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Here's a recording of the clarinet version of MOSAIC by Walthew:

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/w/17675/Richard-Henry-Walthew-A-Mosaic-in-Ten-Pieces

I believe the old recording (circa 1920s?) was an arrangement for violin and piano.

It really is charming, delightful music... I highly recommend it.

Best, Shimmer

That all sounds wonderful, Giles.  I am trying to recall details of a chamber work (of a variety once known as "salon music")  RW composed in 1900.  It was said to have been performed at the Crystal Palace.  There was an old recording of a few of the short movements from around the 1920s or 1930s and then in the 1980s, I believe, it was recorded on LP in an arrangement for clarinet and piano.  I want to say the title was "Mosaic" but that could be completely wrong.  Really delightful stuff.  If I chivvy out more details I will post here.

I would love to hear the 1st pf concerto.  Let's hope an angel appears with the requisite cash to make it happen...

cheers, Steve

I hope the concert went off with great eclat!  Although I have heard only a few songs and one chamber work by Walthew, what I have heard makes me long to hear more.  For some reason he is mixed up in my memory with Albert Mallinson, probably because I had works by them adjacent on the same tape back in the 1970s.

It is heartening to see musicians take the time (and time, we all know, is MONEY) and expend the energy to learn and perform works by such unsung artists of yore.

Best,

Steve

Many thanks, British Composer!

Best,

Steve

Dear all,

I am new here and am trying to learn how to navigate this forum.  This particular post may simply fall into a big black hole but I'll give it a shot anyway.

My name is Steve Shutt and I am about to turn 56 years old.  I was first turned onto many of the composers here by my late friend Marc Bernier.  I still remember Marc bringing a 12 inch 78 rpm recording of Leila Megane performing two selections from Bantock's "Songs of Egypt" (alas, with a rather feeble orchestral accompaniment) and being enchanted.  Other significant listening experiences included the Martha Verbit album of Cyril Scott's Piano Sonata and Poems, the Lyrita recording of John Ogdon performing the Scott Piano Concertos, tape recorded redactions of Claire Croiza performing selected songs by Pierre de Breville, an LP transcription I found on a visit to NYC of Reynaldo Hahn singing and performing his own music (several songs sung by the unforgettable Ninon Vallin), another tape recording of an LP of Quilter songs as performed by Alexander Young, and the incredible recording conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham of Bantock's marvelous "Fifine at the Fair."  Many other revelatory sharing of recordings followed, too many to note within the space of what is meant to be a short intro.

I think of myself very much as a fan and an amateur of these composers.  I think Cyril Scott in some of his books best outlined some of the features that makes the music so outstandingly beautiful, powerful, and enduring.  Josef Holbrooke's book on Modern British composers published I believe circa 1930 gives some valuable insights into the artistic mood of the period in England.  Although I am an ardent Anglophile, I also appreciate some French, American, and German composers of the period... and Australia is represented, of course, by Percy Grainger.

I am trying to access the British Music Broadcasts archive.  I have tried searching the site in a variety of ways but my searches keep yielding no results, apart from a thread that discusses the BMB archive and various downloads.   Did the archive have to be deleted due to copyright concerns?  I am particularly keen to hear the file with the excerpts of Scott's opera THE ALCHEMIST.  I was unaware that any of it had been recorded.  At some point in the early Bronze Age I had a go at looking through a copy of the published score in the Library of Congress.

I wonder whether other Scott radio broadcasts I have read about, such as THE HOURGLASS SUITE and THE MYSTIC ODE, might show up here at some point.

Best wishes to all,

Steve Shutt (aka Leafshimmer)