1925 in British music

Events

• 3 April – Gustav Holst's opera At the Boar's Head is premiered in Manchester.
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• *After a spell of ill-health, Gustav Holst returns to teach at St Paul's Girls' School.
• *William Walton dedicates the score of his Portsmouth Point to his patron Siegfried Sassoon, who had recommended it be published by Oxford University Press.

Popular music

• Mai Jones – "Blackbirds"

Classical music: new works

• Frank Bridge –
• *"Golden Hair", for voice and piano
• *"Journey's End", for tenor or high baritone and piano
• *The Pneu World, for cello and piano
• *Songs of Rabindranath Tagore, for voice and piano, or voice and orchestra
• *Vignettes de Marseille, for piano
• *Winter Pastorale, for piano
• Eric Coates – 2 Light Syncopated Pieces
• Walford Davies – Men and Angels, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 51
• Frederick Delius – A Late Lark, for voice and orchestra
• Edward Elgar –
• *"The Herald", part-song
• *"The Prince of Sleep", part-song
• Gustav Holst –
• *"God Is Love, His the Care", for choir
• *Hymns for Songs of Praise, for choir
• *Motets, for choir
• *Ode to C.K.S. and the Oriana, for choir
• *Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola
• Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 2
• John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano (1925)
• Ernest John Moeran – Bank Holiday
• Ralph Vaughan Williams –
• *Concerto Accademico for violin and strings
• *Flos Campi, for viola, wordless choir, and small orchestra
• *Hymns for Songs of Praise, for choir
• *Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, for voice and piano
• *Three Songs from Shakespeare, for voice and piano
• *Three Poems by Walt Whitman, for baritone and piano
• William Walton – Portsmouth Point, concert overture
• Peter Warlock – "A Prayer to St Anthony"

Opera

• Armstrong Gibbs – Blue Peter
• Gustav Holst – ''At the Boar's Head''

Musical theatre

• Betty in Mayfair, with music by Harold Fraser-Simson and lyrics by Harry Graham
• Charlot's Revue of 1925
• Dear Little Billie, with music by H.B. Hedley & Jack Strachey and lyrics by Desmond Carter
• Love's Prisoner with music, book and lyrics by Reginald Hargreaves
• On with the Dance, written and composed by Noël Coward and Philip Braham

Publications

• William Wallace – ''Richard Wagner as he lived''

Births

• 17 February – Ron Goodwin, film composer
• 8 March – Dennis Lotis, South African-born singer
• 22 March – Gerard Hoffnung, cartoonist, comedian, musician
• 23 March – Monica Sinclair, operatic contralto
• 18 June – Johnny Pearson, composer, orchestra leader and pianist
• 2 September – Russ Conway, pianist
• 20 September – James Bernard, film composer
• 1 October – Alan Styler, operatic baritone
• 11 October – David Hughes, operatic tenor
• 30 December – Eric Wetherell, composer, conductor, musical author
• 31 December – Daphne Oram, composer and electronic musician

Deaths

• 1 March – Thomas Bidgood, conductor, composer and arranger, 66
• 22 March – Marie Brema, concert mezzo-soprano, 69
• 1 April – Francis William Davenport, composer and music writer