Links to recommended websites

Havergal Brian

• United Music Publishers – publish all Brian’s music, except the piano music which is available from the Havergal Brian Society
• Sound and Music (formerly the British Music Information Centre)
• Bristol University Special Collections
• Libraire Musicale Internationale – Partitions et tablatures de musique: suppliers of Brian’s scores in the south of France
• Havergal Brian web ring – constructed by Tim Horwood
• Tim Horwood – Tim’s own site includes material on Havergal Brian as well as Harold Truscott and Josef Holbrooke
• Langdon Jones – includes an article on The Gothic
• Havergal Brian Society – contacts

British composers

• Sir Granville Bantock – replaces the Bantock Society website
• Arnold Bax Society
• Elgar Society
• Robert Simpson Society
• Arthur Bliss Society
• Ralph Vaughan Williams Society
• Malcolm Arnold Society

Artists

• Martyn Brabbins – HBS president
• Myer Fredman – HBS Vice President, includes a biography mentioning Brian
• London Philharmonic Orchestra
• London Symphony Orchestra
• Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
• Leopold Stokowski – conductor of the world premiere of Symphony no. 28 in 1973

Record companies

• Naxos has released seven CDs of Brian’s symphonies and other orchestral music
• Dutton has released three CDs of Brian orchestral music
• EMI Classics has released two CDs of Brian symphonies
• Hyperion Records has released CDs of Brian’s Gothic and third symphonies
• Toccata Classics has released two CDs of Brian’s early and operatic orchestral music

Magazines/books

• Gramophone – UK-based monthly recorded music and Hi–Fi magazine, contains online reviews of most Brian discs
• International Record Review – another excellent UK-based monthly magazine dedicated to CDs reviews; extensive Brian reviews
• Tempo – UK-based quarterly music magazine, edited by Malcolm MacDonald
• Fanfare – US-based ‘magazine for serious record collectors’
• American Record Guide – venerable US recording and concert review magazine
• Classical Music Daily – an excellent internet music magazine in daily parts
• Toccata Press – publishers of CDs, plus Havergal Brian on music and many other fine books
• Ashgate Publishing – publishers of HB: Aspects of Havergal Brian

Music sites

• FRMS – Federation of Recorded Music Societies: targeted at developing greater enthusiasm and understanding of recorded classical music
• Classical Archives – features, introductions, downloads
• Music Passion – specialist music listening and downloads
• Executive Gift Shoppe – detailed information on 25 best-known composers (thanks to Mrs Thompson and her students)

Website directories

Between them, these sites provide a huge number of links to composers’, performers’ and other music websites, as well as often offering their own takes on composers and music generally. The HBS is grateful to each of them for including a link to our site.

• MusicWeb International – huge resource for links
• Big Bands Database Plus – see their Links page
• British Music Society
• Cadenza – resources for classical and contemporary musicians
• Classical Composers’ Database
• Classical Music Composers Database
• Classical Net – another vast site, probably the most comprehensive on the internet
• Doctor Estrella’s incredibly abridged dictionary of composers
• Duke University Libraries – Classical music resources
• Search Beat – modern music on the web
• University of Washington Music Library Reference Desk Internet Resources

Thanks also to…

…these sites for linking to this one

• Vítězslava Kaprálová Society – promotes the music of Vítězslava Kaprálová and other women in music
• Tore F Steenslid – Tore’s classical music pages
• Willow Pond – an American chamber music ensemble
• Shoreham-by-Sea website – Brian lived in Shoreham in the latter part of his life
• Havergal Brian on Wikipedia – the web encyclopaedia with a reference page on Brian

More useful links

• Operissimo – more operas than you can possibly imagine (including Brian’s!)
• New England Conservatory of Music – one of the premier US centres of musical excellence
• Music Law – suggested by Lillian Phillips at lvbeethoven.com

…and finally

• Jeremy Marchant – designer/creator of the original Havergal Brian Society website, and composer manqué