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Cipriani Potter. Symphony in G Minor [1832]. Edited by Julian Rushton. London: Stainer and Bell, 2001. (Musica Britannica, 77.) [Pref. in Eng., Fr., Ger., p. xvii-xix; introd., p. xxi-xxvi; the sources, p. xxvii-xxix; editorial notes, p. xxx-xxxii; notes on performance, p. xxxiii; select bibliography, p. xxxiv; acknowledgments, p. xxxv; facsims., p. xxxvi-xxxix; score, 133 p.; sources, p. 135; textual commentary, p. 136-37. Cloth. ISMN M-2202-2005-0; ISBN 0-85249-864-0. [pounds sterling]72.50.]
Alice Mary Smith. Symphonies. Edited by Ian Graham-Jones. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, Inc., c2003. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, 38.) [Acknowledgments, p. vi; introd., p. vii-xii; 5 plates; score, 344 p.; crit. report, p. 345-49. ISBN 0-89579-550-7. $170.] Contains: Symphony in C Minor (1863); Symphony in A Minor (1876).
Hubert Parry. Sonatas for Violin and Pianoforte. Edited by Jeremy Dibble. London: Stainer and Bell, 2003. (Musica Britannica, 80.) [Pref. in Eng., Fr., Ger., p. xvii-xix; introd., p. xxi-xxv; the sources, p. xxvi-xxix; editorial notes, p. xxx; select bibliography, p. xxxi; acknowledgments, p. xxxii; facsims., p. xxxiii-xxxvii; score, 85 p.; textual commentary, p. 87-90. Cloth. ISMN M-2202-2053-1; ISBN 0-85249-876-4. [pounds sterling]67.] Contains: Sonata in D Minor; Fantasie Sonata; Sonata in D Major.
Something that probably still takes most students of nineteenth-century British music by surprise is the sheer volume of serious, symphonic-scale composition that was produced by composers in Britain during the period so often dubbed a dark age in the country's creative musical life. For any close examination of the performance history sources quickly reveals that symphonies, overtures, string quartets, piano trios, and the like were composed and often publicly played in Victorian Britain in far more significant numbers than most histories of music have ever suggested. Examples in the sphere of chamber music range from works written specifically for the Society of British Musicians (1834-65), such as the prize-winning String Quartet in G Major by Edward Perry (b. 1811), to those programmed at London's South Place Chamber Concerts (established 1887), for instance the Piano Quintet in D Minor, op. 25 (1886), by Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924), and the Sonata for Viola and Piano, op. 29 (1897), by Ernest Walker (1870-1949). Some...
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