British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content

Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870) is a composer I have adopted as being of interest to British Music enthusiasts. Although he was born in Prague a...

There are surprisingly few references to Anthony Collins (right) in the pages of the Delius Society Journal . The most important contributio...

In 1970/71 Decca released two LPs on their popular Eclipse label, noted above, (ECS 633 and ECS 634) featuring all seven of the Delius works...

My first introduction to Frederick Delius was an old 10-inch record which I found in the Coatbridge High School music-library around 1971. I...

The advertising script for this remarkable new disc from SOMM Recordings notes that Herbert Howells “composed a significant body of lyrical,...

The relationship between music and cinema has rarely yielded a more brilliant partnership than that of composer Sir William Walton and actor...

The opening paragraph of the liner notes gives a succinct definition of light music. Nearly six decades ago, Andrew Gold - who led the BBC L...

The 1953 film Roman Holiday is in my top ten not only for the superb performances by Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck, but also for its glor...

On 19 July 1965, the English composer William Walton was the guest on Roy Plomley’s long-running radio programme, Desert Island Discs . He w...

This is the second instalment of Christopher Howell’s survey of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry’s piano music. The first was reviewed here , a...

Constant Lambert continues his 1928 discussion of some "recent works" of William Walton:  The music for the entertainment Façade [...