Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
BBC Philharmonic OrchestraAlbany Symphony OrchestraGeorge Lloyd conductor Lyrita SRCD 2417 3 As an undergraduate studying music, I remember an essay title which read The symphony is dead. Discuss. Well, if that was a serious viewpoint in the early 1970’s it was...
Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
Rhian Lois sopranoSamantha Price mezzo-sopranoAlessandro Fisher tenorMorgan Pearse baritoneBBC National Orchestra & Chorus of WalesAdrian Partington conductor Lyrita SRCD435 Stanford’s major choral works have been lucky on disc recently with the Brabbins/Hyperion...
Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
BBC Symphony Orchestra Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Davis conductors NMC D281 Not only is this disc a tribute to Anthony Payne (1936-2021) who died shortly after his wonderful wife Jane Manning, but it can also be considered a memorial to the late Sir Andrew...
Jun 27, 2024 | CD reviews
John Foster Black Dyke Mills BandDavid King conductor Equale Brass. LYRITA SRCD425 The wonderful Lyrita edition of Lloyd’s recorded works continues with this well filled disc of his music for brass. It is not quite all as the Symphony No. 10 is for brass...
