Berners: Ballet Music - Les Sirenes; Cupid & Psyche Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland, Members Of The Rte Chamber Choir, Rte Sinfonietta, David Ll

Lord Berners excelled in the ballet medium where he enjoyed collaborations with leading choreographers and conductors with whom his natural flair for spectacle and design could be explored to the full. Cupid and Psyche was not a critical success but its music transcended weaknesses in the scenario and the suite is both orchestrally deft and thematically memorable. (Naxos)