The distinguished Piatti String Quartet open the festival with a beautiful programme of British Chamber Music.

Household Music by Vaughan Williams

String Quartet No.1 in E Minor by Ina Boyle

(Interval)

7 Irish Tunes for String Quartet by William Alwyn

The Holy Boy by John Ireland

String Quartet No.1 by Doreen Carwithen

Violinist Fenella Humphreys, and her Pianist, Nicola Eimer, play music featured in Leah Broad’s Royal Philharmonic Society prize winning book, Quartet. The evening is narrated by the author herself.

Violin Sonata (Movements 1 and 4) by Ethel Smyth

Midsummer Moon by Rebecca Clarke

Violin Sonata (2nd Movement) by Dorothy Howell

Interval

Ballade by Freda Swain

Violin Sonata by Doreen Carwithen

Masquerade String Quartet plays film music by Doreen Carwithen, William Alwyn and Vaughan Williams.

The Crimson Pirate by William Alwyn

49^th Parallel Main Title by Vaughan Williams

Suffolk Suite (2 Movements) by Doreen Carwithen

The Black Tent by William Alwyn

Scott of the Antarctic Main Title by Vaughan Williams

Three Cases of Murder by Doreen Carwithen

The internationally renowned Tenor James Gilchrist and his Pianist, Anna Tilbrook, come to the Festival with a fantastic evening of British Songs.

Orpheus With His Lute
Silent Moon
A Winter’s Willow by Vaughan Williams

Der Fichtenbaum
Hochgebirgsleben
Hor Ich Das Liedchen Klingen by Frederick Delius

The Seal Man
Tiger Tiger
The Donkey
June Twilight by Rebecca Clarke

Drink To Me Only
Autumn Evening
It Was A Lover And His Lass by Roger Quilter

(Interval)

Ride by Night
Slow Spring
Echo (Seven Sweet Notes)
Serenade by Doreen Carwithen

Sonnet No.102 by Freda Swain

On Wenlock Edge by Vaughan Williams

Haddenham Village Hall

The fabulous Julie Maguire returns to the festival with her extraordinary band (featuring Simon Bates on saxophone) to play and sing classics from the Great American Songbook.

Haddenham Village Hall will be dressed to look like a 1950s jazz club with a fully licensed bar to help your evening swing along.

International concert pianist, Clare Hammond, plays a fantastic programme of English masterpieces, having recorded the Carwithen Piano Concerto with the BBC Concert Orchestra for Radio 3.

On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring by Frederick Delius

Sonata alla Toccata by William Alwyn

Miroirs by Maurice Ravel

The Croon of the Sea by Freda Swain

Sonatina by Doreen Carwithen

• There will also be a multimedia exhibition on Doreen Carwithen’s life in St Mary’s Church, the venue for most of the concerts.
• Haddenham Screen Cinema will show “Boys In Brown” (1949) on July 12th, with a film score by Doreen Carwithen.