British Music

[Dundonnell]

Forgive my pedantry....but John Pickard spells his name with a 'k'

[albion]

Not pedantry, at all (Heaven forfend!) - thanks!

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks for the clarification, Albion. Just to reiterate, in order to maximise the value of the already vast BMB collection, the easy navigation of which is enhanced by its consistent presentation, I shall move any posts in that thread other than Albion's over to the British Music thread in the Downloads Board.

[britishcomposer]

John, I do not quite understand yet: will you take the pieces which will be posted in the new British Music thread into your BMB folders? Or will you include just those which will be emailed to you before? If this should be so I will adopt this procedure, if you allow. I think your BMB is one of the finest things in the internet and I am glad having been able to contribute a few pieces.

[albion]

Those are remarkably kind comments - many thanks!

I will happily accept contributions to the archive either through PMs or (with the permission of the contributor) by simply transferring them from the general thread. It's entirely up to each contributor as to whether they wish to post their files on the general board or send them directly to me - I'm sure that they will probably find their way into the archive somehow or other.

[albion]

The latest additions are as follows -

Hans Gál (1890-1987) - Concertino for Cello and String Orchestra (1965)
Ian Parrott (b.1916) - Cello Concerto (1961)
Francis Routh (b.1927) - Cello Concerto (1973)
Malcolm Lipkin (b.1932) - Mosaics for Chamber Orchestra (1966); Violin Concerto No.2 (1962)

Fuller broadcast details are given in the catalogue.

Many thanks to Dundonnell for continuing to fill so many gaps in our knowledge of Britain's rich (and multi-cultural) musical heritage.

[albion]

To satisfy an earlier request, Dundonnell has very kindly sent some significant broadcasts of music by three Irish composers new to BMB -

Frederick May (1911-1985) - Scherzo (1933)
Brian Boydell (1917-2000) - Symphonic Inscapes (1969)
Gerard Victory (1921-1995) - Piano Concerto No.2 (1972); Sailing to Byzantium (1975)

The files can be found in the relevant folders and performance details can be found in the catalogue.

Many thanks for these, Colin!

[Sicmu]

I created an Irish music folder for the Boydell and the Victory but I don't mind  you move my post to the british folder

[Dundonnell]

Many thanks to Holger for his uploads of three works by William Mathias

[albion]

Lots of uploads to the archive today -

from Dundonnell:

Cedric Thorpe Davie (1913-1983) - Symphony in C major (1945); By the River (1951); March, Royal Mile (1953)
David Ellis (b.1933) - Elegy (1966); Symphony No.1 (1973)

Colin has supplied the interesting information that Davie's Symphony came second in a Daily Express 'Victory Symphony' competition in which Bernard Stevens' Symphony of Liberation won first prize


from Holger:

William Mathias (1934-1992) - Concerto for Orchestra, Op.27 (1964); Organ Concerto, Op.91 (1984); Flute Concerto (1992)


from Sicmu:

Brian Boydell (1917-2000) - Symphonic Inscapes (1969)
Gerald Victory (1921-1995) - Jonathan Swift, A Symphonic Portrait (1970)

The Boydell is an alternative recording to that already in the archive.

Many thanks to all our contributors.



Thanks for the extra Irish items, Colin. I will try to add these later.

[albion]

The Irish works uploaded by Dundonnell mentioned at the end of the last post are -

Arthur Duff (1899-1956) - Irish Suite for Strings (1940)
Frederick May (1911-1985) - Sunlight and Shadow (1955)
Brian Boydell (1917-2000) - Elegy and Capriccio for Clarinet and Strings(1955)
Seoirse Bodley (b. 1933) - Music for Strings(1952)

Many thanks.

[Dundonnell]

Sicmu,

Thanks very much for the upload of Christian Darnton's Symphony No.4. I shall listen to it with great interest

[albion]

Sicmu,

Thanks very much for the upload of Christian Darnton's Symphony No.4. I shall listen to it with great interest

Yes, thank you for allowing us to hear a further work by Darnton, a composer whose career seemed to be over following severe injuries during World War II but who painstakingly began to write again in the 1960s. The Symphony has joined the Concerto for Orchestra in the main folders and catalogue.



The latest additions from Dundonnell's own collection are -

Arthur Benjamin (1893-1960) - Concertino for Piano and Orchestra (1928)
Eugene Goossens (1893-1962) - By the Tarn (1919)
Thomas Wilson (1927-2001) - Carmina Sacra (1964); Touchstone, A Portrait for Orchestra (1967); Sequentiae Passionis (1971)

Thanks for continuing to 'mine the archives'!

[eschiss1]

1919? ... By the Tarn as in the first of the 2 sketches opus 15 of 1916 (Goossens)? I think it was orchestrated and published in that form in 1919... (it was published in string quartet form in 1916, the year I think of its composition also)

[albion]

1919? ... By the Tarn as in the first of the 2 sketches opus 15 of 1916 (Goossens)? I think it was orchestrated and published in that form in 1919... (it was published in string quartet form in 1916, the year I think of its composition also)

Indeed - String Quartet version 1916, but String Orchestra arrangement 1919. The latter date stands.