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Ludlow Piano Festival 2024
John Dowland's Fancy at this year's Ludlow Piano Festival
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The Cenci released
The 1997 premiere performance of The Cenci appears on Toccata Classics
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New CD release on Heritage
Symphonies 8, 9, 22 and 24 on Heritage under Myer Fredman
13 February 2023 more…
Brian at the Proms 2022
Premiere Proms performance of Legend, given by Alina Ibragimova
27 April 2022 more…
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Requiem
MS lost, probably discarded by HB before 1907
As far as we can tell this was Brian’s first work involving orchestra, and the selection of texts shows that it was no conventional setting of the Requiem Mass: Brian’s inspiration in this respect may have been the German Requiem of Brahms, a work he greatly admired… – Malcolm MacDonald
baritone solo, mixed chorus SATB, orchestra
Text: excerpts from New Testament and Hymns Ancient and Modern, religious sources
unpublished