Composers: Frederick Septimus Kelly
Compositions: Elegy – In Memoriam Rupert BrookeGerman Symphony, Scherzo, The Somme Lament, A Coin for the Ferryman (Monograph No. 16), Two Organ Preludes – Arr. Latham, Serenade, Op. 7, Songs of Love and Loss – Arr. Latham
Performers:Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey
Catalogue Number: ABC Classic 4818890 (2CD)

Frederick Septimus Kelly was born in Sydney in 1881 and schooled in Britain. He was a precocious talent as a child, memorising Beethoven and Mozart as a five-year-old. Donald Tovey later wrote that Kelly “would abandon nothing until he had mastered it”. Indeed, a love of sport saw him win gold in...