No, not that one: the composer 1908-88, great-great-grandson of the poet's brother Christopher.
Have just bought the Lyrita disc of his 2nd and 3rd symphonies (rather a big gamble at a whole quid
) and am very impressed on one hearing. Admittedly, some of that might be due to a superb Lyrita recording avec beaucoup de bass drum, but the music has something to do with it too! Yet till now he's been represented in my record collection just by three songs in the outer limits of Ferrier's discography. Amazon doesn't reveal very much more, even though Raphael Wallfisch seems to have gone big on his cello/piano works, with apparently two different recordings of his 2nd sonata (Naxos and BMS).
Here's an online 'Life and Works': http://www.musicweb-international.co...rth_Conway.htm He does seem to be yet another big victim of the 1960s reaction against tonal composers
Yet how could I (possibly?) resist someone whose most characteristic utterance was "Possibly"?
Any other WW enthusiasts out there?? (I did try searching this forum but couldn't face all 70+ screens of the British/ Commonwealth thread, particularly when it might lead only to Finzi's Imitations of Immorality
)
Have just bought the Lyrita disc of his 2nd and 3rd symphonies (rather a big gamble at a whole quid
) and am very impressed on one hearing. Admittedly, some of that might be due to a superb Lyrita recording avec beaucoup de bass drum, but the music has something to do with it too! Yet till now he's been represented in my record collection just by three songs in the outer limits of Ferrier's discography. Amazon doesn't reveal very much more, even though Raphael Wallfisch seems to have gone big on his cello/piano works, with apparently two different recordings of his 2nd sonata (Naxos and BMS).Here's an online 'Life and Works': http://www.musicweb-international.co...rth_Conway.htm He does seem to be yet another big victim of the 1960s reaction against tonal composers
Yet how could I (possibly?) resist someone whose most characteristic utterance was "Possibly"?Any other WW enthusiasts out there?? (I did try searching this forum but couldn't face all 70+ screens of the British/ Commonwealth thread, particularly when it might lead only to Finzi's Imitations of Immorality
)
). Not just a "victim" as you suggest; he seems to have got stuck between two stools - neither sufficiently admired for the enthusiasts of the post-war Avant Garde, nor particularly embraced by the "Cheltenhamistas" either. Even youTube doesn't help - the sole reference to "William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer" leads to a site with "no recordings"! 
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