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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Bach Choir and top soloists join forces in Howells’s Mass of the Severn; and guitarist Sean Shibe makes Bach his own Herbert Howells’s Missa Sabrinensis, written for the Worcester Three Choirs ...

Herbert Howells' "Requiem," a deeply personal piece written in a time of grief and then filed away for 40 years, was the compelling centerpiece of the Choral Arts Ensemble's concerts last weekend in ...

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, ...

Jubilate Deo, 'Chapel Royal, Tower of London' Simon Bell, Organ Herbert Howells, Composer Winchester Cathedral Choir Andrew Lumsden, Conductor (The) Winchester Service Simon Bell, Organ Andrew Lumsden ...

Te Deum & Jubilate, 'Collegium Regale' Geraint Bowen, Conductor Herbert Howells, Composer Hereford Cathedral Choir Peter Dyke, Organ O pray for the peace of Jerusalem Hereford Cathedral Choir Herbert ...