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The Butterfly and the Toad - British Music for Piano

Part of the English Music Festival 2025

Add to my Calendar 26-05-2025 10:30 26-05-2025 12:30 36 The Butterfly and the Toad - British Music for Piano The 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. Showcasing rarely heard works, ‘The Butterfly and the Toad’ is a programme of piano works by Dyson, Armstrong Gibbs, Lord Berners, Thomas Pitfield, Doreen Carwithen, and a surviving Sonata by Caroline Reinagle, performed by Hiroaki Takenouchi; a pianist and recording artist with an interest in the music of lesser-known British composers. Tickets are on sale from the website and by means of a postal booking form. Tickets for individual concerts will also be available on the door, subject to availability. Full Festival and Day Passes are also available. Dorchester Abbey is the venue for the duration of the long weekend with talks taking place in the Village Hall as well as a Festival Lunch (pre-booking required). A dedicated mini-bus shuttle operates to/from Didcot Parkway rail station - bookings should be made via the website when the timetable is published.   Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames DD/MM/YYYY

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High Street
Dorchester on Thames
Oxfordshire
OX10 7HH
England

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The 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.

Showcasing rarely heard works, ‘The Butterfly and the Toad’ is a programme of piano works by Dyson, Armstrong Gibbs, Lord Berners, Thomas Pitfield, Doreen Carwithen, and a surviving Sonata by Caroline Reinagle, performed by Hiroaki Takenouchi; a pianist and recording artist with an interest in the music of lesser-known British composers.

Tickets are on sale from the website and by means of a postal booking form. Tickets for individual concerts will also be available on the door, subject to availability. Full Festival and Day Passes are also available.

Dorchester Abbey is the venue for the duration of the long weekend with talks taking place in the Village Hall as well as a Festival Lunch (pre-booking required). A dedicated mini-bus shuttle operates to/from Didcot Parkway rail station - bookings should be made via the website when the timetable is published.

 

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