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Lark Ascending Collection / Butterworth, Delius, Elgar, Holst, etc.

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-04-03

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: The lark ascending; Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes (3) for Organ; Variants (5) of 'Dives and Lazarus'; Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; English Folk Song Suite; Fantasia on...
Performers: Bean, Hugh
Conductors: Boult, Adrian; Barbirolli, John; Dilkes, Neville; Marriner, Sir Neville; Willcocks, David; Previn, Andre; Handley, Vernon
Ensemble: ; Allegri String Quartet

With the sublime The Lark Ascending as its centerpiece, this collection illustrates the way that Vaughan Williams and his contemporaries expressed their national identity, drawing...continue...

English Classics: Elgar, Delius, Butterworth, Finzi, et al. / Elder

4 CD / Halle Records / 2011-11-08

Works: George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad; English Idylls (2); Banks of Green Willow; Frederick Delius: Irmelin; A Village Romeo and Juliet; Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody; Pieces (2) for small orchestr...
Performers: Fletcher, Lyn; Gilchrist, James [Tenor Vocal]; Taylor, Joseph
Conductors: Elder, Mark; Wilson, John
Ensemble: Halle Orchestra

This four-CD set is a collection of English classics, previously released on the Hallé label as single discs. On disc one, the orchestra plays some...continue...

20th Century Classics / Marriner

10 CD / Decca / 2011-05-24

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella, suite for orchestra; Apollon musagète, ballet in 2 scenes for string orchestra; Capriccio, for piano & orchestra; Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen for 23 solo Strings,...
Performers: Brymer, Jack [Clarinet]; Connah, Trevor; Ellis, Osian; Heath, Kenneth [Cello]; Holland, James; Laird, Michael; Loveday, Alan; Nicklin, Celia; Ogdon, John; Pearson, Leslie [Keyboard]; Pritchard, Eric;...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville

Over a period of 40 years Marriner and The Academy made over 300 recordings but it is the association with DECCA / ARGO that was...continue...

Lyrita Box Set (Box)

4 CD / Lyrita / 2010-01-12

Works: William Alwyn: Magic Island, symphonic prelude for orchestra; Malcolm Arnold: English Dances Set 2, for orchestra, Op. 33; Johann Sebastian Bach: Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D minor, BWV 565; Gran...
Performers: Binns, Malcolm; Pyatt, David [Horn]; Wallfisch, Raphael [Cello]
Conductors: Alwyn, William; Arnold, Malcolm, Sir; Braithwaite, Nicholas; Wordsworth, Barry; Boult, Adrian; Fredman, Myer; Berkeley, Lennox; Bliss, Sir Arthur; Handley, Vernon; Joly, Simon; Davison, Arthur

A box set celebrating Lyrita's 50-year devotion to British music!...continue...

English Rhapsody - Delius & Butterworth / Elder, Hallé Orchestra, et al

1 CD / Halle Records / 2008-11-11

Works: George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad; English Idylls (2); Banks of Green Willow; Frederick Delius: Irmelin; A Village Romeo and Juliet; Brigg Fair - An English Rhapsody; Percy Grainger: Brigg Fair; E...
Performers: Gilchrist, James [Tenor Vocal]; Taylor, Joseph
Conductors: Elder, Mark
Ensemble: Hallé Orchestra; Hallé Orchestra Chorus

The folk song "Brigg Fair" was collected by Percy Grainger in Lincolnshire in 1905. In 1906, Frederick Delius heard Grainger's choral setting of the tune....continue...

Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 4 / Stokowski, NBC SO

1 CD / Cala Records / 2008-07-01

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 4 in F minor; George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad; George Antheil: Symphony, for orchestra no 4 ("1942"), W. 177
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Boult conducts Butterworth, Howells, Hadley, Warlock

1 CD / Lyrita / 2007-08-07

Works: George Butterworth: English Idylls (2); Banks of Green Willow; A Shropshire Lad; Peter Warlock: An Old Song, for orchestra; Patrick Hadley: One Morning in Spring, for orchestra; Herbert Howells: Proc...
Performers: Bradley, Desmond; Cayzer, Albert; Downes, Herbert; Eastwood, Gillian; Jones, Norman
Conductors: Boult, Adrian

"If ever a performance could be termed "definitive", this is it. Sir Adrian is in top form all through this generous, varied anthology, whether he's...continue...

The British Music Collection - Butterworth: Six Songs, etc

1 CD / Decca Import / 2004-03-09

Works: George Butterworth: Songs (6) from "A Shropshire Lad", for voice & piano (or orchestra); Bredon Hill and Other Songs, songs (5) for voice & piano; A Shropshire Lad; English Idylls (2); Banks of Green...
Performers: Luxon, Benjamin [Baritone Vocal]; Willison, David
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

"The orchestral rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad, with its yearning lyricism, represents the English folksong school at its most captivatingly atmospheric, and the other three works...continue...

Butterworth, Parry, Bridge: Shropshire Lad / Boughton, ESO

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 1997-11-01

Works: Frank Bridge: Suite for String Orchestra, H 93; George Butterworth: Banks of Green Willow; English Idylls (2); A Shropshire Lad; Charles Hubert Parry: Lady Radnor's Suite
Conductors: Boughton, William
Ensemble: English String Orchestra

Fantasia On Greensleeves, etc / Neville Marriner, ASMF

2 CD / Decca / 1997-08-26

Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; The lark ascending; English Folk Song Suite; Peter Warlock: Serenade for string orchestra; Capriol Suite; George Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad; Engli...
Performers: Brown, Iona; Essex, Kenneth; Heath, Kenneth [Cello]; Keenlyside, Simon; Kraemer, Nicholas; Maguire, Hugh
Conductors:
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Sir Adrian Boult conducts English Music

2 CD / Video Artists International / 1994-10-24

Works: William Walton: Portsmouth Point; Coronation March "Crown Imperial"; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis; Arthur Bliss: Music for Strings, for string orchestra, Op. 54, F. 12...
Performers: Beard, Paul; Gauntlett, Ambrose; Mason, Berkeley; Shore, Bernard; Squire, Barry
Conductors: Boult, Adrian