#ClassicsaDay #Classical 1925 Week 4

For January 2025 the Classics a Day team challenges you to look back a century. The "modern" era of music was well underway in 1925. Some of the works composed still shock audiences today. 

The challenge is to post classical works that were created, premiered, or recorded for the first time in 1925. Here are my posts for the fourth week of #Classical1925.

01/20/25 Edward Burlingame Hill: Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 31

Hill was an influential composition professor at Harvard University. His students included Leonard Bernstein, Walter Piston, and Virgil Thomson.

 

01/21/25 Maurice Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges

After working on it for eight years, Ravel completed his second opera in 1925. In this fairy tale, an ill-tempered child is confronted by the objects and animals he harmed during his tantrums.

 

01/22/25 Eric Coates: Two Light Syncopated Pieces

Coates composed this two-movement suite in 1925. He recorded it the same year with the Queen's Hall Light Orchestra.

 

01/23/25 Herbert Howells: Concerto No. 2 in C major for piano and orchestra

Howells composed his first piano concerto in 1913, while still a student. His second concerto premiered in 1925. Howells said it had "deliberate tunes all the way." And he wasn't wrong.

 

01/24/25 Amy Beach: Jesus My Savior, Op. 112

Beach published many songs throughout her long career. This selection was completed in 1925.