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Back in my college days my music-loving friends and I would amuse ourselves perusing the letters section of Gramophone magazine, and every so often a
Edmund Rubbra’s symphonies do not yield up their secrets easily. The idiom is unadventurous, and Rubbra’s relentlessly contrapuntal musical syntax lacks the sort of drama
Here’s another recording that begs the question: why don’t we hear more from this composer? During the past year, several record labels–ASV, Naxos, and Chandos–along
Although neither Edmund Rubbra nor Patrick Hadley is a major name in the history of choral music, programming these two 20th century British composers together
The program featured here is nearly identical to that given by Gloriae Dei Cantores on a disc reviewed earlier (type Q3193 in Search Reviews). Besides
Richard Hickox’s performances of these two symphonies for Chandos are very good; indeed, his take on the first movement of the Sixth Symphony, so redolent
Walton’s Viola Concerto always has been admired as one of his finest works, perhaps in part because of the dearth of competition. Hyperion is making
Edmund Rubbra’s first four symphonies tend to be hit or miss affairs, and the Second is arguably the best of them. Owing to a resolutely
You want to love Rubbra: he’s so sincere, thoughtful, and often quite beautiful. But these two resolutely unexciting symphonies probably will try your patience. Rubbra
If you’re not familiar with the choral music of Edmund Rubbra, this disc is both a good and not so good place to begin. It’s
