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He was not an online kind of person
In a 2013 article Peter Sheeran explained that Vernon Handley (Tod) "...was not an online kind of person, and his telephone answering process was not fool-proof, so if you needed to discuss something you either sent a taxi to drag him out of his home or went down to Skenfrith [his home in Monmouthshire] yourself". Since Tod died in 2008 we have all, whether we like it or not, become online people. But, despite their lack of online kudos, Tod's definitive cycles of the symphonies of Arnold Bax, Robert Simpson, Malcolm Arnold, Granville Bantock, and Charles Villiers Stanford remain towering achievements. Vernon Handley's advocacy even extended further. In 1999 he recorded Edgar Bainton's Second Symphony for Chandos, and eight years later Bainton's Third Symphony for Dutton. Edgar Bainton (1880-1956) worked and lived in both England and Australia; in 1932 toured India and was a guest of Rabindranath Tagore. His path to obscurity was hastened by […]
2022-03-25 14:12:07
English Music Festival 2022: Vaughan Williams, Holst, Coleridge Taylor, Havergal Brian and an Ivor Gurney premiere
[…] Luck, plus music by Elgar, Delius, Alwyn, RO Morris and a chance to hear RVW's folk-dance piece Old King Cole. Joseph Fort and the Choir of King's College, London will join the English Chamber Orchestra for a rare outing for Holst's Sanskrit infused The Cloud Messenger [which they recorded in 2020, see my review], whilst baritone Roderick Williams, the Godwine Choir and Holst Orchestra, conductor by Hilary Davan Wetton perform RVW's Willow Wood plus music by Bainton, Dyson, Finzi, Howells and Ireland. As a celebration of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, the Elysian Singers perform A Garland for the Queen, originally written by Bliss, Bax, Tippett, RVW, Ireland, Howells, Finzi, Berkeley, Rawsthorne and Rubbra for the Coronation. Baritone Gareth Brynmor John and pianist Christopher Glynnwill be providing a welcome showcase for Havergal Brian's songs, whilst Rupert Marshall Luck and pianist Nathan Williamson will premiere Gurney's Violin Sonata in D major along with music […]
2021-06-08 07:25:01
Heart & Hereafter: Elizabeth Llewellyn & Simon Lepper's exploration of the songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Heart & Hereafter: collected songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; Elizabeth Llewellyn, Simon Lepper; Orchid Classics Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 6 May 2021 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) A lovely discovery, the English soprano makes her recital debut with an exploration of the songs of Coleridge-Taylor which makes you keen to hear moreSir Charles Villiers Stanford's pupils were a varied group and whilst his own music was firmly in the tradition of Brahms, that written by his pupils moved in different directions. The English school of the 20th century as typified by RVW and Holst arose in part, perhaps, because the older composer's teaching gave them something to rebel against. However the list of his pupils is wider than this, including Edgar Bainton, Arthur Benjamin, Arthur Bliss, Rutland Boughton, Herbert Brewer, Frank Bridge, Rebecca Clarke, Walford Davies, Thomas Dunhill, George Dyson, Leslie Heward, Eugene Goosens, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells, William Hurlstone, […]
2021-03-11 09:01:22
Rarely performed RVW & Gurney plus an Edgar Bainton premiere: this year's English Music Festival
St Mary's Church, Horsham, the location for this year's English Music Festival The 14th English Music Festival will be taking place from 28-31 May 2021 at St Mary’s Church, Horsham, West Sussex, where the festival hosted several concerts last year. This year's festival will feature several rarely performed works including RVW's Violin Concerto, the Concerto Accademico, Ivor Gurney’s song-cycle The Western Playland, which sets words by A. E. Housman, and the world premiere of a piano piece by Edgar Bainton.The Orchestra of the Swan launches the festival with a concert which features the RVW concerto alongside music by Peter Warlock, Walter Leigh, Gustav Holst, and John Ireland. Violinist Rupert Marshall-Luck and pianist Duncan Honeybourne will be performing sonatas by Bliss, Howells, Delius and Ireland alongside the Bainton premiere. The Aurora Trio perform works for flute, viola and harp by RVW, Bax, York Bowen and Paul Lewis.Baritone Roderick Williams, the Bridge […]
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