VA - British String Concertos (2014)

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Artist: Various Artists
Title: British String Concertos
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Lyrita
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 5 hours 6 minutes
Total Size: 1.32 GB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD 1
1-3. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Violin Concerto In G Minor - Lorraine McAslan
4. Gustav Holst, Invocation Op.19 No.2 For Cello And Orchestra - Lorraine McAslan
5. Gerald Finzi, Introit For Small Orchestra And Solo Violin - Lorraine McAslan
6-8. Gustav Holst, Double Concerto For Two Violins & Orchestra - Alexander Baillie
9. Gustav Holst, Lyric Movement For Viola And Small Orchestra - Rodney Friend

CD 2
1-3. William Busch, Cello Concerto - Raphael Wallfisch
4-6. E J Moeran, Concerto For Violin And Orchestra - Raphael Wallfisch
7. Edmund Rubbra, Soliloquy For Cello And Orchestra - Raphael Wallfisch

CD 3
1-3. Roberto Gerhard, Violin Concerto - Yfrah Neaman
4-6. Peter Racine Fricker, Concerto For Violin And Small Orchestra - Yfrah Neaman
7-10. Elizabeth Maconchy, Serenata Concertante For Violin And Orchestra - Yfrah Neaman

CD 4
1-3. David Morgan, Concerto For Violin And Orchestra - Erich Gruenberg
4-6. Don Banks, Concerto For Violin And Orchestra - Erich Gruenberg
7. Alun Hoddinott, Nocturnes And Cadenzas For Cello & Orchestra - Erich Gruenberg

The release of this four-CD set of works for solo string instruments and orchestra pays tribute, as does the recently issued box-set of British String Concertos , to the imagination and vision of the late Richard Itter and his pioneering Lyrita label. (...)The set makes for fantastic value for money, each CD containing well over 70 minutes of music, and the performances are generally of tremendous vibrancy and quality. Lorraine McAslan s reading of Coleridge-Taylor s 1912 Violin Concerto is surely the best recording we have of this much-neglected work and the two Holst works The Double Concerto for two violins with Emmanuel Hurwitz and Kenneth Sillito and the brooding Lyric Movement for viola and orchestra with Cecil Aronowitz with their immediacy by no means betray the fact that they were recorded over 40 years ago. -- Jeremy Dibble, Gramophone February 2015

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