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St Mary's Church
Causeway
Horsham
West Sussex
RH12 1HE
England
Programme
Edward Elgar – The Saga of King Olaf: 'As Torrents In Summer'
Thomas Tallis – Hear the Voice and Prayer
William Byrd – Ave verum corpus
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry – Freundschaftslieder
Benjamin Britten – A Ceremony of Carols: Interlude
Gustav Holst – In the Bleak Midwinter
Performers
Rupert Marshall-Luck – violin
Em Marshall-Luck – Speaker
Heather Wrighton – Harp
Duncan Honeybourne – piano
James Bowman – Reader
Oxford Liedertafel
Programme Note
THE ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL (EMF) celebrates Britain's rich musical heritage by showcasing the brilliance, innovation and beauty of works by British composers.
We are delighted to announce that, following the success of and high audience acclaim for our Autumn Festival, held in the beautiful surroundings of St Mary’s Church, Horsham, we are bringing two Christmas concerts to the same venue on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th December.
The centrepiece of these concerts is A Christmas Garland, a cornucopia of works written specially for this concert by a number of today’s leading composers, including David Matthews, Thomas Hewitt-Jones, Cecilia McDowall, Roderick Williams and Sir James MacMillan.
Alongside this new work we present Sir Hubert Parry’s youthfully energetic Freundschaftslieder (“Songs of Friendship”) for violin and piano and a number of attractive and seasonal works for harp, played by local harpist Heather Wrighton.
The second concert promises to bring the sparkle and joy of Christmas to our audiences, with Oxford Liedertafel featuring in a programme of favourite Christmas carols and much-loved part-songs, from Vaughan Williams’s Linden Lea and Elgar’s As Torrents in Summer through to choral works by Tallis and Byrd. The dynamic vocal quartet are joined by celebrated counter-tenor James Bowman as guest reader.
Please join us for what promises to be an exhilarating and celebratory couple of concerts – the perfect overture to Christmas.
The Festival will be following all Government and World Health Organisation recommendations and policies to keep our audiences safe.
