IDAGIO | Bush: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Concerto for Trumpet and Piano 5020926113122

Featuring

Simon Joly
John Winfield
Donald Maxwell
Lynne Dawson
Philip Riley
Anne Collins

Geoffrey Moses
Eirian James
Anne Pashley
Alan Watt
David Johnson
Bryden Thomson
Patrick Addinall
Hamish Milne
London Musicians Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic
Geoffrey Bush

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Recording & Production

This album features recordings from the Richard Itter Broadcast Collection, a private archive of BBC transmissions made by Richard Itter from 1952-1996.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Geoffrey Bush described his own music as lyrical, rhythmic, economical, and clear-cut, stating he had no gift for complex or experimental music.

Composer Biography

Geoffrey Bush, the composer, was born in London in 1920 and was the son of novelist and detective-fiction writer Christopher Bush.

Recording & Production

The Lyrita Recorded Edition Trust began transferring Richard Itter's priceless archive in 2014, with agreements in place to release items to the public.

Composition History

The Concerto for Trumpet, Piano and String Orchestra by Geoffrey Bush is a revised and orchestrated version of his earlier Sonata for trumpet and piano from 1945.

Composition History

Geoffrey Bush's opera, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, was commissioned after students performed his earlier opera, If the Cap Fits, at the Guildhall School of Music.

Composition History

The idea for Geoffrey Bush to adapt an Oscar Wilde story for an opera came to him in a dream, initially thinking of setting The Importance of Being Ernest to music.