Fact file
Year of birth | 1901 |
Year of death | 1956 |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Period | 20th century |
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LondonBefore Life and After – Roderick Williams & Iain Burnside

Britten, Finzi, Ireland
Roderick Williams; Iain Burnside; Harriet Walter
LeedsKathryn Rudge & Jonathan Fisher: A Garland of English Song
Howells, Quilter, Elgar, Finzi, Bridge
Kathryn Rudge; Jonathan Fisher
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Totally committed Finzi and inspired Shostakovich

Two works of personal victory, written at virtually the same point in history and against a backdrop of suffering, made up this very successful concert conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
New dog, new tricks: Britten Sinfonia and Sir Mark Elder

A superb start to the Britten Sinfonia's Brahms cycle.
Bostridge's Shakespeare Songs at Wigmore Hall

Shakespeare songs turned out to be more of a Shakespeare feast starring Antonio Pappano, Ian Bostridge and the exceptional Eve Best.
Brushed up our Shakespeare in Prom 44

The BBC Concert Orchestra and Keith Lockhart offered a snapshot of the Bard's lasting artistic impact with music for composed for stage and screen, from this side of the Atlantic and beyond the pond.
List of works
A Severn Rhapsody, Op.3Before and After Summer, Op.16: Channel FiringBefore and After Summer, Op.16: Childhood among the FernsCello Concerto, Op.40Clarinet Concerto in C minor, Op.31Dies NatalisEarth and Air and Rain, Op.15Earth and Air and Rain: Proud Songsters, poem by Thomas Hardy, Op.15 no.10Earth and Air and Rain: The Clock of the years, Op.15 no.8EclogueGod is gone up, Op.27 no.2Let us Garlands BringLo, the full final Sacrifice, Op.26Romance in E flat major, for strings, Op.11The Too Short Time: Amabel