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Malcolm Lipkin belongs to a generation of composers who came to prominence in Britain between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s. Several of these figures began their careers as a "progressive," exploring the newlydiscovered range of technical and formal innovations before later forging their own relationship with tonality. In Lipkin's case, early influences such as Bart�k and Stravinsky were gradually assimilated into an original voice as his scores moved from long, lyrical lines and motor-rhythms to tiny motifs and rhythmic cells in a more dissonant style. It is hoped this release will generate interest in a composer who has steadily forged his own path regardless of passing trends, to create a body of work of impeccable integrity which still largely awaits rediscovery.

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English composer Arthur Butterworth (1923-2014) began his musical career as a choirboy at the young age of 7. Eventually, Butterworth studied at the Royal Manchester College of Music, where he studied trumpet, conducting, and composition under Richard Hall. Arthur Butterworth wrote over 150 scores for various mediums. This two-disc release features his Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 4, and Symphony No. 1. No.'s 1 and 2 are performed here by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and No. 4 is performed by the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.+ Especially notable is the 4th Symphony, whose premiere performance is featured in this recording.

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Jolly Roger or The Admiral’s Daughter is a comic opera in three acts with music by Walter Leigh, lyrics by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley, based on the book by Scobie Mackenzie and V. C. Clinton-Baddeley. This opera opened at the Opera House, Manchester on February 13, 1933. It ran there for six months before it was transferred to the Savoy Theater in London and then the Lyceum Theatre. The production acquired a total of 199 performances. This recording is from a BBC Broadcast from December 21, 1972.

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"In December 1982 my old friend Norman Peterkin passed away in his sleep at the age of almost 96 in a Guildford hospital. for so many years he had seemed immortal that I could scarcely believe the news. At first the grief was personal, but later I realized that he had been making a significant contribution to many different aspects of British music for over sixty years and so the loss was thus more widespread. Latterly he had been known in two roles: as a 'grandad' figure for the Music Department of Oxford University Press and as the composer of the song, 'I heard a piper piping'. He had outlived most of the contemporaries who might have remembered other facets of his life, e.g. his contributions to musical life in far flung parts of the old Empire, and his work in the 1920s with the composers' circle in Liverpool. To begin with his own compositions were written in a style similar to that of Grieg, but he was open to all the contemporary influences in music and literature - to Debussy and Delius and to Yeats and Maeterlinck. Another significant influence was the music of Cyril Scott, whose First Piano Sonata of 1909 made a great impression on the young Peterkin and was to remain a favorite with him. History will give Norman Peterkin an unusual position in the hierarchy of twentieth century British music and musicians. For some of his songs he will be known as a subtle, imaginative composer of considerable distinction. As a publisher he will always be associated with Hubert Foss, but as one who was known as a poet in music and a musician in publishing he will have a niche all his own." (Alastair Chisholm)

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