British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content

My early flights were all on turboprops, and it was not until my first transatlantic crossing that I finally experienced a large jet. Jets t...

When this “Impression” was published in the May 1952 edition of London Musical Events , Alan Rawsthorne would have been 47 years old. Behind...

In 2006, Naxos Records released the fifth volume of their survey of English String Miniatures   (8.557752) .  It featured a number of deligh...

I first came to Kurt Weill’s music through a Radio Three broadcast (April 1975) of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny starring his ...

In his unpublished autobiography Quadrille with a Raven, Searle recalled that “the concert, which took place on [17 April 1939], also inclu...

Humphrey Searle (1915–1982) was an English composer whose music fused late‑Romantic passion with the disciplined modernism of serial techniq...

Readers will doubtless disagree, but since first hearing the opening movement of William Sterndale Bennett’s Piano Concerto No.4 in F minor,...

Whenever I encounter a CD purporting to offer a composer’s “Complete” works, I make a point of checking whether that claim holds up. In the ...

It is not often that I remove myself from my comfort zone of late 19th/mid 20th century music. A recent visit to St Alphege’s Church in Gree...

The advertising pitch explains that Aïda Lahlou’s debut album offers a striking reimagining of Ravel’s Miroirs , casting new light on its ec...

What better way to herald the New Year than with a work pairing of two musical titans? Prepare to be impressed as the work of the composer w...

  A Happy and Prosperous New Year To All Readers of The Land of Lost Content   Some Significant (and less so) Composer Anniversaries f...

Christmas would not be Christmas without The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Whether it is the annual service of Festival of Nine Lesson...

  A Merry Christmas To All Readers and Followers of 'The Land of Lost Content'  The Star of Bethlehem, by Edward Burne-Jones The...