Composer of the Week - Herbert Howells - An Ordinary Englishman

Composer of the Week: Howells (1892–1983) 1/5. An Ordinary Englishman Donald Macleod maps Howells's compositional roots, which stretch back to the music of the Tudors. There is also a chance to hear the composer himself speaking in the first of a series of archive interviews for the week. Here is the little door Polyphony Stephen Layton (conductor) Hughes's Ballet; De la Mare's Pavane; Sir Hugh's Galliard (Lambert's Clavichord) Margaret Fingerhut (piano) Elegy Matthew Souter (viola) City of London Sinfonia Richard Hickox (conductor) Piano Concerto No 2 in C, Op 39 Howard Shelley (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra Richard Hickox (conductor).