June is British Music Month on Radio 3!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

And remember, this is our chance to raise the profile both of British music AND FOR3 with Radio Three presenters and producers.

Let's be British out there!

Anon (15th Century): There is no Rose (3'38")
Dunstable (c1390 - 1453): O Crux Gloriosa (4' 31" as sung by Pro Cantione Antiqua)
Cornysh (d1523): Ave Maria, Mater Dei (3' 43")
Carver (c1485 - 1570): O Bone Jesu (13 mins)
Byrd (1543 - 1623): Fair Britain Isle (Tessa Bonner & the Rose Consort, 5' 58")
Jenkins (1592 - 1678): Fantasia in F, "All in a Garden Green (3' 08")
Purcell (1659 -95): Three Parts on a Ground (4' 23": "Pachelbel's Canon" set to Music)

... and Ferneyhough's two "egg timers", please: Adagissimo for String Quartet (1' 47", soft boiled) and/or In Nomine a 3 (2' 36" hard boiled).

[vinteuil]

... many excellent keyboard pieces from the magisterial Musica Britannica volumes, from

The Mulliner Book
Giles & Richard Farnaby
Thomas Tomkins
Wm Byrd
Orlando Gibbons
John Bull

[antongould]

... many excellent keyboard pieces from the magisterial Musica Britannica volumes, from

The Mulliner Book
Giles & Richard Farnaby
Thomas Tomkins
Wm Byrd
Orlando Gibbons
John Bull

I don't suppose you'd care to be a bit more specific vints.....??

[amateur51]

I don't suppose you'd care to be a bit more specific vints.....??

If it's specific you want, vints'll send a little man down with a message

[Serial_Apologist]

Just one - 'cos it never gets aired!

Alan Bush - Voices of the Prophets (15 mins)

[antongould]

Just one - 'cos it never gets aired!

Alan Bush - Voices of the Prophets (15 mins)

Cheers S_A, could I ask that any one else brings their 1 to 10 suggestions here even if they have already, as S_A had done, posted them on one of the other threads.....

[ahinton]

Cheers S_A, could I ask that any one else brings their 1 to 10 suggestions here even if they have already, as S_A had done, posted them on one of the other threads.....

That work is indeed a tremendous song cycle - one of the finest British ones for voice and piano from the last century; like another, Stevenson's Border Boyhood, its piano part is by no means for the faint-hearted accompanist!...

[teamsaint]

That work is indeed a tremendous song cycle - one of the finest British ones for voice and piano from the last century; like another, Stevenson's Border Boyhood, its piano part is by no means for the faint-hearted accompanist!...

i don't imagine there is huge demand for these in any case?!......

Hmm, its going ok, but you know what this sonata really needs? Yes, that's it,send for a faint hearted etc etc......

[ahinton]

i don't imagine there is huge demand for these in any case?!......

Hmm, its going ok, but you know what this sonata really needs? Yes, that's it,send for a faint hearted etc etc......

Well, you know what I mean - it requires a serious virtuoso pianist! Bush himself was quite a pianist, I understand, although I never heard him perform; he premièred his own piano concerto in the late 1930s, for example.

[BBMmk2]

What a very gracious and generous tribute from a Plantagenet, Bbm! (I would have expected nothing less form you )

Well, you never know Ferney!! there might be a resurgence yet!

Mind you, a few hundred years have elapsed.

The Windsors are not doing too bad a job!

[BBMmk2]

OK all you fans of British Music, here's a plan.Anton has created his list of British music suggestions.made by you. I suggest that we all contribute your Top Ten Short British Pieces for inclusion in playlist progs like Breakfast. Anton has offered to collate. Then BBM and other twitter-aficionados can inundate the Radio 3 twiitwersphere with requests for a month.

If you've never twittered or facebooked, why not drop BBM, our Master of the Twittersphere, and seek his advice on how to, dos and don'ts, etc.

And remember, this is our chance to raise the profile both of British music AND FOR3 with Radio Three presenters and producers.

Let's be British out there!

Any of those pieces, I could mention but be good do have others!! Just twitter or email, that's what I did. And if there is something you want to say that is relevant, just put it in!

[teamsaint]

Well, you know what I mean - it requires a serious virtuoso pianist! Bush himself was quite a pianist, I understand, although I never heard him perform; he premièred his own piano concerto in the late 1930s, for example.

Just my little end of hols jest, AH. Back to flogging stuff for Mammon tomorrow.

Still, a " Society for faint hearted accompanists" has a Conan Doyle kind of feel to it !

[ahinton]

Just my little end of hols jest, AH. Back to flogging stuff for Mammon tomorrow.

Still, a " Society for faint hearted accompanists" has a Conan Doyle kind of feel to it !

Heaven forfend that there should ever be one - Conan Doyle or no Conan Doyle!...

[BBMmk2]

Can we count Handel as British? (I just suddenly thought!?)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Can we count Handel as British? (I just suddenly thought!?)

Yup (if his boss can be King ... ) - and Panufnik, (and Gerhard, Goldschmidt, too as far as I'm concerned).