There are some big musical centenaries in 2024. But what about these six once-respected yet now relatively obscure composers?

The recording is both vivid and natural, with the whole judiciously planned recital throwing new light on Stanford as song composer.

Survey of the British zeal for musical storytelling whets appetite to listen.

Stanford’s last opera shows extraordinarily dexterous word-setting.

Making a powerful case for Stanford’s late choral output.

The Irishman who came to define English music is undergoing something of a pre-Brexit reassessment. RJ Stove investigates a rich musical life and legacy.

Attractive rediscovered works show another side of an eminent Victorian.

Energy, dash, and force honour a German-trained Irishman.

With Hyperion’s piano sound wonderfully natural, this lyrical and well-filled CD amply repays repeated listening.

Both works are robustly Germanic and finely written; the surprise is that they are not better known.

Stephen Cleobury sorts the men from the boys in glorious harmony.

The Birmingham students sing with vibrant, crystalline tone and exemplary diction, always underlining the meaning of the texts.