Parry, Charles Hubert

Parry, Charles Hubert – An English Suite

(b. Bournemouth, 27 February 1848 — d. Rustington, Sussex, 7 October 1918)

for string orchestra

Preface

Many composers approach their final years having written at least a few pieces that have nosatisfactory place in the canon of their lifetime’s work, often because of their slight nature. Hubert Parry appreciated this, and in 1914 began to compile a suite for strings from manysources, including movements that may have been intended for Lady Radnor’s Suite of 1894,although most were reasonably contemporary. Parry had often used the suite as a vehicle for agroup of loosely connected or even unrelated pieces – the Twelve Short Pieces for violin andthe Shulbrede Tunes for piano being notable examples – and the lack of a unifying theme oridea did not deter him.He intended the new suite as a gift for Emily Daymond, a former pupil who acted as hisamanuensis in later life, and existing drafts call it “E‘s Suite”…

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