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3MBS English Music Festival: Concerts 1 and 2
August 24 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
$25 – $85The 3MBS English Music Festival returns in 2024 with four concerts celebrating chamber, solo and choral music from the British Isles.
On 24 and 25 August at the Auburn Uniting Church, Hawthorn, audiences will be taken on a dynamic artistic journey that covers three centuries of English music from Purcell to Britten and Australian composers of English descent.
Audiences will experience the profound six choral motets that are the Songs of Farewell by Hubert Parry, Requiem by Herbert Howells, the ethereal Lark Ascending by Vaughan-Williams and a diverse range of chamber and solo works by Delius, Britten, Bridge and Elgar, among others.
The festival will feature a stellar lineup of Victorian musicians including Melbourne Symphony Orchestra violinist Tair Khisambeev, pianist Laurence Matheson, The Choir of Trinity College, The University of Melbourne, pianist Elyane Laussade, cellist-composer Luke Severn and Firebird Trio.
Join us for this premier event to experience familiar and rarely-heard works by these English musical masters.
Concert One
2pm Saturday 24 August
Tair Khisambeev violin & Laurence Matheson piano
BENJAMIN BRITTEN Reveille
EDWARD ELGAR La Capricieuse, Op.17
RALPH VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending
FREDERICK DELIUS Violin Sonata No.2
BENJAMIN BRITTEN Suite for violin and piano, Op.6
Concert Two
5pm Saturday 24 August
The Choir of Trinity College, The University of Melbourne
Christopher Watson Director of Music
HUBERT PARRY Songs of Farewell (complete)
MICHAEL LEIGHTON-JONES A Closer Walk with God, with organ (a re-imagining of CV Stanford’s anthem O For a Closer Walk with God)
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD – Intermezzo Founded upon an Irish Air for organ, Op. 189 no. 4
HERBERT HOWELLS Requiem