Music from the British Isles

[Phillip210]

My namesake - briefly posted last Thursday.

Thank you for that - much appreciated. The descriptive pieces by this composer (who I seem to recall was from Greenwich) are always fun to play.

[Phillip210]

Another namesake.

http://www.musicweb-international.com/garlands/1st.htm


A disappointing amount of feedback (even for such rarities as Handel/Crotch St. Cecilia
and Schumann/Kirchner Op138) over recent months, means that I now need to take a
break to work out what's been going wrong. Any advice would be greatly welcomed.

Well, feedback from me on this very useful post. I have seen this piece so often in second-hand shops, but only in the organ version, so it is great to have the piano original!

[Timtin]

Thank you gentlemen for the last 4 messages.
Please note that 'feedback' and 'response' aren't euphemisms for 'thanks',
although the latter is always welcome. Rather, they indicate a desire for
general comments (either good or bad) about the file uploaded.

[arglmann]

Hello everyone,
as my query about Handel only brought me here,
I will ask in this forum:
I'm in the search for Handel's HWV 462, Air et/ en Menuet.
IMSLP doesn't seem to have it, and it seems quite hard to find...

Is it circulating somewhere I (probably) haven't looked?

Thanks in advance,

Arglmann

[Timtin]

Friday the 13th. - not an ideal day for a request!

[arglmann]

Friday the 13th. - not an ideal day for a request!

Well, I actually think it is a lucky day...

[Timtin]

In The Daily Telegraph last week, a correspondent complained about the apparent
lack of a centenary performance in England of Elgar's Second Symphony.

Today, several writers got their comments about this matter published, including
one from yours truly!

Elgar - DT Letters.pdf

[rob]

In The Daily Telegraph last week, a correspondent complained about the apparent
lack of a centenary performance in England of Elgar's Second Symphony.

Today, several writers got their comments about this matter published, including
one from yours truly!

Elgar Two is the finest British Symphony after 1900 until Walton's First (1934-5) - at least from those that I know.

[Timtin]

Certainly don't disagree about Walton, but I've also got huge admiration
for the symphonies of Stanford.
Btw, the words in today's paper weren't quoted verbatim. The DT always
seem to paraphrase and edit letters - my whinge at the general lack of
British symphonies at the Proms each year got completely edited out.

[rob]

Certainly don't disagree about Walton, but I've also got huge admiration
for the symphonies of Stanford.
Btw, the words in today's paper weren't quoted verbatim. The DT always
seem to paraphrase and edit letters - my whinge at the general lack of
British symphonies at the Proms each year got completely edited out.

I would single out Parry 5 as rather remakable, and perhaps Parry's finest work - although actually I know too little of his music. Yes I admire much of Stanford's output, but I still don't think it's in the same class as Elgar Two, which outranks his own First in so many ways. The unfinished Third is a brilliant work too (wonderfully and convincingly turned into a performing version by Tony Payne) and that only just falls short of the Second...