Granville Bantock - Orchestral Works Vol. 3 (Vernon Handley)

Composer: Granville Bantock

• (01) The Cyprian Goddess
• (06) Helena, orchestral variations on the theme HFB
• (19) Dante and Beatrice

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor

Date: 1995
Label: Hyperion
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA66810

More info & reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/Bantock-Cyprian-Goddess-Helena-Beatrice/dp/B000002ZWH

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Granville Bantock (7 August 1868 – 16 October 1946) was a British composer of classical music. Bantock studied at Trinity College of Music and in 1888 entered the Royal Academy of Music. His music was influenced by folk song of the Hebrides (as in his 1915 Hebridean Symphony) and the works of Richard Wagner. Many of his works have an "exotic" element, including the choral epic Omar Khayyám (1906–09). Among his other better-known works are the overture The Pierrot of the Minute (1908) and the Pagan Symphony (1928). Many of his works have been commercially recorded since the early 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Bantock

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Vernon Handley (11 November 1930 – 10 September 2008) was a British conductor, known particularly for his support of British composers. Handley studied at the Guildhall School of Music in London, and subsequently with Adrian Boult. He is much revered for his enthusiastic and untiring championship of British music, including many lesser known and relatively neglected composers whose artistic reputations and popularity he often helped to revive. He is said to have recorded as many as a hundred premières of British works, including highly successful series of recordings on labels such as Hyperion, Chandos, EMI and Conifer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Handley

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