We all have idols we dream of meeting. One of mine was Herbert Howells. Unless you're a church musician, or have sung in a pretty good choir, that name, of a British composer who lived from 1892 to ...

The famed music director celebrates his retirement with a fine selection of music by Herbert Howells At the end of September, Stephen Cleobury will retire as director of music at King’s College, ...

Seventy-five years ago tomorrow, a nine-year-old boy called Michael Howells died of polio after an illness of less than three days, at the end of what had been a happy family holiday in ...

The influence of English Tudor music runs like a silver thread through the compositions of Herbert Howells (1892-1983), nowhere more so than in this most esoteric of recordings, his complete works for ...

Howells revisited the concerto throughout his life. Personal circumstances surrounding the work undoubtedly played a part in his complex relationship with it. Sketches for the first movement began in ...

Herbert Howells was at a low ebb in the 1920s. His energies were sapped by ongoing health issues and resultant medical treatment. A severe creative crisis followed the disastrous first performance of ...

English church music has a long and distinctive tradition dating back to the 16th century (Tallis, Byrd), but it was only in the late 17th century, after the 1660 Restoration, that English composers ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Herbert Howells (1892-1983) did more for English church music than any composer since Parry, but such is the depth ...

Deeply tinged by the English choral tradition, Howells’s music reflects a subtle and fastidious craftsman who was capable of a restrained, individual eloquence. Howells studied with Stanford and Wood ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...