First I would strongly second Holmes' Roland Furieux.
Next and even more fervently the opera by Alan Bush The Sugar Reapers. This is one of the most accessible of his scores and would be a popular success if only.
Other Alan Bush pieces crying out for first recording include The Piano Concerto and the Third Symphony 'Byron'. One broadcast in the early 1990s and the other in the 1970s.
Totally new to the wishlist:-
Pretty much unknown are William Baines impressionistic tone poems for orchestra: Thoughtdrift and The Island of the Fey. They were broadcast on Radio London decades ago and are well worth the 'effort' .... and quite short.
Goossens' Don Juan de Manara opera
Malaolm Williamson's opera Our Man in Havana and The Mass of Christ the King
Stanley Wilson's Skye Symphony - 1930s orchestral piece which was included in the Carnegie publishing scheme - so the full score should easily be available.
Joseph Holbrooke: two works from this colossus. The 20 minute Shakespearian tone poem with orchestra and ad lib chorus 'Queen Mab' and the 50 minute (~?) symphony with chorus with the eccentric title Apollo and the Seaman. Said to include a most impressive march - c.1907.
Sam Hartley Braithwaite's two little tone poems both of which made it into the Carnegie publishing scheme and said to be quite impressionistic. Likely to be very approachable and would go well with Baines' two tone poems.
Scottish composer, Cedric Thorpe Davie's symphony - big burly romantic work from the 1940s. I have heard this and it is impressive.
Ronald Stevenson's symphony Ben Dorain and his two concertos: one for cello and the other for violin.
Granville Bantock's choral and orchestral ballet The Great God Pan. Also to record, as a complete entity, his Song of Songs for soloists, choir and orchestra..
Edgar Stillman Kelley's Poe-based tone poem The Pit and the Pendulum
Arthur Farwell's Rudolph Gott Symphony.
William Alwyn's secular, Blake-based oratorio: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
Well, I can wish.
Rob
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