Parry

[Pabmusic]

His Fifth Symphony(I believe)?

Sorry, BBM, I don't know if that is in response to my post no. 14. If it is, you're wrong. From Death to Life is a two-part tone poem, now recorded by Matthias Bamert: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Parry-From-D...+death+to+life

True, Boult did record the Fifth Symphony at that last session (apparently in experimental digital as well!).

[salymap]

There is at present NO Parry Society, according to all the usual suspects {wiki, etc]

[BBMmk2]

How does one start up a Society?

[salymap]

How does one start up a Society?

Well, I imagine you have to check that there is enough interest first, find a wellknown musician to 'head' it, print leaflets or some other means of publicising it, hire a hall. etc etc.

I'vebeen to several meetings of various societies, I remember Stanford Robinson [I think at the Rutland Boughton Society, several more.

Unless it's just on line these days, but meeting and events were the thing in my time at work.

It takes a great deal of enthusiasm and money BBM.

[BBMmk2]

HRH Prince Charles rather likes Parry!

[Suffolkcoastal]

Perhaps HRH would like to start a Parry Society. I'm a big Parry fan. Not everything he wrote is a masterpiece, but there are works of real quality in his output, his style is for all the various influences distinctly his own. Some of his earlier chamber works are structually very inventive and a match for many of his better known continental contempories.

[BBMmk2]

Perhaps HRH would like to start a Parry Society. I'm a big Parry fan. Not everything he wrote is a masterpiece, but there are works of real quality in his output, his style is for all the various influences distinctly his own. Some of his earlier chamber works are structually very inventive and a match for many of his better known continental contempories.

I recently bought some of Parry's chamber music. Yes, they are certainly top drawer and would probably match up to Brahm's later chamber music, eg his clarinet pieces?

[Barbirollians]

I recently bought some of Parry's chamber music. Yes, they are certainly top drawer and would probably match up to Brahm's later chamber music, eg his clarinet pieces?

A very bold claim !

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

A very bold claim !

I understood Bbm's claim to be one of his "typos", and that by "would probably match up to" he meant "couldn't hold a candle to". The sentence doesn't make sense otherwise.

[vinteuil]

Perhaps HRH would like to start a Parry Society. I'm a big Parry fan...

... if anyone wanted to start a Parry Society they might like to begin by approaching Exeter College, Oxford, to see if they might be interested in an association...

[BBMmk2]

I understood Bbm's claim to be one of his "typos", and that by "would probably match up to" he meant "couldn't hold a candle to". The sentence doesn't make sense otherwise.

Well I did mean to say that i would put them up with the likes of Brahms's late chamber music.

[Barbirollians]

As much as I like some of the Parry I have heard - especially Boult's account of the 5th symphony - I have never heard anything by him that came within hailing distance of the clarinet/viola sonatas of Brahms . Which chamber pieces would you recommend BBM ?

[Suffolkcoastal]

The A flat Piano Quartet and the B minor Fantasy Sonata for Violin & Piano, both early works and are structually quite daring for the time, it is pity that Parry didn't push these boundaries further and continue to develop and compose more chamber music in the following years, that explored this further. The Piano Concerto is also of great interest, though against Brahms 1 and Tchaikovsky 1 it falls short, it stands up well against many better known roughly contemporary Piano Concerti.

[EdgeleyRob]

I recently bought some of Parry's chamber music. Yes, they are certainly top drawer and would probably match up to Brahm's later chamber music, eg his clarinet pieces?

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

[ardcarp]

Parry's choral music, being currently 'in the repertoire' of most cathedral, collegiate and amateur choirs gets a pretty good airing. The Songs of Farewell are IMO amongst his best, and I must say that Tenebrae's recording of Lord let me know mine end could hardly be bettered...most poignant and moving. This week's programmes were especially interesting for the biog. details, and of course for airing his lesser-known works. I have to say that hearing a movement from his 1st symphony on day one left me thinking it was pretty much a harmony exercise...but things improved a bit as the week unfolded. I don't think his Pied Piper of Hamelin was mentioned. I heard it done many years ago at a choir-school's summer concert...and it was both charming and affecting.