Fifty Years
Celebrating Lyrita's
recordings of British music -
by GEORGE BALCOMBE'... a meticulous reproduction of orchestral sound ...'
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Eight CDs of fifty individual British compositions written by fifty individual British composers are 'celebrating 50 years devoted to British music'.
The years are nineteen-sixty to two thousand and nine and the celebrating is for Lyrita, the recording enterprise founded by Richard Itter 'at a time when the big companies were ignoring the traditional British music in favour of the avant-garde'. These days have gone, avant-garde and all.
Lyrita's studio has always aimed at a meticulous reproduction of orchestral sound which has become so authentic that a sense of aural reality haunts the celebrating eight CDs and, for that matter, the eight orchestral excerpts quoted in this review.
Gerald Finzi's 1929 Eclogue for piano and strings has a structural surface of simplicity, but below lie indefinable feelings of loss...
Copyright © 16 February 2010
George Balcombe,
London UK
CD INFORMATION: LYRITA 50 YEARS DEVOTED TO BRITISH MUSIC 1
CD INFORMATION: LYRITA 50 YEARS DEVOTED TO BRITISH MUSIC 2
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