1 • Spring 2011 3 The English Music Festival: its origins and history it shoUld be somewhere rUral (both reflecting the pastoral origins of a sUbstantial amoUnt of this mUsic, and also so that, free from the anonymity of towns, we woUld all the more easily be able to EM MARSHALL form a commUnity dUring the Festival, with aUdience members meeting in local hostelries, discUssing the mUsic, and forming AlthoUgh my connection with English mUsic draws its friendships); that it shoUld have at least reasonably-good origins from the misty days of infancy (my father singing transport links to London; that it shoUld be a town or village VaUghan Williams’s Linden Lea to me is among my earliest withoUt its own major Festival; and that it shoUld have a venUe memories), and ran as a continUoUs thread throUgh my later able to hold both the size of aUdience and the nUmber of childhood and teenage years (my first hearing of Holst’s mUsicians that I needed. After spending several months toUring The Planets and St Paul’s Suite ; sUbseqUent attendance at Festival President Boris Johnson addresses the audience England from the Home CoUnties throUgh to the borders of St PaUl’s Girls’ School and a yoUth spent in complete Shropshire, the only place that ticked all the boxes was immersion in the mUsic of Holst, Howells and VaUghan Dorchester Abbey. Williams), it was dUring my mid to late teens that the first seeds of thoUghts of an English MUsic Festival took root. The aims of the Festival wrote themselves – to promote English I was then working with John Bishop at Thames PUblishing Festival Director Em Marshall – with accompanying beverage mUsic throUghoUt the ages, with a strong focUs on the early (the specialist pUblisher of books aboUt and scores of twentieth centUry. There woUld be a good range of events, from English mUsic). John, whom I had met throUgh the newly-foUnded Ralph VaUghan Williams Society, had opened solo recitals throUgh fUll orchestra and choral concerts; and, my eyes to fUrther, previoUsly Unsampled, delights – those exqUisitely crafted songs of QUilter, DeliUs’s operas, either side of the heavy emphasis on early twentieth centUry early Frank Bridge, Elgar’s chamber mUsic, and Britten operas. Ever eager to explore these treasUres fUrther, mUsic, works from mediaeval times to the present day. Artists, I became frUstrated that one coUld not hear the vast majority of works by British composers – of whom I discovered whilst mainly top professionals, woUld also inclUde both good Julian Lloyd Webber and David Lloyd-Jones at the opening new and UnjUstly neglected names almost by the day – at the major concert halls.