VIOLINIST | MUSICOLOGIST
On Saturday 25 May, Rupert Marshall-Luck will be joined by the South African pianist Peter Cartwright in a recital for The English Music Festival. The concert, which will take place in the glorious surroundings of Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames, will feature works by Arthur Bliss, Gustav Holst and Ernest Farrar alongside sonatas by Herbert Howells and Charles Villiers Stanford. The full programme is available on this page; to book tickets, please visit The English Music Festival’s online Box Office.
Rupert Marshall-Luck’s scholarly-critical edition of Edward Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, op. 20, has recently been published by G. Henle Verlag. The Serenade is one of Elgar’s most popular compositions and is among the most frequently played works in the string-orchestra literature. This new Henle Urtext comprises conductor’s score, a set of parts and a study edition. Full details are available on the Henle website.
Rupert discusses the new edition in an online interview with Dr Norbert Müllemann, Head of Publishing at G. Henle Verlag. The interview is now available to read on the Henle Blog: follow this link for the English-language version, and this link for the version in German.
A new recording with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by John Andrews, the celebrated baritone Roderick Williams and Rupert Marshall-Luck has recently been released by EM Records. The recording includes music by Gustav Holst, Norman O’Neill, Roger Quilter and Frederick Delius, as well as Rupert’s own orchestration of Havergal Brian’s Legend which was commissioned by the Havergal Brian Society. More details are available on the EM Records website and will be posted on this site soon.
Rupert is delighted to have been invited to return to Summartónar, the composers’ festival in the Faroe Islands, in 2025. His recitals, which will take place in various venues throughout the Faroes, will include works by Faroese composers as well as one of his own compositions for solo violin. Further details, including dates and full programmes, will be available later this year.