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Dorchester Abbey

The Sixteenth English Music Festival – May 2023

31/03/2023 by AUTHOR

THE SIXTEENTH ENGLISH MUSIC FESTIVAL – Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire, 26 – 29 May 2023

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Falstaff Starts Off English Music Festival’s 10th Birthday Celebration

03/06/201628/05/2016 by RJones

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Parry, Lewis, Matthews, Delius, Coleridge-Taylor, Vaughan Williams: BBC Concert Orchestra/Martin Yates (conductor), Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester on Thames, 27.5.2016. (RJ)

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The English Music Festival 2015 – Nine Years Old and Still Vibrant

13/08/202026/05/2015 by Rob Barnett

 The English Music Festival 2015 – Nine Years Old and Still Vibrant

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War Echoes in English Music Festival’s Opening Concert

27/05/201525/05/2015 by Rob Barnett

United KingdomUnited Kingdom English Music Festival 2015 – Parry, Arnell, Havergal Brian, Vaughan Williams, Butterworth, Finzi:  Raphael Wallfisch (cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates (conductor), Dorchester Abbey, 22.5.2015 (RB)

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Violin Sonata Composed at Gallipoli Opens Concert

27/05/201525/05/2015 by Rob Barnett

United KingdomUnited KingdomEnglish Music Festival 2015 – Kelly, Matthews, Alwyn, Parry:  Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin) and Matthew Rickard (piano), Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames, 23.5.2015 (RB)

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A Welcome Reminder of Forgotten Romantics at the English Music Festival

01/06/201427/05/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom English Music Festival 2014 – Day 2, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

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The English Music Festival 2014 Launched Auspiciously

13/08/202026/05/2014 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom English Music Festival 2014 – Day 1, Dorchester-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, 23.5.2014. (RB)

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Eclectic and Serious Programme of Music in the Abbey

23/09/201310/09/2013 by Stan

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, Mozart: Steven Isserlis (cello), Sophie Pullen (soprano), Pablo Strong (tenor), Vytautas Vepstas (bass), Orchestra of St John’s, Orchestra of St John’s Voices / John Lubbock (conductor), Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames, 8.9.2013  (CR)

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