Pomona / Music for Orchestra / Romeo and Juliet / King Pest

Constant Lambert was a man of outstandingly wide cultural range, a man as well-informed about painting and literature as about music. For this reason his contribution to the development of what is now the Royal Ballet proved invaluable.A triumvirate composed of Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and Lambert founded the company, then called the Vic-Wells Ballet, in 1931, and Lambert was its Musical Director and principal conductor for sixteen years. He resigned in 1947, but soon returned as Artistic Director and guest conductor. He also enjoyed a distinguished career as a conductor in the concert hall. His output as a composer was comparatively small — just over twenty mature works — but almost always of high calibre.