An Ordinary Englishman
Herbert Howells (1892-1983): 1/5. An Ordinary Englishman: Donald Macleod maps Howells's compositional roots, which stretch back to the music of the Tudors.
Composer of the Week: Howells (1892–1983)
1/5. An Ordinary Englishman
Donald Macleod maps Howells's compositional roots, which stretch back to the music of the Tudors. There is also a chance to hear the composer himself speaking in the first of a series of archive interviews for the week.
Here is the little door
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (conductor)
Hughes's Ballet; De la Mare's Pavane; Sir Hugh's Galliard (Lambert's Clavichord)
Margaret Fingerhut (piano)
Elegy
Matthew Souter (viola)
City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox (conductor)
Piano Concerto No 2 in C, Op 39
Howard Shelley (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor).
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