An English Suite

Composer: PARRY, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings
  • Parry composed his English Suite for strings between 1890-1918.1
  • The piece premiered in London on October 20, 1922 (after Parry’s death.)2
  • This piece is Parry’s Victorian update of the Baroque dance suite.3

Sources

  1. Jeremy Dibble, “Parry, Sir (Charles) Hubert,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed November 19, 2019,  https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000020949.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Liner notes to English String Festival, Capella Istropolitana, Adrian Leaper, Naxos 8.550331, CD, 1991. 

Cut IDs

19596