Premières & Encores - Rawsthorne • Morgan • Pierson • Chagrin • Arnold • Warlock

* Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
** London Philharmonic Orchestra
*** London Symphony Orchestra
† Barry Wordsworth, conductor
†† Vernon Handley, conductor
††† John Pritchard, conductor
†††† Nicholas Braithwaite, conductor

Label: Lyrita
Copyright: 2007 Lyrita Recorded Edition, England
Catalogue number: SRCD.318
UPC/EAN: 5020926031822
Format: CD
Analogue / Digital recording: ADD / DDD
Number of discs: 1
Total playing time: 79.22
Price: £ 14.99 (+ postage & packing)

Tracks 1, 2: Recorded at Watford, 13, 14 January 1994, Producers: Andrew Keener, Oliver Rivers, Engineers: Trygg Tryggvason, Andrew Halifax
Tracks 3, 4: Recorded at Kingsway Hall, 28 April 1976, Producer: James Walker, Engineer: Kenneth Wilkinson
Track 5: Recorded at Kingsway Hall, 11 January 1976, Producer: James Walker, Engineer: Kenneth Wilkinson
Track 6: Recorded at Kingsway Hall, 5 August 1978, Producer: Andrew Cornall, Engineer: James Lock
Track 7: Recorded at Watford, 6 September 1978, Producer: Tom Mowrey, Engineer: John Dunkerley


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."


1 Macbeth, symphonic poem Op. 54 (1859) * † Henry Hugo Pierson (1815 - 1873) 20.34
2 Fantasy Overture - Cortθges (1945) * † Alan Rawsthorne (1905 - 1971) 14.34
Contrasts (1974) * †† David Morgan (b. 1933) 21.47
3 I Lento e solenne — Presto misterioso ma con malizia 16.23
4 II Allegro energico 5.24
5 Concert Overture - Helter Skelter (1949) ** ††† Francis Chagrin (1905 - 1972) 6.46
6 Serenade for Strings (1922) ** †††† Peter Warlock (1894 - 1930) 7.44
7 Comedy Overture - Beckus the Dandipratt (1943) *** †††† Malcolm Arnold (1921 - 2006) 7.52