'All these works are little gems, and deserve to be much better known.' For example, the BBC Music Magazine rated the first part of the series "British light music". The program includes 20th-century works by relatively unknown British composers. The orchestra is the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, so it is not surprising that many of the works performed were originally written for the dance theater. The
… third part of the series includes Bryan Kelly's "Divertissement" (1934-), which is based on French folk songs. The "Elegiac Blues" by Constant Lambert (1905-1951) was dedicated to the young black singer Florence Mills. The ballet music of "Romeo and Juliet", also by Lambert, was commissioned by the renowned leader of the Russian ballet Sergei Diaghilev.more
