French Orchestral Favourites

Since John Wilson brought the Sinfonia of London back to life in 2018, his hand-picked orchestra has received the highest acclaim from national and international press, has performed at the BBC Proms every year since 2021 (their live debut), and made its international debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 2025. They tour regularly in the United Kingdom and have released twenty-five albums (this being the twenty-sixth), covering a wide and diverse repertoire from Sergei Rachmaninoff to Rodgers & Hammerstein. In France during the 19th and early 20th centuries, opera and ballet were the dominant musical genres, and French orchestral music was much more poetic and narrative than the contrasting German symphonic tradition. Master orchestrators such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel drew extraordinary colors and textures from the symphony orchestra, making their works perennial favorites with audiences the world over. The Sinfonia of London interprets this repertoire with absolute precision and finesse. The album was recorded in surround sound and is available in Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio and as a hybrid SACD.