Edward Elgar: Sacred Music

John Allison


Edward Elgar was for many years the most popular composer in Britain; his music was, and remains, inextricably linked with the final, glorious years of the Empire. Yet Elgar himself was almost entirely untypical of the British Establishment ...

Herbert Howells

Paul Spicer

Composer, organist, teacher, writer and broadcaster, Herbert Howells (1892-1983) is a major figure in English music. His three choral masterpieces, Hymnus Paradisi, the Stabat Mater and Missa Sabrinensis, are classics, while his ecclesiastical music - quite possiblly sung daily in Britain - is the greatest contribution to Anglican Church music of the twentieth century ...

Winterreise

Pip Woolf & Robert Lloyd

Words, paintings, music, ’Winterreise’ records the responses of an artist, an opera singer and a pianist to Franz Schubert’s ’Die Winterreise’, the song cycle based on the poems of Wilhelm Muller which he wrote just before his death almost two hundred years ago ...