"Under the exceptionally talented and versatile young conductor John Wilson, the always-reliable BBC Concert Orchestra provides rich and resonant realizations of these lovely gems of Edwardian ethos - all premiere recordings - which one hopes will bring German back into fashionable focus. A winning accomplishment all round."
Paul A Snook, Fanfare, March/April 2007

CDLX 7156

Dutton Epoch continues its pioneering collaboration with the BBC Concert Orchestra with a first survey of the music of Anthony Collins, a conductor celebrated for his performances of Sibelius. He is now revealed as a cherishable composer, particularly of light music and film scores. Well-known for the ear tickling strains of the inimical Vanity Fair, Collins is represented here by music from three of his scores for Anna Neagle films: Victoria the Great, Odette and The Lady with the Lamp, together with a variety of tuneful light music including the enchanting Eire Suite.

"... performances are idiomatic and natural; John Wilson's brisk manner allows familiarity and crisp rhythms to co-exist. Michael Ponder has captured the performances in natural, warm sound, and Lewis Foreman's biography and commentaries suprised me by revealing howlittle, for all the familarity of Collins's name, I really knew about him.
Most of the music on this CD, then, is for those times when you come in from a pig of a day in the office and a miserable journey home and just want to relax; Festival Royal and The Song of Erin trancend the 'light-music' label and deserve to resurface in concert programmes."
Martin Anderson, International Record Review, May 2006

"John Wilson is one of the most versatile younger conductors in England, and he derives appropriately eloquent readings. Acoustically, the disc is rich and bright."
Paul A Snook, Fanfare, November/December 2006

“…It’s hard to imagine more spirited playing or more committed conducting than we get here from the BBC Concert Orchestra and John Wilson, and Dutton’s sound is appropriately vivid. Jolly good!”
American Record Guide, September/October 2006

CDLX 7162

CDLX 7173

In his unmissable Eric Coates programme, with the BBC Concert Orchestra on top form, conductor John Wilson demonstrates his special empathy with and long-study of the music of this quintessential British composer, with celebrated baritone Sir Thomas Allen and tenor Richard Edgar-Wilson in Coates’s once widely popular orchestral songs. They are coupled with less familiar orchestral music including three catchy marches – Sound and Vision, Holborn and The Eighth Army, the Four Ways Suite, the dance interlude Moresque and the Valse from The Three Bears. All are crowned by the first complete recording of the From the Countryside suite, dating from 1915 and already showing Coates’s distinctive style in the lilt of its melodies, easy-going charm and rhythmic zest. For Coates lovers this is a collection to refresh and complement your collection; for newcomers it makes the perfect introduction to this tuneful and toe-tapping repertoire.

CDLX 7198

"Doing Coates proud again."
"Coates writes beautifully for the voice, and this collection makes valuable progress towards that imagined Coates complete edition."
Andrew Lamb, Gramophone, July 2008

CDSA 6800

CDSA 6803

CDSA 6807

CDSA 6808