Yes, Anthony Meredith and Paul Harris produced a page-turner in
Mischievous Muse. I'm just getting to grips with the excellent new Hyperion set of all four piano concertos, plus the concerto for two pianos and strings (1971) and the Sinfonietta Concertante (1958-62). A mandatory purchase - the music is by turns brilliant and haunting -
http://www.classicalsource.com/db_control/db_cd_review.php?id=11778http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2014/Mar14/Williamson_PCs_CDA68011.htm :)
What we really need are new recordings or good-quality broadcasts of the best of Williamson's stage works, plus (of course)
The Mass of Christ the King, in particular the operas
Our Man in Havana (1963),
English Eccentrics (1964) and
The Violins of Saint-Jacques (1966) - we are very lucky to have the last of these in the archive, but the BBC also broadcast
Our Man in Havana live from Sadler's Wells (there is a tape copy at Harvard)
and the ballets
The Display (1963) and
Sun into Darkness (1966).
BBC Radio 3 broadcast
all six of his ballets in 1988 under the highly imaginative series-title
Williamson's Ballets - it would be wonderful to have access to any or all of these, together with the 1995 Proms premiere of the Iris Murdoch song-cycle
A Year of Birds. The last of the ballets,
Have Steps Will Travel (1988) was based on the third piano concerto.
If any member can help, please get in touch! For anyone interested in Williamson's music, the following is very useful -
http://www.josef-weinberger.com/downloads/Williamson_Catalogue_(Josef_Weinberger)_(reduced).pdf ;)
