Essay no.1 (1980): Allegro deciso
Essay no.2 (1981): Vivace ma non troppo
Essay no.3 (1982): Largo e sostenuto
Essay no.4 (1984): Songful, but with movement
Essay no.5 (1985): Allegro

Royal Scottish National Orchestra
David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

World premiere recordings

Recorded at RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow, 6-7 August 2009

CDLX 7236

“Music of such fastidious understatement cannot be easy to bring off, but David Lloyd-Jones has the measure of its undoubted vitality and restrained yet varied deployment of orchestral colour – the latter enhanced by recorded sound of a detail and perspective that marks it out as among the best from this source. How pleasurable it would be to encounter these works ... in the concert-hall: this is highly unlikely ... which only makes performances as insightful as these the more welcome and the more recommendable.” Richard Whitehouse, International Record Review, June 2010