Saturday Classics/Inside Music

[Bax-of-Delights]

Yes, only this morning I discovered from that site that Lewis Foreman had just published "The John Ireland Companion". A copy is now on its way to me.

[Anna]

And a thank you from me as well, I've been dipping into it and will also add it to my favourites. Such a lot to learn about British music.

[VodkaDilc]

As Radio 3 no longer broadcasts from 0630 to noon Monday to Friday and as the other channel on the frequency is unbearably awful,

Thank you for this.
It really is the best way to think about it - like the days when Test Match Special replaced R3 at certain times.

[amateur51]

For those interested in the further reaches of British music I can thoroughly recommend the following site:

http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/

May I join in the plaudits for your posting this link, BoD? - a great delight!

I was very pleased to see a couple of mentions of Angela Morley

http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/search/label/Angela%20Morley

[Anna]

I was very pleased to see a couple of mentions of Angela Morley

Gosh! I know the name Wally Stott (no idea how or why, old programmes on R4 Extra perhaps?) but he then became a she, which I certainly didn't know about.

[EdgeleyRob]

For those interested in the further reaches of British music I can thoroughly recommend the following site:

http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/

Many thanks from me too.

[amateur51]

Gosh! I know the name Wally Stott (no idea how or why, old programmes on R4 Extra perhaps?) but he then became a she, which I certainly didn't know about.

A nice but too short piece of BBC film, Anna. Good contributions from John Wilson who I assume is the John Wilson who has conducted popular but much-harrumphed-about-on-here Proms about film/musical music over the last couple of years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyqgibiVjh0

[Anna]

A nice but too short piece of BBC film, Anna. Good contributions from John Wilson who I assume is the John Wilson who has conducted popular but much-harrumphed-about-on-here Proms about film/musical music over the last couple of years.

Thanks Ams, just watched that, enjoyable. (Actually, I've never harrumphed about John Wilson's Proms, and I enjoyed his Saturday film music programmes) Perhaps I should, re British music, have a look at R2, they do quite a bit of it I think?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wally Stott was the band leader on several comedy shows on the Home Service in the '50s, including The Goon Show.

[salymap]

And a thank you from me as well, I've been dipping into it and will also add it to my favourites. Such a lot to learn about British music.

Anna there was a review of the Ireland book on R3, one in the FEb BBC MM and a thread ON PLATFORM 3 earlier this month, where we all rather talked of Ireland instead of the book. At £40 and small print not for me, although I would love to be able to read it.

[Andrew Slater]

The British Music Society quarterly newsletter is full of interesting articles, and there's an annual journal which contains longer pieces. Discounts are available on BMS and other CDs for members. You can join here for £25.

There are occasional offers on books - until 31st January, for instance, the John Ireland Companion can be had for £30. (There's a discount reference printed in the December newsletter.)

[salymap]

For those interested in the further reaches of British music I can thoroughly recommend the following site:

http://landofllostcontent.blogspot.com/

Thanks a lot BoD, Another one for my favourites.

[Bryn]

Thanks a lot BoD, Another one for my favourites.

With a detailed, considered review of the new John Ireland tome.

[antongould]

Can't remember when I enjoyed a Saturday afternoon on R3 so much whilst cooking in the kitchen! (That does not make me a sad person!) Loved the Hadley, Lambert and indeed, the Britten which was new to me. Oh, he's just said next week John Foulds, I do like him! Very interesting man and Finzi (who I do not know very well)

Just for round to listening to Heffer 2 and like Anna enjoyed it all except possibly the Lambert.
Does everyone agree on his view of Delius i.e. he felt he wasn't really that British musically?

[Panjandrum]

Finally got around to listening to yesterday's broadcast of the third of Simon Heffer's increasingly indispensable series of programmes on British 20th century composers. As a Finzi devotee I was delighted to make the acquaintance of the early song cycle, "By Footpath and Style". However, the real revelation was the trombone concerto of Gordon Jacob, whom I had only previously known as the orchestrator of Elgar's organ sonata. Two more CDs for the wishlist.