A very short, but important post: Ten composers that I consider worthy of rediscovery. Odd recordings of their
music exist in the catalogues, but typically they have been ignored by concert
promoters and record companies:-
- Francis Chagrin (1905-1972)
- Peter Racine Fricker (1920-1990)
- Ian Hamilton (1922-2000)
- Daniel Jones (1912-1993)
- Priaulx Rainier (1903-1986)
- Humphrey Searle (1915-1982)
- Robert Still (1910-1971)
- John Veale (1922-2006)
- Ian Whyte (1901-1961)
- William Wordsworth (1908-1988)
All of the above are important ‘symphonists’
– except for Priaulx Rainier. I have heard many of these and all demand to be
in the catalogue. Why not a cycle of Fricker or Hamilton rather than yet
another version of Beethoven or Elgar? Searle’s symphonies are all available on CPO
and they are superb. I am listening to
an old radio broadcast of Francis Chagrin’s First Symphony as I write. It just
cries out to be heard.
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Only Whyte and Still have no items on Spotify, and even they may be hidden by the vagaries of the Spotify indexing, which favours and better describes non-classical music. Symphonies are not heavily represented on the playlists I scanned, but Searle certainly has some and they sampled well, as did several of the others' string quartets.
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