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English composer, conductor, and music teacher
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Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World - violinist Fenella Humphreys introduces her programme of important but neglected figures of 20th century music
[…] ways we could collaborate outside the concert hall, but decided to start off with a words and music performance based around the four composers in Leah’s new book, Quartet - Ethel Smyth (1858-1940, Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979), Dorothy Howell (1898-1982) and Doreen Carwithen (1922-2003). Each of them had written a sonata for violin and piano, and some had written more.I already knew Doreen Carwithen’s Sonata through the good luck of having been asked by the William Alwyn Foundation (Alwyn was Doreen Carwithen’s husband) to perform and record it a few years ago. It’s an extraordinary work: bold, imaginative, well crafted and full of colour.I was properly shocked when I found Ethel Smyth had written a sonata - I felt sure I’d have heard of a major work by someone that well known. But I hadn’t and it was a revelation when I started to get to know it. It was written […]
2022-10-30 13:17:44
She put her career aside to promote that of her husband, William Alwyn - but Doreen Carwithen was a composer with an utterly captivating style all her own
2022-10-30 13:17:44
She put her career aside to promote that of her husband, William Alwyn - but Doreen Carwithen was a composer with an utterly captivating style all her own
2022-03-25 14:12:07
English Music Festival 2022: Vaughan Williams, Holst, Coleridge Taylor, Havergal Brian and an Ivor Gurney premiere
Dorchester Abbey The English Music Festival is back at Dorchester Abbey for a fun-filled weekend (27-29 May 2022) of English rarities including music by RVW (of course celebrating the 150th anniversary), Holst, Coleridge Taylor, Havergal Brian, Ivor Gurney and much else besides. The festival's publishing arm is publishing a new performing edition of Coleridge Taylor's Violin Concerto and this will be presented at a concert with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Martin Yates, with soloist Rupert Marshall Luck, plus music by Elgar, Delius, Alwyn, RO Morris and a chance to hear RVW's folk-dance piece Old King Cole. Joseph Fort and the Choir of King's College, London will join the English Chamber Orchestra for a rare outing for Holst's Sanskrit infused The Cloud Messenger [which they recorded in 2020, see my review], whilst baritone Roderick Williams, the Godwine Choir and Holst Orchestra, conductor by Hilary Davan Wetton perform RVW's Willow Wood plus music […]
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