This two-disc set entitled An Anthology of English Song is just what it says it is: a very generous collection of 53 selections drawn from 13 separate discs of songs by English composers from Stanford to Britten. Some were first issued in the '90s on the late Collins label. Some were first issued in the 2000s on the vibrant Naxos label. But all ...
Lord Berners is, understandably, the short form of the honorific attending to English baron the Right Honorable Sir Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson. Berners was most things a man of peerage should not be -- he was unambitious, uninterested in the diplomatic corps for which his rearing prepared him, and "worst" of all, a musician. Marco Polo's Lord ...
,The 11 popular recordings of English orchestral repertoire joined together here do indeed constitute Lyrita's classics. All the pieces will be instantly recognizable to British audiences, from Elgar's martial Pomp and Circumstance No. 5 through Warlock's delightful Capriol Suite to Vaughan Williams' sanctified Tallis Fantasia. Some may be less ...
After producing manifold high-quality volumes on British film music composers ranging from Addinsell to Vaughan Williams, Chandos Movies turns its attention to two prominent English composers whose individual output for film doesn't amount to enough to fill a whole CD: Constant Lambert and Lord Berners. These two were friends, and this is more ...
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