26th May 2025 | 13:30English Music Festival, Wallingford, UK
With the Berkeley Ensemble: Francesca Barritt & Stephanie Waite (violins), Dan Shilladay (viola) & Becky Hepplewhite (cello)
Dorothy Howell's World
The Berkeley Ensemble has long championed the music of Dorothy Howell and in this concert presents Howell in her milieu, with her music alongside works by her teacher at the Royal Academy of Music, John Blackwood McEwen, her friend Herbert Howell and that of Edward Elgar, a towering figure of her earlier life, and whose grave she tended in the Malvern Hills.
John Blackwood McEwen
Nugae, Seven Bagatelles for String Quartet
Bridge
Miniatures, H 87-89(Minuet; Russian Waltz; Hornpipe)
Dorothy Howell
String Quartet in D minor
Howells
Elegy, Op. 15 (arr. John Glenesk Mortimer)
Elgar
Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84
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