Steve Elcock

In recent years, his works, which include ten symphonies and a variety of orchestral and chamber pieces, have begun to be performed publicly; a number of them have now been recorded.

[1] He gained a place to study music at Oxford University in 1975 but left after only a few weeks and instead began training as a teacher of French.

15) was performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra with the conductor James MacMillan at a studio concert in Manchester, which was later broadcast.

[4] In 2013, Elcock forwarded copies of his scores of his Symphonies 3 and 4 and his symphonic poem Wreck to Martin Anderson, head of the Toccata Classics record company, who expressed his enthusiasm and made it known to others in the world of music.

[6] In the same year, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra broadcast his Choses renversées par le temps ou la destruction.

[14] Francis Pott adds for context of Elcock's music that of Malcolm Arnold and Vagn Holmboe.

[16] Paul Mann highlights Elcock's "compositional integrity, meticulous craftsmanship and inexorable symphonic logic.

[18] (Bach is also invoked in the later orchestral work Choses Renversées par le Temps ou la Destruction, op.

6 (2017–18) carries the subtitle "Tyrants Destroyed" and a dedication to "the everlasting execration of self-serving politicians, the obscenely rich and the system that allows them to remain so.

"[25] Elcock's works are listed at his website, where most of them are accompanied by performance recordings or computer realizations, as well as comments by the composer.