The sixteenth annual English Music Festival opens in Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire with a highly anticipated visit by the BBC Concert Orchestra on opening night to perform major works by E. J. Moeran and Ralph Vaughan Williams, as well as World Premières by William Lloyd Webber, William Alwyn and Paul Lewis. Concerts continue at Dorchester Abbey, Radley College Silk Hall and at All Saints’ Church, Sutton Courtenay, with a mini-bus transfer provided between venues. Full details on the website.