Farewell to a fine British conductor

[Contratrombone64]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/o...iscography-includes-100-premieres-925543.html

 

[toto]

Very sad to hear this news. I've just put on his RPO Arnold #7 as I'm tapping away here. Boom-chucka boom-chucka! Some of the legendary feistiness (from both of them!).

 

[Contratrombone64]

toto - yeah, he's a stable and insightful conductor, I own quite a few of his recordings. I love his Elgar and Bax symphonies recordings, sublime.

 

[marval]

A sad loss of a fine conductor. May his legacy in music live on.


Margaret

 

[Corno Dolce]

I guess I'll have to find some recordings that Mr. Handley has been part of - Suffice it to say he was under my radar screen.

 

[toto]

There's an extensive discography on this Wikipedia page. I guess you could typify the majority of his recordings as being of large-scale British works of the last 100 years – from Elgar to McCabe, say – and generally of a more mainstream rather than avant-garde outlook. Delius, Bantock, Vaughan Williams, Bax, Finzi, Arnold, Simpson ... well worth hunting down!

 

[Kromme]

A sad loss of a fine conductor. May his legacy in music live on.

Put simply and precisely...

 

[Art Rock]

Agree.
He and Bryden Thomson are to a large responsible for my love of British classical music.

 

[Contratrombone64]

G'day Art

Bryden Thomson - yes, same sort of style of conductor, from memory. Wonderful artists, both of them.

 

[JHC]

I am listening now to the Elgar V Con with Kennedy and LPO, the news is very sad