You know I’m crazy for the English stuff.
Today is the birthday of Cyril Rootham (1875-1938), a classmate at London’s Royal College of Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst. Rootham is known, if at all, for his choral and vocal music, but a sunny autumn afternoon, I think, is the perfect time to enjoy his disarming “Miniature Suite” for piano and orchestra. Think Gerald Finzi’s “Eclogue.” It’s very much of that ilk.
We’ll also hear Ernest Bloch’s romantic and beautiful orchestral suite, “Three Jewish Poems,” as we continue our musical observance of the High Holy Days.
Tune in between 4 and 7:00 p.m. EDT to enjoy these and more, on WWFM – The Classical Network and at wwfm.org.
PHOTOS: Bloch (top) and Rootham share a smoke