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Spicer talk at Hereford
Three Choirs Festival 2022 Paul Spicer discusses Dyson’s largest-scale choral work – Quo Vadis, talking about its Hereford connections, and bringing to life one of the most enigmatic but remarkable musicians on the English musical scene in the last century. Monday 25th July 5:30pm St John’s Methodist Church, Hereford Book now.
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New Publication: Cello Sonata
Out now from Stainer & Bell, edited by Joseph Spooner. Listening to it now on YouTube: The Cello Sonata by Sir George Dyson (1883–1964) is the most substantial of the composer’s earliest surviving works and is a welcome addition to the repertoire of romantic British cello music. Within Dyson’s small yet distinguished output, it merits […]
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Quo Vadis at Three Choirs ’22
The Trust has sponsored a performance of Dyson’s lyric masterpiece ‘Quo Vadis’ at this year’s Three Choirs Festival in Hereford Cathedral on Monday 25th July at 7:30pm. Trust Chairman, Paul Spicer, will give a pre-concert talk at 5:30pm. Full details on the Three Choirs Website.
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Trust sponsors Choral Symphony recording
The Trust has just sponsored the first recording of the Choral Symphony (alongside Dyson’s St. Paul’s Voyage to Melita) with The Bach Choir and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, under David Hill. In this blog, Dr Jonathan Clinch introduces the symphony. Although written in 1910, Dyson’s Choral Symphony wasn’t performed during his lifetime and was unearthed in […]
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Dyson at the Organ
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