Escales - Orchestral Works Sinfonia London Wilson

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Sinfonia of London/John Wilson
(Chandos)
The selection of familiar and less-so works by turn of the 20th-century French composers are played with subtlety and colour

The Sinfonia of London had its first incarnation in the 1950s, formed as an offshoot of the LSO primarily to record film scores, though both Colin Davis and John Barbirolli made LPs with it, too. It had another brief period of existence in the 1980s, but John Wilson created the third distinct orchestra under the name in 2018. It is specifically intended as a session orchestra for recordings, and Wilson and his hand-picked band made their debut together for Chandos last year with a recording of works by Korngold.