Sarah Leonard; BBC Symphony Orchestra; Xue Wei; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Martyn Brabbins - Naresh Sohal: Lila & Violin Concerto

The two works featured in this CD come from Sohal's third decade as a professional composer and are among his most compelling. They reveal a stylistic change in his music in keeping with the rise of various kinds of neo-Romanticism in several parts of the Western world from the late 1960s. The shift is evident from the composer's use of tonal motivic material; standard orchestral forces for evocative effects, and a less stringent harmonic language than that found in his works from the late 1960s, when his idiom was more closely aligned with those of the avant-garde.