The Fantasia for Organ has been described as both ‘fleshy in its Romanticism’ and also by the composer as ‘quite severe in parts’ an apt combination for the vast changes of the beginning of the post-War era.York Bowne was a British composer whose fifty-year career musical career spanned much of the 20th century. Bowen was not only a prolific composer he was also a pianist conductor Organist Violinist and Horn player. He premiered many important works and his own music was featured many times at the Proms among other concert series. Sir Henry J Wood believed Bowen had never received proper recognition and Camille Saint-Saens regarded him as the ‘finest of Englishcomposers’ early in his career. His compositional style changed little throughout his life so that his later oeuvre was less celebrated than his earlier works as music fashion had moved on.
