"Typically English"
L=T us have more English music of the type presented in a recent 4YO programme: two symphonies and an overture by W. Boyce, arranged by Constant Lambert and played by the New London String Ensemble. In an evening of Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, and Ravel, it might seem that Boyce would be ‘dwarfed; but his tuneful and well-made works held their own. Moreover, since we hear English music of this period so infrequently, it comés,to our ears with a freshness which is lacking in many more pretentious but shop-worn compositions. Eclipsed by the ponderous Handelian shadow, English composers of the 18th Century have never been -allowed their full stature. Boyce in particular has something original and typically English
to say to us, and if more recordings of his works are not available perhaps our own local artists might care 2 give some of his chamber works an airing.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 10
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149"Typically English" New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 357, 26 April 1946, Page 10
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