English Music Festival, Dorchester

[teamsaint]

All depends on where you live
I don't think my mate from Shetland will be going

For about 98 % of the population.. .....

[MrGongGong]

For about 98 % of the population.. .....

Surely thats (kind of) true for more or less everything that doesn't happen in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle or Bristol ? (Other cities are available) ?

[EdgeleyRob]

The festival itself sounds very enterprising - this is the 7th year (asuming it's annual). Something the BBC should be broadcasting more concerts from, even if it's only in the Afternoon on 3 slot.

EdgelyRob might be interested in this - Our new record label, EM Records, takes our work to a new level, facilitating accessibility of these rare and glorious pieces.

and some on the board might find the founder appealing ; others might prefer the founder's friend :

Yes I have a couple of those cds Flossie.

Em Marshall-Luck (married to a guy named Rupert though )has been chairman of the RVW Society since 2008.
The Irish wolfhound is called Æthelwulf btw

From another site -
Her particular enthusiasm is for English composers, many of whom have to some extent fallen from the popularity ratings, and she has an inspiring determination to see them fully appreciated. ‘England is fortunate in having a great legacy of brilliant composers who are full of character and whose inspiration and craftsmanship never fail to surprise and delight,’ she says.
‘Although Elgar’s great symphonies and Britten’s powerful operas are well represented in the concert hall and opera house, the exquisitely crafted songs of Quilter or Warlock, Vaughan Williams’ delightful chamber music and the choral masterpieces of Holst, Bantock and Howells remain unjustly neglected. In ten years of Promenade concerts from 1992 to 2001, for example, more time was allocated by the BBC to the music of Kurt Weill than to the music of Stanford, Parry, Delius, Walton, Bax, Moeran, Purcell and Holst put together.’

I was thinking how misleading the name of the Festival is - nothing from

Dunstable or the 15th Century, nor much (anything?) from the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, or 21st and only a tiny

representative selection from the 20th. A worthy project, but poorly named if this years' events are

representative.

Fair point ferney,there's is a link to prevoius festivals which have inluded some,but not a great deal,of Byrd,Tallis,Purcell and others.

I love this programme -

HOWELLS: Rhapsodic Quintet
ALWYN: String Trio
IRELAND: Trio no.2
O’NEILL: Piano Trio
BLISS: Clarinet Quintet
RUBBRA: Piano Trio in one movement, op.68

Alas the chances of me getting to this festival are nil

Maybe in the future.

[antongould]

Yes I have a couple of those cds Flossie.

Em Marshall-Luck (married to a guy named Rupert though )has been chairman of the RVW Society since 2008.
The Irish wolfhound is called Æthelwulf btw

From another site -
Her particular enthusiasm is for English composers, many of whom have to some extent fallen from the popularity ratings, and she has an inspiring determination to see them fully appreciated. ‘England is fortunate in having a great legacy of brilliant composers who are full of character and whose inspiration and craftsmanship never fail to surprise and delight,’ she says.
‘Although Elgar’s great symphonies and Britten’s powerful operas are well represented in the concert hall and opera house, the exquisitely crafted songs of Quilter or Warlock, Vaughan Williams’ delightful chamber music and the choral masterpieces of Holst, Bantock and Howells remain unjustly neglected. In ten years of Promenade concerts from 1992 to 2001, for example, more time was allocated by the BBC to the music of Kurt Weill than to the music of Stanford, Parry, Delius, Walton, Bax, Moeran, Purcell and Holst put together.’




Fair point ferney,there's is a link to prevoius festivals which have inluded some,but not a great deal,of Byrd,Tallis,Purcell and others.

I love this programme -

HOWELLS: Rhapsodic Quintet
ALWYN: String Trio
IRELAND: Trio no.2
O’NEILL: Piano Trio
BLISS: Clarinet Quintet
RUBBRA: Piano Trio in one movement, op.68

Alas the chances of me getting to this festival are nil

Maybe in the future.

Good and stay at Teamsaint Towers it's down south....

[teamsaint]

Good and stay at Teamsaint Towers it's down south....

Festival goers very welcome here.

Bring your own beer though.....

[Dave2002]

and some on the board might find the founder appealing ; others might prefer the founder's friend

Interesting taste in what looks like one of my dressing gowns - almost the same colour!

I'm not sure which "friend" is being referred to - perhaps it's the dog.

I used to visit Dorchester Abbey frequently many years ago. It'd be good to visit again.

[secondfiddle]

[QUOTE=.

Could be expensive on petrol if folks head for Dorset....[/QUOTE]

Yes, it might well be, especially as Dorchester-on-Thames is in Oxfordshire, not far from Oxford. This is not the Dorset Dorchester.

[Stanfordian]

Yes I have a couple of those cds Flossie.

Em Marshall-Luck (married to a guy named Rupert though )has been chairman of the RVW Society since 2008.
The Irish wolfhound is called Æthelwulf btw

From another site -
Her particular enthusiasm is for English composers, many of whom have to some extent fallen from the popularity ratings, and she has an inspiring determination to see them fully appreciated. ‘England is fortunate in having a great legacy of brilliant composers who are full of character and whose inspiration and craftsmanship never fail to surprise and delight,’ she says.
‘Although Elgar’s great symphonies and Britten’s powerful operas are well represented in the concert hall and opera house, the exquisitely crafted songs of Quilter or Warlock, Vaughan Williams’ delightful chamber music and the choral masterpieces of Holst, Bantock and Howells remain unjustly neglected. In ten years of Promenade concerts from 1992 to 2001, for example, more time was allocated by the BBC to the music of Kurt Weill than to the music of Stanford, Parry, Delius, Walton, Bax, Moeran, Purcell and Holst put together.’




Fair point ferney,there's is a link to prevoius festivals which have inluded some,but not a great deal,of Byrd,Tallis,Purcell and others.

I love this programme -

HOWELLS: Rhapsodic Quintet
ALWYN: String Trio
IRELAND: Trio no.2
O’NEILL: Piano Trio
BLISS: Clarinet Quintet
RUBBRA: Piano Trio in one movement, op.68

Alas the chances of me getting to this festival are nil

Maybe in the future.

Hiya EdgeleyRob,

Sounds like a mouth watering programme the type of which that the BBC should be recording. In my view the Howell Rhapsodic Quintet is mastework and the Ireland Trio no.2 and the Bliss Clarinet Quintet are fine works too.

[Flosshilde]

Yes, it might well be, especially as Dorchester-on-Thames is in Oxfordshire, not far from Oxford. This is not the Dorset Dorchester.

As any fule kno.

[mercia]

Live in concert tonight 7:30pm

Christopher Cook presents a concert, live from the abbey in Dorchester-on-Thames as part of the English Music Festival. Violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck joins Martin Yates and the BBC Concert Orchestra in Moeran's Violin Concerto. There's also music by Bax, Vaughan Williams and Rutland Boughton.

Parry: Jerusalem
Boughton: Troilus and Cressida (Thou & I)
Moeran: Violin Concerto

Interval

Vaughan Williams: Burley Heath; Harnham Down
Bax: Variations for Orchestra (Improvisations).


anyone thinking of listening ?

[teamsaint]

Thanks for the reminder, Mercs.

I will be trying to catch up over the weekend.

[Black Swan]

Yes, thanks for the reminder. I really don't know any of the works with the exception of Jerusalem.

[mercia]

from what I remember of that other thread I started, only Jerusalem and the violin concerto will NOT be 'world premieres'

[Nick Armstrong]

I really loved cycling across London at sundown with the Moeran concerto on the earphones, I arrived home and was parking the bike just as the applause at the end started. The conclusion of the piece is very haunting.

A perfect start to a bank holiday weekend.

that other thread I started

Would you like to merge them?

[mercia]

feel free bwana