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Includes work(s) by Arnold Bax. Ensembles: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductors: Norman Del Mar, Vernon Handley.

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Release Date: June 01, 2007

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BAX Symphonies: No. 2; 1 No. 5 2 • Myer Fredman, cond; 1 Raymond Leppard, cond; 2 London PO • LYRITA 233 (78:28) Lyrita’s versions of Bax’s First, Second, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Symphonies were,...

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Release Date: January 01, 2008

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Paul Conway writes: “One of Musgrave’s most powerfully expressive and lavishly intricate vocal works, Rorate Coeli (1973) is scored for unaccompanied SATB choir. There are also five soloists (SSATB), who sing both as a quintet...

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Release Date: August 07, 2020

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Robert Simpson wrote his Fifth Symphony in 1972 in response to a commission by the London Symphony Orchestra. The first performance of the symphony took place on 3 May 1973 at the Royal Festival Hall,...

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Release Date: April 02, 2021

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With two orchestral collections already out from Chandos and a third on the bench Cyril Scott’s music is at last making its way. He died nine years short of his centenary. Had he lived to...

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Release Date: January 01, 2007

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A composer who writes songs arguably allows us into a very personal side of his or her character. An instrumental composition gives us access to a composer's imagination and invention as far as the composer...

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Release Date: May 04, 2018

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I am absolutely delighted to have these fine works by a beloved composer back in the catalogue, especially in such beautifully committed readings as these. Elizabeth Maconchy was a most distinguished composer, whose music is...

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Release Date: April 01, 2007

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Nicholas Maw’s most fervent desire was to communicate directly with his audiences and produce material which performers would enjoy playing and Spring Music, written with the express purpose of diverting and entertaining an audience, finds...

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Release Date: February 07, 2020

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The opera centres on the love affair of Horatio Nelson, and Emma, Lady Hamilton. Completed in 1951, it was first performed in full in 1954. The British Embassy in Naples is the scene of a...

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Release Date: June 04, 2021

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A fascinating assembly of Holstiana. Three of these pieces have already appeared on record before, two of which—the colourful 1921 ballet, The Lure, and Dances from The Morning of the Year (an effective concert suite...

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Release Date: November 01, 2006

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Braithwaite’s engaging Holst proves well worth the wait Nicholas Braithwaite’s effervescent 1980 account of the winsome Suite de ballet sounded stunning on black disc and continues to do so on silver (Decca’s peerless Kenneth Wilkinson...

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Release Date: January 01, 2007

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The opera opens with a Wizard working his mystical ways and summoning the spirits of air, fire and water in the form of a brilliant ballet. His plan is to wed the Princess who is...

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Release Date: September 03, 2021

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The music on this album dates from the composer’s later years, and are largely based on themes from his earlier successes. The inspiration for Holbrooke’s music was almost always literary; hence, the large number of...

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Release Date: October 01, 2021

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This will look good on your shelves next to the Boult-Lyrita disc of Finzi miniatures … one of those “ah, yes” moments one sometimes gets with Finzi when everything seems so utterly right. Though the...

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Release Date: March 01, 2007

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This is drawn from two LPs issued in 1979 and 1983. All the Boult items are from SRCS 84 and the two Handley/Katin items from SRCS 92 where they were the flipside fillers for John...

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Release Date: February 01, 2007