Jane Manning, Janes Minstrels, Roger Montgomery - Elisabeth Lutyens: Chamber Concerto No.1

A retrospective of Lutyens' output which includes works ranging from the terse economy of the Chamber Concerto No.1 to the fluid lines of The Valley of Hatsu-Se for soprano and small ensemble.GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE 1993'The most important record I reviewed during 1993 may well turn out to be the Elisabeth Lutyens collection. By eloquent performance and shrewd choice of works, a figure who had begun to seem a brave but perhaps outdated pioneer was revealed as a creative artist of individual and expressive refinement. Gramophone