Tag Archives: Gerald Finzi

ENDNOTES, December 2018

ENDNOTES, December 2018 Endnotes, December 2018; in this edition, orchestral works by Gerald Finzi and Kenneth Hesketh, reviewed by Stuart Millson The longing which infuses Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony and the mysterious romanticism of John Ireland combine in the music of Gerald … Continue reading

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ENDNOTES, 17th April 2016

ENDNOTES, 17th April 2016 In this edition: Farewell to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies * Coastal sketches by Kurt Atterberg * Piano Quintet by David Matthews * English clarinet concertos. Known in the 1960s for an uncompromising modernist style (fellow composer … Continue reading

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ENDNOTES, July 2015

ENDNOTES, July 2015 In this edition: An orchestral world première and a recent chamber commission at this year’s English Music Festival * Transcriptions for strings from Meridian Records Dorchester-on-Thames in rural Oxfordshire is home to the English Music Festival, now … Continue reading

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Apocalypse Discs – John Kersey

JOHN KERSEY Historian, musician and educationalist www.johnkersey.org As a musician, I face the prospect of having to save a limited number of works from certain apocalypse with a certain degree of trepidation. The difficulty is always that any selection is … Continue reading

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