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English String Miniatures Vol 5 / Sutherland, Royal Ballet

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-06-20

Works: Pamela Harrison: Suite for Timothy, for string orchestra; Francis Chagrin: Renaissance Suite, for string orchestra; Percy Fletcher: Folksong and Fiddle Dance, suite for string orchestra; Paul Lewis: ...
Conductors: Sutherland, Gavin
Ensemble: Royal Ballet Sinfonia

This fifth volume of 'English String Miniatures' focuses in the main on composers perhaps better known in the worlds of stage, screen and broadcasting or...continue...

Ireland: A Downland Suite, etc / Hickox, City of London Sinf

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-08-22

Works: John Ireland: A Downland Suite, arrangement for orchestra (completed by G. Bush); Orchestral Poem, for orchestra in A minor; Concertino Pastorale (Threnody), for string orchestra; Symphonic Studies (...
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: City of London Sinfonia

"...This kind of fare must be second nature to the indefatigable Hickox, who gives us a particularly sustained and perceptive reading of the great (and...continue...