RUTH GIPPS: Orchestral Works, Volume 2

RUTH GIPPS: Orchestral Works, Volume 2

BBC PhilharmonicRumon Gamba conductor CHANDOS 20161 Chandos continue (and long may they do so) to present the works of composers now emerging from the omerta ( criminal conspiracy) caused by last century’s single-minded promotion of serialism and atonality, imposed by...
ELISABETH LUTYENS: Organ Music

ELISABETH LUTYENS: Organ Music

Tom Winpenny organ Dewi Rees organPhilippa Boyle soprano  TOCCATA CLASSICS TOCC 0639  Elisabeth Lutyens’s music is now emerging from the doldrums. Recently, a disc of her piano music has been issued and here, surprisingly, is a disc of works for organ,...
Malcolm Arnold Festival 2022

Malcolm Arnold Festival 2022

One of England’s most colourful and charismatic composers – Sir Malcolm Arnold – is to be celebrated across three days in October during the 17th International Malcolm Arnold Festival. This annual programme of events is centred around the multi-faceted...
Discovering Reason

Discovering Reason

Jessy Lilian Reason (nee Wolton) was born in Balham, South London, in June 1878 (baptised, 21 June) and lived in Streatham for the next two decades. In the spring of 1902 she married Richard George Reason, a man 20 years her senior, in Penzance, Cornwall and they took...