CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT (b.1954): Spring Overture, , Threnody, Idyll, A Little Light Music and Capriccio Burlesque for String Orchestra, Searching for Cor Anglais and Strings, Divertimento for Treble Recorder and Strings.

Catalogue Number: 02L108
Label: Dutton Epoch
Reference: CDLX 7240
Format: CD
Price: $19.98
Description: The majority of this music is unashamedly (in the composer's own words) in the English pastoral tradition although the Spring Overture was inspired by the fizzy character of Walton's Portsmouth Point while Threnody is a deeply felt, well, threnody and Searching a poignant and nostalgic lament for the loss of time and space in our frenziedly active world. Collectors of light music will nonetheless find much to enjoy here while listeners of a broader English repertoire shouldn't be disappointed either. Maxwell Spiers (cor anglais), John Turner (recorder), Royal Ballet Sinfonia; Barry Wordsworth, Gavin Sutherland, Manchester Sinfonia; Christopher Wright (Idyll and Divertimento).