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Presented by Petroc Trelawny from Watford Colosseum. A concert given by the BBC Concert Orchetra focusing on the theme of English light music, past and present. With a work by contemporary composer David Lyon, followed by one from Ernest Tomlinson, president of the Light Music Society and who was an instrumental figure in the BBC Light Music Festivals in the late 1950s and 1960s. Violinist Tasmin Little, a champion of British music, joins the orchestra for Haydn Wood's heroic violin concerto, written in 1928. Tasmin Little (violin) BBC Concert Orchestra Gavin Sutherland (conductor) David Lyon: Overture Joie de vivre Ernest Tomlinson: Lakeside Idyll Wood: Violin Concerto.