NEW CD: Imogen Holst
08/10/24 12:32 Filed in: new release
Featuring many world-premiere recordings, this album highlights the work of one of Britain’s most accomplished composers in performances by BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Singers with conductor Alice Farnham. Her name: Imogen Holst.
Imo [as Imogen Holst was fondly known] was hopelessly evasive if you asked her about her music, and although I knew she had composed throughout her life it was not until after her death that we discovered quite how extensive her catalogue is – well over 200 works, many of them arrangements or on a small scale, but many substantial pieces as well. And quite a number of these larger works remained unperformed, as if simply set aside while she was preoccupied with her many teaching roles, as well as promoting the music of her father.
NMC Recordings - Discovering Imogen Holst
Listen to Imogen's music in our program on October 13th!
Imo [as Imogen Holst was fondly known] was hopelessly evasive if you asked her about her music, and although I knew she had composed throughout her life it was not until after her death that we discovered quite how extensive her catalogue is – well over 200 works, many of them arrangements or on a small scale, but many substantial pieces as well. And quite a number of these larger works remained unperformed, as if simply set aside while she was preoccupied with her many teaching roles, as well as promoting the music of her father.
NMC Recordings - Discovering Imogen Holst
Listen to Imogen's music in our program on October 13th!
