British Classical Music: The Land of Lost Content

Like countless hopeful pianists stuck somewhere around Grade 5¾, I have battled my way through the complex counterpoint of a few of J.S. Bac...

For Christians of various denominations, the Palm Sunday liturgy begins with the Blessing of the Palms and a festive procession into the chu...

Umpteen years ago, I learnt to play (badly) Johann Philipp Kirnberger’s short piano piece La Lutine . Translations vary, but my score carrie...

This new release from Nimbus is a sampler. In 2015, Martin Jones recorded the complete piano works of Jean Roger-Ducasse on three discs (NI ...

While the recorded legacy of William Hurlstone remains comparatively scarce, a reflection of a career tragically cut short, several speciali...

William Hurlstone (1876-1906) remains one of the great "what ifs" of the English Musical Renaissance. Though his career lasted jus...

It is many years since I heard the organ of Saint‑Sulpice in Paris. It was not at a service or a recital but an organist “practising.” The p...

The 1926 Promenade Concert series took place from Saturday, 14 August 1926 to Monday, 16 October 1926. As usual at that era, the concerts we...

Peter Jacobs writes that the genesis of this disc is in a recital that he gave to the Havergal Brian Society in 1979. It was recorded at the...

I remember walking into the Music Room at Coatbridge High School and hearing a pupil playing a neat little piece. This was more than fifty y...

The advertising brief for this disc explains that Expectations “takes the listener through a journey of the autumn, winter feasts and festiv...

Whilst writing my recent blog post about Ron Goodwin’s Jet Journey , I listened to one of his other orchestral miniatures: The Headless Hors...

All readers of Homer’s Iliad will recall the monstrous, fire-breathing hybrid: part lion, part goat, and part serpent - slain by the hero Be...