The Great Composers of Wales

by The Editor

An English music-lover goes in search of Cambria’s symphonies and quartets.

Great and Marvellous Are Thy Works by Stuart Millson

by The Editor

Text of a talk given at Chatham Unitarian Church, Kent, on Thursday 11th July by Stuart Millson. (Extracts from works by English composers played by pianist, Ingrid van Dooren, and on CD recordings.)

Letter from Aldeburgh

by The Editor

Stuart Millson reports on Peter Grimes at the Aldeburgh Festival

Major Recording Project at EM Records

by The Editor

Imagine a work of searing beauty, masterly orchestration and emotional profundity; only once heard, never recorded – lost to generations. It is this work, Robin Milford’s Violin Concerto, that the pioneering label EM Records is to resurrect, allowing its inspirational delights to be heard again at last.

Endnotes – Rare British chamber works, Vivaldi arranged by Bach, and a trip to Lochnagar

by The Editor

If there is one musical initiative in this country that has revealed a hitherto unseen, unknown and unappreciated dimension to our cultural understanding, it has to be the English Music Festival, held each year at Dorchester in Oxfordshire. The name, Norman O’Neill, is virtually forgotten today, and even for aficionados, he is little more than a footnote in specialist appreciations of English music, such as Michael Trend’s indispensable survey of our artistic renascence at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Revival of English Classical Music

by The Editor

When we are being denied the celebration of our own culture, it is heartening to see a successful example of reviving our culture in the face of Establishment hostility. The English Classical Music Festival founded by Em Marshall has done that.