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Tippett, Britten, Arnold, etc: Divertimentos & Sinfonias

1 CD / Lyrita / 2007-11-13

Works: Michael Tippett: Divertimento on "Sellinger's Round", for chamber orchestra; Alan Rawsthorne: Divertimento for chamber orchestra; Benjamin Britten: Sinfonietta, for chamber orchestra, Op. 1; Lennox B...
Conductors: del Mar, Norman; Braithwaite, Nicholas
Ensemble: ; English Chamber Orchestra

Legendary performances on CD for the first time! In considering these works for chamber orchestra by twentieth-century British composers, it is worth noting that the...continue...

Berkeley: Piano Concerto in B flat, Concerto for Two Pianos

1 CD / Lyrita / 2007-08-07

Works: Lennox Berkeley: Concerto for Piano in B flat major, Op. 29; Concerto for Two pianos and Orchestra, Op. 30
Performers: Beckett, Garth; McDonald, Boyd; Wilde, David
Conductors: Braithwaite, Nicholas; del Mar, Norman
Ensemble: ; New Philharmonia Orchestra

"These 1978 performances haven't lost their importance or their strength-like so many Lyrita 'firsts', they convey the freshness of discovery, in deeply committed, handsomely recorded...continue...

Berkeley: Symphonies no 1 & 2 / Del Mar, Braithwaite, London

1 CD / Lyrita / 2007-06-12

Works: Lennox Berkeley: Symphony no 1, Op. 16; Symphony no 2, Op. 51
Conductors: del Mar, Norman; Braithwaite, Nicholas

"The symphony could even be heard as a measured, thoughtful response to their youthful extravagances - celebrating the virtues of understatement yet providing an object...continue...