Since you are interested in Concerto Grosso No.2 / Autumn Legend / Lyra Angelica, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOHN FOULDS
Foulds: Le Cabaret / Pasquinade Symphoniques No. 2 / Hellas, A Suite of Ancient Greece / etc London Philharmonic Orchetsra, Barry Wordsworth [ Lyrita / CD - released 29/Sep/2007 ] "A remarkable disc, and an essential introduction to a composer whose music cries out for greater recognition." (MusicWeb Feb 2004) |
ELGAR
Symphonies 1 & 2 London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult [ Lyrita / 2 CD - released 21/Jun/2007 ] Elgar's two symphonies have a special place in English musical history. When they were first played they towered head and shoulders - in sheer technique, let alone content - above previous symphonic offerings by British composers. Today when we have... |
GERALD FINZI
Music for Love's Labour's Lost / Let Us Garlands Bring / etc John Carol Case (baritone) Ian Partridge (tenor) Jane Mannin (soprano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Vernon Handley [ Lyrita / CD ] In 1946 Noel Iliff was to produce Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost for the BBC Home Service His wife, Simona Pakenham, was adapting it. She was musician enough to be writing a book on Vaughan Williams, and to have recognized Finzi's gifts. He... |
GORDON JACOB
Symphonies 1 & 2 London Philharmonic Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] The prejudice against German music after WWI resulted in an emphasis on the latest French and Russian music of the time, which moulded the language of Jacob’s generation. These influences can be heard in Jacob’s symphonies, from the regular melodic... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Box of Delights-British Light Music Gems London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Joly (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] Recorded in 1989 two of London’s leading orchestras perform a selection of very neglected light music classics. This collection borders on the very unusual with a feast that includes the suite ‘London Fields’ by Phyllis Tate, ‘Russian Scenes’ by... |
JOHN IRELAND
Tritons / The Forgotten Rite / Mai-Dun / A London Overture / The Overlanders Suite / etc London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "The 1970s origins of many of Lyrita’s too long delayed CD revivals need hold no fears for any purchaser. The forty plus year old sound remains an object lesson taught by the analogue tradition to the digital era. Not the essential Ireland apart from... |
WILLIAM ALWYN
The Magic Island / Sinfonietta for Strings / etc. London Philharmonic Orchestra / William Alwyn (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "Following up the welcome reissue of all five of Alwyn’s symphonies, come these two discs of shorter pieces, again with the composer a most persuasive interpreter. Alwyn himself with fair justice counted [Lyra Angelica] his most beautiful work … and... |
WILLIAM ALWYN
Symphony Nos. 1 & 4 London Philharmonic Orchestra / William Alwyn (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "[Symphony No.4] a remarkably diverse and well-argued symphony, bursting with lyrical ideas and melodic in the way traditional music is communicative, without being old-fashioned. [Symphony No.1] is a work teeming with ideas, and quite often reminds... |
WILLIAM ALWYN
Symphony Nos. 2, 3 & 5 London Philharmonic Orchestra / William Alwyn (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "William Alwyn is a leading member of the ‘lost’ generation of British composers, who wrote important music in the central decades of the twentieth century. His symphonic style is in a post-Sibelian tradition, with motives and ideas appearing in... |
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Violin Concerto / Romance / Legend (with Julius Harris-Bredon Hill) Lorraine McAslan (violin) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite [ Lyrita / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] "A real feel-good concerto and a work by Harrison that deserves to live on in its nostalgia and pastoral contentment" (MusicWeb Recording of the Month Oct 2007) |