01 - 07 Variations on an Elizabethan Theme (1953) [16'21]
Theme 'Sellenger's Round' (William Byrd arr. Imogen Holst)
Variations by Arthur Oldham, Michael Tippett, Lennox Berkeley, Benjamin Britten, Humphrey Searle and William Walton.
08 - 13 Severn Bridge Variations (1966) [18'54]
Theme 'Braint'
Variations by Malcolm Arnold, Alun Hoddinott, Nicholas Maw, Daniel Jones, Grace Williams and Michael Tippett.
14 - 20 Variations on 'Sumer Is Icumen In' (1987) [19'59]
Theme (Oliver Knussen)
Variations by Robert Saxton, Robin Holloway, Judith Weir, Alexander Goehr, Colin Matthews and Finale by David Bedford
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jac van Steen
NMC CD062 [recorded March 1999; issued 2001]
[digital download; flacs, cover booklet and inlay scans]Recording venue: BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London
Recording engineers: Tryggvi Tryggvason and Andrew Hallifax; Producer: Colin Matthews
And four British film scores from the same team:
01 - 06 Benjamin Britten: Love from a Stranger [10'21]
07 - 14 Roberto Gerhard: This Sporting Life Suite [15'21]
15 - 21 Elisabeth Lutyens: The Skull Suite [17'04]
22 - 29 Richard Rodney Bennett: The Return of the Soldier [20'36]
BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jac van Steen [excepting track 29 conducted by Martyn Brabbins]
NMC CD073 [recorded March 1999, October 2002 and November 2003; issued 2004]
[digital download; flacs, cover, booklet and inlay scans]
Recording venue: BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London
Recording engineers: Tryggvi Tryggvason and Andrew Hallifax; Producer: Colin Matthews
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