Lorraine McAslan soars aloft, shading her ecstatic cantabile with portamentos reminiscent of Jascha Heifetz – indeed at times Heifetz’s classic West Coast recordings of the 1950s are brought irresistibly to mind. The BBC Concert Orchestra provides devoted support and the recording is out of the top drawer.

Julian Haylock, BBC Music Magazine, on the Dutton recording of Sainsbury’s Violin Concerto Op.14

Discography

  • Lionel Sainsbury & John Foulds: Cello Concertos - album cover

    2012

    Lionel Sainsbury & John Foulds: Cello Concertos

    Raphael Wallfisch, cello; Royal Scottish National Orchestra | Martin Yates, conductor

    Dutton-Epoch CDLX 7284

    Includes Sainsbury’s Cello Concerto

  • Lionel Sainsbury & Haydn Wood: Violin Concertos - album cover

    2010

    Lionel Sainsbury & Haydn Wood: Violin Concertos

    Lorraine McAslan, violin; BBC Concert Orchestra | Barry Wordsworth, conductor

    Dutton-Epoch CDLX 7245

    Includes Sainsbury’s Violin Concerto

  • Andalusian Fantasy - album cover

    2015

    Andalusian Fantasy

    Lionel Sainsbury, piano

    Navona Records NV5999

    All-Sainsbury solo piano album: Andalusian Fantasy, Nocturne, South American Suite, Twelve Preludes, Esquisse, Cuban Fantasy

  • Sunlight & Storms - album cover

    2014

    Sunlight & Storms

    Lionel Sainsbury, piano

    Navona Records NV5951

    All-Sainsbury solo piano album: Five Tangos, Canto Ostinato, Sea Storm, Two Cuban Dances, Incantation, Ten Moments Musicaux, Meditation

  • PRISMA - album cover

    2018

    PRISMA

    Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský, conductor

    Navona Records NV6141

    Includes Sainsbury’s Time of the Comet

  • John Ireland Orchestral Songs and Miniatures - album cover

    2010

    John Ireland Orchestral Songs and Miniatures

    Royal Ballet Sinfonia | Paul Murphy, conductor

    Dutton-Epoch CDLX 7246

    Includes Sainsbury’s Allegro Risoluto for strings

  • English String Miniatures Vol. 6 - album cover

    2006

    English String Miniatures Vol. 6

    Royal Ballet Sinfonia | Gavin Sutherland, conductor

    Naxos 8.557753

    Includes Sainsbury’s Two Nocturnes for strings

  • Gurney, Sainsbury, Elgar: Works for violin & piano - album cover

    2013

    Gurney, Sainsbury, Elgar: Works for violin & piano

    Rupert Marshall-Luck, violin; Matthew Rickard, piano

    EM Records, EMRCD011

    Includes Sainsbury’s Soliloquy for solo violin

  • Slices - album cover

    2012

    Slices

    Vít Mužík, violin

    Navona Records NV5874

    Includes Sainsbury’s Soliloquy for solo violin

  • Tchaikovskiana - album cover

    2003

    Tchaikovskiana

    Tasmin Little, violin; John Lenehan, piano

    EMI Classics for Pleasure EMI 724358561524

    Includes Sainsbury’s Cuban Dance No.2 in the composer’s arrangement for violin & piano

  • British Light Music Premieres Volume 4 - album cover

    2007

    British Light Music Premieres Volume 4

    Royal Ballet Sinfonia | Paul Murphy, conductor

    Dutton-Epoch CDLX 7190

    Includes Sainsbury’s Cuban Dance No.2 in the composer’s arrangement for strings