Directed by violinist Peter Fisher, the Chamber Ensemble of London, a virtuoso group of hand-picked string players whom The Times counts amongst “a handful of the world’s finest musicians.” Their second album draws on the rich tradition of light classical music. The program features Rhapsody for Clarinet & Strings by Geoffrey Bush and 5 Pieces for Clarinet & String Orchestra by Clive Jenkins, both featuring clarinetist Peter Cigleris. Another work by Jenkins included here is Fantasy for Horn & Strings featuring hornist Alexei Watkins. Watkins is also featured in Orion (Serenade for Horn & Strings) by Andy Meyers; as well as Lullaby by composer Luke Whitlock. Bassoonist Sarah Watts performs her composition Everywhere Is Somewhere Else and is the soloist for the contemplative Sunday Afternoon by composer Nigel Brooks as well as A Little Waltz by Gordon Jacob. Other works include “Canto popolare” extracted from Edward Elgar’s concert overture In the South; Lennox Berkeley’s single-movement Andantino, which he adapted from his Festival Anthem; and one of Frederick Delius’s earliest surviving compositions, Romance featuring cellist Michael Mace. Peter Fisher is the violinist for Elgar’s “Canto popolare” and Vers le Sud (Towards the South) by Terence Higgins. Fisher also plays the album’s title piece, Don Shearman’s Quiet Summer Evening.