I too would welcome some guidance on the remaining major areas of Stanford's work. I repeatedly revisit his symphonies & rhapsodies, hoping to find them better & less undistinguished than I recall, but so far I've been defeated. I need some more discerning & enlightened mind, like CH's, to guide me. (I wonder, too, whether further recorded series of them might help. I know some Stanfordians feel that Vernon Handley may not be exactly the last word in this territory.)
By the way, is there something wrong with the link to the latest installment (Part 17)? I've been trying to open it for several days, but always unsuccessfully.
I would just draw attention to a major series emerging from a grand and well-informed advocate of Charles Villiers Stanford.
Christopher Howell's series of "Stanfordian Thoughts" is building into a wide spanning major reference work on the music of CVS.
As it stands it is, and lays no claims to being comprehensive, but it bears the emblems of something growing over the years in that direction.
There are are already 17 'chapters' and I hope that more will follow. If CH feels so moved I would especially welcome a listeners' and concertgoers' guide to the symphonies and another referencing the string quartets.
For now, if you have even a passing interest in CVS, then you can sample what might well be a 'part' work that when complete (if that is the intention) will more than do justice to CVS by watching announcements of more parts on the frontpage of MWI and reading the previous instalments listed and linked at the end of http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2022/Aug/Stanfordian-thoughts-16.pdf
Rob
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