LYRITA RECORDED EDITION CDs
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George Lloyd
George
LLOYD (1913-1998)
Symphonies
6 and 7 (Proserine)
BBC Northern
Symphony Orchestra
Edward Downes
BBC recordings
REAM 1135
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Daniel Jones
Daniel
JONES (1912-1993)
Symphony No.2 (1950) [43:23]
Symphony No.11 ‘In Memoriam George Froom Tyler’ (1983) [18:44]
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra/Bryden Thomson
rec. BBC Studio, 19 January 1990; 30 March 1990. ADD stereo.
Reviewed as lossless press preview.
LYRITA SRCD.364 [62:08]
SRCD364
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Michael Hurd
Michael
HURD (1928-2006)
Choral Music - Volume 1
A Secular Anthem (1987) [7:54]
Genesis (1987) [6:07]
Five Spiritual Songs (1996) [9:55]
Rejoice with us (1987) [3:00]
Night Songs of Edward Thomas (1994) [20:14]
Missa Brevis (1966) [11:14]
Merciles Beaute (1980) [5:39]
A Parley of Owls (1987) [3:38]
Praise Ye the Lord (1966) [2:53]
SRCD363
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Peterkin Songs
Norman
PETERKIN (1886-1982)
Songs
Charlotte de Rothschild (soprano)
Adrian Farmer (piano)
SRCD362
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Twentieth Century Music for violin
Franz
REIZENSTEIN (1911-1968)
Violin Sonata in G sharp, Op.20 (1945) [37:56]
Geoffrey BUSH (1920-1998)
Violin Sonata (1945) [18:23]
John IRELAND (1879-1962)
Violin Sonata No.2 in A minor (1917) [22:18]
Steinberg Duo: Louisa Stonehill (violin), Nicholas Burns (piano)
rec. January 2016, Françoys-Bernier Concert Hall, Domaine Forget,
Saint-Irénée, Quebec
LYRITA SRCD.360 [68:05]
SRCD360
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Twentieth Century Music for violin
Twentieth Century Music for violin
Doreen
CARWITHEN (1922-2003)
Violin Sonata (c.1951) [19:01]
C.W. ORR (1893-1976)
Sarabande (after 1930)
[5:55], Minuet (after 1930) [3:44]
Lennox BERKELEY (1903-89)
Elegy and Toccata op.33 No.2 & 3 (1951) [5:18]
Cyril SCOTT (1879-1970)
Two Sonnets (1914/15) [8:34]
Frederick DELIUS (1862-1934)
Légende in E flat (c.1892-5) [8:03]
Thomas PITFIELD (1903-99)
Sonata No.1 in A (1939) [15:07]
Percy M. YOUNG (1912-2004)
Passacaglia (1931) [3:02]
John IRELAND (1879-1962)
Berceuse (1902) [3:59], Bagatelle (1911) [2:50]
SRCD359
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Francis Shaw
Daniel
JONES (1912-1993)
Symphony No. 1 (1947) [50:17]
Symphony No. 10 (1981) [19:27]
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra/Bryden Thomson
rec. BBC studio, 12 January 1990 (1); 16 March 1990 (10)
LYRITA SRCD358 [69:44]
SRCD358
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Bernard Van Dieren
October 2016 (JQ)
October 2016 (JF)
January 2017 (SGr)
March 2017 (JWo)
Symphony
No. 1 (Chinese)
For soloists,
mixed choir and orchestra
Rebecca
Evans, soprano
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, contralto
Nathan Vale, tenor • Morgan Pearse, baritone
David Soar, bass
Introit
to Topers’ Tropes
‘Les Propos des Beuveurs’ after Rabelais (1921)
Elegie
für orchester mit violoncello principale (1908)
Raphael Wallfisch, cello
BBC National
Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
Conducted
by William Boughton
A NEW Recording
SRCD357
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Francis Shaw
Piano Concerto No 1
Piano Concerto No 2
Martin Jones
- Piano
Slovak National Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Francis Shaw
A NEW Recording
SRCD356
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Geoffrey Bush
Feb 2017 [PCG]
Feb 2017 [JF]
Geoffrey
BUSH
(1920-1998)
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (1972) [53.20]
David Johnson (tenor) – Lord Arthur Savile: Lynne Dawson (soprano)
– Miss Sibyl Merton: Alan Watt (baritone) – Mr Septimus Podgers:
Donald Maxwell (baritone) – The Anarchist: Anne Pashley (soprano)
– Lady Windermere: Eirian James (mezzo-soprano) – Lady Flora:
Anne Collins (contralto) – Duchess of Paisley: John Winfield (tenor)
– Lane: Philip Riley (baritone) – Merriman: Geoffrey Moses (bass)
– Sir Thomas, Police Sergeant
Musicians of London/Simon Joly
rec. location not stated, broadcast 27 July 1986
Concerto for trumpet, piano and orchestra (1962) [20.45]
Patrick Addinsell (trumpet), Hamish Milne (piano)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Bryden Thomson
rec. location not stated, broadcast 8 May 1986
REAM1131
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Humphrey Searle
Symphony
No 3
BBCSO Pritchard (1971)
Symphony No 5
Hallé Leonard (1966)
Zodiac
Variations
Orchestra Nova of London Foster (1970)
Labyrinth for Orchestra
CBSO Fremaux (1971)
A BBC Recording
REAM1130
MONO
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Drawn
from the Stereo back catalogue, not BBC recordings
W.S. Bennett
Symphony in G minor
Rootham Symphony 1
Moeran Sinfonietta
Bax Symphony 1
Rubbra Symphony 4
Rawsthorne Symphonic Studies
Berkeley Symphony 3
Alwyn Symphony 5
Grace Williams Symphony 2
Arnold Sinfonietta 1
Wordsworth Symphony 3
Searle Symphony 2
Joubert Symphony 1
SRCD2355
4CDs
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Sacred Choral Music
Stabat Mater
Cantata 'Batter my Heart Three Person'd God'
Magnificat
Sourced from BBC broadcasts
REAM.1129
MONO
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Rebecca Clarke
Music for cello and piano
Rhapsody
I'll bid my heart be still
Sonata
Passacaglia
JOHN
YORK Dialogue with Rebecca Clarke
Epilogue
Raphael
Wallfisch - cello
John York - piano
A NEW Recording
SRCD354
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Granville
Bantock (1868-1946)
The complete Omar Khayyam
(Discs 1-3)
Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson Brian Raynor Cook
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra
Norman del Mar
BBC Broadcast 26 March 1979 (Stereo)
Fifine at the Fair (mono 1968)
Sappho for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra - Johanna Peters (abridged)
Pierrot of the Minute (mono
1968)
REAM2128
4CDs
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Arthur
Butterworth
Symphony 1*
BBC Scottish/Arthur Butterworth
Broadcast 2 December 1976 (mono)
Symphony 2
BBC Scottish/Christopher Adey
Broadcast 20 January 1975 (mono)
Symphony 4
BBC Northern/Bryden Thomson
Broadcast 8 May 1986 (stereo)
* This
tape required significant restoration. It is a unique, but imperfect recording
- see footnote on the review
REAM.1127
MONO/STEREO
2 CDs
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Edmund Rubbra
Edmund
Rubbra
Complete Chamber Music & Songs with Harp
Sir Lennox
Berkeley
Nocturne for Harp
Herbert
Howells
Prelude No1. for harp
SRCD353
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Iain
Hamilton
The Bermudas for Baritone Chorus and Orchestra
Piano Concerto No 1
Cantos for Horn, tuba, harp and orchestra
REAM.1126
MONO
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Anthony
Milner
The Water and the Fire 1977 stereo)
The song of Akhenaten (1973 mono)
BBC Orchestras Meredith Davies
REAM.1125
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March 2016
Peter
Racine Fricker
The Vision of Judgement for soprano, tenor, chorus and orchestra
(stereo)
Jane
Manning, Robert Tear, RLPO/Groves (1980)
Symphony
No 5 for organ and orchestra (mono)
Gillian Weir
BBCSO Colin Davis (1976)
REAM.1124
MONO/STEREO
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Arnold
Cooke
Symphonies 4 & 5
BBC Symphony
Orchestra
REAM.1123
MONO/STEREO
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William
Wordsworth
Overture Conflict (1971 mono)
Symphony 1 (1968 mono)
Symphony 5 (1979 stereo)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
James Loughran, Stewart Robinson (symph. 5)
REAM.1121
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Sir John in Love
Heddle Nash (Shallow), Parry Jones (Sir Hugh Evans), Gerald Davies (Slender), Andrew Gold (Peter Simple), Denis Dowling (Page), Roderick Jones (Sir John Falstaff), John Kentish (Bardolph), Denis Catlin (Nym), Forbes Robinson (Pistol), April Cantelo (Anne Page), Laelia Finneberg (Mrs Page), Marion Lowe (Mrs Ford), James Johnston (Fenton), Francis Loring (Dr. Caius), Ronald Lewis (Rugby), Pamela Bowden (Mrs Quickly)
Sadler's Wells 1946
REAM.2122
MONO
2CDs
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Nicolai
Malko (1927-1997)
BBC Symphony Orchestra (1957-1960)
Works by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Haydn, Rimsky-Korsakov, Bruckner, Kodaly.
REAM2120
4CDs
MONO
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WILFRED
JOSEPHS (1927-1997)
DISC ONE
1-4 Symphony No.5 ‘Pastoral’ Op.75 (1971) 35.09
5-14 Variations on a Theme of Beethoven 21.53
Op.68 (1969)
DISC
TWO
1-10 Requiem Op.39 (1963)
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
conducted by David Measham
SRCD2352
2CDs
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Arthur
Benjamin
Ballade for String Orchestra
Bernard Stevens
Sinfonietta for Strings
Andrezej Panuknik
Lullaby Kolysanka
Arnold Bax
Faure variations
REAM.1117
MONO
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The Lodger
Owen Brannigan
(George Bunting), Johanna Peters (Emma, his wife), Marion Studholme (Daisy,
their daughter), Joseph Ward (The Lodger), Alexander Young (Joe Chandler,
a young detective), John Thornley (A paper-boy), Ranken Bushby (A policeman),
Trevor Anthony (A cockney), Rachel Paine (A cockney Woman), Geoffrey Clifton
(A cockney Man)
BBC Northern Singers & Orchestra, Charles Groves
REAM.2119
MONO
2CDs
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Symphony
2
Ode on the morning of Christ's
Scottish
Philharmonic singers
BBC symphony Orchestra Vernon Handley
Nativity
Teresa Cahill
(sop) Philip Langridge (tenor) Michael Rippon (bass-baritone)
BBC Concert Orchestra Vernon Handley
REAM.2118
MONO
2CDs
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Jolly
Roger
or the Admiral's daughter
Comic Opera in three acts
REAM.2116
MONO
2CDs
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Madam
Noy: A Witchery Song for soprano and instrumental ensemble
Rout for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
Jennifer
Vyvyan
The Enchatress: scena for Contralto and orchestra Pame;la Bowden
The Beatitudes
Heather Harper, Gerald English
BBC recordings
REAM.1115
MONO
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Michael Hurd
Two Chamber Operas
The Aspern
Papers
The Night of the Wedding
SRCD.2350
2 CDs
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SRCD2346
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SRCD2345
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CD 1
Suite Op.6 (1936) [15:40]
Impromptu Op.14 (1939) [6:11]
Scherzo in A - Concert Piece for piano Op.20 (1947) [6:23]
Intermezzo Op.17 (1941) [3:26]
Sonata No.1 in B Op.19 (1944) [31:05]
Legend Op.24 (1949) [5:12]
Scherzo Fantastique Op.26 (1950) [9:44]
CD 2
Twelve Preludes and Fugues Op.32 (1953/54) [65:56]
Variations on 'The Lambeth Walk' (c.1958) [13:22]
CD 3
Zodiac - piano suite Op.41 (1964) [23:20]
Five Modern Pieces for Piano (1960) [9:05]
Sonata No.2 in A flat Op.40 (1964) [26:48]
Malcolm ARNOLD 'English Dances' Set 1 and Set 2 (1950/1) arr. for piano
duet (c. 1958) [18:27]
Martin Jones (piano); Adrian Farmer (piano, Arnold Dances)
rec. Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, May, December 2012; March, June 2013
LYRITA SRCD.2342 [3 CDs: 77:41+79:28+77:40]
SRCD2342
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SIR ARNOLD
BAX (1883-1953)
Concerto for cello and orchestra (1934)
STANLEY
BATE (1911-1959)
Concerto for cello and orchestra (1953)
Lionel Handy,
cello
Royal Scottish National Orchest
SRCD.351
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July 2014
Malcolm Lipkin Symphonies 1-3
BBC recordings (stereo)
SRCD.349
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Mátyás
Seiber
Ulysses
Elegy for Solo viola and Small Orchestra
Three fragments from 'A portrait of the artist as a young man'
SRCD.348
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all premiere recordings
British Cello Concertos
John
Joubert
Concerto in two movements for cello and chamber Orchestra Op.171
Robert Simpson
Concerto for cello and Orchestra
Christopher Wright
Concerto for violoncello and orchestra
BBC National
Orchestra of Wales
William Boughton
SRCD.344
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Works for Chamber Orchestra
Concerto
for light orchestra
Natus est Immanuel
Matthew Locke suite Psyche
Sinfonietta Concertante
Two miniatures for String Orchestra
Finale for s concert for string orchestra
John Ireland 'Holy Boy' arr cello and piano
Northern
Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas Ward conductor
Raphael Wallfisch cello
SRCD.341
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Review [GH][RB]
The Sun,
the great luminary of the Universe***
Night Music for Orchestra**
Variants for Orchestra*
Sinfoniettas 1** & 3***
London Symphony
Orchestra* / Del Mar
New Philharmonia Orchestra**, LSO*** Atherton
First
time on CD
SRCD.333
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Mathias
Symphony 1
London Philharmonic/ Vernon Handley (rec.2007 Lyrita)
William Mathias
Symphony No 1
Royal Philharmonic/ Charles Groves
(rec. 1970 EMI)
SRCD.340
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Arthur BENJAMIN
(1893-1960)
Violin Concerto (1930) [25:08]
Derek Collier (violin), BBC Northern Orchestra/Stanford Robinson.
BBC broadcast, 30 September 1961
E.J. MOERAN (1894-1950)
Violin Concerto (1942) [31:55]
Alfredo Campoli (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Rudolf Schwarz
BBC broadcast, 23 October 1959
Arnold BAX (1833-1953)
Violin Concerto (1938) [31:24]
André Gertler (violin), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Sargent
BBC broadcast, 6 February 1957
William WALTON (1902-1983)
Cello Concerto (1956) [30:50]
Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Malcolm Sargent
BBC broadcast, 13 February 1957
CD 1: venues not given; CD 2: Royal Festival Hall
LYRITA RECORD EDITION REAM.2114 [57:03 + 62:24]
REAM
2114
MONO 2CDs
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Review [BBr]
Review [JW]
Francis
Poulenc
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Frutuosa Vianna
Francisco Mignone
Elizabeth Powell (piano)
REAM
2111
MONO 2CDs
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Four Songs from Herrick's 'Hesperides' (1949) [8:05]
Seven Greek Love Songs (Meleager transl. Dudley Fitts) (1964) [13:25]
Five Spring Songs (1944) [9:27]
Stevie Smith Songs (1981) [3:33]
Three Songs of Ben Jonson (1952) [6:00]
The End of Love (Kathleen Raine) (1954) [13:28]
Merciless Beauty (1987) [2:19]
Five Medieval Lyrics (1970) [11:04]
O, the Month of May (1950) [2:45]
Simon Wallfisch (baritone); Edward Rushton (piano)
rec. Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, UK, 17-19 December 2013.
LYRITA SRCD.343 [70:00]
SRCD.343
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Review [JF]
Review [RB]
Review [JW]
[reviews have sound clips]
Four Welsh Dances Op.15 (1958)
Overture, Jack Straw Op. 35 (1964)
Concerto Grosso No. 2 Op.46 (1966)
Investiture Dances Op. 66 (1966)
Welsh Dances, Set 2 Op.64 (1969)
William MATHIAS (1934-1992)
Celtic Dances Op.60 (1972)
Daniel JONES (1912-1993)
Dance Fantasy (1976)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra /Charles Groves
Philharmonia Orchestra /Charles Groves
National Youth Orchestra of Wales /Arthur Davison
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra /Bryden Thomson ADD/DDD[64.31]
SRCD.334
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Canciones
Españolas
(1972)
Requiem for Father Malachy (1973)
James Bowman
(counter-tenor); Kevin Smith (piano) (Canciones); The King’s Singers;
The Nash Ensemble (Requiem)
SRCD.311
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Paul Hindemith
Review [RB]
Edward
MacDowell
Sonata No. 1 'Tragica'
Sonata No.4 'Keltic'
Paul
Hindemith
Sonatas 2 & 3
Tanzstucke
Sheila Randell (piano)
REAM
2110
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Canciones
Españolas
(1972)
Requiem for Father Malachy (1973)
James Bowman
(counter-tenor); Kevin Smith (piano) (Canciones); The King’s Singers;
The Nash Ensemble (Requiem)
SRCD.311
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Humphrey Searle
RobertStill:
Symphony No. 3
(1960)
LSO/Goossens
Symphony No 4
RPO/Fredman
Humphrey Searle
Symphony 2
LPO/Krips
SRCD.285
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SRCD.2309
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Priaulx Ranier
Lennox Berkeley
P{eter Racine Fricker
Martin Dalby
John McCabe
Rainier: Quanta, String Trio
L Berkeley: Duo for Cello and Piano
Fricker: Sonmata for cello and piano
Dalby: Variations for cello & piano
McCabe: Partita solo cello
SRCD.304
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Bernard Stevens
Review [JW]
Alan
Rawsthorne
Bagatelles (1938)
Sonatina (1949)
Four Romantic Pieces (1953)
Bernard Stevens
Five Inventions Op. 14 (1950)
Ballad Op. 17 (1951)
Fantasia on “Giles Farnaby’s Dreame” Op. 22 (1953)
Sonata in One Movement Op. 25 (1954)
James Gibb - piano
REAM.1107
MONO
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Alun Hoddinott
Review [BBr]
Review [HC]
CD 1
John White (b.1936)
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1956)
Piano Sonata No. 5 (1959)
Piano Sonata No. 4 (1959)
Piano Sonata No. 9 (1960)
Colin Kingsley - piano
CD 2
Alun Hoddinott (1929-2008)
Piano Sonata No. 1 Op. 17 (1959)
Nocturne No. 2 Op. 16 No. 1 (1959)
Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 27 (1962)
Nocturne No. 1 Op. 9 (1956)
Elegy Op. 18 No. 3 (1959)
Valerie Tryon - piano
REAM.2108
MONO
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Review [JF]
ARNOLD
BAX (1883 -1953)
The Piano Music
CD 1
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-sharp Minor
Concert Waltz in E-flat
Two Russian Tone Pictures
Toccata
The Princess's Rose Garden
In a Vodka Shop
The Maiden with the Daffodil
Apple Blossom Time
Sleepy-Head
A Mountain Mood
Winter Waters
CD 2
Dream in Exile (Intermezzo)
Nereid
On a May Evening
A Romance
Whirligig
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G
The Slave Girl
What the Minstrel Told Us (Ballad)
Ceremonial Dance
Serpent Dance
CD 3
Water Music
Lullaby
Burlesque
Country-Tune
A Hill-Tune
Mediterranean
Piano Sonata No. 3 in G-sharp Minor
Piano Sonata No. 4 in G
O Dame get up and bake your Pies
Iris Loveridge - piano
REAM.3113
MONO
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Arthur Benjamin
Review [RB]
Oct 2008 [JF]
CD 1
Lennox BERKELEY (1903-1989)
Piano Sonata in A Major Op.20 (1945)
Six Preludes Op.23 (1944)
Scherzo in D Major Op. 32 No. 2 (1949)
Impromptu in G Minor Op. 7 No. 1
Concert Study in E-flat Op.48 No. 2 (1955)
Four Concert Studies Op. 14 (1940)
Colin Horsley (piano)
CD 2
Arthur BENJAMIN (1893 -1960)
Pastorale, Arioso and Finale (1943)
Scherzino (1936)
Etudes Improvisées
Siciliana (1936)
Lamar Crowson (piano)
REAM.2109
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Review [RB]
Review [JW]
CD 1
Michael TIPPETT (1905 -1998)
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1937 rev.1954)
Iain HAMILTON (1922 -2000)
Piano Sonata Op. 13 (1951)
CD 2
William WORDSWORTH (1908 -1988)
Piano Sonata in D Minor Op. 13 (1939)
Cheesecombe Suite Op. 27 (1945)
Ballade Op. 41 (1949)
Margaret Kitchin (piano)
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Franz REIZENSTEIN
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York
BOWEN (1884-1961)
CD 1
Ten Preludes from the Set Op. 102 (pub.1950)
Partita Op. 156 (1960)
Berceuse Op. 83 (1928)
Moto Perpetuo (1915)
Toccata in A minor Op. 155 (1957)
York Bowen (piano)
Franz REIZENSTEIN (1911-1968)
CD 2
Piano Sonata in B Op. 19 (1944)
Legend Op. 24 (1949)
Scherzo Fantastique Op. 26 (1950)
Impromptu Op. 14 (1939)
Scherzo in A Op. 21 (1945)
Franz Reizenstein (piano)
REAM.2105
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Gordon Jacob
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Arnold
BAX (1883-1953)
CD 1
Folk-Tale (1918)
Sonata for Cello and Piano (1923)
Sonatina
CD 2
Legend-Sonata
Gordon JACOB (1895-1984)
Divertimento for solo cello (1955)
Elegy for cello and piano (1959)
Florence Hooton (cello)
Wilfred Parry (piano)
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Ian Parrott
David Harries
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David
WYNNE (1900-1983)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1957)
String Quartet No. 3 (1966)
Ian PARROTT (b.1916)
String Quartet No. 4 (1963)
David HARRIES (1933-2003)
Piano Quintet Op. 20 (1964)
Eric Harrison (piano); Alfredo Wang (violin); James Barton (violin); Frederick
Riddle (viola); George Isaac (cello)
rec. ADD
SRCD 284
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Justin
CONNOLLY (b.1933)
Verse op. 7b for eight soloists (SSAATTBB) (1969)
John Alldis Choir
Triad III op. 8 for oboe, viola and cello (1966)
Vesuvius Ensemble
Cinquepaces op. 5 for brass quintet (1965)
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
Poems of Wallace Stevens I op. 9 for soprano and seven instruments (1967)
Jane Manning (soprano)
Nash Ensemble/Justin Connolly
rec. ADD
LYRITA SRCD.305
SRCD 305
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Gordon Jacob
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E.J.Moeran
Irish
Love Song
Theme and Variations
On a May Morning
Three Fancies
Summer Valley
Three Piano pieces
Gordon
Jacob
Piano Sonata
Iris Loveridge
(Piano)
REAM
1103
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Alexander
Goehr
Little Symphony Op.15
LSO/Del Mar
String Quartet No. 2 Op.23
Allegri Quartet
Piano Trio Op.20
Orion Trio
SRCD 264
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Harrison
Birtwistle
The Fields of Sorrow
for 2 sopranos, chorus and 16 players
Verses
for Ensembles
for 5 woodwind, 5 brass and 3 percussion
Nenia:
The Death of Orpheus
a dramatic scene for soprano, 3 bass clarinets, clarinet,
piano, prepared piano and crotales
Jane
Manning, soprano
Alan Hacker, clarinet
The Matrix, bass clarinets
London Sinfonietta and Chorus
David Atherton
SRCD 306
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Gardner
Dodgson
Addison
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Maw
Sinfonia*
Addison
Divertimento for brass quartet
Gardner
Theme and variations for brass quartet
Dodgson
Sonata for brass Quintet
* ECOP/Del
Mar
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
SRCD 307
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH (June)
Elgar
Falstaff
Enigma Variations
Pomp and Circumstance March No 5
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Andrew Davis
SRCD 301
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John
Ireland
Piano Music
Alan Rowlands
Disc
One: London Pieces, Greenaways, Sonatina, Soliloquy, Equinox, Sarnia,
Two pieces
Disc Two: Ballade, Two pieces, Piano Sonata, The Towing-path, The
Darkened Valley, Rhapsody, Month's Mind, Decorations
Disc Three: Two pieces, In Those Days, Four Preludes, The Almond
Trees, Summer Evening, Prelude in E-flat, Columbine, Merry Andrew, Three
Pastels, Spring will not wait, Ballade of London Nights, Sea Idyll
REAM 3112
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Bedford
Elisabeth
Lutyens
Quincunx*
And Suddenly it's Evening**
David Bedford
Music for Albion Moonlight***
*Josephine
Nendick, John Shirley-Quirk
BBCSO, Norman del Mar
**BBCSO, Herbert Handt
***Jane Manning
BBCSO, John Carewe
SRCD 265
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E.J.Moeran
Cello Concerto
Cello Sonata in A minor
Prelude for cello and piano
Peers Coetmore,
cello
Eric Parkin, piano
LPO
Sir Adrian Boult
SRCD 299
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Searle
Banks
Maw
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Alun
Hoddinott
Horn Concerto*
Humphrey Searle
Aubade for Horn and Strings**
Don Banks
Horn Concerto**
Nicholas Maw
Sonata for strings and 2 horns***
Barry Tuckwell (horn)
*RPO Andrew Davis
**NPO Norman Del Mar
*** Alan Civil and Ian Harper (horns)
ECO Norman Del Mar
SRCD 335
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David Morgan
Peter Racine Fricker
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Review [JF]Violin Concerto
Yfrah Neaman vn
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Norman Del Mar
David Morgan
Violin Concerto
Sound
Sample
PrestoErich Gruenberg vn
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley
Peter Racine Fricker
Violin Concerto
Yfrah Neaman vn
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Norman Del Mar
SRCD 276
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Arnold Cooke
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH
Havergal
Brian
Symphony
6 'Sinfonia Tragica'
Symphony 16
Arnold
Cooke
Symphony
3
London Philharmonic
Orchestra
Myer Fredman (Brian)
Nicholas Braithwaite (Cooke)
SRCD 295
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Gordon
Crosse
Purgatory
(Opera
in one act)
Peter Bodenham
Glenville Hargreaves
Orch & Chor Royal Northern College of Music
Michael Lankester
SRCD 313
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH Feb 2008
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Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 5
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Myer Fredman, Raymond Leppard
SRCD 233
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Alan BUSH
Alan RAWSTHORNE
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Quartet for Clarinet
BERKELEY
Sonatina for Violin and Piano
BUSH
Three Concert Studies.
The Music Group of London, Aeolian Quartet.
SRCD 256
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ROBERTO
GERHARD
Symphony No. 4 ‘New York’
Violin
Concerto
Yfrah
Neaman - Violin
BBC
Symphony Orchestra / Colin Davis
SRCD 274
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CD1
Mirages, A Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano
Divertimento for Solo Flute
Naiades, Fantasy-Sonata for Flute and Harp
CD2
Fantasy-Waltzes (mono recording)
Sonata Alla Toccata (mono recording)
Benjamin Luxon - Baritone
David Willison - Piano
Christopher Hyde-Smith - Flute
Marisa Robles - Harp
Sheila Randell - Piano
2cds for the price of one
SRCD 293
Includes the first mono re-releases
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Music for Strings
Meditations on a Theme by John Blow
CBSO/Rignold
A Prayer to the Infant Jesus for unaccompanied women's voices
Ambrosian Singers/Ledger
SRCD 254
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Herbert
Howells
Piano Quartet in A minor
Richards piano Quartet
Fantasy
String Quartet
Rhapsodic Quintet for clarinet, 2 violins, viola and cello
Richards Ensemble
SRCD 292
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH Dec 2008
Review [EMc]
Macbeth, Symphonic Poem Op. 54 (1859)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth
Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971)
Fantasy Overture. Cortèges (1945)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth
David Morgan (B.1933)
Contrasts (1974)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley
Francis Chagrin (1905-1972)
Concert Overture. Helter Skelter (1949)
London Philharmonic Orchestra / John Pritchard
Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
Serenade for Strings (1922)
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Comedy Overture. Beckus the Dandipratt (1943)
London Symphony Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
SRCD 318
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Philharmonia Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
Sir Edward Elgar
Variations on an Original Theme ‘Enigma’ Op. 36 : X. Dorabella
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C Op. 39
New Philharmonia Orchestra / Andrew Davis
Frederick Delius
A Village Romeo and Juliet : The Walk to the Paradise Garden
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Myer Fredman
Percy Grainger
Shepherd’s Hey, The Immovable Do
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
Sir Hamilton Harty
An Irish Symphony: The Fair-Day
New Philharmonia Orchestra / Vernon Handley
Peter Warlock - Capriol, Suite for full orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
SRCD 336
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E.J.Moeran
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Silverpoints
Paradise Gardens
Coloured Leaves
Twilight Pieces
Tides
Seven Preludes
E. J. MOERAN (1894-1950)
Stalham River
The White Mountain
Toccata
Prelude
Berceuse
Bank Holiday
Two Legends
Eric Parkin (piano).
[79.26]
SRCD.266
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Elevamini - Symphony No. 1
Sinfonia Concertante for three trumpets, piano and strings (1958/61) *
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1957 rev.1971) **
Martin Jones (piano) *
Malcolm Williamson (piano) **
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves
[72.43]
SRCD.281
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Before and After Summer ten songs for baritone and piano (Op. 16 (Childhood among the ferns (1947/8?); Before and after summer; The Self-Unseeing (1949); Overlooking the River before (1940); Channel Firing (1940); In the Mind's Eye; The Too Short Time (1949); Epeisodia; Amabel (1932); He abjures love (1931))
Till Earth Outwears seven songs for tenor and piano Op. 19a (Let me enjoy the earth before (1936); In years defaced (1936); The Market-Girl (1927, revised (1940); I look into my glass (1937?); It never looks like summer here (1956); At a lunar eclipse (1929, revised (1941); Life laughs onward (1955))
I said to Love six songs for baritone and piano Op. 19b (I need not go before (1936); At Middle-Field Gate in February (1956); Two Lips (1928); In five-score summers (1956); For life I had never cared greatly); I said to Love (1956))
John Carol Case (baritone)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Howard Ferguson (piano)
CD 2
A young Man's Exhortation ten songs for tenor and piano Op. 14 (A Young Man's Exhortation (1926?); Ditty (1925); Budmouth Dears (1929); Her Temple (1927); The Comet at Yell'ham (1927); Shortening Days (1928); The Sigh (1928); Former Beauties (1927); Transformations (1929); The Dance Continued) Part I - Mane floreat, et transeat. Ps. 89
Part II - Vespere decidat, induret, et arescat. Ps. 89
Earth and Air and Rain - ten songs for baritone and piano Op. 15 (Summer Schemes; When I set out for Lyonesse; Waiting Both (1929); The Phantom (1932); So I have fared (1928); Rollicum-rorum; To Lizbie Browne; The Clock of the Years; In a Churchyard (1932); Proud Songsters (1929/1932))
Neil Jenkins (tenor)
John Carol Case (baritone)
Howard Ferguson (piano)
2 discs for the price of 1
[1 hr 59 mins]
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String Quartet No. 3 (1926)
String Quartet No. 4 (1937)
Allegri Quartet (Hugh Maguire (violin); David Roth (violin); Patrick Ireland (viola); Bruno Schrecker (cello)
CD 2
Piano Trio No. 2 (1929)
Phantasy Piano Quartet (1910)
Miniatures for Piano Trio (Set 3) (1907 pub.1915)
Tunnell Trio (John Tunnell (violin); Charles Tunnell (cello); Susan Tunnell (piano)); Brian Hawkins (viola)
2 discs for the price of 1
[1 hr 44 mins]
SRCD.302
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Piano Concerto (1937/8)
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Piers Lane (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Vernon Handley
World Premiere Recordings
.[51.51]
SRCD.320
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Ariadne
Op. 31 (1972)
Concertante for solo oboe and twelve players
Sarah Francis, oboe
London Symphony Orchestra ensemble / Michael Lankester
Changes
Op. 17 (1966)
A nocturnal cycle - for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed chorus, and
orchestra
Jennifer Vyvyan - soprano, John Shirley-Quirk - baritone, Orpington Junior
Singers
Highgate School for Boys Choir, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus /
Norman Del Mar
SRCD.259
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Piano
Concerto
(1968) *
Five Studies for Piano (1962-4) **
Capriccio for Piano Duet (1968) ***
Commedia IV
(2 trumpets, horn, trombone & tuba) (1973) ****
* Stephen
Kovacevich, piano
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson
** Richard Rodney Bennett, piano
*** Richard Rodney Bennett & Thea Musgrave, piano
**** Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
SRCD.275
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Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor
Legende (Concertstucke) OP14 (1897)
Romance in G Op.39 (1899)
Violin Concerto in G Minor Op. 80 (1912),
Julius
Harrison
Bredon Hill.- a rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1941)
Lorraine McAslan, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
SRCD.317
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Concerto
for Clarinet & String Orchestra Op. 3, Harp Concerto Op.
11, Piano Concertos No. 1 & 2.
PO / Sir Charles Groves, LSO / David Atherton.
SRCD.330
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John
Ireland
The Piano Music
Decorations.
The Almond Trees. Four Preludes. Prelude in E flat. Rhapsody. The Towing-Path.
Merry Andrew. London Pieces. Summer Evening. Piano Sonata. Two Pieces
: For Remembrance / Amberley Wild Brooks. The Darkened Valley. Equinox.
On a Birthday Morning. Soliloquy. Two Pieces : April / Bergomask. Sonatina.
Ballade. Two Pieces : February's Child / Aubade. Month's Mind. Greenways
- Three Lyric Pieces. Sarnia - An Island Sequence.
Eric Parkin - piano
SRCD.2277
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Piano
Concerto
Variations on a Swedish Air
Piano Quartet
Piano Trio
Tunnell Piano Quartet
SRCD.2286
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July 2007
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Orchestral
Works
Concerto for Organ and Orchestra *
Piano Concerto No. 3 in E flat **
Sonata for Two Pianos ***
* Malcolm Williamson - organ
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult
** Malcolm Williamson - piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Leonard Dommett
*** Malcolm Williamson and Richard Rodney Bennett - pianos
SRCD.280
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Orchestral
Works
Pomona
Music for Orchestra
Romeo and Juliet
King Pest
ECO/Del Mar
RPO/JOLY
LPO/Wordsworth
SRCD.215
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DIVERTIMENTOS
SINFONIETTAS
Michael Tippett: Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra
“Sellinger’s Round”
Alan Rawsthorne: Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten: Sinfonietta Op. 1
Lennox Berkeley: Sinfonietta Op. 34
Malcolm Arnold: Sinfonietta No. 1 Op. 48 *
English Chamber Orchestra / Norman Del Mar
London Symphony Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
SRCD.257
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FRANK
BRIDGE
Oration
Concerto elegiaco for Cello and Orchestra
Phantasm
Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra
Julian Lloyd Webber - cello
Peter Wallfisch - piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
SRCD.244
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John Joubert
Symphony 1 Op.20
London Philharmonic
Orchestra
Vernon Handley
SRCD.322
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ORCHESTRATIONS
BY SIR HENRY WOOD
J.S. Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor (BWV 565)
Chopin: Marche funèbre
(from Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor)
Scharwenka: Polish Dance (Op. 3 No. 1)
Granados: Spanish Dance (No. 5 Andaluza)
Grieg: Funeral March
Debussy: La Cathédrale engloutie (Preludes, Book 1 No. 10)
Rachmaninov: Prelude in C sharp minor Op. 3 No. 2
Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
SRCD.216
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John
Ireland
The Songs
CD
1
Songs of a Wayfarer
When Lights go rolling round the sky
Hope the Hornblower
Sea Fever
Marigold
Five Poems by Thomas Hardy
Three Songs
We’ll to the Woods no more
CD 2
Two Songs
Songs Sacred & Profane
Five XVIth Century Songs
Blow out you Bugles
If there were Dreams to sell
I have twelve Oxen
Spring Sorrow
The Bells of San Marie
The Journey
The merry month of May
Vagabond
When I am dead my dearest
Santa Chiara
Great Things
If we must part
Tutto e sciolto
CD 3
Songs for Tenor: The Heart’s desire
The sacred flame
Remember
Hawthorne Time
The East Riding
Love is a sickness full of woes
The Land of Lost Content
Two Songs
Songs for Contralto: The three Ravens
Bed in Summer
Mother & Child
Earth’s Call
Three Arthur Symons Songs
What art thou thinking of?
Three Thomas Hardy Songs
Alfreda Hodgson, Benjamin Luxon, John Mitchinson, Alan Rowlands
SRCD.2261
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June 2007
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[RB]
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John
Ireland
Phantasie
Trio
Trio No. 2
Trio No. 3
Sextet for Clarinet, Horn and String Quartet
Sonata for Cello and Piano
Fantasy Sonata for Clarinet and Pino
Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
SRCD.2271
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George
Lloyd
Symphonies
4,5 & 8
Philarmonia/Downes
SRCD.2258
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Charles
Villiers Stanford
Cello
concerto
Piano Concerto No.3
Alexander
Baillie, cello
Malcolm Binns, piano
RPO Braithwaite
SRCD.321
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Sound Extract 1st Movement
Sir Arnold
Bax
Symphony
No 6
Irish Landscape
Rogues Comedy Overture
Overture to Adventure
Overture: Work in Progress
NPO del
Mar
RPO Handley
SRCD.296
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Walter
Leigh
Overture,
Agincourt*
Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra< Music for String Orchestra<
A Midsummer Night's Dream - Suite
The Frogs
Jolly Roger - Overture*
Trevor Pinnock,
harpsichord
LPO, *NPO Nicholas Braithwaite
SRCD.289
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Thea
Musgrave
Concerto
for Orchestra*
Clarinet Concerto**
Horn Concerto ***
Monologue, for solo piano
Excursions, eight duets for piano, four hands
Gervase
de Peyer, clarinet Barry Tuckwell, horn Thea Musgrave, piano
Malcolm Williamson, piano
*SNO, Gibson
** LSO del Mar
*** SNO, Musgrave
SRCD.253
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Josef Holbrooke
Cyril Rootham
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BANTOCK,
GRANVILLE
Overture to a Greek Tragedy* JOSEF HOLBROOKE
The Birds of Rhiannon Op. 87
CYRIL ROOTHAM Symphony No. 1 in C minor.
*Philharmonia Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite, London Philharmonic Orchestra
/ Vernon Handley.
SRCD.269
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BENNETT,
WILLIAM STERNDALE
Ov. The May Queen,
Ov. The Wood-nymphs,
Symphony in G minor Op. 43, Ov. The Naiades*,
Ov. Parisina.
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra* / Nicholas Braithwaite.
SRCD.206
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Gerald
FINZI
Love's Labour's Lost, Let us Garlands bring, Farewell to Arms
In Terra Pax
RPO, John Carol Case, Partridge, Manning, Noble, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/New
Philharmonia Orch / Handley.
SRCD.237
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JONES,
DANIEL
Symphonies 4, 7, 8.
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Charles Groves, BBC Welsh Symphony
Orchestra / Bryden Thomson.
SRCD.329
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Anthony Milner
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MAW,
NICHOLAS
Scenes and Arias†
ANTHONY MILNER
Salutatio Angelica*
Roman Spring **.
† Jane Manning, soprano
Anne Howells, mezzo-soprano
Norma Proctor, contralto
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Norman Del Mar
* Alfreda Hodgson, contralto
** Felicity Palmer, soprano
Robert Tear, tenor
London Sinfonietta & London Sinfonietta Chorus
conducted
by David Atherton
SRCD.267
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Gustav Holst
Hubert Parry
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH
Sound
Sample
Excerpt The
Sons of Light
VAUGHAN
WILLIAMS
The Sons of Light, A Cantata for Chorus and Orchestra *
HOLST The Mystic Trumpeter Op. 18, Scena for Soprano and Orchestra
**
PARRY Ode on the Nativity.* *Teresa Cahill, The Bach Choir, LPO
/ Willcocks,
** Sheila Armstrong, LSO / Atherton.
SRCD.270
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Edward
ELGAR
Symphony No 1
Symphony No 2
LPO/Boult
(2CDs for
the price of one)
SRCD.221
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John
IRELAND
Concertino pastorale for string orchestra
The Holy Boy for string orchestra
A Downland suite for string orchestra
Frank BRIDGE
Rosemary
Suite for string orchestra
Sally in our Alley
Cherry Ripe
Lament for String Orchestra
Sir Roger de Coverley
LPO/Boult
SRCD.242
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George
BUTTERWORTH
Two English Idylls
The Banks of Green Willow
A 'Shropshire Lad' rhapsody
Peter WARLOCK
An Old Song for small orchestra
Patrick HADLEY
One Morning in Spring -rhapsody for small orchestra
Herbert HOWELLS
Procession
Merry-eye
Elegy for viola, string quartet *string orchestra
Music for a Prince
Corydon's Dance
Scherzo in Arden
LPO/NPO
Boult
SRCD.245
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Lennox
BERKELEY
Piano concerto in B flat*
Concerto for two pianos and Orchestra**
*David Wilde
(piano) NPO/Braithwaite
** Garth
Beckett and Boyd McDonald (pianos) LPO/del Mar
SRCD.250
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Elizabeth
MACONCHY
Overture, Proud Thames*
Symphony for Double String Orchestra**
Serenata concertante for violin and orchestra (with Manoug Parikian, vn)**
Music for Strings***
*LPO/Handley **LSO/Handley ***LPO/Wordsworth
SRCD.288
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Gordon
Jacob
Symphonies 1& 2
LPO/Barry Wordsworth
(New Recordings)
SRCD.315
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Symphony No. 1,
Concerto in D for string orch.
Jabez and the Devil - Suite
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
SRCD.203
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British Light Music Gems
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Review [JW]Bantock Russian Scenes (LPO/Wordsworth)
Armstrong Gibbs Fancy Dress Suite;
Lutyens En Voyage (RPO/Joly)
SRCD.214
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Gerald FINZI
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[JW]
RECORDING OF THE MONTH
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Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra Op. 31
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op.40
John Denman, clarinet, New Philharmonia Orchestra
Yo-Yo Ma, cello, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor
SRCD.236
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Frank BRIDGE
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Dance Rhapsody
Dance Poem
Two Poems
Overture Rebus
Allegro Moderato for string orchestra
LPO/Braithwaite
SRCD.243
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E J MOERAN
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Rhapsody no.2
Violin Concerto
Rhapsody in F sharp for piano and orchestra LPO/Boult Georgiadis/LSO/Handley McCabe/New Philharmonia/Braithwaite
SRCD.248
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Lennox BERKELEY
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L Berkeley
Symphony
No 1
LPO
Norman Del Mar
Symphony No 2
LPO Nicholas Braithwaite
SRCD.249
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Malcolm ARNOLD
York BOWEN
Ruth GIPPS
Gilbert VINTER
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BRITISH
HORN CONCERTOS
Gordon
Jacob: Concerto for Horn and Strings
Malcolm Arnold: Concerto no.2 for Horn and Strings, Op.58
York Bowen: Concerto for Horn, string orchestra and timpani, Op.150
Ruth Gipps: Concerto Horn Concerto, Op.58
Gilbert Vinter: Hunter's Moon
David Pyatt, horn
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Braithwaite
SRCD.316
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1. Overture to an Italian Comedy * (previously on SRCS.47)
2. Cotillon, A Suite of Dance Tunes ** (previously on SRCS.115)
3. North American Square Dance Suite ***
4. Symphony ***
Total playing time 76.00
* Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Myer Fredman
** London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Braithwaite
*** London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth
SRCD.314
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH
1. Severn Rhapsody *
2. Nocturne *
3. Three Soliloquies (Love's Labours Lost) *
4. Romance *
5. Prelude *
6. Fall of the Leaf *
7. Introit (Rodney Friend, violin) *
8. Eclogue (Peter Katin, piano) **
9. Grand Fantasia and Toccata (Peter Katin, piano) **
Total playing time 79.00
*London Philharmonic Orchestra **New Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
SRCD.239
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Review [JW]1. Legend for piano (Eric Parkin, piano)
2. Overture 'Satyricon'
3. Concerto for piano (Eric Parkin, piano)
4. These things shall be (John Carol Case, baritone)
5. Two symphonic studies (arr. Bush)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
SRCD.241
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1. Overture for a Masque
2. Sinfonietta
3. Symphony in G minor *
Total playing time 78.55
London Philharmonic Orchestra *New Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
SRCD.247
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1. Overture Street Corner*
2. Concerto for piano no.1**
3. Concerto for piano no.2**
4. Symphonic Studies***
Total playing time 76.00
Malcolm Binns, piano
*London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Pritchard
**London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Braithwaite
***London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by John Pritchard
SRCD.255
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Walt Whitman
Op.7 (1899)
Suite de Ballet in E flat Op. 10 (1899)
Suite in E flat Op.28 No.1 (1909)
A Hampshire Suite )p 28 No.2 (1911) orch. Gordon Jacob
A Moorside
Suite (1928) orch. Godon Jacob
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite
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Review [EM]Suite: The
Three Men (1935)
Concert Valse: Dancing Nights (1932)
Two Symphonic Rhapsodies (1933)
i.Pitch my caravan
ii.Birdsong at Eventide/I heard you singing
Idyll:Summer Afternoon
Ballet: The Enchanted Garden (1946)
Concert Valse: Footlights (1939)
Suite 4 Centuries (1942)
iv. 20th Century Rhythm
March: London Bridge March (1934)
LPO/ Barry Wordsworth
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RECORDING OF THE MONTH
The Trees
so High: Symphonic Ballad in A minor
Intimations of Immortality - Ode fopr tenor solo, chorus and Orchestra
Thomas Allen,
Ian Partridge,
New Philharmonia Orchsestra
Guildford Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra
Vernon Handley
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BOULT
CONDUCTS IRELAND
Tritons: symphonic prelude (c1905)
The Forgotten Rite, prelude (1913)
Mai-Dun, symphonic rhapsody (1920/1)
A London Overture (1936)
Epic March (1942)
Themes from Julius Caesar (arr Geofrey Bush) (1942)
'The Overlanders', suite (1946-7)
(ed. Charles Mackerras)
London Philharmonic
Orchestra
Adrian Boult
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BOULT
CONDUCTS COATES
Eric Coates Merrymakers Overture; Summer days Suite; Queen Elizabeth;
Three Bears Phantasy; In the Country; Evening in Town; March The
Dam Busters
Vaughan Williams The Wasps: March past of the kitchen utensils
Delius March Caprice
Rossini/Britten Soirées Musicales March
Grainger Children’s March 'Over the Hills and Far Away'
Walton Funeral March (Hamlet)
Holst/Jacob Suite No.1 March
New Philharmonia
Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Boult
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Piano Concerto No. 1 in C (1913-14)
Early One Morning: Poem for Piano and Orchestra (1931, rev 1962)
Piano Concerto No 2 (c1958)
John Ogdon
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Herrmann
SRCD251
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