English classical music

[National_Nord]

Albert W. Ketelbey

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[Fortis in Arduis]

Ketèlbey had a long and happy marriage to an actress and singer, Charlotte Siegenberg (1871–1947). After her death he married Mabel Maud Pritchett. There were no children by either marriage. He died at his home, Rookstone, Egypt Hill in Cowes, where he had moved in order to concentrate on writing and his hobby of playing billiards. His work fell out of favour after the Second World War and at the time of his death he had slipped into obscurity, with only a handful of mourners at his funeral, held at Golders Green crematorium;[1] in 1999, Roger Scruton wrote, "Ketèlbey's music is trying to do what music cannot do and should not attempt to do—it is telling me what it means, while meaning nothing. Here is heavenly peace, it says; just fit your mood to these easy contours, and peace will be yours. But the disparity between the emotion claimed by the music and the technique used to suggest it shows the self-advertisement to be a lie".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ketèlbey

Sorry to be mean but...

[National_Nord]

Rule Britannia by Thomas Arne

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[Pretan]

Rule Britannia by Thomas Arne

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A good song. However, I much prefer this preformance.
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A short, but nice tune:
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[Nihtgenga]

Gustav Holst - The Planets

[Nihtgenga]

Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending

[AlbionMyway]

Vaughan Williams, 'Fantasia' (sublime and etherial)

http://youtu.be/8c3XvNZ3ns4

Elgar, 'Salut d'Amor' (rather sweet and soothing)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSv3iApK3DQ