The seventh English Music Festival, taking place from 24 to 28 May 2013 in and around Dorchester on Thames in Oxfordshire, will feature premieres of works by Vaughan Williams and Walford Davies, alongside new commissions and a rare opportunity to hear major works by Sullivan, Moeran, Bax and John Gardner.
On Saturday 25 May there is a welcome opportunity to hear Sullivan's cantata The Golden Legend, performed by the English
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Andrews, with soloists Elena
Xanthoudakis, Jean Rigby, Daniel Norman and Grant Doyle. A substantial work, setting words by Longfellow, Sullivan wrote it in 1886 for the Leeds Music Festival and it went on to have a great deal of popularity during Sullivan's lifetime, but has rather fallen out of fashion. This performance will be the first professional revival
since Sir Charles Mackerras conducted a centenary performance in Leeds in
1986.
The late John Gardner's Stabat Mater gets an outing on Sunday 26 May with Hilary Davan Wetton conducting the City of London Choir. The closing concert on 27 May is devoted to works commissioned for the occasion, with music by David Owen Norris, Richard Blackford, Paul Lewis, Christopher Wright,
Philip Lane, David Matthews, Paul Carr and Ben Palmer.
Further information from the English Music Festival website.
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