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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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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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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30.11.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Advent Sunday: Charles Wood’s O thou, the central orb

Tomorrow is Advent Sunday. Christians are encouraged to prepare for the Feast of the Nativity, or the Incarnation. There is a twofold emphas...

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27.11.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: William Walton: Donald Brook’s Pen-Portrait from 'Composer's Gallery' Part II

The second and final part of Donald Brook's pen portrait of William Walton published in his book Composers Gallery . I suppose it was inev...

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24.11.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: William Walton: Donald Brook’s Pen-Portrait from 'Composer's Gallery' Part I

Donald Brook wrote a series of books presenting attractive short studies or pen-portraits of a wide variety of musicians and literary author...

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21.11.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Constant Lambert on William Walton’s Façade.

British composer, conductor, and author Constant Lambert (1905-51) appeared as a reciter in Façade in the New Chenil Galleries, Chelsea, Lon...

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18.11.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Made in USA - American Piano Music

Originally devised for Paul Whiteman and his band, Rhapsody in Blue has become one of the iconic examples of American music. It combines ja...

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15.11.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Frederick Delius: Air & Dance for string orchestra

Frederick Delius’ (1862-1934) Air and Dance is a ‘wartime’ work that was composed in 1915 whilst the composer and his wife were living at Gr...

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12.11.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Serenade: Chamber Music by Krenek, Gál and Penderecki

Austrian-born Ernst Krenek’s development as a composer was wide-ranging. Beginning his career in the music salons of Weimar Republic Berlin,...

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09.11.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Introducing Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

Sadly, most “music lovers” know only a single work by Parry – Jerusalem . This is sung at the Last Night of the Proms (often in Elgar’s arra...

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07.11.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Royal Throne of Kings

This is the most intriguing disc that I have reviewed (so far) in 2024. Let me explain. Virtually all the works are heard here for the first...

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03.11.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: John Ireland Prelude in E flat for piano (1924)

Amongst John Ireland’s (1879-1962) better-known compositions for piano such as Sarnia , Decorations and the Piano Sonata, there is the enigm...

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31.10.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: That Sweet City: Music by Kenneth Leighton and Ralph Vaughan Williams

The liner notes succinctly sum up the impact of this new disc: “Both [works] are evocations of the pastoral and bucolic, Leighton’s…celebrat...

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28.10.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Hidden Holst VI: A Fugal Overture (1922)

I first heard Gustav Holst’s A Fugal Overtur e, op.40/1 (H.151) on record in about 1976. It was part of Lyrita SRCS 37, performed by the Lon...

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25.10.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Music for Stage and Screen

This pot-pourri of “stage and screen” music is derived from RVW Society Vice President Stephen Connock MBE’s personal collection of recorded...

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The Land of Lost Content Blog - Music

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: Alan Rawsthorne by Hubert Foss - Part 2

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: John Ireland: February’s Child for piano (1929)

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

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

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

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Advent Sunday: Charles Wood’s O thou, the central orb

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: William Walton: Donald Brook’s Pen-Portrait from 'Composer's Gallery' Part II

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: William Walton: Donald Brook’s Pen-Portrait from 'Composer's Gallery' Part I

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Constant Lambert on William Walton’s Façade.

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Made in USA - American Piano Music

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Frederick Delius: Air & Dance for string orchestra

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Serenade: Chamber Music by Krenek, Gál and Penderecki

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Introducing Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Royal Throne of Kings

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: John Ireland Prelude in E flat for piano (1924)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: That Sweet City: Music by Kenneth Leighton and Ralph Vaughan Williams

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Hidden Holst VI: A Fugal Overture (1922)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Music for Stage and Screen

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