Message #34429

[Grandenorm]

I would support those choices, Dundonnell, of course. "Apollo" is just under the hour, so one could fit "The Wild Fowl" on that CD as well. Although Apollo demands a large orchestra with greatly enhanced wind section, there is not a lot of percussion (IIRC) and the chorus is a male one, so not vastly expensive to put on.
With the Double Concerto, possible couplings might be The Dance Suite for piano & small orchestra Op. 93c and The Cambrian Suite, op. 101. Another CD I should like to see would be of pieces for string orchestra: "Les Hommages" (in its original version for string orchestra, titled "Bohemian Suite") with the Symphony No. 7 (which is an arrangement of the String Sextet "Henry Vaughan" in D major, Op. 43 for full string orchestra) and the little piece for strings arranged from the Cauldron Trilogy which Jo called "Caradoc's Deam".
Of course, we also need a recording of the 1st Symphony "Homage to E.A. Poe", but this involves chorus and soloists so would be rather costly to mount. It lasts about an hour.