November 19, 2018, is the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War. The #ClassicaDay team asked participants to post classical works related to the conflict. For my part, I tried to find examples from both sides of the war, and from as many different countries as possible. Here are my posts […]
Ivor Gurney
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British Tone Poems, Vol. 1 – Luminous English Idylls
I’ll start with the bottom line. If you love the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederic Delius, and Gerald Finzi and want more of the same, buy this disc. The works may not be familiar, but they’ll take you to that same idyllic English countryside as “The First Cuckoo of Spring” or “Egdon Heath.” This […]