Philharmonia/Lucas | Classical review

Gloucester CathedralThe composer and poet Ivor Gurney was born in Gloucester, sang in its cathedral choir as a boy, and left the city to study at the Royal College of Music and then to fight on the western front. It was there, too, that in 1922 he was first committed to a mental hospital, suffering from the bipolar disorder that would blight the rest of his life. He's very much Gloucester's own composer, but it was only this year that his music was finally included in one of the Three Choirs fes...

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