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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hymnus Paradisi, first performed at the Three Choirs festival in Gloucester in 1950, is generally considered Herbert Howells' finest achievement, and one of the high points of 20th-century British ...

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, ...

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 ...

Seventy-five years ago tomorrow, a nine-year-old boy called Michael Howells died of polio after an illness of less than three days, at the end of what had been a happy family holiday in ...

"I have always been a great champion of live music, and I am determined to help in whatever way he can to ensure that proper venues for music are in place," the letter concludes. Dr Howells made the ...