British Chamber, Instrumental and Song

[EdgeleyRob]

I entirely second the praise for the Magginis that Edgeley voices in #3

We British chamber potties are indebted to the Magginis and Naxos.

Now; if only they could would record the Hinton Quintet for NAXOS!

That would be quite something,I would certainly buy it.

[teamsaint]

We British chamber potties are indebted to the Magginis and Naxos.



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Indeed, no waste in their output.


And some of AH's other works would be good to hear also.
There is undoubtedly much great music that remains unrecorded.
If just one music lover could get that big lottery win....I know how I will spend some of mine !

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

We British chamber potties are indebted to the Magginis and Naxos.

.. missed that until teamster pointed it out!

[teamsaint]

.. missed that until teamster pointed it out!

1970's TV comedy has much to answer for !

[Serial_Apologist]

So much I want to plug, I'll just name one piece, Alan Bush's Cantata, Voices of the Prophets, for tenor and piano, which completely blows me away with its emotional power and conviction every time I listen to the now sadly fading reel-to-reel from a 60s broadcast in my possession. There are tasters (all-too-brief!!!) from each of the four movements on the link below:

http://www.allmusic.com/performance/voices-of-the-prophets-for-tenor-and-piano-op.41-mq0000102677

[french frank]

A while back everyone seemed to be enthusing over York Bowen. I'd better check whether we ought to be or not

I have the Dutton CD:

Suite for violin and piano, op 28
Sonata for cello and piano, op 64
Sonata for violin and piano, op 112

(Endymions)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Alan Bush's Cantata, Voices of the Prophets, for tenor and piano

EEEEK!!!

I am so stupid! (Pauses to allow time for disagreement:



... not a sausage!)

There isn't a finer work for String Quartet written by anyone from these Isles than Bush's Dialectic.

[french frank]

Sorry to interrupt, fhg, before people have a chance to butt in ... !

I had the Butterworth Shropshire Lad songs on LP - Shirley Quirk (lovely lady!) and Isepp. I was looking for the Luxon version on YouTube and found Tom Allen's with Geoffrey Parsons, which quite appealed. Wasn't keen on Terfel's.

[salymap]

Thanks for mentioning John S-Q, I've fetched my LP ofJohn and EricParkin from a dusty cupboard and shall play 'Songs of John Ireland later today.

Also S-Q's RVW Songs of Travel might get a spin too.

I haven't had time to read this thread but have Ireland's Violin Sonata no 2, Fantasy-Sonata, Decorations anbd The Holy Boy been mentioned.

The latter with Tessa Robbins [violin], Thea King {clarinet] and Alan Rowlands[piano}

[ahinton]

It's a great time to be alive to experience all this glorious Music so easily available on disc from performers utterly committed to it: I entirely second the praise for the Magginis that Edgeley voices in #3 - adding their recordings of the Maxwell Davies Naxos Quartets, which really repay the repeated listenings that the works wouldn't otherwise receive. Now; if only they could would record the Hinton Quintet for NAXOS!

If I may be permitted to respond to this, I admire the Maggini's work greatly but am nevertheless delighted with the recording of my string quintet that's been made already - both the performers' contributions and that of the record producer; what my piece could really do with is some public performances (initially from those who went to so much trouble to make the recording), but I do, of course, recognise that its sheer scale doesn't make the work easily amenable to that!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I rather thought that this might be your response, and I can quite understand all the reasons why you should want that that superb performance to be more widely available. My comment was motivated not by dissatisfaction with it (I would not presume, even if I perceived any flaws), but rather that NAXOS discs are more widely available and would probably secure the greater awareness of the work that it deserves.

[BBMmk2]

I might add , that this work I have never heard, that Alan Bush, but mind you i dont know any of his music yet!

[ahinton]

There isn't a finer work for String Quartet written by anyone from these Isles than Bush's Dialectic.

That's a very big claim - but it is indeed a splendid work and still sadly under-appreciated.

[ahinton]

I rather thought that this might be your response, and I can quite understand all the reasons why you should want that that superb performance to be more widely available. My comment was motivated not by dissatisfaction with it (I would not presume, even if I perceived any flaws), but rather that NAXOS discs are more widely available and would probably secure the greater awareness of the work that it deserves.

I fully accept your point and indeed appreciate that you have taken the interest to make it; the current recording has been available since 2002 and still is so, although it may well be that the label that it's on doesn't have the same breadth of distribution as does Naxos - which said, these days, Amazon and other online sources for available recordings offer a good deal more than was once the case.

[BBMmk2]

French Frank, I believe Chandos has promoted well the music of york Bowen and jolly good it sounds, albeit from samples.