Robin Walker began his musical life as Head Chorister at York Minster then studied under David Lumsdaine at Durham and Anthony Milner at the Royal College of Music. His early work was seriously modernist but since the 1980s he has worked on an instinctual approach involving a relationship with Nature, a sense of Place and our position within it, even including folk-style elements also to some extent informed by studying the music and dance of India. Leading soloists and the award winning Manchester Sinfonia present a range of works for solo instruments and the remarkable and inspired Concerto for Violin, Recorder and Strings (A Prayer and a Dance of Two Spirits); the album follows a purely orchestra set recently issued by Toccata.