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Donald Macleod and guest biographer Paul Spicer delve into the period Bliss composed his Colour Symphony and also met his future wife Trudy in America. Macleod also explores Bliss having to restart his career after his return from the USA to the UK and how his music started to turn from experimentalism to more romanticism. The Ballads of the Four Seasons (No 1, Spring) Geraldine McGreevy, soprano Kathron Sturrock, piano Rout Elizabeth Gale, soprano Nash Ensemble Lionel Friend, conductor A Colour Symphony (Red) Â鶹Éç National Orchestra of Wales Richard Hickox, conductor Oboe Quintet (Assai sostenuto) Gordon Hunt, oboe The Tale Quartet The Women of Yueh (No 2, Many a girl of the south is white and lucent) Elizabeth Gale, soprano Nash Ensemble Lionel Friend, conductor Pastoral (excerpt) Della Jones, mezzo-soprano The Sinfonia Chorus Davis Haslam, flute Northern Sinfonia Richard Hickox, conductor Produced by Luke Whitlock