3 illuminations
1916

speaker [optional], piano

1  The boys and the pastille
2  The butterfly's waltz
3  Venus and a bobby

(5´)

Havergal Brian Society

 

Article

Notes - Raymond Clarke on Athene

 

Performances

12 April 1935 [earliest known performance] . Aeolian Hall, London
John Tobin
Review - Norman V Dagg

21 April 1982 . Trent Park Music Centre, London
John Mitchell (piano), Frank Bayford (speaker)

Butterfly's waltz
24 June 1980
Robert Keys

 

Commercial recordings

February 1981 / Cameo Classics
Peter Hill (piano), Christopher Kay (speaker)

June 1997 / Athene
Raymond Clarke (piano),  Tessa Spong (speaker)
see also Discography


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