Composer: Elisabeth Lutyens
Performer: Philippa Boyle, Tom Winpenny, Dewi Rees
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0639
Release: 2022
Size: 1.07 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Epithalamion, Op. 67 No. 5
Pièces brèves
02. No. 1, Conte
03. No. 2, Berceuse
04. No. 3, Rondes
05. Plenum IV, Op. 100
06. Nativity (Version for Soprano & Organ)
07. Sinfonia, Op. 32
Suite, Op. 17
08. I. Prelude
09. II. Palindrome
10. III. Pastorale
11. IV. Chorale
12. Music from ‘A Sleep of Prisoners’
13. Chorale Prelude
14. Temenos, Op. 72
The organ music of Elisabeth Lutyens (1906–83) presents a meeting of contrasts: it can at the same time be both angular and lyrical, and it spans an enormous dynamic range, from intimate delicacy to sheer, raw, hieratic power. Her reputation as one of Britain’s leading serial composers is belied, too, by the direct appeal, the range of colour and the narrative instinct of many of the pieces recorded here, most of them for the first time.