Orchestral Works of Mel Bonis album review – full justice is done to her finely crafted and sensuous music

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Rumon Gamba/Elizabeth Watts (Chandos) The French composer – a contemporary of Debussy’s – wrote slender but perfectly-formed pieces of beguiling beauty The welcome rediscovery of Mel Bonis continues, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Rumon Gamba do full justice to her finely crafted, perfumed orchestral music on this new studio recording. Bonis was a classmate of Debussy, and the best of her works here compare to his in terms of instrumenta...

By Erica Jeal