Very sad to hear this news. I've just put on his RPO Arnold #7 as I'm tapping away here. Boom-chucka boom-chucka! Some of the legendary feistiness (from both of them!).
toto - yeah, he's a stable and insightful conductor, I own quite a few of his recordings. I love his Elgar and Bax symphonies recordings, sublime.
A sad loss of a fine conductor. May his legacy in music live on.
Margaret
I guess I'll have to find some recordings that Mr. Handley has been part of - Suffice it to say he was under my radar screen.
There's an extensive discography on this Wikipedia page. I guess you could typify the majority of his recordings as being of large-scale British works of the last 100 years – from Elgar to McCabe, say – and generally of a more mainstream rather than avant-garde outlook. Delius, Bantock, Vaughan Williams, Bax, Finzi, Arnold, Simpson ... well worth hunting down!
Put simply and precisely...Originally Posted by marval
Agree.
He and Bryden Thomson are to a large responsible for my love of British classical music.
G'day Art
Bryden Thomson - yes, same sort of style of conductor, from memory. Wonderful artists, both of them.
I am listening now to the Elgar V Con with Kennedy and LPO, the news is very sad
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