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It’s strange that a country so unapologetic about its nationalist enthusiasms, particularly during the Victorian period when Britannia truly “ruled the waves” and was the
This second volume in Naxos’ Stanford symphony cycle is very well played and recorded. David Lloyd-Jones leads with a firm hand and finds about as
John Gardner (b. 1917) is a composer who’s difficult to fathom. The light overture Midsummer Ale is delicious, full of good tunes, and well-orchestrated. The
Music such as this–well crafted, tuneful, and beautifully scored–probably deserves more attention than it gets. The problem with these symphonies is their near total lack
Growing up as I did in the New England prep-school tradition, I had the opportunity to sing in some half-dozen Gilbert and Sullivan operettas (we
William Alwyn’s Elizabethan Dances cleverly alternates music evocative of Tudor and modern times, recalling the reigns of both Queen Elizabeths. It’s a work that deserves
Here’s an enormously useful and enjoyable disc containing some well-known favorites (Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Toward the Unknown Region), alongside three rarities. The
William Alwyn’s Fourth Symphony is an epilogue to his first three, conceived as a cycle. It’s a tough work, its Romanticism tempered by an edgy
Although best known for his film music, William Alwyn composed five symphonies (among other concert works). Symphony No. 1 unsurprisingly marries symphonic form to an
Hyperion continues its excellent survey of Constant Lambert’s fascinating music with a disc containing his first great success, Romeo and Juliet, and some interesting rarities.
