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| 03/31/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "With no composer was Sir Thomas Beecham more closely associated than with Frederick Delius: Beecham made his first 78RPM documentation of Delius in the middle 1920s just after the invention of the electrical process; he recorded Delius throughout the period of electrical stylus engraving, continued to do so in the "hi-fi" years of the monophonic long-playing record, and made what were probably the first stereo recordings of Delius in the late 1950s and early 1960s, for EMI. The EMI stereo recordings have rarely, if ever, been out of the catalogue. They appe...

Elaine Hugh-Jones: started writing each song by experimenting at the piano with random notes and musical fragments Elaine Hugh-Jones,  who has died aged 93, was a pianist and composer known for her powerful yet sensitive and tuneful songs; she was also a stalwart of BBC radio and television, working as official accompanist on countless programmes from the postwar years until 1983. Of her several song cycles the best known are the seven Walter de la Mare Songs, written between 1966 and 1988, which blend the French influence of Gabriel Fauré with the English romanticism she inherited from he...

Eric Wetherell, musical polymath who was a BBC producer and wrote operas and TV music – obituary Wetherell's father gave him a secondhand trumpet and the youngster taught himself to play it before doing the same with the French horn Wetherell: a raconteur with a fund of stories about musicians from his long life Eric Wetherell, who has died aged 95, was a composer, conductor, arranger and radio producer. His two operas A Foreign Field and The Snow Child, written in later life, gained traction, but he was never one to be pigeonholed, working across jazz and classical music, conducting orches...

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Robert Layton obituary Brian Jarman My friend Robert Layton, who has died aged 90, was a musicologist and Radio 3 producer for more than 30 years who specialised in Scandinavian music and wrote biographies of Sibelius and the Swedish composer Franz Berwald. Bob was born in Chadwell Heath, east London, the younger child of Edward Layton, a stockbroker, and his wife, Rhoda (nee Aaron), a homemaker. He learned the piano from the age of nine, and excelled at it by the time he was 11. He gave a piano recital of Ravel’s Jeux d’Eau on the BBC Third Programme in 1948, when he was...