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All Naxos Historical, Naxos Classical Archives, Naxos Jazz, Folk and Rock Legends and Naxos Nostalgia titles are not available in the United States and some titles may not be available in Australia and Singapore because these countries have copyright... See more

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Alan Rawsthorne was born in 1905, the same year as Michael Tippett and Constant Lambert – in retrospect, one might say, a remarkable year for British music. His fellow Lancastrian,William Walton, who was, with Lambert, his closest professional... See more

Alan Rawsthorne was born in 1905, the same year as Michael Tippett and Constant Lambert – in retrospect, one might say, a remarkable year for British music. His fellow Lancastrian,William Walton, who was, with Lambert, his closest professional friend, was three years his senior. But unlike them Rawsthorne was a late starter in music. He flirted with dentistry and architecture before becoming a student at the Royal Manchester College of Music and not until he was thirty did he settle in London and seriously attempt to make a living out of composition (and there were less enticements and encouragements in the way of commissions in those days than exist now) ... See less

Highlights: Label: Lyrita Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.255 UPC/EAN: 5020926025524 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 77.26 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

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"What a valuable and rewarding release! These vintage recordings [Symphony No.1 & No.3] (made in Kingsway Hall and dating from 1975 and 1967 respectively) have come up as fresh as new paint … turn up the volume just a little and the Third Symphony in... See more

"What a valuable and rewarding release! These vintage recordings [Symphony No.1 & No.3] (made in Kingsway Hall and dating from 1975 and 1967 respectively) have come up as fresh as new paint … turn up the volume just a little and the Third Symphony in particular sounds astonishingly fresh nearly 30 years on. Rawsthorne’s three symphonies form a powerful triptych. The First (1950) impresses with its urgency and polish. It is a substantial utterance, turbulent and serene by turns, rich in strong ideas, and passionately essayed here by Pritchard and the LPO. The Second (1959) inhabits an altogether more relaxed and delicate landscape … yet with no diminution in terms of concentration or proportional elegance. Braithwaite and the London Philharmonic have the measure of this likeable score, and the Watford Town Hall sound is full and airy to match. Del Mar and the BBC SO prove themselves to be no less eloquent protagonists of the Third Symphony (1964). This is at once the darkest, most... See less

Highlights: Label: Lyrita Copyright: 1995 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.291 UPC/EAN: 5020926029126 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD/DDD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 74.47 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

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"The Second Symphony composed in 1937, when Rubbra was in his mid-thirties, is a powerful piece with a very strong slow movement. Vernon Handley gives a fine account of the symphony and contributes an excellent sleeve-note too. Although he revered... See more

"The Second Symphony composed in 1937, when Rubbra was in his mid-thirties, is a powerful piece with a very strong slow movement. Vernon Handley gives a fine account of the symphony and contributes an excellent sleeve-note too. Although he revered Vaughan Williams, there is little of the overtly pastoral in his music … but he possessed a keen sense of nature’s power which you can certainly feel in the haunting opening pages of the Seventh Symphony of 1957, a work which has consistently grown over the years in my estimation. This reissue is strongly recommended" Robert Layton, Gramophone See less

Highlights: Label: Lyrita Copyright: 1992 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.235 UPC/EAN: 5020926023520 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 77.47 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

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In considering these works for chamber orchestra by twentieth-century British composers, it is worth noting that the Elgar - Vaughan Williams generation wrote nothing in these forms. There is a practical reason for this. The growth of the virtuoso... See more

In considering these works for chamber orchestra by twentieth-century British composers, it is worth noting that the Elgar - Vaughan Williams generation wrote nothing in these forms. There is a practical reason for this. The growth of the virtuoso chamber orchestra in Britain is a comparatively recent occurrence. Elgar's so-called salon music was written for amateur groups, in most cases, or for the theatre orchestras which then abounded, but there were no high-standard professional ensembles in the area between such bodies as Ivan Caryll's Orchestra and the big symphony orchestras. In our time, with the existence of the English Chamber Orchestra, the Northern Sinfonia, the London Mozart Players, the Manchester Camerata and many more,works such as are here recorded receive the accomplished, polished performances which are their due. See less

Highlights: Label: Lyrita Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.257 UPC/EAN: 5020926025722 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 68.31 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

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"The Sixth Symphony comes from the early 1950s, when Rubbra enjoyed something of a vogue ... the emotional and spiritual centre of gravity is the Canto, a wonderfully serene movement and to my mind one of the most beautiful he ever wrote. The Eighth... See more

"The Sixth Symphony comes from the early 1950s, when Rubbra enjoyed something of a vogue ... the emotional and spiritual centre of gravity is the Canto, a wonderfully serene movement and to my mind one of the most beautiful he ever wrote. The Eighth Symphony pays homage to the Catholic theorist and philosopher Teilhard de Chardin. At the time Rubbra wrote of the “intensity generated by the progressive contraction of intervals as comparable to the energy engendered by the astronomical phenomenon of star contraction”. Certainly the atmosphere it generates has an other-worldly Holstian feel to it. An important issue and strongly recommended" Robert Layton, Gramophone See less

Highlights: Label: Lyrita Copyright: 1992 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.234 UPC/EAN: 5020926023421 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 72.38 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

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ENDYMION ENSEMBLE: Krysia Osostowicz (violin) Jane Salmon (cello) Michael Dussek (piano) Melinda Maxwell (oboe) Catherine Manson (violin) Helen Keen (flute) Melinda Maxwell (cor anglais) Recorded at All Saints Church, East Finchley, London 3-5 April... See more

ENDYMION ENSEMBLE: Krysia Osostowicz (violin) Jane Salmon (cello) Michael Dussek (piano) Melinda Maxwell (oboe) Catherine Manson (violin) Helen Keen (flute) Melinda Maxwell (cor anglais) Recorded at All Saints Church, East Finchley, London 3-5 April 2000 CDLX 7106 See less

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Edmund Rubbra String Quartet No.1 in F minor op.35 String Quartet No.3 op.112 Improvisation for unaccompanied Cello op.124 Sonata in G minor for Cello & Piano op.60

Edmund Rubbra String Quartet No.1 in F minor op.35 String Quartet No.3 op.112 Improvisation for unaccompanied Cello op.124 Sonata in G minor for Cello & Piano op.60 See less

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EDMUND RUBBRA String Quartet No.2 in E flat op.73 String Quartet No.4 op.150 Lyric Movement for Strings & Piano op.24 Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn O Quando in Croce op.117a*

EDMUND RUBBRA String Quartet No.2 in E flat op.73 String Quartet No.4 op.150 Lyric Movement for Strings & Piano op.24 Meditations on a Byzantine Hymn O Quando in Croce op.117a* See less

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Krysia Osostowicz (violin) Michael Dussek (piano) Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, London 30 June-3 July 1999 "An invaluable and enormously rewarding release, in sum, enthusiastically recommended." Andrew Achenbach, The Gramophone, January 2000 The... See more

Krysia Osostowicz (violin) Michael Dussek (piano) Recorded at Henry Wood Hall, London 30 June-3 July 1999 "An invaluable and enormously rewarding release, in sum, enthusiastically recommended." Andrew Achenbach, The Gramophone, January 2000 The Gramophone Editor's Choice January 2000 "Osostowicz and Dussek ... empathetic rapport generates performances of flawless integrity and insight." Michael Jameson, BBC Music Magazine, March 2000 CDLX 7101 See less

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Compact Disc 01 67'10 * Lebenstraum „Gesang in c“ D1a ed. Hoorickx (Baumberg) Stephen Varcoe [12'46] * Lebenstraum D39 (Baumb... See more

Compact Disc 01 67'10 * Lebenstraum „Gesang in c“ D1a ed. Hoorickx (Baumberg) Stephen Varcoe [12'46] * Lebenstraum D39 (Baumberg) Stephen Varcoe [6'36] * Hagars Klage D5 (Schücking) Christine Brewer [16'19] * Leichenfantasie D7 Part 1: Mit erstorb’nem Scheinen (Schiller) Sir Thomas Allen [10'54] * Leichenfantasie D7 Part 2: Nein doch. Vater – Horch! (Schiller) Sir Thomas Allen [8'31] * Der Vatermörder D10 (Pfeffel) Adrian Thompson [6'15] * Des Mädchens Klage D6 (Schiller) Christine Brewer [5'13] Compact Disc 02 71'55 * Der Geistertanz D15 (Matthisson) Adrian Thompson [1'31] * Der Geistertanz D15a (Matthisson) Adrian Thompson [2'48] * Quell’ innocente figlio ‘Aria dell’ angelo’ D17 No 1 ed. Hoorickx (Metastasio) Ann Murray [1'18] * Quell’ innocente figlio ‘Aria dell’ angelo’ D17 No 2 ed. Hoorickx (Metastasio) Ann Murray [0'59] * Viel tausend Sterne prangen D642 (Eberhard) The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton [2'54] * Klaglied D23 (Rochlitz) Marie McLaughlin [2'28] * Der Jüngling... See less

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Label: Lyrita Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.251 UPC/EAN: 5020926025128 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 79.44 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

Label: Lyrita Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.251 UPC/EAN: 5020926025128 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 79.44 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing) See less

Highlights: Label: Lyrita Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.251 UPC/EAN: 5020926025128 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 79.44 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

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Compact Disc 2: CDS44192 [74'50]Symphony No 2 1955–56 [28'25] * Allegro grazioso [10'42] * Largo cantabile [8'35] * Non troppo allegro, ma con brio [9'03] Symphony No 4 1970–72 [46'17] * Allegro moderato [11'07] * Presto [13'47] * Andante — Joseph... See more

Compact Disc 2: CDS44192 [74'50]Symphony No 2 1955–56 [28'25] * Allegro grazioso [10'42] * Largo cantabile [8'35] * Non troppo allegro, ma con brio [9'03] Symphony No 4 1970–72 [46'17] * Allegro moderato [11'07] * Presto [13'47] * Andante — Joseph Koos cello [10'33] * Allegro vivace [10'40] BOURNEMOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA VERNON HANDLEY conductor Compact Disc 3: CDS44193 [70'59] Symphony No 3 1962 [30'52] * Allegro ma non troppo [14'38] * Adagio — Presto [16'12] Symphony No 5 1972 [40'03] * Allegro [8'27] * Canone 1: Comodo e tranquillo — [7'10] * Scherzino: Molto vivace — [3'08] * Canone 2: Adagio — [5'17] * Finale: Molto allegro e con fuoco [16'01] ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA VERNON HANDLEY conductor Compact Disc 4: CDS44194 [60'06]Symphony No 6 1977 [31'01] * [Part 1] — [13'49] * [Part 2] [17'12] Symphony No 7 1977 [29'02] * [Part 1:] Sostenuto, marcato — [16'16] * [Part 2:] Adagio — [5'48] * [Part 3:] Allegro [6'58] ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA VERNON HANDLEY conductor... See less

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The first ever CD of music by the English composer Robert Still (1910-1971), comprising the following recordings made in the 1950s: * Quintet for Three Flutes, Violin & Cello from Argo RG 74 (1955) * Viola Sonata No.2 from Argo RG 74 (1955) * Six... See more

The first ever CD of music by the English composer Robert Still (1910-1971), comprising the following recordings made in the 1950s: * Quintet for Three Flutes, Violin & Cello from Argo RG 74 (1955) * Viola Sonata No.2 from Argo RG 74 (1955) * Six songs for Soprano (Heather Harper) from Record Society RS 60 (1959) * Six songs for Baritone (John Carol Case) from Record Society RS 60 (1959) * Two further songs recorded live at a Wigmore Hall Concert in October, 1959. The accompanying 16-page booklet includes: * Olga Lehmann’s original distinctive artwork for the sleeve of RG 74 * a portrait of the composer * Deryck Cooke’s analytical notes for the chamber works * a note on the composer by his widow, Mrs Elizabeth Still * texts of all 14 songs. See less

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Martin Jones "The first volume of Szymanowski's complete piano music was a singularly impressive achievement, one that deserved great recommendation. This second volume... maintains that same level of excellence both as music and as performance."... See more

Martin Jones "The first volume of Szymanowski's complete piano music was a singularly impressive achievement, one that deserved great recommendation. This second volume... maintains that same level of excellence both as music and as performance." Stereophile | UPC: 710357175022, £ 19.99 plus postage and packing See less

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Chorus of Opera North English Northern Philharmonia Martino Tirimo, piano Ernst Kovacic, violin Gerard Caussé, viola Alexander Baillie, 'cello BBC Philharmonic Sir Michael Tippett, conductor Christ Church Cathedral Choir Medici String Quartet Craig... See more

Chorus of Opera North English Northern Philharmonia Martino Tirimo, piano Ernst Kovacic, violin Gerard Caussé, viola Alexander Baillie, 'cello BBC Philharmonic Sir Michael Tippett, conductor Christ Church Cathedral Choir Medici String Quartet Craig Ogden, guitar English String Orchestra William Boughton, conductor St. John's College Choir, Cambridge George Guest, director "Its (Nimbus's) commitment to preserving the composer's own readings of his music during his lifetime was noble, assiduous and beyond reproach ... The achievement, as revealed on this four-CD collection, a panoramic view of his output lasting in all nearly four and a half hours, is such as to renew our sense of Tippett's greatness and his lasting historical presence, and the sheer glory of his music." Nicholas Williams, BBC Music Magazine | UPC: 710357175923, £ 29.99 plus postage and packing See less

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"So many of the expressions of our age have frowned in their in their contemplation of it … but here was Tippett in 1955 expressing joy, boundless optimism and faith in beauty and humanity. As so often with his pieces, it took a while to sink in, and... See more

"So many of the expressions of our age have frowned in their in their contemplation of it … but here was Tippett in 1955 expressing joy, boundless optimism and faith in beauty and humanity. As so often with his pieces, it took a while to sink in, and for players and singers to get their fingers and vocal chords around those springy rhythms and sinewy lines. The moment at which that happened was the moment of this recording and the performances that preceded it. Davis, raptly in love with this score … reveals again and again the opera’s magical sonorities. It is a superb performance. The recording, too, communicates a real sense of live performance. A masterpiece, in short, and one that can be listened to again and again without exhausting its exuberant generosity" Michael Oliver, Gramophone See less

Highlights: Label: Lyrita Copyright: 1995 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.2217 UPC/EAN: 5020926221728 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 2 Total playing time: 2 hours 33 mins Price: £ 29.99 (+ postage & packing)

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"Edward Greenfield greeted this disc with much enthusiasm when it appeared on LP in 1984, and I echo, if not amplify his enthusiasm on its transfer to CD. To my mind there are four unequivocal masterpieces for piano and orchestra in English... See more

"Edward Greenfield greeted this disc with much enthusiasm when it appeared on LP in 1984, and I echo, if not amplify his enthusiasm on its transfer to CD. To my mind there are four unequivocal masterpieces for piano and orchestra in English twentieth-century music: Bax’s Winter Legends … Frank Bridge’s Phantasm and the two works presented here. It is easy to see why the [Vaughan Williams] was so admired by Bartok when it received its German premiere … for this is surely one of the most cogent and tautly constructed examples of its genre. Howard Shelly’s performance is scintillating and faultless. John Fould’s Dynamic Triptych is scarcely less impressive. The slow movement is particularly striking both harmonically and texturally - crepuscular string passages and quarter-tone writing … and a powerful central section that looks forward in mood and atmosphere to Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety. In sum, a work that definitely deserves more frequent hearings. As in the concerto Shelly plays like... See less

Highlights: Label: Lyrita Copyright: 1992 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.211 UPC/EAN: 5020926021120 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: DDD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 57.05 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

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"... a very valuable addition to the Walton discography, particularly when the sound is outstanding, among the finest of its period. The ten little pieces of the Music for Children are delightfully done, with the subtleties of the instrumentation... See more

"... a very valuable addition to the Walton discography, particularly when the sound is outstanding, among the finest of its period. The ten little pieces of the Music for Children are delightfully done, with the subtleties of the instrumentation beautifully brought out, so that the final ‘Alla Marcia’ becomes quite a demonstration piece with its contrasting fanfares for horns and trumpets. It is good too to have the suite which Vilem Tausky drew from Walton’s wartime ballet, The Quest … it certainly makes a colourful and very characteristic suite in this brief form, superbly played by the LSO. Walton in his late sixties may have been a more relaxed conductor than he had been earlier, but with his feeling for rhythms and line he still provides unique insights" Edward Greenfield, Gramophone See less

Highlights: Label: Lyrita Copyright: 1992 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.224 UPC/EAN: 5020926022424 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 75.23 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

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"[The Second Symphony is] an absorbing work whose mix of styles and models serves as a reminder that pluralism in music is not just a phenomenon of the years since 1980. The symphony begins by evoking Shostakovich and Vaughan Williams but, by the... See more

"[The Second Symphony is] an absorbing work whose mix of styles and models serves as a reminder that pluralism in music is not just a phenomenon of the years since 1980. The symphony begins by evoking Shostakovich and Vaughan Williams but, by the finale, it is late-romanticism recalling both Wagner and Mahler that provides the source for William’s most powerful utterances. The orchestral compositions reveal a distinctive personality, but Williams is still more impressive in the neo-Straussian opulence of Fairest Stars, a setting of Milton whose vocal line seems to reflect the wonder and ecstasy of Ariadne auf Naxos … here projected with admirable sensitivity by Janet Price" Arnold Wittall, Gramophone See less

Highlights: Label: Lyrita Copyright: 1996 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England Catalogue number: SRCD.327 UPC/EAN: 5020926032720 Format: CD Analogue / Digital recording: ADD Number of discs: 1 Total playing time: 69.15 Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

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"...[a] special, and potentially disconcerting, feature of Williams’s work is the confrontation it seems to relish between modest forms and richly-scored textures which – if only briefly – open up unexpectedly grand vistas. Even in a work as...