Lyrita
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Special offer. Moeran: Sinfonietta, Symphony in G minor & Overture for a Masque
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Boult's affection for the G minor Symphony is in every phrase of this rapt and gloriously warm-hearted performance.
The New Philharmonia are on blistering form and, thankfully for us, captured... —Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Historic Reissue
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Special offer. Finzi: Clarinet Concerto & Cello Concerto
RecommendedJohn Denman (clarinet), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
The Cello Concerto was in many ways the composer's swansong… The beautifully slow movement is deeply searching and draws on an Elgarian quality, a poignant nobility. Yo-Yo Ma's wistfully introspective... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2007, Re-issue of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. William Sterndale Bennett: Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 6
RecommendedSimon Callaghan (piano), Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano), Northern Sinfonia, Martin Yates
Callaghan is the superb soloist in the Fourth and Sixth, in energising performances with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and conductor Martin Yates that feel tailored to the music's scale and sympathies. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2026, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd January 2026
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Special offer. Boult conducts Coates
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra & New Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Boult
As ever, Coates's music has great craftsmanship as well as good tunes and, lightweight though it is, it lies firmly within the English tradition. Here Boult finds its affinities with Elgar in... —
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Building a Library, June 2011, Featured
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Bantock: Omar Khayyám
RecommendedSarah Walker (contralto), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) & Brian Raynor Cook (baritone), Johanna Peters (contralto)
BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Norman Del Mar
This 1979 revival…is complete, and much livelier [than Handley’s performance] with equally fine soloists…it’s well coupled with other less rare Bantock, especially Fifine at the Fair, based... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Philip Cannon; John Addison; Francis Chagrin: British Piano Concertos
RecommendedSimon Callaghan (piano), BBC NOW, William Boughton
Addison’s single-movement Conversation Piece returns us to the carefree and unpretentious mood with which we began. I love the way Callaghan and his colleagues capture the witty, knowing character... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Boult conducts Parry
London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Boult's advocacy is irresistible and the CD transfer demonstrates the intrinsic excellent of the analogue recordings, with gloriously full string-sound. —
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In 1968, when Sir Adrian Boult recorded the two Elgar Symphonies for Lyrita, he wrote an open letter to Gramophone, couched diplomatically but reflecting his fury that at the sessions his recording... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Collection Winner
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