Since you are interested in Arnold: English & Irish Dances, Scottish & Chamber Dances and Sarabande & Polka, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
MALCOLM ARNOLD / YORK BOWEN / RUTH GIPPS / GILBERT VINTER
British Horn Concertos David Pyatt (horn) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 12/Apr/2007 ] "For sheer listening pleasure this is one of the best discs to have come my way for a long time" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
LENNOX BERKELEY
Piano Concerto in B flat / Concerto for Two Pianos David Wilde (piano) / New Philharmonia / Nicholas Braithwaite / Garth Beckett & Boyd McDonald (pianos) / London Philharmonic / Norman Del Mar [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "The recording is superb. The performance seems to me to bring out the best of the music...although these pieces may not be for those of you unfamiliar as yet with Lennox Berkeley, for those of you looking to add these pieces to your library then do... |
NICHOLAS MAW
Sinfonia (with music for Brass ensemble) English Chamber Orchestra / Norman Del Mar, conductor / Philip Jones Brass Ensemble [ Lyrita / CD - released 24/May/2008 ] Born on 5 November 1935 in Grantham, Nicholas Maw studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1955 to 1958 with Lennox Berkeley and Paul Steinitz, and in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Max Deutsch. Despite the merits of such early works as Nocturne... |
ERIC COATES
The Three Men / Dancing Nights / Two Symphonic Rhapsodies / The Enchanted Garden / etc London Philharmonic Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "This is a highly enjoyable disc, expertly played and interpreted. It certainly grew on me after second and subsequent hearings. Strongly recommended for those who are not irredeemably and irreconcilably prejudiced against “light” classical music and... |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Symphony No.4 Op.71 London Philharmonic Orchestra / Malcolm Arnold (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "Those familiar with [Lyrita’s] famous LP’s of British music, made in the 1960s and 1970s will not be surprised to be told that this CD with Arnold’s Fourth Symphony offers sound of demonstration quality. It has all the ambient naturalness that made... |
ARNOLD COOKE
Symphony No. 1 / Concerto in D for string orchestra / Jabez and the Devil-Suite London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "A great start to what must surely be a re-appraisal of Cooke’s orchestral music. An opportunity for the vast majority of listeners to discover this composer’s music for the first time" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
HUBERT PARRY
An English Suite / Lady Radnor's Suite / etc. London Symphony Orchestra / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "The conspicuous qualities of Parry’s writing for the voice have possibly diverted attention from his impressive achievements as an instrumental composer….he composed five symphonies, three suites, a concert overture, an elegy, a set of variations,... |
MALCOLM ARNOLD
David Nixon's The Three Musketeers Northern Ballet Theatre Orchestra / John Pryce-Jones, conductor [ Quartz Music / CD - released 13/Aug/2007 ] "Arnold's music was felt to be the perfect choice to go with Dumas' story, since it is known for often wearing its heart on its sleeve and yet apt to break into swashbuckling, thrilling passages." (AudAud.com) |