The Cello Concerto is a wonderful work.
Performances are excellent.
Malcolm Forsyth was born in South Africa in 1936. By the 1960s he was a trombonist in the Capetown Symphony Orchestra while he was writing orchestrations for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. By 1974 he was a citizen of Canada and a member of the Edmonton Symphony. His music is an eclectic mix of elements of South African and North American folk music, a mix which produces a very personal style. His orchestral sense is, as one would expect with his background, superb.