"Composer of the Week is perhaps the most venerated part of the entire Radio 3 output - a fixture on the network for more than 80 years. But it remains unfailingly stimulating and informative ..." etc. etc. Radio Times P.114.
Radio Times describes her as a sort of British Richard Strauss, but for all the textural lushness, from listening (for the first time) today to the tone poem Larnia, bursting with whole tone harmonic passages and at one point almost quoting from the middle movement of la mer, I detect more a local counterpart to French composers of the post-Frank school like Chausson and D'Indy, or even the Zemlinsky of The Mermaid period - delayed by 15 or so years. One thing she was not was of the English Pastoralist caste.
Radio Times describes her as a sort of British Richard Strauss, but for all the textural lushness, from listening (for the first time) today to the tone poem Larnia, bursting with whole tone harmonic passages and at one point almost quoting from the middle movement of la mer, I detect more a local counterpart to French composers of the post-Frank school like Chausson and D'Indy, or even the Zemlinsky of The Mermaid period - delayed by 15 or so years. One thing she was not was of the English Pastoralist caste.