This will be a ‘Come and Sing the Choruses’ event. Audience members who wish to take part will be invited to attend a rehearsal before the concert (sandwich lunch included).
Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend celebrations will be launched in style in Oxfordshire with a world première by Vaughan Williams, and realisation of the second symphony of E J Moeran, together with music commemorating anniversaries of Frederick Delius and John Ireland.
The world première performance of Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra, performed by the pianist Mark Bebbington features in the opening concert, with Martin Yates conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra, and to include Yates’s realisation of E J Moeran’s lost Symphony No 2. John Ireland’s atmospheric Legend for piano and orchestra commemorates the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death. Altogether a unique and unmissable occasion.
Other concerts will include: Holst’s The Planets for piano duet, given by York2, and Vaughan Williams’s truly original score forJob: A Masque for Dancing is performed in the arrangement by Vally Lasker, by pianist Iain Burnside.
A ‘King Arthur’ concert will include works by Purcell and Britten, and the complete incidental music to Elgar’s Arthur, given by Ben Palmer conducting the Orchestra of St Paul’s.
Chamber recitals include violinist, Rupert Marshall-Luck and pianist, Matthew Rickard performing Elgar, and cellist Richard Jenkinson works by Bridge, Ireland, Walton, and Britten.
English song enthusiasts will enjoy English part-songs and choral works from Gibbons to Ireland and Britten.
With something for all tastes, other highlights include performances by The Songmen - an international multi-award winning a cappella ensemble, settings of Kipling; where the audience will be invited to ‘Come and Sing the Choruses’, a welcome return by the Jaguar Land Rover Band in a concert for all the family, and traditional music from Hardy’s Wessex by The Mellstock Band.
Transfer between venues can be provided.
Tickets go on sale from the website on 15th March - book early to avoid disappointment.
The EMF reserves the right to change the programme or the artists without prior notice.