Celebrating 50 Years Devoted to British Music, Set 2: Gordon Jacob to William Wordsworth

Featuring

Barry Wordsworth
Bryden Thomson
Vernon Handley
Trevor Pinnock
Nicholas Braithwaite
Sir Edward Downes

Arthur Davison
Sir Adrian Boult
Sir John Pritchard
Norman del Mar
John Ogdon
Bernard Herrmann
Sir Eugene Goossens
Sir William Walton
Sir Charles Groves
London Philharmonic Orchestra
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
National Youth Orchestra of Wales
London Symphony Orchestra
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Gordon Jacob
Daniel Jones
John Joubert
Constant Lambert
Walter Leigh
George Lloyd
Elizabeth Maconchy
William Mathias
Ernest Moeran
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
Alan Rawsthorne
Cyril Rootham
Edmund Rubbra
Cyril Scott
Charles Villiers Stanford
Robert Still
Phyllis Tate
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Peter Warlock
Grace Williams
Malcolm Williamson
William Brocklesby Wordsworth

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Recording & Production

Lyrita recordings often featured top-line production teams from Decca, including engineer Kenneth Wilkinson, known as 'Wilkie'.

Interpretation

British orchestras and conductors on Lyrita recordings were willing to take on unfamiliar music because they believed in it, playing at their best when convinced of the music's worth.

Recording & Production

Lyrita, the record label, was founded 50 years ago by Richard Itter, specializing exclusively in traditional British music.

Recording & Production

Lyrita recordings, even those over 30 years old, are noted for their sound quality, rivalling and outshining many latest digital recordings, thanks to engineers like Kenneth Wilkinson from Decca.

Recording & Production

The Lyrita label was re-launched on CD in November 1990, after its founder Richard Itter had long entertained technical reservations about initial digital technology.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Richard Itter, the founder of Lyrita, deliberately sought out unrecorded works by British composers, building a catalogue with a high proportion of premieres.