Concerts

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10-13 July 2025

10th July - Opening Festival Concert:  Piatti String Quartet

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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 Carwithin

St Mary's Church, Haddenham, HP17 8AE

Other concerts in the Festival:

Concert 2 (11th July) Evening Recital
Violinist Fenella Humphreys, and her accompanist, 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 & 4) by Ethel Smyth
Midsummer Moon by Rebecca Clarke
Violin Sonata (2nd Movement) by Dorothy Howells
(Interval)
Ballade by Freda Swain
Violin Sonata by Doreen Carwithen

Concert 3 (12th July) Coffee Concert 11am

Masquerade String Quartet play film music by Doreen Carwithen, William Alwyn and Vaughan Williams.
The Crimson Pirate by William Alwyn
49th Parallel Main Title by Vaughan Williams
Suffolk Suite (2 Movements) by Doreen Carwithen
The Black Tent by William Alwyn
2 Pieces by Olive Pull
Three Cases of Murder Main Title by Doreen Carwithen

Concert 4 (12th July) Evening Recital 6.30pm
The internationally renowned Tenor James Gilchrist and his accompanist, 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 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 WilliamsConcert 5 (12th July) Late Night Jazz 9.30pm
Haddenham Village Hall
The fabulous voice of Julie Maquire returns to the Festival with her Jazz Trio for a night of standards from the Great American songbook. The Village Hall will be designed to look like a bona fide nightclub.

Concert 6 (13th July) Lunchtime Recital 1pm
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

Concert 7 (13th July) Festival Finale 7.30pm
Debbie Wiseman OBE brings her TV Score for series two of Wolf Hall (The Mirror And The Light BBC TV) to Haddenham, played by the Locrian Ensemble of London (who played on the original soundtrack) with extracts from Hilary Mantel’s novel read by the Bafta decorated actor Anton Lesser. This concert will also show images from the TV Series creating a multimedia experience.

7.30pm

TBA