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RUBBRA; EDMUND
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Rubbra: String Quartets Nos. 1, 3, & 4/Maggini
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…
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Rubbra: Symphonies 5 & 8/Hickox
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…
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Rubbra: Sacred muse
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…
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Rubbra & Hadley/Gonville & Caius
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…
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Rubbra: English Choral Music/St. John’s
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…
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Rubbra: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 8; Soliloquy for Cello & Orchestra
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…
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Walton & Rubbra: Viola Concertos
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…
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Rubbra: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7
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…
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Rubbra: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
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…
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Rubbra: Madrigals, motets, etc./Voces Sacrae
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…
