British String Concertos

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Label
Lyrita
Release Date
September 1, 2014
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • PERFORMER
      Various Artists
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 01, 2014
    • UPC
      5020926234629
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SRCD2346
    • LABEL
      Lyrita
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      4
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Concerto for Violin in G minor, Op. 80

      Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Lorraine McAslan (Violin)

      Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite

    2. Double Concerto, Op. 49/H 175

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Emanuel Hurwitz (Violin), Kenneth Sillito (Violin)

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    3. Lyric Movement for Viola and String Orchestra, H 191

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

      Performer: Cecil Aronowitz (Viola)

      Conductor: Imogen Holst

    4. Invocation, Op. 19 no 2/H 75

      Composer: Gustav Holst

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Alexander Baillie (Cello)

      Conductor: David Atherton

    5. Introit for Violin and Orchestra in F major, Op. 6

      Composer: Gerald Finzi

      Ensemble: London Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Rodney Friend (Violin)

      Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult

    6. Concerto for Cello

      Composer: William Busch

      Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Raphael Wallfisch (Cello)

      Conductor: Vernon Handley

    7. Concerto for Violin

      Composer: Ernest John Moeran

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: John Georgiadis (Violin)

      Conductor: Vernon Handley

    8. Soliloquy, Op. 57

      Composer: Edmund Rubbra

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Rohan de Saram (Cello)

      Conductor: Vernon Handley

    9. Concerto for Violin

      Composer: Roberto Gerhard

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Yfrah Neaman (Violin)

      Conductor: Sir Colin Davis

    10. Concerto for Violin, Op. 11

      Composer: Peter Racine Fricker

      Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Yfrah Neaman (Violin)

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    11. Concerto for Violin

      Composer: David Morgan

      Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Erich Gruenberg (Violin)

      Conductor: Vernon Handley

    12. Concerto for Violin

      Composer: Don Banks

      Ensemble: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

      Performer: Yfrah Neaman (Violin)

      Conductor: Norman Del Mar

    13. Nocturnes and Cadenzas, Op. 62

      Composer: Alun Hoddinott

      Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

      Performer: Moray Welsh (Cello)

      Conductor: Sir Charles Groves

    14. Serenata Concertante

      Composer: Dame Elizabeth Maconchy

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Manoug Parikian (Violin)

      Conductor: Vernon Handley


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. The sound is a model of its kind – Lyrita were always able to boast glorious sound.

The freshly written liner-notes are by the authoritative and accessible Paul Conway and run to ten pages. These are not a simple retread of the original notes by other authors.

The String Concertos range far and wide. The Coleridge-Taylor is a treasure - full of Dvo?ákian melody and incident. The Holst Invocation is almost as moody as the Rubbra Soliloquy, the dark-clouded atmosphere of which you could cut with a machete. Finzi's Introit was salvaged from a disowned Violin Concerto, and it's the best thing in it by a long chalk. The two Holst works are from his appealingly chattery neo-classical years although the lovely Lyric Movement for viola has a yearning core. Busch's Cello Concerto is from the other half of the CD that yielded the Piano Concerto on SRCD2345. The Moeran Violin Concerto has been following me around this year. I have heard it three times live and several times recorded. Its touching slow-fast-slow movement scheme is most adroitly handled by Georgiadis and Handley in what was the work's first commercial recording from circa 1979. CDs 3 and 4 require stiffened sinews for the modernistic Violin Concertos by Gerhard, Fricker, Morgan and Banks. Even the Serenata Concertante for violin and orchestra by Maconchy will not let you off the hook lightly. We end with a roar and a flourish in Hoddinott's typically titled and expressed Nocturnes and Cadenzas for cello and orchestra from 1969.

– Rob Barnett, MusicWeb International