Antony Hopkins (1921-2014) was a British composer, pianist, conductor and broadcaster, widely known for making classical music approachable through radio and television. He also wrote stage, film and concert music.

In the Pristine catalogue he appears through Hands Across the Sky, paired with music by Arthur Bliss. His work sits in the post-war British landscape where broadcast, theatre and concert music overlapped.

Hopkins’s musical personality combined craft, clarity and a strong instinct for communication. He was one of those musicians who could explain a score without flattening it.

His public legacy is as much educational as compositional, but that is no small thing. Hopkins helped listeners find handles on music that might otherwise have looked like a locked door.