Sir Arthur Bliss's first major success as a composer was for his early work "A Colour Symphony", written in the early 1920s. By the time he wrote his Violin Concerto for Alfredo Campoli in 1955 he had been knighted and was officially Master of the Queen's Music.
Shortly after the première of his Violin Concerto, he and Campoli recorded it for Decca with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and two weeks later, Bliss returned to Kingsway Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra to record his Colour Symphony - the two works included here in superb-sounding Ambient Stereo XR remasters.
We also commemorate the conductor Hans Knappertsbusch, who died this week in 1965, with a special discount on all his recordings all this week.