For half a century, Lyrita has stood for a certain kind of 20th-century British ­music, championing the cause of a range of predominantly conservative ­composers whose works have a hard core of ...

Richard Itter founded Lyrita Recorded Edition as a mail-order subscription label in 1959 (with the first LPs issued the following year) and over the next 32 years created a superb catalogue of largely ...

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To mark the 50th anniversary of Lyrita – the label founded by Richard Itter and dedicated to British music – an auction of LPs is being organised in assocation with Wyastone Estate Ltd. 97 titles are ...

From the 1960s to the 1990s, thosewith a taste for obscure Englishclassical composers, or for theobscure works of the well-knownones, needed only one port ofcall: Lyrita Records. Founded in 1959 ...

Peters/Walker/Rolfe Johnson/Rayner Cook/BBC SO/BBC Scottish SO/Del Mar (Lyrita, four CDs) As far as 20th-century British music was concerned, Lyrita was one of one of the most significant record ...