Sir Alexander Campbell Mackenzie

[EdgeleyRob]

Largely forgotten nowadays.
Considered to be up there in the same league as Stanford and Parry in his day.
Ran the Royal Academy of Music for the best part of 40 years and enhanced it's reputation.
Numbered Clara Schumann,Dvorak,Liszt,Gounod and Von Bulow among his friends.
His Violin Concerto was premiered by Sarasate.
A lot of his music has been specially recorded for this week's programmes
Today we heard a complete performance of his charming String Quartet in G.

[Serial_Apologist]

Largely forgotten nowadays.
Considered to be up there in the same league as Stanford and Parry in his day.
Ran the Royal Academy of Music for the best part of 40 years and enhanced it's reputation.
Numbered Clara Schumann,Dvorak,Liszt,Gounod and Von Bulow among his friends.
His Violin Concerto was premiered by Sarasate.
A lot of his music has been specially recorded for this week's programmes
Today we heard a complete performance of his charming String Quartet in G.

Good rounded stuff by any standards for its time. But I was surprised to learn that Schumann was hardly known about in his time. Sterndale Bennett?

[EdgeleyRob]

Good rounded stuff by any standards for its time. But I was surprised to learn that Schumann was hardly known about in his time. Sterndale Bennett?

Yes I was taken aback too,and also by the fact that Chopin rarely featured in piano classes at the RAM

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes I was taken aback too,and also by the fact that Chopin rarely featured in piano classes at the RAM

Maybe because his music was felt to be too much a departure from the solid German tradition thought to be the essential learning?

[DracoM]

A name I had never heard of, let alone the music therefrom.
Pleasant discovery, so thx R3.

[ardcarp]

I am pleased that these 'lesser lights' are featured on CotW every so often.
I just caught A Nautical Overture on today's episode. It's a fun piece obviously, but brilliantly conceived; and orchestrated in a way that only someone utterly familiar with either conducting or playing orchestrally can. Needs a Prom appearance soon?

[EdgeleyRob]

I am pleased that these 'lesser lights' are featured on CotW every so often.
I just caught A Nautical Overture on today's episode. It's a fun piece obviously, but brilliantly conceived; and orchestrated in a way that only someone utterly familiar with either conducting or playing orchestrally can. Needs a Prom appearance soon?

Yes,perfect for the last night I would think,and great to hear the snippet conducted by the composer from 1925.

[EdgeleyRob]

Maybe because his music was felt to be too much a departure from the solid German tradition thought to be the essential learning?

[EdgeleyRob]

Really enjoyed this week.
Thumbs up to Radio 3.
An amazing career,championing British music abroad too,top man.

[Tony Halstead]

I am pleased that these 'lesser lights' are featured on CotW every so often.
I just caught A Nautical Overture on today's episode. It's a fun piece obviously, but brilliantly conceived; and orchestrated in a way that only someone utterly familiar with either conducting or playing orchestrally can. Needs a Prom appearance soon?

A Nautical Overture

What a wonderful piece, and brilliantly played by the Orchestra of Opera North.

[alycidon]

I don't usually listen to COTW, but confined to my hospital bed on Thursday I happened on this and was very impressed with the violin concerto. I'm certainly going to look for more of Mackenzie.