Music and Vision May 2015

CD Spotlight – English Music for Strings

‘Utmost Pleasure’

English music for strings – praised by HOWARD SMITH

‘… a gorgeous new release from Naxos …’

Here’s a musical gift deserving of a resounding hurrah. The English Chamber Orchestra (ECO), founded in 1960, is unsurpassed in string music.

And now the ECO is back in a gorgeous new release from Naxos — a generous selection of Britain’s fine, much loved, orchestral string music. A treasury of Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Delius, Ireland, Walton and others…