Pitfield was an artist, engraver, calligrapher, furniture builder and teacher, and I now know he was a fine composer of songs…

Though I am willing to be corrected, I think this is the first time that the whole of the Hassan score has been recorded, though some excerpts are of course very familiar…

The majority of the music on this disc is by Madeline Dring, a prodigiously gifted musician who died far too young of a cerebral haemorrhage…

George Lloyd finished his final score, the Requiem for counter-tenor, choir and organ, just a month before his death in 1998. Dedicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, it is a work on a grand scale…

This latest release of choral music continues the excellent partnership between the Wyastone Estate and the George Lloyd Society which will see all of the old Albany discs released under the Lyrita label…