Full of striking ideas and effects to illustrate four heraldic colours, the Colour Symphony here receives a refined and idiomatic reading, marked by superb wind-playing. More valuable still is the first complete recording of the ballet, Adam Zero, in which the process of creating a ballet is presented as an allegory for the ongoing life-cycle. Lloyd-Jones directs a dramatically paced performance, amply confirming this as one of Bliss’s most inventive, strongly co-ordinated scores, shamefully neglected. Full, well-balanced sound.

"David Lloyd-Jones's exciting and idiomatic account og A Colour Symphony with the English Northern Philharmonia proves easily more than a match for all current competition... Terrific value for money, then, and a generous pairing which should hopefully win many new friends for this fine composer."