Prolific composers often bank on the sheer volume of their work to guarantee immortality, but even with hundreds of works and numerous collections to his credit, Thomas Pitfield remains one of the most neglected of modern British composers. This is a pity, since much of his music is well-crafted and delightful; and though Pitfield was less than ...
Surely no country produced as many composers per capita as did England during the twentieth century. Indeed, one passes many George Lloyds and Havergal Brians on the way to Richard Arnell, Guirne Creith, and Thomas Pitfield, the composers highlighted here. Yet as the enterprising English label Dutton has amply demonstrated, Arnell, Creith, and ...
As bassist Leon Bosch mentions (repeatedly) in his liner notes, the double bass is most assuredly a "Cinderella instrument." Works for the bass are a hard sell, not because they are of inferior quality or because the bass cannot hold its own as a solo instrument, but because these qualities are perceived to be true. On his album The British Double ...
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