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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Apr 1, 2007

When the names of Sir Edward Elgar and Sir Adrian Boult appear together in the same sentence, chances are good that it's in the context of the latter' ...

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Apr 1, 2007

Essential for any collection of twentieth century English music, this disc contains the four extant orchestral works of George Butterworth -- his Two ...

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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Rodney Friend, Peter Katin, Sir Adrian Boult, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Feb 1, 2007

Gerald Finzi is no Ralph Vaughan Williams but he often comes quite close. In this disc, the twentieth century English composer sounds enough like Vaug ...

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Nov 1, 2006

If you've never heard the music of Arnold Bax, this is the disc for you. Of course, you'll have to have a predisposition toward early twentieth centur ...

Raphael Wallfisch, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, William Boughton

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Nov 1, 2014

London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Feb 1, 2007

Nearly as fine an English symphony as was composed in the '30s -- and that list includes Walton's First, Vaughan Williams' Fourth, and Britten's Sinfo ...

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Myer Fredman, Raymond Leppard

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Mar 31, 2008

Before Vernon Handley and Bryden Thomson's digital cycles of the complete symphonies of Arnold Bax, there were only single symphonies in scattered ste ...

Simon Callaghan, The BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Martyn Brabbins

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Apr 1, 2022

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 ...

John Carol Case

Classical - Released by Lyrita on May 1, 2007

In the case of Gerald Finzi, it is difficult if not impossible to speak of better and worse works. The twentieth century English composer's small but ...

London Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis, Charles Groves

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Apr 2, 2021

Robert Simpson wrote his Fifth Symphony in 1972 in response to a commission by the London Symphony Orchestra. The first performance of the symphony to ...

New Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Jan 1, 2007

London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Manoug Parikian, Vernon Handley, Barry Wordsworth

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Apr 1, 2007

Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Edward Downes

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Jun 1, 2007

Committed fans of twentieth century British orchestral music usually make their way to the symphonies of George Lloyd. Overshadowed by names like Elga ...

BBC National Chorus of Wales

Choral Music (Choirs) - Released by Lyrita on May 3, 2019

Charles Villiers Stanford had the misfortune to live until his music had fallen out of fashion. The Mass Via Victrix, Op. 173, a substantial 1919 work ...

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Jul 1, 2007

Henry Wood was anything but understated in his orchestration endeavors, and for those who find Leopold Stokowski's orchestrations of similar repertoir ...

Philharmonia Orchestra, Rohan de Saram, Norman Del Mar, London Symphony Orchestra, Vernon Handley

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Jan 1, 1992

Like nineteenth century Austrian composer Anton Bruckner, twentieth century English composer Edmund Rubbra specialized in contrapuntal symphonies -- a ...

London Philharmonic Orchestra, Norman Del Mar, Nicholas Braithwaite

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Mar 1, 2007

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Jun 2, 2017

David Matthews, Raphael Wallfisch, English String Orchestra, Kenneth Woods

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Feb 4, 2022

“Although Elgar was a highly accomplished violinist, he wrote no mature string chamber music until, at the end of his creative life, he produced three ...

New Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Norman Del Mar, Vernon Handley

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Jun 1, 2007

Let's say you'd like to try just one recording of one symphony by the self-described brazen Romantic Arnold Bax, by all means try this one. To begin w ...

London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite, Sir Malcolm Arnold

Classical - Released by Lyrita on Mar 1, 2019

24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo

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