Here’s a project with a neat historical twist. Founded in 1955 by flautist Gordon Walker, the Sinfonia of London was perhaps the leading UK recording orchestra. With over 300 British and American films to their credit, their catalogue included such icons as Bernard Herrmann’s 1958 soundtrack for Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Taken over in 1982 by Peter Willison and Howard Blake, the orchestra continued to record soundtracks for Hollywood films like Batman, The Mummy Returns, RoboCop and Young Sherlock Holmes, finally folding in 2002.

They were reformed by John Wilson in 2018 with a line-up hand-picked from some of the UK’s finest orchestral musicians and even some from overseas. In just four years – and that despite a global pandemic – they’ve released a remarkable array of discs on the Chandos label. From Ravel to Dutilleux, from Strauss to John Ireland, it seems there’s little at which they don’t excel.

This latest disc takes them back to their roots with a series of overtures and...