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“The most substantial offering here – the resourceful and magnificently crafted Concerto for String Orchestra – dates from 1949, and David Lloyd-Jones and his admirably prepared group give a performance which, in its emotional scope and keen vigour, outshines Sir Adrian Boult’s (now deleted) 1966 radio recording with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Lloyd-Jones…gives a sparkling account of the immensely engaging Divertimento…the rumbustious concluding ‘Jig’ (track 13) is as good a place as any to sample the spick-and-span response of the Northern Chamber Orchestra.” Gramophone Magazine, Classical Good CD Guide
Concerto for String Orchestra (21:27); Concertante Pastorale (10:01); Light Music for Strings (3:58); Suite for Recorder and String Orchestra (6:34); Elegiac Rhapsody for String Orchestra (10:14); Divertimento for Chamber Orchestra (11:23)
David Lloyd-Jones, Conductor; John Turner, Recorder; Conrad Marshall, Flute; Rebecca Goldberg, Horn – with the NCO.
Naxos 8.553567
