Today we present a pro­gramme of clas­si­cal, light clas­si­cal and film music by British com­posers, both well-known and too often for­got­ten, from past and present, includ­ing some his­toric record­ings con­duct­ed by the composers.

The pro­gramme includes music by Sir Arthur Bliss, Christo­pher Gun­ning, Jon Lord and Richard Har­vey, along with pieces by Addin­sell, Alwyn, Wal­ton, Elgar, Han­del and many more.

In addi­tion, tune in for the lat­est episodes of “Where’ve You Been?” — 12 noon and 4pm Pacif­ic / 8pm and mid­night in the UK — and “Engines of Our Inge­nu­ity”, every 4 hours from 4am Pacif­ic. We’ll also be giv­ing infor­ma­tion about what we are doing at the Sec­ond Life 18th Birth­day Cel­e­bra­tions, where we have our own exhib­it and will be pre­sent­ing sev­er­al live programmes.

The image shown here is from the Illus­trat­ed Lon­don News, 24th Octo­ber 1908. This link will take you to an inter­ac­tive ver­sion on the Nation­al Por­trait Gallery web site, where you can zoom in and iden­ti­fy the com­posers (not all of whom, I’m afraid, are rep­re­sent­ed in today’s pro­gramme) and even pur­chase a copy. Here is a key to the image:

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1. Granville Ban­tock (1868–1946); 2. Joseph Hol­brooke (1878–1958); 3. Samuel Coleridge-Tay­lor (1875–1912); 4. Per­cy Pitt (1870–1932); 5. Cyril Scott (1879–1970); 6. Hamil­ton Har­ty (1879–1941); 7. George Clement Mar­tin (1844–1916); 8. Ethel Smyth (1858–1944); 9. Ebenez­er Prout (1835–1909); 10. Hen­ry Wal­ford Davies (1869–1941); 11. William Hay­man Cum­mings (1831–1915); 12. Edward Ger­man (1862–1936); 13. Wal­ter Par­ratt (1841–1924); 14. Charles Vil­liers Stan­ford (1852–1924); 15. Edward Elgar (1857–1934); 16. Fred­er­ic Hymen Cowen (1852–1935); 17. Alexan­der Camp­bell Macken­zie (1847–1935); 18. Hubert Hast­ings Par­ry (1848–1918); 19. Fred­er­ick Bridge (1844–1924)