Your first record of music by a British composer

[EdgeleyRob]

Britten.

Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia.
Sinfonia Da Requiem.

LSO Previn (EMI ? LP),mid 70s,long since gone.

Changed my life,this was when I realised that great music was not only written in Germany and Austria

[Beef Oven!]

Hello Goodbye - Lennon & McCartney. Didn't change my life, but the b-side..............

[Beef Oven!]

Classical was E's Enigma Variations - Boult

[richardfinegold]

Brits not being on my radar, I think it was many years of record collecting before I bought my first. I think it was Solti in the Enigma Variations, which was a filler for Schoenberg's Variations For Orchestra.
My first real appreciation for any British Composer was RVW, and it was Haitink's recording of the Antarctica in the 80s that did it for me.

[Madame Suggia]

Flos Campi

Vernon Handley's recording which I listened to over and over on my walkman while out exploring the Pewsey downs with Bella my springer spaniel.

[Beef Oven!]

Flos Campi

Vernon Handley's recording which I listened to over and over on my walkman while out exploring the Pewsey downs with Bella my springer spaniel.

[Ferretfancy]

Vaughan Williams -Fantasia on Greensleeves, on an old 78, played by the Jacques Orchestra conducted by Reginald Jacques. This would have been in about 1946, when i was about eleven years old. At that age nationality didn't mean very much, perhaps it still shouldn't.

[visualnickmos]

Holst's
Yes, what else
An LP MfP, with Stokowski conducting - I can't recall the orchestra.

[Nick Armstrong]

"Sir Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic on Parade" ℗1968.... including Coates and Alford....



I'd just started to play marches in the school band and was briefly addicted! And still love a good march, well played: and the playing on that album is electifying (I've since found it on CD and it sounds fresh as paint and sharp as anything - actually my favourite is Richard Rodgers's 'Guadalcanal')

But the Alford marches got me above all at the time so the above was followed hard on its heels by the Marines playing some of his others



Just seeing those LP covers (and that square white label on the LPO record) after 40 years gives me goose bumps...

[Roslynmuse]

Holst's
Yes, what else
An LP MfP, with Stokowski conducting - I can't recall the orchestra.

Los Angeles Phil and the Roger Wagner Chorale - that was the first one I heard (my dad's). Then Elgar Enigma on Decca World of... LSO/Monteux coupled with Brahms St Anthony Variations. And lots of Sullivan (mostly D'Oyly Carte recordings from the 50s and 60s).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Holst's Planets for me, too - LPO/Boult (with a peculiar coupling: Sibelius' Tempest Prelude.) A very disappointing recording - even at the time, I knew it could be done better. But it was so cheap - and had a coupling that when I bought it I thought I'd got a bargain.

EDIT: Ah, no - Roslynmuse's post reminds me that my parents bought me The World of Gilbert & Sullivan, Vol1 when I was ten. Not only my first Brit record, my very first "classical" record. It's continued ever since!

[teamsaint]

Holst's Planets for me, too - LPO/Boult (with a peculiar coupling: Sibelius' Tempest Prelude.) A very disappointing recording - even at the time, I knew it could be done better. But it was so cheap - and had a coupling that when I bought it I thought I'd got a bargain.

EDIT: Ah, no - Roslynmuse's post reminds me that my parents bought me The World of Gilbert & Sullivan, Vol1 when I was ten. Not only my first Brit record, my very first "classical" record. It's continued ever since!

10044 and going strong.

Lets hear it for Ferney.

First British music I recall hearing and knowing who it was , was a pile of Andy Stewart singles that my grandmother seemed to have next to the gramophone.

Of course, it may not be British music for much longer.

[Nick Armstrong]

10044 and going strong.

Welcome to the 10.000 Club Ferns !

[teamsaint]

Welcome to the 10.000 Club Ferns !

IIRC , he has to provide the booze for the 10k clubs midsummer bash?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Welcome to the 10.000 Club Ferns !

- blimey; I hadn't noticed! Cheers, everyone!