Charles Villiers Stanford
Born: 30th September 1852, Dublin
Died: 29th March 1924, London
Nationality: Irish
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of Cambridge before studying music in Leipzig and Berlin. He was instrumental in raising the status of the Cambridge University Musical Society, attracting international stars to perform with it.
While still an undergraduate, Stanford was appointed organist of Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1882, aged 29, he was one of the founding professors of the Royal College of Music, where he taught composition for the rest of his life.
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Further Reading: Stanford
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David Parry on Stanford's Shamus O'Brien
9th May 2024
The conductor discusses his recent recording of Stanford's tuneful 1896 opera, set in the Cork mountains during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 - enormously popular in the early years of its life, the work was withdrawn by the composer in the years leading up to the Easter Rising.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
28th Mar 2024
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the Anglo-Irish composer - known particularly for his sacred choral music but also a prodigious composer of chamber and orchestral works, songs, part-songs and more.
Popular Genres: Stanford
Orchestral
Chamber
Instrumental
Vocal
Choral
Popular Works: Stanford
- Complete Morning & Evening Service in B flat major, Op. 10 (6)
- A soft day (7)
- A Song of Peace, Op. 113, No. 4 (7)
- A Song of Wisdom Op. 113 (8)
- Beati quorum via, Op. 38 No. 3 (50)
- Clarinet Concerto in A Minor, Op. 80 (7)
- Clarinet Sonata, Op. 129 (10)
- Coelos Ascendit Hodie, Op. 38 No. 2 (31)
- Complete Morning & Evening Service in G major, Op. 81 (10)
- Evening Service (Magnificat & Nunc dimittis) in G major, Op. 81 (15)
- Evening Service in G, Op. 81: Magnificat (8)
- Fantasia and Toccata in D minor, Op. 57 (15)
- For lo, I raise up, Op. 145 (30)
- How beauteous are their feet (9)
- Intermezzi (3), Op. 13 (6)
- Justorum animae, Op. 38 No. 1 (39)
- La Belle Dame sans merci (John Keats) (1877) (13)
- Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in A, Op. 12 (6)
- Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B flat, Op. 10 (6)
- Magnificat in B flat for double choir, Op. 164 (11)
- Morning, Evening and Communion Services in C Op. 115 (15)
- O for a closer walk with God, Op. 113 No. 6 (12)
- Oh praise God in his holiness (Psalm 150) (8)
- Organ Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 151 'Eroica' (6)
- Organ Sonata No. 4, Op. 153 'Celtica' (6)
- Part-songs (8), Op. 119 (19)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor Op. 126 (6)
- Postlude in D minor, Op. 105 No. 6 (7)
- Six Short Preludes & Postludes Set 2 Op. 105 (7)
- Songs of the Fleet, Op. 117 (7)
- Songs of the Sea, Op. 91 (9)
- Symphony No. 3 in F minor 'Irish', Op. 28 (8)
- Te Deum (from Service in C major, Op 115) (9)
- Te deum in B flat (9)
- Te Deum laudamus (6)
- The Blue Bird, Op. 119 No. 3 (35)
- The Fairy Lough Op. 77 No. 2, from An Irish Idyll in Six Miniatures (1901) (9)
- The Lord is my shepherd (14)
- Three Latin Motets, Op. 38 (18)
- Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem, Op. 123 (14)
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