Choir Of New College Oxford - Charles Hubert Hastings Parry: Songs of Farewell and other choral works

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918) was a dominant force in British music-making in the four decades between the premiere of Prometheus Unbound in 1879 and his death in October 1918. His music, with that of his contemporary Charles Villiers Stanford, brought his native land into the European musical mainstream, through its assimilation of continental�specifically German�models. His activity as a pedagogue, principally as Director of the Royal College of Music from 1895, greatly influenced a generation of British musicians that included Vaughan Williams, Holst, Howells, Bliss, and Finzi.