British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content

Whilst recently revisiting Alun Hoddinott’s Intrada for organ, I discovered John McCabe’s short Pastorale Sostenuto in the same volume. It ...

Alexander Campbell Mackenzie (b Edinburgh, 22 Aug 1847; d London, 28 April 1935) was a Scottish composer, who was educated at the Royal Acad...

“Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?” Often attributed to the legendary founder of the Salvation Army, William Booth, it may have ...

A ‘Bargain Basement’ usually implies a section of a department store (such as the ‘basement’) where merchandise is sold at reduced prices. I...

I recently [re] discovered one of Charles Villiers Stanford’s (1852-1924) rarer compostions. The Rondo in F major for cello and orchestra wa...

At the back of my mind, I have always thought of Bach’s Musikalisches Opfer (A Musical Offering) BWV 1079 (1747) as being an academic work ...

The second and final part of A. Walter Kramer’s article on the English composer William Baines. It was published in Musical America (Septem...

William Baines (1899-1922) was an English composer and pianist known for his prolific output despite his short life. Born in Horbury, Yorksh...

There have been several reissues of Arthur Bliss’s Violin Concerto and A Colour Symphony , conducted by the composer, over the years. On a p...

Bliss’s recording of A Colour Symphony and the Introduction and Allegro were reissued on the popular Ace of Clubs label (ACL 239) during 196...

Arthur Bliss’s (1891-1975) recording of his A Colour Symphony (1921-22) was the first album of his music that I owned. This was included on...

Despite his short life, English composer William Hurlstone left behind a small but outstanding catalogue, including pieces like Variations o...

In my accumulation of organ music, I have two volumes of Oxford University Press’s Easy Modern Organ Music. I remember buying them in a Gla...

The advertising material for this CD explains that Percy Grainger and Ronald Stevenson, who were both composer-pianists of the Golden Age of...