Hamilton Harty (1879-1941)

[YankeeMusic]

No mention of this Irish composer for over 3 years now and it's a shame - his music is thoroughly fetching and lavishly romantic.

The last posts expressed some desire to hear Harty's chamber music.  Of course, since then Hyperion has favored us with a 2-CD set of his Piano Quintet and two String Quartets.

But I'd like to keynote the lush Piano Concerto - which Harty seems to have lifted off of a Rachmaninoff score and then added his own Hibernian touches, especially in the finale.  If you have not heard this work, you owe it to yourself to do so forthwith.

[mbhaub]

Every St. Patrick's Day I dig out his Irish Symphony (and Stanford's and Sullivan's) and give it a play. His arrangements of Handel (Water Music etc) are of course thoroughly dismissed these days, but that's how I learned 'em and that's how I like 'em! I am not familiar with the chamber music, so thanks for the tip, and I'll look into it for something new to hear.

[eschiss1]

Hyperion's recorded the quintet and quartets? Neat. If i recall some of those works are still in manuscript and were still unrecorded, so kudos to them...