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This disc offers nearly 70 minutes of beguilingly pleasant music, beginning with George Butterworth, whose Two English Idylls, The Banks of Green Willow, and A
Havergal Brian actually was an interesting and characterful composer, not that you’d know it from this disgusting train wreck of a performance. Yes, it’s “legendary”,
Acis & Galatea was Handel’s most popular work during the 18th century, and it is easy to understand why. The tunes are lovely, frequent, and
I still remember how exciting it was to discover these marvelous tone poems: the mysterious darkness of November Woods, the watery depths of The Garden
This is one of the gems of the Vaughan Williams discography. Job was a Boult specialty: he recorded it three times, and this last version
Adrian Boult brought tremendous authority to any recording he made of 20th century British works, having known the composers and often having conducted the premiere
This is the last of Adrian Boult’s umpteen recordings of The Planets, and while it isn’t the most disciplined (“Mars” in particular is not always
This 1947 BBC recording of Mahler’s Third was privately recorded off the air, and the sonics are extremely limited. There even appear to be a
Edmund Rubbra’s first four symphonies tend to be hit or miss affairs, and the Second is arguably the best of them. Owing to a resolutely
John Ireland was another one of those high-quality composers who avoided large forms, and so will always rate as (at best) a “minor master”. But
