COMPOSERS OF BARNES: The Flow of Inspiration
Having spent many hours waiting at the bus stop outside Holst’s house, and having often spotted Stephen Dodgson at the Music Festival, I long knew of both composers’ links with leafy Barnes…
STEPHEN DODGSON: Mirage
Stephen Dodgson was an accomplished and highly professional composer whose music, for some unaccountable reason, did not attract the attention it deserved…
THOMAS PITFIELD: Songs
Pitfield was an artist, engraver, calligrapher, furniture builder and teacher, and I now know he was a fine composer of songs…
FREDERICK DELIUS: Hassan
Though I am willing to be corrected, I think this is the first time that the whole of the Hassan score has been recorded, though some excerpts are of course very familiar…
DANZA GAYA: Music for Two Pianos
The majority of the music on this disc is by Madeline Dring, a prodigiously gifted musician who died far too young of a cerebral haemorrhage…