BBC Music Magazine

[BerlinExpat]

Bantock's Tone Poems No. 4 Hudibras and No. 6 Lalla Rookh should fit onto a single CD.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Another excellent suggestion - if I may say so.  I have a great fondness for the music of Bantock.

[Gauk]

One of the dilemmas is between choosing something you have never heard because it is likely the only chance you will ever get to hear it; or picking something you know well and know will be a hit. The trouble with the first approach is that the piece might turn out to be a dud. I would love to have a recording, for instance, of Holbrooke's 3rd Symphony, but I can't guarantee what sort of quality it is.

My own first nomination would be Cornelis Dopper's 7th Symphony, which has one of those endings that can hardly fail to bring an entire audience to its feet. The reaction I would like to provoke is "WHY have I not heard this before?"