n the notes which accompany this issue, the late Paula Fan, who accompanies these songs by Parry, makes the point that the composer’s reputation would appear to rest on a small group of works from what was a prodigious output…
Lucy Walker is a young composer specialising in choral music and her work has been commended by no less an authority than Bob Chilcott…
The works which give this issue its title give an indication of just how popular the operas were in the mid-nineteenth century…
The story of Ailsa Dixon is, sadly, not an unusual one. A composer of great promise, who happened to be a woman, had to be content with a scant number of performances during her most fertile period of composition…
I was very interested in the discussion on CD and vinyl collections. The member who asked for advice on what to do with CDs also mentioned the ridiculous prices asked for LPs…