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'Eight CDs of fifty individual British compositions written by fifty
individual British composers are "celebrating 50 years devoted to British
music".

The years are nineteen-sixty to two thousand and nine and the celebrating
is for Lyrita, the recording enterprise founded by Richard Itter "at a
time when the big companies were ignoring the traditional British music
in favour of the avant-garde".  These days have gone, avant-garde and
all.

Lyrita's studio has always aimed at a meticulous reproduction of orchestral
sound which has become so authentic that a sense of aural reality haunts
the celebrating eight CDs and, for that matter, the eight orchestral
excerpts quoted in this review.

Gerald Finzi's 1929 Eclogue for piano and strings has a structural
surface of simplicity, but below lie indefinable feelings of loss ...'

- George Balcombe, writing in today's Music & Vision Magazine

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