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New Releases 2007/2008

Artist/Composer   Description Number UK Purchase Europe Outside Europe
April 2008            
Maw
Gardner
Dodgson
Addison

 

Review [RB]

Maw
Sinfonia*
Addison
Divertimento for brass quartet
Gardner
Theme and variations for brass quartet
Dodgson
Sonata for brass Quintet

* ECOP/Del Mar
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

 

SRCD 307

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Elgar

 

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Elgar
Falstaff
Enigma Variations
Pomp and Circumstance March No 5
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Andrew Davis

 

SRCD 301

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John Ireland  

John Ireland
Piano Music
Alan Rowlands

Disc One: London Pieces, Greenaways, Sonatina, Soliloquy, Equinox, Sarnia, Two pieces
Disc Two: Ballade, Two pieces, Piano Sonata, The Towing-path, The Darkened Valley, Rhapsody, Month's Mind, Decorations
Disc Three: Two pieces, In Those Days, Four Preludes, The Almond Trees, Summer Evening, Prelude in E-flat, Columbine, Merry Andrew, Three Pastels, Spring will not wait, Ballade of London Nights, Sea Idyll

REAM 3112
MONO
3 Discs

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March 2008            
Lutyens
Bedford
Review [RB]

Elisabeth Lutyens
Quincunx*
And Suddenly it's Evening**
David Bedford
Music for Albion Moonlight***

*Josephine Nendick, John Shirley-Quirk
BBCSO, Norman del Mar
**BBCSO, Herbert Handt
***Jane Manning
BBCSO, John Carewe

 

SRCD 265

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Moeran

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E.J.Moeran
Cello Concerto
Cello Sonata in A minor
Prelude for cello and piano

Peers Coetmore, cello
Eric Parkin, piano
LPO Sir Adrian Boult

SRCD 299

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Hoddinott
Searle
Banks
Maw
Review [RB]

Alun Hoddinott
Horn Concerto*
Humphrey Searle
Aubade for Horn and Strings**
Don Banks
Horn Concerto**
Nicholas Maw
Sonata for strings and 2 horns***
Barry Tuckwell (horn)
*RPO Andrew Davis
**NPO Norman Del Mar
*** Alan Civil and Ian Harper (horns)
ECO Norman Del Mar

SRCD 335

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February 2008            
Don Banks
David Morgan
Peter Racine Fricker

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Review [JF]
Don Banks
Violin Concerto
Yfrah Neaman vn
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Norman Del Mar
David Morgan
Violin Concerto Sound Sample Presto
Erich Gruenberg vn
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley
Peter Racine Fricker
Violin Concerto
Yfrah Neaman vn
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Norman Del Mar

SRCD 276

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Havergal Brian
Arnold Cooke

 

Review [RB]

RECORDING OF THE MONTH

Havergal Brian
Symphony 6 'Sinfonia Tragica'
Symphony 16

Arnold Cooke
Symphony 3

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Myer Fredman (Brian)
Nicholas Braithwaite (Cooke)

SRCD 295

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Sound Sample Brian Symphony 6

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Gordon Crosse Review [RB]

Gordon Crosse
Purgatory
(Opera in one act)

Peter Bodenham
Glenville Hargreaves
Orch & Chor Royal Northern College of Music
Michael Lankester

SRCD 313
CD Single available for a limited time only
£7.45/8.20/8.70

 

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January 2008            
Arnold BAX

Review [RB]
RECORDING OF THE MONTH Feb 2008

Review [IL]

SIR ARNOLD BAX
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 5

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Myer Fredman, Raymond Leppard

SRCD 233

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Lennox BERKELEY
Alan BUSH
Alan RAWSTHORNE

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RAWSTHORNE
Quartet for Clarinet
BERKELEY
Sonatina for Violin and Piano
BUSH
Three Concert Studies.
The Music Group of London, Aeolian Quartet.

SRCD 256

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ROBERTO GERHARD

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ROBERTO GERHARD
Symphony No. 4 ‘New York’
Violin Concerto
Yfrah Neaman - Violin
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Colin Davis

SRCD 274

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Sound Sample

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WILLIAM ALWYN

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WILLIAM ALWYN
CD1
Mirages, A Song Cycle for Baritone and Piano
Divertimento for Solo Flute
Naiades, Fantasy-Sonata for Flute and Harp
CD2
Fantasy-Waltzes (mono recording)
Sonata Alla Toccata (mono recording)
Benjamin Luxon - Baritone
David Willison - Piano
Christopher Hyde-Smith - Flute
Marisa Robles - Harp
Sheila Randell - Piano

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SRCD 293

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Includes the first mono re-releases

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December 2007            
Arthur BLISS

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Review [JQ]

Arthur Bliss
Music for Strings
Meditations on a Theme by John Blow

CBSO/Rignold
A Prayer to the Infant Jesus for unaccompanied women's voices
Ambrosian Singers/Ledger

SRCD 254

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Herbert HOWELLS

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Piano Quartet in A minor
Richards piano Quartet

Fantasy String Quartet
Rhapsodic Quintet for clarinet, 2 violins, viola and cello

Richards Ensemble

SRCD 292

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Premières & Encores

 

Review [RB]

Review [JF]

RECORDING OF THE MONTH Dec 2008

Review [EMc]

Henry Hugo Pierson (1815-1873)
Macbeth, Symphonic Poem Op. 54 (1859)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth
Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971)
Fantasy Overture. Cortèges (1945)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Barry Wordsworth
David Morgan (B.1933)
Contrasts (1974)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley
Francis Chagrin (1905-1972)
Concert Overture. Helter Skelter (1949)
London Philharmonic Orchestra / John Pritchard
Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
Serenade for Strings (1922)
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006)
Comedy Overture. Beckus the Dandipratt (1943)
London Symphony Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite

SRCD 318

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Lyrita Classics

review [RB]

review [JF]

review [JQ]

Michael Balfe - The Bohemian Girl: Galop
Philharmonia Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
Sir Edward Elgar
Variations on an Original Theme ‘Enigma’
Op. 36 : X. Dorabella
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 in C Op. 39
New Philharmonia Orchestra / Andrew Davis
Frederick Delius
A Village Romeo and Juliet : The Walk to the Paradise Garden
London Philharmonic Orchestra / Myer Fredman
Percy Grainger
Shepherd’s Hey, The Immovable Do

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
Sir Hamilton Harty
An Irish Symphony: The Fair-Day
New Philharmonia Orchestra / Vernon Handley
Peter Warlock - Capriol, Suite for full orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite
 

SRCD 336

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November 2007            
William BAINES
E.J.Moeran

 Review [RF]

 Review [RB]

Review [JW]

William BAINES
Silverpoints
Paradise Gardens
Coloured Leaves
Twilight Pieces
Tides
Seven Preludes
E. J. MOERAN (1894-1950)
Stalham River
The White Mountain
Toccata
Prelude
Berceuse
Bank Holiday
Two Legends
Eric Parkin (piano).
[79.26]

SRCD.266

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Malcolm WILLIAMSON

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 Review [EMc]

Overture 'Santiago de Espada'
Elevamini - Symphony No. 1
Sinfonia Concertante for three trumpets, piano and strings (1958/61) *
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1957 rev.1971) **
Martin Jones (piano) *
Malcolm Williamson (piano) **
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Sir Charles Groves
[72.43]

SRCD.281

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Gerald FINZI  Review [RB] CD 1
Before and After Summer ten songs for baritone and piano (Op. 16 (Childhood among the ferns (1947/8?); Before and after summer; The Self-Unseeing (1949); Overlooking the River before (1940); Channel Firing (1940); In the Mind's Eye; The Too Short Time (1949); Epeisodia; Amabel (1932); He abjures love (1931))
Till Earth Outwears seven songs for tenor and piano Op. 19a (Let me enjoy the earth before (1936); In years defaced (1936); The Market-Girl (1927, revised (1940); I look into my glass (1937?); It never looks like summer here (1956); At a lunar eclipse (1929, revised (1941); Life laughs onward (1955))
I said to Love six songs for baritone and piano Op. 19b (I need not go before (1936); At Middle-Field Gate in February (1956); Two Lips (1928); In five-score summers (1956); For life I had never cared greatly); I said to Love (1956))
John Carol Case (baritone)
Robert Tear (tenor)
Howard Ferguson (piano)
CD 2
A young Man's Exhortation ten songs for tenor and piano Op. 14 (A Young Man's Exhortation (1926?); Ditty (1925); Budmouth Dears (1929); Her Temple (1927); The Comet at Yell'ham (1927); Shortening Days (1928); The Sigh (1928); Former Beauties (1927); Transformations (1929); The Dance Continued) Part I - Mane floreat, et transeat. Ps. 89
Part II - Vespere decidat, induret, et arescat. Ps. 89
Earth and Air and Rain - ten songs for baritone and piano Op. 15 (Summer Schemes; When I set out for Lyonesse; Waiting Both (1929); The Phantom (1932); So I have fared (1928); Rollicum-rorum; To Lizbie Browne; The Clock of the Years; In a Churchyard (1932); Proud Songsters (1929/1932))
Neil Jenkins (tenor)
John Carol Case (baritone)
Howard Ferguson (piano)
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[1 hr 59 mins]

LYRITA SRCD.282

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Frank BRIDGE

 

Review [EMc]

Review [JF]

CD 1
String Quartet No. 3 (1926)
String Quartet No. 4 (1937)
Allegri Quartet (Hugh Maguire (violin); David Roth (violin); Patrick Ireland (viola); Bruno Schrecker (cello)
CD 2
Piano Trio No. 2 (1929)
Phantasy Piano Quartet (1910)
Miniatures for Piano Trio (Set 3) (1907 pub.1915)
Tunnell Trio (John Tunnell (violin); Charles Tunnell (cello); Susan Tunnell (piano)); Brian Hawkins (viola)
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[1 hr 44 mins]

SRCD.302

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William BUSCH

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Cello Concerto (1940/1)
Piano Concerto (1937/8)
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
Piers Lane (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Vernon Handley
World Premiere Recordings
.[51.51]

SRCD.320

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August 2007            

Gordon Crosse

Review [RB]

Review [DC]

 

Ariadne Op. 31 (1972)
Concertante for solo oboe and twelve players
Sarah Francis, oboe
London Symphony Orchestra ensemble / Michael Lankester

Changes Op. 17 (1966)
A nocturnal cycle - for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra
Jennifer Vyvyan - soprano, John Shirley-Quirk - baritone, Orpington Junior Singers
Highgate School for Boys Choir, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus / Norman Del Mar

SRCD.259

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Richard Rodney BENNETT


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Piano Concerto (1968) *
Five Studies for Piano (1962-4) **
Capriccio for Piano Duet (1968) ***
Commedia IV
(2 trumpets, horn, trombone & tuba) (1973) ****

* Stephen Kovacevich, piano
London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Alexander Gibson
** Richard Rodney Bennett, piano
*** Richard Rodney Bennett & Thea Musgrave, piano
**** Philip Jones Brass Ensemble


SRCD.275

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Legende (Concertstucke) OP14 (1897)
Romance in G Op.39 (1899)
Violin Concerto in G Minor Op. 80 (1912),

Julius Harrison
Bredon Hill.- a rhapsody for violin and orchestra (1941)
Lorraine McAslan, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite


SRCD.317

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