Roy Budd Tricolor Overture (1988) (reconstructed by Adam Langston, 2008)

Francis Chagrin Aquarelles (Portraits of Five Children) (1950)*

Paul Carr
Concerto for Oboe & String Orchestra (2007)
Nicholas Daniel (solo oboe)
Air for Strings (2006)BW

Gavin Sutherland
Clarinet Concerto (2003)
Verity Butler (solo clarinet)

ROYAL BALLET SINFONIA
Gavin Sutherland (conductor), except BWBarry Wordsworth (conductor)

Recorded at Angel Studios, London, 16 March 2007, 10 July 2007, 7 January 2008 & 18 March 2008

Richard Addinsell Ring Round the Moon Suite (1949) (reconstructed by Philip Lane, 2008)**

BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Roderick Dunk (conductor)

Recorded at The Colosseum, Town Hall, Watford, 12 February 2008
World Premiere Recordings except* and one movement**

The fifth instalment in Dutton Epoch's ongoing series focusing on British light music features sumptuous works by Paul Carr and conductor Gavin Sutherland, along with the suite from Richard Addinsell's incidental music for Jean Anouilh's play Ring Round the Moon and orchestral delights by film music legend Roy Budd (Tricolour Overture) and Francis Chagrin (Aquarelles). The concertos by Gavin Sutherland (for clarinet) and Paul Carr (for oboe) are both real finds. Sutherland writes essentially in a lighter vein, taking a melodic route through a variety of idioms including the ballad style of the exquisite second movement Song without Words. Carr's Oboe Concerto, played by its dedicatee Nicholas Daniel, highlights the increasing reputation of this composer; here the sorrowing threnody encapsulated in the stillness of the second movement's evocation of snow is particularly striking, while Carr's Air for Strings is uniquely compelling, an orchestral love song that bids fair to supplant Barber's celebrated Adagio for Strings.

CDLX 7209

“This release is a joy to the ears and a benison to the spirit.” Paul A. Snook, Fanfare, March/April 2009

“ ... a really excellent, very worthwhile and well-filled disc.” Robert Matthew-Walker, International Record Review, January 2009