Robert Irving / Royal Opera House - Sadler's Wells Ballet Silver Jubilee - HMV 1956

Purcell  arr.Lambert:  "Comus" - Overture & Minuet
Boyce  arr.Lambert:  "Prospect Before Us" - Fugue in D major
Couperin  orch.Jacob:  "Harlequin in the Street" - Allegro
Mendelssohn  orch.Jacob:  "Lord of Burleigh" - Agitato & Allegro vivace
Auber  arr.Lambert:  "Les Rendezvous" - Allegro non troppo & Allegro
Gavin Gordon:  "The Rake's Progress" - Sarabande & Orgy
Liszt  orch.Jacob:  "Apparitions" - Consolation & Galop
Lambert:  "Horoscope" - Valse for the Gemini
Berners:  "Wedding Bouquet" - Tango & Waltz
Bliss:  "Adam Zero" - Dance of Summer
Prokofiev:  "Cinderella" - Waltz & Midnight  
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Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden  conducted by  Robert Irving  

EMI Angel  35521  (HMV CLP 1070)  1957 EMI pressing/matrices: 2XEA886/7 -2N.  Recorded: 25-26 January 1956.   HMV HQM 1078 reissue  (Lambert/Bliss/Gordon)   Sleeve-note >>>

Bliss. Piano Concerto / Mewton-Wood ... Tippett. Double Strings Concerto / Walter Goehr - Concert Hall / HMV 1952

Michael Tippett:  Concerto for Double String Orchestra  (1939)     FLAC Mega Download  
The Philharmonia Orchestra  conducted by  Walter Goehr   
EMI Music for Pleasure  MFP 2069  1967 LP/matrix: XEA642 -2.  Recorded: 3 March 1952 - EMI Studio 1, Abbey Road.  

Arthur Bliss:  Piano Concerto in B flat major  (1939)           FLAC  Mega Download
I: Allegro con brio  ~  II: Adagietto  ~  III: Andante maestoso - Molto vivace
Noel Mewton-Wood, piano  - Utrecht Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Walter Goehr   
Nixa  CLP 1167   (Concert Hall CHS 1167)   1953 LP/RCA Matrices: E2KP 6991-1C / E2KP 6992-1B. 'A2'   Recorded: 1952.    
NOT ON CD.  Nixa + MFP sleeve-note / EMG + RG2 reviews >>>  Solomon Cutner's 1943 recording >>> 
The Bliss is a stunningly fine performance and in This transfer sounds absolutely splendid. Previously had 2 LP>CD transfers (same matrices) by Bryan Crimp & Mr.Pristine - who mentions a 'swish' on side 2; actually it's on both groove-walls to virtually the same degree: an unavoidable & very infrequent faint 'rustling' is anyway far preferable to Mr.Pee's "SUPERB" muffled/muddled nasality....absolute Pants, by comparison!

Robert Irving conducts... Facade - Horoscope - LSO ... Lambert, Bliss, Gordon - ROHO - Decca 1953 / HMV 1956

William Walton:  "Facade" - Suites 1 & 2                              
Constant Lambert:  "Horoscope" - Ballet Suite   
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London Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Robert Irving 
Decca  LXT 2791   1953 LP/matrices:  ARL1582 -1A / ARL1583 -1A   
Recorded: 10/27 March 1953 + 26-27 February 1953 - Kingsway Hall.      Dec.2014: '1.3' de-click + 1.4dB treble EQ
Constant Lambert:  "Horoscope" - Valse for the Gemini  /  Arthur Bliss:  "Adam Zero" - Dance of Summer  
Gavin Gordon:  "The Rake's Progress" -  Sarabande & Orgy                          3 files zip FLAC  Mega Download
Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden  conducted by  Robert Irving     (Very fine playing/sound)
HMV  HQM 1078  (from CLP 1070). 1967 matrix: 2XEA 2916 -1.  Recorded: 25-26 January 1956.    (Sleeve-note: see Constant Lambert conducts... link below)
WALTON CONDUCTS 1936-1951         Constant Lambert conducts...       Walton conducts marches / Troilus & Cressida >>>   EMG reviews / sleeve-note >>>

Arthur Bliss conducts... Bliss - Violin Concerto / Alfredo Campoli ~ Colour Symphony ~ Things to Come, etc - Decca 1955/1957

Violin Concerto    I: Allegro ma non troppo  ~  II: Scherzo (vivo)  ~  III:  Introduzione: Andante sostenuto - Allegro deciso (in modo zingaro)
Theme & Cadenza for Violin & Orchestra                                                                                                 2 files zip FLAC  Mega Download
Alfredo Campoli, violin  ~  London Philharmonic Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Arthur Bliss 
Decca  ACL 317   1969 LP/matrices: ARL 2938 -3A / ARL 2939 -3A     Recorded: 9-11 November 1955 - Kingsway Hall 
A Colour Symphony    I: Purple (Andante maestoso) ~ II: Red (Allegro vivace) ~ III: Blue (Gently Flowing) ~ IV: Green (Moderato)     
Introduction & Allegro                                                                                                                      2 files zip FLAC Mega Download
Decca  ACL 239    1964 LP/matrices: ARL 2948 -5K / ARL 2949 -5K     Recorded: 23/24 November 1955 - Kingsway Hall 
"Things to Come"   Suite:  Ballet for Children, Attack, Pestilence, Reconstruction, Machines, March  /  "Welcome the Queen"     2 files zip FLAC  Mega Download
Decca / RCA  SB 2045  1960 LP  Matrix: J2RY 5253-D -1K   Rec: 30 April 1957 - Kingsway Hall  /  21 May 1957 - Walthamstow Assembly Hall 
London Symphony Orchestra  conducted by  Sir Arthur Bliss 

Sleeve-notes, etc >>>   TTC slightly re-edited: Dec.2013. (Violin Concerto is the complete version: without the 1minute scherzo 'cut' used for the original LXT & later ECS LP's..

1960 WRC - Bliss conducting "Checkmate": http://pristineclassics.blogspot.com/2018/04/2448-arthur-bliss-sinfonia-of-london.html