Lyrita

  • Foulds: Le Cabaret, April-england, Etc / Barry Wordsworth
    Foulds: Le Cabaret, April-england, Etc / Barry Wordsworth

    $20.99

    A few months ago I had the pleasure of reviewing Lyrita's reissue of John Foulds's Dynamic Triptych for piano and orchestra (coupled with Vaughan Williams's Piano Concerto, 3/93). Now, from the same company, we have...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 01, 2006

  • Dieren: "Chinese" Symphony / Boughton, BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales
    Dieren: "Chinese" Symphony / Boughton, BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales

    $20.99

    Bernard van Dieren was an Anglo-Dutch composer whose name was well-known in London musical circles in the 1920s and 1930s. Though born and raised in the Netherlands his music was little known there and he...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 11, 2016

  • Cyril Rootham: Symphony No. 2; Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
    Cyril Rootham: Symphony No. 2; Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity

    $20.99

    This two disc set contains two of Cyril Rootham’s most prolific works: Symphony No. 2, and Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity. This recording of Symphony No. 2 is from a BBC Broadcast on...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 11, 2016

  • Crosse: Works for Orchestra & Violin / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, Budapest Symphony
    Crosse: Works for Orchestra & Violin / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, Budapest Symphony

    $16.99

    ‘If [a composer] has “something to say”, it can be said only through his technique; he has no control over “inspiration”. The surest way of writing dull music is to sit down with one’s head...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 02, 2017

  • Cooke: Symphony Nos. 4 & 5 / Keeffe, Pritchard, BBC Orchestras
    Cooke: Symphony Nos. 4 & 5 / Keeffe, Pritchard, BBC Orchestras

    $16.99

    This album of Arnold Cooke’s Symphonies 4 and 5 were originally broadcast on the BBC in 1975 and 1981, respectively. Arnold Cooke said of his compositional style, “My music is mainly based on traditional procedures...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 11, 2016

  • British Orchestra Premieres / Various
    British Orchestra Premieres / Various

    $32.99

    Lyrita has concluded arrangements to buy Cameo Classics from its founder David Kent-Watson who concentrated on recording the works of neglected composers. Cameo Classics is now owned by The Lyrita Recorded Edition Trust which was...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 04, 2018

  • Bridge: String Quartets No 3 & 4, Piano Trio No 2, Etc
    Bridge: String Quartets No 3 & 4, Piano Trio No 2, Etc

    $20.99

    Includes work(s) by Frank Bridge. Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 01, 2007

  • Box Of Delights - British Light Music Gems/ Wordsworth, Joly
    Box Of Delights - British Light Music Gems/ Wordsworth, Joly

    $20.99

    Amidst the excited flurry of the monthly Top Gun Lyrita releases comes this gentler morsel. But just because it’s not Boult’s Elgar Symphonies or the Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto or the George Lloyds or … well,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 01, 2007

  • Boult Conducts Ireland - Legend, Etc / Boult, London Po
    Boult Conducts Ireland - Legend, Etc / Boult, London Po

    $20.99

    John Ireland was another one of those high-quality composers who avoided large forms, and so will always rate as (at best) a "minor master". But his Piano Concerto is an early 20th century masterpiece, a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 01, 2007

  • Boult Conducts Ireland / Boult, London PO
    Boult Conducts Ireland / Boult, London PO

    $20.99

    The 1970s origins of many of Lyrita’s too long delayed CD revivals need hold no fears for any purchaser. The forty plus year old sound remains an object lesson taught by the analogue tradition to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 01, 2007

  • Boult Conducts Bridge & Ireland / London Philharmonic
    Boult Conducts Bridge & Ireland / London Philharmonic

    $20.99

    Includes work(s) by Frank Bridge. Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 01, 2007

  • Birtwistle: Nenia, Fields Of Sorrow / Atherton, Manning, Hacker
    Birtwistle: Nenia, Fields Of Sorrow / Atherton, Manning, Hacker

    $20.99

    Birtwistle - softer-grained, relatively lyrical and the angular rigorous. Now that Lyrita appear to have reissued the majority of their own archive, it’s gratifying to see that they are turning their attention to some old...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 01, 2008

  • Berkeley: Sacred Choral Music
    Berkeley: Sacred Choral Music

    $16.99

    Lennox Berkely once addressed the issue of composing sacred works in a 1966 issue of Times Literary Supplement: “How, it may be asked, does a composer approach the task of writing religious music? Does he...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2016

  • Bennett: Piano Concertos No 2 & 5 / Binns, Braithwaite, Lpo
    Bennett: Piano Concertos No 2 & 5 / Binns, Braithwaite, Lpo

    $20.99

    These recordings are also available on Conifer 204/5.


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 01, 2006

  • Bennett: Piano Concertos No 1 & 3, Etc / Binns, Braithwaite
    Bennett: Piano Concertos No 1 & 3, Etc / Binns, Braithwaite

    $20.99

    Classical Music


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 01, 2006