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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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22.10.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arnold Bax: Romantic Overture (1926) Part 2

The Romantic Overture was first performed at the New Chenil Galleries in the King’s Road, Chelsea, London on 18 January 1927. The then-youn...

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19.10.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arnold Bax: Romantic Overture (1926) Part 1

In the July 1966 edition of Musical Opinion , Lewis Foreman examined the ‘Unperformed works of Sir Arnold Bax.’ Amongst many pieces discusse...

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17.10.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Romance and Reverie: Holst and his Contemporaries

The publicity for this CD states that the repertoire “is based on chamber works written or arranged for violin with either voice or another ...

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13.10.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Eric Coates's Tribute to Arnold Bax

Eric Francis Harrison Coates (1886-1957) was a significant English composer known for his light music. Born in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, Co...

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10.10.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Highways and Byways: Rarities for Recorder

This 2-CD set gets off to a great start with Lennox Berkeley’s Sonatina op. 13 dating from 1939. Typical of his style, it is a successful fu...

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07.10.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alfred Reynold: Suite: Alice through the Looking Glass (1947)

As long as I can remember, I have been a fan of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Alice through the Looking Glass . I owne...

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04.10.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Discovering Joan Trimble (An Ulster-born composer) Part 3

Possible Works to Revive? The orchestral miniature In Glenade was composed in 1942. Commissioned by the Dublin String Orchestra (DSO), it ...

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01.10.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Discovering Joan Trimble (An Ulster-born composer) Part 2: Five Works

The Pool among the Rushes for clarinet and piano (1940) A great place to begin an exploration of Joan Trimble’s music is with the short, but...

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28.09.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Discovering Joan Trimble (An Ulster-born composer) Part 1

At an English Music Festival (Yorkshire) event, there was a splendid concert devoted to British Song (Sunday 29th September 2019). The progr...

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25.09.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum from the August 2023 Festival

This CD gets off to an interesting start with William Sterndale Bennett’s Three Pieces, op.28, dating from 1846-49, played by Daniel Grimwoo...

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21.09.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Celebrating Gustav Holst’s 150th Anniversary- Today!

Today, 21 September 2024, marks the 150th anniversary of Gustav Holst’s birth. Born in Cheltenham, Holst is best known for his orchestral su...

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19.09.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: The Most Gallant Haydn...

This is a good, possibly apocryphal, story of Josef Haydn’s time in London sometime between 1791 and 1795. “When in London, Haydn once vis...

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16.09.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Franz Schubert Piano Music on Danacord

This CD was a bit of an adventure to me. I have probably heard all the pieces on this disc over the past half-century, but never listened to...

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13.09.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Introducing Ignaz Moscheles

Since first learning that Ignaz Moscheles spent much of his career in the United Kingdom, I have regarded him as an ‘honorary’ British com...

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10.09.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Finger Prints: British Light Music for Piano

The ethos of this pot-pourri is predicated on an old Viennese adage of “taking serous music lightly and light music seriously.” Here the l...

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08.09.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Gordon Cameron: Organist and Composer (1900-89)

The Priory CD Organs of the Lake District (PRCD1177) has enabled listeners to discover the music of an organist and composer who had an impo...

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04.09.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Pelléas and Mélisande: Schoenberg and Fauré

The listener needs to know that both these great works are predicated on Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck’s (1862-1949) five act play,...

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01.09.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Frank Bridge: Cherry Ripe for orchestra (1916)

Frank Bridge’s Cherry Ripe is a delightful piece that forms the second of his Two Old English Songs for string quartet, completed on 30 May...

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29.08.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Thomas Pitfield: His Friends and Contemporaries

The advertising brief for this new CD from Divine Art states that this album “pays homage to the multifaceted talent of Thomas Baron Pitfiel...

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26.08.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Introducing Henry Purcell

Henry Purcell, often hailed as England’s greatest Baroque composer, left an indelible mark on the world of music with his innovative and exp...

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23.08.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Haydn Wood: Paris Suite (1937)

Haydn Wood (1882-1959) was an English composer, renowned for his contributions to both light and classical music. Born in Slaithwaite, in th...

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20.08.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Thomas Pitfield: String Chamber Music

Listeners need to know that Thomas Baron Pitfield was a polymath. Not only was he a hugely prolific and skilled composer, but he was an arti...

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17.08.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Hidden Holst V: The Lure (1921)

Gustav Holst’s The Lure is a surprisingly interesting score. Think of the powerful brass figurations, a touch of folk melody, wide ranging ...

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14.08.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: William Alwyn: The Green Girdle

The Green Girdle was a propaganda film made in 1941 by the Strand Film unit and directed by Ralph Keane. Its message was quite simply one of...

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11.08.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Charles Villiers Stanford: Three Intermezzi for clarinet and piano, op. 13

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) wrote four major works for clarinet. In 1902 the Concerto for clarinet, op.80 was composed and dedicat...

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08.08.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Howard Ferguson: Piano Concerto, op.12 (1951)

There are two things to say about Howard Ferguson. Firstly, he wrote too little! It is always a great disappointment to me that Ferguson gav...

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05.08.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Ravel's Orchestral Transcriptions on Danacord

This enriching CD platforms a selection of Maurice Ravel’s orchestrations of his piano compositions, alongside the Rapsodie Espagnole . Le...

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02.08.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alan Rawsthorne: Street Corner Overture for orchestra (1944)

In Music Survey (Volume 2, No 3 Winter 1950, p. 192), Donald Mitchell briefly reviews the miniature score of Alan Rawsthorne's Street Corne...

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30.07.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: E.J. Moeran: Overture for a Masque (1944)

It is possible to underestimate Moeran’s Overture for a Masque , quite simply because it is populist in its impact. Yet, it must be recalled...

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27.07.2024

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arnold Bax’s Work in Progress: Overture for orchestra (1944)

Arnold Bax scholar, the late Graham Parlett, gives a great overview of the Work in Progress: Overture for orchestra in the final edition of...

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The Land of Lost Content Blog - Music

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

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arnold Bax: Romantic Overture (1926) Part 2

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arnold Bax: Romantic Overture (1926) Part 1

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Romance and Reverie: Holst and his Contemporaries

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Eric Coates's Tribute to Arnold Bax

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Highways and Byways: Rarities for Recorder

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alfred Reynold: Suite: Alice through the Looking Glass (1947)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Discovering Joan Trimble (An Ulster-born composer) Part 3

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Discovering Joan Trimble (An Ulster-born composer) Part 2: Five Works

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Discovering Joan Trimble (An Ulster-born composer) Part 1

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Rarities of Piano Music at Schloss vor Husum from the August 2023 Festival

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Celebrating Gustav Holst’s 150th Anniversary- Today!

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: The Most Gallant Haydn...

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Franz Schubert Piano Music on Danacord

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Introducing Ignaz Moscheles

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Finger Prints: British Light Music for Piano

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Gordon Cameron: Organist and Composer (1900-89)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Pelléas and Mélisande: Schoenberg and Fauré

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Frank Bridge: Cherry Ripe for orchestra (1916)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Thomas Pitfield: His Friends and Contemporaries

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Introducing Henry Purcell

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Haydn Wood: Paris Suite (1937)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Thomas Pitfield: String Chamber Music

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Hidden Holst V: The Lure (1921)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: William Alwyn: The Green Girdle

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Charles Villiers Stanford: Three Intermezzi for clarinet and piano, op. 13

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Howard Ferguson: Piano Concerto, op.12 (1951)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: It's not British, but...Ravel's Orchestral Transcriptions on Danacord

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Alan Rawsthorne: Street Corner Overture for orchestra (1944)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: E.J. Moeran: Overture for a Masque (1944)

British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content: Arnold Bax’s Work in Progress: Overture for orchestra (1944)

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