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But during the 1950s and 1960s, while still at the height of his powers, Wordsworth's music began to fall out of favour, separate as it was from the prevailing trends in
European music. He set up his own publishing company, Speyside, to provide an outlet for his music. The Cello Concerto (1962) is a
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for violin and piano, Op. 3, attracted the attention of Donald Tovey, and led to his accepting
Wordsworth as a pupil. The first large scale works appeared in the late 1930s and he started to gain critical attention during the war years, when the String Quartet No. 1, Op. 16 won the Clements Memorial
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The fifteen years after the war were the most productive for
Wordsworth, and also the time when he received the most recognition. There were four more symphonies (1948, 1951, 1953 and 1960), three of the six string quartets, the Piano Concerto (1948) and the Violin Concerto (1956), as well as large
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as having "the overtones of war or spiritual strife", the
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performed it for a modern studio recording in 1968, the
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After the death of his elder son Tim in 1971 at the age of 23, Wordsworth composed two elegiac works,
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Three Pieces (Prelude, Elegy and
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Complete Music for Solo Piano, Toccata Classics TOCC0697 (2023)
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Orchestral Music Vol. 4, Toccata Classics CD TOCC0618 (2022)
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Orchestral Music Vol. 3, Toccata Classics CD TOCC0600 (2021)
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Sonatina in D for viola and piano (or guitar), Op. 71 (1961)
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Wordsworth's first acknowledged and published piece was the
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Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 66, for cello and piano (1959)
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