Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)
Composer
English composer who became Master of the Queen's Music.
An initially experimental style gave way to a rather more traditionally English romantic character.
Alongside Music for Strings, the Piano Concerto ranks amongst his best known works.
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Further Reading: Bliss
Recording of the Week,
Andrew Davis conducts music by Arthur Bliss
25th September 2015
David listens to Andrew Davis's new recording of Bliss's choral masterpiece, Morning Heroes, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
Interview,
Mark Bebbington on the piano music of Arthur Bliss
28th May 2015
David talks to the champion of British piano repertoire about the latest volume in his Bliss series on Somm Records.
Popular Works: Bliss
- A Colour Symphony (8)
- Adam Zero (5)
- Adam Zero - Suite (3)
- Antiphonal Fanfare for three brass choirs (6)
- Baraza (from Men of Two Worlds, 1945) (3)
- Bliss (3)
- Cello Concerto (8)
- Checkmate (5)
- Checkmate - Suite (5)
- Clarinet Quintet (8)
- Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (8)
- Conversations for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Viola and Cello (7)
- Discourse for Orchestra (3)
- Elegiac Sonnet (3)
- Fanfare for the Lord Mayor of London (6)
- Introduction and Allegro (7)
- Meditations on a Theme by John Blow (6)
- Mêlée Fantasque (4)
- Men of Two Worlds (4 excerpts, 1945) (3)
- Metamorphic Variations (3)
- Miracle in the Gorbals - Suite (3)
- Music for Strings (7)
- Oboe Quintet, Op. 21 (6)
- Pastoral 'Lie Strewn the White Flocks' (5)
- Pastoral for Clarinet and Piano (8)
- Piano Concerto in B flat major (8)
- Piano Sonata (6)
- Royal Fanfare (3)
- String Quartet No. 1 in B flat major (3)
- String Quartet No. 2 in F minor (4)
- Suite for Piano (3)
- The Beatitudes (3)
- The Rout Trot (5)
- Theme and Cadenza for violin (6)
- Things to Come - Suite (12)
- Things to Come: March (6)
- Triptych (4)
- Two Nursery Rhymes (3)
- Viola Sonata Op. 91 (7)
- Welcome the Queen (13)
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