Elizabeth Maconchy - ACE157.4

String Quarter No.12 (1979) played by the Lindsay String Quartet. Maconchy VO likes her music to be "an impassioned argument"; she believes she has worked this out with her string quartets which have been crucial to her musical development. String Quarter No.12 (1979) played by the Lindsay String Quartet. Occasional Maconchy VO. Maconchy on the process of composition, and working on a new piece at the piano. The plan must be conscious but the unconscious will take over after that. She writes slowly after much deliberation. Composing is a "selfish" occupation and doesn’t make much money, at least in the early years. William LeFanu, Maconchy’s husband, reminisces about an event in 1930, when Gustav Holst came to hear a rehearsal and encouraged him to keep her composing. Wind Quintet (1982), played by the Albion Ensemble. Brief Maconchy VO on her work for wind instruments.