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Howard Ferguson

  • #ClassicsaDay #OctoberOctet Week 3

    Oct 27th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: #ClassicsaDay, #OctoberOctet, Howard Ferguson, Jean Francaix, Johan Svendsen, Josef Myslivececk, Reinhold Gliere, Twitter

    The Classics a Day team decided October was the month to feature octets. Granted, it is the tenth month of the year, but the word “detects” isn’t as alliterative.  The mix of instruments that make up an octet varies. Some composers wrote for double string quartet, some for wind instruments, and some for a blend […]

  • Raphael Terroni presents Howard Ferguson’s best

    Sep 28th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Howard Ferguson, Naxos, Phillida Bannister, Raphael Terroni

    With Howard Ferguson, it was always about quality, not quantity. Ferguson was extremely self-critical. As a result, his music only emerged after much deliberation and revision. Over a span of thirty years, he wrote only nineteen works. And then he stopped because he felt he had nothing left to say. But when he spoke musically, […]

  • Tasmin Little – British Violin Sonatas

    Aug 10th, 2013 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Benjamin Britte, CD Review, Chamber music, Chandos, Classical music, Howard Ferguson, Piers Lane, Tasmin Little, William Walton

    Tasmin Little’s off to a great start with her survey of British violin sonatas. Volume One features Howard Ferguson’s quintessentially British Violin Sonata No. 2, Benjamin Britten’s cosmopolitan Suite for Violin and Piano, and three works by William Walton that fall stylistically somewhere between. Tasmin Little plays them all with an expressive yet precise manner, […]

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