Dutton’s latest British light music collection spans several decades of musical styles. It opens brightly with Roy Budd’s attractive Tricolor Overture – composed in 1988, its original score lost, and now reconstructed from a taped recording. The collection ends with another piece of reconstruction from sound recordings – an utterly delightful suite from Richard Addinsell’s music for Christopher Fry’s Anouilh adaptation Ring Around the Moon, of which only the “Invitation Waltz” had previously been recorded.

In between, Francis Chagrin’s appealingly gentle Aquarelles also date from a half-century ago but are more forward-looking. The rest gives living composers opportunities to enjoy wider exposure for works created within the past five years. Paul Carr (b1961) is a Cornishman who settled in Majorca to pursue composition and painting. There’s something rather strident about his Oboe Concerto’s first movement, but then comes a touchingly peaceful slow movement in memory of his mother and a finale of true originality. The real treasure from his pen, though, is the passionate Air for Strings, which deserves wider currency.

Gavin Sutherland (b1972) needs no introduction as conductor on this and many other recordings. Here he is also featured as composer of a Clarinet Concerto for his wife Verity Butler. If I say it’s old-fashioned, that’s meant to be a compliment delivered with real gratitude. It’s richly melodic score, and one of great romantic charm.

The whole is expertly performed in rich sound, and is as attractive as any of the previous offerings in this enterprising series.