Cello Concerto / Music for Strings

"Tim Hugh's adroitly managed and deeply personal reading...Tim Hugh has unquestionably set the benchmark in the Arthur Bliss Cello Concerto"
- Fanfare

"This is a first rate performance of Bliss's Cello Concerto from Tim Hugh, stylishly and sympathetically partnered by David Lloyd-Jones and the English Northern Philharmonia....[Hugh] great beauty of tone and rapt commitment throughout.
- Gramophone Editors Choice

Following on the first Naxos Gramophone 'Record of the Month' with the Bliss A Colour Symphony and Adam Zero, we have the gorgeous Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, written in 1970, with the Co-Principal Cello of the London Symphony Orchestra, Tim Hugh, as soloist.

Hugh, who is now making a big international career having just returned from a tour of Australia, is one of the truly outstanding British cellists of our time, and this is only the second recording that is currently available, and the only one at budget price.

It is coupled with the highly enjoyable Music for Strings, almost a symphony by any other title, and the only recording of the Two Studies from Op. 16.

As with the previous Bliss recording, the orchestra is the English Northern Philharmonia, with David Lloyd-Jones conducting, and it is produced by Paul Myers at sessions which took place in the Leeds Town Hall.

Maybe we are hoping too much for another 'Record of the Month', but this is another truly outstanding addition to the Bliss discography.