![]() ![]() Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Hubert Parry - Works for Chorus and Orchestra His music can verge on banality and then as effortlessly touch the sublime with a candour some contemporaries found hard to accept: nobody else, save perhaps Alkan, could have written such disparate pieces as the First and Third Preludes on the very same day. He wrote to please himself, happily free of that need to feel justified in the eyes of critics, public and posterity which is the bane of young composers. Moeran - Piano MusicĪlthough Baines tried his hand at most forms of composition, producing in his teens a massive symphony and copious chamber and vocal works, the piano being always accessible remained his natural medium of expression. New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, conductor & Marches by Grainger, Delius, Holst etc. Osian Ellis, harp, Geoffrey Browne, cor anglais, London Philharmonic Orchestra, William Alwyn, conductorĮric Coates - Suites: Summer Days, From Meadow to Mayfair, Three Elizabeths etc. William Alwyn - Concerto Grosso No.2, Autumn Legend, Lyra Angelica William Alwyn - The Magic Island, Sinfonietta for Strings etc. London Philharmonic Orchestra, William Alwyn, conductor London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir William Walton, conductor William Walton - The Quest, Sinfonia Concertante etc. Howard Shelley, piano, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, conductor Lorraine McAslan, violin, Alexander Baillie, cello, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton, conductor Gustav Holst - The Cotswolds Symphony, Indra, Dances from The Morning of the Year etc. William Hurlstone - Variations on an Original Theme, The Magic Mirror etc. London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor Schumann, with whom Bennett would often "drink a bottle of porter", noted the "remarkable family resemblance" in Bennett's music to that of Mendelssohn's – "the same beauty of form, poetic depth yet clearness, and ideal purity, the same outwardly satisfying impression, – but with a difference." London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor ![]() William Sterndale Bennett - Symphony in G minor, Overtures Malcolm Binns, piano, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor William Sterndale Bennett - Piano Concerto Nos. Malcolm Binns, piano, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor The first of her few commercial recordings consisted of the Tippett and Hamilton sonatas presented here, originally released on a Lyrita LP in 1959. ![]() She championed many British composers, including Peter Racine Fricker, Iain Hamilton, Elizabeth Lutyens, Thea Musgrave, Alexander Goehr, Priaulx Rainier, Humphrey Searle, Alan Bush, Richard Rodney Bennett and Michael Tippett, whose Second Piano Sonata is dedicated to her. Pianist Margaret Kitchin (1914-2008) was a child prodigy who later specialised in modern and contemporary music, making BBC broadcasts of this repertoire for over 20 years. Michael Tippett, Iain Hamilton, William Wordsworth - Works for Piano For more information please click on the disc cover or catalogue number ![]()
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