Since you are interested in Symphony No. 1 Op. 16 / Symphony No. 2 Op. 51, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
MALCOLM ARNOLD / YORK BOWEN / RUTH GIPPS / GILBERT VINTER
British Horn Concertos David Pyatt (horn) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor) [ Lyrita / CD - released 12/Apr/2007 ] "For sheer listening pleasure this is one of the best discs to have come my way for a long time" (MusicWeb May 2007) |
ALUN HODDINOTT
Dives & Lazarus / Sinfonia Fidei / etc Felicity Palmer (sop) Thomas Allen (baritone) Csaba Erdelyi (viola) Moray Welsh (cello) / Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / David Atherto [ Lyrita / CD - released 12/Apr/2007 ] "Nocturnes and Cadenzas is an ideal work to try if you want to know if Hoddinott is for you: its three nocturnes are finely coloured and quite characteristic, and the linking cadenzas have both clear structural function and expressive weight." Gramophone |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Piano Concerto [with John Foulds-Dynamic Triptych] Howard Shelley (piano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Vernon Handley [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Apr/2007 ] "In sum, a work that definitely deserves more frequent hearings. As in the concerto Shelly plays like a demon and an angel with Vernon Handley and the RPO providing superb support. Excelletn CD transfers. An altogether outstanding reissue" Michael... |
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... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Orchestrations by Sir Henry Wood (Incls Mussorgsky-Pictures at an exhibition) London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "This well filled and well recorded disc deserves success. I hope that it will soon be followed by recordings of some of Sir Henry's other arrangements" (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
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) |