Parry

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I wish I'd been brave enough to post that BBM!

I think it could be my love for this composer's music ER! But having said that, I do rather like his Noinet and Piano Quartet. I am sure that parry composed a Clarinet Quintet?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think it could be my love for this composer's music ER! But having said that, I do rather like his Noinet and Piano Quartet. I am sure that parry composed a Clarinet Quintet?

Apart from the Wind Nonet, I think all Parry's chamber music was for strings/piano.

[VodkaDilc]

HRH Prince Charles rather likes Parry!

I've a suspicion that he likes the few bits of Parry he hears a lot in Westminster Abbey and similar venues. He seems pretty good at picking up a few facts about a subject and automatically considering himself an expert (as with architecture.)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I think Prince Charles' knowledge and appreciation of Parry's music is sincere. I wish I could say the same about a handful of the Radio 3 presenters.

[VodkaDilc]

It's easy to patronise him but some good posts here about his influence on later composers, which was never much discussed years ago.

Is that true? My memories of school and university textbooks are that they stressed the importance of "Parryandstanford" as educators of the next generation, but gave them very little credit for their music. (This would be the second half of the 1960s.) I think I knew Jerusalem, Dear Lord and Father, I was glad and Blest Pair- and that was about it.

[Barbirollians]

I have always been much more impressed by his music than that of Stanford I have heard.

[VodkaDilc]

I think Prince Charles' knowledge and appreciation of Parry's music is sincere. I wish I could say the same about a handful of the Radio 3 presenters.

He probably wakes up every morning with "Vivat Rex Charlie" ringing in his ears. (Or do we expect him to take the name George - or Philip?)

[EdgeleyRob]

I think it could be my love for this composer's music ER! But having said that, I do rather like his Noinet and Piano Quartet. I am sure that parry composed a Clarinet Quintet?

There's a lovely cd of the Parry and Stanford nonets on Hyperion BBM.
I'm not aware of a clarinet quintet by Parry.

[Suffolkcoastal]

As mentioned above the Nonet is Parry's only chamber work involving wind instruments. There are four chamber works by Stanford for Clarinet & Strings and Clarinet & Piano.

[Pabmusic]

I have always been much more impressed by his music than that of Stanford I have heard.

Yes. I feel Parry has a distinctive voice - after a while it becomes quite recognisable. Stanford, not so much so; hear something you don't know well by Stanford and it could be Draeseke or Reinecke (or any one of a dozen or more). Parry smiles more, as well.

[salymap]

Is that true? My memories of school and university textbooks are that they stressed the importance of "Parryandstanford" as educators of the next generation, but gave them very little credit for their music. (This would be the second half of the 1960s.) I think I knew Jerusalem, Dear Lord and Father, I was glad and Blest Pair- and that was about it.

I didn't go to university and was really referring to early broadcasts about music and conversations with the editors about various composers.

ithink Stanford's Songs of the Sea beat Parry in the popularity stakes at that time.

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There's a lovely cd of the Parry and Stanford nonets on Hyperion BBM.
I'm not aware of a clarinet quintet by Parry.

Ah, I dont have those ER. I must very soon! Thanks.

Thank you SC. Much appreciated. I have his Piano Quartet.

[verismissimo]

I finally got around to listening to Parry's Fifth (LPO/Boult). It's so much better than my memory of it. Thanks for being patient with me, boarders.

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Try his other symphonies as well!