10 favourite British Composers

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I think Arthur Butterworth deserves to be better represented.  I really enjoyed this piece.

https://youtu.be/TUewbVmOYa0?t=7

Thank you for mentioning him and providing that link.  I enjoyed it!

I read his obit in ExaminerLive.  Interesting to read that he said that his *musical preferences were Elgar and Vaughan Williams (with whom he apparently studied).    Would be interesting to know where the uploader got that recording from.  I suspect off air.  Sadly he didn't know who the conductor was.  Judging by the obit, probably not Butterworth as he we no longer the primary conductor there....but maybe (could possibly rule him out if we knew when the performance was).

*and also Sibelius 

Here's a link to that obit:  https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/obituary-arthur-butterworth-8212451

In any event:  thanks!

PD

[joachim]

I may have looked the wrong way, but it seems to me that no one has quoted William Sterndale Bennet, a great romantic composer born in Sheffield.

My top 10 English composers in alphabetical order

Granville Bantock
William Sterndale Bennet
William Boyce
Benjamin Britten
Frederick Delius
Edward Elgar
Gustav Holst
Cipriani Potter
Ralph Vaughan Williams
William Wallace

[Toh]

1. Benjamin Britten
2. Henry Purcell
3. Gustav Holst
4. Edward Elgar
5. Ralph Vaughan Williams
6. Thomas Tallis
7. John Dowland
8. William Byrd
9. Frederick Delius
10. William Walton

Honorable mention:

11. Orlando Gibbons