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Album to focus on composer Wilfred Heaton
The music of Sheffield-born composer Wilfred Heaton will be the focus of a new album…
Labour announce new culture secretary
The UK’s new Secretary of State for culture, media and sport is Wigan MP, Lisa Nandy…
Conductor James Loughran dies aged 92
Distinguished Scottish conductor, James Loughran, died in June at the age of 92…
Tribute to Peter Pears
Robin Tritschler’s album of Songs for Peter Pears sees the Irish tenor paying tribute to one of the most remarkable singers of the 20th century…
Two British labels announce CD launches
Two labels – Birmingham Record Company and Huddersfield Contemporary Records – have announced three CD launches…
GEORGE LLOYD: Symphonies 1-6
I seem to remember an essay title, when I was an undergraduate studying music, which read The symphony is dead. Discuss. Well, if that was a serious viewpoint in the early 1970’s it was seriously exaggerated…
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD: Te Deum & Elegiac Ode
Lyrita now complete the set of the major choral works with the Te Deum Op.66 written for the Leeds Festival (and its famed chorus) to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1898…
ANTHONY PAYNE: Visions and Journeys
Not only is this disc a tribute to Anthony Payne, but it can also be considered a memorial to the late Sir Andrew Davis…
GEORGE LLOYD: The Works for Brass
The wonderful Lyrita edition of Lloyd’s recorded works continues with this well filled disc of his music for brass…
STEVE ELCOCK: Violin Concerto, Symphony No. 8
Composer Steve Elcock is living proof that we should never give up hope. As he outlines on his website, he wrote music with seemingly no hope of it being performed…