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01.04.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alexander Mackenzie’s A Musician’s Narrative Reviewed by Punch

Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (b Edinburgh, 22 Aug 1847; d London, 28 April 1935) was a Scottish composer, who was educated at the Royal Acad...

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29.03.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Wilfred Heaton: Composer – Conductor - Craftsman His Life - His Music

“Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?” Often attributed to the legendary founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth, it may have ...

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26.03.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Cyril Watters: Bargain Basement (1949)

A ‘Bargain Basement’ usually implies a section of a department store (such as the ‘basement’) where merchandise is sold at reduced prices. I...

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23.03.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Charles Villiers Stanford: Rondo in F for cello and orchestra (1869

I recently [re] discovered one of Charles Villiers Stanford’s (1852-1924) rarer compostions. The Rondo in F major for cello and orchestra wa...

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20.03.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Bach's A Musical Offering for organ

At the back of my mind, I have always thought of Bach’s Musikalisches Opfer (A Musical Offering) BWV 1079 (1747) as being an academic work ...

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17.03.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: The Rich Heritage Left by William Baines Part II

The second and final part of A. Walter Kramer’s article on the English composer William Baines. It was published in Musical America (Septem...

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14.03.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: The Rich Heritage Left by William Baines Part I

William Baines (1899-1922) was an English composer and pianist known for his prolific output despite his short life. Born in Horbury, Yorksh...

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11.03.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Bliss Conducts Bliss

There have been several reissues of Arthur Bliss’s Violin Concerto and A Colour Symphony , conducted by the composer, over the years. On a p...

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08.03.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arthur Bliss’s A Colour Symphony on Decca Vinyl Part II

Bliss’s recording of A Colour Symphony and the Introduction and Allegro were reissued on the popular Ace of Clubs label (ACL 239) during 196...

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05.03.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arthur Bliss’s A Colour Symphony on Decca Vinyl Part I

Arthur Bliss’s (1891-1975) recording of his A Colour Symphony (1921-22) was the first album of his music that I owned. This was included on...

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02.03.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: British Cello Works: Volume 3

Despite his short life, English composer William Hurlstone left behind a small but outstanding catalogue, including pieces like Variations o...

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27.02.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alun Hoddinott: Intrada for organ 1967

In my accumulation of organ music, I have two volumes of Oxford University Press’s Easy Modern Organ Music. I remember buying them in a Gla...

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25.02.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Ronald Stevenson: Piano Music, Volume 7: Folksong with Grainger

The advertising material for this CD explains that Percy Grainger and Ronald Stevenson, who were both composer-pianists of the Golden Age of...

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21.02.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Minor Masterpieces of Organ Music No.1: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Rhosymedre

So often when eulogising about organ music we tend to think of the warhorses – Bach (of course), Widor, Reger, Messiaen et al. Sometimes the...

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19.02.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Trevor Duncan’s Little Suite (1959)

Ever since first watching episodes of the original Dr Finlay’s Caseboo k back in the mid to late1960s, I have enjoyed the theme music. This ...

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19.02.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: John Ireland: February’s Child for piano (1929)

February’s Child is often described as a musical depiction of a child's innocent and playful nature. It is characterized by its light, deli...

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19.02.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Endless Fascination: The Life and Work of Thomas Pitfield, Composer, Artist, Craftsman, Poet

Endless Fascination is a celebration of the life and labour of composer, artist, craftsman and poet, Thomas Pitfield. It is a sumptuous vol...

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19.02.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alan Rawsthorne by Hubert Foss - Part 2

This is Part 2 of Hubert Foss’s long essay about British composer, Alan Rawsthorne, published in Musical America (February 1952, pp. 19, 16...

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19.02.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alan Rawsthorne by Hubert Foss - Part 1

Hubert James Foss (1899-1953) was an influential English pianist, composer, and the first Musical Editor for Oxford University Press (OUP) f...

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03.02.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: William Walton: Complete Song Collection

What a wonderful disc! I start by echoing accompanist Gerald Moore’s comment who said that “Walton’s songs are really terrific, everything W...

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31.01.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Josef Holbrooke on William Baines.

Josef Holbrooke (1878-1958) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. Born in Croydon, Surrey, he studied at the Royal Academy of Mus...

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28.01.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Chopin Variations played by Oleg Marshev

This new CD from Danacord opens with the Variations on a Theme of Chopin , op.22. These were begun in 1902 when Rachmaninov had returned to ...

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25.01.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alan Rawsthorne: Suite for flute, viola, and harp (1968) Some Further Reviews and Studies

For the second half of this post about Alan Rawsthorne: Suite for flute, viola, and harp, I quote two contemporary reviews of the premiere p...

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22.01.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alan Rawsthorne: Suite for flute, viola, and harp (1968)

One of the acknowledged masterpieces for flute, viola, and harp, is Claude Debussy’s Sonata en trio completed in 1915. This piece is charac...

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19.01.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Ronald Stevenson: Piano Works

The recital opens with Ronald Stevenson’s important Peter Grimes Fantasy on themes from Benjamin Britten's opera for piano solo, written in...

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16.01.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Edward White: Paris Interlude (c.1949)

A destination for many putative time travellers must be Paris in the 1940s and 1950s. After having suffered occupation by the Germans, it wa...

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13.01.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: So Written to After-Times: John McCabe - A Life in Letters

The advertising for this new book explains that it is “a compilation of letters between composer-pianist John McCabe (1939-2015) and eminent...

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10.01.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Sidney Torch: London Transport Suite (1957)

Commissioned by the 1957 BBC Light Music Festival, Sidney Torch’s London Transport Suite is a little bit of whimsy. Although not approaching...

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07.01.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Scheherazade for piano

The liner notes remind the listener that as “A mystic realm tinged with the scent of foreign spices, bewitching music, vivid colour and sens...

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04.01.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arnold Bax: Legend for viola and piano (1929)

Just what the lore was behind Arnold Bax's Legend for viola and piano, is uncertain. It may be some tale from Ireland, so beloved by the com...

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01.01.2025

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content

A Happy and Prosperous New Year To All Readers of The Land of Lost Content Some Significant (and less so) Composer Anniversaries for 2025: ...

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28.12.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Liza Lehmann: Cobweb Castle for piano (1908)

For many non-Christians, Christmas represents a cultural festivity rather than a religious one. It is a time for family gatherings, exchangi...

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25.12.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content

A Merry Christmas To All Readers and Followers of 'The Land of Lost Content' The Nativity Robert Campin (c.1375-1444) The Adoration of...

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21.12.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Hidden Holst VII: Symphony in F, op.8 ‘The Cotswolds’

For my final post about the lesser-known music of Gustav Holst, I decided on the ‘Cotswold Symphony.’ Two days later, I heard an early morni...

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18.12.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Eric Coates: Cinderella - A Phantasy for Orchestra (1929)

One of the best loved (non-biblical) Christmas stories is Cinderella . It will be the focus of many pantomimes up and down the country as we...

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15.12.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Ralph Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Christmas - Arrangements from The Oxford Book of Carols

In his October 2021 review, here , John Quinn gives a detailed background to, and assessment of, this exceptional recording. He comments on ...

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12.12.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: William Alwyn: Three Winter Poems (1948)

As winter gets into full swing, readers will have mixed views on the weather. On the one hand it is romantic to have a “traditional” White C...

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09.12.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Carols from Herefordshire

This remarkable new recording closes an important gap in Ralph Vaughan Williams discography. For the first time, the complete score of the C...

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06.12.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Keep In with The Accompanist: A Handelian Tale

This story may not be true, but it is a bit of fun! It is typical of Handel’s wit, and his inability to suffer fools gladly. I apologise in ...

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03.12.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: A Christmas Fantasia: Carols and Fantasies

The publicity flyer for this CD reminds the listener that this is the third Christmas album issued by William Vann and the Chapel Choir of t...

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The Land of Lost Content Blog - Music

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alexander Mackenzie’s A Musician’s Narrative Reviewed by Punch

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Wilfred Heaton: Composer – Conductor - Craftsman His Life - His Music

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Cyril Watters: Bargain Basement (1949)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Charles Villiers Stanford: Rondo in F for cello and orchestra (1869

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Bach's A Musical Offering for organ

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: The Rich Heritage Left by William Baines Part II

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: The Rich Heritage Left by William Baines Part I

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Bliss Conducts Bliss

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arthur Bliss’s A Colour Symphony on Decca Vinyl Part II

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arthur Bliss’s A Colour Symphony on Decca Vinyl Part I

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: British Cello Works: Volume 3

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alun Hoddinott: Intrada for organ 1967

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Ronald Stevenson: Piano Music, Volume 7: Folksong with Grainger

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Minor Masterpieces of Organ Music No.1: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Rhosymedre

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Trevor Duncan’s Little Suite (1959)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: John Ireland: February’s Child for piano (1929)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Endless Fascination: The Life and Work of Thomas Pitfield, Composer, Artist, Craftsman, Poet

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alan Rawsthorne by Hubert Foss - Part 2

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alan Rawsthorne by Hubert Foss - Part 1

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: William Walton: Complete Song Collection

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Josef Holbrooke on William Baines.

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Chopin Variations played by Oleg Marshev

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alan Rawsthorne: Suite for flute, viola, and harp (1968) Some Further Reviews and Studies

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alan Rawsthorne: Suite for flute, viola, and harp (1968)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Ronald Stevenson: Piano Works

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Edward White: Paris Interlude (c.1949)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: So Written to After-Times: John McCabe - A Life in Letters

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Sidney Torch: London Transport Suite (1957)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Scheherazade for piano

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arnold Bax: Legend for viola and piano (1929)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Liza Lehmann: Cobweb Castle for piano (1908)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Hidden Holst VII: Symphony in F, op.8 ‘The Cotswolds’

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Eric Coates: Cinderella - A Phantasy for Orchestra (1929)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Ralph Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Christmas - Arrangements from The Oxford Book of Carols

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: William Alwyn: Three Winter Poems (1948)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Carols from Herefordshire

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Keep In with The Accompanist: A Handelian Tale

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: A Christmas Fantasia: Carols and Fantasies

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