Orpheus at Radley Farm
Music for an English Summer Evening
Saturday 25 June 2011
Radley Farm, near Hungerford
Berkshire, RG17 0NY
Guests are invited to picnic in the grounds from 4pm
Gates close at 5.50pm
Concert commences at 6pm
Orpheus Sinfonia
Thomas Carroll Conductor
Tamsin Waley-Cohen Violin
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Wasps Overture
Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'
English Folk Song Suite
The Lark Ascending
Five Variants of
'Dives and Lazarus'
Sir Edward Elgar
Salut d'Amour, Op. 12
Enigma Variations, Op. 36
Tickets: £30, £25
The Orpheus Sinfonia's third performance at Radley Farm, the home of the Chairman of the Orpheus Foundation Trust, is themed Music for an English Summer Evening. The concert features the sounds of wasps, birds and the magic of the countryside in summer. Thomas Carroll conducts and is joined by his partner Tamsin Waley-Cohen for Vaughan Williams' exquisite The Lark Ascending. The sounds of old English folk melodies adorn the popular English Folk Song Suite and Five Variants of 'Dives and Lazarus', before a performance of Elgar's epic Enigma Variations. Guests are, as always, welcome to picnic in the grounds at Radley from 4pm before enjoying the performance, which commences at 6pm. There will be an interval of one hour and guests are welcome to continue picnicking both during this and after the performance.
Directions to Radley Farm
From London and the East & from Cardiff and the West: Take the M4 to Junction 14 and then the A338 towards Hungerford. At Hungerford Newtown, turn left
immediately before The Tally Ho pub and follow the road for almost two miles until the first turning on the left at a crossroads. Turn left up the hill, then around a
sharp bend and the turning to Radley Farm is on the left immediately after three houses on your left. From Oxford and the North & from Southampton and the South: take the A34 to the Speen interchange with the A4. Take the A4 towards Hungerford for approx. six miles. Turn right at the junction marked Radley to the right and Avington to the left. Follow this road until the first crossroads, turn right up the hill, then around a sharp bend and the turning to Radley Farm is on the left immediately after three houses on your left.
