Since you are interested in Boult conducts Bridge & Ireland, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOHN IRELAND
The Songs (Incls 'songs of a Wayfarer', 'sea Fever' & 'three Thomas Hardy Songs') Benjamin Luxon (baritone) Alfreda Hodgson (contralto) John Mitchinson (tenor) Alan Rowlands (piano) [ Lyrita / 3 CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Although John Ireland wrote concerted chamber music, orchestral works and choral pieces he devoted much of his long creative career to piano music and songs, and it is in these works that the essential Ireland ismost comprehensively to be found -... |
JOHN IRELAND
These Things Shall Be / Piano Concerto / Overture: Satyricon / etc John Carol Case (baritone) Eric Parkin (piano) / London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Jun/2007 ] "The 1970s origins of many of Lyrita’s too long delayed CD revivals need hold no fears for any purchaser. The forty plus year old sound remains an object lesson taught by the analogue tradition to the digital era. Not the essential Ireland apart from... |
ARNOLD BAX
Symphony Nos. 1 & 7 London Philharmonic Orchestra / Myer Fredman, conductor / Raymond Leppard, conductor [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "... this Lyrita release is most welcome - the coupling of Bax’s first and last symphonic thoughts makes a good deal of sense. Both recordings still sound very well, and both performances are excellent. Returning to Leppard’s Seventh, with the almost... |
FRANK BRIDGE
Dance Rhapsody / Allegro Moderato for string orchestra / Dance Poem / etc London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite [ Lyrita / CD - released 10/Jul/2007 ] "This disc...makes a signally attractive coupling. It presents the early Tchaikovskian-sumptuous Bridge (the two Dance works), the transitional Bridge (Two Poems) and the subtle and finely dissonant post-Great War Bridge (Rebus)." (MusicWeb... |
JOHN IRELAND
Tritons / The Forgotten Rite / Mai-Dun / A London Overture / The Overlanders Suite / etc London Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "The 1970s origins of many of Lyrita’s too long delayed CD revivals need hold no fears for any purchaser. The forty plus year old sound remains an object lesson taught by the analogue tradition to the digital era. Not the essential Ireland apart from... |
RAWSTHORNE
Overture Street Corner / Piano Concertos 1 & 2 / Symphonic Studies Malcolm Binns (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Pritchard / London Symphony Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite [ Lyrita / CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] "It's not the only performance of course. You can find competing and newer recordings on Chandos and Naxos. All three are excellent and recommendable. But these performances are as fine as any and the Studies is a truly compelling... |
WALTER LEIGH
Concertino for Harpsichord / Music for String Orchestra / A Midsummer Night's Dream Suite / etc Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / New Philharmonia Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Aug/2007 ] "The composer, Walter Leigh, is little known today yet was undoubtedly one of England’s gifted and versatile composers" (MusicWeb Aug 2007) |