‘The New Cantata orchestra are dedicated to introducing new work, and the most rewarding thing of the evening was the first performance of the Concertante Music for violin and Chamber Orchestra by Patric Standford, a young composer who has studies with Malipiero and Rubbra. This is a likeable piece persistently elegiac in mood, with angular themes given a predominantly sighing, falling shape - the rasping challenge of the opening bars soon gives way to gentler gestures - but succeeding in sustaining interest. The textures are light and delicate the solo part played with exquisitely fine-spun tone and poised phrasing by Yfrah Neaman tells beautifully both in the more nervous, fragmentary writing of the first movement and in the long, rapt cantilena of the central Adagio where solo horn and later oboe combine with the violin to striking effect.'