1925 in British music

This is a summary of 1925 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

• 3 April – Gustav Holst's opera At the Boar's Head is premiered in Manchester.
• date unknown
• After a spell of ill-health, Gustav Holst returns to teach at St Paul's Girls' School.
• William Walton dedicates the score of his Portsmouth Point to his patron Siegfried Sassoon, who had recommended it be published by Oxford University Press.

Popular music

• Mai Jones – "Blackbirds"

Classical music: new works

• Frank Bridge –
• "Golden Hair", for voice and piano
• "Journey's End", for tenor or high baritone and piano
• The Pneu World, for cello and piano
• Songs of Rabindranath Tagore (3), for voice and piano, or voice and orchestra
• Vignettes de Marseille, for piano
• Winter Pastorale, for piano
• Eric Coates – 2 Light Syncopated Pieces
• Walford Davies – Men and Angels, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 51
• Frederick Delius – A Late Lark, for voice and orchestra
• Edward Elgar –
• "The Herald", part-song
• "The Prince of Sleep", part-song
• Gustav Holst –
• "God Is Love, His the Care", for choir
• Hymns (4) for Songs of Praise, for choir
• Motets (2), for choir
• Ode to C.K.S. and the Oriana, for choir
• Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola
• Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 2
• John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano (1925)
• Ernest John Moeran – Bank Holiday
• Ralph Vaughan Williams –
• Concerto Accademico for violin and strings
• Flos Campi, for viola, wordless choir, and small orchestra
• Hymns (5) for Songs of Praise, for choir
• Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, for voice and piano
• Three Songs from Shakespeare, for voice and piano
• Three Poems by Walt Whitman, for baritone and piano
• William Walton – Portsmouth Point, concert overture
• Peter Warlock – "A Prayer to St Anthony"

Opera

• Armstrong Gibbs – Blue Peter
• Gustav Holst – At the Boar's Head

Musical theatre

• Betty in Mayfair, with music by Harold Fraser-Simson and lyrics by Harry Graham
• Charlot's Revue of 1925
• Dear Little Billie, with music by H.B. Hedley & Jack Strachey and lyrics by Desmond Carter
• Love's Prisoner with music, book and lyrics by Reginald Hargreaves
• On with the Dance, written and composed by Noël Coward and Philip Braham

Publications

• William Wallace – Richard Wagner as he lived

Births

• 17 February – Ron Goodwin, film composer (d. 2003)
• 8 March – Dennis Lotis, South African-born singer (d. 2023)
• 22 March – Gerard Hoffnung, cartoonist, comedian, musician (d. 1959)
• 23 March – Monica Sinclair, operatic contralto (d. 2002)
• 18 June – Johnny Pearson, composer, orchestra leader and pianist (d. 2011)
• 2 September – Russ Conway, pianist (d. 2000)
• 20 September – James Bernard, film composer (d. 2001)
• 1 October – Alan Styler, operatic baritone (d. 1970)
• 11 October – David Hughes, operatic tenor (d. 1972)
• 30 December – Eric Wetherell, composer, conductor, musical author (died 2021)
• 31 December – Daphne Oram, composer and electronic musician (d. 2003)

Deaths

• 1 March – Thomas Bidgood, conductor, composer and arranger, 66 (suicide)
• 22 March – Marie Brema, concert mezzo-soprano, 69
• 1 April – Francis William Davenport, composer and music writer

See also

• 1925 in the United Kingdom
• List of British films of 1925

References