British Music 1919-1939

[Petrushka]

I would add Our Hunting Fathers to that list. It thunders against the suffering of animals, but these could count for mankind. I have a BBC recording, now deleted, in which Pears is extraordinary, but I don't seem to be able to locate a recent version, although I have heard Ian Bostridge in a concert a couple of years ago.

Yes indeed, Our Hunting Fathers is very much the sort of piece relevant to this thread. Britten uses the suffering of animals as a metaphor for mankind. There is a recording on the LPO label with Heather Harper and Bernard Haitink.

[LMcD]

Britten's Violin Concerto - I regard as a 20th century masterwork.

I couldn't agree more!

[vinteuil]

I've always thought that the Golden period in British Classical music is around 1880-1920.

... surely the two great periods in British music are 1420-1453 and 1600-1695. Nothing since matches the works produced then.

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[Lat-Literal]

I've always thought that the Golden period in British Classical music is around 1880-1920.

I completely agree but then I don't know how to acquire a music map of 1420-1453 and 1600-1695.

If I had one, I might find it easier to learn more about the music of those periods.

[Serial_Apologist]

I completely agree but then I don't know how to acquire a music map of 1420-1453 and 1600-1695.

If I had one, I might find it easier to learn more about the music of those periods.

I know very little about the C15 period apart from what I am informed is the big influence exerted on the subsequent school of Flemish polyphonists by the choral works of John Dunstable (died 1452). The C17 is represented by the final stages of the English High Renaissance school of church composers, led by Byrd and Tallis; the lutenists, clavichordists, early harpsichordists and song writers such as Dowland, bridging to Purcell by figures such as Henry Lawes, who translated the choral polyphonic into the instrumental in elaborated form as well as taking on board the newest developments out of Italy, particularly in instrumental applications. I, too, would love to be more knowledgeable about both of these periods, loving as I do so much of the music produced in them.

[teamsaint]

I completely agree but then I don't know how to acquire a music map of 1420-1453 and 1600-1695.

If I had one, I might find it easier to learn more about the music of those periods.

You’d need a proper map there , Lat.

The golden ages ,apparently , of British music , were English, Scottish and Welsh.

I don’t know why they bothered after that.

( need to be careful using the “E” word though, not very fashionable these days.)

[jayne lee wilson]

... surely the two great periods in British music are 1420-1453 and 1600-1695. Nothing since matches the works produced then.

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Max Davies, Birtwistle, Malcolm Arnold, Rawsthorne, Robert Simpson, John McCabe, Humphrey Searle, Hugh Wood, David and Colin Matthews, Adès, Robin Holloway, Ferneyhough…

Look at Lyrita, and this NMC catalogue…..

https://www.nmcrec.co.uk/recordings

BBCSO & Proms Commissions, Huddersfield CMF, London Sinfonietta, BCMG…..

Not sure about Great or Golden Ages, but after Elgar, Holst, VW, Walton, Bax, Tippett, Bridge, Britten in the earlier 20thC., Post-War has been a very varied, rich and rewarding time for British Music….