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This represents a cannily put together collection. This is the first ever issue of these versions of the North American Square Dance Suite and the Symphony. They have been ‘in the can’ since the early...

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Release Date: February 01, 2007

$37.99

Technical brilliance, interpretive skill, spirit and inspiration. I scratched my head a little as to how to review this CD. Firstly, the sheer number of pieces on this release prohibits a detailed analysis of, or...

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Release Date: September 01, 2008

$16.99

English composer Arnold Bax was born in the late nineteenth century but had his maturity and came to prominence in the first half of the twentieth. His was an affluent and literate London-based family and...

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Release Date: November 03, 2017

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Lyrita was founded in 1958 by Richard Itter, and is one of those record labels without which our appreciation of British music would be much the poorer. This release however takes us beyond the label’s...

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Release Date: June 09, 2015

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As is to be expected of a Lyrita-sourced disc this is a programme of considerable musical interest and artistic merit. One small curio, it seems to have been created under the auspices of Dutton and...

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Release Date: March 11, 2016

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The shifting, shimmering palette of orchestral timbres. In these three symphonies, the attributes of William Alwyn's symphonic writing that I noted in reviewing Lyrita's previous installment are once more clearly recognizable. There's the building of...

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Release Date: November 01, 2006

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Classical Music

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Release Date: October 01, 2006

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British mezzo-soprano Diana Moore has established herself as a firm favorite with audiences on both sides of the Atlantic, acclaimed for her unique voice which ‘combines the range of a mezzo with the tone quality...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 05, 2022

$16.99

Check out the full 4-CD version of this release! A selection of Daniel Jones’s piano music taken from the 4-album release SRCD2396. Martin Jones has been one of Britain’s most highly regarded solo pianists since...

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Release Date: July 15, 2022

$37.99

Martin Jones has been one of Britain’s most highly regarded solo pianists since first coming to international attention in 1968 when he received the Dame Myra Hess Award. The same year he made his London...

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Release Date: July 15, 2022

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The story of Elias Parish Alvars (1808-49) is a journey from obscurity, ascending to something of an international celebrity. He was dubbed ‘the Franz Liszt of the harp’ by none other than Hector Berlioz (1803-69),...

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Release Date: June 03, 2022

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“The words, with the exception of the Canticle of The Creatures, are settings of almost unknown poems by St Francis of Assisi. They cover a wide expressive and emotional range: from hope to despair, longing...

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Release Date: May 06, 2022

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Smaller concertos for piano and modest orchestral forces were a feature of British composition in the first half of the 20th century. Often they were written for a special occasion, and typically vanished into oblivion...

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Release Date: April 01, 2022

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A fine example of Jones at his most succinct and incisive, the Twelfth Symphony (1985) was commissioned by the Civil and Public Services Association as a farewell gift to their retiring General Secretary, Ken Thomas...

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Release Date: November 05, 2021

$32.99

This boxed set reassembles largely analog material from existing Lyrita CDs under a new generic grouping. Dates and locations of recording sessions are not given. Lyrita seem always to have been reticent about those details....

Format: CD

Release Date: September 01, 2014