Browse: CD, Alwyn (composer)

this is a very significant release which really deserves to be snapped up by everyone, not least those who still cling to the discredited belief that when it comes to composing symphonies, Britain... — MusicWeb International, September 2016 More…

David Lloyd-Jones and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra put up a typical potent, well-considered case for both works. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2006, More…

A highly enjoyable wander away from the familiar British path, including some rare youthful Vaughan Williams. The playing is suitably characterful throughout. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, More…

Lorraince McAslan makes a convincing case for the work: fearsome weight of tone is not her style, but she has bravura and accuracy to spare, and her musicianship's brand of thoughtful loveliness... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2011, More…

I would… strongly recommend this performance of the Lyra Angelica, Lloyd-Jones and harpist Suzanne Willison revealing more dark and ecstatic poetry than in any other performance had led me to... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2005 More…

The playing of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra under David Lloyd-Jones is as impressive on this disc as anywhere else in this Naxos cycle… — BBC Music Magazine, March 2006, More…

[Bebbington] has a rewarding slant on the eleven waltzes, composed between 1954 and 1955...There’s no other performance [of the Carwithen] with which to compare Bebbington’s but there’s every... — MusicWeb International, 31th January 2014 More…

It brings to an end a confident but also, at times, suitably sensitive salute to the service in courageous and highly accomplished performances. — MusicWeb International, December 2017 More…

Hickox conducts all this music with total commitment and it is beautifully played and recorded — Gramophone Magazine More…