British Music Collection
Celebrating the music of British Composers.
This series contains many classic recordings of British Music which are currently unavailable, alongside critically acclaimed performances from the Universal Classics archive.
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British Music Collection - Gerald Finzi RecommendedAndrew Marriner (clarinet), Piers Lane (piano)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Nicholas Daniel
Andrew Marriner is a flexible interpreter who brings out both the light and the shade in this work. The Eclogue, here played by a sensitive Piers Lane, is the wistfully pastoral middle movement... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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British Music Collection - William Walton - The Centenary Edition RecommendedRobert Cohen (cello), Tasmin Little (violin), Paul Neubauer (viola), Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Decca's four-disc Walton Edition offers consistently fine versions of all the composer's most important orchestral works, some of them unsurpassed, in full, brilliant sound. Andrew Litton, the... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2002, Budget Choice
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Building a Library, October 2013, First Choice
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British Music Collection - Harrison Birtwistle
John Harle (saxaphone), Paul Clarvis (percussion), Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Christine Whittlesey (soprano)
Cleveland Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Ensemble Inter Contemporain, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Andrew Davis, Pierre Boulez
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British Music Collection - Gustav Holst Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Thomas Hemsley (baritone), Osian Ellis (harp)
Purcell Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, St Paul Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Imogen Holst, Christopher Hogwood, Adrian...
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British Music Collection - Benjamin Britten RecommendedSviatoslav Richter (piano), Mark Lubotsky (violin)
English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten
Just after Britten's performances were released on LP in 1971, the composer admitted with some pride that Sviatoslav Richter had learned his Piano Concerto 'entirely off his own bat', and had... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2010, First Choice
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British Music Collection - Michael Tippett
György Pauk, Nobuko Imai, Ralph Kirshbaum, Faye Robinson
London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Neville Marriner, Howard Snell, Nicholas Cleobury, Sir Georg Solti
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British Music Collection - Peter Maxwell Davies Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Stomu Yamash'ta (percussion)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, The Fires of London, Elgar Howarth, Peter Maxwell Davies
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British Music Collection - Malcolm Arnold Eduardo Fernandez, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
English Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Barry Wordsworth, Sir Adrian Boult, Howard Snell
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British Music Collection - Frederick Delius Tasmin Little (violin), Jean-Rodolphe Kars (piano), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Anthony Collins, Alexander Gibson, Charles Mackerras
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British Music Collection - Arthur Bliss
Robert Cohen (cello), Alfredo Campoli (violin)
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth, Bernard Herrman, Arthur Bliss
This is an excellent collection of music by Bliss and for the uninitiated it offers a very good introduction to his work. For the more seasoned Bliss collector there may well be opportunities... — More…
