Your first record of music by a British composer

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

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

Right that's me down the shops for a bottle of Tizer, then. (Don't worry - it'll be a large bottle!)

[teamsaint]

Right that's me down the shops for a bottle of Tizer, then. (Don't worry - it'll be a large bottle!)

Since you are where you are, that will be Ben Shaws cloudy in a glass bottle, and some dandelion and Burdock to go with, if you wouldn't mind.
Please.

Er, and to get back on topic, the first classical LP of British I bought was RVW London Symphony, possibly on John Player Classics. No idea who played.

[Petrushka]

Must have been the 1969 Last Night of the Proms which I had for Christmas that year. It opened with Elgar's Cockaigne Overture which I loved right away. BBCSO/Sir Colin Davis.

[Nick Armstrong]

Since you are where you are, that will be Ben Shaws cloudy in a glass bottle, and some dandelion and Burdock to go with, if you wouldn't mind.
Please.

Ben Shaw's have sold out to the mania for aspartame... The D&B of my childhood is now spoiled with the bitter chemical taste...

[teamsaint]

Ben Shaw's have sold out to the mania for aspartame... The D&B of my childhood is now spoiled with the bitter chemical taste...

Thanks for the heads up , Cals.

All aspartame banned at TS towers.
You cannot buy aspartame free lemonade in Tesco at all.I emailed them. They replied but did nothing.


Sod the Ben Shaws, Ferney, get Waitrose own Brand. (But be careful only some of them are aspartame free).

[Roehre]

Actually I cannot recall, because in the beginning British/English music for me was Elgar's P&Cs, which I couldn't stand.
It must be approximately the same time as I dipped into Webern (symphony) and Ives (sym 4) in the summer of 1976, exploring and expanding my tastes straight into the 20C.
Likely to be something by RVW.

[frankwm]

An interesting memory test; as was sure I'd bought an HMV 'Adeste Fideles' @ 5yo when 12" 78's were being sold-off @ half-crown...but suppose it's the Dame Clara Butt inherited prior to that of 'Abide with Me' - which I couldn't stand - and 'Husheen' (Columbia Dark Blue DX729 rec: 1930: same series as a previously mentioned RVW Greensleeves/Jacques Orch (c/w Fould's Keltic Lament DX925 - which actually dates from 1939).

The first British LP bought was RVW LSO/Sargent Wasps/Serenade/Unknown Region (my favourite track) on MFP 2060, in 1967, from one of the MfP 'Carousel' displays that you'd find in Newsagents, etc, @ 12/6....its 3rd issue, as it had been reissued c.1964 on CLP due to being in an Exam syllabus subsequent to the 1957 ALP release which had been deleted.

[Barbirollians]

Elgar Enigma Variations coupled with VW's Fantasia on Greensleeves and Folk Song Suite - LSO/Boult . Soon followed by Menuhin/Boult in the Violin Concerto on HMV Concert Classics and the expense of the legendary ASD 655 .

VW's London Symphony with Barbirolli on EMI Eminence my first VW was next .

[LeMartinPecheur]

Not certain what was my first purchase, but my real discovery of British music came off an LP in my dad's collection (not extensive, never alas asked him why he picked this one): the Barbirolli Elgar/VW string music disc - Tallis and Greensleeves fantasias, Introduction & Allegro and Serenade. Still one of my magic discs. Dad's was mono; wasn't long in my record-buying career that I bought the stereo I kid you not.

One other very early one, BSO/ Silvestri in In the South: they don't come much more magic then that (and another Tallis Fantasia Possibly my first repertoire duplication? Certainly not my last).

[pastoralguy]

Boult's 'Enigma' on CfP bought in Boots whilst on holiday in Oban with my Grandparents circa. 1979.

[jayne lee wilson]

Ormandy and the Philadelphians, in Elgar's Enigma Variations, Cockaigne and VW's Tallis Fantasia. The LP cover was the lushest and greenest of English summer pastorals... I'm sure I loved it quite as much as the lushly performed music itself!

[makropulos]

The very first was G&S: a set of 78s of the Pirates of Penzance bought at a village jumble sale.
The first LP was VW Toward the Unknown Region, Wasps Ov. etc. on Music for Pleasure, all conducted by Sargent (MFP 2060)

[Pabmusic]

An EP of Stanley Pope (with the RPO?) conducting P & C nos. 1, 2, 4 & 5.

[Richard Tarleton]

British, English...My first was Julian Bream's all-Dowland lute recital "Dances of Dowland", a 1967 RCA LP that I bought in 1970.

My lifelong love of Dowland's lute music began with a classical guitar recital LP by Oscar Ghiglia which I bought in 1966 and which included Dowland's Fantasia no 7 (as it used to be known, from its place in the Varietie of Lute Lessons, but which is now generally referred to from its place in the Diana Poulton catalogue as Fantasia P1). It's one of my party pieces on the guitar to this day

[doversoul1]

Julian Bream playing Elizabethan music on lute back in 1967 (if this counts as British music). Much later, Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto played by Robert Plane and Northern Sinfonia (Naxos). I was going to try chamber music by E.J. Moeran but life got in the way then.

[ed. Richard: Snap!!]