Since you are interested in Much Ado about Nothing / The Tempter / Romeo and Juliet (Incidental music), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
CONSTANT LAMBERT / LORD BERNERS
The Film Music of (Incls 'Anna Karenina' & 'Nicholas Nickelby') BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba (with Mary Carewe, soprano) [ Chandos Movies / CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "Gamba and the BBC Philharmonic deliver for these few Constant Lambert and Lord Berners scores one of the best albums in the Chandos Film Music series." (MusicWeb June 2008) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Last Night of the Proms 2000 Hilary Hahn (violin) Jane Eaglen (soprano) / BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ BBC / Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 11/Apr/2002 ] G :- "The Last Night of the Proms" is one of the most famous musical events in the world, watched and listened to by millions. It celebrates British tradition and encapsulates the unique spirit of the BBC Proms, by featuring leading international... |
CLIFTON PARKER
The Film Music of Clifton Parker (Includes 'treasure Island' & 'sink the Bismarck!') BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos Movies / CD - released 4/Feb/2005 ] "Clifton Parker's claim to fame rests on his film music and specifically on Seascape from Western Approaches. He had a real gift for sea music both tender and stormy. Don't miss it." - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
JOHN ADDISON
The Film Music of John Addison (Includes 'A Bridge Too Far' & 'the Charge Of The Light Brigade') BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos Movies / CD - released 22/May/2007 ] "One of the very best of Chandos's British film music series with Gamba and the BBC Concert Orchestra on top form" (MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Best Of British Light Music (Includes 'The Archers', '633 Squadron' & the 'Dambusters March') BBC Concert Orchestra, Vernon Handley [ Sony Essential Masterworks / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] 5 star BBC Music Magazine |
MONTAGUE PHILLIPS
Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 David Owen Norris (piano) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Gavin Sutherland [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 26/Apr/2008 ] In the 1960s the second of these was often heard on the BBC, but the first has not been heard for more than ninety years, the music found after a search of the family attic. Both are brilliantly played by pianist David Owen Norris, and will delight... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Piano Concerto (Completed Walker) / The Immortial Legions / Spanish Serenade op.23 / etc David Owen-Norris (piano), BBC Concert Orchestra (David Lloyd Jones) & the BBC Singers [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 18/Mar/2005 ] "Concerto: majestic, extremely impressive ... captured with craggy mastery. Enthusiastically recommended to Elgarians everywhere" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
GORDON JACOB
Complete Music for Viola and Orchestra Helen Callus (viola) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Stephen Bell [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] Dutton Epoch is delighted to present this ear-opening, pioneering traversal of Gordon Jacob's complete music for viola and orchestra - all world premiere recordings - that covers over fifty years of the composer's life. Here we have the two numbered... |
MIKLOS ROZSA
Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Incls 'Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song') Jennifer Pike (violin) Paul Watkins (cello) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Rumon Gamba [ Chandos / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "These are four first-rate works by a still neglected composer, marvellously played and recorded." (Editor's ChoiceGramophone Sept 2011) |
RICHARD ARNELL
Harlequin in April / Punch and the Child / Concerto Capriccioso Lorraine McAlsan (violin) / BBC Concert Orchestra / Martin Yates [ Dutton Digital / CD - released 20/Jul/2009 ] "Orchestral playing is on the money, and this collection of Arnell's two most popular ballets along with the esoteric Concerto makes for another feather in Dutton's Arnell hat." (AudAud.com) |
LIONEL SAINSBURY / HAYDN WOOD
Violin Concertos Lorraine McAslan (violin) / BBC Concert Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth & Gavin Sutherland [ Dutton Epoch / CD - released 1/May/2010 ] World premiere recordings |
ARENSKY
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op 54 (with Taneyev-Suite de concert, Op 28) lya Gringolts (violin) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 7 / CD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] This disc juxtaposes two significant Russian works for violin and orchestra, each written by a composer with a close relationship to Tchaikovsky, and each dedicated to the great violinist and pedagogue Leopold Auer. |