Lyrita
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Assembled from three of Boult's four Lyrita LPs devoted to Ireland, this generous programme launches with the red-blooded symphonic prelude Tritons (a student offering from 1899). Boult and... —
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Moeran - Cello Concerto
Peers Coetmore (cello) & Eric Parkin (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
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It's hard to imagine more persuasive advocacy for Ireland's Concertino pastorale, The Holy Boy and the Minuet and Elegy from A Downland Suite, with Boult drawing a radiant response from the... —
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Alwyn: Mirages, Divertimento, Naiades, Fantasy-Waltzes & Sonata
Benjamin Luxon (baritone), David Willison (piano), Christopher Hyde-Smith (flute), Marisa Robles (harp) & Sheila Randell (piano)
Alwyn's modern Romanticism produced a powerful, troubled statement in the song-cycle Mirages. Naiades offers exquisite sounds. —
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Hurlstone: Piano Works
Eric Parkin (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Tunnell Piano Quartet, Nicholas Braithwaite
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Holst: A Winter Idyll & other orchestral works
Alexander Baillie (cello), Lorraine McAslan (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, David Atherton
Holstians will need no urging to acquire this interesting, well-played and well-recorded disc. —
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British Violin & Cello Concertos
André Gertler (violin), Derek Collier (violin), Alfredo Campoli (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Northern Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Stanford Robinson, Rudolf Schwartz
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There is more to Holst than just The Planets and, from the 1970s, Lyrita led the way in showing us his orchestral range...As with other records in this Lyrita series, the first-class analogue... —
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Bantock: Overture to a Greek Tragedy, Holbrooke: The Birds of Rhiannon
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vernon Handley, Nicholas Braithwaite
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Special offer. Alwyn: Miss Julie
Jill Gomez, Benjamin Luxon, Della Jones, John Mitchinson
Philharmonia Orchestra, Vilem Tausky
