June is British Music Month on Radio 3!

[EdgeleyRob]

Wonderful to get a chance to hear some of your music at long last, AH, courtesy ferney's bringing this to our attention - for which many thanks!

Agreed,that's a monster of a String Quintet AH (Almost 3 hours WOW).
Sounds great.

[antongould]

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It is: BBCNOW conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes; Tuesday afternoon, c3:30.

Cheers ferney
Does anyone know Grace Williams 2? If I have remembered how to search all threads correctly it hasn't thus far had a mention hereabouts and I don't think it has made it into SC's symphonic journey. Yet on the web in Amazon and elsewhere there are very positive reviews.

Update -I have just found praise from no less a source than Roehre just over a month ago when everyone was going through a Mathias phase........so my searching skills are pretty feeble.....Because Beef Oven loves it to!!

[teamsaint]

don't beat yourself up about the searching AG...not always easy...

oh, if anybody sees the "spectacles" thread on their travels.......

[cloughie]

Nice one, but what's wrong with good British garlic, especially that grown on IOW?(!)...

Or in my garden!

[ahinton]

Agreed,that's a monster of a String Quintet AH (Almost 3 hours WOW).
Sounds great.

Well, I suppose that a work for such small forces that does indeed occupy that amount of time in performance might be regarded by some as monstrous in at least one sense! It's only the finale that is of unusual duration, though; the first four movements that precede it run to less than three quarters of an hour in total. Although I have written a few other works on a relatively large scale (one for organ solo, others for piano solo and a piano quintet), this one is very much a one-off in that regard. That the performers nailed it as splendidly they did in just nine days, from first rehearsal to final recorded notes, is as much of a tribute to their brilliance as is their performance itself - and they were not even a regular ensemble! The recording itself is also of excellent quality.

[Sir Velo]

It's only the finale that is of unusual duration, though; the first four movements that precede it run to less than three quarters of an hour in total.

A mere bagatelle!

[Sir Velo]

Sounds great.

Is that a recommendation ER?

[ahinton]

A mere bagatelle!

Well, not quite that, I suppose (and in any case the composer of some of the finest string quartets in existence would have made a vastly better job of writing bagatelles!)...

[BBMmk2]

Anyother music by Constant Lambert?

[EdgeleyRob]

Is that a recommendation ER?

I'd like to hear more of it.

[antongould]

Ams as promised

Alwyn - Sonata alla toccata
Alwyn : Ad Finitum - A Satire for Orchestra
Alwyn : Flute sonata
Alwyn Concerto Grosso No.1
Alwyn:Derby Day
Arnold : Clarinet Concerto no 2
Arnold : Phantasy for SQ
Arnold : Sinfonietta 1
Arnold : Sinfonietta 2
Arnold : Symphony 4
Arnold 2nd Violin Sonata
Arnold: Oboe concerto
Bax:Sonata for clarinet and piano
Bedford The Golden Wine is Drunk
Berkley Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano
Bernard Rands' "Hiraeth"
Birtwistle : Grimethorpe Aria
Bliss - Pastoral for clarinet and piano
Bliss : Conversations for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello
Bliss : Piano Sonata
Bliss : String Quartet No.2
Bliss Colour Symphony
Boyce Symphonies
Brian : Symphony no 12
Brian Symphony 3
Brian Symphony 32
Bridge : Five Entr'actes
Bridge : Pageant of London
Britten / Suite for Harp
Britten : Rhapsody for String Quartet
Britten:Winter Words
Bush : Overture Yorick
Bush :Yorick Overture
Bush:The Rehearsal
Butterworth Romance for Horn and Orchestra
Butterworth The Path Across the Moors
Byrd -First Pavan and Galliard
Carmichael : Bahama Rumba
Chagrin : Helter Skelter
Chisholm : Sonata in A (piano)
Coleridge Taylor :On Away! Awake, Beloved
Cooke 3rd Symphony
Cooke Rondo in B Flat Horn and Piano
Delius : 2nd violin sonata.
Delius Florida Suite
Delius North Country Sketches
Dunhill :Violin Sonata in F Op. 50
Dyson : In Honour of the City
Dyson 3 Rhapsodies for String Quartet
Dyson Symphony in G
Dyson Woodland Suite
Elgar:Cockaigne
Fenby Rossini on Ikla Moor
Field 1st Piano Sonata
Finzi : Cello Concerto in A Minor Op.40 Second Movement Andante quieto
Finzi : Lo the Full Final Sacrifice
Finzi : Earth and Air and Rain
Finzi By Footpath and Stile
Finzi Eclogue Op.10 for Piano and String Orchestra
Finzi: Prelude for String Orchestra, Op. 25
Gardiner: Shepherd Fennel's Dance
Gardner 3rd Symphony
Grace Williams - Fantasy on Welsh Nursery Rhymes
Grace Williams — High Wind (from Sea Sketches)
Grainger Colonial Song
Harty [arr.] : A John Field Suite for Orchestra
Holbrooke : 1st Violin Sonata
Holbrooke : Horn Trio
Holst : Double Concerto for Two Violins and Orchestra
Holst :A Hampshire Suite
Howells Penguinski
Howells:Elegy for Solo Viola, String Quartet and String Orchestra
Ireland : Sextet for Clarinet, Horn and String Quartet
Ireland : A Downland Suite
Ireland : The Overlanders Suite
Ireland Cello Sonata
Ireland:Satyricon
Jacob Chaconne on aeme by Vaughan Williams
Lloyd : Violin sonata
Maconchy String Quartet No.1
Maconchy : Overture Proud Thames
Malcolm Arnold's Cornish Dances (All four)
Matthews : Piano Trio No. 3.
Matthews Berceuse for Dresden
Maw Dance Scenes
McEwen Hills o'Heather
Moeran : Nocturne
Moeran Overture for a Masque
Moeran:String Trio in G
Murrell :Cello Concerto no 2
Parry : An English Suite
Parry : Symphony no 4
Parry : 1st Piano Trio
Parry Violin Sonata in D
Raitio : Serenade
Rawsthorne : Pastoral Symphony
Rawsthorne:Symphony No. 2 A Pastoral Symphony
Reger : Lyric andante for strings
Rubbra : 2nd String Quartet
Rubbra Sonata 1 for Violin and Piano
Rubbra Symphony No.10
Sanford Clarinet Concerto
Smyth :Piano Sonata No.3 in D
Stanford 1st String Quartet
Stanford: 3 Intermezzi for clarinet and piano, Op.13.
Vaughan Williams:Flourish for Glorious John
Vaughan Williams:Overture The Poisoned Kiss
Walton : Sinfonia Concertante
Warlock : Serenade for the 60th birthday of Federick Delius
Williamson : Lento for strings

Enjoy

[antongould]

Listen up folks! I have another request in! Byrd's Ave Verum will be played, by aforesaid artists, Friday morning at around 810am, or via iplayer! :)

Awesome BBM just listening to it as I prepare Lady Gould's breakfast feast with the sun streaming through the french windows - heaven...........

[aeolium]

Excellent work, anton. And virtually all these works by "lesser composers", too - there must have been an awful lot of head-banging going on

But you can't keep these works to yourself, the dog and the couple of other souls who listen to Breakfast - let's have them on some decent R3 programmes

[teamsaint]

Awesome BBM just listening to it as I prepare Lady Gould's breakfast feast with the sun streaming through the french windows - heaven...........

Brilliant stuff AG.thanks.
I hope lady Gould is enjoying her feast,and that lime marmalade features !

Edit. That lot would make a great box set.

[french frank]

Impressive AG (might quibble with Raitio and Reger?). I'm a great fan of Howells' string quartet In Gloucestershire (SQ No 3), and more short Butterworth pieces: A Shropshire Lad (the suite), English Idylls 1 & 2, The Banks of Green Willow ...

Similar good wishes to Lady G - I hope that was an excellent breakfast