Lyrita

The tautly argued, half-hour-long, misleadingly titled Little Symphony (an elegy for Goehr’s conductor father, Walter) impresses once more as a profound synthesis of 12-tone and classical approaches... — Sunday Times, 27th July 2008, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Simon Joly conducts with an ideal sense of tart wit, and the opera is perfectly cast, from Lynne Dawson's touching Sybil through Anne Pasley's flirtatious Lady Windermere to the fruity contralto... — Opera, March 2018More…

Bax’s sophisticated scoring needs modern recording to do it justice. Still, Eugene Goossens’s powerful 1950s reading of the Second Symphony impresses, and John McCabe is a fine soloist in Winter... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

Those interested in British choral music of the twentieth century will certainly wish to investigate a work which is likely to be totally unknown to them. — MusicWeb International, November 2018More…