Lyrita
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Special offer. Bantock: Omar Khayyám
RecommendedSarah Walker (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & Brian Raynor Cook (baritone), Johanna Peters (contralto)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar
This 1979 revival…is complete, and much livelier [than Handley’s performance] with equally fine soloists…it’s well coupled with other less rare Bantock, especially Fifine at the Fair, based... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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In 1968, when Sir Adrian Boult recorded the two Elgar Symphonies for Lyrita, he wrote an open letter to Gramophone, couched diplomatically but reflecting his fury that at the sessions his recording... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Collection Winner
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Hadley & Finzi: Songs with orchestra
Thomas Allen (baritone), Ian Partridge (tenor)
Guildford Philharmonic Choir & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Guildford Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Vernon Handley
One of Finzi's loveliest creations given an alchemical touch by Handley (has this orchestra ever sounded so golden?). The choir struggles to match, but Partridge sings with intimacy and understanding.... —
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Coleridge-Taylor: Violin Concerto & other works
RecommendedLorraine McAslan (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite
Lorraine McAslan plays with easy virtuosity and an almost Heifetz-like intensity of focus, while the London Philharmonic, with occasionally audible encouragement from Nicholas Braithwaite, provides... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Walter Leigh: A Midsummer Night's Dream Suite, Concertino for harpsichord & strings & other orchestral works
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite
This Lyrita reissue makes poignant listening… because it inevitably makes you wonder what London-born Walter Leigh might have achieved had he not been killed in action near Tobruk in 1942…... —
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Rawsthorne: Symphonic Studies
Malcolm Binns (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Pritchard, Nicholas Braithwaite
Without losing the necessary edge in the writing, Malcolm Binns (creating their stereo debut in 1979) brings out the expressiveness of the music...The LPO under Pritchard plays with evident... —
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British Piano Concertos Vol. 2
Simon Callaghan, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Stephen Bell, George Vass
In every case, Simon Callaghan radiates delight in reviving these neglected items, and his pungent and precise fingering is matched by the spirited attack of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales... —
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Special offer. Richard Blackford: La Sagrada Familia Symphony & Babel, A Cantata
Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Alessandro Fisher (tenor), Stephen Gadd (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Ikon Singers & Ensemble, Richard Blackford, David Hill
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Grace Williams: The Parlour - Opera in One Act
Welsh National Opera Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Brian Balkwill
her own voice shines through powerfully and this realistically recorded performance, albeit in rather rough sound to modern ears, fills an important gap in her steadily growing discography. —
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Grace Williams: Violin Concerto, Elegy for String Orchestra & Sinfonia concertante for Piano & Orchestra
Geneva Lewis (violin), Clare Hammond (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jaime Martín, Ryan Bancroft, Jac van Steen
The Violin Concerto was recorded at a Prom in 2023, and it's a concentrated performance, with a strong sense of the impassioned lyricism of the opening movement. —
