William Crotch (1775-1847) 1. Symphony in F Major 2. Organ Concerto No. 2 in G Major 3. Overture in G Major 4. Symphony in E-flat Major Andrew Lumsden, organ Milton Keynes Chamber Orchestra conducted by Hilary Davan Wetton Released by Unicorn-Kanchana 1992 - CD (DDD) William Crotch (17751847) was an English composer and organist. According to the British musicologist Nicholas Temperley, Crotch was "a child prodigy without parallel in the history of music", and was certainly the most distinguished English musician in his day. Crotch was for a time organist at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he was later to graduate with a Bachelor of Music degree. His first attempt at an oratorio, The Captivity of Judah, was played at Trinity Hall, Cambridge on 4 June 1789 when he was 14. His most successfuland largest scalecomposition was the oratorio Palestine (1812), after which he mainly returned to smaller scale works. He may have composed the Westminster Chimes in 1793, which are pl