Edward Elgar - The Longed for Light (Elgar’s Music in Wartime)

Edward ELGAR (1857-1934)

The Longed for Light - Elgar’s Music in Wartime

Polonia (1915) 

Carillon for speaker and orchestra (1914) 

Sospiri (1914)

Une Voix dans le Désert for speaker, soprano and orchestra (1915) 

Carissima (1914) 

Le Drapeau Belge for speaker and orchestra (1917) 

Rosemary 

The Sanguine Fan, ballet music (1917) 

Sursum Corda (1894)

Simon Callow (speaker) 

Susan Gritton (soprano)

BBC Concert Orchestra

John Wilson

rec. Watford Colosseum, 13-15 February 2012

Richard Rodney Bennett - Orchestral Works Vol.1

Richard Rodney BENNETT (1936-2012)

Orchestral Works Volume 1

Celebration (1984) 

Concerto for Marimba & Chamber Orchestra (1987-88)

Symphony No.3 (1987) 

Summer Music (1982 arr. for orchestra 1984)

Sinfonietta (1984) 

Colin Currie (marimba)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

John Wilson

rec. 2017, City Halls, Glasgow

Edward MacDowell - Orchestral Works Vol. 1

Edward MACDOWELL (1860-1908)

Orchestral Works Volume 1

Lancelot und Elaine, Op.25 (1886)

Piano Concerto No.1 in A minor, Op.15 (1882)

Two Fragments after The Song of Roland, Op.30 (1886-1890)

To a Wild Rose, Op.51 No.1 (1895)

Lamia, Op.29 (1887-1888)

Xiayin Wang (piano), 

BBC Philharmonic

John Wilson

rec. 2023/24, Media City, Salford, UK

Walton - Violin Concerto; Troilus and Cressida (Symphonic Suite); Portsmouth Point Overture

William WALTON (1902–1983)

Symphonic Suite from ‘Troilus and Cressida’ (arr. Christopher Palmer)

Violin Concerto

Overture: Portsmouth Point

Charlie Lovell-Jones (violin)

Sinfonia of London

John Wilson

rec. 2024, Church of St Augustine, Kilburn, London

The Land of the Mountain and the Flood - Scottish Orchestral Works

The Land of the Mountain and the Flood

Scottish Orchetral Works

Cedric Thorpe DAVIE (1913-1983)

Royal Mile - Coronation March

Marcus DODS (1918-1984)

Highland Fancy

Iain HAMILTON (1922-2000)

Scottish Dances, Op. 32

Hamish MAC CUNN (1868-1916)

Highland Memories, Op. 30

The Land of the Mountain and the Flood - Concert Overture, Op. 3

Muir MATHIESON (1911-1973)

From The Grampians: Suite

Buxton ORR (1924-97)

Fanfare and Processional

Hugh S ROBERTON (1874-1952)

All in the April evening

Royal Ballet Sinfonia

John Wilson

David Lloyd-Jones

John Ireland - Piano Concerto; Legend; First Rhapsody

John IRELAND (1879-1962)

Piano Concerto in E flat (1930) 

Legend for piano and orchestra (1933) 

First Rhapsody (1906)

Pastoral (1896)* 

Indian Summer (1932)*

A Sea Idyll (1900)

Three Dances (1913) 

John Lenehan (piano)

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

John Wilson

rec. Music Room, Champs Hill, West Sussex, 3 March 2007, 12 March 2011; 

Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, 18-19 February 2011. 

*World Premiere Recordings