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  • Eleanor Alberga Violin Concertos – collaborative classics

    May 10th, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: BBC National Orchestra of Wales, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, contemporary classical music, Eleanor Alberga, Female composer, Joseph Swensen, Lyrita, Thomas Bowes

    Eleanor Alberga and her husband Thomas Bowes make quite a team. As the piano/violin duo Double Exposure they toured and performed together. And they frequently performed Alberga’s music. The blend of personal and artistic intimacy between the two inspired both. Case in point, the two violin concertos featured on this release. In 2001 Alberga chose […]

  • Lyrita concludes Daniel Jones symphonic cycle

    Feb 3rd, 2022 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Daniel Jones, Lyrita, Noteworthy Release

    This release completes Lyrita’s series of Daniel Jones symphonies. As with the previous volumes, the recordings come from BBC broadcasts. The recording quality — as always — is quite good. And the material, even better. Welsh composer Daniel Jones had a long-range goal. Each symphony he wrote would be based on a different note the […]

  • Robert Simpson Symphonies 5 & 6 – worth a listen

    Jul 19th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Andrew Davis, CD Review, Charles Groves, contemporary classical music, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Lyrita, Orchestral music, Robert Simpson

    I first became aware of Robert Simpson through The Symphony. This two-volume work, edited by Simpson, was a collection of essays about the great symphonists and their music. Simpson not only knew how to write about symphonies, he knew how to write them. This release features two of his eleven symphonies, both dating from the 1970s. […]

  • Daniel Jones Symphonies 3 & 5 tied to BBC

    Jun 17th, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, Bryden Thomson, CD Review, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Daniel Jones, Lyrita, Orchestral music

    The relationship between Welsh composer Daniel Jones and the BBC was a close one. In the third installment of Daniel Jones’s symphonic recordings, Lyrita presents two prime examples. Symphony No. 3 was completed in 1951 and premiered the following year in a BBC broadcast. David Jones conducted the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra. Jones’ fifth symphony […]

  • William Alwyn quartets show early influences

    Sep 22nd, 2020 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Lyrita, Villiers Quartet, William Alwyn

    British composer William Alwyn was just in his twenties when he wrote the quartets on this release. And he was just getting warmed up. Still ahead were over 70 film scores, ten more string quartet quartets, plus symphonies, operas, concertos, and more. The quartets here reflect the influence of Alwyn’s studies with John Blackwood McEwen. […]

  • British Cello Works – quality chamber music by women

    Nov 12th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: CD Review, Chamber music, contemporary classical music, Elisabeth Luytens, Elizabeth Maconchy, Ethel Smyth, Jennifer Hughes, Lionel Hardy, Lyrita, Rebekah Clarke

    When I present classical music on the radio, I never identify a composer by race or sex. I think it creates the impression that these are subsets of the main group of composers. There are composers, and there are women composers. Almost as good, but not quite. I don’t think that’s true, and (apparently), neither […]

  • Charles Villiers Stanford 1919 “Via Victix” still relevant

    May 30th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Adrian Partington, BBC National Chorus of Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, CD Review, Charles Villiers Stanford, choral music, Classical music, Gareth Brynmor John, Jess Dangy, Kiandra Howarth, Lyrita, Romantic period, Ruairi Bowen

    This is a world premiere recording — of a work that was completed in 1919. And, I think, it’s a work that deserves reevaluation. Charles Villiers Stanford composed his Mass “Via Victix 1914-1918” to mark the end of the Great War (now called World War I). The conflict had begun with stirring appeals to patriotism […]

  • Sergei Zhukov Concertos Suited to Soloists

    Apr 9th, 2019 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: Cameo Classics, CD Review, Classical music, Concerto, contemporary classical music, Eleonora Bekova, Elvira Bekova, Konstantin Krimets, Lyrita, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Sergei Zhukov

    Ukranian composer Sergei Zhukov wrote a series of three concertos, each dedicated to a different sister of The Bekova Trio. This release features the Piano Concerto written for Eleonora Bekova and the Violin Concerto, written for Elvira Bekova. Omitted is the Cello Concerto, composed for Alfia Bekova. Zhukov’s stated intent was to create concertos that […]

  • George Lloyd Symphonies in Definitive Live Performances

    Jun 6th, 2018 | By Ralph Graves
    Tags: BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra, CD Review, Classical music, contemporary classical music, Edward Downes, George Lloyd, Lyrita, Orchestral music

    This release presents two live performances of George Lloyd symphonies. What performances — and what symphonies! George Lloyd was a rising star before the Second World War but was largely ignored afterward. Conductor Edward Downes became a champion of Lloyd’s music. Symphony No. 6, written in 1956, is heard in its world-premiere broadcast from 1980. […]

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