Tag Archives: Stuart Millson

Britain-on the edge of a precipice

Posted on July 10, 2025 by leslie

Britain – on the edge of a precipice, by Stuart Millson In 1940, with the massed-armed forces of Nazi Germany over-running Western Europe, the French General, Weygand, staring at his country’s defeat, declared: “The Battle of France is over. I … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, May-June 2025

Posted on April 30, 2025 by leslie

Endnotes, May-June 2025 In this edition: Rachmaninov’s last great orchestral work; Delius, a paradise garden revisited; on Manx shores… music to a silent film, reviewed by Stuart Millson New from the Chandos label comes an eagerly-awaited instalment in the Sinfonia … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, January-February 2025

Posted on January 4, 2025 by leslie

Endnotes, January-February 2025 In this edition: piano music from early 19th-century French women composers; 20th-century British chamber music. Reviewed by Stuart Millson New from the Presences Compositrices label comes a revelatory glimpse into the musical world of the late-18th and … Continue reading →

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Special Review

Posted on April 11, 2023 by leslie

Special Review by Stuart Millson of Handel’s Messiah, at the Church of St. James the Great, East Malling, Kent The Bach B minor Mass, Haydn’s The Creation and Handel’s Messiah are probably the best-known choral works of the 18th century: towering … Continue reading →

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Lamming It

Posted on August 7, 2022 by leslie

Lamming It Edge of England, Landfall in Lincolnshire, Derek Turner, Hurst & Company, London, 2022, 446 pages, hardback, £20, ISBN 978-1-78738-698-3, reviewed by Stuart Millson The mainly low-lying coast and country of Lincolnshire – the unregarded Fenland world to the … Continue reading →

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Endnotes Extra

Posted on July 13, 2022 by leslie

Endnotes Extra by Stuart Millson 50 Years of the East Malling Singers One of Southern England’s most ambitious amateur choral societies celebrated its half-century, with a concert on Saturday 9th July of mainly British choral-orchestral music – a programme which … Continue reading →

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Endnotes, July 2022

Posted on July 6, 2022 by leslie

Endnotes, July 2022 In this edition: a glimpse into the lost musical world of English composer Walter Leigh, by Stuart Millson From the astringent elegance of Peter Warlock’s songs and orchestral dances, based upon tunes from antiquity, to the early-morning … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, June 2021

Posted on May 29, 2021 by leslie

ENDNOTES, June 2021 In this edition: French song, from Chandos Records; RPO plays English music on BBC Radio 3, reviewed by STUART MILLSON A sensuous musical delight from the balmy rural byways of France this time, courtesy of Chandos Records: … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, March 2021

Posted on March 4, 2021 by leslie

ENDNOTES,  March 2021 In this edition: Elgar’s Italian maestro. Stuart Millson recalls conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli. When Worcestershire’s Edward Elgar emerged from what has been described as provincial obscurity into the realms of the European romantic mainstream, it became clear that … Continue reading →

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ENDNOTES, January 2021

Posted on January 4, 2021 by leslie

ENDNOTES, January 2021 In this edition: Stuart Millson’s Wagner The twilight of the gods, the violence and feuds of the great characters of The Ring Cycle, the exploits of knights and Die Meistersinger of mediaeval Nuremberg – these are some of … Continue reading →

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