Browse: Lyrita (label)

Another early performance of Tippett's First Sonata (by the future dedicatee of the Second), delivered with incisive excellence and technical strength, as is Ian Hamilton's fine Sonata. Fair... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The tautly argued, half-hour-long, misleadingly titled Little Symphony (an elegy for Goehr’s conductor father, Walter) impresses once more as a profound synthesis of 12-tone and classical approaches... — Sunday Times, 27th July 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Three resounding cheers for the appearance on CD at last of the three Thea Musgrave concertos. …some of the most convincing and thrilling orchestral pieces that have been written anywhere in... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

It's hard to imagine more persuasive advocacy for Ireland's Concertino pastorale, The Holy Boy and the Minuet and Elegy from A Downland Suite, with Boult drawing a radiant response from the LPO... — Gramophone Magazine, Janurary 2008 More…

The first of Arnold Cooke's five symphonies was completed in 1947 and premiered under Sir Adrian Boult in a BBC broadcast two years later.
At first glance both the home tonality and formal plan... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Havergal Brian's Sixth and Sixteenth Symphonies were recorded in April 1973. The Sixth (1948), incorporating material from an abandoned opera on Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows, is highly illustrative... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

William Boughton secures commendable results from a strong line-up of singers and his assembled BBC NOW forces; Raphael Wallfisch is at his customarily eloquent, self-effacing best in the Elegie.... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2017 More…