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Elgar Howarth
Elgar Howarth is credited on 476 releases across 90 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1967–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
476
Pressings credited
90
Albums
7
Decades active
21
In collections
Biography
Elgar Howarth (4 November 1935 – 13 January 2025) was an English conductor, composer and trumpeter. Grove noted that "his performances are marked by powerful concentration and a clear communication of sometimes complex scores". Howarth's career bridged the worlds of modernist classical music and traditional British brass bands. He conducted many world premieres, including Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and four operas by Harrison Birtwistle. He composed mainly music for brass instruments and brass bands, some under the pseudonym W. Hogarth Lear. As a player, he was one of the trumpeters who performed with the Beatles on the song "Magical Mystery Tour". The author of a feature article about Howarth in 1999 wrote that "as trumpeter, composer and conductor, he has featured in many of the important musical developments in the UK and beyond over the past 40 years".
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
476 releases · 90 albums · active 1967–2023
- Performance · 702
- Other credits · 76
Studios: Kingsway Hall · Whitney Recording Studios · Rolling Stones Mobile · Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, England
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
- Various
- György Ligeti
- Grimethorpe Colliery Band
- Håkan Hardenberger
- Purcell
- Philip Jones Ensemble
- Harrison Birtwistle
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