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Roderick Williams performs Vaughan Williams's 'Willow Wood' in Dorchester Abbey
Holst, Dyson, Howells, Finzi, Bainton, Ireland also feature
Part of the English Music Festival 2020
Add to my Calendar 24-05-2020 19:00 24-05-2020 21:00 36 Roderick Williams performs Vaughan Williams's 'Willow Wood' 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. In this concert, Hilary Davan-Wetton’s Godwine Choir and Holst Orchestra perform works by Holst, Ireland, Bainton, Howells, Finzi, Delius, Dyson and Ralph Vaughan William’s Rossetti-inspired cantata ‘Willow Wood’ featuring internationally-renowned baritone soloist, Roderick Williams. 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
Gustav Holst – Two Songs without Words: Marching Song
George Dyson – In honour of the City
Herbert Howells – King David
Frederick Delius – Irmelin Prelude
Gustav Holst – This have I done for my true love, Op.34 no.1
Gerald Finzi – Love’s Labour’s Lost: extracts
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Willow Wood
Herbert Howells – A Hymn For St. Cecilia
Edgar Leslie Bainton – Christ in the wilderness
John Ireland – Jubilate Deo in C major
John Ireland – Te Deum Laudamus in F major
Performers
Hilary Davan Wetton – Conductor
Roderick Williams – baritone
Holst Orchestra
Godwine Choir
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.
In this concert, Hilary Davan-Wetton’s Godwine Choir and Holst Orchestra perform works by Holst, Ireland, Bainton, Howells, Finzi, Delius, Dyson and Ralph Vaughan William’s Rossetti-inspired cantata ‘Willow Wood’ featuring internationally-renowned baritone soloist, Roderick Williams.
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.