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PIERSON / RAWSTHORNE / MORGAN / ARNOLD / etc
Premieres & Encores
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / London Philharmonic Orchestra / London Syphony Orchestra / Vernon Handley / John Pritchard / Nicholas Braithwaite

[ Lyrita / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 18 January 2008

This item is currently out of stock. It may take 6 or more weeks to obtain from when you place your order as this is a specialist product.

In the Britain, Scandinavia and the Netherlands edition of the Twentieth Century Composers series, Humphrey Searle commented on Alan Rawsthorne: "I feel that his contribution to English music is as important as that of any composer working in England today, and that this will be realized more and more as time goes by."

Tracks:

1 Macbeth, symphonic poem Op. 54 (1859) Henry Hugo Pierson (1815 - 1873) 20.34
2 Fantasy Overture - Cortèges (1945) Alan Rawsthorne (1905 - 1971) 14.34
3 Contrasts (1974) David Morgan (b. 1933) 21.47
4 Concert Overture - Helter Skelter (1949) Francis Chagrin (1905 - 1972) 6.46
5 Serenade for Strings (1922) Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930) 7.44
8 Comedy Overture - Beckus the Dandipratt (1943) Malcolm Arnold (1921 - 2006)