 
Celebrating 50 Years Devoted to British Music, Set Two
SRCD.2338 (4 discs)
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Stereo
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Playing time: 67'46"/77'51"/79'13"/73'04" - TT 297"54'
Tracks: 9 + 15 + 9 + 18
Booklet pages: 28
© 1966-2007, 2009 Lyrita Recorded Edition
Reviewer: George Balcombe
Review of Celebrating 50 Years Devoted to British Music, Set Two published on 16 February 2010
Listen: Grace Williams: Andante calmante (CD4 track 15, 0:00-0:59)
CD1
Gordon Jacob (1895-1984)
Symphony No 1 (1929)
1 1st movement: Allegro e molto risoluto
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor
Daniel Jones (1912-1993)
2 Dance Fantasy (1976)
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Bryden Thomson, conductor
John Joubert (born 1927)
Symphony No 1 Op 20 (1955)
3 4th movement: Adagio - Allegro vivace
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor
Constant Lambert (1905-1951)
Music for Orchestra (1927)
4 1st movement: Andante -
5 2nd movement: Risoluto - Vivace
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor
Walter Leigh (1905-1942)
Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra (1934)
6 Allegro
7 Andante
8 Allegro vivace
Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
George Lloyd (1913-1998)
Symphony No 4 (1945-6)
9 1st movement: Allegro moderato
Philharmonia Orchestra
Edward Downes, conductor
CD2
Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)
Music for Strings (1983)
1 Molto moderato
2 Scherzo
3 Mesto
4 Finale: Allegro
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor
William Mathias (1934-1992)
Sinfonietta (1967)
5 Allegro non troppo - vivace
6 Lento con moto
7 Allegro con slancio
National Youth Orchestra of Wales
Arthur Davison, conductor
E J Moeran (1894-1950)
8 Rhapsody No 2 (1924, revised 1941)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Boult, conductor
Hubert Parry (1848-1918)
9 Symphonic Variations (1897)
London Symphony Orchestra
Adrian Boult, conductor
Alan Rawsthorne (1905-1971)
Symphonic Studies (1938)
10 Theme
11 (1) Allegro di bravura
12 (2) Allegretto
13 (3) Allegro di bravura
14 (4) Lento
15 (5) Allegro piacevole
London Philharmonic Orchestra
John Pritchard, conductor
CD3
Cyril Rootham (1875-1938)
Symphony No 1 in C minor (1932)
1 4th movement: Allegro con spirito
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor
Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986)
Symphony No 4 Op 53 (1942)
2 1st movement: Con moto
Philharmonia Orchestra
Norman Del Mar, conductor
Cyril Scott (1879-1970)
3 Early One Morning, Poem for Piano and Orchestra (1931, revised 1962)
John Ogdon, piano
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Herrmann, conductor
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
4 Irish Rhapsody No 4 Op 141 (1913)
(The Fisherman of Lough Neagh and what he saw)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Boult, conductor
Robert Still (1910-1971)
Symphony No 3 (1960)
5 2nd movement: Largo
London Symphony Orchestra
Eugene Goossens, conductor
Phyllis Tate (1911-1985)
London Fields (1958)
6 Spring time at Kew
7 The Maze at Hampton Court
8 St James' Park - a Lakeside Reverie
9 Hampstead Heath - Rondo for Roundabouts
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor
CD4
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1972[sic]-1958)
1 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (1910)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Boult, conductor
William Walton (1902-1983)
Music for Children (1940)
2 The Music Lesson
3 The Three-Legged Race
4 The Silent Lake
5 The Pony Trap
6 Swing-Boats
7 Puppet's Dance
8 Song at Dusk
9 Hop-Scotch
10 Ghosts
11 Trumpet Tune
London Philharmonic Orchestra
William Walton, conductor
Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
12 An Old Song for small orchestra (1917)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Adrian Boult, conductor
Grace Williams (1906-1977)
Ballads for Orchestra (1968)
13 Allegro moderato, alla canzone
14 Alla marcia solenne
15 Andante calmante
16 Allegro furioso
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Vernon Handley, conductor
Malcolm Williamson (1931-2003)
17 Overture 'Santiago de Espada' (1957)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Groves, conductor
William Wordsworth (1908-1988)
Symphony No 3 in C Op 48 (1948)
18 2nd movement: Andante espressivo
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor
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