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For a composer no one much cares about and whose […]
William Alwyn was a very intelligent composer. His serious concert
This is very good second-rate music. Frédéric d’Erlanger was a count, or baron, or something like that, and he wrote fastidiously aristocratic, sentimental, lovely music
Arthur Bliss is a hard composer to place. He maintained a very high standard of craftsmanship throughout his long career (he died at 84 in
Drawn from David Lloyd-Jones’ excellent set of Bax symphony recordings, this collection competes in four out of five works with Bryden Thomson and the Ulster
Naxos is going head to head with Chandos in English repertoire, and while British critics no doubt will circle the wagons in defense of their
The neglect of The Quest, William Walton’s only original ballet and one of his largest works altogether, makes no sense at all. A wartime work
Delius’ only piano concerto went through several revisions on its way to its final form, which is about 10 minutes shorter than the full three-movement
In the golden age of vinyl, the English label Lyrita produced a series of Bax symphony recordings conducted by Myer Fredman, Raymond Leppard, Vernon Handley,
These are very good performances of both The Planets and The Mystic Trumpeter, and for my original review you can type Q4913 in the search
