A CLASSICAL music festival is being held at All Saints’ Church in Farley next week.

The Farley Music Festival 2013 programme will include a concert to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten on Tuesday.

Music for a While includes compositions by Britten and Henry Purcell, performed by James Bowman, Hugh Hetherington, Alistair Watson, Andrew Littlemore and Nicholas Walker.

The following three evening concerts will be performed by pianists from The Royal Academy of Music.

Carson Becke, former BBC Young Composer of the Year, will be playing music by Handel, Brahms and Schumann on Wednesday.

Petr Limonov is playing on Thursday and the programme includes Chopin, Gibbons, Schumann, Scriabin and Schubert. And on Friday David Gray is playing a programme that includes Balakirev, Chopin, Ravel and Alkan.

Saturday’s concert, Sacred and Secular, will be a journey through the English choral landscape with The Sarum Six, led by Philip Lawson.

There will be songs from the English Renaissance and folksongs from the north, including Byrd, Britten, Elgar, Parry, Stanford and Tallis.

All the concerts start at 7pm and there is a Festival Evensong with Canon Paul Jenkins on June 23, which starts at 6pm.

The festival will be raising funds for the preservation of the 17th century church.

Tickets cost £15 for each concert, to include a glass of wine in the interval, and are available from Salisbury Playhouse Box Office on 01722 320333.