Lyrita
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Boult conducts ...
Herbert Downes (viola), Desmond Bradley & Gillian Eastwood (violins), Albert Cayzer (viola) & Norman Jones (cello)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
…sympathetic accounts… Butterworth's Two English Idylls, The Banks of Freen Willow and the sublime Shropshire Lad rhapsody. Tension levels rise markedly for exceptionally insightful readings... —
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Vaughan Williams: The Sons of Light (Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra), etc.
Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Teresa Cahill (soprano)
The Bach Choir, Royal College of Music Chorus & London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks, David Atherton
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British Symphonies
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, Vernon Handley, Adrian Boult, Myer Fredman, Norman Del Mar, John Pritchard, Lennox Berkeley, William Alwyn, Josef Krips
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... —
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Bennett: Piano Concerto, Commedia IV, Five Studies, Capriccio
Stephen Kovacevich, Richard Rodney Bennett & Thea Musgrave (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra & Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Sir Alexander Gibson
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Malcolm Williamson: Organ Concerto & Piano Concerto No. 3
Malcolm Williamson (organ), Malcolm Williamson (piano), Malcolm Williamson and Richard Rodney Bennett (pianos)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Leonard Dommett
There are few more immediately rewarding couplings of post-war keyboard concertos than this...The performance [of the Organ Concerto] is definitive. —
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Rubbra: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 7 and Festival Overture
New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Sir Adrian Boult
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Maw’s Sinfonia (1966) is a superb half-hour essay, scored for small orchestra but big in every other way. Its inspiration seems to be the gently rocking motif used by Britten to link movements... —
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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... —
