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BBC Concert Orchestra open the English Music Festival in Dorchester Abbey
Rare performances of Coleridge-Taylor and Frederic Cowen to feature
Part of the English Music Festival 2020
Add to my Calendar 22-05-2020 19:30 22-05-2020 21:30 36 BBC Concert Orchestra open the English Music Festival in Dorchester Abbey The annual English Music Festival celebrates the brilliance, innovation, beauty and rich musical heritage of Britain with a strong focus on unearthing overlooked or forgotten masterpieces of the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Launching the Festival at Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire will be the BBC Concert Orchestra, under conductor Gavin Sutherland, to perform a first modern performance of Frederick Cowan’s Symphony no.4, known as ‘The Welsh’, together with a World Première overture by Elgar, and a rare performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto, performed by soloist, Rupert Marshall-Luck.Informative and entertaining talks and interviews, setting the composers and music in context, take place in Dorchester Village Hall.Concerts continue throughout the day and late into the evening, taking place at Dorchester Abbey, Radley College and Sutton Courtenay Church. Characterful local inns provide accommodation and the opportunity for convivial social occasions over lunch and supper, and a convenient mini-bus transfer operates between venues and Didcot Parkway station. Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Dorchester Abbey
High Street
Dorchester on Thames
Oxfordshire
OX10 7HH
England
Programme
Frederic Hymen Cowen – Symphony no.4 'The Welsh'
William Alwyn – Concerto Grosso no.1 in B flat major
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Violin Concerto, Op.80
Frederick Delius – Petite Suite no.2
Edward Elgar – The Spanish Lady: Comedy Overture
Performers
Gavin Sutherland – Conductor
Rupert Marshall-Luck – Violin
BBC Concert Orchestra
Programme Note
The annual English Music Festival celebrates the brilliance, innovation, beauty and rich musical heritage of Britain with a strong focus on unearthing overlooked or forgotten masterpieces of the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century.
Launching the Festival at Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire will be the BBC Concert Orchestra, under conductor Gavin Sutherland, to perform a first modern performance of Frederick Cowan’s Symphony no.4, known as ‘The Welsh’, together with a World Première overture by Elgar, and a rare performance of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto, performed by soloist, Rupert Marshall-Luck.
Informative and entertaining talks and interviews, setting the composers and music in context, take place in Dorchester Village Hall.
Concerts continue throughout the day and late into the evening, taking place at Dorchester Abbey, Radley College and Sutton Courtenay Church. Characterful local inns provide accommodation and the opportunity for convivial social occasions over lunch and supper, and a convenient mini-bus transfer operates between venues and Didcot Parkway station.