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Roger Hecht replied to my post:
>......I generally prefer the Lyritas to the Thomson recordings throughout
>their Bax series. (It included 1, 2, 5, 6, 7). Some critics, in reviewing
>these records mostly from the 70s often say their sound isn't as good as
>today's digital. Well, I haven't heard the Lyrita CD reissues. I know
>them only from the LPs, but those LPs are sonic classics.
I only have the CD of Bax 1 and 7, but they sound wonderful as do other
Lyrita CD reissues I've managed to grab. The label appears to be in
hibernation or worse. Can anyone shed some light?
>Incidentally, on the subject of Rubbra, there is a terrific recording of
>the wonderful Fourth Symphony with Handley on BBC Classics, available from
>Berkshire cheap. I think it is the best of the three extant recordings
>(Hickox and Del Mar are the others). Get it while you can.
One of the many mysteries of CM is why Handley hasn't done more recording
- he's a sort of Sir Adrian Boult of the 90s. IMHO, his Arnold symphonies
more than hold their own against the other cycles, and his Bantock and
Simpson series are quite magnificent. I guess we should be grateful for
what he *has* recorded.
Richard Pennycuick
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