Real Worth Orchestral music by Patric Standford - stimulates ROBERT ANDERSON 'All the music on this CD is logical, intelligible, and gripping.'

Now well past three score years and ten, Standford managed to absorb quickly the musical influences malignant and benign that crowded in on his young years. Serialism and the aleatoric throwers of dice were experimented with and found wanting. Perhaps it was no bad thing that during his National Service in the RAF he had to hear every morning a wake-up call based on Eric Coates's Dambusters March. All the music on this CD is logical, intelligible, and gripping...

PATRIC STANDFORD

ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

UNITED KINGDOM

ORCHESTRAL MUSIC

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

CELLO MUSIC