http://www.mvdaily.com/ '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 *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html